[Zhongyingmei] After inheriting the throne

Gladys looked back and saw a tall, lanky man with a mustache.The other party's clothes didn't look like those of the military. His distinctive suit and his casual manner made his presence particularly conspicuous in this base.

However, since he entered here and seemed to be able to come and go freely, he should be someone closely related to the military, and it was not her turn to worry about other issues.

Gladys pondered for a moment the so-called "non-existence" in his mouth, wondering whether it was a joking name to keep her identity secret.Her identity here is a related person who is kept secret from the outside world. Because she works alone and does not have too much communication and contact with other people, she has received many people's secret attention.Now it seems that the person who finally couldn't help jumping out to talk to her is either a high-level person who can know the secret, or a third party who doesn't know anything.

"What's the matter?" Gladys stopped, and tightened the document in his arms.

The man complained first, "No way, they didn't even let such a young girl go."

I'm afraid this person doesn't know that Captain America, who is the signature of the military, also has an underage boy as his assistant to help him deal with some shameful "little things".

Although from the outside, Barnes is indeed older than her, at least he is qualified to enlist in the army through regular channels.

"Who are you?" Gladys glanced at him quickly, trying to compare with the information he knew.

"I'm Howard Stark." The man looked down at her with an exaggerated expression of "I finally met you": "It's so hard to see you, Miss."

"He knows me?" Gladys retorted mentally as he wondered who he was.It's not difficult to see her, it's definitely because the other party has never been here before.

"It's an honor to meet you, sir." Gladys looked at the other party's prepared appearance, and it seemed that he didn't just say hello and finish the job, so he raised the document in his hand and signaled: "I still have some papers to send over—"

"I don't think this should be a problem." Stark looked at the young soldier following her, with obvious intentions.

"Then, Mr. Barnes, please help me get these documents over, thank you."

Gladys called so strangely on purpose.By now, they've gotten to know each other enough to call each other names—at least, Gladys called "James" 10 minutes ago.She just habitually doesn't want to reveal too much information in front of strangers.

Gladys then turned to the "acquaintance" who was following him - the Roaring Commando had no mission these days, and the captain had his own business, so it happened to be his turn today.

"You're welcome." Barnes took the stack of documents in her hand, and asked by the way, "Do you want me to wait for you?"

It seems that he is very relieved of himself.Gladys looked at Barnes without showing the slightest sign of rejection, and got a clear signal of safety from him.

"Don't worry, I promise to send her back intact." Stark said, then turned his body and raised his hand to make a "please" gesture.

Gladys took one last look at Barnes, nodded to him, then shifted the direction of his toes, and followed with a "da, da, da" on his little leather boots.

They walked through several gates, and finally walked through another secret passage guarded by guards to a room with high security.

Speaking of a room, it would be more appropriate to call it a utility room or a laboratory.The space in this room is very large, extremely open, occupied by various parts and instruments, stacked in disorder and in an orderly manner.

Stark found a chair and asked her to sit down, while he leaned back, half-sitting on a table that had just been cleared out, with his legs loosely tucked together.

"Sorry, the conditions are not allowed, it's too messy here." Stark said apologetically, but there was no embarrassment on his face.He looked at the little princess who seemed to be spoiled and raised, sat down in this messy and simple environment very naturally, and raised his eyebrows with interest.

Gladys didn't comment on his obvious scrutiny. After she sat down, she raised her head slightly to meet the other's gaze.

"So, Mr. Stark, what do you want to know about me?"

Gladys knew very well that the unruly man in front of him came to her to inquire about the same as the other characters before him, but what they wanted to know was different.

But she has answered their questions generously before, and this time she will not continue to spend too much time going around in circles with the other party.

At most, it is to follow the news that I have revealed before, and compile the information that was deliberately disclosed to be more watertight.

"I'm curious, does the world you mentioned really exist?" Stark's gaze gradually sharpened, as if to see through her heart.As a genius who has struggled all the way from the bottom of the world, relying on his ingenuity to create such a foundation and completely changed his own class, he is also a qualified businessman who is good at observing words and deeds, and grasping minutiae.

What Gladys cares most about is that this man is indeed a relevant person who can know.It's just that I don't know what kind of position he holds here, what kind of identity he has.Compared with him, this messy room doesn't seem to be inconsistent. Judging from the location he chose, he is probably a researcher, the more advanced kind?

"So, Mr. Stark, do you think I am real?" Gladys did not avoid his gaze, nor did he deliberately look into those eyes, but cast his gaze to the appropriate one with perfect social etiquette. position, grasping just the right distance.

"If you think it's all false, why do people still believe in God? It seems to me that the existence of both of them is a question of the same nature."

"You believe in science. Then, I can control animals to roam the streets and make them my eyes and ears. Isn't that beyond what you know?"

"People encountering areas they don't know, always try to use the known to derive the unknown. But sometimes, it's just the complete unknown."

"The world here is very interesting, but if I look at it from my perspective, can I also question whether it really exists?"

"Your beliefs have created a god that you believe in deeply, so isn't it reasonable for me to come out of the legend?"

Gladys, who was inducing the topic at the moment, didn't know that he had accidentally poked the truth of some world lines.She is wholeheartedly confronting problems with problems, cooperating with her "sincere" persona, and replacing the existence that she can't explain clearly with other concepts.

Snow White will not lie, her "sincerity" is the condition for the favorability halo to take effect, after all, trust is mutual.

Therefore, not wanting to spoil his blessed shortcut, Gladys had to somehow bypass this topic that he could not yet explain.

To put it simply, believe it or not, you just look at it.

—Don't ask, asking is magic, the opposite of science.

Gladys spent a lot of effort, and finally replaced the high difficulty of "why" with "what".Stark, who failed to solve the doubt, returned with regret, recorded it in his small notebook, and listed it as a "lifetime unsolved mystery" that has yet to be solved.

After such a conversation, Gladys, under Stark's guarantee, obtained greater authority to study his own conditions and was able to enter his laboratory for a visit.

Stark was suddenly very busy, but he was very busy.Although this kind of research that has nothing to do with machinery is not his home field, it is an incomparable joy to be one step ahead in other areas.

He also went to help inquire about [Poisoned Apple], evaluated it as a highly toxic product, and used his own information channels to inquire whether there were similar drugs on the market.

Gladys isn't faring as well on her way to finding targets, but she's finally making it into this era, with a smoother scouting environment thanks to her popularity aura.

As I said before, in order to prevent this special effect from failing, "Snow White" cannot lie, but she can use her speech skills to control the truth she confesses.

Gladys previously told Rogers that she had "Friends of the Forest" qualities and could manipulate animals.But if we further analyze the essence, this is actually the influence of the title called [Son of Nature].As long as it is a naturally occurring life and an existence influenced by nature, it will have a certain degree of affection for her.Low-level animals do not have their own thinking, and will obey her instructions unconditionally; while among humans, the part of the "yellow name" will become a friendly "green name" under the influence of the increased favorability.Only the existence of evil divided into opposites will always keep the "red name" unshakable.

In order not to break such a convenient effect, Gladystan reveals the "truth" he knows from the role of "Snow White".And this kind of fact, which seems quite absurd to ordinary people, makes this girl look extraordinarily weird.

Barnes, who is closer to her because of her age, sometimes can't stand this kind of fantasy story.His world view can't support such a point of view, but the irrepressible desire to complain often stops abruptly when he sees the girl's sincere face, which makes him a little depressed.

Say "I believe"?He hasn't managed his expression well enough to open his eyes and talk nonsense.Say "do not believe"?He doesn't want to destroy the precious relationship with the other party who is improving day by day.

But his struggles and pain soon eased, as Gladys diverted his confession and got into a strange argument with Stark.

Under the cycle of fantastic "facts" and increased favorability, everyone found that what Miss White and Mr. Stark said in this base became more and more "crazy", and their relationship became closer, and even formed a special relationship. , which may be called a bond of friendship.

"Just let them come together like this?" Agent Carter was a little worried about this.

Seeing a big man and a little girl seriously discussing the topic of "how the seven dwarfs built the crystal coffin", she felt an unbearable depression stuck in her chest.

"Anyway, Stark isn't lazy, is he?" General Phillips, who has always been pragmatic, thought about it.

On one side are scientific research geniuses and military experts, and on the other side are visitors from other worlds and intelligence experts. The efforts of both sides did not fall behind. Instead, they started a harmonious cooperation and obtained more strange information.He wants to make a profit without losing money.

"Take the box of things that the captain brought back recently."