Chapter 3511: The Study of Cats and Dogs (70)

"Thank you, James." J'onn stood at the door of an apartment in the East District and nodded to Gordon.

"Don't mention it, the landlord of this house is an old acquaintance of mine. He is also very happy to be able to rent to a reliable policeman like you." Gordon smiled and said.

"Oh, right." It was as if he remembered something again, "This is Ms. Moe's phone number. Every morning at 8:30, the school bus will stop downstairs at the apartment building, you just send Betty to get on the bus. School ends at 3:30 in the afternoon, but there is a two-hour late-care class. If you sign up, she will arrive home at 5:30, and you have to go downstairs to pick her up."

Gordon searched his bosom again for an elementary school schedule, handed it to J'onn, and said, "There is manual homework every week, remember to hand it in; there is a parent meeting about once every two months, you must be present..."

As he spoke, J'onn nodded, trying hard to keep these things in mind. Then Gordon gave him another phone number and said, "This is the phone number of the social worker in this area. In a while, he will come to check on Betty's situation and introduce you to the situation of the community. I'll send you the community resident manual, remember to read it."

After Gordon left, J'onn began to clean his new home. After a series of mental examinations, there was no major problem with Betty's condition, but it still needed long-term observation.

Sometimes, a child's stress response doesn't happen immediately, but is delayed for a period of time before reacting, commonly known as "scared silly."

So even if the doctor confirmed that Betty's condition was fine now, she should have been hospitalized for observation for a period of time. But J'onn still decided not to hospitalize—it wasn't that there was no money for treatment, mainly because Betty didn't want to. When J'onn wanted to keep her in the ward, she cried and made a scene. J'onn really couldn't bear it.

After discussing with the doctor, it was decided to take her home for observation for a period of time, and then come over for check-ups regularly.

Just like that, J'onn decided to stay in Cat Getan. He found the recruitment information of the Cat Getan Police Department on the internet, made an appointment for an interview, and successfully joined the job. And the police chief Gordon even helped him find a house.

Although the East District is far from the North District, there are many children and schools here, so he could find a suitable school for Betty here. J'onn still decided to let Betty participate in social life, rather than staying at home as a patient. Betty didn't have any aversion to going to school; as long as she wasn't kept in the hospital, anything would do.

J'onn rented a very simple two-bedroom apartment. One room was once used as a children's room, the decoration was all dreamy pink, and color-blocked foam boards were specially installed on the floor, looking very warm. Betty liked this room very much.

Besides that, the living room, kitchen, bathroom, etc., were all available. More importantly, it was transparent from north to south: the south window faced the sea, the north window faced the inner courtyard of the "Hui"-shaped building, and one could see the small garden downstairs, and the rent was not expensive; it looked like Gordon had specially opened a small stove for his subordinates.

J'onn cleaned for a while, and the door was knocked. He looked out through the peephole, and a young man stood outside the door, holding several manuals.

"Hello, I am the social worker for this community, Toro Ambisis, they all call me Little Slippery," the young man smiled at J'onn and said. "Welcome to move to this community. This is my business card, with the phone number on it; this is the community resident manual, with the locations of large supermarkets and small shops marked on it, as well as hardware stores, grocery stores, etc..."

J'onn took it and looked. After fully opening the manual, it was a map as long as a forearm, marking the locations of all the supporting facilities in the community.

Actually, when entering the apartment, J'onn was a bit hesitant. Because all the buildings in the East District are connected together, and it's like a maze inside, he couldn't walk through it at all, and he didn't know where the shops were. If he explored by himself, he was afraid he wouldn't find them even next year.

J'onn was planning to find the answer in his neighbor's brain, but it turned out they really had a solution. This map was marked very clearly, where each shop was on which floor, and how to walk after starting from which landmark, all written clearly.

What made J'onn feel a bit surprised was that there was an open-air swimming pool on the roof of the next building. Betty looked a bit thin and should exercise more; swimming would be a good start. In addition, there was a supermarket downstairs in this building, and the supermarket seemed to have a children's playground, so he could take her there later.

Soon, Ms. Moe, whom Gordon mentioned, also came. She was the school bus driver for the elementary school Betty was attending. J'onn shook hands with her and then took Betty to the elementary school for a trial class.

One must pass the trial class to attend elementary school; if one fails, one has to go to preschool. But actually, this is not an exam; as long as the child can sit there honestly and listen to the class for a while, it's fine.

Betty was originally a very quiet little girl, let alone listening for a while, even if she were asked to listen to a high school course, she wouldn't move. The trial class went very smoothly.

While waiting outside, J'onn met other students' parents. A tall, thin man wearing glasses shook hands with him and said, "Victor Fries, low-temperature physicist, professor at Cat Getan University. This is my wife, also my peer and colleague."

A woman who looked very intellectual next to him pushed her glasses and smiled at J'onn.

"Are your children also here for the trial class?"

Victor nodded and said, "Yes. Originally, according to his age, he should be in the second grade, but he has no foundation, so he can only start learning from the first grade."

They chatted for a while and found that they were both adoptive families, so they decided to have a small gathering this weekend so that the children could better adapt to collective life.

After handling the enrollment procedures, J'onn took Betty home. He made a purchase at the supermarket downstairs, bought her a school bag and learning supplies, and also hired a community nurse.

Because he joined the Justice League, and the Justice League has been busy with work recently, J'onn might have to travel frequently between Cat Getan and Metropolis during this period. When he is not at home, he cannot leave Betty alone at home; he must find a nanny to watch her.

But J'onn can fly, and it doesn't take long for him to travel between the two cities. He can still go home after work, so there is no need to hire a full-time nanny; just hire someone to look after her for a period of time, so he hired a nurse from this community.

After settling down, J'onn decided to go to Metropolis to see if the Justice League had any work. After all, it's not very good not to appear at all on the first day of joining.

After handing over to the nurse, J'onn flew out directly from the balcony. He wasn't sure if he had disturbed the neighbors, but it seemed that Gothamites didn't seem to care whether their neighbors could fly. In this way, this city is indeed very suitable for aliens to survive.

When J'onn arrived at Luthor Manor, he realized he had thought too much—no one cared whether he appeared on his first day of work, because others didn't appear either.

Metropolis has begun to gradually lift the state of emergency. Citizens have returned from underground one after another, restoring normal life order, just like mocking the invading aliens face-to-face: "Come over here!"

After circling around Metropolis and finding no one, J'onn could only choose to call Oliver.

"Oh, you came over, I thought you were going to settle down for a few days. We are underground at the Luthor Group, I'll send someone to pick you up."

J'onn waited in place for a while, and a figure appeared on the horizon. Diana landed slowly and said, "This way, follow me."

Diana took J'onn to the underground highway, and then entered the underground of the Luthor Group from the underground highway.

As soon as the door opened, J'onn was taken aback—because what was parked in front of him was actually a spaceship, which didn't look like Earth technology at all.

"Where... where did you get this?"

"Don't you find it strange?" Diana said, "Why don't the aliens invading Earth drive their spaceships to destroy wantonly?"

J'onn just wanted to ask why, when he reacted: "Oh, so you snatched his spaceship."

"What do you mean snatched?" Diana shook her head and said, "We found a wild spaceship in a cave in Metropolis. In order to ensure the safety of the residents' lives, we had to contain this spaceship."

"But... spaceships shouldn't be wild, right?"

"Anyway, when we found this spaceship, there was no one around it. If you don't look after it yourself, who can you blame if you lose it?"

J'onn decided to look after his spaceship well in the future.

But in his heart, he also felt that Diana's words made sense—a spaceship that fell on Earth is Earth's. If it's not Earth's spaceship, why did you come to Earth?

What? You say you came to invade? Then this is not stealing or snatching, but a righteous seizure.

J'onn walked over to look at this spaceship; it was much more magnificent than the Martian spaceship. However, it was a bit strange that there seemed to be some damage at the bottom of the spaceship, with a pitch-black hole.

Besides the members of the Justice League, there were also a large group of people speaking Russian surrounding the spaceship. J'onn didn't particularly want to know who they were, but he couldn't avoid this topic. When he walked over, Lex said: "Find NASA first, if they can't solve it either, then find the Soviet Space Agency. If it really doesn't work, the two sides will jointly research, start the spaceship first and then talk."

Just as Lex was speaking, he saw J'onn next to him. He walked over and shook hands with J'onn, then said, "Mr. J'onn, I have a question I want to ask you."

"Go ahead." J'onn actually already guessed what he wanted to say.

"I feel deep regret for the destruction of Martian civilization. But I heard that a virus caused your total extinction. Then presumably, the cities and technology you built back then shouldn't have been destroyed, right?"

J'onn sighed lightly and said, "Yes, the Martian city is still there, it's just..."

"What?"

"Martian technology and human technology schools are completely different. We are good at telepathy, and telepathy is like our arms, completely controlled by us, so most of our technology is built on this. Humans don't have such ability, and the technology route they take is completely different from ours. You may not be able to use our technology."

"And," J'onn shook his head lightly and said, "many Martian technologies need to connect to the brainwaves of Martians. The machine will emit brainwave connection signals outward, which is nothing to Martians, but it is a fatal mental shock to humans. Your spirits are too fragile."

"So if an ordinary person like you enters the Martian city, you might die instantly due to a mental breakdown from the brainwave attack. It's too dangerous for humans there, I don't suggest you explore there."

Lex touched his chin and said, "In other words, as long as one can be immune to mental shock, one can explore the well-preserved capital of an advanced civilization?"

J'onn was a bit speechless—this could be heard in reverse. Humans are indeed dangerous elements in the universe.

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