Which one is better if the officials are forced to die together [Comprehensive British and American]

No matter what happened beyond Earth, the party in Al's main house continued.

Those professional waiters were not invited to this party. Wanda and Rao temporarily assumed some similar jobs. They pushed the trolley full of ice cubes and champagne, and filled the empty glasses on the table from time to time. the chefs who have been working for Carl have pulled out all the stops, trying their best to meet the food needs of an entire banquet.

Fortunately, all the guests invited are not picky, as long as there are enough things to fill their stomachs, they will be satisfied.

They scattered all over the hall in groups of twos and threes, exchanging with friends whom they haven't seen for a long time what happened in these days, talking about some news that only certain groups of people will pay attention to:

For example, some people's attitudes towards mutants, such as the sudden rise of superhumans in some cities, such as those high-level people whose attitudes are becoming more and more ambiguous, such as the recent changes of SHIELD and Sky Eye.

After finally getting away from a group of mutants who admired him, Steve let out a long sigh of relief, drank the drink in his hand in one gulp, then raised his head, looked around to find Bucky.

He could understand Bucky's behavior of sneaking away quietly because he didn't want to be recognized by the group.

James.Barnes is indeed far less famous than Captain America. After they "passed away", Bucky acted as a foil to Captain America on almost every occasion, appearing in the image of "Captain America's best friend and most trusted deputy". be watched.

His popularity is far less than that of Captain America, even if he walks on the street without any cover, few people can recognize him directly.

But the hit "Captain America" ​​some time ago has changed this situation. Unlike the past movies that overly weakened Bucky's sense of existence and piled all the aura on Captain America, this movie can be said to be rare. Several flesh and blood characters.

Peggy, who played the leading role in "Agent Carter".Needless to say, Carter, in the movie where Captain America is the protagonist, she also has a lot of roles to play, and James.Barnes, as the second male lead, occupies almost one-third of the whole movie.

——The total time he played in the whole movie is even longer than Peggy as the heroine.Carter more.

Because there are certain unspoken biases in all the works shot by D&M Company. "Smile" Steve and James, many viewers thought... ahem, there will be some politically incorrect plots in this movie.

Or at least play around the edges.

To the audience's great surprise, this film did not present the usual routines of these D&M companies, but honestly presented the audience with a very standard and perfect biographical film.

It also makes people remember James.Barnes.

For many years, this hero has been hidden, underestimated and ignored.

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Just as Steve looked up for Bucky, he himself became the target of other pairs of eyes.

"Who goes first?" asked Natasha.

Tony was standing beside her, at least an arm's length away from this sexy woman, and he was scanning the hall. Hearing Natasha's question, he couldn't help but glance at her.

"Don't tell me that you not only sneaked into Stark Industries, but also sneaked into the captain's vicinity."

"I didn't 'sneak' anywhere, the application process is a normal process, you know Fury's style, he will not give any help, at most help create a fake identity."

"Okay, let me change the question, what identity did you use to meet the captain?"

"Myself," Natasha replied, "a single neighbor who just moved into a new apartment."

"Wait, wait, wait, why are you emphasizing being single? Are you dating the captain? Who invited who? No, he definitely didn't agree, and he's still accompanied by an oil bottle."

"It's not something you should care about, S.H.I.E.L.D. does not prohibit internal romance." Natasha giggled, "But I don't mind satisfying your curiosity a little bit, Tony. I haven't dated Steve, No one invited anyone, I just asked the kind captain to help me move the furniture."

"I don't think you are weak enough to bear those burdens." Tony resisted the urge to laugh at the other party more fiercely, "Let's not be in order. Let's go together."

As soon as the words were out, Tony stepped out of the shadow where he and Natasha were hiding together, aiming straight at Steve, who was alone and not resurrounded by ardent admirers.

Natasha followed closely behind him, moving skillfully to conceal the strangeness between her and Tony.

If someone glanced at them casually, they might be able to draw the absurd conclusion that the two of them were in love.

Just as they were walking towards Steve, Steve also happened to find Bucky who was choosing a meal at the long dining table. He raised his foot and was stopped by Tony and Natasha within two steps. .

"Nice to meet you here, Captain, when was the last time we met?" Tony showed a fake smile, "Although I would like to use a specific time to prove that I have been together since the last goodbye." Miss you terribly, but unfortunately I don't remember exactly how long it has been."

"Tony," Steve said resignedly, "you don't have to be so... you know, childish every time."

"What? Me? Childish? I'm afraid you're joking," Tony said. "I..."

"Tony does not behave like a sane adult a lot of times, captain." Natasha smiled and raised her glass, "but I don't think it's your style to expose people's faults like this. See you here I surprised you?"

"Both of you surprised me, but not that much." Steve smiled, and after stabbing Tony slightly, he returned to his usual gentleness in front of Natasha, "I should have known, That Fry guy..."

He replaced what he was about to say with a slight shake of his head.

There is no need for him to explain it clearly. The three people present have dealt with Fury and know how difficult and controlling the director of S.H.I.E.L.D. is.

"If my previous behavior made you feel uncomfortable, I will be very sorry, Captain." Natasha's expression became a little serious, "We will most likely become members of a team, and I hope that what happened before will not affect our cooperation."

"Wait a minute," Tony stared at Natasha incredulously, "Why didn't you have the attitude of admitting your mistakes when you were in front of me?"

"Because I wasn't ordered to spy on you, Tony, I was ordered to protect you."

"I know you are just performing the task of the superior, Natasha, I didn't take this matter to heart." Steve said, for some reason, after a short pause, he added in an inexplicable tone, "I was also the one who obeyed those orders, and I know what they taught you."

A soldier's duty is to obey orders absolutely.

Even if the order of the superior is wrong, it must be carried out.

There is one and only one voice in the team.

Anyone who can cause mission failure is an enemy.

Women, children, animals, whatever might cause the mission to fail, as long as they are enemies, they must be killed.

I know what they put into their knives, the captain thought.

He looked at Tony, at Natasha, and at Bucky who was stuffing something into his mouth with lowered eyes not far away, and remembered the question Carl asked with a smile.

"...have you ever thought about...running for president..."

Even if he hadn't thought about it before, he had to think about it after Carl asked the question.

That answer has long since surfaced.

It's just that he hasn't determined when to say it.

"I don't think you guys came here to chat with me." Steve said calmly, "Let's find a quiet place to talk."

The same city, the headquarters of Ayer Group.

When Alexander walked out of the office again, no one in the Ayre Group realized what had happened to him.

In fact, he did not change much. What was his state before trying to fuse the six gems and resurrect the Nemesis, and what is he still in now, except for a lot of meaningless gibberish, Alexander failed to recover from this experiment. get any return.

But he doesn't look lost or flustered, and it's impossible for anyone to feel any fluctuations related to these two emotions from his face.

As the de facto manager of this huge company, he just walked out of the office calmly, took the elevator to the garage, and then drove his own car back to the seaside villa that legally belonged to him.

Luo was lying on his back on the beach, surrounded by some freshly unpacked snacks, a few half-drunk iced drinks, and a few movie magazines that he just flipped through a few pages.

The words "D&M Company", "Mutant", and "Artificial Intelligence" were prominently printed on the opened pages. Alexander walked past Luo without seeing it, but Luo grabbed his trousers.

"Hey, crazy machine." She asked in a slightly drunk tone, "Did you succeed?"

"If you are asking about the experiment of reversing the six infinity gems, it has succeeded." Alexander said, "If you are asking about the exploration of the path of evolution, I have neither succeeded nor failed."

"What do you mean?"

"I analyzed a series of data obtained when observing the experimental process, and after removing all repetitions and processes, I got a piece of 'meaningless' code."

"If I remember correctly, there is no such thing as 'meaningless' in your logic." Luo yawned, and at the same time, he did not hide the strange look in his eyes, "Don't you think 'meaningless' Is it the most meaningful thing?"

"I think so," Alexander said, "but I can't parse that 'meaningless' code."

Luo gave a absent-minded murmur, and suddenly said:

"What about the Nemesis? Where did the Nemesis that you successfully revived go?"

"She killed herself again within 10 minutes after waking up, and this time even the gems didn't appear." Alexander replied indifferently, "Those residual energies fell into the gap between dimensions, perhaps into the Some kind of gap in space."

"You didn't locate the coordinates where it fell?"

"My processing center is overloaded, so I don't have time to take care of those little things."

"Not even a little bit of memory left?"

"After confirming that the life code in the Infinity Gem is useless, I deleted a series of memories related to it." Alexander said, "If you are interested in those energies, go find them yourself."

"What can I be interested in." Luo smiled lazily, "I've been so busy recently that I don't have time to get those things."

Her words were half-truth, and Alexander didn't mean to delve into it. He nodded and walked into the villa expressionlessly, while Luo, who was lying on the beach, raised his hand and scooped a glass of drink into his hand. Draw out a space door in midair.

There was a sound of the director yelling from behind the space door, the actors ran around dutifully, and the surrounding staff and noisy people were so noisy even though they were separated by a door.

Luo stepped in.

The space door quickly closed behind her, leaving no trace behind.

"Lucia! Have you rested yet?" As soon as she came out of the dressing room, the assistant director hurried over. After so long in the summer, the thinly dressed assistant director still had a layer of pimples on his forehead. Sweat dripped down, "Come on, come on, it's time for your part. I NGed a few times just now. The director is in a bad mood, so it's up to you to put out the fire."

"I see," Lo said.

She handed the cup in her hand to the staff member passing by, and smiled sweetly when the other party looked over in surprise, the staff member suddenly forgot what she was doing, and held the empty cup like an antique. The cup is gone.

The director of "The Matrix" is to sci-fi movies what Jobs is to smartphones.

This old guy, who is in his 70s and is about to be 80 years old, shot his first movie in his early thirties and won the praise of Hollywood and science fiction circles. In the next 40 years, every five or six In [-], he came back to the rivers and lakes when he was about to be forgotten, and made a very subversive work, and then when the outside world was blown away by the shocking thunder he threw, he went away again, deeply To hide merit and fame, find a secluded place to live in seclusion again.

No one knows where Carl scooped up this leading character. People only know that soon, science fiction fans will usher in a new carnival.

Carnival, Lo thought.

Facing the camera, she shed tears of grief.

I wish people were still partying by then.

"Thank you." Carl said suddenly.

"Thank me for what?" Lex asked.

They are standing in the zoo of the Metropolitan City at the moment, a lazy male lion is slowly pacing behind the glass wall, his wife and children are lying far away on the other side of the rockery, facing the glass wall. It is common for humans outside to gather to watch them.

"For your time? For your energy that should have been spent on more meaningful things? For everything?" Carl shrugged.

"If I say 'this is what I should do' at this point, it seems too formulaic and boring." Lex mused, "What do you want me to say, honey? I will do anything as long as I can Makes you happy."

"I will remember this promise."

Carl kissed Lex's ear quite discreetly, hiding in the crowd, and their figures were not very conspicuous.

The identities of the guests Karl invited to this party were too special. Their arrival attracted the attention of the outside world. Almost all the reporters who could be dispatched in Metropolitan City ran outside Al's main house.

They knew that they did not have the ability to enter Ayer Manor, but they still wandered the streets outside the manor without giving up, hoping to meet one or two invited guests by chance, take a few photos, and record a video. A short video that can be used.

Natasha, who came a little late, was swarmed up to stop the car in this way. Fortunately, she changed her image vigilantly and put on her hat and sunglasses in time. Do not divulge your own information.

With the party at Al's main house helping them attract attention, now Carl and Lex can play in the zoo so aboveboard-of course, they still do some simple costumes.

Lex, who always wore a three-piece suit, awkwardly changed into a long-sleeved T-shirt and a half-length windbreaker, with the narrow collar slightly turned up to block his chin; Carl casually put on a sports suit for himself. Dress up, and then use a slightly pressed baseball cap to cover the features of the upper half of the face.

Although they are all well-known big shots, they are not movie stars who appear on the TV screen every day.

Such a simple attire is enough to make people ignore the similarities between them and "Lex Luthor" and "Kal-El". Even if someone vaguely thinks that the two of them look familiar, it is unlikely to go in the right direction Lenovo.

There was no danger along the way.

It was the first time for Lex to appear in front of everyone in such a suit, but Carl was a little uncomfortable in the crowd. In order to take care of Lex's mood and state, he deliberately slowed down his pace to ensure that he and Lex could be in harmony with each other. Always be together.

However, it took Lex less than 5 minutes to get used to his current attire. When he walked into the zoo with Carl, he even smiled at the security guard who was staring at the two of them at the door, and got a "I might I saw a ghost" expression in response.

When they stood in front of the lion area, they had already walked around the huge zoo.

"I've never been to a place like this," Carl said to Lex. "You know, it's not because I can't afford it, but Alexander didn't think I would need to visit. In his eyes, if I wanted an animal, I would I'll tell him, and he'll figure out how to get what I want into the house and raise it, coming to the zoo to see animals is a kind of..."

He thought for a while how to use euphemistic words to describe it.

"Waste," said Lex. "He can't understand the joy of being in such a public place. You really don't look like a pair of brothers, Honey, and the gap between you is like the gap between mathematics and literature."

"The analogy is apt."

"But it's also my first time at the zoo."

"Oh? Really?" Carl moved his gaze from the lion's mane to Lex's cheek, "Why are you?"

He had a premonition that Lex was about to say something important.

It was getting late, and they only stayed in the lion area for less than 10 minutes. The crowd that was very dense before gradually became sparse. Those young couples, friends who came together, or dragged their families to the People who pass the time in the zoo slowly flow towards the exit of the zoo.

After a sudden autumn wind blows, the green leaves of the trees suddenly fall to the ground withered and yellow.

"Because my father is a fool, a tyrant, a hypocrite and a sadist." Lex said calmly, "No matter how smart I am, how good I get in school, how much praise and glory I get, in his eyes Here, I'm just... a bastard raised by him, a useless parasite that will only embarrass and displease him."

"It's a good thing he passed away from cancer," Carl said. "Thank God."

If he didn't die of cancer, it might have been Lex's finger that did.

And that was something Karl never wanted to see, and it had nothing to do with any kind of justice, morality, or law. Karl just didn't want to see such a tragedy happen.

"Did I hear it wrong, or did you say it wrong, or are we both crazy?" Lex laughed at Carl's words, "'Thank God'? Do you really believe that there is a so-called 'God' in this world? '?"

Then, without waiting for Karl to answer, he continued on his own:

"...Maybe you do have a God inside of you, Honey."

"You are your God."

His words were far-reaching and profound, as if they carried some kind of meaning that even he himself could not quite figure out.

In the glass wall, the mighty lion yawned absent-mindedly, its sharp fangs flashed past the jaw with amazing bite force, and then it stuck out its tongue and licked its lips, from where it was lying down. place to stand up.

Carl slightly turned his stance, from facing Lex from the side to facing Lex head-on.

His baseball cap is still well placed on his head, and the glasses used to conceal his true identity are also well-behaved to block his blue pupils.

However, at this moment, it is unclear what exactly changed—maybe his shoulders that were always asymmetrical suddenly became flatter, maybe his standing posture that was always slightly slanted suddenly became straight, maybe It was his muscles that were relaxed every inch of his body suddenly began to gather strength.

Perhaps no change of any kind had taken place in him.

He just suddenly changed from the harmless Carl.Al, turned into a superman who can tear apart the planet.

But Carl.Al and Superman are the same person, since they are the same person, how can there be any difference?

"I'm my own god," said Superman, "and just want to be my own god. You're your own god, Lex, but you want to be everyone's god—you're what I see The most ruthless people are even worse than those most vicious thugs."

Lex laughed mockingly.

But there was such a strong ambiguity in his mocking smile.

All his love.All his hate.All the strong emotions that should or should not be there, the existence that made him feel trembling and painful countless times.

superman.

He worked hard and spent countless hours branding the alien who fell from the sky into the bottom of his heart, and he made countless vows in his heart to eliminate this stupid name.

However, from the never-healed wound, such sweet blood flowed out.

"...you're like the Hitler of modern society," Superman continued, his rosy lips so beautiful that Lex couldn't imagine it falling in his ear, "but even Hitler has Germany in his heart." , and you, Lex, what's on your mind?"

"Who knew?" Lex responded with a pun. "You?"

The author has something to say:

"You're like a Hitler, but even Hitler has Germany in his heart", from one of my favorite animations, "Rick and Morty".

There are many related easter eggs in the previous article, and this sentence is also marked because I like this sentence very much. This animation is not so famous that everyone knows it, so in order to avoid misunderstanding that everyone thinks it is original... …

I don't know if you have noticed a detail, Alexander never admits that he has "feelings", he completely denies that he has it.