Marvel's Speedsters

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

To celebrate their daughter, Chief Stacy and his wife invited friends and family to a birthday party on this day, which was held at the Skyview Revolving Restaurant on the banks of the Hudson River.

Perched atop a large television tower, the observation restaurant stands up to a thousand feet tall, enough to stand tall from other nearby buildings and the equally majestic Chrysler Building in the distance. Compared with other famous restaurants, its consumption level is not very high, the kitchen offers | exquisite French and Italian cuisine, and the interior is divided into four function halls according to different styles, which can receive 400 guests at the same time.

George and his wife, after learning more about the situation, booked one of the halls in advance, so that it matched their financial resources, and was unique and not shabby.

Ross didn’t bother the couple, and although he was now a billionaire, Gwen’s parents didn’t plan to celebrate their daughter with young people’s money, and according to them, maybe this was the last time they would personally arrange a birthday party for their daughter, and on this day, it would be time for Gwen and Ross and other young people to run it themselves.

They said these words at the dinner table with a serene attitude, as if they were expecting something, Ross was certainly inconvenient to continue this dangerous topic, and Mary Jane and Gwen were even more embarrassed to bury their heads in the discussion.

If he were an ordinary person, maybe there really was nothing to regret here in life.

It’s a pity he’s not.

The Stacy couple were smart people, they didn’t have a word of urging, and in Gwen’s parents, all three of them were still very young anyway, and they had time to find the answers to their lives.

On this day, guests came one after another, not only more than a dozen relatives of the Stacy family, but also many colleagues and friends of Mr. and Mrs. George, plus Gwen’s own twenty or thirty friends, the total reached more than a hundred, and after filling the reserved hall, George had to temporarily ask the restaurant for more seats.

In fact, this scale is not very large, the Stacy family has tried to reduce the number of people as much as possible, but with George’s identity today, as well as the relationship between Gwen and Ross, even if the owner does not invite, there will still be many people who want to break their heads and squeeze in to pull the relationship, if not for the recent New York is welcoming a heavyweight international meeting, the dignitaries of the political and business circles are inconvenient to get out, and even the president of the Shi and the speaker plan to take time to come and show up, and now although they themselves cannot come, they have also entrusted their cronies to express goodwill.

In this reality, the drinking party looks extremely lively. Before the cocktail party officially began, people were already here, and guests stood by the window looking down at the view, or gathered in pairs with wine glasses. Looking down from the window, the shrunken New York City district slowly flows unobstructed as the restaurant spins, with green woods, turquoise rivers, hilly hills and, of course, the bustling Manhattan neighborhood. The clear sunlight in the morning shows all the scenery in front of the guests, making the familiar picture look particularly beautiful and fascinating| The hall is filled with soft music, men and women dressed in traditional clothes come and go, and children | happily in the crowd, as if even the air is flowing with the sweet smell of cream and honey.

Everyone was in a good mood, except for Miss Betty, who had recently arrived in New York.

The position of the general’s daughter is not far from Ross and the others, and it seems that she also belongs 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, completely unrelated to the people here, maybe she can let go of contact with others, then she can also talk and laugh like others, but her arrival itself has some uncertain subjective factors, which makes her invisibly have some distance from others.

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

Of course, her ambivalence is also inseparable from Ross. Although he never hinted anything to Betty, the hot and cold attitude can easily confuse women who already have some good feelings.

After a few days of continuous snubs, a warm greeting and a kind brush of a lock of hair will make Betty feel more familiar.

If you add to this a small gift that suddenly appears, or a bunch of wildflowers picked on the lawn, the girl who is a few years older than Ross will not be able to restrain her thoughts.

From the woman’s point of view, they seem to be far away, but they seem to inadvertently become very close.

And the original faint feeling was also rapidly amplified in a short period of time, to the extent that even the general’s daughter herself was surprised.

From here, Ross is really an insatiable bad guy.

Betty is not a silly girl, of course she herself understands this, but unfortunately the feelings are an overly overloaded crazy van, completely out of the master’s hands. So at this moment, although she was holding a wine glass, nodding and smiling with the small talk of the people next to her, she felt unprecedented loneliness in her heart in the lively crowd.

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

But it was just a fantasy, and Gwen herself even communicated with close friends in the lounge next door.

The people are almost there, and the birthday party finally begins.

First of all, George’s long-time friend, the witty fat Will, as the host invited George and his wife to give a speech, and then Gwen’s friend representatives appeared in turn, in the process of congratulating Daoxi, Will played his specialty to make the crowd laugh continuously, until Gwen appeared in a white dress and a birthday crown accompanied by Mary Jane, and the scene quieted down again.

The waiter lowered the curtains one by one, and the bright hall immediately darkened, while Gwen’s two younger brothers slowly walked to her sister with a birthday cake lit by candles.

Many people sent flowers and many words of blessing.

“…… There has been a lot of progress in the past year, and I want to thank my parents, you have always raised me and loved me; I want to thank my younger brothers, Howard and Simon, for wishing you health and happiness; And my friends, thank you for growing with me; Finally, I would like to thank one person in particular…”

As Gwen’s clear eyes slowly moved, the guests turned their gaze to the smiling Ross, and no one was unaware of their relationship.

“…… I want to thank MJ, only I know how delicious your dishes are and I have gained five pounds. Gwen playfully jumped over her boyfriend, turned around and put her arms around the girl next to her, and the two looked at her boyfriend like a pair of beautiful sisters and snickered.

Immediately, the crowd erupted into laughter, and Ross cooperated with spreading his arms to show helplessness, and then hugged Gwen who pounced on him.

The three have known each other since high school, have grown up together, it is not surprising that the relationship is harmonious, there seems to be nothing unnatural, Mary Jane does not reject Gwen as a latecomer, and the George couple seems to accept Mary Jane’s existence. Anyway, they are all young, and the guests are only kind teasers at best.

Looking at this lucky girl, Betty couldn’t help but pour herself half a glass of champagne.

After making the wish, Gwen blew out the candle and began to divide the cake, the waiter outside the crowd reopened the curtains, and the hall was once again enveloped in warm sunlight.

At this point, the most important procedure of the birthday reception is finally over, and the guests present can move around at will.

Gwen remains the focus of the crowd, and she’s showing off her latest invention—- the spider silk barrier-free passer, a device that mimics a spider’s catapult organ that could theoretically allow users to haunt over the city like Spider-Man—- if they’re not afraid to fall and break their bones.

Whether it has practical value or not, it is always a new thing. Seniors certainly smile and encourage. Due to the limited space of the venue, it was not very convenient for performances, and Gwen only did a few simple operations to finish, but these few demonstrations still attracted a group of young people who were looking for novelty.

Betty watched coldly from the sidelines.

Born in a famous family, excellent in character and learning, excellent ability, beautiful and intelligent… These auras make Gwen look like a princess standing on the clouds, but they don’t seem to be very prominent in Betty’s opinion, after all, these factors can also be found in her, even better than Gwen. It’s just that on this special occasion, the aura of a Ross’s real girlfriend overwhelmed her, even if this aura was only half left, it was enough to create a huge heavenly barrier between the two.

It’s strange—- Betty thinks so, she can’t guess her mind more and more, obviously she doesn’t want to step into this emotional whirlpool, why is she a little unwilling?

Betty’s mood was not missed by Ross, and he stood aside with a smile holding the wine glass. Although he didn’t speak much today, everyone did not feel left out, and the emotional reactions of those present were all presented in front of his eyes, as if everything was under his control.

To be honest, his current state is somewhat abnormal.

To be precise, since he came into contact with the Cosmic Cube at 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, this change suddenly exploded to reach its peak |.

People come and go, but he always has a sense of oppression due to lack of oxygen.

Everyone around him was releasing the torrent of emotions, and he was at the center of the torrent, all the pressure gathered into a vast and boundless ocean, endlessly rushing towards him.

But this torrent is at the same time a completely alien force, and he seems to be able to take support from the mood swings of others, extracting essence to nourish his soul.

Gradually, the vague fluctuations reached a state of overflow, and Ross actually felt unsteady on his feet as if he was drunk.

The friendly or jealous gaze around him, the prying gaze in the far corner, all the psychology with envy and longing were presented in his mind at the same time, allowing Ross to float in the ocean of subtle human emotions.

If the fluctuations of consciousness emitted by each person were an independent silk thread, then now with a single stretch of his hand, Ross can turn everyone into his own marionellae.

But this is just an illusion.

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

He is also now drifting in shaky feelings, inevitably overmagnifying some kind of reaction and at the same time overscaling certain signs.

Although it was a little difficult to help himself, his sense at this moment was unusually sharp, especially when someone mentioned his name, whether the other party was near or far away at the edge of the hall, his consciousness could flash directly in front of the other party—- although it was only for a short moment.

Rose didn’t know if it was a new superpower, he hadn’t developed any mind-controlling powers like the professor or Jean, but the spiritual world was quietly undergoing a huge change, this change looked completely unchanged from the outside, still the promising young man of the past, personable and polite, but Ross knew that his soul seemed to be undergoing an invisible revolution.

The outside world is staggered, Ross’s world is fast and slow, his consciousness is very clear, his will still maintains control over his body, and only the always keen senses are involuntarily fiercely turbulent.

He gradually felt that his body became extremely light and |, and it seemed that he could easily jump into the air in one step, but when he really raised his hand, he found that his reaction was extremely slow, as if long after the referee fired the shot, the track and field athletes moved step by step towards the finish line at an extremely slow tortoise speed.

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

At the same time, as long as he had one thought, the entire hall would fall into a terrible silence.

The smile, the voice, the air flow, and even the light became extremely slow, and it seemed that if he wanted to, the whole world and even the whole universe could put a stop to the end of everything.

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

In this state, Ross had to stay as awake as possible, reducing the chance of verbal and eye contact with other people.

However, this kind of him looks particularly gentle in others, as if he deliberately converged his light to complete his girlfriend.

Especially when Gwen is coquettish, that kind of |mesmerizing smile can literally melt the girls’ hearts.

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

In the end, the attentive Mary Jane stepped forward in time to help him solve the siege.

After a roar in his head, Ross finally got a respite.

“I’ll go.” He put down his glass and quietly made a resting gesture at Mary Jane to stop her from following. Walk alone through the winding hallway to a bathroom away from the cocktail hall.

Shortly after he entered, a middle-aged man wearing a baseball cap appeared in the back, and the man quietly looked around, and after noticing no one, pushed open the door that Ross had just opened.