I used to believe in science

Hodge stood up and pushed Rice back to his seat, then sat back on the chair, not saying anything about what had just happened.Instead, he calmly instructed his team members, "Niti, go get a cup of coffee."

Antoinette stood up without saying a word, but instead of going directly to the coffee machine, she ran to the bathroom and took 3 minutes to recover.By the time she was able to think, she had already taken out her phone.On the question of who to call, she struggled for a while, then remembered the disapproving eyes of Emily and Morgan, and finally decided to slide down, and finally stayed on Rhett's number.

It took Rhett a long time to answer the phone, so when the call got through, the first sentence Antoinette remembered was "I still suggest that you keep your mobile phone with you and don't lose it in your bag."

The other party was shamefully silent for a while, pretending nothing happened, and changed the subject, "Niti, how did you get a signal in prison?"

"..." So it was Antoinette's turn to be shamefully silent "...don't tell Hodge."

"Uh... ok."

"Fine." Antoinette said with a sigh of relief that she needed to make the call. "I think I need help."

"...not going well?" Rhett hesitated on the other end of the phone for a while before answering. She guessed that there were other colleagues by his side.

"...It's... okay..." Antoinette thought for a while and said, definitely not because she didn't want Emily and Morgan to worry that "Hodge can control the situation." This is the truth.

After a few seconds, she wiped her face and decided to be honest, "Actually, it's not very good. I may have overdone it." She was shocked that she would make such a violent act, which may be the result of the dream last night. The influence made her a little impatient.

"Are you scared?" Emily's voice came from a distance on the other end of the phone, obviously a little worried.

"Uh..." She felt that she might have frightened Rice a little.

But before she could say that, Rhett's voice said again, "I can understand you."

"What?" No, you sure don't understand.

"Did I tell you about the last time Hodge and I went to prison and were almost attacked by criminals?"

"You were attacked by criminals?!" Before Antoinette could speak, someone jumped up on the other end of the phone.

She also pricked up her ears. Antoinette had never heard of this incident and wanted to know what happened, but listening to the commotion on the other end of the phone, she suddenly realized that their topic had gone off track, and she had to Raised his voice so he could be heard "Overall, I don't think it's very likely that Rice would tell us about the body."

"..."

"What do you mean?"

"Didn't he ask Hodge to go? He doesn't plan to trade something?"

Faced with these problems, Antoinette rubbed his temples and could only explain to them in detail, "We have analyzed that Rice is a person with a strong degree of control, so when I appear, he will feel that his authority is challenged. He really harassed me. Yeah, but why doesn't it seem particularly frustrating for me to hit him?"

"You were harassed by him?!"

"You hit him?!?!"

"Guys, you are not helping." However, Reid pressed the microphone, gave the two people a rare hard look, and then left with his mobile phone.

Emily and Morgan glanced at each other, feeling that they had received enough shocks today, from the two most precious brains in their group.

At this time, Rossi, who had just arrived and was still cleaning up the office, came down from the upper floor to pour himself a cup of coffee. He was witnessing the scene of two colleagues staring at each other, so he casually asked, "What's the matter?" ?”

Emily and Morgan's stare changed to his, which was a little creepy, and Rosie stood still and looked back at the two of them, until Emily said, "From today onwards, Ph.D.s stay out of jail."

"..." Rossi thought for a while, as if it had nothing to do with him, so he shrugged.

Rhett probably found a quiet place. Antoinette couldn't hear other people's voices. She was shocked and her mind went blank, so she could only ask instinctively.

"Have you and Hodge been attacked?"

Rhett must have rolled her eyes, because her question was no different from the other two. "Barely," he corrected.

"Why didn't Hodge tell me?!"

"Is there a difference?"

"Of course, I wouldn't have come if I knew there was such a risk!"

——Don’t you think it’s a bit late to regret it now!

Rhett wanted to complain, but he knew that the other party was just talking, and the other party was asking, "How do you avoid the risk?"

"I told him the facts and reasoned, and talked about needs analysis..."

"..." For a while, there was no sound on the phone, just when he thought the signal was bad and wanted to check, the other party finally said, "It's their loss that those listed companies didn't hire you..."

Reid didn't even think about it, and said, "Actually, I also submitted a resume for Stark Enterprises."

"What?!" The other party's voice was mixed with surprise and shock, "Who interviewed you? Why didn't you get accepted? I'm going to ask Pep to fire him!"

So Rhett laughed, "I didn't go by myself."

"What?!!!" The other party's voice has turned into a scream, "Why? Isn't the treatment not good enough!"

"..."

——Your company is so perfect, why do you still come out to ask for a living? !

Rhett felt that if there was one person who could bring back the conversation they had lost in their lives, it would be him, so he cleared his throat and said, "So you hit Rice and he didn't respond? "

"It's not like there's no reaction at all, I'm still quite surprised...but it doesn't seem to be furious."

"Maybe he has something for you?" Rhett made a hypothesis, but was quickly refuted by the other end of the phone.

"What can he ask of Hodge? He is about to be executed. He has no relatives or friends. He has not asked for a single contact with the outside world in his eight years of prison life. Even if he has any hobbies, it can only be his perverted ones..."

The conversation on the other end of the phone stopped halfway through, and as far as Rhett knew the other party, he had a bad premonition, "What's wrong?"

"...It's nothing." The other party said vaguely, "Thank you, Rhett, I have some new ideas."

"What's new..." But before Rhett finished speaking, the phone was hung up.

When Antoinette returned to the interrogation room with coffee, Hodge was talking—

"If you're not going to talk, we're leaving." Now there was annoyance in his tone that couldn't be concealed.

"Talk about it, I like this." Rice leaned on the chair with her legs crossed, and followed Antoinette's eyes from the moment she entered the room until she sat down, "If I tell you something new, can I get a reduced sentence? "

"No." Hodge replied simply.

"I guess so." This answer did not disappoint Rice, and he nodded to express his expectation, "Then how about this, this beautiful little blue eye, if you would like to leave me some of her hair as a souvenir, I might be happy to tell her something."

"make a deal."

"Do not."

Almost at the same time, Antoinette and Hodge spoke, and then they looked at each other. Antoinette asked under pressure under Rice's ambiguous smile and Hodge's disapproving gaze, "Let's talk alone?"

"Why not? We can give an explanation to the families of the victims." When the two walked into the corridor, Antoinette lowered his voice and asked.

"No, Antoinette." Hodge called her by her full name, with a warning of 'don't be stupid' in her tone. "You should know that you can't cater to the psychological needs of this kind of person."

"It's just a little hair, it can't hurt me."

"With his disgusting sexual fantasies, declaring you his. No." Hodge again flatly refused.

"Okay." Antoinette sighed, as if she had expected the situation like this, but her eyes secretly turned to the cell, and when Hodge was puzzled, she sighed and took a step back. At the door, Hodge was opposite her and away from the door. At this moment, she flashed into the door of the interrogation room and closed the door before the other party could react.

Hodge slammed on the door, but there was nothing he could do.

Rice raised his eyebrows in surprise, and watched Antoinette come over and turn off the video pen.She pulled out the chair but didn't sit down, but leaned forward leaning on the table with both hands, staring at him closely.Originally, her big eyes made her look younger and cuter, but now she narrowed her eyes slightly, and a sudden aura erupted from her body, which made people feel that she was very serious now.

Hodge watched closely the two confronting people in the room through the small window on the door. Antoinette had his back turned to him and couldn't analyze it, but Rice's expression was quite rich, ranging from easy-going to dodging. He didn't know what Antoinette said , and finally he saw her push a piece of paper over, and a small strand of hair that she didn't know when she cut it.

Two minutes later the door opened and Antoinette handed him a folded piece of paper.Huo Qi took it, but he didn't even look at it. He just folded the paper and put it in his pocket. He glanced at her and turned to leave.

Antoinette could clearly feel Hodge's pent-up anger. Her team leader didn't say a word along the way, and she didn't respond to any greetings after returning to the headquarters.Antoinette felt that she had to be responsible for this, and she knocked on the door of Hodge's office against the questioning looks cast by other members of the team on her, the only insider.

"I'm sorry, Hodge." Antoinette stepped into the door and apologized sincerely against the door.

The group leader who was sitting behind the desk and writing something raised his head, he looked at Antoinette, his mouth was pursed into a straight line, and after a while he asked "Why?"

"Because of my impulse? No discipline, disobedience to orders." Antoinette said what he had thought before.

However, Hodge was silent for almost, just looked at her, tapped the pen in his hand on the paper, finally shook his head, and sentenced her to death, "No, you didn't realize your problem."

"..."

"Stark, what you did today broke the principle, regardless of the consequences, you achieved your goal with your cleverness, but it was only the goal." Hodge's voice was very severe, he stared at Antoinette and asked "What if You only have results in your eyes, what will you do in the end to achieve your goals?"

"..." Antoinette opened her mouth, but said nothing.

A knock on the door abruptly interrupted them, and the people outside pushed the door open without Hodge's consent.Emily poked her head in and felt something was wrong with the atmosphere, but she didn't ask, but pointed outside and said to Antoinette, "You'd better take a look at this."

In the hall, all the other members of the team stared intently at the big screen hanging, and Antoinette also looked over. An urgent news was being broadcast on the big screen.

There was a commotion in New York's Financial Street. An unknown robot monster was rampant on the street. From the TV screen, it could be seen that there were several superheroes at the scene. The Human Torch left a trail of flames in the air. Hulk was trying to stop The front of the giant beast, and the dark clouds, lightning and thunder brewing in the sky indicate that a certain god is accumulating power.

The hammer fell from the sky, carrying a large amount of thunder and lightning, and under the guidance of Iron Man, it formed a grid to completely catch the monster.

Sparks flashed from every joint that received the electric shock, and after 1 minute, the monster stopped moving and completely crashed.

Even the people in front of the TV screen were relieved, and the report screen was filled with the joy of surviving the disaster, until the anchor discovered something.The camera shifted with the anchor's hand, and they saw a small group of vigilantes in strange costumes gathered around, and Iron Man could be seen lying motionless on the ground among them.

This shot set off alarm bells in Antoinette's mind.And Thor fell down, surrounded Iron Man, communicated with other people, squatted down and broke Iron Man's helmet with his bare hands.

The camera quickly zoomed in, and the familiar face under Iron Man's suit made everyone gasp.