Southern Cross Welfare Institute, 10th floor, Zone 2A.
The children here were a special group of people, because most of them were sent to the orphanage by the police because their parents had been arrested and sent to prison, and because they were unable to live independently.
Although this society had always been shouting the slogan of everyone being equal, discrimination still existed.
Discrimination based on skin color, racial discrimination, geographical discrimination, and so on.
For children, it was common for children with healthy parents to look down on children without parents. Even the children in the orphanage would be divided into two groups.
Ordinary children who had lost their parents did not like to play with the children of criminals.
Of course, part of it was because these children had their own problems. Because of the environment in which they grew up, most of them had learned a lot of bad habits from their parents.
For some children, it was because the parents of criminals had never taught them well, resulting in their strange personalities. Whether it was autistic, unsociable, or unsociable. These personalities were the obstacles that prevented them from integrating into the group.
Because of these personalities, the other children in the welfare institute often had conflicts with the children in Zone 2A.
For example, the situation Thor was facing now. A few caregivers in Zone 1B on the third floor were grabbing a boy and sending him to the 10th floor. Thor knew the boy. He was the oldest boy in Zone 2A. He was 14 years old this year.
When Thor first saw him, he seriously suspected that he was the one who had pranked him when they first met. The boy had blond hair and looked pretty good. But he did not like to talk, and he looked very angry when he glared at people.
He did not look like a good kid. Thor had asked around about this boy. His name was Colin, and his parents were both gang members. They died in a gang fight. The husband and wife had been shot with a submachine gun.
This boy was the absolute thorn in the welfare institute. He had been sent here for three years, but he still refused to be disciplined.
It was the same this time. He got into a fight in the public resting area downstairs. He knocked over five children of the same grade, and even gave a caregiver a stomachache.
In the end, a few adults had to use rubber rollers to subdue him.
When Colin was sent here, his face and body were covered with scars. The corners of his eyes were black and blue, and the corners of his mouth were badly damaged. His body was covered with marks of being whipped.
Two male nurses carried him into Area 2A to find Thor.
A nurse with a shaved head, who looked like a typical middle-aged white American, spoke first, "Thor, we've told you many times, Colin is not allowed to go to the public rest area! This isn't his first time in a fight! "
The baldy's tone was very unpleasant. Thor walked up to Colin and looked at his wounds. Based on the first-aid knowledge he had learned these days and the experience he had accumulated from years of fighting, he could tell that Colin had been hit hard. It was obvious that he had been beaten with a rubber stick.
Asgard was not opposed to violent education, especially for the Valkyries, who were taught with sticks. For example, Thor had been raised by Odin since he was a child.
However, this was Earth. These days on Earth, especially after he lost his divine power, he participated in medical work. Thor had learned to think like a mortal.
"Did you hit him?" Thor stared at the baldy, which made him a little uncomfortable.
The baldy said forcefully, "Because he didn't follow the rules. He hit several people."
"But you hit him too hard, didn't you?" Thor touched the wound on Colin's body with his finger. It hurt so much that he gasped a few times, but he didn't cry out.
He was so strong that it surprised Thor a little.
Maybe it was because it was very stressful to stand with a guy like Thor, who was 1.95 meters tall and weighed more than 130 kilograms, especially when he stared at him.
So the baldy and his companion let go of Colin after they sent him to Area 2A. Before they left, they said to Thor, "Look after this little bastard! He's not allowed to go to the public activity area downstairs! "
The two nurses slammed the door and went out, swearing. Thor frowned as he looked in the direction of the two men's departure. He glanced at Colin again and said, "You need to bandage."
Thor wanted to pull Colin back, but because he was injured, Thor didn't dare to use force. But Colin struggled to break free from Thor's hand and walked to his room without looking back. A child passing by Area 2A saw Colin and immediately went to help him back. This time Colin didn't refuse.
He was not only strong, but also unusually stubborn. Thor didn't like Colin very much, but he couldn't say anything to him. He thought it would be better to disinfect Colin with alcohol later, since he didn't want to bandage his wound.
"Thor! Thor! Can you turn on the TV? I want to watch Spongebob! "Penny, a six-year-old girl, walked to Thor and asked, tugging at his clothes.
Penny was a very cute little girl with some baby fat. Her brown hair was thick and soft, combed into a lady's hairstyle, and she wore a black hair band decorated with a bow.
She looked very cute in a red and white dress.
She was the youngest child here, and she was also a girl. On the first day Thor came, she mentioned that the TV needed to be repaired, which made Thor forget to trouble Colin. In the end, he was forced to repair the TV for a whole day.
Well, the God of Thunder was good at fighting, but he couldn't repair the TV. In the end, he couldn't repair it. The next day, he caught a small spider to repair it.
However, the orphanage had a rule about the time children could watch TV every day to protect their eyesight. So the remote control was usually in Thor's hands.
Thor looked at his watch. It was time to watch TV at noon. There were already several children sitting on cushions in the lounge, waiting to watch cartoons at noon.
Thor picked up Penny with one hand and said, "Okay, Miss Penny, let's watch Spongebob now."
Before Thor came, the TV here had been broken for a long time, but no one had come to repair it. Of the few nurses under him, only the two female nurses on the night shift could see it. The other two male nurses during the day couldn't be seen at all.
They seemed to have been transferred to do something else. The management of the Southern Cross Welfare Home was actually a bit messy. It was originally designed for seven hundred children.
Now that it had taken in more than 1,100 children, the infrastructure of the welfare home was seriously overloaded. Thor didn't know what the other floors were like.
But the infrastructure in Area 2A on the tenth floor was seriously aging.
In addition to fixing the TV on the first day, he also found that there was a problem with the air conditioner vent. There was no cold air coming out, and there was a problem with the drainage pipe in the girls' shower room.
At the peak of the water demand at night, the water supply was still slow, and there wasn't enough water pressure.
The railings by the windows were corroded, and they were dangerously shaky. These all needed to be replaced.
During the days Thor had been working as a nurse, he would bring a repair kit with him every day. Whether he knew how to do it or not, he was always trying to fix these things.
This also made Thor feel good about the children. For example, Pan Ni was very grateful to Thor for fixing the TV so she could watch SpongeBob SquarePants every afternoon.
"I want to catch jellyfish with SpongeBob SquarePants!" Pan Ni said as she sat on the cushion and hugged Thor's thick arm.
"Huh?" Thor obviously didn't have any experience communicating with little girls, and he didn't know how to respond.
But Pan Ni didn't care that Thor didn't answer her. She said a lot of things, most of which Thor didn't understand. This was because children's thought processes were different from adults'.
In the end, Pan Ni took out a few candies from the small pocket on the side of her dress and handed them to Thor. "This is the reward for fixing the TV!"
Pan Ni said seriously with a childish voice. Thor didn't know whether to laugh or cry as he took the candies from Pan Ni and said, "Thank you, Miss Pan Ni. But where did these candies come from? "
Thor remembered that the welfare home didn't usually give candies to children because they were afraid of tooth decay. The welfare home didn't have the extra money to let them go to the dentist.
"Iron Fist and a big black guy gave it to me on Children's Day. (This story was mentioned in the previous article, where the two went to Southern Cross to perform.)" Penny thought for a moment and said.
"But because they were afraid of tooth decay, they didn't get much," Pan Ni recalled. "So children from other districts wanted to steal our candies."
Thor frowned and asked, "And then?"
"Then Colin brought the other boys to fight with them on the basketball court downstairs. They won, but Colin was grounded at that time, "Pan Ni said as she watched the TV.
With insufficient resources, they had to fight for a lot of things. Delicious candies were like that, and the basketball court in the public activity area was the same.
Thor sighed. He suddenly wanted to talk to Colin, but an unexpected visitor came.
"Thor, I heard you were transferred here?" The person who came was Christine. She was on her shift today and heard about Thor's transfer. She came to the Southern Cross Welfare Home to see how Thor was doing.
"I didn't think you would come to the welfare home as a caregiver." There was a hidden meaning in Christine's words. She seemed to know something.
"Are you used to it? The work here. If you don't like it, I can think of something for you. "
"No, it's okay. Thank you, Christina. " Tony waved the candies in his hand and said, "Look, I just got a bonus today. Here, I can share one with you. "
"Oh, it looks so sweet." Christine took a toffee from Thor, peeled off the packaging, and put it in her mouth.
"There are a lot of problems here, Christine." Thor said helplessly, "All kinds of things, lack of resources, conflicts between children. And all kinds of things. "
"Although I don't want to say it, the children in Area 2A seem to have been exiled. No one cares about them. A TV has been broken for so long, and no one has come to fix it. No one cares that the water pressure will be low at seven at night, and the children can only endure the thirst at night until the next morning. "
"There are a lot of things here." Thor and Christine strolled in the corridor outside, and he complained about all kinds of problems at the same time. At this moment, perhaps Thor himself did not realize that his way of thinking was becoming more and more like a mortal, not a god high above.
Kristin quietly listened to Thor's words. Although Thor was quite fat and sometimes a bit slow, Kristin still listened to him. However, Kristin felt very comfortable walking with him. Although there were some complaints, she could feel that this rough-looking man's heart was somewhat delicate.
But for the problems that Thor mentioned, Kristin didn't have a good solution. This was the objective condition. The shareholders of the hospital could not increase the budget of the orphanage.
It was already lucky that they did not dismiss the extra children here. Christine patted Thor's broad back and said, "We are just mortals, not gods. There are always a lot of things that we can't do. Most of the time, all we can do is do our best. Whether it's good or bad, it's not up to us to decide. "
Listening to Kristin's words, Thor almost subconsciously wanted to say 'I am God!', but fortunately, he held back and didn't say it.
While the two were chatting in the corridor, a child in Area 2A suddenly ran over from the other end of the corridor. As she ran, she shouted at Thor, "Penny! Penny! Penny fainted! "
… …
After returning from the Venus base, Li Jie decided to have a chat with Thor. Now that a lot of things have come to this point, he needs to have an open and honest chat. After all, the whole plan could only be carried out if Thor himself agreed to it.
He felt that there was no need to wait for Thor to come back from work. He might as well go to the place where Thor worked. Southern Cross Welfare Home.
Ever since the delivery of the rice dumplings last time, Li Jie's old Ford had become less and less useful. He did not have time to buy a new car yet, so he drove the hovercar Peibo gave him to the Southern Cross Welfare Home to find Thor.
When Li Jie drove the car to the gate of the welfare home, he saw Thor running out quickly with a little girl in his arms. Christine was behind him.
Obviously, Thor had also seen Li Jie's bright red hovercar. He shouted as he ran, "Open the door and start the car! Hurry up, we're going to the hospital! "
PS: Lalala ~ Today is Ben Apple's birthday, so I'm asking everyone for a monthly ticket or something. Also, I'm taking a day off. I have something to do in the afternoon and evening. I'm going to watch a play or something. So there's only one chapter today. But this chapter is also a four-thousand-word chapter, so it's two in one. Plus, yesterday's chapter is also a big chapter. So I'm taking a day off.
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