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Chapter 466 Victory?

Captain America is captured.

The news detonated like a depth bomb across the country, causing an uproar from all walks of life.The first thing everyone does when they wake up and hear the news is to check the date to see if it is April [-]st, and if the government and the media have decided to play such a big joke with the people of the whole country.

This wasn’t just any fugitive, this was about Captain America — the man who put the country’s name in his code prefix, wore the flag, and had a museum named after him.

And now, the man has been arrested and labeled a "traitor" on his head.

Many people take this for granted.They say that the law is made to be obeyed by everyone, and if someone thinks he is above the law, what's the point of it?

But some people think that the "Superhero Registration Act" is inherently absurd, and putting shackles on superheroes is not a solution to any problems.On the contrary, if the arrest of Captain America represents the attitude of the modern country, does it mean that the government itself has admitted that the so-called spiritual theories they have been promoting all along are all farting?
On the Internet, in the media, and on TV shows, verbal wars broke out across the country.This is exactly what the top leaders of the government once worried about-when Captain America was away, they spared no effort to shape this dead hero into a symbol of the national spirit and a pillar to unite the nation.But now the old guy miraculously came back alive, so if one day he decides to fight against the government, the government will face pressure from the entire country.

But in any case, thanks to Tony Stark's great help, they won this battle after all.Public opinion can be guided, and the turmoil will subside sooner or later, and the price can be borne.At least Captain America has been captured into the high wall, and the biggest threat has been removed.

But the heroes who followed Captain America were not captured with him. They dispersed after the leader surrendered—so many superheroes, including a cloak with group teleportation ability, want to capture All of them are near impossible.But that doesn't matter anymore. Without Captain America, they also lost the backbone of their resistance.No matter how many people are left, they are nothing but stragglers, and they no longer pose a threat to the implementation of the bill.

The overall situation is set, and the fact that superheroes become government employees has basically been finalized.In the future, any unregistered superpowers will be regarded as illegal personnel, and once discovered, SHIELD will be responsible for arresting them.

Tony Stark became the final victor of this civil war.But after winning this battle, he had no joy, no excitement, or even relief.

All he felt was the emptiness, a suffocating emptiness.

He asked himself again and again, but he never seemed to be able to give himself a satisfactory answer——

—Is it all worth it?
Overcast clouds covered the sky in Washington, and the dark clouds seemed to condense into ferocious minions.The sky was gloomy, white thunder flashed behind the clouds, and the torrential rain poured down, as if in anger.

The afterimage of red gold tore apart the rain curtain, dragging the golden tail flame behind it, broke through the black clouds, and landed on the Aegis Helicarrier at an altitude of [-] meters.

"Commander Stark has landed on the platform."

"Visual confirmation?"

"confirm."

"Unlock entrance No. [-], the commander boards the ship!"

Tony followed the red passage into the mothership.As he walked, the armor on his body was automatically released, and it turned back into a liquid form and was sucked back into his body through the pores.

He came to an alloy door that was reinforced layer by layer, and a group of agents were already waiting outside the door.

"Sir." The leading agent saluted him.

"Is he in there?"

"Yes, sir."

"Very good." Tony stepped forward, scanned his fingerprints and irises to unlock the door, and said, "We need to be alone for a while."

"Understood, sir."

Tony walked through the alloy door, which fell behind him.At the end of the empty room is a dark cage, where the former Captain America Steve Rogers sits, disheveled and disheveled with blond hair and a tired but determined face.

He didn't even look up when Tony came in.

Tony pressed the headset: "Jarvis, block all external messages for me and cut off the global network."

"The global network has been cut, sir."

Tony sat down on a chair outside the cell.The captain still didn't look up.

There was a strange silence for more than a minute before Tony said: "You know, you are only staying here temporarily. I am going through the formalities now, and I will ask someone to arrange a place with a better environment for you in a few days."

Rogers said grimly: "A prison with a TV, for instance?"

Tony choked.After a while, he said slowly: "Up to now, I don't try to justify anything anymore. I do this. It's not that I hope to save something. I never had such a luxury."

The captain said nothing.

"I know what I look like to you now. Majestic, powerful, you must think I enjoy it." Tony said, "Look at the boys, they salute me, obey me My orders. But you definitely feel it. They're not mine, they're Nick Fury's soldiers, and they don't like me calling the shots. Guess they'll have to start liking me later on."

He sighed.

"I just wanted to tell them a little bit, and I mentioned to them King Pyrrhus of Epirus. You know who he is, don't you? Surely you do," he continued. "During the Pyrus War, this An ancient Greek king defeated the Romans at Heraclea—that is, Asculum. It was an endless war, with heavy losses on both sides, like the end. All over the fields. His friends were all dead, and his commanders were all dead. The rest celebrated the victory, but King Pyrrhus stood there and said, 'Another such victory, and I shall lose the whole war'."

Tony rubbed the bridge of his nose, looking quite tired.His position in this conversation was clearly on the winning side, but he acted as if he had aged several years.

"He's saying that winning is supposed to mean conquest and contentment, but sometimes winning doesn't feel that way. Sometimes winning feels more like defeat. And if you measure it in terms of everything you lost, that's true. It’s the same as losing. So sometimes, what winning feels like is what it feels like to be a complete failure.”

(End of this chapter)