The children were very satisfied with their performance just now. They felt very proud of being able to help their father repel the enemy. Their excitement made them completely forget that the previous firearm incident scared them enough.Although Patton didn't want his three children to be secret agents, and it would be best not to even be a policeman, he had to admit that he knew that there would always be a child who would inherit the mantle of his parents, and he couldn't stop it.

"The Ministry of National Defense is not only targeting twins, they want to attack all superpowers." After several conversations with Lin Lan, Barton came to what he thought was the most convincing conclusion.Once in S.H.I.E.L.D., Director Ferry also carried out surveillance methods on superhumans, so Barton knew exactly what the government wanted to do.But Director Ferry's monitoring is to protect and avoid disputes between them and civilians, and to prevent these special groups of people from being used by those who want to. At least he will not take the initiative to interfere with their private lives.

It is much worse than the government directly looking at people's behavior.

"It's not a blow." Lin Lan added, "It's control. They want to subdue superpowers for their own use and use them as their own weapons. The mastermind behind the scenes should be General Ross."

Button was silent for a while, and replied: "I know this person. He had a rivalry with Hulk in the early years. Nick investigated him before. In short, this guy is authoritarian and impersonal. I don't doubt his intentions at all."

"Why should the government think they can control us?" Pietro's anger was rising. "Wanda and I will never be at their mercy."

"If you don't listen, someone will listen, and they don't care if you listen or not. Those people will always have a way to make you submit, or it is possible to directly destroy those who don't obey." Barton's behavior towards the government is obvious. Quite familiar, "But who do they want to control this special force against? Could it be that aliens have invaded Earth again?"

"In the eyes of many people, we are more terrifying than aliens." Lin Lan shrugged helplessly, "That is to say, the government is already trying to prepare the 'weapon' against the Avengers, and I hope they have not succeeded in dealing with other aliens." Powers."

"But we have withdrawn from the alliance." Barton replied, "I don't even work as an agent anymore."

Mrs. Barton was in the attic telling stories to the children and putting them to sleep. The night seemed to come on very slowly.Her heart is particularly heavy, Laura knows that this small home is no longer safe, and threats may come at any time.So, after soothing the children to sleep, she wrapped her pajamas and slowly walked out of the room.

Lin Lan sighed: "That's why I found your children. Once the three of them are not ordinary people, what do you think those people will do?"

Barton's reaction was quick: "I won't give them a chance. This house is not as simple as it seems, with dark holes."

The so-called dark holes are some hidden weapons-like launching devices and traps hidden in the wall.Every room has such a design, but it is usually closed and not used.Barton and Laura made many enemies in the early years, and they couldn't guarantee that one day the enemies would not come to collect their debts, so when building the villa, they made a lot of clever props for emergencies.

"What should I do?" Pietro asked, "Can I go back to New York now? I'm worried about Wanda. Her mood has been fluctuating, and she doesn't know what is going on."

Patton said: "You will be arrested when you go back at this time. Don't be impulsive. The Ministry of National Defense came to ask for twins, which means that Wanda is still safe. So, first of all, we have to find out what happened to Tony and Steve. What's the problem, so that we can provide timely rescue help instead of blindly adding to the chaos." He said to Lin Lan, "You didn't answer Tony's call before, what was the result of the call just now?"

"It was forwarded to the voice mail again." Lin Lan put the phone on the table, "but he sent me a text message, which was actually sent by Steve on Tony's phone. They encountered a little trouble, so I don't have to worry about it , he and Tony will settle it and let me stay on the farm for a few days. Also, Steve’s cell phone is broken."

"What's the problem?" Barton continued on his own. "Iron Man and Captain America encountered the same trouble, but they couldn't solve it right away. I guess it will never be a small trouble."

"How do you know it's the two of them who are in the same trouble?" Pietro didn't understand.

Lin Lan explained: "Because Steve used Tony's mobile phone to send the text message, which means that the two of them are dealing with the so-called trouble together." And Tony generously lent Steve the mobile phone, is this okay? It is understood that their current relationship is not bad, or that they share the same hatred?

Until now, Lin Lan hadn't been too worried. Steve would never kill and set fire. However, when she later found out that it was another person who "killed and set fire", she was really shocked.

No matter what the Avengers are facing, she believes that as long as Steve and Tony join forces, there will be no problems that cannot be solved, and it is only a matter of time before there are problems.It's just that the people from the Ministry of National Defense insisted on what Captain America did, but didn't mention Tony, so this matter must have a direct relationship with Steve.

But Lin Lan couldn't guess it, so she was very concerned: "Clint, can you call Natasha and ask her what's going on at the base?"

"I called a few minutes ago, but she told me not to mind my own business, she's really a fickle woman." Barton was not very convinced, "When did the alliance become a secret between us?"

Natasha is naturally a heartless and ungrateful woman. If the time goes back a few decades, the current Black Widow is definitely affectionate and righteous.The beautiful girl asked Barton not to meddle in his own business, most of which was really for his sake, which further showed that Steve and the others were in a very difficult situation.

"There is always a way to know what's going on outside, right?" Pietro asked anxiously, "Don't we have to wait for the damn network to be repaired before we can get information? Oldman (old guy), don't you subscribe to the newspaper of the day?"

Button glared at him: "I subscribed to the newspaper, Kid, but it has nothing to do with current affairs news, it's about education." He thought for a while, then said, "Come with me to the warehouse, I have a way to restore the network signal .”

"Clint." Laura came to the stairs at some point. The light-colored loose pajamas couldn't hide the good figure of the former agent. Who would have seen that she was already a mother of three children, "Can you Come here for a while?"

"Of course, ma'am." Barton stood up and said to Lin Lan, "wait for me."

Mrs. Barton's face was full of anxiety. She rubbed her husband's hair and said something.And Barton kept nodding in response, kissing his lover's face and lips from time to time, as if he was making a final farewell.

Lin Lan leaned on the sofa and didn't peek at what they were talking about, because even if she didn't peek, Lin Lan could still feel Laura's mood.The two of them managed to get out of the front line where they could die at any time, and what happened today was like a warning that some external events were very likely to pull them into the vortex of disputes again.

"Let's go." Barton picked up the coat that was draped over the back of the sofa, "I've been a little excited since I got a job."

Barton's so-called employment in the field of course does not refer to archery. Archery will not bring them good news, but that he can use radio electromagnetic waves to receive signals from far away in another area.This is a very traditional radio method, which is rarely used by modern people. It was the most popular battlefield communication tool in Steve's era.

And Barton can use professional props to convert this electromagnetic wave into a frequency similar to network signals, so that mobile phones and computers can restore the short-term Internet access function.

He wouldn't count on a radio receiver to provide useful breaking news in this day and age.

If the "little trouble" in Steve's mouth really happened in these two days.

While waiting, Lin Lan received a call from an unfamiliar number. At first he thought it was Steve borrowing someone else's cell phone or a public phone.At this time, he should have responded. Unfortunately, he didn't, but it was the voice of another person that Lin Lan didn't expect.

"T'Challa?" Lin Lan asked suspiciously, "It's you?"

"Yes, it's me." The man said with his thick foreign accent, "I'm glad you are still willing to answer my call."

"I didn't know it was you who called." Lin Lan said honestly, but she quickly added, "But there is no reason for me not to answer your call, right?"

T'Challa made a brief pause on the other end of the phone, and forced a smile: "It seems that you don't know anything yet."

"Should I know something?" Lin Lan was very confused. She heard someone say similar things to herself twice today, which inevitably made her connect Steve's troubles with T'Challa.But after thinking about it, this kind of speculation is too ridiculous. There is no contradiction between them.

"It's not a big deal..." T'Challa tried to sound flat as possible, "You're not in New York?"

"I'm a guest at a friend's house in Atlanta." Lin Lan was indeed surprised that the other party would make this call. Logically speaking, after the last interview, their views were not consistent.And T'Challa can't come up with a whim to teach again, which is unreasonable.So she thought about it and asked, "How is the hearing going, is it going well?"

T'Challa asked without answering: "Do you want it to go well?"

Lin Lang paused for a moment: "I just hope that the final result can satisfy both parties."

Lin Lan couldn't tell whether the other party was satisfied. His tone was very calm, just like when we first met, without any emotional ups and downs.And on the phone, Lin Lan couldn't see his expression, let alone judge T'Challa's mood at the moment.

"Do you have anything to say to me?" Lin Lan asked.

"I..." Even T'Challa himself didn't understand why he called Lin Lan, maybe he just wanted to reply to her text message, the text message asking him "what do you mean", "I just Want to talk to someone." But T'Challa replied, "You know, I don't have any friends in America."

"Are you still in the United States?" Lin Lan was even more surprised, not only that he was in the United States, but also that this man would suddenly want to talk to him.

Isn't this normal?

"What happened?" Lin Lan asked.

T'Challa finally inherited the throne, but before that, he always declined his father's topic of power, because he knew that the old king would still be alive for a long time.T'Challa is not a very playful person. He knows that he bears the fate of the royal family. He has stabilized his current position after experiencing family infighting and intrigue, so succession is a matter of time.

He just didn't want to see his father gradually weaken after he came down from a high and powerful place in advance. He knew that as long as the old king was still in power, he could live a healthy life.

But T'Challa still wore the ring that symbolized the supreme imperial power, which was actually not what he wanted, even though this kind of thing had been coveted by many people.

The old king died on the podium of the hearing, and he was beside his father, but watched the old king die in the explosion.Not long after, T'Challa saw the photo of the murderer released in the news, and he suddenly thought of Lin Lan's advice before he left, "There will always be one thing or one person that makes you have to break the original rules to satisfy your selfishness."

T'Challa almost subconsciously sent Lin Lan the text message "I understand what 'selfishness' is", but he was not sure whether his selfishness was good or bad. He just wanted to kill the enemy, even if he used his most despised Even lynching is not spared.

But T'Challa knew that in the eyes of Steve Rogers, his selfishness must be bad.Because the murderer is James Barnes, Captain America's best friend, and he wants to kill him, but Steve insists on protecting him.

As a result, he became even more angry, and T'Challa vowed to kill the Winter Soldier himself, even if it might violate the laws of other countries in the end.He could use his immunity and other special rights to get away with it, though he knew it would be despicable.

But so what?

Even Captain America, the supreme moral leader who is praised by people, has no regard for justice. As the "Black Panther" who has guarded Wakanda for generations, he has no reason not to correct his mistakes.

However, the intervention of the US government made T'Challa very upset. He could have immediately transferred the Winter Soldier to the prison in Wakanda for execution, but now Tony suppressed the whole thing.It is true that his own rights are not as powerful as the Stark family in Europe, but T'Challa will not reduce his hatred for the Winter Soldier to die.

He is a king and a warrior. How long can the Avengers protect the murderer?

"It's nothing, I'm going to visit the attractions in New York." T'Challa originally wanted to say that he was in Germany, but he changed his words immediately, "I think you will introduce me to those places worth visiting."

"Traveling with the king?" Lin Lan thinks this possibility is relatively high. "New York is indeed worth seeing, but unfortunately I can't be your tour guide. How about I tell you the places I think are not bad?"

Perhaps T'Challa and the old king did have plans to travel, if the hearing was successfully concluded, but all this has become a delusion.The body of the old king has been sent back to the country. The reason why he still stays in the office of the German Anti-Terrorist Headquarters is just to find an opportunity to assassinate the Winter Soldier.

"Okay, of course, I'm already looking forward to it." The purpose of T'Challa's call was to know Lin Lan's opinion on Captain America's cover-up of the murderer. Unfortunately, the other party didn't know about it.He thought that Lin Lan, Captain America's fiancée and Iron Man's younger sister, would retaliate with the same hatred.The fact is just the opposite, he doesn't hate her, Lin Lan doesn't know anything, why should he hate her?

At least, his grief was alleviated a little during the chat.

"By the way, I've always wanted to know what your surname means." T'Challa said, "I mean your Chinese name."

"Meaning?" Lin Lan thought for a while, "Did you say 'Lin'? There is no specific meaning, because my father's surname is Lin."

T'Challa was confused by this casual answer for a moment.

"Of course." Lin Lan made an additional explanation, "The Chinese character itself is interesting, and it has something to do with nature."

T'Challa raised the corners of his mouth lightly, he was finally able to explain something to the old king, this was the answer his father cared most about during his lifetime: "It suits you very well," he said.

Lin Lan guessed that the other party probably didn't understand much, but she didn't continue to expand on this topic, but continued to introduce the content of the scenic spot.

The office where T'Challa was staying was suddenly pitch black, as if there was a power outage. He heard someone outside the office calling for a backup generator, and he immediately became alert: "Lin, I'm glad you can introduce these places to me. I'm leaving for a while, I hope you don't mind."

"So suddenly, okay, then, let's talk next time."

As soon as Lin Lan hung up the phone, Pietro picked her up and quickly moved her to Barton's laptop.

Barton turned the computer screen at an angle so that Lin Lan could fully see the news published on the Internet: "What happened to the captain is not a small trouble."

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