The top of fame and fortune [Comprehensive British and American]

It was midnight when Erica arrived in New York on a flight from her trip to Los Angeles.

Last week, the Parker family moved into a single-family house in Forest Hills. Erica returned to her new residence, which she was not very familiar with, and saw a dark SUV parked on the road, perhaps it was a neighboring resident in the community. private car.

Erica didn't pay much attention to this, she opened the oak door of the house lightly, so as not to wake up Aunt May who was naturally asleep in the middle of the night.

As for Peter, he probably 'ran away' again to be a good neighbor to New Yorkers.It has to be said that Spider-Man does seem to be the most popular superhero.

But Mr. "Spiderman", it seems that he didn't solve all kinds of dangerous incidents on the streets of New York tonight——

As soon as Erica walked into the house with her luggage, she saw Peter Parker standing in front of her, looking a little preoccupied.

The boy seemed to want to say something to her, Erica lowered her voice so that they wouldn't wake up Aunt May, "Honey, what's going on?"

"I—" Peter looked hesitant and didn't know how to speak.

It's rare, and even when he talks to Erica about his becoming Spider-Man, he doesn't seem to hesitate at this moment.

Erica frowned, and couldn't help thinking about the worst, "Well, it looks like this is a bad thing, petey, I just hope you don't tell me that you got addicted to drugs in college .”

Her guess seemed a bit abrupt, but it was indeed the first "warning" event that popped up in her mind-just last week, in the economics research group where Erica was, a boy who was originally very good, because of drug overdose died.

On American university campuses, 'marijuana culture' is prevalent, and at Columbia University, due to the heaviest academic pressure in the United States, the abuse of opium and cocaine is also emerging in an endless stream.

And everything starts with the so-called "smart drugs" for stress relief, but when tranquilizers, painkillers, and alcohol can no longer work, they turn to marijuana, and then cocaine or opiates, Until the abuse is overdose, the end of the road.

Erica even administered first aid to one of the fraternity's overdosed, respiratory-depressed frat members at a social 'frat' party at Columbia.

Fortunately, she worked as a licensed lifeguard during the summer vacation after graduating from high school, and she rescued the other party in time.

In the bedroom, Erika stared at Peter sternly, obviously not wishing for her worst guess to come true, as her economics classmate passed away in a drug accident last week, Erica seemed to be in a bit of a panic now.

Fortunately, Peter replied immediately, "No, of course not, I don't have any drug addiction, Rika."

In fact, after Peter was bitten by a radioactively infected spider and gained abilities, the drugs and drugs probably wouldn't have much effect on him.

But it's better for him not to say these things to Erica now, otherwise she might worry that he really plans to take medicine.

After hearing Peter's answer, Erica's expression softened a lot, but then she heard the boy say, "Actually, what I want to talk about is something about you."

"Me?" Erica raised her eyebrows, took off her coat and put it aside, folded her arms and looked at Peter, making a listening gesture, "About what?"

Peter took a deep breath and began to talk, "I have joined S.H.I.E.L.D., and just a few days ago, Captain America was invited to join this special unit."

Erica paused, and then smiled again, "So you asked Mr. 'National Hero' to sign your hero card?"

"Of course—" Peter immediately wanted to find out his Captain America autograph card and show it to Erica.

But the next moment he reacted again, there are countless times more important things to say.

"About Captain America, I accidentally learned something—" The boy looked at Erica with beautiful clear light brown eyes, "One of the prerequisites for him to accept joining S.H.I.E.L.D. A Jewish woman who came to New York and briefly joined the U.S. Army to work on intelligence deciphering."

The smile on Erica's face gradually faded, and her voice was neither cold nor cold, "Is the name Arlo Cohen?"

Peter looked at her worriedly, but he could only nod his head in answer.

Of course he knew it was the name of Erica's grandmother, and Peter immediately added to her, "The captain said that three months before he died in the air battle, the two had been secretly engaged, and they planned to officially marry after the war. marry."

Erica was silent for a few seconds, and then said to Peter, "Actually, my mood at the moment is not a huge shock."

Because in the past ten years, she has made a lot of guesses. After all, Arlo Cohen's initial intersection with the United States on the North American continent was rescued by the Roaring Commando led by Captain America.

In fact, this can be regarded as one of the romantic epic speculations-

The Jewish girl who was arrested in a Nazi concentration camp, and the powerful and upright hero who made the most critical rescue, although the ending ended with the hero's sacrifice, it sounds like a good story anyway.

In the bedroom, Peter was continuing to tell Erica the results of SHIELD's investigation of Arlo Cohen—

"In 1945, three days after the disappearance of Captain America, Cohen left the US military intelligence service. At that time, no one in the US military department knew where she had gone. The S.H.I.E.L.D. investigation found that she lived in 'Little Italy' in New York City , and about seven months later, Aurora Cohen was born."

Erika cleared her throat, "My mother did tell me that she grew up in a not-so-rich Italian area."

Arlo seems to be reclusive, living in Little Italy, New York, and hasn't even mentioned to anyone that she was once engaged to Captain America, and even her daughter Aurora doesn't know the identity of her father.

Erica could understand why Arlo did this. In fact, even Peter Parker, who was talking to her about it now, could understand why.

After Peter became Spider-Man, one of the things he feared the most was that his opponents would know his true identity, which would undoubtedly put Aunt May and Erica in danger.

And the revenge of Captain America's enemies will only be tens of thousands of times more than Peter's.

"I think my mother knows the truth, or maybe it's just a guess," Erica said softly about her mother Aurora, "she has a cold personality, but she chose to become a person who defends the country from internal and external aggression." Senior Agent."

Erica couldn't think of a better explanation than chasing her heroic dreams.And Aurora's heroic dream may come from the missing fatherhood in her life, and the other party is a real hero.

Peter cautiously asked Erica, "Would you like to see him?"

Erika was silent again for a few seconds, before finally replying, "I think Arlo and Aurora would both like us to see each other."

"What if he's already standing outside this door?" Peter asked Erica tentatively, pointing to the oak door of the residence.

"what?"

Peter tried his best to explain this to her, "Not long after I joined S.H.I.E.L.D., Mr. Stark, who was also invited to be a member of the 'Alliance Organization', investigated my true identity."

"So you became a lobbyist for S.H.I.E.L.D. tonight?" Erika looked at the boy with folded arms, looked through the glass window at the dark SUV parked on the side of the road in the community, and guessed, "So that car belongs to God. Shield?"

"Yes," young Parker replied to her guilt, "I'm asking S.H.I.E.L.D. and the Cap to promise me that he won't appear before you until you agree to a meeting with the Cap."

Well, this has indeed given her enough time for psychological anticipation.

Erika exhaled deeply, and then, she walked towards the closed door.

Holding the doorknob with her fingers and turning it lightly, as the oak door gradually opened, Erika saw clearly in the dark night, the symbol of this country, the hero of the world.

He was dressed in black, tall and strong, with blond hair and blue eyes, a handsome face, but a gentle expression, and blue eyes like a gentle lake, but full of guilt.

Steven Rogers is a world-class tactician and military officer, but facing the blonde girl in front of him at this time, he was almost at a loss. In the end, he could only say to her softly, "Good evening, Erica."

Erica replied with a smile, "In a little while, maybe I can say good morning."

Now Steven's expression became more nervous and anxious, "I'm sorry, I hoped to see you as soon as possible, but I ignored that it was too late, to disturb you—"

"No, this was one of the best nights I've ever had," Erica interrupted, her voice quiet and gentle.

Following her voice, Steven couldn't help being startled, he was almost a little unbelievable that Erica showed kindness instead of resisting dissatisfaction.

Erika's green eyes rolled for a moment, and she said to him in thought, "It's the first time we meet, shouldn't we hug each other?"

As she spoke, she opened her arms and hugged the strong and tall captain in front of her like a friend.

And when she quickly ended the hug, stood back to her original position, and looked up at Captain America again, she found that this Mr. Hero, who had faced the Axis powers of Germany, Italy and Japan and made countless outstanding military exploits in World War II, looked , It's almost as if you can cry at any time.

"Captain—" She really couldn't call out the title of 'grandfather' to a 28-year-old young face.

"Steven, you can call me Steven." The captain said to her immediately as if he understood her embarrassment.

"Okay, Steven," Erica smiled sincerely without any pretense, "It's really nice to meet you."

So the next moment, Erika saw the 'National Symbol, World Hero' in front of her again, those blue eyes that were as gentle as lake water became more and more moist.