Someone Is Always Trying to Harm Me
Paige's apartment.
Adam is on the phone with Missy.
"Not good. Did a train derailment happen over there and many people died?"
Missy asked.
"Um."
Adam nodded. "You saw the news too?"
"I wasn't paying attention; it was Sheldon."
Missy complained, "Do you remember when he choked on his food as a child?"
"Of course I remember."
Adam laughed and said, "In the end, it was the X-Men who saved him."
When Sheldon was nine years old, he choked on his breakfast and almost suffocated. His father hugged him from behind and squeezed his stomach a few times to force the food out of his throat.
For the next few weeks, Sheldon, who was even more timid than a chicken, would just stare at the food at mealtimes without daring to eat.
Sheldon's father's roar and his mother's comforting words had no effect whatsoever.
Zhou Shuren said: When people face fear, they have two choices: fight or run away.
Sheldon, of course, always runs away.
In the end, it was his grandmother who loved him the most. She would always blend solid food into a puree or drink and let Sheldon drink it through a straw, which helped him get through that period.
But doing so makes the food taste terrible, to the point that Sheldon keeps drooling when he sees Adam and the others eating snacks.
Finally, after he came across the X-Men comics, he realized that he had many similarities with these superheroes who were not accepted by the world. If those superheroes could overcome so many challenges, so could he!
Then, he picked up a spicy snack and started eating it. As he chewed it vigorously, it was as if Professor X was using brainwaves, Magneto was using magnetism, and Cyclops was shooting lasers.
From then on, he became the Chewing Man!
Okay, he just had a craving!
After overcoming his fear of choking on food, this Chewing Man was left only with fears of dogs, birds, insects, bacteria, hugs, button-down pants, rivers, ponds, lakes, oceans, corduroy wicks, root vegetables, the squeaking of balloons, and windows with heat-insulating paper...
Emmm... (omitting a million words here!)
When Missy brought this up, she mentioned the train derailment, Adam immediately understood.
"Sheldon is afraid to take the train?"
"He was supposed to take the train from Pasadena, California to the University of Chicago for an academic exchange today."
Missy explained, "Then he saw the news about the New York train derailment, and he was so scared that he immediately stopped riding his favorite train. The school called us, but no matter how much we tried to persuade him, it was no use, so I called Paige to try and talk him out."
"If you're too scared to take the train, why not just take a plane instead?"
Adam laughed.
"You still don't know him?"
Missy complained, "Although the probability of a train derailing is higher than that of an airplane, the mortality rate is much lower. The first time he flew, he just stayed in the airplane toilet and almost got kicked off."
"That's not wrong either."
Adam nodded.
The plane crash rate is indeed the lowest.
However, once an accident occurs, the mortality rate is almost 100%.
Adam almost never flies unless he has absolutely no other choice.
Given his current physical condition, as long as he doesn't travel by plane, he can avoid accidents in time and ensure his safety, regardless of the mode of transportation.
Now it's gotten to the point where I absolutely refuse to fly without bringing professional skydiving equipment.
That's why we didn't do it that way before.
Firstly, they haven't received professional training, so bringing them along would be useless.
Secondly, he wasn't a billionaire before.
If you're an ordinary person carrying professional parachuting equipment on a plane, you'll be mistaken for a terrorist at security.
But now he's a well-known billionaire in the US, so carrying it around is no problem at all.
It's understandable that rich people are afraid of death.
Furthermore, can the rich really do whatever they want?
"I'd rather he went back to the Sheldon who could talk endlessly about trains, and who even got kicked out of a train museum by the curator when he volunteered as a guide!"
Missy complained.
"Hehe."
Adam couldn't help but laugh.
This happened after Sheldon graduated from high school at age eleven, before he went to college.
The nearby train museum is recruiting volunteer guides.
Who loves and understands trains more than Sheldon?
As soon as Sheldon saw the job posting, he immediately called and bombarded the curator with his incredibly professional knowledge of trains for nearly an hour, successfully persuading the curator to give up and ignore the fact that he was just an eleven-year-old kid, and to accept his job application.
Then the curator understood how the teachers at Sheldon High School felt.
Sheldon is a real expert on trains.
The curator knows, he knows.
He knew things that the curator didn't.
This was originally a good thing, after all, such professional talent is available for free, how wonderful!
But that's until Sheldon showed an explosive desire to perform.
The curator finally realized that what's free is often the most expensive.
Sheldon would treat the librarian like his high school teachers, giving him questions that were full of traps.
When the curator jumped over the trap and answered correctly, he praised him lavishly, as if he were the real curator and the curator was the volunteer guide who came for the interview.
When the tourists arrived, Sheldon launched into a long and detailed explanation of train knowledge.
He would explain to tourists who needed to use the restroom through the door.
The curator gave tourists a booklet of train trivia he had written, but Sheldon immediately contradicted him in public, saying there were several problems in it.
When the curator told him not to do it afterward, he interpreted it as him giving the curator private advice, just as he privately advised his high school teachers on their mistakes.
Teachers have pride.
After the teachers protested to the principal countless times, he grasped this point of common sense!
However, in the curator's eyes, the little brat who loves to show off is really annoying.
So he was kicked out of the house.
Sheldon listed this incident as one of his top ten most tragic train accidents.
"Adam, do you have a solution?"
Missy asked.
Only time will tell.
Adam laughed and said, "Now, let's find someone to drive him there."
When Sheldon's apartment was burgled, he was so scared that he installed security devices and, like DC superhero Rorschach, hid in bed every night to record his thoughts on Pasadena, the city of sin.
They get terrified at the slightest noise.
Later, they simply decided to move out of Pasadena and find a safe place to settle down.
But even though the United States is vast, there isn't a single place like that.
He chose a place, and as soon as he got off the train, his luggage was snatched in broad daylight. In the end, he could only slink back the way he came.
And afterwards, they lived there very happily.
Time is the best healer, and that applies to the eccentric Sheldon as well.
"We've thought about it too."
Missy shook her head and said, "Georgie Jr. wants to open a shop, I'm in college, my grandma is dating and doesn't have time, my mom can, but Chicago is so far away, my mom would have to fly to Pasadena first and then drive him there, so there's still not enough time."
"Then just hire someone to drive him."
Adam suggested.
Is this the first time you've met Sheldon?
Missy complained, "At times like this, he sees everyone as a bad guy except his family and friends. According to him, what if he gets killed halfway through the long journey? Or what if he gets kidnapped and enslaved somewhere?"
"Can't the school send someone?"
Adam was both amused and exasperated.
Missy's reminder made him even imagine Sheldon's expression, as if to say, "There are always treacherous subjects trying to harm me."
"It's too late."
Missy complained, "He didn't apply in advance."
"..."
Adam was speechless.
Sheldon's antics are truly unbelievable; there's nothing he won't do.