Chapter 856: Bright Stars (I)

The autumn in New York is very warm. The warm-colored fallen leaves do not seem to be a symbol of the gradual decline of life. When they fall from the branches, they embrace the pedestrians under the trees with a resolute determination.

In the bustling commercial streets of Manhattan, nature is wrapped by steel walls and no longer has that kind of vitality. However, in a slightly remote place, on the fence outside the building, the roses wither, leaving bright red fruits, and the patterns on the gate railings are in the style of American country.

A white hand approached the railing, but did not hold the railing at all. The iron gate was pushed open, and a pair of boots stepped on the thick fallen leaves in the yard, making a crackling sound.

Polaris walked into the building, took off her scarf, let out a long breath, wiped the fine beads of sweat on her forehead, and said to the receptionist at the front desk: "Hello, my name is Lorna Dane, I have an appointment."

"Okay, please wait." The receptionist smiled and checked the appointment record on the computer. Polaris sighed slightly while waiting at the front desk. Her beautiful face could not hide her fatigue, and there were dark circles under her eyes.

"Hello, please go this way." The receptionist pointed to the corridor and Polaris followed her. The two took the elevator upstairs, left the elevator, and came to the door of an office. The receptionist knocked, and a gentle voice came from inside: "Come in."

The receptionist stood by the door, and Polaris pushed the door open by herself. Schiller behind the desk pushed his glasses and said: "Is this Miss Dane? Please sit down. You have an appointment for treatment from 5:00 to 9:00 this afternoon. There is still half an hour. Please sit for a while and I will finish these documents."

"Okay, Dr. Rodriguez." Polaris didn't say much, he sat on the sofa in the reception area.

Schiller, who was behind the desk, wrote something while saying, "To be honest, Miss Dane, I was quite surprised to receive your appointment. After all, there is no more powerful psychologist in the world than Professor Xavier. I heard that you have a good relationship. Why don't you get treatment from him?"

Polaris lowered her head slightly and brushed her long green hair behind her ears with her hands. Schiller looked up at her movements.

Polaris is rarely so gentle. Most of the time, she is impetuous and looks difficult to mess with. It is also difficult to say whether she is gentle or tired now.

Before speaking, Polaris sighed first. This breath contained too many complex emotions, so that when she spoke, she didn't know where to start. But after a pause, she still said:

"This matter has to start from the job that Professor Charles found for me..."

The job of space traffic police that Charles found for Polaris can be said to be a perfect match for her ability. The only problem is that the workload is too large and it is really tiring. Moreover, it has made an indelible contribution to the possibility of the Third World War.

After three days of this job, Stark stopped Polaris from going to space. Polaris felt very angry and thought he was looking for trouble, so she didn't intend to pay attention to him, but planned to go to work as usual the next day.

But what she didn't expect was that Polaris met Magneto Eric at the door of her rented apartment that night.

It was an autumn night, and the temperature just dropped that night. Polaris was tired after a day of work and couldn't eat dinner, so she bought a taco on the side of the road. After getting out of the elevator, she took out the key and planned to open the door.

At this moment, she keenly felt the fluctuation of the magnetic field. When she turned her head, Polaris saw that Magneto appeared at the end of the corridor. The moonlight outside the window made his shadow very long, like a candle that was about to burn out.

At that moment, Polaris was horrified. Her hand shook, and the key fell to the ground with a crisp sound.

Then she saw that the key floated up and inserted into the keyhole of her apartment door, helping her open the door.

Polaris's arm trembled, and she turned to Magneto and shouted: "What are you doing?! What are you doing here?! Why are you here?"

Magneto didn't say anything, he just walked forward and signaled Polaris to come in with his eyes. Polaris pushed the door open with her trembling arm, and after walking in, she turned to Magneto and said: "...You can't come in!"

"Why did you come to me?" Polaris asked again.

"You recently got a new job..." Magneto's low voice echoed in the corridor, like the vibration of magnetism.

Polaris held onto the door frame and took a deep breath, saying, "Yes, but so what? You fired me, but you don't allow me to find a new job?!"

Before Magneto could speak, Polaris said, "Okay, I know, Professor X must have told you that I don't study, but I just don't like staying in that crappy school!"

"What's there? There's a bunch of brats! Do you know what they do every day? Freeze the entire teaching building, then burn it down, discharge electricity to knock off all the leaves, or knock a big hole in the wall..."

"Do you want me to play these games with them? Those stupid, short-sighted, childish people who only see the present! Those idiots who don't understand that the disaster is imminent, how can I stay with them?!"

Polaris held the door frame tightly and said, "You should leave here, go back to the Andromeda Galaxy, and don't show up in front of me!"

"Lorna..." Magneto called her name, but Polaris became more and more angry. She said, "Don't call me that! You are not qualified to call me that!"

Polaris took two steps back, looked into Magneto's eyes and said, "Don't think about it. Let me go back to school... Magneto, if it weren't for you, if you hadn't abandoned my mother, she wouldn't have died!"

"If my adoptive parents hadn't died, I wouldn't have been sent to an orphanage, and then to a boarding school, and I wouldn't have been bullied by those weak, childish, and stupid ordinary people!"

Polaris' chest began to rise and fall, and her fingertips began to tremble. She spoke quickly: "What did I do? I just broke the bones of those who bullied me, so that they could never stand up again, so what? That's what they deserved!"

"They went to me, "I should have thought of this day when I stuffed mud into my desk and smeared sticky sugar on the wall next to me! I really regret why I didn't kill them!"

"And then? Those nosy X-Men came to me and said I was a criminal! They said I shouldn't do this, and that I couldn't hurt ordinary people anyway... Fuck ordinary people!"

"Students from the same school bully transfer students, the rich bully the poor, and those with both parents bully those from single-parent families. Haven't they seen through the nature of these ordinary people? They are not weak sheep that need protection, but a disgusting group of people who are ready to The jackal that bites others!"

"No one in this world is more vicious than them! But the X-Men said that they should protect them, care about them, and stand with them!"

Polaris was trembling all over. She looked at Magneto and said, "And now, you are going to stand with them... Get out! Leave here! I don't want to see you again! Damn monster..."

Suddenly, she heard the hum of the magnetic field. Polaris's expression froze for a moment. She instinctively condensed a magnetic barrier around her body, but it was broken in an instant. She was far from being able to compete with Magneto in terms of strength.

"What do you want to do? Want to kill me? ! ... Few people can see Magneto showing so many emotions. In most cases, he always has a straight face and doesn't say a word.

The figure of Polaris falling down slowly blurred and condensed into a small shadow, which was reflected in Magneto's pupils.

After finishing the memory, he looked at Charles opposite with an expressionless face, and Professor X still smiled and said: "Last night, you should have shown your support to little Lorna as I said, right?"

"Look, Eric, parents should stand with their children. Even if she gets into trouble, you have to express your intention to protect her, so as to show your love for her..."

Charles turned his wheelchair and came to the desk and said: "I have suggested it to you many times before, but you were indifferent. It seems that little Lorna is really different for you. You are willing to give it a try."

"With a strong father like you standing behind her, she can get more sense of security, so as to heal the wounds caused by school bullying before. "Harm..."

Charles turned to look at Magneto and said, "Children always cry loudly, but they don't want much, just a little sense of security."

"You must use practical actions to prove to them that you will always stand behind them and will not leave. No matter what happens, you will be together, because you are relatives, and relatives should support each other like this..."

"Lorna..." Magneto's fingertips moved. There were obviously all kinds of emotions in his heart, but these emotions could not be transformed into words. In the end, he said, "...Her problem is very serious."

"Serious? Where is it serious?" Charles looked at Magneto with some doubts. He didn't know what happened last night.

At that time, Stark called Magneto and asked him to come back. Magneto really came back, but he went to Xavier's School for Gifted Youngsters and met Charles as soon as he came back.

Hearing that he came back because of Lorna, Charles warned Magneto not to rush over to criticize Polaris.

Even if he wanted to point out her problem, he had to first state his attitude, that is, as your father, I will always stand with you, and I will protect you no matter what happens.

So Magneto went.

But I don't know what went wrong. Polaris and Magneto described the scene that night in completely opposite ways, and the two psychiatrists, Schiller and Charles, also understood it in completely opposite ways.

Schiller imagined a large horror movie from Polaris's description. Even if the ethical part is removed, it is still very strange and terrifying.

But because Charles nodded when he asked Magneto if everything went well last night, Charles felt that the father and daughter must have sat together and talked intimately last night, which made the originally indifferent relationship go a step further and become relatives.

This led to the two psychologists' guidance directions for the father and daughter to be completely different and diametrically opposed.

"Okay, Miss Lorna, can I call you that? Because you know that Charles has a close relationship with your father, so you don't want to go to him, so you come to me..."

"You will take the initiative to find a psychologist, which means that you think you may have some problems with your psychology. Do you think there are any changes in your life recently? Can you tell me about it?" Schiller looked at Polaris opposite and asked.

"Change?" Polaris frowned, lowered her head, and looked very tired. She said, "I'm very tired recently, and I don't even have the strength to lift my arms..."

Schiller took out a medical record and started writing. Polaris relaxed a little when she found that Schiller's attention was not on her.

Schiller asked without raising his head: "Have you been busy at work recently? Have you taken a few days off to relax?"

"I was really tired a few days ago, but it got much better later. I didn't take a vacation, and I don't think I need a vacation. When I was in the Andromeda Galaxy, I could even work like this for two consecutive months."

Schiller raised his eyebrows and said, "Miss Lorna, everyone needs a rest. If you feel that you don't need a rest at some point, it is very likely that some other emotions are prompting you to do so. This emotion blinds your brain, causing it to secrete too much adrenaline, keeping you in an excited mood, which is not a good thing."

"What were you thinking about when you were working in the Andromeda Galaxy?" Schiller asked.

Unexpectedly, Polaris was silent for a long time before slowly uttering a sentence: "I'm thinking... about the future of mutants."

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