69novels Chapter 123
Chapter 123
"You seriously think so?" Carl replied, "Lexie, I'm not blind, I know what you're doing. Who would think that you just treat me as an ordinary friend if you throw me [-] million as a gift as soon as we meet?" ?”
Lex smiled softly: "That's nothing, honey, maybe I'm just fascinated by you. I'm just the one among your countless admirers who is most eager to get close to you, and all my efforts have never been imagined to be rewarded. "
"It's so uncharacteristic of you to say that, Lexi."
"Oh? What's my style?"
"If you like something, you have to get it in your hand before giving up. If you can't get it, you'd rather destroy it."
Carl laughed out loud, tilted his head, rested his head on top of Lex's, and blocked what Lex wanted to say with a kiss.
According to common sense, the next step should be the cohabitation life that everyone loves to see. Two people who have separated their relationship live together under the same roof. Eye contact and verbal teasing, plus some vague physical friction It was inevitable that the thunder would stir the ground and roll onto the bed.
It was because the possibility of it happening was so high that Carl didn't dare to stay at Lex's house.
Now he is relying on heavy disguises and Lex's Superman fan filter to keep the secret of his dual identity. If it really develops to that point, the two of them are naked to each other, how can they not reveal their identities?
Even if he could keep his glasses off then--and it would be easy, it's unlikely that Lex wouldn't recognize Superman's body.
Every day Lex stares at Superman's photos for a long time, okay? Not only that, Lex has not given up looking for Superman's hidden identity in the huge crowd. He believes that Superman must be hidden in the crowd, just like those mutants and All kinds of super humans are hidden in the crowd.
So after staying at Lex's house for two days and exchanging countless kisses and sticky hugs, Carl finally decided to say goodbye to Lex.
"Little boy scared of what's going to happen?" Lex smiled, leaning against the door.
He wore a set of baggy pure white home clothes. The open neckline exposed his slender neck and fragile collarbone. In fact, he was not so slender and fragile, but quite powerful. But in Carl's eyes, Lake There is always a neurotic brittleness about Stanley.
Maybe it's because he knows how powerful Superman is, and he doesn't hesitate to kill Superman's madness.
"A little bit." Kartan admitted frankly. He stood outside the door, looked up at Lex who was standing on the top of the stairs, and found that his behavior of looking up at Lex pleased him, "I think I'm kind of out of control, so..." He shrugged.
"It's okay, honey." Lex smiled, "Our progress has been faster than I imagined. I always thought that our ambiguous relationship would last forever."
"I don't think you'd let that happen," Carl replied, and Andrew pulled the car behind him and opened the door for him, and Carl waved to Lex, "Goodbye, Lexi."
"Goodbye, Honey."
The two of them were chatting and joking with each other easily, but somewhere else, someone frowned deeply.
Howard stared at the computer screen expressionlessly. The information displayed on it made even a well-informed old soldier like him find it difficult to accept.Yes, although he is a scientific researcher staying behind, Howard has always positioned himself as a "soldier", or an officer or something.
He really has a rank of honor.
But that's not the point, the point is that after hiding in Xavier Academy for so many days, he finally found some clues in the mess of S.H.I.E.L.D. An abnormal agent traced to a deeper place.
The answer he had been seeking for so long was a cliché.
Hydra.
It was Hydra again, always Hydra, and S.H.I.E.L.D. had been entangled with this organization for so long that Howard thought of them with a weary mood.
The hatred has actually been worn away, at least for Howard. A scientist needs to maintain ample emotion in his research, so there is very little that can be shared with other things and people. Howard left nine Snake doesn't have many emotions, but the part that makes him most angry is still very clear.
Because of Hydra, Steve's freezer fell into the Pacific Ocean, and the US Empire lost this loyal soldier and great leader forever.
Other things can no longer arouse too many emotions in Howard's heart.
The Hydra organization is rooted in war, and they draw strength and profit from the war. They were found in the tribal wars more than 1000 years ago, and there are traces of them in the world wars in civilized society 1000 years later, because the Hydra organization And the wars, massacres and pain caused are countless.
Howard has passed the age of being able to feel the pain of those sufferings. He is more and more like the iron-blooded and ruthless politician sitting behind the scenes in the film and television drama, sacrificing the lives of a few soldiers for a greater victory.
He no longer cares about "justice", and to some extent, the distinction between right and wrong is no longer clear in his mind.Light and shadow have been integrated in his ups and downs of life, and the things that supported him on the battlefield in the first place have gradually faded. He remembers those things, especially deeply, but he no longer regards them as truth.
The older a person is, the more he recalls the past, and when he recalls the past, he can only see pain and blood.
The happy times are very small, and the most painful thing is that he always remembers that those small happiness are also achieved by stepping on the corpses of his companions and enemies.
Carl scolded him for not telling Tony the truth that he was still alive, but Howard thought that not telling Tony would make it realistic enough.
And Howard couldn't trust his son, he never denied it, never hid from Tony his contempt for his only son.Young man, he thought, despising his son as much as he despised his childish self, knowing that Tony would be irritated by his attitude, but not feeling the need to change.
That's how they get along.
The way they get along is never the same as the way they get along with Carl.
The laughter outside the door loomed, and Howard quickly browsed through the Hydra intranet found by the spies hiding in the S.H.I.E.L.D. There was not much information to be found, but one of the recurring words still caused Howard's attention
"Winter Soldier", "Winter Soldier Project", these two words are repeatedly mentioned within Hydra.
Including the channels used by the Hydra spies that Howard hacked into for private contact and communication, the frequency of these two words is not low at all.
"This matter is not easy to solve, just leave it to the Winter Soldier."
"I'll report to my superiors, and they will decide whether to use the Winter Soldier."
"What happened to the Winter Soldier project? We still only have one Winter Soldier, and of course he's the best one, but it's okay to make a few less powerful ones first."
"Yes, yes, yes, the worst thing is to destroy the unqualified Winter Soldier at that time."
When Howard first learned about the "Winter Soldier", he thought it referred to a high-tech weapon. After all, whether it was in writing or speech, they used "it" when referring to the Winter Soldier, but as the Hydra organization The understanding gradually deepened, and Howard's expression became more and more serious.
An ominous premonition enveloped his body, making Howard feel cold all over.
Suppressing the discomfort, he stepped up his pace to search for the information he needed from this website, as well as the list of spies placed in S.H.I.E.L.D. by Hydra.
In most cases the spy's list will not be uploaded to the network, the identity of the spy will be destroyed by Hydra internally, and there will be no evidence to prove that the spy is a spy, only the contact person assigned by Hydra headquarters for him or her Can prove his or her Hydra status.
However, Hydra has placed too many spies in S.H.I.E.L.D., even to the point where half of the agents in S.H.I.E.L.D. In terms of information and materials, none of Hydra's spies has a clear Hydra identity, but if they want to identify each other, they must recognize each other.
… Howard didn't have the strength to be angry after discovering this fact that had been buried for so many years. He just felt that the real world was very weird, no different from a popcorn movie with no logic.
Hydra has gone too deep into SHIELD, but in other words, why hasn't SHIELD penetrated into Hydra because of this?
These two organizations have largely become conjoined twins. Attacking either party will cause huge losses to both parties.
Perhaps because of this, after the news of Howard's "death" came out, there was great turmoil in SHIELD, and the Hydra organization also held a high-level meeting for a long time to study what to do with SHIELD now. , In the end, they decided to stand still and continue to go deep into S.H.I.E.L.D.
Howard and Hydra have no longer considered what kind of disturbances have occurred at the top of the U.S. Imperial Army.
To some extent, S.H.I.E.L.D. is almost independent of the entire military and political system of US imperialism.
The military has always believed in the logic of the strong, whoever has the biggest fist has the real power, and for so many years, Howard's Stark Corporation has played a great role in supporting the armament of SHIELD, with an astonishing overall force Let S.H.I.E.L.D. have a very high right to speak in the military, and at the same time make it a thorn in the side and a thorn in the flesh of some people in power. Howard knows that the top US imperialists have long established a new organization to divide, weaken or even replace God. Shield idea.
What was the name of that organization?Advanced super human joint research team?
The stinky and long name is as ugly as the full name of S.H.I.E.L.D., Homeland Strategic Defense Attack and Logistics Support Bureau. Those high-level officials will never learn to name it.
Howard knew that most people, including the members of the psychic human research group themselves, would prefer to call their own organization "Sky Eye Society".
Regardless of the current development of the Tianyan Society (it is said that it has just begun to recruit people), the most important person now is what he has just discovered.
Winter Soldier.
Howard no longer considered the Winter Soldier to be a high-tech weapon because he found a photo kept inside the top-secret HYDRA archives.
It was a scanned photo decades ago. It was old and damaged to a certain extent. The corners were already very blurred, but the face in the picture was extremely clear.
James.Barnes, Steve calls him Bucky.
He is the best friend of Captain America, and he is regarded as a brother and sister. They fought side by side during World War II. Even Howard must admit that people have too many reputations for Captain America, and those honors that belong to Captain America, at least One-third should be attributed to the ordinary soldiers who cooperated with Captain America on missions at that time.
Another third should belong to Bucky.