There was a faint scent of patchouli, fir and pine needles in the air, and Moriarty raised his hands and towered them in front of him.There are also notes of mugwort and mint, with a hint of sweet orange, flowing through the gaps in the palms.He rested his elbows on the narrow table across from Tony in a bathrobe and half-wet hair.After staring at each other seriously for a while, Tony raised his hand: "...can I go and put on the steel jacket first?"

"uh-huh?"

"Increase your defensive power." Tony said seriously, "I think my clothes are about to be caught by your eyes."

"Baby, I can't stop looking at you like this." Moriarty stared into Tony's eyes, his voice a little hoarse, "Because I remembered last Christmas...do you remember the dream you had? ?”

Tony's Adam's apple rolled with difficulty: "...it seems a little difficult to forget. But didn't you say that you would set aside time to talk about serious business today?"

"Yeah, let's talk about how to give me more opportunities to be a hero to save the beauty." Moriarty put down his hand, "I don't want to see the day when this opportunity is used, but we can always take precautions and have more protection .”

"Well... what are you going to do?"

"'White House'." Moriarty said, "I told you about Stuart. At first he was unwilling to leave your body, so he used ether particles to do it on your spirit body. Mark. After trapping me in the memory fragment, he used the power of ether particles to draw your spirit body here, so we had that good night... and by then he had left London for another the city."

"Ether particles can ignore the space and transfer the spirit body?" Tony thought thoughtfully, "Continue...but I'm curious why he didn't just trap us in the white house together, and then simply occupy my body."

"He couldn't successfully trap us without using the ether particles, and he couldn't bear to give up the ether particles." Moriarty shrugged, "I tried it on Jarvis later, with the smallest amount that would work. The unit separated the ether particles and explored the tricks of marking, but the only function that marking can play is that the spirit bodies can transmit information to each other and can pull the marked object into the white house at any time. The former is basically better than nothing, because later I've found that I don't have to 'enter' the white house anymore, it's already in my mind, I just need to dedicate part of my mind to control it, but now I find it's still useful...at least guaranteed I can know your message smoothly anytime."

"Technical means occasionally fail, but mysterious means don't." Tony sighed, "Okay... what are you going to do? Put a mark on me?"

"No, first you need to build a palace of thinking." Moriarty said, "You have to get used to keeping a part of your spirit in the memory palace forever, judge your own situation, and process and send information in a timely manner. This is the most The hard part, because you first have to learn to think about two different things at the same time..."

"Ahem..." Tony coughed dryly twice, his eyes wandering, "That... Actually, I've always done this..."

Moriarty: "...??"

"Multithreading, Jim, I thought you already knew about it." Tony tried his best to make his expression look natural, "Otherwise, how could I complete so many inventions and creations while having a good time... I think this is the commonality of geniuses, With a mind that never rests, it is because of this mind that we dare to become the masters of Banana Mountain, despising all the monkeys under us... Don't you? I have to make sure... Are you really Isn't it?"

Moriarty's face darkened: "Tony Stark!"

Tony hugged his stomach and laughed under the table.

For smart people, multitasking is not difficult, but what is difficult is that like Tony, he can let all his thoughts be directed, orderly and logical, and he can call a certain part of his thinking at any time, and can merge and switch at any time .Tony's mind is like a supercomputer, more like an advanced AI in human skin than Moriarty fused with ether particles.There is no sense of accomplishment in teaching him what to know, almost as soon as Moriarty has finished his point, Tony has completed a solid, new and blank memory palace, and self-taught it with his original one. The temple of thought is cut off.Moriarty had a rare feeling of inferior IQ...

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Putting aside a worry, Moriarty came to Hong Kong in late November.

Tony and Pepper had communicated beforehand, and I don't know how their communication process was, but Pepper agreed to wait for Moriarty in Hong Kong, and the two sides would meet.

Virginia Potts was a tall, blond woman of dry style, temperament, and good looks.They met in a well-known private restaurant in Hong Kong. The environment is quiet and secret, which is very suitable for conversation.

"Nice to meet you, Mr. Moriarty." Pepper's attitude was the same as on the phone before, polite and scrutinizing.She held out her hand to Moriarty. "Pepper Potts."

"Pepper—I wish I could call you that." Moriarty also shook her fingers politely. "You can just call me Jim."

"You are different from what the media described, Jim." Pepper didn't bother with the title, and a smile appeared on his lips.

"How do they describe me? A gray boy from the coast of Ireland?" Moriarty raised his eyebrows, "If I appear in front of you in that image, it will undoubtedly be disrespectful to you, Pepper... you and I We all know it's impossible for Tony to fall in love with such a person."

Pepper's smile disappeared again: "And I thought Tony wouldn't fall in love with a man before."

"The relationship between me and Tony is indeed full of chance." Moriarty looked directly at her, "But I don't want you to think that I got him just by chance."

"Tony told me the story between you two." Pepper looked at him without flinching, "and I think it's just a fluke that you got his love."

The steaming food was in sight, Moriarty poked the dishes on the plate with a fork, and picked up a piece of delicious meat: "This makes me so sad, Pepper...I have tried my best That's why I succeeded in pursuing him."

"——Tony took all the responsibility on himself." Pepper pulled the corner of his lower lip, "So I'm very interested to hear what your version of the story is like."

"Tony wandered into my world, lost all his memory, and was brought home by me. Then I launched a fierce pursuit of him. After he recovered his memory, he went through some things and finally entered into a formal relationship." Moriarty said indifferently, "I had an accident right after that, Tony almost died trying to save me, but at this time the wormhole opened, and he returned to his own world... Then I chased after him, and we greeted everyone The world opened up its choices...there's nothing new about the story, the only difference is that he's a superhero and I'm a supercriminal."

"So are you going to clean him up, Mr. Super Criminal?"

"I have indeed made some changes... But an old friend of mine said that although he is on the side of the angels, he is by no means one of them." Moriarty said slowly, "I think this sentence has a deep meaning Makes sense and fits the description of my current relationship with Tony. I'm a badass, Pepper, you can use all the worst words in the world to describe me, and that will never change, and Tony deserves the best praise in the world .But we are not natural opposites, we can also have the same goals and the same point of view...Love is for no reason, and outside of love, we can seek common ground while reserving differences. Fortunately, we are all smart people, and we all want and have strength to do it."

"But you can't deny that the relationship between you is deformed." Pepper said coldly, with anger on his face, "You come from two completely different worlds, with completely different concepts, pasts, and identities..."

"You are worried that Tony will be hurt because of me." Moriarty said softly, "But Tony and I are more worried about each other being hurt because of ourselves."

Pepper flinched.

"Pepper, we don't know each other well, but we also know Tony." Moriarty looked into Pepper's eyes, "I tried my best, but it doesn't mean I can get Tony, Tony chose me— —He is willing to give me all the trust I have given him, and I regard this trust as my rightful honor, and I will not hesitate to defend it proudly at any time. I deserve this honor, And will always be by his side - he is my angel, all my justice. If you believe in Tony's choice, you should believe that I am worthy of his love too."

Pepper didn't speak, and took a long time to look away.

"You are an orator, Jim." She shook her head, "But I really can't trust Tony's choice every time. I love Tony for a long time, but the more I care, the more difficult it is sometimes to understand... I and Tony Two lives seem to be what Tony expects, so I'm not particularly mad at him for moving on, we're going to get to the point of no return one day...but I don't want him to be hurt like this again , parted ways with his lover again because of different ideas...and if this pain is caused by you, it will be a bigger blow to him..."

"...Good girl. Tony is so lucky." Moriarty sighed, his voice soft and solemn, "Only you know how soft Tony is... and I will never let him suffer such a blow, I promise."

—not to Pepper, not to Tony, but to himself.

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