The Witch's Bodyguard [Comprehensive Anglo-American]

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[Note 1]: The Zola algorithm appeared in team 2, that is, Hydra will calculate all threats that may hinder them and regard them as targets. It is a very forward-looking calculation method. Team 2's sky carrier Kiwis were also among those targeted.

【Rachel McAdams】: Kiwi's girlfriend is also a doctor.Coincidentally, this actress is also a couple with Nini in Sherlock Holmes, I don't know if the director did it on purpose~

Howard didn't know how to answer this question. When he was hesitating, Ma Linglong stared at him as if he didn't intend to let go: "Are you as familiar with him as you are with Steve?" She asked again.

Howard is relieved that Tony Jr. has found a partner who is perfect for him both mentally and physically, but honestly, Howard is not sure if it is because he is a ghost and Ma Linglong is a ghost hunter, the girl's His tact and ruthlessness sometimes stress him out.Well, he shouldn't think so, there might be a bit of girlish emotion in it, after all, Ma Linglong has always believed that as a father, he is not a competent guardian, and he really can't refute this.

At least it proves that Stark is really lucky to have a relative who is so protective of him by his side.

"Sorry, boy, I can't tell you much." Howard walked slowly to a chair and sat down. He stared at the light on the operating room door and prayed that it would come on soon.

"But you didn't say anything." Ma Linglong said, she took two steps back and forth, and then said, "Father."

Howard was stunned: "You just now?"

"Call you Dad." Ma Linglong said, "Sooner or later, I will call you that."

"Yes, of course, it's a pity, if Maria and I were still alive, she would definitely like you very much..." Howard expressed a little sadness, "About the question of Sergeant Barnes, still Not yet."

Howard's color became a little lighter than before, not very obvious, but Ma Linglong could tell that this was most likely due to the fact that he was affected by various evil spirits in the hospital. It is not a good thing for a righteous ghost: "I have no intention of inquiring about the secret, but you should be very clear that if you continue like this, you will not be able to reincarnate. I don't want to forcibly save you. Even if doing so can help you reincarnate in time, it will also bring harm to you after reincarnation. with hostility."

"I understand what I'm doing. About Sergeant Barnes, he is Steve's best friend. That's all I can say. I'm afraid I know him no less than Steve." Howard thought for a while, He added, "He's still the key to me staying here, not Steve, not Anthony, but I can't tell you why."

"You know he's still alive, right?" Ma Linglong asked.

Howard hesitated: "Yes, I know, but not all the time."

"When did you know?" Ma Linglong asked, respecting Howard is one thing, but Ma Linglong has always been concerned about Howard's partiality, "Did you tell Steve what you were hiding?"

"No, of course not, I can't tell him, I can't tell anyone these things, then I have to go. But I said, now is not the time, not yet, at least find him, let me talk to him I'll see you later." Howard looked irritated, the spiritual force field overflowed with his uneasiness, and the fluorescent lamp above his head flashed twice.He calmed down and continued, "Sorry, kid, I know you are for Anthony, I swear this has nothing to do with him, I love him no less than you, he is my son, the only son. "

"The Winter Soldier once tried to assassinate Stark, just a few days before we met." Ma Linglong glanced at the camera, took out her mobile phone, and pretended to be on the phone with someone else, "You don't want to know who is behind this operation Everything?" 【Note 1】

"Listen, kid." Howard said earnestly, "Don't provoke the Winter Soldier, let alone try to find clues from S.H.I.E.L.D. It's absolutely unwise."

"So you know who it is, but you can't tell, can you?" Ma Linglong slowly sat down beside him, "Then I boldly guess that this matter has something to do with S.H.I.E.L.D. There is also a connection between them, you want to hint me this?"

Howard nodded. He couldn't say it himself, so he expressed it in another way: "I understand that you love him, and you want to get rid of all the factors that may pose a threat to Anthony. This is also my hope. There was a terrible price to pay for this, and I don't want history to repeat itself for you."

"How did you die?" Ma Linglong looked at Howard suspiciously. She couldn't divination for the ghost. "The media said that you and your mother died in a car accident."

"I'm a racing driver dear... Wait, Maria will be so happy, you call her mother. She always wanted to have another daughter, but we couldn't have a child, and now she got her wish." Howard smiled wryly Said, "We were driving on a road with no traffic, less than 80 mph. But don't let Anthony know about it. He always thought that the accident was my accident. Anthony collected all the newspapers that reported our death. , I thought he was indifferent to us, or at least to me."

"He's not indifferent to you."

"I got it now."

Ma Linglong seemed to understand something, but it was obviously not important, and Stark was not so stupid that he didn't consider the possibility of killing him, he just pretended that he didn't care, and didn't think about it: "Steve will definitely find the Winter Soldier, that is, James, maybe I can get useful information out of his head."

"You'll have to tell Steve that there's a good chance Sergeant Barnes has forgotten about him."

"I reminded you."

While the two were talking, Natasha sent a text message to Ma Linglong's cell phone, which was an encrypted message without a number.

[S.H.I.E.L.D. was infiltrated by Hydra, Fury is dead, SR is on the wanted list, be careful]

Ma Linglong reacted for a while before realizing that SR might be the English abbreviation of Steve Rogers.As for Hydra, Ma Linglong knew very little about it. The organization that was comparable to the Nazis during World War II, which Captain America had been working on eradicating, unexpectedly reappeared in her field of vision.

Wait, S.H.I.E.L.D. is infiltrated by HYDRA! ?

"What's wrong?" Howard felt that something bad had happened, "Who sent you the message, I didn't mean to interfere with your private space, but your appearance worried me a little?"

Ma Linglong stood up abruptly and looked around vigilantly. She subconsciously came to the door of the ward. At that moment, Ma Linglong thought of many bad possibilities that were unfolding in the operating room.

For example, one of Strange's many assistants may be the "Hydra" with malicious intentions, and it is a complicated operation, and even Strange himself cannot estimate the operation time. If there is such a little disturbance, the consequences are really unpredictable.

And once someone deliberately murders Stark, this moment is the best opportunity.

"You stay here first."

After Ma Linglong said this, she recklessly used Apparition to enter the operating room. Before she was discovered by the medical staff, she quickly cast a spell on her surroundings to prevent Muggles from approaching.

The room was very quiet and bright, except for the beeping of the heart rate meter and the sound of the scalpel hitting metal, even the nurses walked very lightly.

Ma Linglong saw Stark who was under general anesthesia on the hospital bed. Strange's assistant nurse was disinfecting and wiping around the reaction furnace. The power had not been turned off. Stark's lower abdomen rose and fell, and he was breathing slowly. with.

There is no abnormality, and there is no suspicious phenomenon.

Ma Linglong breathed a sigh of relief. She stood at the farthest position in the ward, paying attention to everyone's behavior. She would follow everyone who approached Stark for a long time, and then came the next one.

More than ten hours passed, but Ma Linglong didn't realize it, her attention was all focused on Strange's silver scalpel.She watched him completely remove the reactor from Stark's chest, together with the metal ring that had been fused with the inner wall of the muscle, Strange was very careful and cautious with every cut.

The surface of the metal was covered with flakes of flesh and blood. Strange used tweezers to pinch out the resistance wire remaining in Stark's blood hole, put it together with the reactor and let the nurse take it to a dry place next to it.There was a fist-sized flesh hole in the middle of Stark's chest, and everyone gasped involuntarily when they saw this scene.

They couldn't understand how on earth Stark survived on something like that.

Stark was very calm at this time, he didn't know what was happening outside, whether someone was planning to harm him.Maybe that's why he didn't like going to the hospital.Naturally, it doesn't feel very good to surrender yourself to a group of strangers without defense.

Howard finally couldn't help it, and leaned half of his body in through the door: "What happened?"

Ma Linglong put her index finger in the center of her lips and shook her head. Others may not be able to hear or see, but Strange must know that Ma Linglong is here, and he just focused more on the task at hand.

Strange was not disturbed by Ma Linglong. He was a professional doctor. Although he had seen her the moment Ma Linglong appeared, he also showed perfect determination to remove the reactor from Stark. The heart is disassembled.He prevented the shrapnel from flowing into Stark's heart along the bloodstream in a way that the nurses and assistants could not see (ingenious magic). Pick out the grains.

The operation went very well, and Strange completed the longest job of his life, drinking only a bag of glucose with a pick-me-up for 68 hours.When he sewed up Stark's last blood vessel with surgical thread, almost everyone heard him sigh.

"Congratulations, doctor." The assistant said, "This is simply an impossible task."

"Nothing is impossible." Strange took off his gloves, pretended to move his limbs and came near Ma Linglong, "You have to believe in magic."

Another assistant said, "You mean a miracle?"

Strange shrugged: "Almost."

He gritted his teeth, with a tone of disgust and helplessness, and squeezed out the accusation he wanted to express word by word from the gap between his teeth: "You are kidding me." He said, "At least you should wait until the operation At the end of the day, you suddenly appeared and you know what the consequences are, what's the point of you standing here, supervising my work?"

"Doctor, are you talking to me?" A nurse cast a puzzled look at him.

"No, I'm just thanking God for allowing us to complete this fatal operation. Just continue with your work." Strange said to Ma Linglong, "Okay, now the operation is over, it's perfect, one month later He can be Iron Man again and save New York, what is he doing here, get out of here."

"You'd better let the others go out first." Ma Linglong said, "I'm not targeting your medical skills. If something unexpected happens, I can feel at ease here."

"Didn't you see that the nurse was changing his oxygen and preparing an infusion bottle?" Strange said in a low voice, "What on earth are you trying to do?"

Ma Linglong took out her wand and cast a spell on the room that Muggles must leave. Soon, only Strange was left in the ward: "I will do these too." She waved her wand again, and a few medicine bottles Hanging on the bottle rack, "I don't trust anyone now except you."

"Thank you very much, but you interrupted my work, witch." Strange is not a nice man, he is neither gentle nor very strict, especially for his subordinates, he is unreasonable most of the time.

It is impossible for him to allow the family members of patients to intrude on his territory, and of course no one would do it. After all, this approach is quite stupid.

But now, Ma Linglong not only drove away his assistant, but also tampered with his things here. He had countless reasons to condemn the other party's stupid behavior, and he should immediately drive Ma Linglong out mercilessly.The reason why Strange didn't do this right away was that he was willing to spend some time listening to the other party's opinion before driving Ma Linglong out.

"I don't know what to tell you." Ma Linglong said, "But I don't think you want to see Stark being assassinated in a coma, do you?"

Just as the needle was about to be inserted into the blood vessel on the back of Stark's hand, Strange suddenly interrupted Ma Linglong's magic operation. He shot quickly, and the orange light flashed past.

"Wait a minute." He took down the bottle of nutritional supplements, and then put his nose to the mouth of the bottle to smell, "God." He immediately turned around, locked the door of the ward completely, and even drew a picture on the ground. Array.

"Put away your wand, Miss Witch." Strange said nervously, he sniffed every bottle, and then took his mobile phone to make a call, "You may be right." Strange Say, "Don't worry, I can handle it."

The phone was connected, and a woman's voice was on the other side of the receiver.

"Rachel, I want you to do me a favor, it's urgent, but you must not tell anyone what you're going to do or who you're helping." Strange said, "I want you to refill a few bottles of potion, I have sent it to your mobile phone, thank you, I love you." [Note]

"You have a girlfriend?" Ma Linglong asked.

"What do you mean by looking at me like that? Why can't I have a girlfriend." Strange did the final treatment for Stark's wound, which should have been the nurse's job, "The few bottles of nutrition and anti-inflammatory drugs just now The medicine is not the concentration I want, and if those medicines flow into Stark's blood at the same time, his heart will burst because he can't bear it." He said, with a serious expression, "I don't think someone accidentally made a mistake, and it's still too late. Well, I found out, of course, I also have a little credit for you."

"I still recognize that nurse just now." Ma Linglong said seriously.

"It doesn't have to be her, but I will definitely start with her," Strange said. "We must move him to a place of absolute safety."

"I thought there might be no safe place anymore, that's why I showed up."

Ma Linglong told him about the situation of S.H.I.E.L.D. Coincidentally, after Strange became the supreme mage, an agent who claimed to be S.H.I.E.L.D. came to him.Therefore, Ma Linglong didn't expend too much energy in the process of telling, and let the other party understand the current situation in the shortest time.

Even Captain America has become a wanted criminal, what could be more outrageous than this?

"I know the safest place to go." Strange quickly said, "New York Temple, I think you are familiar with that place, and now I am the person in charge of the temple, Stark will be very safe to cultivate there. "

The Temple, the stronghold of the Mage faction, is located in New York, London and Hong Kong.

"You really want to help him?"

"why not?"

Ma Linglong thought for a while and said, "Then do you have anything you want to make a deal with me? I can promise you anything."

"You mean a deal?" Strange thought hard for a long time, "It's nothing special, so you think I'm trying to help?"

Ma Linglong said, "It's just my professional habit."

Stark had a dream. He didn't know if he should call it a good dream, but at least he didn't think it was a nightmare. Of course, when he was very young, this dream would definitely make him feel bad all day.

"Hey Anthony, come over and look at this." Howard said, pointing to a circuit board. "Do you know where it came off?"

"On your ass." Stark replied indiscriminately. It was really exciting that he would dream of Howard.

Howard was not angry, he laughed, and compared the green metal plate to the back of his buttocks and said: "Are you sure, I think it seems that you secretly took it out of my laboratory, and you plan to use it What are you doing?"

Stark had an indifferent expression: "That thing is a piece of junk."

"You really think so?"

"……not at all."

Howard spread his hands and said, "Come to Dad, if you're curious about anything else, you can try to take them apart, but you're responsible for putting them back together."

"Are you serious?" Stark looked at him suspiciously, "You never let me into your lab."

"Really, that's probably because I figured it out today." Howard held Stark's shoulders and talked like an equal adult, "Look at you, you are taller than me now."

The surroundings were both foreign and familiar to Stark, and this was his first home, a three-story villa in Washington, D.C., if not counting the two floors buried under the foundation.Since the death of the Starks, he has moved out of this place and bought a new one, which is Marbury's beach house.Never before had Stark dreamed so clearly of a place where there was nothing left but unpleasant memories.

"You really let me in?" He asked with some pleasant surprise. Stark, Howard's research room, was only used to sneak in, and then he would be kicked out after a few minutes. No matter where she hid, Maria always can find him.

But now, Howard not only opened the door of the research room for him personally, but also let him go in first.

"Since it's my dream, Dad." Stark said with some frustration, "Why is there no mother?"

This is not exactly Stark's dream, it should be Howard's dream. Ma Linglong connected Howard's consciousness with Stark who was sleeping, creating a dream shared by Stark and his son.

"Mom is on a business trip, you know, she sometimes socializes more than me." Howard lied to him, he missed Maria very much, because of this, in this false world, Howard didn't want his wife to appear, so that he I never want to wake up.

"Maybe I should try to get her back right away."

"Don't you like our father-son happy hour?" Howard turned on the stereo, and it was the latest single by Stark's favorite rock musician, "Just you and me?"

Stark is sure that everything here can only be a dream. Howard can't accept loud sounds when he is working, let alone heavy metal music like this: "It's weird." He said, "You never share your research with me. .” Stark felt that the reason why he dreamed of his father and here was because of his inner desire.

"It's my fault." Howard said sincerely, and he hugged Stark, "I remember when you were very young, maybe a little over a year old, you held the first 'toy' in your life, In fact, it’s not a toy, it’s just that you think it is.” He once again placed the previous “butt circuit board” in front of Stark, “This is it, if you’re afraid that your mother will snatch it away, press it with your butt.” On it, the result is a leak in the wire resistance wire, which makes you cry and burn your ass red for three days.

"God, this is so stupid!" Stark hoped that only Howard and his mother knew about it.

"Not at all!" said Howard, shaking his arms. "I'm so proud of you!"

"That's not like what you would say." Stark walked to the familiar equipment, and he stroked them, as if he had returned to the past at this moment.

"Yes, I should have said it long ago. I know it's useless to say anything now, it's too late."

Stark suddenly felt something was wrong, he couldn't tell, everything in the dream was a bit too real, he could even feel the cold touch on the surface of the instrument and the familiar metallic taste.

"I love you, Anthony," Howard said, sensing Stark's suspicions. "You've always been my pride."

"I think..." He turned his head and found that Howard was slowly disappearing, "No, where are you going, Dad, wait, this is my dream, right, I don't want you to leave me now, I have a lot to say I want to tell you, Dad!"

Stark woke up, staring straight at a beautifully carved flower on the ceiling, and the dream about his father gradually became blurred in his mind.He remembered that he was supposed to be in the operating room, and Stark didn't know how long the operation had been going on, but it certainly wasn't short.But this place seems to have a Hogwarts decoration style, and he thought it was still a dream.

He was about to do it when a white palm gently pushed the man back.

"It's only been a few hours since the surgery, don't move around." Ma Linglong said with concern as she sat by the side of his bed.

"Gimme a kiss, right now," Stark pouted.

Ma Linglong not only gave him a deep sticky kiss, but also entangled her tongue in his mouth for a while.

"The operation was successful." Ma Linglong let go of her mouth and said, "Now is the recovery period, and I will get out of bed in three days."

"But I guess there won't be any charming little Blu-ray flirting anymore," Stark said, "but I'm still Iron Man."

"There is no doubt that you are." Ma Linglong pressed the switch of the bedside table, which was a special button for calling Strange, and it was installed temporarily after Stark came to the temple, "I can create some other light .”

"When will we have those lights, I mean, just a kiss can't satisfy me." Stark finally noticed the difference in the whole room, surrounded by retro European furniture, "I guess this It's just your little fun, are we still in the hospital, right?"

"This is not a hospital."

"I remember you just said how many hours I had the operation?"

"It's a long story." Ma Linglong said, "Captain America has become a wanted criminal."

Stark burst out laughing, but he quickly had to stop because of the wound, until he noticed that Ma Linglong's eyes were extremely serious when he said this: "This is not a joke, is it?"