Chapter 513 Invisible Transformation
Southern Cross Welfare Institute, Area 2A, 10th Floor.
The children here are a relatively special group of people, because most of them lost their guardians after their parents were arrested and imprisoned for committing crimes, and at the same time, they were sent to orphanages by the police because they had no ability to live independently.
Although the slogan of equality for all has been shouted in this society, discrimination always exists in many cases.
Color discrimination, racial discrimination, regional discrimination and so on.
For children, it happens from time to time that children with able-bodied parents look down on children without parents. And even the children in the orphan group are divided into two groups.
Ordinary bereaved kids don't like to play with those criminal kids.
Of course, part of this is because these children have their own problems. Because of their living environment since childhood, most of them have learned a lot of bad habits from their parents.
Some children have weird personalities because their parents have never taught them well. Whether it is autistic or withdrawn and out of gregarious. These characteristics are obstacles that prevent them from integrating into the larger group.
And because of these personalities, other children in the orphanage often have conflicts with the children in District 2A.
For example, in the situation Thor is facing now, several nurses in Area 1B on the third floor are grabbing a boy and turning him to the tenth floor. Thor knew the boy, he was the oldest boy in District 2A, he was fourteen years old this year.
When Thor saw him for the first time, he was seriously suspicious that he was the one who played a prank on his first meeting. The boy has blond hair and looks good. But he doesn't like to talk, and when he stares at people viciously, he has a very evil spirit.
Not like a nice kid. Thor had inquired about the boy, his name was Colin, his parents were both gang members, and he died in a gang fire. The couple was corked with a submachine gun.
This boy is the absolute thorn in the orphanage. It has been three years since he was sent here, but he still refuses to accept discipline.
This time was the same, he got into a fight with someone in the public rest area downstairs, knocked over five children of the same grade, and beat a nurse with a stomachache.
It took the adults a few rubber rollers to subdue him.
When Colin was brought in, he had scars on his face and body, bruises at the corners of his eyes and badly damaged mouth corners. His body was covered with marks of being beaten with a stick.
Two male nurses took him to Area 2A and found Thor.
A caregiver with a shaved head who looked like a typical middle-aged white American spoke first: "Thor, we have said many times that Colin is not allowed to go to the public rest area! This is not the first time he has fought!"
The bald man had a bad tone. Thor walked up to Colin and looked at his scars. Based on some of the first aid knowledge he had learned these days, and his accumulation of trauma experience from years of fighting, he could tell that Colin had been beaten a bit severely. It was obviously beaten with a rubber stick.
Asgard is not opposed to violent education, especially the education of Valkyrie is taught with sticks. For example, Thor was educated by Odin since he was a child.
But here is Earth, in these days on Earth, especially these days when you are involved in medical care after losing your divine powers. Thor has learned to think with a mortal mind.
"Is this what you guys did?" Thor stared at the bald man, making him uncomfortable.
The bald man said forcefully: "Because he didn't obey the rules, he beat several people."
"But you beat too hard, right?" Thor touched the wound on Colin's body with his fingers, and he gasped a few times due to the pain, but he didn't shout out.
The strength somewhat surprised Thor.
Maybe it's because standing with a guy like Thor who is 1.95 meters and weighs more than 130 kilograms is very stressful, especially when he is staring at him.
So the bald man and his companion let go of Colin after sending him to Area 2A. Before leaving, he said to Thor: "Watch out for this little bastard! He is not allowed to go to the public activity area downstairs!"
The two nurses slammed the door cursing and went out. Thor frowned and looked at the direction the two were leaving. He glanced at Colin again and said, "You need to be bandaged."
Thor wanted to hold Colin, because he was injured and Thor didn't dare to use force. But Colin struggled to break away from Thor's hand, and walked towards his room without looking back. A passing child from District 2A saw Colin's appearance and immediately went to help him back, but this time Colin did not refuse.
Not only strong, but also uncommonly stubborn. Thor doesn't like Colin very much, but it's hard to say anything about him. He figured it would be better to disinfect Colin with alcohol later, since he didn't want to bandage the wound.
"Thor! Thor! Can you turn on the TV? I want to watch SpongeBob SquarePants!" the six-year-old girl Penny walked up to Thor and tugged at the hem of his clothes.
Penny is a very cute little girl, with some baby fat, thick and smooth brown hair combed into a lady's head, and a black headband decorated with a bow.
The red and white dress looks very cute on the body.
This is the youngest child here, also a girl. On the first day Thor came, she brought up the need to repair the TV, which made Thor forget about the trouble of looking for Colin. Ended up being forced to fix the TV all day.
Well, Thunder God is good at fighting, but he's not good at fixing TVs or anything. In the end, it was still not fixed, and it was fixed by catching the little spider the next day.
However, the orphanage has stipulated the time for children to watch TV every day, in order to protect their eyesight. So the remote control is usually in Thor's hands.
Thor looked at his watch, it was time to watch TV at noon. In the lounge, several children were already sitting on the cushions waiting to watch the noon cartoon.
Thor picked up Penny in one hand and said, "Okay, Miss Penny, now let's watch SpongeBob SquarePants."
The TV here had been broken for a long time before Thor came, but no one came to fix it. As for the few nurses under him, except for the two female nurses on the night shift, they could see it. The other two male nurses during the day were nowhere to be seen.
Seems to have been called to do something else. The management of the Southern Cross Welfare Institute is actually a bit chaotic. It was originally designed to house seven hundred children.
Now there are 1,100 children oversubscribed, and the infrastructure of the orphanage has been seriously overloaded. Thor didn't know what the other floors were like.
But the infrastructure in Zone 2A on the tenth floor is seriously aging.
In addition to repairing the TV on the first day of his arrival, he also found that there was a problem with the air outlet of the air conditioner, and there was a problem with the sewer pipe in the girls' shower room, and the drainage was not smooth.
At night, when the water usage peaks, the water supply is still slow, and there is not enough water pressure.
The railings on several of the windows were corroded and dangerously crumbling. These all need to be replaced.
Thor has brought a repair kit every day since he came to work as a nurse. Whether he knows it or not, he is always trying to fix these things.
And doing so also attracted the favor of the children for Thor. For example, Penny is grateful that Thor fixed the TV so that she can watch "SpongeBob SquarePants" at noon every day.
"I want to catch jellyfish with SpongeBob!" said Penny, sitting on the cushion with one arm wrapped around Thor's thick arm.
"Huh?" Thor obviously had no experience in communicating with little girls, and he didn't know how to answer the question.
But Penny didn't care that Thor didn't answer her. She said a lot of things on her own, most of which Thor didn't understand. Because the thinking circuit of children is different from that of adults.
Until the end, Penny took out a few candies from the small pocket on the side of her dress and handed them to Thor: "This is the bounty for repairing the TV!"
Penny with a small milky voice said seriously, and Thor took the candy from Penny with a smile on her face and said, "Thank you, Miss Penny. But where did these candies come from?"
Thor remembered that the orphanage didn't seem to give candy to the children because they were afraid of tooth decay. Welfare homes don't have extra expenses for them to go to the dentist.
"I gave it to Tekken and a big black guy on Children's Day last time (this story was mentioned in the side story of the previous article, and the two went to perform at the Southern Cross Star)." Penny recalled.
"But because we were afraid of tooth decay, we didn't get much." Penny recalled, "so there were children from other districts who wanted to grab our candies."
Thor frowned and asked, "And then?"
"Then Colin led the other boys to fight with them on the basketball court downstairs. They won the fight, but Colin was locked up at that time." Penny said while watching the TV.
Insufficient resources, many things have to be robbed, such as delicious candies, and the same is true for basketball courts and basketball in public activity areas.
Thor sighed, he suddenly wanted to talk to Colin, but an unexpected visitor came.
"Thor, I heard you were transferred here?" It was Christine who came. Today, she took breaths and learned about Thor's transfer. She came to the Southern Cross Orphanage to see how Thor was doing.
"I didn't expect you to come to the orphanage to work as a nurse." There were some changes in Christine's words, and she seemed to know something.
"Are you used to it? Work here. If you don't like it, I can help you find a way."
"No, no need. Thank you, Christine." Tony raised the candy in his hand and said, "Look, I just got a bonus today. Come, I can share one for you to try. "
"Oh, it looks very sweet." Christine took a taffy from Thor, peeled off the package and put the taffy in her mouth.
"There are many problems here, Christine." Thor said helplessly: "All kinds of things, insufficient resources, children's conflicts. There are all kinds of things."
"As much as I hate to say it, the kids in District 2A seem to be outcasts. No one cares about them, a TV is broken for so long and no one comes to fix it, no one cares about the drinking water here until 7pm There would be no water pressure and the kids would just be thirsty at night until the next morning."
"There are many, many things here." Thor and Christine walked in the corridor outside, while he also complained about various problems. At this moment, Thor may not even realize that the way he thinks about problems is becoming more and more like a mortal instead of a high god.
Christine listened quietly to what Thor said, although Thor was quite fat, and sometimes his reactions were a little slow. But Christine felt very comfortable walking with him. Although they were all complaining, she could feel the delicacy in the heart of this rough-looking man.
But for these problems that Thor said, Christine did not have a good solution, and the objective conditions are here. It is impossible for the shareholders of the hospital to increase the budget for the orphanage.
It is a blessing to not dismiss the extra children here. Christine patted Thor's broad back and said: "We are just mortals, not gods. There are always many things we can't do. Many times all we can do is to do our best. Is it good or not? Bad things are often not up to us to decide.”
Listening to Christine's words, Thor almost subconsciously wanted to say, 'I am a god! ’ Fortunately, he held back his mouth.
When the two were chatting in the corridor, suddenly a child from District 2A ran over quickly from the other end of the corridor, and shouted at Thor while running: "Penny! Penny! Penny passed out !"
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After returning from the Venus base, Li Jie decided to talk to Thor. Now that many things have reached this point, they need to have an open and honest chat. After all, only if Thor himself agrees to such a plan can the whole plan go ahead.
He didn't think it was necessary to wait for Thor to come back from get off work, he might as well go to the place where Thor was working now. Southern Cross Welfare Home.
Since delivering the zongzi last time, Li Jie's old Ford has become more and more difficult to use. Now he didn't have time to buy a new car, so he simply drove the suspension supercar given by Pepper to the Southern Cross Welfare Institute to find Thor.
When Li Jie just drove the car to the entrance of the orphanage, he saw Thor running out quickly with a little girl in his arms, and behind him was Christine.
It was obvious that Thor also saw Li Jie's bright red suspension supercar, and he yelled as he ran, "Open the door, start the car! Hurry up, we're going to the hospital!"
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