[Comprehensive] Science and Magic

of. " Pietro took Wanda's hand, clenched it tightly, and said firmly, "I won't let you take my sister away. "

Clint's teasing breaks the momentarily serious atmosphere.He smiled and said, "That's your sister? I thought she was your sister—you know, she looks a lot calmer than you."

Before he finished speaking, Clint spun around inexplicably a few times, and the arrows in the quiver disappeared.

Pietro waved to Clint from about 50 meters in front of them, and in his hand was the arrow that Clint disappeared.He exclaimed triumphantly, "You didn't see me coming, did you?"

"Oh, no." Clint showed a toothache expression, "Today is the second person to say that to me..."

Natasha couldn't help laughing.

Laura smiled, too.She looked at Wanda, and Wanda was looking at her right now.Their eyes met, and for a moment Laura had a strange feeling—a feeling of sympathy.She could feel Wanda's mood at the moment, which was a mixed feeling of guilt, self-doubt, hesitation and firmness.

Clint was right, Wanda was indeed the more intelligent and sensitive of the two siblings.At this moment, Laura is even more thankful that she made the correct decision in time, otherwise, if Pietro wakes up and takes Wanda to escape at supersonic speed, the possibility of finding them will become very slim.

After successfully entering the Hydra base, the Avengers scattered to clean up the remnants of Hydra; Laura went to find the soul gem according to the signal sent by Tony.

Wanda has been following Laura, but Pietro is nowhere to be seen.But there is absolutely no doubt about one thing, as long as Wanda needs him, Pietro will definitely appear by her side immediately.

"I can feel that you are nervous." Wanda opened her eyes wide and looked at Laura with some doubts on her face: "It's so strange, I can sense you all of a sudden."

"That's because my brain opened up to you," Laura joked.

But there was no smile on her face.As Wanda senses, Laura is nervous about her impending reunion with the Mind Stone.

No, maybe nervous.

It is a gem that clearly shows the ability of independent thinking. Loki can control others through it, and Wanda transformed from it has the ability to read minds.

In the last meeting, it incited the Avengers to be hostile to each other, luring Laura to touch it; when Laura was waiting for Tony who came back from the wormhole, it bewitched her to close the portal.

Laura suspects that the Mind Stone wants to destroy the world - and that's definitely a reasonable suspicion.

Would she still be herself if she had absorbed the Mind Gem like the other gems?

Laura's mood fluctuated a little bit, Wanda looked at her with a frown and said firmly, "You're scared."

"Aren't you afraid?" Laura asked back. "The Mind Stone... aren't you afraid of it?"

Wanda was silent.They walked up the stairs silently for a while, and Wanda suddenly said, "When I was undergoing transformation... I felt as if I heard a voice speaking in my head. But at that time, I had already suffered too much torture." ...I thought it was my imagination. Besides, Pietro didn't hear anything."

As they talked, they walked into a room. The scattered computers and documents showed that this was a scientific research room.In the corner, Tony's Mark armor was standing in an alert position, and when they entered, its palm cannon was aimed at them immediately.Of course, the next moment, Jarvis recognized Laura.

"Looks like it's here," said Laura.

When they walked underground along the secret passage with the door wide open, Wanda said hesitantly: "Actually, I can feel that you and the Soul Stone have a lot of similarities...you...you seem to belong to the same A source of energy."

Laura said nothing.She had already seen the scepter in the center of the secret room, and hanging above the scepter by chains was the Chitauri warship that invaded Earth during the Battle of New York.

Laura said in disbelief: "Hydra is restoring the Chitauri battleship?"

Wanda pursed her lips and said in a cold voice, "Of course they want to maximize the effectiveness of the Mind Stone."

"Welcome to Baron Citrickle's Hydra base." Tony raised his head from the computer beside him and saluted them comically.Wanda froze for a moment, but quickly returned to nature.

"I have to say that Citrickle's base is the one with the highest level of technology among all the Hydra bases I've seen—" Tony turned and gestured to Loki's scepter, "Of course it's thanks to this."

Laura calmed down and walked towards Tony."Anything?" she asked. "What about the Citrikels?"

"It's nothing more than making weapons-whether it's a machine or a human being. It's as we expected, my dear. As for Citrickle... I remember the last time I saw him, he seemed to be knocked out by Thor." Tony Shrugged.

The two of them looked together at the suspended Chitauri.

"I have to admit, it's not a good feeling to see this thing again," Tony said.

The huge Chitauri battleship reminded Laura of the suffocating scene in the Battle of New York—Tony held a nuclear bomb and rushed into space without hesitation.

"I'm not going to let that happen again," Laura said softly.Her gaze turned to the scepter: "I think it would be best for none of us to physically touch the scepter—that gem is dangerous, and no one should touch it until a solution is found."

"That makes sense." Tony stretched out his right hand, and after a while, a glove from Mark's armor flew over and put it on his hand.He picked up the staff with one gloved hand: "I don't think it's good enough to control inanimate things—reindeer kid failed when he tried to control me."

"I got the stuff, it's time to call it a day and go back—Jarvis? Tell Coulson." He turned to look at Wanda, who had been standing still from the beginning.

"You already know me," Wanda said calmly.

"Yes, I saw you in the computer data." Tony paused, and then said: "There is no doubt that you are also very familiar with me. I have notified Hill that Stark Tower will welcome two new Guest. I believe that when we go back, the room will be ready."

Wanda didn't speak, just looked at Tony intently.Her expression turned fierce for a while, sad for a while, and finally froze on an expression of pity.

Yes, Laura believed she was right—it was pity, and a touch of sympathy.

Tony paid no attention to her expression.He took a deep breath and said seriously:

"About your parents... sorry, I'm sorry."

Chapter 68

On the way to gather with the others, Tony whispered to Laura, "She's not as difficult to communicate with as I thought."

"She's a good girl." Laura said, looking back at Wanda.

After receiving Tony's apology, although Wanda didn't respond, she followed them quietly.At this moment, she was tilting her head, frowning slightly, not knowing what she was thinking; Mark No. 40 armor was walking slowly beside her with a scepter in hand.

"You're right, Wanda is indeed a good girl—the Maximov brothers and sisters are good boys." Tony's voice was low, as if he was unwilling to let this topic be heard by Wanda himself: "I think And to...you know, that record...believe me, after going through that...treatment, and still having that quality, it just goes to show how incredible these two kids are."

Before Laura reminded him, Wanda behind her had already said, "You know that no matter how soft your voice is, I can 'hear' you whenever I think about it, right?"

Laura shrugged helplessly.

"Yeah, I know...but I just realized it now." Tony shut his mouth sullenly, and after a while, he said again: "She's like your kind of natural Legilimency teacher (Note ①). "

"A Legilimency cannot control her abilities, but she can." Laura smiled back at Wanda and continued, "And her red magic is very powerful, very powerful."

"How does it compare to you?" Tony asked.

"Sir." Mark NO.40 stopped suddenly, and Jarvis' voice interrupted their conversation: "I am under attack."

Tony and Laura stopped too.Tony looked at the armor with a serious expression: "Attack? Can you find out who the opponent is?"

"Someone is competing with me for the management authority of Mark NO.40, trying to make Mark NO.40 leave with the scepter." Jarvis reported, "It came quietly, which is different from the general attack procedure."

Scepter!

Laura and Tony looked at each other, startled.

Tony asked, "Jarvis, how are you doing now?"

"It just left." Jarvis's voice was a bit puzzled. "It gave up—it knew I was communicating with you?"

Laura asked: "What is 'it knows you're talking to us'? Someone is spying on us?"

"Surveillance." Wanda said, "There are surveillance cameras everywhere here. Citrickle is not the biggest leader, there are others above him—he is still listening to instructions."

Tony denied, "It doesn't make sense. As soon as I came in, I let Jarvis control all the electronic equipment in this base, including all the surveillance."

Laura asked: "Wanda, do you 'see' who Citrickle's chief is?"

Wanda shook her head.

"Citrykel himself doesn't know who the officer is, he only has a code name