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Chapter 312: A-Zu's Selfishness and Love

"You want to bet?"

Kara swallowed the coffee that originally tasted bitter and turned her head confidently.

"About what? I've already said that you can't deny your debt if you lose."

"of course not."

Peter's eyes were filled with more confidence than Kara's. "Let's bet on whether Mary McBee will come back."

“Although I’m not that familiar with Mary, I can give it a try.”

Kara said proudly: "Do you know where I went some time ago?"

"Where? Didn't you go traveling to avoid Chloe's pestering?"

“I went to Las Vegas.”

Kara told about her whereabouts in the recent period.

"Although the buildings there are low and ugly, the first thing I saw when I entered the city was a few plastic mannequins with missing arms and legs placed outside the houses, which looked like a scene from an American Western horror movie. Well, these are irrelevant. What's important is."

She paused for a moment and then said to Peter, "The most important thing is that I won money in the casino."

Peter stroked his chin and asked her, "Can I know how much money you make?"

"Five thousand dollars."

"Did you use your super powers?"

"Of course, but this is not a superpower, it is my own ability, a gift from being a Kryptonian."

Peter looked at the smug Kara and fell silent.

You, a super girl, only earned 5,000 yuan in the casino by cheating. You are really a loser.

"Well, I know about your record as the 'Shame of Krypton'."

Peter brought the subject back to the point, "Let's bet five thousand dollars."

"can."

Kara readily agreed.

She had no idea that Peter had already set his sights on the gambling money she earned in Las Vegas.

Kara wanted to show off her achievements in Las Vegas to Peter when she heard Raven crying upstairs.

Kara, who was acting as a babysitter, had to go upstairs to take care of Riven.

night.

At Patrick Farm, Clark's return has made the farm more lively.

Loki ate the meal Peter made and sighed helplessly.

Peter was responsible for cooking dinner.

Previously, it was Director Fury who was in charge, and later it was taken over by the newly joined Vixen.

Today the vixen returns to Africa to trace her roots, so Peter is responsible for preparing this dinner.

Although Peter was very skilled in magic, Loki thought that his father had no talent at all in cooking.

"What is this?! Dad."

Loki asked Peter as he looked at the food in front of him.

This was the first time he had eaten such food.

"dumpling."

Peter spoke to several people in Chinese.

"Dad, you seem to be speaking Chinese."

Under Peter's influence, Star-Lord also has some knowledge of Chinese. He asked in confusion: "Is this Chinese?"

"Yes."

Peter explained to the group in English: "This is the dumpling that Chinese people like to eat."

Star-Lord picked up a piece of food doubtfully and said, "But, I've eaten this kind of thing in a Chinese restaurant, and it doesn't seem to be dumplings."

Picking up the sticky lump, Star-Lord looked up and asked him, "Dad, this is dumpling wrapper, right?!"

Being questioned in person by Star-Lord, Peter felt a little embarrassed and glared at him.

"Just eat, why are you talking so much!"

Peter coughed and explained to everyone: "At first I wanted to make dumplings, but I changed my mind. Now I make 'slippery dumpling wrappers', which are very popular in Georgia."

In fact, he wanted to make dumplings at first, but failed.

So I changed it to dumpling wrappers.

A Zu and the others looked at the sticky lump, listened to Peter's explanation, and didn't want to talk anymore.

Loki looked at Kara who was feeding Raven, and an idea came to his mind: It seems that finding a wife who can cook for his father is an urgent matter.

"Dad, what happened on the farm today?"

Star-Lord forced himself to shift his attention away from the food in front of him and asked Peter about what happened on the farm during the day.

"A group of mercenaries broke into the farm in pursuit of McBee, and then—Azu drove them away."

Peter explained to Star-Lord and the others calmly, "But Zu used too much force. He almost cut McBee in half."

Hearing Peter's words, Star-Lord opened his mouth in surprise, and then looked at A-Zu. Is A-Zu so brave?
Being stared at by everyone, A-Zu looked a little unnatural.

"Sorry, Dad, I won't do that next time. I'm just a little angry that they destroyed the farm and scared the cows."

A-Zu calmly moved the plate of "slippery dumpling skins" that Peter had picked up for him in front of him to the other side.

"I was angry that they destroyed my father's farm and I lost control of my emotions."

Clark swallowed the dumpling skin with a bitter face and said to A Zu: "Even if they destroyed the farm, John, you shouldn't kill them all."

A Zu looked towards Clark, "Probably, but in the end my father stopped me, and I didn't hurt any innocent people."

Clark wanted to say something else, but Peter saw that no one was touching the dumpling skin, so he picked up another piece and gave it to Clark.

His face instantly became more bitter and he didn't want to say anything anymore.

late at night.

A-Zu went upstairs to rest. Just as he entered his room, there was a knock on the door.

"Clark?"

Azu pushed the door open and saw Clark standing outside.

"Do you want to share with me what you saw in the other world, New York?"

Azu asked Clark who entered the room.

"If you're interested."

Clark sat down and briefly told Azu about the Battle of New York.

“That’s pretty cool.”

A-Zu showed average interest in the Battle of New York.

He doesn't care much about the life and death of others.

With his hands on his waist, he asked Clark, "Regarding the Battle of New York, I guess you must have gained some experience, otherwise you wouldn't come to share it with me."

Clark stared out the window, thinking back to the scene today on the farm where he saw A-Zu almost kill all the mercenaries.

He stroked his chin and said, "As for experience, it's probably the respect for life."

Clark looked at his hands and said in frustration: "I could have saved more people, saved more people from death."

Azu picked up a chair and sat down across from Clark.

"I have to tell you one thing, Clark. If those people destroy the farm or hurt my father, I will still kill them. I will do it again next time, but I will try my best not to hurt innocent people."

A-Zu said that he had just lied.

"Father said destiny is about keeping everything in order and moving us toward a destination. Do you understand? For me, that destination is the safety of my father and family. I don't care about the death and destruction of others."

Clark frowned and looked at Zu, "Is the Godfather the only one you care about?"

"This is the limit of human power, Clark, don't you understand? Destiny is about people dying, whether you like it or not, but you don't understand, you have been trying not to acknowledge that those who should have died - you saved them from the edge of the pit."

"And those who stand there and watch - fate probably picked them and arranged for these people to die. You try to keep saving more people, but maybe you will lose more in the end. You can't... You can't go around doing these things."

Clark countered, “But like you said, we all have to find where we move forward in life.”

Azu shook his head, “Yes, Clark, I think one day you will see that darkness will sweep over us like a whole swarm of locusts, and death will become a group of wings and teeth, and it will take away too many things from this world.

People starve, people get sick, people kill each other, and the world goes through these transitional periods where some people are worse off than others, but people always die — it’s an inevitable pattern because everyone is going to hold on and some people — sometimes many people — are going to die.”

"I think you'll see how necessary it is, Clark, and you'll see that sometimes in order to fix something you first have to break it."

"But now, you can't break it, so no matter how many people you save, you will always see death, you can't change the process."

Azu's tone gradually became serious, "So you will always be in pain, in the future too."

"how about you?"

Clark listened to what Zu said and asked him.

"I don't care about the death of others. I only care about the death of my father and the people around me. Even if Metropolis and Smallville are destroyed, it has nothing to do with me, so I will never suffer for the death of others."

A-Zu stood up and looked out the window at the cornfield swaying in the breeze. "I will never be like you. I only care about the people I love."

Clark: “.”

He found that A-Zu's views on death and fate were inexplicably similar to those of the Godfather.

The Godfather calmly viewed the disappearance of life from a cosmic perspective, and A-Zu also believed that this was inevitable fate.

However, A-Zu's ideas were becoming increasingly different from his own.

Although it cannot be said to be wrong, it seems that A-Zu has completely transformed into a family hero.

Clark looked down at his chest.

Even though he was not wearing the armor that Tony Stark had made for him, Clark seemed to be able to see the letter "S" on it.

The letter S stands for hope.

He took a deep breath and said to A Zu: "I think you got one thing wrong, A Zu. I will be sad for the death of others, but I care more about the people around me, my godfather, my parents, you, and Star-Lord. They are all people I cannot lose."

at the same time.

On the other side of the earth, McBee got off the plane and looked at the desolate airport in front of him.

This is the Zambezi of Africa? !

She didn't expect that her hometown would be so poor!
I shouldn't have come here so directly. I should have borrowed some money from Peter first.

(End of this chapter)