"Hu Tao, is he still alive?"
"He should be."
"But he smells like the skewers Xiangling makes now."
"Don't say that, Klee. Now I don't want to eat skewers ever again."
Bennett slid down the stone ridge with the last child in his arms and set the child on the ground.
Domino asked Du Mingde, who was in the car, to watch the children, then turned and walked to the lobby entrance with Bennett.
At some point, Klee, Hu Tao, and the others had also gathered nearby to watch quietly.
"Let's go home, Russell."
Deadpool hugged the boy tormented by hatred, and hot tears fell onto his shoulder.
"Wade... I'm sorry."
A brief moment of warmth couldn't stand against the pain of all those days and nights. His determination to kill his tormentor drove Russell to push Deadpool away.
"No! Wait!"
Knocked to the ground, Deadpool saw Cable raise his gun and hurried to stop him.
"I have another idea. It's a bad one, for both of us."
Deadpool pulled out a familiar-looking power inhibitor and fastened it around his neck.
"Kid, if you're going to kill someone today... kill me."
Russell closed his eyes. Searing heat radiated from his hands as the man in the white coat hiding in the corner screamed shrilly.
"Bless the wicked whom I have healed!"
"Behave yourself!"
Kaeya's frost extinguished the flames, but a bullet shot from the gun's muzzle into Deadpool's heart.
The instant Cable fired, Deadpool had stepped in front of Russell.
"Wade!"
"I'm sorry, I'm sorry." Russell threw himself down beside Deadpool, sobbing uncontrollably.
Deadpool lay there and coughed twice. With his healing suppressed, the bullet was draining the warmth from his body. "I told you, I care about you."
He looked at Russell. "You're a good kid, Russell. You've