American Comics: Starting from the Invincible Young Hero

Chapter 24: I don't have the habit of being a guide

"I haven't thought about it that much yet, uncle."

Russell seemed to think about it.

"Have you ever tried to fly out of the Earth and look down at the Earth from space?"

Without waiting for Russell to answer, the Omni-Man smiled, put his arm around his shoulders, and suddenly accelerated, bringing him to space in the blink of an eye.

"Look, Russell, this is a different picture."

He and Russell were suspended in low-Earth orbit. The Earth was slowly rotating beneath their feet. They could see the entire Earth at a glance, and the curved horizon from one end to the other was clearly visible.

The Almighty Man looked down at his feet, and his pupils seemed to reflect billions of human miniatures running, quarreling, loving, and dying, like an endless ant colony riot.

"Think about the ordinary people beneath our feet right now. Unlike us, they are lucky enough to have the power to transcend the planet." His voice was almost compassionate.

"They are indoctrinated from birth into concepts like 'region,' 'race,' and 'planet,' and then spend their entire lives fighting against each other for these fictitious labels. They don't even realize what a ridiculous cage they're imprisoned in."

"But you and I are different from Mark and me. We can easily leave the planet and travel the universe. Sometimes the earth seems to be just a small corner of the countryside that will hinder our steps."

“People are indeed born into a world of fictional concepts that constrain us. Some things are simply imposed on us by others, and we haven’t even realized it yet.”

Russell looked at his uncle Nolan and sighed slightly.

Uncle Nolan can look at the people on Earth from a bird's-eye view and detached perspective and thinks it is ridiculous that they are bound by certain ideas, but I wonder if he has ever examined himself and the Vitrum people.

Isn't Omniman bound by anything?
On the contrary, he actually has more constraints than anyone else. He is forced to separate his wife and children with his own hands. Why doesn't he think more about himself?

"Have you ever tried to look at the earth from deep space?" Almighty Nolan thought that Russell's words were agreeing with his point of view, and a smile slowly appeared at the corner of his mouth, without hearing the implied meaning of Russell's words.

Sometimes people are like bystanders who see things clearly but those involved are confused, and when it comes to themselves, they can't see clearly.

He patted his nephew's shoulder kindly and asked him to follow his finger and look into the vast and boundless depths of the universe.

"From the other side of the distant light years, looking back from the perspective of the universe, the Earth is nothing more than a speck of dust..."

In the end, the uncle and nephew, Almighty Man and Russell, talked a lot, and Almighty Man kept telling Russell that the earth is a small and insignificant planet.

And people living in this world should not be bound by trivial things.

In the secular sense, morality is nothing more than something woven by humans to restrain and tame those strong people who are born different.

On the latter topic, the all-powerful Nolan only touched upon it briefly, fearing that saying too much might scare his nephew.

"In short—don't worry about false morality and abandon your insignificant identity as an Earthling?"

When they got home and closed the bedroom door, Russell looked strange, and summed up the tendency of the conversation between Almighty Man and him in one sentence.

He suspected that his uncle Nolan wanted him to be a "ball rapist" and a "human rapist", and perhaps even the "number one ball rapist".

The Vitrum Empire's mission is to invade, and conquering a planet often requires people to govern it. However, due to viruses, internal strife and other reasons, there are only dozens of pure-blooded people left in the Vitrum people. Even if one person is in charge of a planet, it is difficult to manage it.

Therefore, it is necessary to select agents from the native planet to rule on behalf of the Vitrum people.

Uncle Nolan plans to gradually persuade him to join the Vitrum Empire, and after conquering the Earth, let him be the agent or one of the managers?
Russell raised an eyebrow.

"I'm sorry, uncle, I'm not in the habit of being a guide."

……

The next morning, Russell talked to his aunt Debbie about his schooling.

For him, going to school has almost no meaning. Is it just for the purpose of getting into university so that he can get a diploma in the future and get a job in a company?
This is what he was thinking about at the dinner table last night. After having the ability to travel across the world and across the universe, he would inevitably feel bored and uninterested if he sat in a room all day.

"Russell, do you want to stay home from school for a while?"

But his aunt Debbie was hesitant about Russell's decision to take a break from school. "I've seen the surveillance video of Russell fighting off aliens several times. At the rate he's performing, he could finish a whole college course in one night, let alone high school."

Uncle Nolan was very supportive. He held his wife's shoulders and whispered to her from behind.

An ordinary person's life is to go to school, work, get married and have children. Suddenly, if you can't study properly, it will undoubtedly be seen as heresy in the eyes of ordinary people.

In his opinion, his nephew Russell was taking the first step towards not sticking to the rules, so of course he should encourage him.

"In that case, well... well, Auntie supports your decision, Russell."

After hesitating for a moment, Debbie thought about Russell's excellent grades and that it would be no problem for him to be admitted to a good university. In addition, what her husband said made her finally nod.

"What? I want to take a leave of absence from school too!"

In the living room, upon hearing that his cousin Russell's request to take a leave of absence from school was actually approved at home, Mark, who had been eavesdropping on the second floor, rushed down in a hurry and said that he didn't want to go to school either.

"No!" Unexpectedly, my mother Debbie directly refused.

"why?"

Mark said.

"My cousin can skip school, so why can't I?

I also have super speed..."

He can also finish college courses overnight.

Learn, you can learn anything!

"No, that's all..." Debbie held her forehead with a headache and looked at her naughty son. "When have you ever put your mind to studying?"

"When you were supposed to go to school, I never saw you use your abilities to study. Instead, you were so busy being a superhero that you neglected your studies. When you don't have to go to school, I guarantee you won't touch a single page of the book."

In fact, strictly speaking, going to school is not very useful for Mark. With his ability, it is not a problem for him to conquer a planet in the universe and become the emperor.

Although there is a saying that knowledge is power.

But given Mark's interest in learning, the power he could achieve with knowledge throughout his life would not be as great as the power he could achieve with just the movement of his fingers.

Superman is equally lazy in this regard, and we hardly see him using his super brain.

"Okay, go eat first, I'll talk to your mother."

How could the Almighty Man not support his son and comfort his unhappy wife when he saw that his son didn't want to go to school?

"Debbie, you're just used to living a life constrained and planned by ordinary people's ideas. When you saw your son was about to deviate from the track that ordinary people think he should be on, you immediately felt a sense of panic for no reason.

But don’t forget, our son is not only an Earthling, but also a naturally extraordinary Vitrumian…”

"When you, the Vitrum people, are sent to various fragile civilizations to help them thrive, don't you need to learn the relevant knowledge in advance?"

Debbie frowned and looked at her husband in confusion. After coming back this time, her husband seemed to be becoming more and more unfamiliar, and his tone seemed to make it seem as if the people of Vitrum were born to be superior to others.

“It is necessary to learn knowledge in advance…”

The Omnipotent Man's eyes flickered. It was nothing more than learning how to fight and conquer, learning how to secretly stifle a civilization's war potential and what the most ruthless means were to destroy a civilization's desire for resistance...

Jingle Bell!
Mark's cell phone suddenly rang, and his face changed drastically after taking a look. He at least went upstairs to change into his battle clothes.

"Cousin, Atomic Woman Eve sent me a message. The robot alarm sounded. The Fraxons have invaded Earth for the third time!"

"So fast?" Russell was surprised and looked towards the city center.

(End of this chapter)