Marvel's Speedster

As the weather gradually warmed up, Gwen's twentieth birthday finally arrived.

In order to celebrate their daughter, Director Stacey and his wife specially invited relatives and friends to hold a birthday reception on this day.

This viewing restaurant is located on the top of a large TV transmission tower, its position is as high as 1,000 feet, and its height alone is enough to stand out from other nearby buildings, facing the equally majestic Chrysler Building in the distance. Compared with other famous restaurants, its consumption level is not very high. The kitchen provides exquisite French and Italian food. The interior is divided into four function halls according to different styles, which can receive 400 guests at the same time.

After understanding the situation in detail, George and his wife booked one of the halls in advance, which was in line with their financial resources, unique and not shabby at the same time.

Ross didn't disturb the couple's interest. Although he is now a billionaire, Gwen's parents don't plan to use young people's money to celebrate their daughter. According to them, this may be the last time they personally arrange a birthday party for their daughter. , When it comes to this day in the future, it's up to young people like Gwen and Ross to take care of themselves.

When they said these words at the dinner table, their attitudes were peaceful, their tone seemed to be expecting something, Ross was definitely inconvenient to continue this dangerous topic [Mary Jane and Gwen were too embarrassed to discuss it because they just focused on eating.

If he is an ordinary person, perhaps there is indeed nothing to regret in this life.

Unfortunately he is not.

Stacy and his wife are smart people, and they didn't have a word of urging. From the perspective of Gwen's parents, the three of Ross are still very young anyway, and they have time to find their own answers in life.

On this day, the guests came one after another, not only more than a dozen relatives of Stacy's family came, but also many colleagues and friends of the Georges and Mrs. George and Mrs. After more than a hundred people filled the reserved hall, George had to temporarily ask the restaurant for additional seats.

In fact, this scale is not very large. The Stacey family has tried to reduce the number of people to 14 as much as possible, but with George's current status and the relationship between Gwen and Ross, even if the master does not invite, many people will still think about it. Heads have to be squeezed in to foster relationships. If it weren't for the fact that New York is welcoming a heavyweight international meeting recently, it would be inconvenient for dignitaries from the political and business circles to get away, and even the chairman of the government and the speaker of the assembly plan to take the time to show up. Although they can't Come over, and entrust your cronies to come over to express your goodwill.

In such a reality, the reception was extremely lively. Before the reception officially started, people had already arrived. The guests stood by the window overlooking the beautiful scenery, or gathered in twos and threes holding wine glasses. Looking down from the window, the shrunken city of New York flows slowly and unobstructedly with the rotation of the restaurant. There are lush green forests, rippling rivers, green hills below, and definitely the bustling Manhattan neighborhood. The traffic in the middle of the road is long. The clear sunshine in the morning fully displayed all the scenery in front of the guests, making the usually familiar pictures extraordinarily beautiful and charming. The hall was filled with soft music, and the people who came in and out were men and women in fashionable clothes, and children happily appeared in the crowd, as if even the air was filled with the sweet fragrance of cream and honey.

Everyone was in a very happy mood, except Miss Betty, who had just arrived in New York.

The position of the general's daughter is not far from Ross and the others, and she seems to belong to their circle, but she knows very well in her heart that she is not at all.

Undoubtedly, this is an embarrassing realization. If she is just a bystander and has nothing to do with the people here, maybe she can let go of her heart and get in touch with others, then she can also talk and laugh freely like others, but Her arrival originally had some uncertain subjective factors, which created some isolation between her invisible and others

The outside world did not isolate Betty, Betty herself isolated the outside world.

Definitely, her ambivalence is also inseparable from Ross. Although he never hinted anything to Betty, his hot and cold attitude can easily confuse women who already have a good impression.

After several days in the cold, just a warm greeting and a friendly brush through a lock of hair will make Betty feel more gracious.

If you add a small gift that suddenly appears, or a bouquet of wild flowers picked from the lawn surprises, a girl who is a few years older than Ross will not be able to restrain her imagination.

From a female point of view, the distance between them seems to be very far away, but they seem to become very close inadvertently.

And the original sliver of goodwill also magnified rapidly in a short period of time, to the extent that even the general's daughter was surprised.

From this point of view, Ross really is a greedy bad guy.

Betty is not a silly girl, and she definitely understands this, but it is a pity that feelings are a crazy truck that is overloaded and cannot be controlled by the owner at all. So at this moment, although she was holding the wine glass, nodding and smiling with the chatter of the people next to her, and being in the lively crowd, she felt unprecedentedly lonely in her heart.

If the banquet could end early, I'm afraid she would find an excuse to go out quietly now.

But that's just an illusion, and Gwen herself is even chatting with cronies in the lounge next door.

People gradually arrived, and the birthday reception finally started.

First, George’s long-time friend and witty fat Will, as the host, invited George and his wife to give a speech, and then Gwen’s friend representatives appeared on the stage one by one. During the congratulations, Will made the crowd laugh with his special skills It was not until Gwen appeared in a white dress and a birthday crown accompanied by Mary Jane that the scene became quiet again.

The waiter lowered the curtains one by one, and the bright hall was immediately darkened. At the same time, Gwen's two younger brothers pushed the candle-lit birthday cake together and walked slowly to her sister.

Everyone sent flowers one after another, and at the same time sent many words of blessing.

...I have made a lot of progress in the past year. I want to thank my parents for raising me and loving me; I want to thank my younger brothers, Howard and Simon, and I hope you are healthy and happy; and I My friends, thank you for growing up with me; in the end, I would like to thank one person in particular...."

As Gwen's clear eyes moved slowly, all the guests present turned their attention to the smiling Ross, and no one knew their relationship.

"...I want to thank MJ, only I know how delicious your dishes are, and I have gained five pounds." Gwen playfully skipped over her boyfriend, turned around and hugged the girl next to her, The two looked at their boyfriend like a pair of beautiful sisters and snickered.

Immediately, the crowd erupted into laughter, Ross spread his arms out in cooperation to express his helplessness, and then hugged Gwen who was rushing forward.

The three have known each other since high school and have grown up together. It is not surprising that the relationship is harmonious, and there seems to be nothing unnatural. Mary Jane does not reject Gwen, a latecomer, and the Georges seem to accept Mary Jane's exist. Anyway, they were all young, and the guests only made fun of them in good faith.

Seeing this lucky girl, Betty involuntarily poured herself half a glass of champagne.

After making a wish, Gwen blew out the candles and began to divide the cake. The waiters outside the crowd reopened the curtains, and the hall was once again shrouded in warm sunlight.

So far, the most important procedure of the birthday reception is finally over, and the guests present can move around freely.

Gwen is still the focus of the crowd, and she is showing her latest invention to the people around her - the cobweb barrier-free passer. This device, which imitates the spider's ejection organ, can theoretically allow the user to move around the city like a Spider-man. The sky is haunted - if they are not afraid to fall down and be smashed to pieces.

Regardless of whether it has practical value or not, it is always a new gadget. The seniors definitely don't hesitate to smile and encourage. Due to the limited space of the venue, it was not convenient to perform. Gwen only finished a few simple operations, but these few demonstrations still attracted a group of young people who pursue novelty.

Betty watched coldly.

Born in a famous family, excellent in character and learning, excellent in Ability, beautiful and intelligent... These halos make Gwen look like a princess standing on the clouds, but in Betty's view, she doesn't think it's too prominent, after all these factors It can also be found in her, even better than Gwen. Only on this special occasion, the halo of a real girlfriend of Ross overwhelmed her, even if only half of this halo was left, it was enough to create a big gap between the two.

It's so strange——Betty thought so, she couldn't figure out her own mind more and more, she obviously didn't want to step into this emotional vortex, why was she a little unwilling?

Betty's mood was not missed by Ross, who stood aside with a glass of wine in his hand while smiling. Although he didn't talk much today, everyone didn't feel left out. At the same time, the emotional reactions of all the people present were presented in front of his eyes, as if everything was under his control.

To be honest, his current state is a bit abnormal.

To be precise, since he came into contact with Tesseract in S.H.I.E.L.D, he has never been normal. The power of the golden gem has been silently transforming his spiritual world, until today the sudden explosion of this change reached its peak.

People come and go, amidst the colorful lights, "he always feels oppressed by lack of oxygen.

Everyone around is releasing a torrent of emotions, but he is in the center of the torrent, and all the pressures converge into a vast and boundless ocean, surging toward him endlessly.

But at the same time, this torrent is a completely unfamiliar force. He seems to be able to get support from the emotional fluctuations of others, and extract the essence to nourish his own soul.

Gradually, the subtle fluctuations reached an overflowing state, and Ross felt unsteady as if he was drunk.

The friendly or jealous sights around him, the constant prying gazes in the far corners, all the emotions of envy and longing appeared in his mind at the same time, making Ross constantly float in the ocean of subtle human emotions.

If the wave of consciousness emanating from each person is an independent thread, then now Ross can turn everyone into his own marionette just by stretching out his hand.

But this is just an illusion.

Just like when a lens refracts light, it is easy to distort the observed object by shapeshifting.

He, too, was now adrift with shaky feelings, inevitably over-amplifying certain reactions and over-minimizing certain symptoms.

Although it is difficult to hold back, his senses at this moment are unusually keen, especially when someone mentions his name, no matter whether Fang 237 is close by or far away from the edge of the hall, his consciousness can directly flash in front of the other party ----Although only for a short moment.

Ross didn't know if this was a new kind of super-ability. He didn't develop any abilities similar to mind control like the professor or Jean, but huge amounts of changes were quietly taking place in the spiritual world. There was no abnormality, he was still the promising young man in the past, personable and polite, but Ross knew that his soul seemed to be undergoing an invisible revolution.

The outside world is swaying, Ross's world is fast and slow, his consciousness is very clear, and his will still maintains control over his body, only the involuntary violent turmoil of his always keen senses.

He gradually felt that his body became extremely light, and he seemed to be able to jump easily with one step.

In the air, but when I really raised my hand, I found that my reaction was extremely slow, as if the track and field athlete moved towards the finish line step by step at an extremely slow turtle speed long after the referee fired the gun

move.

He felt like he was wrapped in thick glue, and every step was like muddy water.

At the same time, as long as he has a thought, the whole hall will fall into a terrible silence.

Smiles, voices, air flow, and even light became extremely slow. It seemed that as long as he wanted, the whole world and even the whole universe could end everything.

It's just reason and experience telling him that this is still just an illusion, the world is still that world, but he has changed a little bit.

In this state, Ross can only stay awake as much as possible, reducing the chance of speaking and eye contact with other people.

But this kind of him looks very gentle to other people, as if deliberately restraining his own brilliance to fulfill his girlfriend.

Especially when Gwen is acting like a baby, that charming smile can melt the hearts of girls.

In fact, Ross just didn't dare to speak, he was afraid that if he opened his mouth, he would jump out a string of rapid | intense notes, so that everyone would find out that something was wrong with him

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Finally, the careful Mary Jane stepped forward to help him out in time.

After a roar in his head, Ross finally got a chance to breathe.

"I'll go for a while." He put down his wine glass, quietly gestured to Mary Jane to rest, and stopped her from following. Walking alone through the winding corridors, away from the reception

A restroom in the lobby.

Not long after he entered, a middle-aged man wearing a baseball cap appeared behind him. The man quietly looked around and pushed away when no one was paying attention. Ross had just opened it.

that door. .