The beautiful daily life of Black Light Salted Fish

"So, you really don't plan to stay?"

Early the next morning, Mrs. Carter and Watson sat face to face in the reception room on the top floor of the SHIELD building.

"Forget it, what's the difference between me staying and joining S.H.I.E.L.D.?" Watson took a bite of the energy bar: "This Reaper incident happened on my own when I went out, and you will be resigning in a few years. Others don’t have the face to ask me to help.”

"Yes, after all, you are already organized."

I just don’t know whether what you call “Overwatch” is true or false, but I’m not going to delve into it, leaving it to my future successors to have a headache. Old Mrs. Carter took a sip of tea and watched Watson happily eating there.

"Thank you for the video. At least I'm sure this time, those vampires will definitely bleed."

Hearing Mrs. Carter's thanks, Watson nodded and took another bite of the energy bar. As for why the video was not released to the media as evidence, he didn't even ask. After all, vampires have not been exposed on a large scale for so many years, and they must be covered by high-level humans.

No wonder Mrs. Carter said she was tired before.

"We haven't had time to talk before." Watson picked up another energy bar: "How are Howard and Steve? Don't tell me you didn't find Steve."

The reception room fell into a brief silence.

......

"Howard Stark is missing?"

Watson's eyes widened in surprise: "When did this happen?"

"Two months ago, Stark Manor was attacked by Hydra armed men. Many people, including the butler Jarvis, were confirmed to have been killed, but the bodies of Mr. and Mrs. Howard were not found at the scene." Carter sighed softly. .

"Hydra?" Watson frowned: "Didn't I remind Howard to strengthen his defense before?"

"Howard has indeed strengthened his defense." The old lady drank the warm tea that had just been filled in the cup in one gulp: "He even reset a defense system based on your previous combat performance." At this point, Carter looked at it. After taking a look at Watson's face and seeing that he didn't show any dissatisfaction, he continued to speak.

"We followed the clues and found a New York State Senator. He is from Hydra." Seeing Watson thinking, Carter continued to elaborate on his conclusion: "Unfortunately, he is one of the abandoned sons of Hydra who cut off his tail and escaped." One, so I suspect that Hydra wants to use the residual heat of this chess piece to make the final move."

"Wait a minute, what do you mean by 'escape by cutting off the tail'?" Watson didn't understand.

"Look at my memory, it just doesn't work well as I get older."

Old Mrs. Carter touched her forehead and said something very informative in a calm tone: "We fought a battle with Hydra not long ago."

"what?"

As the old lady explained, Watson slowly understood what she meant by "having a fight."

As Watson revealed in intelligence in 1990, the Lighthouse Nation was the country most heavily infiltrated by Hydra. From major areas such as Congress, the Senate, and the military, to systems such as the police and agents, Hydra has penetrated all key areas quite comprehensively. This means that Carter and Howard's secret investigations are not foolproof every time.

As time went by, Hydra executives gradually realized something was wrong.

A thoroughly exposed secret investigation operation became the trigger, and a few months ago, Hydra launched a tentative attack.

Carter originally wanted to eliminate the other party's vigilance by disguising a small number of intelligence agents as a small organization and sacrificing them. After all, it took several years to finally investigate several important clues. If the other party is alerted, the investigation may be in vain.

But we all know that there is a creature in this world called "Pig Teammate", so this tentative attack evolved into a secret confrontation. Nearly a hundred people died, and it was disguised as one "gang fight incident" after another.

It completely went against the initial thoughts of the leaders of both parties.

The longer the confrontation lasts, the greater the possibility of exposure, which is unacceptable to Hydra. Therefore, two months ago, they successfully "cut off their tail and escaped" at the cost of several senators. The kidnapping of Howard and his wife was the greatest "residual heat" used by those abandoned children before they died.

No one expected Hydra to be so cowardly.

It cannot be said that Carter's side completely lost this battle, because many important secret lines that Hydra had buried for a long time were abolished. However, with the "mysterious deaths" of several senators, several major clues that Carter's side had been investigating for a long time were completely disconnected. If you want to uncover more Hydra executives, get a more detailed list of insiders, or even find out its important personnel in other countries...

We have to start all over again.

Moreover, Hydra has become vigilant, and future actions will be difficult.

Success in battle, failure in strategy.

Hydra is like a gecko. After a little contact, it cuts off its tail and runs away as soon as it realizes something is wrong. Fortunately, the intelligence personnel on Carter's side showed excellent qualities of tenacity and courage, and Hydra ultimately did not figure out who was investigating it.

Until this time the Howards disappeared.

Although his true identity has not been revealed, it is very likely that Howard Sr. will choose to reveal everything he knows for the sake of his wife Maria.

"So since Howard was not exposed, why did Hydra kidnap him?"

"Howard officially launched a new energy concept called the 'Ark Reactor' a few years ago, and he has been working on creating a finished product." Mrs. Carter filled her cup with tea again: "I think Hydra The purpose of kidnapping him was to get these technologies. That is to say, we alerted the snake last time, otherwise they might wait a few more years and take away the results directly. "

"Ok."

Watson reached out and touched the last energy bar on the table: "Do you have relevant surveillance videos or anything? I don't think it is possible for a regular combat team to break through the defense of Stark Manor."

"Let's slow down for a while."

Carter stood up tremblingly and walked toward the door: "Follow me first, and I will take you to see Steve."

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Following the elevator to the underground, the scene in front of us completely changed. If the suit agents on the top floor gave Watson a sense of a pure secret service organization, then everything in front of him was like a scene from a science fiction novel.

A large number of scientific researchers in white coats gathered in front of strange-shaped instruments one after another. Occasionally, there were people sitting in the corner to rest, but they also held notebooks in their hands to write and draw. On some large and small experimental platforms, Watson can also see drones, robots and various petri dishes.

Entering a room surrounded by armed guards, Mrs. Carter waved everyone out, and then she led Watson towards the nutrition cabin in the center of the room.

Through the glass hatch, Watson saw the sleeping "Captain America" ​​Steve Rogers.

"In 1991, we successfully brought Steve back." Carter took the initiative to explain, as if he had anticipated what Watson wanted to ask: "Howard spent more than half a year thawing him, but his brain He was hit by a burst of energy, so he has been in a coma."

"energy?"

"Yes, we compared it. That energy comes from the Cosmic Cube."

This plot is wrong. Shouldn't the Cosmic Cube teleport the Red Skull away? What does it have to do with Steve? Watson thought for a moment and asked another question: "What about the Red Skull? Have you found him?"

After learning that the Red Skull's body was stored in another room, Watson frowned tightly as he looked at the sleeping Steve. After a while, he recalled that when he and Steve were chasing the Red Skull, they hit the opponent with several energy bombs. When escaping onto the plane, the Red Skull looked clearly injured.

Could it be that the Red Skull was directly killed by Steve because of his excessive injuries?

But what does this have to do with the Cosmic Cube?

Could it be that Steve encountered the Rubik's Cube on his own initiative?

Watson failed to get into the cabin at that time, and was intercepted halfway by Master Gu Yi, who also failed to blow up the plane. He had no way of knowing what happened in the cabin at that time. Perhaps he could only wait until Steve woke up and then ask him.

"So Howard didn't have time to give you the serum?"

Hearing Watson's question, Mrs. Carter smiled faintly: "He has already done it for me, I just..."

As she spoke, she stretched out her wrinkled hand and touched the glass hatch cover in front of her with trembling slightly under Watson's gaze: "I have imagined many times what it would be like to see Steve again. Look."

After a while of silence, Carter's voice sounded again: "I was really surprised at first. I have never been so happy in decades. In the first half year, I would come over and talk to Steve whenever I had time. Sometimes It lasted all night, even though I knew very well that he couldn't even hear me."

"I have an urge in my heart to inject that serum. Howard has everything ready and is just waiting for my nod."

"But I didn't do it after all. Do you know why?"

Watson said nothing, just shook his head gently.

"Watson, you said before that you were frozen for decades, but I actually don't believe it. I even think the 'Overwatch' you mentioned is fake." Carter looked away from Steve's face , with an inexplicable meaning in his cloudy eyes: "But after these two days of observation, I believe that you really haven't experienced it for decades like me."

"No one who has truly lived to my age will have eyes like yours, I can see that."

Watson's lips moved. He thought he should say something, but he didn't think about it for a while. Carter raised a hand to stop his movement: "You don't need to explain to me. In fact, I don't want to delve into the truth or lies."

Looking at Carter's old face, Watson felt a little ridiculous at this time. No wonder Carter didn't continue to ask for specific information about "Overwatch" at that time. It turned out that he didn't believe it at the beginning. After all, I have been doing intelligence work for so many years, how can I be so easy to deceive? At that time, I actually thought that I could use it to increase my favorability, but after all, I underestimated the old man's experience.

Although he said this at the time, he did not expect that the other party would completely believe it, but now that his thoughts were exposed, Watson still felt a little uncomfortable.

"So...why didn't you use that serum in the end?" After thinking about it, he decided to change the topic back.

"Because that rush eventually died down."

Mrs. Carter's voice began to tremble when she spoke, but her expression was so calm, so calm that one could see the illusion of sadness: "In the past few years, I have sat with Steve again and again. around me, but my heart is getting calmer and calmer.”

"When I was young, I would regret the things I missed. I didn't learn a musical instrument, raise a kitten, or save my former friends. I regret not making better choices, but time has slowed me down. I slowly let go of it all. When I saw Steve again, I thought I could pick up that love again..."

"But like the embers of a campfire, it warms for a moment and then goes out, never to burn again."

Looking at Steve's still young and handsome face, the old lady smiled, and the expression on her face seemed to recall the silent airport in the heavy rain in 1944, and the quiet corridor accompanied by the sound of rain.

The smile slowly disappeared.

"The war is like this, Hydra is like this, and Steve is like this. Everything I expected never came true. This world just forced me to learn how to face and accept reality."

"Margaret Page Carter is old, Watson."