Patrick's Bizarre Adventure

Life mentor Shi Aiguo

Early in the morning on the weekend, Steve was stopped by Iron Man's armor while he was running and exercising.

"Captain hi." Tony Stark's voice came out of the armor, slightly distorted.

Steve stopped by the opportunity, picked up the white towel around his neck and wiped the sweat from his forehead, and then asked in a relaxed tone:

"What's the matter? Tony, it's rare to see you wake up so early. What's the matter? Do you want to exercise together?"

"Emmm, I still can't exercise." He continued: "I'm going to go to other places to deal with company affairs today, so I may have to ask you to help me take care of Paddy for a day."

"Okay, of course no problem." Steve said, glanced behind the armor, and asked doubtfully, "Didn't you bring him here directly?"

"Actually—" Warframe raised his hand and tapped the light blue reactor on his chest. "He's here."

Following his movement, the battle armor opened directly, and Paddy staggered down from inside, just in time to be caught by Steve.

"Be careful, kid." Tony's voice still came from the empty mecha inside. "Oh, I forgot to tell you about the captain, I'm already over there now."

"Okay." Steve said helplessly.He patted Paddy, who had already stood still, and then joked, "The goods have been received, do you want to give you a five-star praise?"

"No way, our old Popsicle has also learned new jokes?" The battle armor closed again, and then gradually lifted into the air, leaving a sentence at the end: "This joke is good, there is progress." Then it disappeared into the sky with its long tail. up in the air.

Steve really didn't know how to get along with children. He thought about it for a long time, and finally found an ice cream machine in front of a small shop nearby.

"So, why didn't you go out with your friends on the weekend?" Steve asked, handing Paddy a strawberry ice cream.

"Why didn't you say 'oh my god, your Tony's dad doesn't want you!'?" Paddy asked him without answering, taking the ice cream.

Steve: ? ? ?

"Uh... maybe I'm not the type to say that kind of thing myself?"

"That makes sense... I heard that sentence from Happy, who always imitates the aunts in TV dramas like this. Well, this is delicious. What is it?" The boy showed a distressed expression, and for a moment He narrowed his eyes happily because he tasted the sweet taste.

"It's strawberry ice cream..." Steve didn't really want to know why Happy wanted to imitate the aunt in the TV series, he had to tell Tony not to teach bad children.He secretly wrote it down in his heart.

"It turns out that the ice is really cold. It's strange that the ice in my place is not cold, and the food doesn't taste good."

The two sat on a bench in the park, the shade of the trees fell gently, leaving some dappled sunlight on the ground, the atmosphere was just right.So Steve decided to ask something.

"Would you mind...telling me about things in your hometown? I'm quite curious."

"Is my hometown? It's actually very ordinary. There are many trees, many animals, and many monsters. The food is not as good as here, and there are not as many people here." Paddy kicked his legs leisurely, and took another two bites of ice cream. "Well, the weather is changing fast, too."

"monster?"

"Hmm, there are zombies, skeletons, creepers, spiders, witches... and slimes and silverfish."

"Then..." Steve was about to ask in detail, but he heard a noisy voice from the side.The two followed their reputation, and it seemed that...

"Someone fell into the water! Paddy, wait for me here!" Steve rushed out after speaking.

Paddy watched his sturdy figure leap into the lake in a standard posture without saying a word, and then dragged the drowning man back to the shore.

After receiving a series of thanks, Steve came back wet all over. He stroked the water from his head, and his golden hair was wiped back, revealing his smooth forehead and bluer eyes after washing.

"Is it hard?" Paddy said nonchalantly.

"what?"

"It's hard, it feels like being scolded." Paddy lowered his head and licked the ice cream. "I watched news interviews on TV, and many people said that superheroes caused disasters."

Paddy's black eyes were bright and pure: "I don't quite understand, why are you all like this. How can you persist after being scolded?"

Steve was stunned for a moment, then laughed and said, "Didn't they scold you too? And they scolded you too much. Didn't you persevere?"

"It's not the same." Paddy lowered his head, his voice was vague.

I at least have achievements to collect and rewards for.You have nothing.

"What's the difference?" Steve chased after him.

"It's just different, it's different everywhere!"

"Hmm...Okay." Steve stretched out his hand to pull Paddy up so that he didn't have to lie on his knees to talk and eat, and then continued: "Then let me tell you a story?"

He leaned on the back of the bench, looked up at the leaves, and began to speak slowly.

"Once upon a time there was a kid in Brooklyn whose dream was to serve his country as a soldier. But he couldn't even pass the most basic draft medical. He was so skinny and small that he couldn't even beat a punk."

"His good friend persuaded him, but he still wanted to work hard. So God gave him this opportunity. A doctor took a fancy to him."

"The doctor said: The strong are born with power, they lose their awe of power, and the weak understand the value of power, and they have love and compassion."

"So he swore that with great power comes great responsibility. He decided to keep practicing like this."

"So you see, he still thinks so until now. The important thing is his own beliefs. It doesn't matter if he is scolded or not understood. And on the contrary, Icandothisallday." Steve winked playfully at Paddy.

Paddy fell into deep thought.

He was silent for a long time, and finally said: "Is the ice cream cone below edible? It smells delicious."

Steve:?