Chapter 394 Mindy's New Friend (a Chapter of 5,200 Words!)

In the night watchman base, today is a rest day.

Since the end of the SAT exam, Li Jie and Peter have more free time. Especially Li Jie, he is now considered a person who can control his time freely.

Originally, Li Jie needed to deal with some things at home today. Because a girl lives in the newly moved home, there are many things that Lan needs to deal with when she arrives.

Originally, Li Jie needed to deal with these matters, but he was forced to come over for lunch at noon today. Today, there are not many people in the base. Frank and Damon have both gone out, and they need to come back at night. Zeng Chu and Barbara also disappeared.

Only Peter, Li Jie, Mike and Mindy were in the base. It was Mindy who forcibly pulled Li Jie back for lunch. Although this little girl sometimes does some outrageous things, she is generally an obedient and sensible child.

Coupled with her cute appearance, she is the mascot within the team. So when Mindy made such a small request, Li Jie was really not able to refuse her such a small request.

"Isn't it too early for lunch, Mindy?" Li Jie looked at his watch, it was only ten o'clock in the morning. But the preparations for Li Jie's lunch had already been done. If you start making lunch now, you will have lunch at eleven o'clock at noon.

This time point seems a bit too early, after all, everyone basically eats breakfast at eight o'clock.

"No, hurry up and get started! I'm starving to death." Mindy said this to Li Jie, while tinkering with her schoolbag.

"Are you going out? Why are you packing so many comics in your schoolbag?" Peter, who was disassembling and maintaining his spider web launcher with Mike, glanced in Mindy's direction.

Seeing her stuffing her schoolbag to the brim, it wasn't those textbooks. It's all kinds of comics she collected.

"I'm going to a friend's place later, I promised to lend her the comics." Mindy replied casually, but this sentence attracted the attention of the three adults in the base.

"Mindy? Wait! Are you serious?" Li Jie heard what Mindy said in the kitchen, ran out in a hurry and said in disbelief, "You mean you made a new friend?"

"Mike, touch my forehead to see if I have a fever and have auditory hallucinations?" Peter said to Mike who was sitting next to him.

Mike didn't touch Peter's forehead, but touched his own and Peter's arteries with his hands: "The pulse beat is normal, and there doesn't seem to be any signs of being invaded by psychedelic drugs. It can rule out the possibility that we were attacked by psychotropic drugs. "

"It's enough of you!" Mindy couldn't stand these fools anymore. She roared loudly: "Is it strange that I make a friend?"

"No, no! Of course not! This is good, very good. I mean, it's perfectly normal! Are you right, Spiderman!" Li Jie said quickly.

"That's right, that's right. Everyone needs friends! That's good!" Peter's words caused Mike to nod in agreement.

As the youngest little girl in the team, Mindy is undoubtedly the most protected and cared by everyone. Everyone regards her as their junior. As for Mindy's growth and education, everyone is very concerned about it.

Although Mindy had been at school for nearly a year, no one had ever heard of her befriending anyone. She never talked about school affairs, and occasionally she rolled her eyes when she talked about it.

Everyone knows that Mindy is very smart, and her intelligence and knowledge set a huge gap between her and children of the same age. This kept her in a state of being alone without friends.

For this kind of thing, Frank and Damon had more than one quarrel.

You must know that once a person has no friends, then life will be in an incomplete state for a person. Especially when the person is still very capable.

Mindy is undoubtedly a very capable girl, but this deformed growth is very detrimental to her. An important missing link in life may be an important part of the broken life.

Don't forget that there are quite a few supervillains born from incompleteness in their lives. Li Jie doesn't believe that a person who grows up under long-term torture, even in an inhuman environment, can become a normal person, let alone a hero.

Almost all superheroes have a relatively complete life in their growth environment, or at least once had a complete life.

Because only experiencing this kind of complete life can make people arouse the desire to protect this kind of life. People who live too alone and themselves will not understand this state.

Even if he is capable, in Li Jie's opinion, a person who is only for himself is not worthy of the title of hero.

So everyone is very happy that Mindy has made a new friend, and questions about her new friend come one after another.

Li Jie: "Is your friend a girl? How old is it?"

Mindy: "Girl, Thirteen." That's true.

Peter: "Is that your classmate?"

Mindy: "Not a classmate." This is also true.

Mike: "When and where did you meet?"

Mindy: "On my way to the bookstore to buy a comic book." That's still true.

Mindy knew how smart these guys were, so she didn't even intend to make up a lie about Laura, because it would be exposed soon. Mindy chooses another way, which is to tell only part of the truth.

Don't reveal everything, including details about Laura's acquaintance with himself, these things don't need to be said in detail. Mindy only needs to briefly skip over it, and then others will automatically make up a picture in their minds.

Mindy, with long blonde hair, goes to a long gone comic book store after school, and meets an equally cute girl, both of whom like to read comics (that's why Mindy stuffs comics in her school bag, she's in Misleading other people's minds. This is something learned from Damon's detective science and psychology.).

So the two kids became friends because of the manga. OK! A complete brain picture has been formed in the minds of the three adults.

"Okay! You guys are too annoying. My own friends don't need you to take care of me so much, gentlemen!" Mindy complained to the three of Li Jie impatiently.

The three of them, Li Jie, looked at each other for a few moments, and realized that this matter still needs to set Mindy free. After all, this is her first friend of the same age, if she cares too much, it may backfire.

Mindy ate quickly at lunch, but didn't eat much. She found a few lunch boxes from the refrigerator and began to put food into the lunch boxes.

"What are you doing, Mindy?" Li Jie watched as Mindy put a large roast lamb chop into the lunch box, and then took out another lunch box to hold seafood chowder.

"I told her that I know a guy who cooks really well. I promised to bring her some food to try. I don't think you'd mind, right?" Mindy said without stopping. . She filled another serving of cheddar gratin hummus with corn shortbread.

"Okay, as long as you're happy." Li Jie now understood why Mingdi called him over for lunch early in the morning. And also asked to do a variety of dishes. After a long time, is this going to show off to new friends? Li Jie felt as if he was being used by this little guy.

But forget it, as long as she is happy. It's just a little thing. Mindy found a big bag to put the lunch box in, put on her schoolbag full of comics, and was ready to go out.

But before going out, she said something special: "I have confessed to you that I have a new friend, she is just a little girl, I do not allow you to follow and monitor me in any way! If I lose this friend because of your problems , I will settle accounts with you!"

Mingdy waved his small fist as he spoke, threatening everyone fiercely. Li Jie and others expressed their understanding of this, after all, Mindy's friend is only a thirteen-year-old girl. They believed that Mindy should have a sense of proportion in making friends.

"Do you need to tell Frank and Damon?" Peter said watching Mindy leave the base.

"Don't worry, we'll talk about it when they come back." Mike said, filling himself with a bowl of seafood soup.

"Yeah, this is something to be happy about. Let's not interfere with Mindy too much. She is different from ordinary little girls." Li Jie picked up a piece of corn shortbread and said in agreement.

look! The highest state of lying is actually confessing! You don't need to deliberately make up complex and sophisticated lies, because as long as they are lies, there will be flaws.

And you need more lies to make up for this flaw, which will only lead to more and more flaws and more and more lies. Eventually there will be a day of exposure.

A good liar never tells a lie, they always tell a part of the truth. Because they are telling the truth, there will be no flaws in what they say. But because the truth they tell is always part of the whole thing.

But this part is likely to lead your thinking to a completely different direction from the whole incident. This is the genius of a real liar!

The above knowledge was learned by Mindy from Li Jie, which Li Jie realized after dealing with Loki. Loki with the sword of truth never lies, he only tells the truth. But he can still confuse people and fabricate false things.

I have to say that Di is a good student. She fully absorbed the knowledge that Li Jie taught her, and applied what she learned to the group of teachers as soon as she turned around.

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There are many abandoned small piers along the Hudson River in New York. These piers were originally built for transshipment between New York Harbor and the Inland River. However, in the middle and late twentieth century, after the functions of the New York Harbor terminal area became more and more perfect, this small terminal for inland river transshipment lost its function.

Mindy placed Laura right next to a small dock area. This is a desolate community with a small population. This kind of community originally existed to serve the surrounding small piers. When the pier was abandoned, the place lost its vitality.

Now except for some old people, most of the people here have left here. Now there are many empty houses left here, and before joining the night watchman. Mindy and the Big Daddy's base is here. An apartment in an old building.

This base also has perfect security measures, and Mindy thinks that placing Laura here is much better than living in an abandoned factory warehouse. Anyway, since they joined the night watchman, they no longer use this base.

Through the fingerprint and pupil recognition system, Mindy entered the room. Laura is doing cleaning in the room. Because I haven't lived in it for nearly a year, the whole room is covered with thick dust.

When Mindy brought Laura in that day, it took the two little girls quite a while to clear out only one bedroom, the one where Mindy had slept before.

But the whole house is a bit too big, and the two girls can't quickly get everything cleaned up. So Laura can only clean the whole house in a few days.

And now the cleaning is coming to an end. The whole house has been cleaned by Laura.

"Hey! Laura!" Mindy said with pleasure in his voice. Laura, who was cleaning the table in the living room, was also very happy to see Mindy appear. "Good afternoon, Mindy!"

"How is living here? Are you still used to it?" Mindy put down the things in his hands and his backpack, walked over to Laura from behind and put his hands on her shoulders.

"Very good, to be honest. This is the most comfortable place I've ever lived in." Laura said seriously. Compared with her previous life in Mexico and her subsequent displacement.

Mindy provided her with a very nice shelter from the elements. Mindy smiled when she heard what Laura said.

"Oh, by the way, did you have lunch?" Mindy remembered the lunch she had brought.

"I went to buy a sandwich." Laura murmured, and Mindy saw a club sandwich on the table. She curled her lips: "Forget about that dry and stupid sandwich. I brought you something delicious."

While talking, Mindy opened the lunch boxes she brought one by one. These include rosemary-roasted lamb chops, cioppino, cheddar gratin hummus, and enchiladas.

"Look, I brought you something delicious. I don't know if you like these, but you said you're Mexican, so I guess you'd love this quesadilla!" Tortillas are a Mexican staple, and Mindy I specially took care of Li Jie to do it.

"Come on! Let's have lunch first!" Mindy arrived here from the base at exactly 12:20 noon. It happened to be lunch time, and she had already calculated it. That's why she asked Li Jie to start preparing lunch early.

"This is made by a guy in my family who is good at cooking. I think you should like it." Mindy pushed Laura closer to the chair in front of the table. Helped her arrange the location of the lunch box, and she even prepared disposable spoons and other utensils.

"Aren't you going to eat?" Laura glanced at Mindy.

"I've already eaten, so you can eat your fill with peace of mind." Mindy urged Laura to eat lunch quickly while talking.

Mindy doesn't know much about food. She doesn't know that things like lamb chops and seafood soup will emit a fishy smell when they are cold. Every time she eats it steaming after Li Jie is done, she thinks it tastes good.

That's why she asked Li Jie to make these two dishes. But now more than an hour has passed, and the lamb chops and seafood soup are already cold. The smell of mutton will come back again.

Laura didn't like the mutton smell, nor did she like the fishy smell in the seafood soup. But she didn't say anything, she ate in small bites.

Although the mutton has a smell of mutton, the seafood soup is a bit fishy, ​​the cold baked hummus does not have the aroma when it is hot, although the cold corn shortbread is not crispy at all. But Laura ate it seriously, and ate it all, whether she liked it or not.

Because it was specially prepared by Mindy for herself, and it took a lot of effort to bring it here. Although it was not to Laura's taste, she smiled and said after eating, "It's delicious."

Mingdy said happily: "Right! Right! I just said that our cooking skills are great!" Li Jie, who was packing up the tableware in the base, suddenly sneezed.

"By the way, I brought you a lot of comics, you can read them if you are bored." Mindy poured all the comics she brought on the sofa, and she introduced to Laura: "These are my comics. My favorite superhero comics. Marvel’s comics are better than Hyperion.”

"Really?" Laura had never read any comics before, nor had any chance to get in touch with entertainment products. These things are new to her.

"That's right, I can lend you all the comics I've read." Mindy nodded seriously, and she tilted her head to look at Laura for a while, which made Laura feel a little strange.

"What's wrong, Mindy?" Laura was not used to Mindy staring at her all the time.

"Your clothes should be changed to Laura." Mindy found that Laura seemed to have only two sets of clothes. Although they were clean, they looked a bit old.

"Really?" Laura never paid attention to these things.

Mindy took Laura's hand and said, "Come on girl, let's buy you some beautiful clothes! I heard girls at school mention some stores that sell girls' clothes. They've all gone there to buy Clothes, let's go around too."

Mindy was a little excited, because she actually wanted to go to such a store for a long time. It's just that other girls have companions when they go shopping, and it always feels strange to go in alone. And a store that specializes in little girls' clothing and accessories, it would seem strange to go with Big Daddy.

And Laura never really had a good time shopping. Every time she gets money, she only needs to maintain her life at a minimum. She has seen the beautiful clothes in the windows on the street, and she wants to wear them too. But she never actually walked through the doors of those stores.

"Let's go girl! We can watch a movie in the afternoon after finishing the clothes. I know a theater is re-screening Harry Potter. Do you like it?" Mindy took Laura's hand and was about to go out.

For Laura, everything Mindy brings to her is something new. Whether it's food or the house you live in now. There are also the comics she brought, as well as the clothing store she plans to take herself to and the movie she plans to watch.

For Laura, these things were something she had never experienced before. Like Harry Potter, a world-renowned film series, she had never even heard of it before.

"Thank you, Mindy," Laura whispered. The voice was only audible to herself. She watched Mindy hold her little hand, and Laura confirmed at this moment that the girl in front of her would be her lifelong friend.

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