I used to believe in science

When Antoinette rubbed her right arm uncomfortably for the fourth time, Steve in the driver's seat couldn't help turning his head to look at her. He saw that there was a round circle on the inside of Antoinette's arm under the half-rolled sleeve. A bruise, like a mark from some kind of syringe, so he raised an eyebrow and asked, "What's that about?"

"This?" Antoinette looked up at Steve while rubbing the bruise, shrugged and pointed at the bruise with his left hand, "Tony, he called me a tracking device."

"come here."

When Antoinette walked over, she saw Tony playing with an injection gun. She watched him put a small gadget in it for comparison, and reached out to her, "Right hand? It might not hinder your life so much, In fact I guarantee there will be no repercussions."

"Tony." Antoinette didn't stretch out his hand, and even took a step back with his hands behind his back. "We don't need to be so nervous, right?"

"Come on, it won't hurt." Tony continued to reach out to her, bypassing her question, but there was no smile on his face, telling Antoinette with tight shoulders that he was very serious now.

So Antoinette finally compromised, she sighed and stretched out her right hand obediently, Tony held her wrist, the syringe was facing the inside of her forearm close to the bend of the arm, a slight and quick sting followed by a small Small injection holes.

After that, Tony didn't let her go immediately, but looked at the barely visible needle hole for a while, Antoinette reached out and snatched the injection gun from him and put his arms around him, "Now you can find me anytime, be happy .”

She heard a breath from Tony's chest, and she smiled as she felt her brother's arms wrap around her shoulders.

"To be honest, I don't know where I should complain, whether it's from you guys throwing a party in my name or you guys throwing a party for me and it started without me."

"You know, Tony is just worried about you. This time, it's really dangerous." Steve's words pulled her out of yesterday's memories, "but I'm surprised you agreed to do this."

"I'm not like the kind of person who will do what Tony says, especially someone who can completely control my movements?" Antoinette finished what he hadn't finished, and Steve turned back to continue looking at the road. He was noncommittal to her words, but Antoinette satisfied his curiosity, "I'm not, but 26 years of getting along with Tony made me realize that when we have differences of opinion, it is always difficult to persuade each other, so for the sake of efficiency, We'd better figure it out for ourselves before we start arguing...and most of the time, I'm on Tony's side."

"...the mind-set of a genius." Steve didn't look at her again, but his raised brow showed that he was listening carefully. "So what's going on now? I thought you didn't want people to know that you went Nah, but isn't the tracker telling Tony?"

"Of course he will, if he wants to." Antoinette shrugged and smiled easily. "I promised to let him install this tracker, and I believe he will not be idle to abuse it, especially Captain America with me. when."

Steve also smiled at the quip, and while he was paying attention to the road, he looked at the navigation to confirm where they should get off the highway. "I thought you asked me to accompany you because everyone else was still having a hangover and a headache." Today Early in the morning he was also forced to listen to Jane talking about alcohol being bad civilization.

"This is the most critical point, otherwise we might not even be able to get on the highway and be invited to drink tea by the police." Antoinette poked his arm and said half-jokingly, "It's a trick to get drunk, maybe we You should try it next time, discuss it from a purely scientific point of view, get enough wine for you to drink non-stop, and if necessary, soak you in a wine tank to see where the critical point of your cells' uptake and metabolism of alcohol is. "

"I'd rather not try this kind of thing." Steve shook his head, completely amused by her, but what frightened him was that Antoinette was serious when he said these words, and even took out the ABC set of plans to draw by hand. It seemed as if he wanted to list a set of calculation formulas, so he decided that it would be safest to change the subject quickly, "I probably shouldn't ask, but why did you go to that school."

Steve looked at the point they had marked as their final destination on the navigator, 'Xavier School for Gifted Youth', which sounded like a school for gifted children, but he'd heard Hornets mention that it was actually a shelter for A place for mutant children, and Antoinette is currently a [-]% ordinary person... an ordinary genius.

"When I was young... I used to have some psychological problems. Charles, the principal of that school, used to be my psychologist." Antoinette said, "You know that school, you should know that he has some special talents. "

Steve frowned at this, of course he knew that when he wakes up in the future to cram information, these are all reflected in the data: Charles Xavier, one of the best mind readers among mutants.

And the ability to get results by messing with people's brains made him instinctively uncomfortable.

"He is also a very good educator, and he really understands children and people's hearts." Antoinette did not notice the changes in the people around him, and continued, "I think I may have been influenced by him in choosing my current career..."

During the period when she was in the hospital, she entrusted Garcia to investigate the kidnapping case when she was a child, but Garcia exhausted all means and only found some sporadic text messages. Well pressed, those news and papers didn't even mention her name.

In short, Garcia tried her best, but it was not an era of advanced Internet, and she couldn't get any useful information.

Besides Howard who is no longer there, there are indeed other parties who know the exact truth, such as Professor X.

But Antoinette didn't tell Steve the truth. Her instinct told her that it's best not to let too many people know about it, especially if Tony might know. "In short, I have some doubts now and want to seek his advice." Help." That's why she chose to leave today before everyone was hungover, and with luck, they might come back before everyone realized what happened was worthwhile.

"..." Steve nodded, showing an understanding expression. Antoinette guessed that her words might have misled the other party, but he remained silent and did not explain.

When Natalie woke up today, she saw three text messages on her phone, and each text message had only a string of numbers, but she had no doubts about it. She took a shower, calmly flipped through all the text messages, and pressed A string of cell phone numbers that she wouldn't call wrong while she was asleep.

The phone rang only three times before it was picked up, and the other party asked for an "encrypted channel" before she could speak.

"Online," Hope replied. "About what?"

"The content of our mission last time." The other party quickly replied and said to her, "You know where to find me, come and meet me."

"I'm leaving now." Hope glanced at the time, it was almost noon, "I'm in West Chester."

"I see." Even though it was an encrypted channel, they didn't say anything more. Natalie only said her current location but not the time she needed, because the monitors would locate Ethan based on this information.

She waited until Ethan hung up the phone before putting down her phone and started to pack her things. She didn't bring anything with her. She simply cleaned up the guest room and opened the door to say goodbye to the owner of the manor, but she didn't expect Charles' voice to appear directly In her head "Natalie, how is the rest?"

"Charles, I'm fine." Natalie replied while rubbing her eyes. In fact, this was the best few days she slept in recently. There were no tasks or supernatural things looking for her "I want Say goodbye to you."

"..." What was surprising was the silence on the other side of the telepathy, and Natalie could feel the surprise on the other side, "Then you need to leave as soon as possible, a visitor is about to arrive."

Charles' meaningful words made Natalie instantly alert.