[Comprehensive British and American] The life of the villain and the body of the hero

"Tony——" Pike's words made Tony stop abruptly, and then turned around stiffly, looking at the little bodyguard who seemed to have drooping ears.

"What's wrong?" Tony asked casually.

Pike pursed his lips and said falteringly: "It's almost Christmas."

"Well, want a salary increase? No problem, how much do you want?" Tony was already planning to take out the checkbook, as long as he could get out of this embarrassment quickly, Tony swore that he would write as much as the other party wanted in a while.

"No, I just wanted to give you this." Pike gave him a small wrapped gift.

A palm-sized gift box with a green cover, with a Christmas tree pattern on the wrapping paper, and a decorative flower pasted on the corner of the box. It doesn't look expensive, but it is thoughtful.

Seeing that Tony stood there in a daze, he didn't take it, and he didn't speak.The hand of the little bodyguard holding the gift box began to tremble nervously. He squeezed the wrapping paper tightly, almost making the ugly paper even more ugly.

"Christmas is here, I think... I should give you a present, maybe you don't need it, but I will always give it." These words seemed to have exhausted Parker's last bit of persistence, and he looked a little bit down. Pitiful.

Tony didn't know what to do anymore.

Tony Stark can be a jerk every time he gets into a situation that overwhelms him.It's not that he's really an asshole, it's just a habitual reaction - an instinct for self-preservation.

He pretended to be very free and easy, picked up the box, put it on the table without looking at it, and said casually: "I see, I will remind Jarvis to remind Pepper to give you an extra gift later." and bonuses."

Pike's face flushed red, he didn't know whether he was angry or ashamed.

Maybe he should regret making friends with people like himself, Tony thought hopelessly in his heart, he knew the consequences of making friends like this.He will only hurt others, make them hate him, and then hurt himself.

Tony didn't dare to speak anymore, he left in a hurry, and couldn't help but glance at Pike, who turned his back to him, slowly picked up the gift box on the table, and threw it into the trash can.

"Jarvis." Tony said softly, "Don't let the cleaner touch that trash can."

"Okay, sir." The butler replied gently and steadily.

Tony, who had participated in two Christmas carnival parties, returned home, and Jarvis had asked Xiaodai to take out the gift box from the trash can and put it on Tony's workbench.Tony, who was half drunk, stumbled over, carefully tore open the wrapping paper, and saw a small box of chocolates and a few hangover patches inside.

He remembered that Tony had mentioned this brand of chocolate once when they were having supper together.He said he remembers howard would perfunctorily slip him a box of chocolates from that brand whenever he was a kid, whenever he made a fuss about his dad doing business.Howard died later, and he never ate the chocolate again.

When he remembered one day and asked Jarvis to buy some, he was told that the manufacturer had closed down a long time ago.Tony was silent for a while, and never mentioned it again.

Tony tore open the chocolate wrapper, broke off a piece and stuffed it into his mouth. The familiar and strange feeling made him feel complicated.God knows how that little bodyguard of Parker got this thing, how did he make this kind of chocolate, and how did he reproduce it according to the packaging of the year?

"Does that dirt hat know what giving chocolate means?" Tony muttered to himself.

Tony sat on the floor of the laboratory, leaning against the workbench, and slowly ate all the small box of chocolates.Then put the package and the hangover patches neatly in the drawer.

"It's Christmas day after tomorrow, Jarvis?"

"Yes, Sir, Miss Potts asked me to remind you that the Christmas schedule has been sent to the mailbox."

"Hmmmm, I see." Tony shook his drunken head, got up to make coffee for himself, "Someone gave me such a gift, I can't just buy something to perfuse him, it's really troublesome, I Let’s just say there’s nothing good about Christmas except carnival.”

Tony stood in front of the workbench, stroking his beard and thinking, and finally his eyes lit up, and he began to draw the structural diagram on the virtual panel mountain.Then, regardless of when he didn't rest all day, he asked Jarvis to prepare the machine and start making something.

"I've installed half of the equipment." Ouroboros said to the communicator after changing into casual clothes.

The other side was silent for a while: "You should be faster, SHIELD may have a big move."

"I couldn't go faster. Everything was going well, but some time ago, Tony suddenly ignored me. Jarvis was staring there, and I couldn't act rashly."

"The remaining half, find a time to sneak into the core area, and use your ability to finish it within an hour. What are you waiting for, Ouroboros?" Wishbone asked suddenly.

"The security system of the Stark Building is more sophisticated than we thought. One hour, are you sure I have enough for one hour to install the instruments? What's more, it will take a while for the technicians to hack Jarvis through these instruments." Time. Once things go wrong, the mission will be wasted." Ouroboros retorted: "Give me a little more time."

"Indeed, you have achieved a level that none of the professional beauty agents can do. Sometimes I wonder if you really managed to charm Stark, you must know that you have not received special agent training." Fork Bone sighed.

"Tony just needed a friend, and those beauties came with a bedmate mentality."

"Ouroboros, that's what worries me. You call Stark Tony, maybe you're just used to it... You haven't received special training. Agent training not only teaches you how to fool your target, it also teaches you not to Let yourself sink in."

"All for Hydra, I will not betray the organization."

"The Winter Soldier has been asking about you recently, and he is willing to provide military support..."

"Don't let the Winter Soldier come here!" Ouroboros broke the wishbone, raised his voice for an instant, and immediately added: "He is not suitable for this mission."

Wishbone gave a specious "hum" on the opposite side, and finally said: "The organization intends to help you."

Ouroboros felt his throat a little dry, and he adjusted it before asking calmly, "What's the plan?"

"I don't know, and they didn't tell me, but you just need to know that there is such a thing. When the time comes, act according to circumstances and focus on the task. If necessary, you can choose to expose your identity and kill." Wishbone understated these bloody methods .

Ouroboros replied calmly and simply, "I see."

Tony finally delivered the gift he had worked on for two nights to Pike before Christmas.

Of course, if it was awkward, he would not give it by himself. He wrapped the gift and asked Jarvis to give it to Pepper, and then let Pepper give it to the little bodyguard.Guessing that Pike had almost received the gift, he ran to find him meanly.

"Ahem, how was your Christmas?" Tony asked pretending to be nonchalant.

Pike blinked his jewel-like green eyes and smiled, "I have received the most wonderful gift."

Tony felt a little blushing, he coughed twice, and asked, "Oh, who sent it?"

Pike's smile widened, and he exclaimed, "Tony, that's amazing, I swear I've never seen anything like this. Thank you so much."

"Oh, ahem, that's nothing. You think it's great because you haven't seen anything more. It's just something I made up, I don't know why I made it, but it's done anyway Well, it’s useless for me to keep it, so I’ll just give it to you.” Tony pretended to be indifferent and took the coffee that Parker made for him: “It didn’t take much energy anyway, so you don’t have to be so excited.”

What exactly did Tony give Pike?Well, it's really nothing, except that Pike sometimes tells Tony about his dreams, and the world in his dreams makes him linger, but they are just dreams after all.So Tony made a mechanical model according to Parker's narration. In this small miniature world, all Parker's dreams became reality.

"But your dream is very interesting, the flying man, the castle in the North Pole, the blue snake-shaped wheelchair." Tony changed the subject, and Pike's adoring eyes made his face a little hot.

"I don't know why I keep having such dreams, but it's just a dream. I guess the dream doesn't make any sense." Pike shrugged, looked at Tony sincerely and said, "But thank you very much, this is really my dream." Best Christmas present ever.”

"By the way, where did you find the chocolate, I thought it was out of print." Tony asked.

"Is that? When I was young, I just met a retired worker from that chocolate factory. He taught me how to make it. I also checked the information and ordered the packaging, but it may still be a bit different." Parker stroked his hair, and suddenly Realizing something, he asked curiously, "How do you know that I gave you this, I thought I threw away the chocolate?"

"..." Tony stood up suddenly, and said solemnly: "I just wanted to come. I have something to do. Pepper called me, told me to go, um, ah, told me to...Jarvis?"

"Yes, Sir, Miss Potts asked you to prepare the script for the speech." Although the smart housekeeper should say this sentence without emotion, anyone can hear the gloating smile in it.

"Yes, Pike, I'm going to write a manuscript, see you later." After saying this, Tony almost ran away in embarrassment.

Pike looked at the billionaire who fled in a hurry and his movements were stiff, and couldn't help showing a gentle smile.His green eyes were filled with a smile that he didn't realize, that kind of smile was not mocking or sneering, nor was it faked, but a genuine smile.

However, his good mood faded after two hours.

A team of well-trained killers in full gear entered Stark Tower, killing guards along the way who tried to fight back or call the police.Ouroboros' actual combat experience made him hide quickly.

Damn it, he didn't hear Jarvis' alarm. With Jarvis' ability, he would never be hacked at will.At least no one can hack him from the outside, so there is only one possibility—even if the instruments he installed, even if they are not completely installed, they still work.

The only one who knows that these instruments are installed is Hydra, but Hydra will never break in so recklessly.Thinking of the reminder given by Wishbone a few days ago, Ouroboros quickly analyzed a general idea.

This is how the organization helped him!

They galvanized Tony's other enemies, temporarily hacking Jarvis's system, just enough to let the killers in.Of course, Tony will definitely use his battle armor to fight back, and in the chaotic situation, he can use his ability to install all the equipment without anyone noticing.

After Tony finished cleaning up these killers, Jarvis restarted, and they felt that everything was safe, it was the time when they were most slack.Hydra's technical personnel can rely on a full set of equipment to hack Jarvis again and steal all the information.

This period of time will not last long, and by the time Tony finds out that something is wrong, it will be too late to find these devices.And ouroboros can rely on this chaos to retreat successfully.Once he was free and took off the mask, no one could find Pycred again.Even if Tony Stark wanted to find out, there was no way.

That's a great plan, except for one thing - Tony doesn't have any armor to use right now!

He just mentioned to Pike this morning that he took all the armor to Jarvis for self-repair.And the new emergency set he made was not in the living room, in fact he was quite far away from that set of armor.

In the absence of Jarvis to assist remote operation, Tony had to run to manually activate the armor himself.Ouroboros, on the other hand, had no idea whether Tony would be able to put on that armor before the killer arrived.

The author has something to say: