#654 - Does Padraic really have seven or eight children or is he single?

"Dad, is immortality a curse?"

Raven whispered to Peter: "One day, will you also watch me leave? Because you will stay here forever, and I will keep growing until I grow old."

She suddenly thought of a novel she had read before.

The two people in the novel took the elixir of immortality, but they fell into deep loneliness and torture because of it.

A man named "Nguyen" lost himself in a long period of loneliness and even crossed the line of "cannibalism", while another man named "Barron" adhered to the bottom line but also experienced great psychological torture.

"No, Riven, for some people, immortality is a curse, but for some people it is not. The reason for the curse is that many people cannot stand the loneliness and endless waiting that immortality brings, but for me, as long as you are by my side, I will not be lonely or waiting."

Raven listened to Peter's words with a sad expression on her face, "But you will leave me eventually, right? Dad, time will separate us."

"Of course not."

Riven has the Three Palaces Demon sealed inside her body, so she won't age like normal people.

Peter suspected that even if he died one day, Raven could still be reborn through reincarnation.

"Well, although I believe what you said, Dad, I am also afraid, Dad. I am afraid that one day one of us will have to watch the other disappear."

Ruiwen said with some melancholy: "I have never thought about how a person with a one-year lifespan would spend his life. If I only had one year to live, I would probably spend it on the farm with you, Dad."

Peter stroked his daughter's hair and fell silent.

On the other side, Baobao, Wei and Mark said goodbye to Nurzo.

Several people could clearly see that Nurzo had aged a lot, and many wrinkles appeared on the "praying mantis" face.

Boom Boom said to Nurzo with a heavy heart: "I hope you are still alive next time we see you, Nurzo."

Nurzo nodded and said to Baobao optimistically: "I will try my best."

Mark thought about it and took out his gift.

He took out a large box of exquisite horseshoe-shaped chocolates purchased from the Hogwarts World and gave it to Nurzo.

This was originally the gift he planned to prepare for himself at his birthday party.

"I know this is chocolate, the favorite gift for children in your world, right?"

Nurzo took the gift and said in a good mood: "If you gave me this gift a few days ago, I think I would be happier, after all, I was not grown up a few days ago."

mark:"."

Are you here to make people depressed on purpose?

He felt even worse after hearing what the other party said.

New York.

Debbie Grayson drove the car into the yard.

As she got out of the car with her bag, she saw a car parked outside.

A handsome middle-aged man in a suit got out of the car and greeted Debbie with a glass of red wine in his hand.

"Hi, Debbie."

"Hi, Paul!"

Debbie greeted her colleague in surprise. She didn't expect to see her colleague here.

"What's up, Paul?"

Debbie asked, walking closer to him.

"This is a gift from your colleagues in the office. It represents everyone's thoughts."

Paul handed her the wine.

Debbie took the red wine and asked him doubtfully, "Red wine? Are you guys going to celebrate the sale of my house?"

"Forehead"

Paul said a little embarrassedly: "It's not like that. Everyone knows that you had a hard time in the past period of time, but we are very happy that you are back."

After Debbie returned to work, Paul and her colleagues thought she had come out of her previous depression.

"Thank you, thank you, Paul."

After hearing this, Debbie was stunned for a moment, then thanked Paul and gave him a gentle hug.

"Thank you for your concern."

"You're welcome. I'm actually very happy to see you back. I have some things to take care of. I have to go now."

Paul looked a little unnatural and coughed to say goodbye to Debbie.

"Goodbye, thank you for your thoughts."

Debbie waved goodbye.

After seeing her colleague off, Debbie opened the door and walked into the room.

Throwing her shoes onto the floor, Debbie walked to the wine cabinet with the wine in her hand, opened it, and prepared to take out a glass to taste the wine.

The glass door to the backyard was pushed open and several figures rushed in.

“Hey, Mom!”

Mark Grayson waved hello to Debbie.

"mark?!"

Debbie was stunned when she saw her son suddenly appear, and the cup in her hand almost fell to the ground.

Putting down the glass and red wine, she came over excitedly and hugged Mark.

"Oh my God, it's been a month. You haven't shown up for a month. I was worried to death."

As soon as she saw her son, Debbie gushed: "I tried not to worry, but even Cecil was going crazy. He was a..."

As she spoke she quickly realized something was wrong.

It seems like there is someone else in the room?

Turning her gaze to the other people entering the room, her eyes met Peter's.

Peter held the purple-skinned baby in his arms and calmly greeted the beautiful Asian woman in front of him who looked to be in her thirties and still had some charm.

"Hello, Ms. Grayson."

Debbie: “?!”

Slightly stunned, she looked down at her bare feet, then rushed to the door as quickly as possible to put on her shoes.

She glared at Mark as she put on her shoes.

He brought a stranger into his home without even saying hello in advance, making himself look so embarrassed.

"Hello."

After Debbie put on her shoes, she greeted Peter as if nothing had happened, and then asked Mark, "Mark, is this your friend?"

"No!"

Mark Grayson quickly denied, "Mr. Padrick is the one who saved me. He is a superhero who is even more powerful than me."

"I'm Peter Padrick."

Peter came over and introduced himself to Mark's mother.

After arriving on Earth, Peter was dragged by Mark to his home.

Riven and her group were waiting for him at the hotel.

So he would show up at Mark's house now.

"I'm Debbie, Debbie Grayson, Mark's mother. Thank you for helping Mark."

After hearing Mark say that Peter was a superhero who saved him, Debbie had a much better impression of Peter.

"Is this your child? He's cute."

Soon she turned her attention to the child in Peter's arms and smiled at him.

Although the baby's purple skin looked a little strange, Debbie pretended not to see it out of politeness.

Mark took one look at the baby and said to her, "No, Mom, this is your child."

"What?!"

"Sorry, I said the wrong thing, Mom, this is Dad's child."

Debbie looked at him with wide eyes, "What did you say?! My child? When did I have a child that big?"

"I mean - he's Dad's child with another woman."

When Debbie heard this, she felt dizzy.

The whole world seemed to turn upside down before her.

She was about to fall backwards as her body could no longer support her, but Mark, who was quick-witted and quick-handed, quickly held her up.

"Mother?!"

Half an hour later.

Debbie, who has recovered, sat at the table, pressed her forehead with her hand, and said in a breakdown: "This morning, I didn't even know if Nolan was still alive. I didn't even know if I still wanted him to be alive."

Debbie looked at Mark Grayson with dissatisfaction, "Now you tell me that he turned another planet into ruins, and now he is sitting in my kitchen with other children!"

As she spoke she glanced towards the little boy who was playing with a baseball glove in the kitchen.

Then she turned her gaze to Peter, who was standing in front of the window, folding his arms and looking at the scenery outside the window, and said to Mark in a low voice: "What are you thinking? Why did you bring that child back?"

"Sorry, Mom, I don't have a choice."

Mark Grayson apologized to his mother.

"No, of course you did. Just like your father, he didn't have to go to that planet, and he certainly didn't have to find a new partner and have a child!"

Lowering her head and covering her aching temple, Debbie said helplessly: "He will never be responsible for the lives he destroyed. He will only leave a mess for others to deal with, time and time again."

"I know."

Mark Grayson understood his mother's hatred for his biological father.

Debbie rubbed her head for a while, then looked up at Mark Grayson and said, "What should we do with him? Children of this age need constant care, and he doesn't even have a name."

Mark glanced at the little boy in the kitchen and said, "He's growing very fast. He will probably be out of the baby form soon. Maybe I can take a year off from school to take care of him."

"No, of course you can't take a leave of absence, absolutely not!"

Debbie immediately stopped Mark from taking a leave of absence.

"If you drop out of school, how will you explain to Cecil?"

"There has to be a way, Mom."

Debbie hesitated and said, "Forget it, maybe I can take a few days off to take care of him."

"That's right."

She glanced at Peter, who had been listening attentively, and lowered her voice to ask Mark, "You just said that Mr. Padrick has eight or nine children. He must have some experience in taking care of babies. Maybe we can."

Mark Grayson interrupted his mother before she could finish.

"No, this is our business, we can't trouble others."

Debbie was curious and asked Mark, "Does Padraic really have eight or nine children and is still single?"

"Yes, Mom, although I don't know what the situation is..."

As soon as he finished speaking, his phone suddenly received a message.

When I opened it, I found that it was a message from the Global Guard Organization.

"What's wrong?"

Seeing Mark's serious expression, Debbie asked him.

"A dangerous person has appeared, and the Global Guard is recruiting members."