I used to believe in science

In Antoinette's impression, the only memory of Maya Hansen is their first meeting.

That was about six years ago. Antoinette was dragged by Tony to attend a certain technical exchange meeting, which was an emergency technical exchange meeting about the military.

"If I knew that was the case, I would never have brought you here." Tony sighed as he sat at the bar and watched Antoinette try to make a cocktail with several alcohols.

"If you knew it was such a meeting, I guess you wouldn't want to come at all." Antoinette looked up at Tony, and replaced the drink he just made with the empty glass in his hand. "Thinking about it, at least It won't be too boring if you bring me here."

"It's just wasting both of us's time." Tony looked suspiciously at the glass of light blue liquid and then at Antoinette, but she didn't question the glass of liquid in her pleading eyes.

"Don't worry, I'm not the one who cares about the ups and downs of hundreds of millions of stocks every moment, so my time is worthless."

Maya appeared at that time. As a savior, she walked to the corner where they were hiding, sat at a distance from them, ordered a glass of wine, took two sips slowly, and then turned to them, "Look at you two , one is wearing a suit that looks 20 years old, the other is not 20 years old at all, a pair of weirdos."

“We don’t like those conversations,” Antoinette said, trying to layer the liquid, but with little success, a bit cloudy where the blue meets the clear, a failed attempt.

"kindness?"

"I like to talk about things that are useful, things that will really break through the future." Tony answered honestly, and finally mustered up the courage to take a sip of the glass of liquid, which was unexpectedly refreshing, with a freshness of lemon.

"You're very interesting, considering that most of the time you need to rely on those boring military orders to make money." Maya leaned on her chin and looked at Tony with interest.

Before Tony could make any excuses, Antoinette spoke before him, "That being said, you don't like that group of people either, do you? Otherwise you wouldn't come to our weird little corner." She pointed out that "other people They don't like us."

"That's because they're afraid." Maya said to her gently, and stopped Antoinette when she tried to try the alcohol she had concocted. "You know, people don't like what they don't understand, and you are definitely what they don't understand." He has shown people enough horror,” Maya pointed to Tony, then to Antoinette, “and you, the outside world has been speculating a lot about you, and today you let them see that you can easily follow Follow his train of thought."

"Then you are not afraid, does that mean you understand us?"

"We have just met, how can we understand each other?"

"Then you want to know us? Know Tony?" Maya smiled at her, and Antoinette noticed that Tony had been looking at her with admiration, so she poked Tony and said to him, "I like her, Buy her coffee?"

She and Tony later dated for a while, but kept their friendship after they separated.In all fairness, Maya may not be Tony's girlfriend entirely out of affection, but she's a smart woman, at least not so superficially just for the money.

That's why Antoinette finally responded to her request.

"Thank you, otherwise I really don't know who to ask for help." When Antoinette arrived at a certain research institute in Tennessee, Maya waited at the door, and when she got out of the car, she quickly greeted her and gave gave her a hug, "You look a lot more mature than a few years ago."

"And you don't seem to have changed." Antoinette returned her, and then asked, "So why can't you talk about it on the phone? I transferred a plane and missed lunch."

"God." Maya grabbed her hand and pulled her into the building. Antoinette saw the notice posted next to her, but before she could take a closer look, Maya dragged her into the elevator.

The elevator stopped on the sixth floor, and Antoinette stepped into the corridor and saw the laboratory at the end of the corridor being fenced up.She was really familiar with that thing, it was the proof used by the police to seal off the scene, which made her quickly wonder, "What happened?"

"My laboratory was stolen, and a security guard on duty at night died inside." Maya said as she led her into the enclosure and pushed open the door of the laboratory. "That scene was really scary."

"What did the police say?" Antoinette followed her in, and the first thing he saw was the mess and the blood that hadn't been dealt with in time.

"The police came to collect the evidence. The surveillance on this floor just broke down a few days before the incident. They asked some questions, but nothing happened."

"No suspects?" Antoinette was a little surprised. "Is there anyone who has a relationship with you or is interested in your project?"

"That's too much." Maya shook her head, and this is definitely not good news for Antoinette, but the cases she participated in are not particularly easy, so it is not very frustrating "Come on, give me A list, we can eliminate bit by bit."

Maya found a computer desk and sat down, pulled a piece of paper and began to list the people she remembered who were interested in her project, while Antoinette looked around.

It can be seen that this place has already been searched by CSI, and there are not many things that can be felt with empathy in the damaged scene. Besides, this is a theft case, and the victim is only collateral damage, which does not have much meaning.

After 10 minutes, Maya felt that she had written the list, and she handed it to Antoinette, but the other party didn't answer, but asked her directly, "How many visitors are there in the past three months?"

"Why nearly three months?"

"No matter what your research is, it should not enter clinical trials in the past three months." Antoinette said, patted one of the experimental instruments in the other party's still puzzled eyes and explained, "This instrument is Produced by Stark Enterprises, I just checked the serial number and bought it three months ago."

"Okay." Maya nodded suspiciously, took back the list, and circled a few of them, "It seems that I was very right to call you here."

"I'm afraid the police in Tennessee won't be very happy about this." Antoinette shrugged, "The FBI doesn't intervene in local cases unless it is invited by the police. If we intervene casually, the local police will lose their authority, so no one will want to in the future. Ask us for help."

"Even if you didn't come here as the FBI?"

"Other people don't think so, I will cause trouble for my leader." Antoinette dragged the chair in front of the computer and sat down, and said while turning on the computer, "Maybe you should give the clues to the police or if you don't want to believe them, Just give it to Tony, he'll be willing to help."

"Of course I would like to help, but no one came to me." A third voice no less than theirs appeared at the door, and the two of them looked back together, and saw Tony leaning against the door, wearing only a white shirt on his upper body , the sleeves were rolled up, the neckline was still stained with oil, Iron Man's battle suit was standing beside him, it seemed that he had abandoned the work at hand and rushed over directly.

When Antoinette and Maya looked at him, he walked in calmly, as if he should have been here, "What are you doing? My sister and my ex-girlfriend are together, I have reason to know if you are plotting to kill I."

"I should have teamed up with Pep to take you off the ground long ago, and then set out your share of the stock to let you work for me." Antoinette narrowed his eyes and replied displeasedly, "Did you use a positioning chip?"

"You moved a plane for an impromptu flight plan, of course I'd know," Tony denied, walking behind her. "What are you doing?"

"I'm tapping into the FBI's database and doing background checks on people on the Maya list."

"Investigate what?" Tony glanced at the fast data flow on the screen, and then looked away. This thing is professional, not to say that Tony will not 'borrow' the databases of various departments when needed, but he Most of the time, I avoid such things.

"I wrote an algorithm, as long as all the personnel lists are typed in, it will automatically match in the database, and it will be done." Antoinette hit enter, and the data flow began to scroll. "Investigate the background information of these people, criminal history, Theft, murder, or whether you have joined a suspicious organization.” She looked at the sporadic blood splattered next to the light switch, “If this level of violence is not anger caused by personal grievances, it is hard to imagine that it is a novice committing a crime. Psychologically, we think violence It needs to be upgraded gradually.”

"How long will it take?"

"Actually, I can set it to be sent directly to my mobile phone when I get the conclusion." Antoinette turned around and glanced at Tony. "What?"

"You want to stay here?" Tony measured the dark and depressing room, "Why can't we sit in a bright place, have a drink and chat?"

"Go to my place, my house is not far away."

Maya's home is nearby, an apartment 15 minutes walk away.She led them both there and made a pot of coffee. "You know what, I've been thinking, you're wasting your sister's talent."

Maya looked at Tony complainingly while pouring them coffee. This accusation made Tony have to defend himself, "This is the path she chose, and it has nothing to do with me!"

However, Maya waved her hand angrily and did not listen to him, but pointed to Antoinette, "Six years ago, I looked at her as I saw myself, but the difference was that my research was limited by resources, and she Nope, she was supposed to be a futurist like you and me, but look what she's doing? Psychology?"

"I think the humanities are also necessary for human development. In evolution, community research is an important part." Antoinette had to defend himself.It was the second time in two days she had heard that she shouldn't be in the business.

"Did you know that the decoding of genes by biology can now be demonstrated, the correlation between criminal impulse and genetics, the psychological analysis you have done can be analyzed from the genetic aspect, as long as we can unlock the genetic code..."

"I have a colleague from a family with a history of schizophrenia. He has always been a good person. This can fully explain the influence of acquired experiences on people's personality and behavior."

"You want to say that the difference between you and Tony is due to experience?"

"Yes." Antoinette said so, but in fact she thought of Natalie, her real double, but she became a completely different person from her.

At this time, her phone rang, and it seemed that there were a lot of people looking for her today.

This time it was Morgan's number that appeared on the screen, and Antoinette picked it up, and heard the scalpy question on the phone, "Where are you now?"

"What's the matter?" Antoinette didn't understand why Morgan's voice sounded so urgent after she had only been separated from them all morning.

"Come and meet with us, there is a case."