Avengers base.

In the gradually shrinking wind and snow, a red figure broke through the cloud and landed directly on the top floor of the base. Tony took off his red armor and strode downstairs.

"Welcome back, Mr. Stark," Edwin said.

Tony nodded and said, "Well, where's Karin?"

Edwin said: "An hour ago, Miss Barnum got into a black Cadillac Escalade in front of the base gate. I identified the driver as Bruce Wayne through facial scanning."

Tony stopped abruptly, frowned and said, "What? Bruce Wayne?"

"Yes." Edwin replied.

"Where did he take Karin?" Tony walked towards the elevator, but when he reached the elevator door, he turned and walked towards the stairs beyond the fire door.

"One minute ago, Miss Barnum's *blocked keyword* was still in the Pennyworth Building in Manhattan." Edwin said, "Do you need me to prepare a car for you? Mr. Stark."

"No, not yet!" Tony walked quickly down the stairs, "By the way, where is Banner?"

Edwin said, "Dr. Banner and Miss Romanov are in the recreation room."

Tony nodded and said, "I see."

Edwin asked, "Do you still need a car?"

Tony said, "Okay." After speaking, he pushed open the fire door on the first floor and walked along the corridor towards the entertainment room.

Soon, he walked to the door of the entertainment room, and when he pushed the door open, he couldn't help raising his eyebrows.

In the entertainment room, Banner was sitting on the sofa with a book in his hand and was concentrating on it, while Natasha was playing billiards alone.

Tony said jokingly: "Oh, Banner, Natasha, this is probably the weirdest indoor dating scene I've ever seen, bar none."

Natasha leaned over the edge of the table, kept aiming the stick, and said lightly: "I've seen weirder ones, do you want to know?"

"No, I'm not interested!" Tony said, walking towards her.

Banner took off his glasses, put down the book in his hand, and asked Tony: "You just came back now, it seems that you and Mary talked about the ring for a long time?"

Tony snorted and said, "That's right."

"So, does Mary have any new suggestions for this ring?" Banner asked.

Tony stared at the ball on the table and didn't answer.

Natasha hit a red ball into the table hole, straightened up and looked at Tony, and said, "Obviously there is no new suggestion, is there?"

Tony walked up to Natasha, took the club from her, and asked, "Did she talk to you on the phone?"

Natasha smiled, looked at Tony and said, "Banner and I can't help much at the moment, it's necessary to pay attention to the progress."

"Focus on the progress? To be honest, this will only make you worry about it!" After Tony finished speaking, he turned his head and looked at the balls on the table. There were four balls on the table, a black 8, a white ball, and two colored balls. He walked to the white ball, squinted his eyes, and blocked the black 8 between the white ball and the colored ball. He leaned over and hit the white ball with the club.

Snapped……

Crisp crash.

The white ball quickly rolled over from the black 8 with a slight distance, hit the colored ball, and pushed the colored ball straight into the hole, and it barely stopped on the edge of the hole.

"Wow, good shot!" Natasha praised.

Banner walked to the pool table, looked at Tony, and asked suspiciously, "Hey, Tony, anyway, you have to tell us what Mary said? Did she say anything about the ring?"

Tony stood on the other side of the table with a cue stick in his hand, looked at Banner and Natasha and said, "That girl is too junior."

Banner and Natasha understood immediately after hearing the words, but Banner said doubtfully, "Mary didn't... Didn't she say that she had experienced a similar case before? What is the Stone of Cain?"

"That's right, but this damn box is different from the ring." Tony threw the club on the table and said, "The most important thing is this damn box. We have obviously reached a dead end when we searched for its origin."

Natasha looked at Tony and said, "Mary said?"

"No, I said it!" Tony sat down on the pool table, folded his hands, looked back at Natasha and said, "Neither Mary nor *masked keyword* brother can find out the origin of this box, and now , The appearance of the ring has completely muddied the matter, in my opinion, what Rowena told me about Pandora is all nonsense, that witch is probably just trying to cheat some money!"

"Isn't it?" Banner looked at Tony suspiciously, "Doesn't it mean that Rowena is second only to Lucia in the New York witch circle? When you went to find her last time, she... didn't to be honest?"

"Whether she's telling the truth or not, I don't want to waste any more time and...rely on the witch's nonsense to solve the problem." Tony showed "I've had enough", "Banner, we need to re-start now." Check the box and the ring, I don't believe we can't use our own methods to solve my current problem!"

Banner nodded and said, "Okay, then first we have to go to Rowena's and get the box back."

Tony snorted and said, "Mary will come over in the afternoon, and I asked her to get it."

"Really?" Banner thought for a while and said, "Then before the box comes back, let me think about the angle from which we should re-examine the box!"

Tony nodded and emphasized: "No, it's not just the box! It's also Karin's ring." After finishing speaking, he jumped off the table and said, "Go ahead, I'm leaving!"

"Hey Tony!" Natasha called.

Tony raised his eyebrows and asked, "What?"

Looking at Tony with a half-smile, he said, "What happened when you went to see Mary today? Did she feed you a gun or medicine?"

The corner of Tony's mouth twitched, no, it wasn't after seeing Mary take the gun and medicine, but after she came back, but there's no need to tell them about this.

He nodded casually and said, "I'm going out for a while."

Banner took a few steps behind Tony and said, "Hey, Tony, I think you might as well consider asking Rebecca to take a look at it for you?"

Tony slammed the door shut.

Banner turned to look at Natasha and asked, "I don't think what he took was guns, but explosives."

Natasha laughed when she heard this.

Manhattan, Pennyworth Building, Café on the 90th floor.

Karin looked at Bruce, waiting for his answer.

Bruce was silent for a long time, and said, "I need to confirm... what the Hydra people took from your grandfather!"

Karin was silent.

"Did your grandfather... have anything in his life that he held dear?" Bruce asked.

Karin thought for a while, shook her head, and said, "My grandfather cherished only the Barnum Circus, and he devoted his whole life to it."

Bruce looked at Karin thoughtfully, and pondered: "So, let me put it another way, is there anything he never lets you touch, or you inadvertently discovered that he might be hiding...hiding something that you don't want to be touched by you?" know something?"

Karin still shook her head and said with a look of reminiscence, "My grandfather...he never had anything or anything that I couldn't keep from knowing, and our relationship was like friends." She looked back at Bruce, her eyes sharpened , "Hydra took what they wanted from my grandfather, does that mean... three years ago, my grandfather..." She couldn't go on, and couldn't go on.The sentence "My grandfather died, was it because of Hydra, rather than drinking too much?"

There was a look of sympathy in Bruce's eyes, and he whispered, "Sorry, Karin."

In order to get the truth and get rid of the hydra that wanted to make trouble as soon as possible, he knew that when he confirmed it with Karin, she might realize that her grandfather died abnormally, but he still asked.

Karin looks at Bruce, and when he says the word sorry, it's as if he's answering a question she hasn't asked.

No, he told her the answer in that word.

Yes, that's right.

Three years ago, when she received a call from her grandfather's lawyer and rushed to Texas, they told her that her grandfather died of excessive drinking. At that time, neither she nor her brother nor Uncle Sam had any doubts. After all, my grandfather really liked drinking. , Alcohol is his favorite besides the circus. He even collected a room full of wine bottles, all of which he bought during the circus parade. After drinking, he stored them away as collections.

Looking back now, she never doubted whether her grandfather's death was normal!

If there hadn't been the terrorist/terrorist/attack/attack by Hydra on the beach in Malibu, she might never have known in her life that her grandfather's death was actually the work of this notorious organization!

Karin covered her face with her hands, feeling a little out of breath, breathing heavily like a fish out of water.

Seeing this, Bruce stood up immediately, walked to Karin, took her hands and moved them away from her face, and said slowly in a low voice: "Karin, don't breathe like this, come on, follow me .”

Karin looked up at Bruce, who was saying "inhale...exhale..." as she breathed out.

She stared at him blankly, and followed him involuntarily. Slowly, she felt her sense of suffocation weakened, and she calmed down when she became emotional. She said softly, "Bruce."

Bruce stopped and asked, "What?"

Karin bit her lip, stared at Bruce for a long time, and asked, "The person you interrogated, she said, my grandfather was killed by them, by Hydra...?"

Bruce remained silent, looked at her with dark eyes, nodded for a moment, and said, "Yes."

Tears burst out of Karin's eyes in an instant, and she murmured: "My poor grandfather." After speaking, she finally couldn't suppress her emotions and burst into tears.

Bruce looked at the crying Karin, sighed, sat down beside her, stretched out his arms around Karin, watched her cry in silence, and had thousands of words in his heart that could be used to comfort her, but he thought of I let her know the cruel truth, and I couldn't help but hesitate to speak.

At this moment, Alfred's voice sounded outside.

Bruce turned his head and looked at the door of the coffee shop, only to see that the door was pushed open forcefully from the outside, and a man walked in quickly.

It's Tony Stark.

"Mr. Stark, this is a private coffee shop, you can't go in!" Alfred said.

As soon as Tony entered the door, he saw two people sitting on the sofa by the window. His face sank suddenly, and he strode up to Bruce and Karin. When his eyes fell on the crying Karin, a sullen look crossed his face. The look disappeared from his sneering face immediately, and he said to Bruce: "This kind of trick I don't even bother to play, I didn't expect you to enjoy it so much..." His words were interrupted by Bruce.

"Tony!" Bruce frowned slightly, looked down at Karin who was crying in his arms, and said slowly, "You'd better stop talking nonsense!"

Tony chuckled and said, "Really? Then can you tell me what's going on now?"

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