Extraordinary North America: Where are the magical partners?

Chapter 177 The Subversive Truth

"What did you say?!"

Rango sat up straight on the sofa, his eyes full of disbelief, staring at Pete and asking, "What do you mean by that?"

Seeing the fat man's silence, he asked tentatively: "I am not your biological child?!"

"of course!"

Facing Rango's question, Peter remained silent for a moment, then seeing that his misunderstanding deepened, he quickly clarified: "You look exactly like me when I was young, how could you not be my biological child."

".hehe."

Rango looked at his confident look and chuckled a few times.

"You don't believe it?" Peter said unhappily, "Don't look at your father like this now. I was still very attractive when I was young. Otherwise, how could I marry your mother? She is the daughter of a wealthy family."

".OK."

Rango was in no mood to care about such things, his attention was focused on what Pete had just said.

"What do you mean Megan isn't my sister? Isn't she my mother's?"

“This is hard to explain to you.”

Peter seemed a little embarrassed, frowning, as if he didn't know how to start. At this moment, Louise, who had just changed her clothes, appeared, and Peter took the opportunity to throw the question to her: "Louise, you should explain to Rango about Megan and Chris."

Louise had just buttoned up her shirt. When she heard the topic, a hint of hesitation and pain flashed across her face. "Why are you talking about this? I don't want to talk about this topic."

After saying that, without waiting for Rango to continue asking questions, she tenderly sat down next to him, naturally took his hand and held it tightly.

Unlike the father and son who had been chatting in silence before, Louise's motherly love was particularly strong. She hugged Rango's arms, her eyes full of love and joy, staring at her son who had traveled from the future and had grown into a young man, with an irrepressible smile of happiness on her face.

"Tell me, son, are you married? Do you have any children? Oh my God, can you believe it, Pete? We are almost grandparents, hahahaha."

Rango looked at his mother's almost obsessed smile, sighed in his heart, and then said seriously: "I just want to know, if Megan is not my sister, then who is she!"

Hearing this, Pete just looked at the floor silently without responding. Louise, on the other hand, held Rango's arm even tighter and even leaned her head gently on his shoulder, obviously avoiding this topic.

"Fuck."

If they weren't his parents, Rango really would have been unable to hold back his swearing. The person he hated the most was the Riddler!
Seeing this, Louise patted Rango's back tenderly, trying to calm him down, and cleverly changed the subject: "Okay, kid, let's not talk about this for now. Did you come here with Old Brown just to visit us this time?"

Rango looked at his mother's expectant eyes, feeling mixed emotions. He finally smiled and nodded: "Of course, visiting you is the most important thing. But besides that, I have a very important mission."

His tone became unusually serious: "This is a very important mission. The future of the Earth needs your help."

Afterwards, Rango told them all about the troubles he had encountered during the last sacrifice, and glossed over other things. The most important thing was to tell them that the Lord God was dissatisfied with the sacrificial ceremony, and put forward a series of impossible sacrificial requirements.

"Sangaofu bitch!!!"

Louise's voice was mixed with unprecedented anger, her eyes flashed red with rage, and she even cursed in front of her own child for the first time.

Her words were filled with endless resentment and unwillingness: "That damn thing, my husband and I have made so many sacrifices for it, but it is not enough. It even wants to take away my only child! Fuck——!"

Pete's face was equally terribly gloomy, his hands were clenched into fists, veins were exposed, especially when he learned that Rango was also chosen as a sacrifice, a suffocating chill emanated from his body, as if even the air was frozen.

Seeing this, Rango frowned and continued, "Quigma and Old Joe told me that many years ago, a sacrifice in North America also failed. At that time, you went to negotiate with the ancient gods and successfully calmed their anger. So, I came here this time to know what method you used at that time. Let's try to see if you can use it again."

Hearing this, Louise and Pete smiled bitterly at each other, with endless bitterness and helplessness hidden in their smiles.

After a long while, they slowly spoke under Rango's puzzled gaze: "Our solution is Megan and Chris. They are twin siblings and are actually descendants of the ancient gods."

"Goddamn!" Rango was stunned and said, "What does the descendant of the ancient gods mean?"

He suddenly thought of what the couple had said before, and turned his head to look at Louise's belly in shock, and said in disbelief: "Are they the children of you and the ancient god?"

"of course not!"

Louise didn't want her child to misunderstand, so she explained seriously: "It was the ancient god who inserted his offspring's genes into my stomach, and then ordered me to be the bearer of the child and give birth to his offspring."

“Isn’t this still the same?”

"No," Louise corrected firmly, "I am just a carrier, a tool, not a mother. The difference is as great as the difference between heaven and earth."

"."

When Rango heard her explanation, he turned his head in confusion. This somewhat overturned his understanding.

Peter sighed heavily and patted Rango's shoulder gently, trying to comfort him: "Child, don't judge all this with worldly eyes. Back then, in order to prevent the anger of the ancient gods from destroying the world, your mother had to make such a choice. It was a gamble with no way out, and we were the ones who were sacrificed."

Rango took a deep breath and nodded slightly. He just thought that the negotiation between his parents and the ancient god was to let Louise sleep with the ancient god.

"So what's wrong with you now? Schizophrenia?"

Rango's eyes moved between his parents, his heart full of confusion.

It was clear that not long ago he was still that mentally retarded person who did whatever he wanted and had no sense of morality or rule of law, but after confirming his identity, he suddenly became a normal person. This change was too abrupt.

Peter smiled bitterly, shook his head slightly, and pointed to the slowly rotating golden inscription on the wall, "Do you know what formation this is?"

"Forbidden magic circle?" Rango blurted out, and then added: "The daughter of Jocelyn in Shadowhunters is my good friend. I saw her draw it herself. It looks similar after the circle is set up."

"No, the name of this magic circle is 'Absolute Demon'." Peter's expression became serious. "It can block all external mental and magical intrusions, including eavesdropping, surveillance, mental control, and a strange phenomenon we call 'Dementia Aura'."

"We found that Chris and Megan, as descendants of ancient gods, have this aura. People who come into contact with them for a long time will gradually lose their reason and judgment."

"In order to reduce the impact on human society, we deliberately moved to this remote town in the north. But the scary thing is that over time, not only us who live with them day and night, but also Quigmar and his friends who moved with them without knowing anything, and even the residents of the entire town, all seem to have become fools!"

"We don't want to see our children become victims, and we don't want our own children to lose their future in ignorance." Louise's eyes flashed with determination, "So we have decided to move to New York in a while, where our children can grow up in a normal environment."

After hearing this, Rango fell into a long silence. Although all this was bizarre, it was logically self-consistent. However, the doubts in his heart did not completely dissipate.

"What about Chris? How come I've never seen him in New York? And Megan, although my sister is not a great beauty in my memory, she is definitely not ugly. But the Megan I met today."

Rango opened his arms and gestured, his eyes full of confusion: "What happened before you went to New York?"

"This"

Peter and Louise looked at each other and speculated, "It should be the magic array that caused Megan. I heard from Jocelyn that there are thousands of strange arrays in their family, among which there are arrays that can make girls more beautiful when tattooed on the body. If she is also in New York in the future, I think we will definitely tattoo this kind of array on her body in order to avoid attracting attention. Of course, the magic array will definitely be tattooed on it. After all, we don’t want New York to become another round toad."

Rango recalled briefly after hearing this, and it seemed to be true. He had never seen Megan wear short-sleeved shirts and shorts in his memory, and she always wore long clothes. However, the temperature in New York was not very high all year round, so he didn't pay much attention to it.

Peter took over Louise's words and continued, "As for Chris, the reason is simple. Two years ago, the Ancient God issued an order to recall him, but it was only limited to boys, that is, Chris. He is not interested in girls. This may also be the reason why Megan will stay in New York in the future."

Holy shit, this damn ancient god is actually quite patriarchal.

Rango smiled speechlessly, but as these mysteries were solved one by one, the heavy stone in his heart gradually fell to the ground.

At least, his parents were not born this way, but were forced to endure this fate.

"So." He smiled bitterly with a hint of helplessness, shrugged his shoulders, and said with a heavy tone: "Our future world is doomed, right? After all, I haven't heard that it wants to reproduce this time."

Peter and Louise's faces darkened instantly. More than 20 years later, they were both in their 50s and 60s. To them, this life was complete.

But when they think of Rango, who is in his youth and whose life has just begun, but has to face such a desperate situation, as parents, in addition to the unspeakable grief in their hearts, they feel a deep sense of powerlessness.

"Why don't you stay here, Rango."

Louise's voice was a little choked. She tightly grasped Rango's arm, tears flashing in her eyes, as if she was making a final effort: "You just stay in this time and space. At least here, you can live a carefree life for more than 20 years without having to face the unknown destruction."

She changed the subject and suddenly had another idea: "Oh right! There is also the time shuttle. You can travel back to the past! Go back to the World War II. At that time, your grandfather accumulated a huge fortune in Chicago through the liquor business during the Prohibition period. If things go well, just take his place."

Rango looked at his mother in shock. This woman actually instigated her son to take over her father's business.

He smiled and shook his head, his calmness revealing an unquestionable determination: "Mom, thank you for your kindness, but I can't do this. Everyone's destiny has its own predetermined trajectory, and I can't change it at will."

Seeing this, Peter and Louise finally realized that Rango was unusual. They exchanged glances and asked seriously, "Rango, do you have a way to deal with the ancient god's sacrifice?"

Rango shook his head slightly. "I have some ideas, but a year may not be enough. The future direction depends on how the situation develops. But please rest assured that I am not unprepared."

He held their hands, one on each side, and consoled them earnestly, "I have a way to leave this world in the future. Just take care of yourselves and don't worry about me."

After saying this, Rango slowly stood up from the sofa and looked at the smiling couple with a gentle gaze. He smiled slightly, opened his arms, and gave Pete a firm and affectionate hug.

In between hugs, he looked at the other's bloated body and butt chin, and said with a smile: "I remember that you didn't look like this in the future."

Hearing this, Pitt was stunned for a moment, then he laughed heartily and explained: "This is a small change made to look more like Chris's father. The body shape and chin are intentional. Don't worry, it's easy for me to get slim again."

Then, he deliberately pretended to exert force, and his chin miraculously retracted, causing Rango to laugh.

"I'll show you something amazing!"

Pete's eyes flashed, and his skin color turned deep black in the blink of an eye. At first glance, he looked like a black person.

"Holy shit, it's best not to use this trick as much as possible." Rango raised his eyebrows and joked, "Otherwise, it's easy for the police to empty your magazine."

"Hahaha"

Then, Rango turned his gaze to Louise, who had not taken her eyes off him, and said half-jokingly, "Don't look at me like that, Mom. It always reminds me of some bad memories."

Hearing his words, Louise recalled what happened today, from Rango coming to fix the water pipe to the drama in the bedroom just now. Even she couldn't help feeling a little embarrassed.

"We are just trying to scare you, we don't really mean it."

"You're using a high-heeled whip to scare me, huh?"

Rango responded with a wry smile, then hugged Louise tightly and said with a firm look: "I don't know where you disappeared in the future, but neither the [Wooden House] nor I have ever given up looking for you."

He stopped talking halfway, and Rango suddenly realized that if he failed to get rid of the ancient gods as planned, it would seem to make no difference whether he found them or not.

He then added: "I will do my best to save the world in the future."

Peter smiled and nodded without saying anything more, while Louise held his hand tightly, full of tenderness and expectation: "Don't put so much pressure on yourself, kid. In fact, it's not bad to live in other worlds. The important thing is that you must live happily, and remember to have more children!"

"Uh, got it."

Rango felt warm in his heart and nodded, then he gently opened the door and walked out of the bedroom.

As the door opened, the magic circle in the room gradually dissipated and returned to normal.

He turned his head and saw that Pete and Louise, who had been like normal people, had returned to their previous state, grinning foolishly and doing all kinds of actions that were incomprehensible to ordinary people, as if the situation just now was just his hallucination.

(End of this chapter)