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Chapter 393: Reluctant Parting, Loki's Illusion

"Don't worry, Mark. You still have a long time to find the answer. Maybe you will get a different answer at each stage of your life."

Peter touched Mark's head and said to him, "But you did a great job, Mark. You showed extraordinary courage in the face of danger. Dad is proud of you."

Although Peter criticized Mark for his impulsiveness, he still affirmed the courage he showed in dealing with the robbers.

"Really? Dad, do I make you proud?"

Mark asked, blinking.

"Of course, Dad never lies."

"Peter."

Peter was talking to Mark when McBee came over.

"Is Mark okay?"

She asked Peter worriedly.

"It should be fine."

Peter thanked her: "Thanks to you this time, Mary. If you hadn't arrived in time, I'm afraid Mark would have really had an accident."

"There's no need to be polite between us."

McBee shrugged. "It was just a coincidence that we met on the road this time, but I have to say it."

She turned her eyes to Mark and said, "I must say, Mark is very brave. If I were a kid, I would have run away. I don't have such courage."

She put her hand on Mark's shoulder and patted him, "Although it's a bit impulsive, children have to show some childish problems."

Mark knew that Aunt Mary was speaking for him in front of his father, so he thanked her.

"Thank you, Aunt Mary, thank you for saving me."

"correct!"

As Mark thanked him, he suddenly remembered that he had forgotten something very important.

"Dad, I think I rode someone's bicycle without asking for their permission."

Mark looked at Peter uneasily.

"It doesn't matter. Dad will compensate the other party."

Peter pinched Mark's little face and signaled him not to worry.

Holding his youngest son, Peter looked out into the dark night.

The moon shone through the dark clouds onto the ground, casting silver light and making the night clear.

Peter's mood improved as the night grew brighter.

The next day, early in the morning.

After receiving the call, Peter prepared to take Ryan to the town government office.

Ryan's aunt in the border town called and asked to take care of Ryan.

After consulting Ryan himself, Peter prepared to send him to the town government office.

Ryan's aunt will come to pick him up in the afternoon.

Before getting on the car, Mark and others came to see him off.

"This is the clothes that Star-Lord wore before. I heard it's very cold over there in Border Town. Take it with you."

Persephone handed Ryan some clothes.

"Thank you."

Ryan went forward and hugged Persephone.

Although he didn't have much contact with Persephone, she was very friendly to him and even helped him cook.

Ryan was very grateful to this mysterious older sister who didn't want to show up in public.

"I will keep everyone's secret, don't worry, I know what it feels like to be different from others."

After Ryan finished speaking to everyone, he looked at Peter and said, "Mr. Peter, can I talk to Mark alone?"

"of course can."

Peter indicated that he had plenty of time to say goodbye to Mark.

"Thank you, Mark, you saved me yesterday. If it weren't for you, I might have really been captured by my stepfather."

In an empty corner, Ryan thanked Mark.

Mark replied: "You're welcome. We are friends, aren't we? Since we are friends, I certainly won't abandon you."

"friend."

After repeating the word, Ryan nodded, a smile on his face, "Yes, friends, forever friends for life."

After saying this, Ryan looked at the cornfield in the distance and fell silent.

After a while, he said with some discomfort: "I am going to live in a border town. It may be difficult for us to meet in the future."

"I want to tell you this, Mark."

Taking a deep breath, he said to Mark: "You are the bravest person I have ever met, even though you don't have any super powers."

mark:"."

Although he should feel happy when being praised by his friends, Mark suddenly felt different when he heard the following words.

"I saw a sentence on TV, 'There are no heroes falling from the sky in the world, only ordinary people who stand up.' Mark, you are that ordinary person who stands up. I think that even if you don't have super powers, you can become the most different person."

Ryan encouraged Mark: "Don't feel inferior because you don't have superpowers. I think that's the most useless thing. Your courage is a hundred times more powerful than my superpowers."

Mark listened to Ryan's words, feeling moved and a little uncomfortable at the same time.

I have just realized this, but unfortunately my friend is leaving.

"By the way, I have a gift for you, Mark."

Ryan said as he took off the backpack from his back and pulled out a set of comics from it.

"This is.!"

Mark looked at the comic in surprise, "Is this Battle Angel?"

"Yes, I gave it to you."

"No, it's too expensive. I can't take it."

Mark shook his head. "Take it, Mark. It's not expensive. Besides, I don't need it anymore."

Seeing Ryan insisted, Mark couldn't refuse, so he took the comics from him.

A few minutes later.

Ryan waved goodbye to Mark, Raven, Vixen and others.

After Ryan got in the car, Peter stepped on the accelerator and drove him forward.

Standing at the farm gate, Mark watched the car disappear for a long time, still standing there.

McBee put his hand on his shoulder, "Are you reluctant to part with your friends?"

Mark nodded and asked McBee, "Aunt Mary, do people always have to separate?"

"Yes, people will always separate, and the combination of many separations constitutes life."

Mark raised his head and asked uncomfortably, "Will I be separated from my father one day?"

McBee was stunned after hearing what Mark said.

After a while, she looked down at Mark's innocent and dim eyes, squatted down and said to him: "Maybe this day will come, maybe it will never come, but Mark, parting is not all bad."

McBee's eyes flashed with sadness, and he didn't know whether he was talking to Mark or himself, "If you don't go through the torture of separation, how can you taste the happiness of reunion? The pain you experience when you separate will be rewarded with happiness when you reunite. There is reunion only when there is separation, and there is happiness only when there is pain."

Mark listened to what McBee said, and although he didn't quite understand, he still nodded ignorantly.

night.

Loki was sitting in the room reading a book.

There was a strong wind outside the window, and the branches blown by the wind hit the window, making a "crackling" sound.

Loki stood up, walked to the window and looked out at the dark night.

At first there was the blowing of the night wind, followed by the sound of big raindrops hitting the windows.

After thinking for a while, Loki came down from upstairs.

He remembered that Star-Lord went to the music store alone to buy a CD, and now it was raining heavily outside and he hadn't come back yet.

In the living room downstairs, Loki came down and saw Peter, Raven and Mark watching TV in the living room.

After Peter saw him coming downstairs, he asked him, "Where's Star-Lord?"

As he asked, Peter looked at the clock on the wall.

The time has already reached nine o'clock, and this kid hasn't come back yet?
Do you want to spend the night outside?

"Star-Lord went to the stereo store. Dad, I'm going to pick him up."

Loki said as he picked up the umbrella from his hand and walked outside.

"be careful on the road."

"Okay, Dad."

Loki held an umbrella and walked into the rain.

Loki walked hurriedly, holding an umbrella, and soon arrived near the music store in the center of Kensington.

This is a somewhat depressed neighborhood.

At the corner, a lonely pizza shop was still open. The clerk had his eyes drooped and looked at him sideways.

Later Rocky passed an alley where a homeless man slept in the shadow of a sunken dumpster, using a blue tarp as a blanket to keep out the cold.

Someone was shouting from across the block - a girl, in a half-cut T-shirt and jeans, no jacket, no hat, her blond hair streaked with white snowflakes.

Even though the rain was pouring down, it couldn't drown out the shouting.

She was screaming and hurling insults at a thug.

The villain just laughed loudly, even making a shrill and piercing sound.

Loki just walked by with an umbrella, not intending to meddle in other people's business.

But watching the gangsters making physical advances and even trying to drag the girl into the car.

With a sigh, Loki's body transformed into that of an adult.

Holding an umbrella, he walked up to the man who was making advances on him and patted him on the shoulder.

The gangster turned around and saw a young man in a long robe and a long bull horn crown on his head, looking at him with a stern face.

"Who are you?"

"I am the nightmare that brings you eternal fear."

Loki grabbed the other person's neck and threw him heavily to the ground, splashing a lot of rain water.

The girl next to him was stunned when she saw Loki suddenly appearing, and the umbrella she was holding fell to the ground.

"Miss, aren't you leaving yet?"

Loki asked, glancing towards the girl.

The girl, as if waking up from a dream, quickly picked up the umbrella from the ground, wiped the rain off her face, thanked the other party, and left the scene.

The gangster who was thrown to the ground by Loki stood up awkwardly and tried to escape.

As a result, he had just run two steps in the pouring rain when he saw Loki walking towards him.

Frightened, he wanted to run in another direction.

As a result, Loki holding an umbrella came from every direction.

The gangster who was forced into a corner had a look of fear in his eyes.

"Your Majesty!"

Loki shouted at the terrified thugs.

The gangster, frightened by Loki, knelt down without any resistance.

Loki looked at the other party's surrender to him with satisfaction and nodded.

He was about to leave when he suddenly felt dazed.

In the blurred vision, he seemed to see the gangster kneeling on the ground turned into another Loki.

Loki, lying on the ground, faced the direction where he was.