“Shh—”
When Lin En saw that Clara looked strange, he immediately signaled Spider-Man to be quiet.
He had seen some memories of Clara from General Aron of the War Department before.
Presumably, the interaction between herself and Spider-Man just now brought back sad memories for her.
"I'm sorry, but you look a little under the weather." Lynn waved his wand to untie the restraints on her hands and handed her a stack of tissues.
He felt that the Fo-ling Potion had been waiting for this moment.
However, Clara immediately wiped her cheek with her hand, calmed herself down, and told Lin En:
"You can't buy me off like this."
"I'm not trying to bribe you." Lin En threw the tissue on her knees, shrugged, and said, "Although our relationship is not yet eased, I will not turn a blind eye to a girl's bad mood."
"You're thinking about your childhood, aren't you?"
Since Clara was unwilling to talk to him, Lynn decided to take the initiative to bring up the topic.
Clara didn't respond, but instead looked at Lynn with her usual wary eyes.
"Oh, don't be like that. Those things you were afraid of have actually disappeared, haven't they?"
"Whether it's General Ailon now, or Supervisor Ailon from more than a decade ago, or Joseph, or the Stargate Project, they have forgotten about you now, and that fear is gone from you."
"And this is actually something I want to communicate with you. We don't actually have any opposition in principle. We can even potentially become friends."
Lynn tried to empathize with Clara's childhood experiences and let Clara relax her psychological defenses.
"The people in the Army have been using your childhood fears to control you. They have left an indelible mark on you, making you afraid to trust anyone easily. But this time, you can try a new possibility."
"Enough..." Clara raised her head and stared at Lin En with her big eyes, telling him not to continue.
Because she didn't want to mention that memory again.
That memory was full of helplessness and fear. Even when she recalled it more than ten years later, Clara instinctively wanted to hug her arms tightly.
More than ten years ago.
When she was still a child, she spent a few quiet years in an unknown welfare home.
At that time, although she had no concept of parental love, the director of the welfare home and her brothers and sisters would always play games with her happily.
But then one day, a group of people dressed as soldiers came to the welfare home and took away many children, including her.
And at that time, she was just old enough to remember things.
Amid curious gazes, she rode on a military vehicle for the first time, saw an airplane for the first time, and met her companions who shared the same fate for the first time.
Curiosity was quickly swallowed up by fear.
What awaits them are all kinds of horrible and dark experiments.
In order to verify the theory of human potential, the Stargate Project tried various possibilities on these orphans, such as electrical stimulation, drug stimulation and fear stimulation.
For these children, they have no ability to resist and can only obey obediently.
Clara was the youngest and most timid of the children, and at that time, her companions were her only salvation.
They cried together, laughed together, and secretly resisted. The older children would take the initiative to stand up and bear the blame, while the clever children would steal candies and snacks from the adults, and then pass them around to share.
In this way, they spent two difficult years together.
Two years later, the Stargate Project was declared a failure, the horrific project was abruptly terminated, and the children were dispersed.
Clara was lucky enough to be in the same welfare home with many of her playmates.
From then on, a smile appeared on her face again, and as she grew older, she gradually understood the meaning of the word life and began to look forward to growing up like an ordinary child.
But unexpectedly, the nightmare happened again.
One day, the children who grew up with her suddenly developed health problems. Some suddenly vomited blood, some turned pale, and some stopped breathing in front of her.
Only Clara was lucky and she escaped that disaster.
But from that day on, she became a lonely person again. She grew up alone in the orphanage, completed her studies alone and entered university, and never tried to make new friends again.
Because deep down in her heart, there was a certain fear lurking, she was afraid that those things would happen again.
But some things are destined.
A year ago, a familiar person came to my door.
That man was once the director of the Stargate Project. After the project failed, he had been keeping an eye on the movements of the children who had participated in the experiment. Of course, he was also silently keeping an eye on Clara.
And more than ten years were enough for him to discover the magic of Clara.
At that time, Clara's abilities had not yet fully awakened, and she was unable to foresee this situation, so she was taken back to the base of that year.
In the base, childhood memories flashed through her mind, making her feel the familiar fear again, but this time Clara could only face it alone.
"Are you okay?" Lynn found Clara lost in some painful memories.
"I have carefully read the memories of Supervisor Ailon. After the failure of the Stargate Project, he was demoted by his superiors and moved to the Logistics and Equipment Department, which ruined his chances of promotion. So he has been brooding over the failure of the Stargate Project over the years and has been trying to find an opportunity to prove his work."
"The Stargate Project has actually been completely swept into history. The entire military has forgotten about it by default. So when Aaron came to you, he was actually alone."
"He took advantage of your fear and made you afraid to rebel, but in fact, he didn't have time to report this to the higher-ups. In other words, since I erased his and Joseph's memories, you have completely escaped the military's control."
"You can now throw away all the fears and suspicions of the past decade or so and embrace a new life."
“Like, start by meeting new people.”
Lynn took apart a chocolate frog and used his magic wand to direct it to jump into the cup. He then summoned some water and stirred it like a crucible to make a cup of hot chocolate.
He then served it to Clara.
“…” Clara looked up at Lin En, seeming to be struggling in her heart.
In the end, she didn't refuse.
Seeing this, Lynn knew that he had succeeded. He waved his wand lightly to remove all the binding spells on Clara.
"I think you must be starving too. Try this, the Crucible Honey Cake. It tastes really good. And I've heard that sweets can make girls happy."
Lynn handed the cake to Clara, just like the group of kids did back then.