[Comprehensive] Road to Trench

I haven't seen you for half a month. Alex has grown taller.

"0.3 centimeters."

"What?" The little girl who happily jumped on Bucky who came back, was hugged by the latter, and was holding Bucky's neck at the moment, complaining about how bad the takeaway was, wondered.

What is [-] centimeters?

"You've grown 0.3 centimeters taller." Bucky said as he put her down by the door, let her stand upright against the wall, reached out and picked up a marker pen on one side and stroked lightly on top of her head, "Did you drink milk every day? "

Alex turned his head and saw that this time the mark was a little bit higher than before.

Really only a little bit.

"Yes, I haven't forgotten every night..."

Alex stared at the scratch, wondering what he was thinking.

After a while, she went straight to the calendar (from when he left home half a month ago to today, there are three marks every day, divided into good, bad, good and bad, and the corresponding restaurants, most of which are written It’s unpalatable, there’s one marked on Bucky’s back marked “Hell-level unpalatable!”) on Bucky’s back: “Uncle Bucky, can I drink milk for three meals a day from now on!”

"..." Are you going to take it as a staple food?

Alex's plan to replace all three meals a day with milk so that he could grow taller was rejected by Bucky without any surprise, and he was stillborn, which made the little girl with long silver curly hair unhappy—well, 10 minutes.

The appearance of the flat mouth full of grievances is extremely cute.

"What is this?" Bucky picked up the paper that was spread out on the table full of various calculation formulas and bearing design drawings. Even though he didn't understand what those formulas meant, those few bearings The connection diagram and design exploded diagram are familiar: it is the design diagram of his left arm.

"Humph!"

The little girl turned her head and said nothing, with her little face raised high.

don't talk to you!

It's a pity that this high-cold rejection gesture was broken in less than three seconds: Bucky reached out and picked up the little girl who was having a fight with him, put it on his lap, and picked up a design drawing: "My bionic arm design Picture? Are you looking at this? Alex, do you want to fix it for me?"

It was hard for him to describe his feelings. When he saw the design drawings marked with immature handwriting and the notes written beside them - he could tell at a glance who it was written by - his heart surged Some kind of indescribable emotion.

He knew that Alex didn't remember anything. She didn't even know how to turn on the TV when she was with him just now. Year-old children are more.

However, such Alex, in just half a month after he left, went from knowing nothing to being able to understand the design drawings that only professional scholars can understand, from the most basic model to the latest trial model. ...He couldn't imagine how Alex did it.

What was it that drove her to do this—no, he knew that.

He should know better.

This made him couldn't help but use a little strength in the hand holding Alex, so that she could lean closer in his arms.

To let him know that the treasure he got by accident is in his arms.

"Want to see the real thing?" he asked. "I think you can try it out now."

The little girl held on for two seconds before turning her head cautiously: "But... I haven't done it... What if it breaks?"

Her voice was palpably uncertain and unsure.

He touched the little girl's smooth long silver curly hair: "Then you have to be responsible for fixing it."

Alex is really smart.

She perfectly completed the overhaul and follow-up maintenance of the entire arm. Bucky clenched his left fist after she closed the last piece of armor. The slight frozen reaction that existed after the battle has completely disappeared. As flexible as the hand he was born with.

He remembered that when he was at the Hydra base, at least two programmers with the aid of high-tech equipment and computer AI could complete the entire maintenance process.

Bucky becomes more and more curious about Alex's past.

What kind of background and experience can create such a strong learning and hands-on ability?

She doesn't even need any microscopic tools to see a circuit node problem on a tiny circuit board!

"I didn't see it," Alex corrected him, "No, I can't say that..." She also seemed to have a hard time describing what was going on, "I don't seem to 'see' with my eyes, but Yes, well, I don't know how to say it..."

Not knowing how to explain it, Alex simply gave an example: "Now go two steps outside my house and turn right and there is a white puppy three meters away."

Bucky raised his eyebrows, reached out and opened the door and walked out.

He came back five seconds later, holding a white puppy in his arms - it was wagging its tail happily, and yelping with joy when Alex turned his head.

Alex's eyes immediately stared straight, girls are naturally irresistible to cute fluffy animals.

"It doesn't look like a domestic..." Bucky muttered.

"Leave it to me! I can tell if it's domesticated! Uncle Bucky, if not, can I raise it!" Alex stretched out his hand to take the puppy with bright eyes, rarely acting on the mind of animals The sensory ability was attached to the white puppy by her.

In the world composed of black, white and gray, there is no color at all. This is the world seen through the eyes of a puppy.

"Huh?" Alex made a puzzled voice, "Uncle Bucky, it... came with you. It came from a place you destroyed."

Bucky was taken aback, and looked down at the puppy in Alex's hand. The latter grinned, noticed his gaze, and immediately barked twice, flicking its little tail happily.

He thought of the experimental animals he saw in the research institute, and his heart skipped a beat.

"Uncle Bucky?" Alex looked puzzled at the person who took the puppy from her.

"It's nothing." Bucky took the puppy away with that iron hand, and isolated Alex calmly. "If you want to keep it, we have to make sure it's harmless."

"...What do you mean?" Alex asked a little uneasily after reading bad information from Bucky's words.

Bucky didn't answer her, but first found a cage in the house - the previous tenant left enough things in the storage room - locked the puppy in, and then removed him from the research institute. The materials brought out by Li were brought into the house.

Alex thought of something from his actions, she pursed her lips, opened the stuffed documents that were classified into file boxes, and looked at them.

Since Dr. Erskine's super soldier serum had a huge effect on Captain America, many people have been eyeing him.

The power of that serum is well known, so, the idea of ​​using this serum and using serum samples to create the same serum, so as to build an equally powerful team, is naturally in the hearts of those who seek power. come to mind.

But Captain America died in the war before the end of World War II. He crashed into the sea while driving a plane, and no one has found his body so far.His former friends Howard Stark and Peggy Carter have not given up, but so far, they have not found any plane wreckage.

The most direct serum owner disappeared, and the researchers who lost all samples had to find a way from other directions.Some of them tried to restore Dr. Erskine's research process back then, so as to produce the same final product, while some... took a completely different path.

In 1960, Edward Ashford and Oswell E. Spencer, the sixth-generation heirs of Ashford, discovered a virus from the plant "sun ladder" during paleontological research, and they named it the ancestor virus .

"Well, the T-virus created by combining the virus extracted from the plant 'sun ladder' with the leech DNA... the ultimate goal is for biological weapons?" Alex's reading speed was very fast, almost crashing the information It turned over.

There are quite a lot of bioscience-related parts in the materials obtained from Hydra before, so reading the materials this time is not very difficult for her-at least this time she can understand the experimental reports written on it and The results of the experiment process, instead of being confused like when I got the Hydra materials.

"You missed this: secondary infection." Bucky pointed the key point to her, "The body fluids of all test subjects contain a large amount of virus, which is highly infectious, and all test subjects have only one infection after infection." In the end, no one is spared."

"But it looks completely fine!" Alex argued, "Maybe they haven't had time to experiment on it yet!"

"Alex," Bucky called her name gently, "do you remember how it came out of the lab when you saw it just now?"

Although he didn't see the puppy coming out, but thinking about it now, he can almost understand it.

Alex opened his mouth, and the little girl who couldn't tell a lie lowered her head dejectedly, not speaking.

Bucky held her in his arms, patted her on the back reassuringly, then let her go and went outside to sort out the car.

He needs to take this puppy away.

The white puppy still in the cage was confused and didn't know what happened, but when the little girl turned her head to look at it, it still followed its instinct and barked happily at her. The tail wags happily.

Alex crouched in front of the cage, wanting to touch it, but the cold iron cage blocked his outstretched hand, and finally he could only put his hand on the cage.

"If only the virus on your body wouldn't catch it..." she murmured.

The white puppy whined softly. It couldn't understand what the girl was saying, but it saw a very wonderful scene: the hand on the cage above its head, after she finished speaking, had a tiny Spots of light floated down from the palm of his hand, like snowflakes, falling lightly on it.

"Ah?" The puppy tilted his head, looking at the falling snowflakes suspiciously. The snowflakes were getting closer and closer, so close that he could see the mysterious lines inside the snowflakes that he couldn't understand.

This snowflake floated into its body.

The white puppy blinked suspiciously.

When Bucky came in, the little girl who was fine when he went out passed out unconsciously, her long silver curly hair scattered all over the floor.