[Zhongyingmei] Who is my father?

It was easy to get Joyce out of this wretched place, but it was hard to wake him up.On top of that, it's even harder to hold down a maddened Zero so he doesn't tear down everything in his line of sight.

At least, even if Captain America and Thor combined, it took a lot of effort to keep the base from being blown into fireworks in the sky by the opponent.

Originally, the Winter Soldier and Deadpool maintained a spectating posture.But when Iron Man and Friday caught Zola, who was running around on the Internet, and pulled out what he did to Joyce from the other party, their attitudes took a 180-degree turn, and they were furious. The two Avengers pushed aside the way, followed Zero's masterpiece, and pushed the remaining ruins to the ground with lightning speed, without leaving any foundation. Steve stared blankly , even Zero put down the explosives in his hand for a moment, staring at them with blank eyes.

In the silence, only Lei Shen had a hearty smile on his face, and said with a thumbs up: "It's true that I have seen the style of demolition in the atrium."

"That's not a compliment, big man. If you watch CNN a lot, especially what they say about the Avengers."

Sighing in the headset, Tony interrupted the atmosphere like digging someone's ancestral grave, and suggested sincerely for the first time in his life: "Also, should you send me back? He looks real. is dying."

"..."

Since Joyce, the old driver, was down, the Quincy mechanism for the return trip should be taken over by Zero.As expected, he turned it into an airborne F1, almost drifting all the way and whistling past, crashing into the tarmac of the Avengers Building.

Before seeing the shadow of the Quinjet, he had already received warnings from air traffic control in several countries, but Tony Stark had no time to tease those idiots now.After throwing all the mails to the AI, he and Banner led the medical team to stand on the tarmac, and carried Joyce into the laboratory as soon as the plane landed, and thus launched a continuous battle. A full 45 hours of uninterrupted rescue and treatment.

Joyce's situation was trickier than expected.

His body had already reached its limit, barely supported by a little drug residue.After Zola's tube of accelerator was shot in, the problem of genetic collapse could no longer be controlled, and his body was instantly messed up like an avalanche.Even with the stabilizer samples they brought back from the base, it will take some time to completely solve this hidden danger.Coupled with the fact that Joyce is being rejected by his sleeping personality this time, the time left for Tony and Banner may be shorter than expected.

"And, it's not the worst."

Every effort was made to minimize Joyce's cellular activity to avoid the rapid development of genetic collapse.After waiting anxiously, the door of the laboratory finally opened, Iron Man crawled out from under the table with dark circles under his eyes, and said listlessly to the worried family members:

"His current situation is that the main personality, secondary personality and the body's self-protection function are competing with each other. Even if we can develop a stabilizer before it completely collapses, Zola does not know how to make Zero... oh my It’s not that the one in front of me is in an extremely unstable state, and his master personality instinct is likely to continue to attack Joyce. After all, as long as the two personalities exist at the same time, the hidden danger of genetic collapse will always exist and continue. There's not much you can do to prevent this from happening."

"..."

The Zero in front of him stood in place, his expression gradually grim.

"Then what should we do?" Frowning, Steve, who had basically pulled out the cause and effect from Zero's mouth, muttered subconsciously: "Is it true that we can only watch Joyce disappear again? "

"80.00% chance things will turn out like this." Tony nodded.

These words were like a ignition thread, instantly detonating Zero, the bomb that had been accumulating energy for a long time.And one second before he smashed Iron Man's laboratory, the president's father, who had a strong desire to survive, was possessed by a god in an instant. He quickly grabbed the water glass next to him and put it on the opponent's head, as if drowning Like a rising flame, it magically made Zero freeze in place.

"...I haven't said...but...well."

He and everyone stared dumbfounded at the empty teacup in his hand and the killer dripping water in front of him.Tony seemed to finally realize what kind of feat he had just accomplished, and he stuttered trying to renew his life:

"I... I, I, I didn't do it on purpose... I don't know how my hand is on its own..."

"But what?" Zero asked blankly, wiping the water stains off his face.And Tony always has the illusion that he has pulled out his intestines and tied a bow in his heart.

"However, we still have a plan."

The expression was numb in resignation, Iron Man almost jumped out word by word, and mechanically pointed to his brain:

"Integrating a divided personality."

"..."

In fact, the personality integration Tony mentioned does not mean that Joyce reintegrated with the main personality in his body.Although they are indeed one in essence, it is undeniable that after going through so much, they actually have clear boundaries between each other, and they can be treated as two people, and it would be wrong to kill either one.What's more, Zero is the main character, so there is a high probability that Joyce will become the one who is sacrificed, and Tony will not allow such a result.And even if he allowed it, the Zero from the future would lift his skull with his bare hands.

However, if this integration happens between Zero and Zero, it's fine.

"Your situation is quite special. It looks like there are three people in total, but in fact there are only two personalities."

Connecting the last wire to the device, Tony looked sincerely at Zero, who was sitting on a chair with a helmet-like object full of wires on his head, and explained:

"So, I will put your consciousness into Joyce's subconscious and leave. You go to retrieve the Zero of his body and integrate with his personality. In this way, the instinct of the master personality will disappear, and the control of the body will remain permanently. For Joyce. Our stabilizer is ready to do its job, too."

And because Zero is Zero in the first place, the so-called integration only completes the memory at different points in time, and there is no question of who devours who kills whom. Zero will return with himself, leaving only Joyce's personality in his body, and they will be two people in the true sense from then on.

"It's really a philosophical question."

Tony grumbled and adjusted the data, and said some other nonsense about "past me and present me". Zero didn't bother to listen, he just looked at the other end of the device, and Joyce, who was also connected to himself by countless cables, counted his tightly closed eyelashes one by one, feeling as if covered by dark clouds The sky looks cloudy, but when the haze dissipates, it is purer and clearer than anything else in this world.

He's going to bring him back.

It's been too long.Sleeping alone in the dark with no company, Joyce must be lonely.

"Okay, it's almost ready."

After adjusting the last item of data, Tony patted the helmet on the opponent's head, and he just made a thumping sound:

"Of course, I have to remind you. The thing I researched was originally to treat the doctor and communicate with that green guy... After all, the human subconscious is an unknown area, and it may be completely different from what it looks like on the surface, maybe People who you think are not hostile to you will be full of traps in your subconscious..."

"Joyce won't hurt me."

Interrupting Tony's chatter, Zero spoke in a cold tone, expressing his determination not to back down.

Of course, everyone except Tony felt that this actually expressed a kind of "if you push me one more word, I'll wring your neck off" sentiment.

"……Fine."

Take a step back and monitor the situation of the two of them in due course behind the brain wave monitor.Tony pressed something on the console, and soon, Zero felt a blur in front of his eyes, as if he was being pulled by something into an area he was all too familiar with.

"Good luck."

Before his consciousness completely sank, his last voice seemed to come from a distant horizon.

……

Joyce's conscious world does not exclude the arrival of Zero.In other words, everything about him is actually built on the foundation called "Zero", and he is also considered another master.

Zero occasionally feels guilty about the restraint he has on Joyce, but most of the time, he has to frankly admit that he is obsessed with this gaze that only holds him alone.Joyce was born out of his longing for humanity, and he is the embodiment of all his emotions. No matter whether it is infatuation or possessiveness, Zero is unsurprisingly and willing to pour himself into each other.

Fall in love with yourself.

It sounds so sad, like Narcissus looking at the reflection in the river in Greek mythology.But Zero knows that for someone like him, this is the only thing he can give, so it is so indescribably pure.

So, I have to protect him.

Walking on the long corridor leading to the subconscious, Zero thought as he looked at the gray walls made of memories all around him.

That was the only remaining temperature he held in this world.

The world formed by consciousness is not complicated, but it is infinitely varied.As Stark warned him, no matter how trusting the two are, there will still be blank space for each other. If you don't pay attention, you may be subconsciously attacked by the master.

It's just that Joyce and Zero are different.

it's time.

Such an idea suddenly popped up in my heart.And at the moment when this idea just emerged, Zero felt something changed in the whole space. The stone bricks under his feet disappeared in an instant, and then changed into another appearance. The field of vision that suddenly lit up seemed to be illuminated by the sun.He raised his head, and it was easy to see the figure with his back facing him in front of him.

"Joe."

He called softly, and walked forward slowly.

Joyce was seated at a round table that looked like one of the patio tables and chairs of some café.There were two glasses of mocha on the table, one in front of Joyce and one opposite, still steaming, as if two people were sitting and talking together.But Zero soon discovered that the chair opposite him was actually empty. Although the cutlery and fork were neatly arranged, it was always just an empty seat.

Of course he knew who was supposed to be sitting there.

"Joe."

Zero stood beside Joyce, watched him slowly raise his head, and tried to make a gentle expression: "Did you hide me?"

"..."

Joyce didn't answer, just looked at him quietly.And Zero doesn't intend to give the air between the two a chance to be silent:

"That's right, the one sitting in front of you is me... You hid me, right? Because you don't want to lose me."

"……Correct."

Even subconsciously, he would not lie to Zero.Joyce hesitated, but nodded: "I must protect you."

"But I can't live without you."

Kneeling down on one knee, holding the other's hand on the knee, Zero looked up at the pair of eyes that were exactly like his own: "If you disappear, I won't exist, do you understand?"

"...you'll let it go."

The tone sounded a little shaken, and Joyce shook his head.

"No, I won't." The hand he held kept exerting force, as if this could make the other party feel the mood he had been feeling all along, Zero said in a gentle but absolutely tough voice:

"Do you know what I will do?... I will frantically look for you all over the world, knowing that you will not wait for me in any corner, but still chasing your shadow in vain. Then I will seek death, break into Every heavily guarded Hydra base, waiting for a bullet to hit my heart and bring me back to your side."

"..."

Joyce's hands began to tremble, but Zero's voice still didn't stop.

"And Hydra can't satisfy my quest for death. Before I do anything crazier, Strange will find me and give me a choice that until now I thought was a dream...I have A chance to go back to the past, back to you, back to a time when my existence was only worthwhile."

"However, I want to watch you leave me again."

This sentence seemed to hit Joyce's weakness.He froze for a moment, then turned his head to look at Zero who was kneeling beside him, and said softly, "I won't."

But Zero suddenly laughed.His eyes reflected Joyce's slightly surprised face, as if he was staring at the treasure he had spent his whole life guarding.

"Yes, you won't." He said so firmly, his eyes sparkling with water: "Maybe I once doubted it. But now, I won't again."

Joyce lived and died for Zero.

However, he will also exhaust his efforts to come back again for him.

No matter how long the fate is, how many reincarnations you have to go through.

At that moment, it was as if the sun had pierced through the dark clouds.Joyce looked at Zero for a long time, but didn't find any reluctance in the other's face.Suddenly lowering his eyes, he let out a low laugh.

"you have grown up."

As he said this, his figure began to fade away like sand.And Zero has been half-kneeling on the spot, stubbornly watching the other party's slowly disappearing figure, with no surprise or confusion on his expression.It wasn't until the last grain of sand melted into the ground that he slowly stood up and looked around at the surrounding area that had turned from a cafe into a meadow at some point.

Not far in front of him, a figure was lying on the grass, quietly sleeping.The green streaks at the corners of the eyes almost blend into the greenery, like a nap in the afternoon.

Zero stepped forward and leaned over to look.

Not surprisingly, he finally found himself.This almost unconsciousness will kill Joyce's protagonist.