The next day, when Bucky told Tony about this, the man put down the tool in his hand, he raised his head, his amber eyes widened.

"What did you say?!" He snapped, "Did you promise that guy?"

"Of course not." Bucky smiled wryly, and sat down behind Tony, "I didn't discuss it with you, how could it be possible to make such a big decision casually. I still know Steve's ability, if he really sees the light of day , then the world will really be turned upside down."

Tony was studying things on the workbench, but this time he couldn't do it anymore.He wiped his hands with a towel, flicked them casually, and walked towards Bucky.

"Did you tell Superman about this?"

"I just told you," Bucky said.

"And you're not going to tell him that the leader of the resistance group he's looking for has spoken to you on the phone."

Tony crossed his arms and looked at him with complicated eyes.

"Yes." Bucky looked up, and he met Tony's eyes calmly, "I'm not going to tell him."

Tony raised his eyebrows, "You are really crazy, have you been persuaded by that guy? Do you know that your behavior violated the law between Chaoying? If you let Superman know, you will not let it go-of course , I don't mean to be afraid of him. It's just that I guess it will be troublesome."

Bucky leaned back in his chair slowly, watching him.

"That's why I came to talk to you," he said. "What do you think, Tony? Do you think we should tell Superman about this?"

Tony was silent for a while.

"Maybe, he needs an opposition group to curb his ambitions." After a while, Tony said, "I'm an inventor, Bucky, and you're right. Your sensitivity as a soldier and my sensitivity as an inventor The vision of the future is the same. I can always see what the future world will look like and what is needed...I can feel the need, so I can create so many things.”

"So, you mean...?"

"Then don't tell anyone else." Tony said, "At least I understand that if Superman continues to control the world, the peace of the earth will not last long... Maybe this rebel organization will be a good thing to restrain Superman. It's just—" Tony changed his voice, and he said, "Give me the information of these people, and I'll let Jarvis look it up."

Bucky shrugged helplessly, he knew Tony would not let it go.

……

In the evening, after Bucky returned to the Hydra base, Rumlow, who was waiting outside, had already greeted him.

"That guy came over again playing an online video." Rumlow said in a low voice, "Why do I think that guy is more of a villain than us?"

"You think we're bad guys?" Bucky glanced at him.Rumlow cleared his throat immediately.

Bucky walked into the communication room, turned on Hydra's independently operating shielding network, and then connected to the video.

The target was the man in the black robe and mask again.

"Good evening, Bucky," V said. "How are you thinking?"

"I can't accept your suggestion." Bucky said, "It is the decision of all superheroes to imprison Steve. Even if he is to be released, everyone should agree. Their trust in me made me responsible Even my friends... and I can't make decisions based on their trust."

V crossed his black leather gloved fingers and tilted his head.

"I'm not really surprised by that," he said. "You're a good guy with your own ideas and a sense of loyalty, Bucky. It's just a pity...you're too indecisive. If you think this society is a danger, you should Immediately start preparing to eradicate it. But you are still concerned about the friendship between the few of you... If it was Steve, I guess he would rather be misunderstood by everyone than do this."

"And what qualifications does a guy hiding in the dark have to judge us?" Bucky raised his eyebrows, "If you want to cooperate, you must at least show some backbone and let me see your real body. Even this Without courage, I would doubt how high your ideals are."

"I wanted to show up in front of you and Captain America, but unfortunately, it looks like you don't want to do it." V said slowly, "Then, I'll have to find another way...Trust me, Bucky, We will always meet for real.”

"What are you going to do?" Bucky frowned.

"Push you." V said calmly, "You just don't understand that the world needs Steve, and it's only a matter of time. Since you don't want to hand him over directly, then we can only work hard... "

"If you dare to do anything to ordinary people again—" Bucky's eyes became sharp.

"I will not do anything to civilians, because I represent their will." V said, "Trust me, Bucky. We are scavengers, martyrs, voices of this dark world, not terrorists. "

"When you detonated the building in a crowded place, I didn't see your protection of civilians." Bucky said coldly.

"Before doing this, we estimated the risk, and the chance of harming passers-by is very small." V said, "Of course, even the most foolproof plan is difficult to achieve 100% zero risk, but we It needs an opportunity to speak out, and the building in the downtown area is already the one that minimizes the harm in all plans."

"How can you guarantee that every plan will not hurt ordinary people?" Bucky said coldly.

"Because..." V's voice paused, and then he smiled softly, "You're tricking me. I know you don't trust me. Even if you let Jarvis track me, it's useless of."

Bucky looked at him with complicated eyes.

"I don't know what you want to do, but the conflict between you and us is not that intense." He said, "We superheroes just want to protect ordinary people... You don't need to do something too drastic. Rebel, we can make peace, and I'm sure most superheroes would agree."

"Yeah, mostly." V ​​snorted, "What about Superman, Bucky?"

Bucky fell silent, even though V was wearing a mask, he could still feel the scorching gaze behind the other's mask.

"You are right, there is no such irreversible contradiction between us and your superheroes." V said, "Because this contradiction is between all human beings and Superman."

Bucky was stunned.

"you--"

"I'm looking forward to the day we meet honestly, Bucky." V ​​said slowly, "Before that, we'll say goodbye for a while. In the end, please trust me, I won't hurt innocent people. "

The voice fell, and the other party unilaterally cut off the video connection.

Bucky stood up suddenly, he pushed open the door and walked out, Ward was holding the computer, Rumlow was beside him.

"Have you tracked it down?"

Ward shook his head gravely.

"This is really strange. The opponent's anti-tracking device and firewall technology is higher than ours." Rumlow said, "How can there be a civil organization with higher technology than Hydra?"

It seems that the other party has indeed made sufficient preparations... The person named V must have known that he would not be traced, so he was so blatant.

Bucky just felt pain in his temple.

>>>

After returning to normal life in Manhattan, nothing seems to have changed, but after the bombing, it is impossible for Superman to return to his life exactly the same as before.

Celia also noticed the change in Clark.Even though he was still as gentle and considerate to her as in the past, as if there was no difference, but the man's meditation time increased visibly to the naked eye.When not talking to her, Clark often frowned, lost in his own world.

Celia probably understands Clark's thoughts and entanglements, but this is his earth, and there is not much she can do, she can only stay by his side.

For the next month, nothing happened.But this is the biggest problem. The Hawkeye system and Jarvis have access to surveillance authority all over the world, but how many people can't be found?It's just unbelievable.

The whole earth is under the control of Chaoying, how could this group of people hide so without a trace, where can they hide?

Calm doesn't mean everything is over, on the contrary, it's more like the calm before the storm.Every day they are not discovered, the more they show that these people are well prepared and difficult to deal with.

Celia could feel that the haze between Superman's brows was accumulating over time. Once, when the man's expression was too deep and terrifying when he was thinking, Celia wrapped his arms around his neck from behind.

"Are we going back to the North Pole?" she said. "I always think you're not happy here."

Superman turned his head, and the haze disappeared.He sighed softly and held Helia's slender wrist, "No, it's okay. It has nothing to do with where we live, you understand."

Celia understood that if Clark didn't find out that group of people, he would never let his mind go.

After a few days like this, Superman stepped up the time of patrolling the earth, but there was still no gain.

It was another afternoon, Superman was suspended above the sky, his hearing power spread to the whole earth centered on himself, and the voices of billions of people squeezed his eardrums... But he still couldn't hear from these noisy voices. Find the clues you want.

Just then, his cell phone rang.

What rang was not the mobile phone used by Chaoying for internal communication, but the ordinary mobile phone he used in the city as an ordinary person during this period of time.Clark took out his mobile phone, and the incoming call on the screen was a line of garbled characters.

Superman's eyes suddenly darkened, he connected the phone and put it next to his ear.

"Hey."

"Hello, Superman." A male voice with a compound voice came, "You've been looking for me recently, haven't you? I guess, you must be curious about where I am."

While Clark was on the phone, his eyes turned to the vast land, and his ears were looking for the man's voice and content...

"V," said Superman in a low voice.

"It seems that you already know who I am. I think you must be floating high above the sky now, looking for my figure." V said, "But I advise you not to waste your energy... Son of Krypton, We have been preparing for this for a long time, and I know each of you better than you think."

"What do you want to do?" Superman said.

"Liberate this world." V said slowly, "But if you think that I am calling to chat with you, then you are very wrong... I have prepared a gift for you."

"what?"

"Your metropolis. Are you satisfied with the previous bombing? We can do it again." V's composite current voice chuckled, "I have hidden timed explosives in every corner of the metropolis. If you don't want to My hometown is blown up to the sky, so hurry up and look for it."

Clark took a horrified breath, and he said with restraint, "Are you crazy? Are you—"

"There are 13 boxes and 13 placement points, and you have one hour, Mr. Savior." V said, "I hope you will be different from the image in the hearts of those people who misunderstand you. Save them."

The phone hangs up.

Superman suppressed the raging anger and killing intent, and called Bruce.Bruce was also taken aback when he heard it, and he immediately arranged for the robot and some other superheroes to go to the metropolis.

However, the distance is just too wide, and the Hawkeye system still hasn't caught any crime.Bruce asked a few fast superhero pioneers to investigate, and then checked a little bit.It is impossible for such a big movement not to cause riots, but it is too much to worry about.

Superman hovers over the city with his own x-ray vision, and his eyes can't see through everything because the building materials in some places are different.Moreover, if it is the same as the last explosion, then the other party must have mastered some kind of technology that can prevent him from tracing.

Within an hour, with the concerted efforts of everyone, ten bombs/bombs were quickly found.To be honest, it's not particularly hard to find.Even on the verge of rage, Superman's mind remains calm.

The action this time reminded him of the explosion last time... It seemed to be the same feeling. The other party first asked him to find a few things that were easy to find, and actually changed his attention, which made Superman finally Caught off guard, I can only enter the building to check for bombs/bombs...

But this time, what is the organization trying to divert attention from?

Superman was contemplating, but his terminal rang, it was Bruce's call.

"Clark, we found the last suspicious box."

"Where?" Superman said casually, as he was thinking.

Bruce was silent for three seconds.

"The last box, we found in your metropolitan apartment," he said. "Obviously it was a complete show off, but we..."

Clark's fingers holding the phone were slightly stiff.He could no longer hear what Bruce was saying, and his blood was surging.

He was suspended in the sky, with the vast land under his feet, and the wind from the sky swept over him, making it quiet and cold.

After that engrossing hour, it was as if the world fell silent again with the finding of the last box.

Superman suddenly came back to his senses, only then did he realize that the sound of Celia's heartbeat had disappeared in the chaos just now, and he was so focused on looking for the box that he didn't notice it.

The phone slipped from his fingers and fell into the sky.

He rushed towards Manhattan, and without hiding his strength, Manhattan was under his feet in an instant.

Superman landed on the roof, went down from the emergency exit, and came to the door of the apartment in a few steps.His expression didn't seem to change, he was habitually indifferent, but he didn't control his strength well, and when he pushed the door, the door panel was completely cracked by him.

In the apartment, there was silence.

Only the faint sound of the game can be heard from the bedroom.

Superman walked in slowly, only to feel that every time he took a step forward, the blood surging in his chest spread towards the top of his head.

There was no one in the living room, and half a bag of potato chips was still scattered on the lazy sofa by the floor-to-ceiling windows.Of course, there was nothing in the open kitchen. There were only two cans of drinks that were opened, which the two of them drank together in the morning, and they were still on the table at this moment.If he didn't throw it away, Celia, who was too lazy to blend into the sofa, would let the two cans of drinks take root in place.

The door of the bathroom was half open, and there was no one there. The inside was clean and tidy, but there were two kinds of gray and white towels.But the white is crooked and only puts a side in front of it, doing whatever it wants.

Superman's eyes swept slowly, and he was sure that no one was anywhere.Only the bedroom with the door ajar was left, and the faint sound of the game came from the crack in the door.

He stretched out his hand, almost with the strength of his fingertips, and pushed open the door in front of him.

On the TV at the foot of the bed, the screen freezes at the interface where the game is paused, and the repeated game opening song is urging the player to continue the game.The bed is a mess, but there is only one gamepad.

There was no sign of anyone at all.

Even though, from the beginning, Clark knew that there was no one in the apartment, but he still had a glimmer of hope that this was a prank by Celia. In fact, she blocked her heartbeat and breath and hid somewhere in the room.

Superman knows that no matter how playful Celia is, she will never leave home without saying a word, and she will never make inappropriate jokes.Both of them understand what the other party's weak bottom line is, and they will never do such a thing that may make the other party sad and angry.

Superman stood in the doorway, his fingers creaking and blood churning.

At that moment, he suddenly returned to 16 years ago.He landed on a Kent farm where months of war had scorched the wheat-filled land.Blind to the black sightings of the human armies, he entered the farm house and walked through the cluttered, debris-strewn living room, but there was no one there.

He stood upright in the living room, distraught, until—until someone told him that his parents were dead.

Their bodies were covered with white cloths and placed beside the backyard wall.

They were good people, plain, ordinary Americans... and the only reason they died, and the only reason they were piled up in the backyard like moldy firewood, was because they adopted a child who was not accepted by the earth.

Because they are Superman's adoptive parents.

Clark stood in the living room, the old pain coming in the morning like PDST.He never thought... that he would feel the same pain as before again.

The phone rang again, this time, it was from the bedroom.

Superman walked over, and he picked up the microphone.

He looked very calm.

"We don't want to hurt anyone, including your girlfriend." V's voice came out of the microphone, "But you are different, Superman...your personal interests and power have overridden ordinary people and the laws you made Above. You personally violated the fairness and justice that you set, so now, you are no longer worthy to control this world."

Superman held the microphone in his hand, and he actually smiled softly.

"Look, V. That's the cunning of humans," he said. "All humans know you can hold Superman by the throat just by grabbing his kin. You want to learn from the old American government too, don't you?" ?I guess, you prefer the old government. Because you don't have superpowers, the US government won't take your relatives and force you to submit."

V was silent for a while.

"In fact, my family died in the war 16 years ago. Superman, when you lost your parents, I lost my wife and children." After a while, V said, "I hate the old government, just as I I hate you. You are all too extreme. Whether you are extreme white or black, it will cause an imbalance. You think that the world is either black or white, but on the contrary, the world is gray. You think you have brought light to the earth , but you don’t understand that the place where there is no darkness is the darkest place.”

"That's why you took her away? You hate the old government, but you used methods as despicable as it." Superman said coldly, "In your heart, I'm afraid I already have the image of a dictator, but I I assure you... V, if human beings dare to hurt my family again, I will let you know how much energy I still have left.”

"This is the problem, you have selfishness, you are not a real god at all." V said, "If you are really a god, maybe I will obey you, follow you and watch you lead mankind. But no matter how noble you behave, you Just an alien with supernatural power and selfishness."

"...When you chose to take in the intruder's daughter and start a new life with her without legal trial, did you consider what it would be like to be an ordinary person living under the shackles you stipulated? No, you didn't , you choose to enjoy the convenience of power. This is why I kidnapped her, Superman... Although I think you are hopeless, I still hope you can think about it, and when I contact you next time, I have a A bigger stage is for you."

"Wait!" said Superman angrily. "Come out, coward, let's face each other and let her go!"

"Don't worry, Superman." V said slowly, "We'll meet again soon."

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