[Zhongyingmei] Who is my father?

Everything turned upside down just at that moment.

At the same time that the helicopter smashed through the outer wall of the Avengers Building, the torn glass fragments and gravel rushed towards the face like a violent storm, and the entire cabin also capsized instantly, making it impossible for the two of them to stabilize their bodies.Seeing that Zero, who was closer to the joystick than himself, was about to be submerged by blade-like broken glass, Joyce immediately pulled him into his arms, fell to the ground following the inertia, and covered his surprised and flustered face with his right hand.

'Clatter——'

"Joe!!"

The pain of being torn from the back came along with Zero's terrified roar, Joyce let out a muffled grunt, his hands on the ground couldn't help but soften, and almost put all his weight on Zero directly.

And when he wanted to straighten up a little bit, Zero suddenly pressed him tighter against himself with force, as if he wanted to crush him so directly and rub it into his body.

At the same time, the broken wing of the helicopter almost brushed the back of Joyce's head.It is conceivable that if Zero was half a second slower, half of Joyce's head would probably be chopped off.

"Thanks……"

Smiling, he said this to Zero, his voice muffled by being buried in the other's chest.Joyce felt that the world around him finally stopped spinning, and there were many noisy and indistinct shouts from outside the cabin. He was moving his right hand from protecting Zero’s face, and he heard the sound of glass shards falling to the ground. I am glad that my choice is completely correct.

Except when he looked up and saw Zero's expression at the moment.

"how?"

My eyes began to be a little blurry, as if I was struggling to see the world in a half-dream and half-awake state.Joyce didn't know if he tried to curl his mouth, but he could feel that Zero's hand on his back was slowly lifted, and at the same time, there seemed to be some warm liquid dripping from his collar into his own neck, filled the air with a pungent smell of blood.

Zero opened his eyes wide, even in the darkness where the light was blocked, he could clearly see the blood dripping from between his fingers.

"Joyce!!"

His protagonist rarely calls his full name like this, and Joyce sounds a little fresh, but he can't miss the deep anger and fear contained in it.He knew very well that if he hadn't been tied into a hedgehog, Zero would definitely make him unable to eat, but now, at the moment when he was about to fall into obsession, he laughed instead, and slowly closed his eyes, covering his eyes. Hold back some emotions that surged in your eyes.

"My God...Joyce?...how did you get yourself like this?..."

In the haze, there seemed to be the sound of mechanical operation, the sound of cutting metal shells, and the voice of Tony Stark mixed together, making it extremely noisy.But soon, these voices disappeared like a breeze, and the whole world was only left with thick and colorful darkness, dragging him into the seabed where he could not see his fingers.

Joyce fell into a deep sleep.

He seems to have had a dream.

In the dream, it was still the villa that Zero yearned for but eventually burned down.After retrieving his own memory from number four, Joyce thought of its appearance countless times, and remembered the tiny emotions when Zero experienced those human fireworks for the first time when he was not yet born in an independent personality.That was all the expectations of a killer who was made as a killing machine, and it was also the original answer to why 'Joyce' existed. Even if he had been forgotten for many years, he would always appear in front of him again in the end.

'I didn't expect that it would be you who killed me in the end. '

The astonishment and uneasiness of the mission target seemed to ring in his ears, and a kind of self-deprecation that should not exist but really appeared in his eyes was brewing. Joyce stood behind the trembling phantom of Zero in his memory, silently replaying it in his dream with everything.And some doubts that had been rooted in the heart for a long time also broke out.

Although technically the same person, 'Joyce' has always been aware that he and Zero are not the same.

He was born out of Zero's desire for humanity, which also means that he is more likely to perceive some undercurrents hidden in humanity than the other party.Maybe Zero didn't think there was anything wrong with the genetic engineer he killed, but when Joyce really recalled everything at that time, he could keenly feel the indescribable subtleties.

Why, before that person died, he looked at him with such obvious resignation and understanding?

Why, Zero, who has never been shaken by why, would have such a fatal crack in that mission?

And why, after the target enters S.H.I.E.L.D., Pierce has a lot of opportunities to kill him, but why should he send Zero to complete this untimely assassination at that time?

Joyce had a hunch that what he saw now was not just the whole of this mission.

And that, perhaps, is what Zero said, the reason why the future self will choose to abandon the main personality and disappear after recovering this memory.

Everything is still a mess, but everything has been vaguely connected by an answer.Joyce watched all the scenery around him collapse and weather like quicksand, embracing the light from the present world, and felt something kept falling in his stomach.

He opened his eyes.

This was not a room Joyce was familiar with, and the furnishings were very unfamiliar, but it did give people a very reassuring feeling.He moved his hands and felt a tingling pain on the back of his hand. When he turned his head to look, he found that his only left hand, which was still flesh and blood, had been inserted with a needle, and he was injecting some medicine into his body drop by drop.

Joyce paused, reaching out to pull out the needle.But before he touched the needle, a familiar female voice suddenly sounded from the ceiling, interrupting his movements.

"I suggest you not to give up the infusion now, Mr. Joyce." The voice said so politely: "I assure you, there is nothing in it that is harmful to your body. On the contrary, your current condition really requires supplementation energy of."

"……Friday?"

Recognizing that this voice was the AI ​​he often heard around Iron Man, Joyce hesitated for a moment, but took his hand back, then propped himself up, sat on the bed and looked around: "Is this the Avengers Building? How long have I been asleep? Where is the man who came with me?"

"This is the Avengers Tower, sir."

Friday's mechanical voice replied politely: "As for the rest, Mr. Stark will answer for you personally."

Before he finished speaking, the door of the room slid open automatically, and in came a short man whom Joyce hadn't seen for a long time but still looked familiar.

"Yo, are you awake?"

Sitting down next to the other party's bed very familiarly, Tony Stark raised his legs and was still wearing a T-shirt stained with engine oil. It was obvious that he had just come from the laboratory: "Fifteen hours, if you don't wake up, I will order A coffin is taking you to the cemetery."

"I slept so long?"

Frowning, he was very surprised by the number given by Iron Man.Joyce moved his shoulders and could feel that the wound on his back hadn't fully healed.This is almost impossible for the healing ability he should have, and with only this degree of injury, there is no need for him to be unconscious for such a long time.

"Did you mix anything in the medicine?" He glanced at Tony suspiciously.Although he asked this question on his lips, a certain corner of his heart already had a faint guess.

"Although you bumped into my building, I don't have the heart to hold a grudge against you like this."

Rolling his eyes, Tony gave Joyce a look of "Don't you have any clues in your heart?" He was very dissatisfied with his doubts: "You don't know that something is wrong with your own body?"

……Of course I know.

Thinking of the double dose of the gene stabilizer on the helicopter, Joyce shrugged and did not speak.And Tony didn't seem to be in a good mood, staring at Joyce hard, as if he really wanted to rush up and bite him.

"You made yourself like this and smashed my outer wall. Have you considered other people's feelings?"

Iron Man snorted coldly: "And he's so capable, he crashed directly into my laboratory... Do you know how much effort it will take to get rid of that brat who looks like you, and take you to another place to settle down? ?”

I feel that I will never forget that scene for at least a month.The thought of Tony squinting for a moment before the lab crashes into an out-of-control helicopter feels like shit.And when Friday told him that the person inside was probably Joyce, and that he was wearing armor and tearing open the obstructing cabin shell to save people, Tony had to admit that he was indeed petrified by Joyce's blood. , so that he didn't have time to be surprised what happened to the suspected twin Zero who was exactly the same as him, so he called the medical team non-stop to check whether the other party was dead or not.

"To be honest, I really thought you might be dying." Looking at him coolly, the CEO's father said angrily, "Let's not say that you looked like a scene from a ghost movie, the one who came with you The kid went crazy like that, it's like you lost your temper, and he smashed the remaining half of my lab."

So much so that in order to heal Joyce, he had to fight Zero first, almost scrapping a set of armor.In the end, Dr. Banner, who was with him at the time, was almost involved, and Hulk was completely bald in the Avengers Building.

"Shouldn't I need to pay for it...?" Thinking about it now, it seems that the impact of crashing into someone's building is really not good.Joyce asked this carefully, and decided that if Tony nodded, he would shoot Zero here to pay off the debt.

"I never expect things that are beyond your ability." Tony rolled his eyes: "There are not many insurance companies that are willing to let me insure."

"……Oh."

He nodded and gave the other party a clear look.Joyce sat on the bed for a while, and then remembered a question that had been on his mind since he woke up: "Where is Zero? The one who beat you up."

"I wasn't beaten by him!" The CEO's father immediately retorted angrily.When it came to Zero, Joyce always felt that his expression seemed a little ugly, maybe it was an illusion.

"That guy was so fussy, I gave him a sedative and he'll wake up in about 10 minutes."

Looking down at the watch on his wrist, Tony raised his eyelids and stared hard at Joyce, as if he was about to punch a hole in his face:

"So, I'll give you 10 minutes. You'd better explain everything clearly, or I'll put you and Hulk in a cage."

Joyce: "..."

Oh.