[Black shield and white tank] A line of sea and sky

"Is it real?" Rumlow waited at the door, and Zemo stood up from his chair the moment he came out.

Zemo nodded, and then winked at the people around him, "It will take two days to cure him, and there will be a ship to Mexico in two days, and then you decide where to go."

Rumlow breathed a sigh of relief, and put his arms around the Winter Soldier's shoulders.

"Don't use him to bribe me or threaten me again," Rumlow said unceremoniously to Zemo, watching the back of the Winter Soldier leave, "otherwise I will also threaten you with your wife and children."

Rumlow stopped hiding and made it known that his wife and children were not dead at all.I didn't say anything when I first came here, and it was also for the purpose of repairing the Winter Soldier.Now that the goal has been achieved, he is unwilling to have any more entanglements with these right and wrong.

Zemo looked at him for a while, shrugged and said helplessly, "Oh...it seems that my tragic story hasn't fooled too many people."

"You fooled most of the people, as well as Captain America and the Avengers," Rumlow said bluntly, "but as long as one person knows the truth, the rest will soon learn the truth."

Zemo suddenly laughed, and said relaxedly—"No, most people would rather have a touching story than know the truth." He signaled Rumlow and himself to go away from the soldiers, lowered his voice, and Slowed down the tone - "My wife and children are not soldiers, but your Winter Soldier is a soldier. From this perspective, you are much better than me."

"Then you should know what it feels like." Rumlow said viciously.He hates being caught and threatened, which is the Achilles' heel of anyone in this type of work.

"I know, that's why I'm strong." Zemo replied, "If I want to protect my wife and children, I have to be strong enough that people like you can't threaten me. You are the same, what you have to fear is not threats , but because I am afraid that I do not have the ability to protect the opponent. But if you and your soldiers want to leave the battlefield... then wait for the next life."

Rumlow sounded uncomfortable, but he was speechless.

"You shouldn't be ashamed of your weakness, Brock, but you should be grateful." Zemo took out a cigarette and a jug of wine and handed it to Rumlow, "Those people we want to protect force us to become It's getting stronger, isn't it?"

Yes, Rumlow couldn't deny this.

He can live to this day, can live for this reason, has a place in the mercenary world, and has always stood firm in the many changes of Hydra leaders-this is inseparable from the Winter Soldier and the entire special forces.

Many people will hate the other party who drags them down, thinking that without the other party, they will go further and better.At least, you don't need to worry about the other party's danger all the time, and you don't need to think about protecting, saving, and sacrificing all the time.

But in fact, if there is no one who is dragging us down, who is weaker than ourselves but is always bound because of the direction of our hearts, we may even lose our motivation to work hard.

Trapped in comfort because there is no danger.Without motivation, you will give up fighting.

This is a process of moving forward with heavy burdens. Although it is painful, it has tempered two people.

Captain Hydra is no exception - the fear of not being able to control all the people he loves, and therefore not being able to protect the ones he loves, is exactly the same as Zemo and Crossbones.

As Captain America, he just has to charge.He doesn't need to consider the intrigue between people, nor does he need to figure out the ulterior motives of various forces.Tony will help him communicate with all parties, so as to give him a goal and tell him that it is enough to rush forward.

He believed that Tony would not harm him, so he confidently left everything except fighting to the other party.It wasn't until one day that Tony also fell down that he realized that the danger was all under the eaves, and he was still ignorant of it.

And now, everything is different.

Tony in the other world beside him is definitely not someone who can be trusted, not to mention leaving all those things to Tony, even if he is sleeping in the Stark Tower, Steve has to worry about whether the other party will plot to kill him.

What he has to deal with is not only to take over everything that Tony had communicated with the outside world, but also how to use his own way to keep the person next to him but always on guard against him.

But even so, he has to say that he is indeed much stronger than before.

The death of his lover inspired his potential. It took him nearly ten years to integrate into the modern society, but it took only a few months to do it.He never thought of establishing a foothold outside the government and competing with multiple forces at the same time, and he gradually achieved it step by step through his efforts.

He once thought it was important to fight side by side, so they must be a team, a collective, and definitely not alone.

But now, he no longer thinks so.

Since Tony died, he was literally the only one left.He didn't want to listen to the advice of his comrades-in-arms, nor did he intend to use the help of the Avengers.He was unwilling to submit the matter of finding another Tony through the space-time plane as a proposal to the collective, and let the collective give an answer that must be rejected.

Even, he no longer bothered to bring back the soul of the long-dead Bucky Barnes, and watched him fight and kill the Winter Soldier's personality again and again.

He was pretty sure that if the Avengers were to discuss the above things together, none of them would work out as he wished.

Tony will not come back, and he must accept the reality that "there will be no more Tony Duck".The Winter Soldier won't be reconciled, all he gets is a walking dead mercenary with Bucky's face.

At the same time, he will always have no motivation to integrate with modern society. He has no desire and motivation to explore the world, so he will continue to indulge in those materials from the World War II period that have become increasingly yellow, and every time he is caught by the government or When needed by the Avengers, he went to the battlefield like a puppet to fight—even if the reason for the war was not clear.

Those slogans that have been chanted are thunderous, but when he was Captain America, he didn't even think that it was just a resounding lie, and countless people had to sacrifice their lives for this high-sounding wording.

Not anymore, never again.He no longer wants to be ///fucked/// controlled inexplicably, and he never sacrifices himself for other people's desires.

And all this cognition, indeed, is due to what Tony in the other world has done - the Iron Man who took away this world.

Only when the stone was on my back did I realize how difficult every step was.Only then did I know that every step should be taken in the direction I want to go, instead of vainly and blindly spinning around in the wilderness like a good old man.

"What's the matter with the camera you mentioned?" Back in the office, Steve summoned the overwhelmed soldier alone, "What evidence do you have to prove that he tampered with the surveillance system?"

The soldier who thought he would be reprimanded by Captain Hydra for offending Tony was stunned, then thought about his previous speculation, and said in a low voice, "I don't have evidence, but...it's intuition."

"It's slander," Steve commented without hesitation, then changed the topic, but said again, "but if you can find evidence, it's meritorious service."

True, Steve doesn't really trust Stark.He just needs to make Stark think that he has as comfortable an environment as possible, and it doesn't matter what the fact is.So it's not that Steve didn't listen to the soldiers, it's that he didn't want Tony to think he felt the same way.

Now that the instructions had been obtained, the soldiers immediately searched the building secretly.In fact, whenever a thorough investigation is carried out, there are always problems.The key is whether the problem is big enough to be noticed, or not worth mentioning.

So in the past few days, Steve intentionally went to Tony's place for a walk.He didn't care about the progress of the armor, and only cared about Tony's mental state.

"I'm rested well, you don't have to come every day." After two or three days, Tony finally couldn't bear it and said to Steve.He is more used to living alone than the tin cans in this world, and he doesn't like to have another person always around to ask him how he is.

"It's just these few days. I have a task in a few days, and I won't be able to see you for a week," Steve said pretending nothing happened, and closed the Playboy magazine spread out on the table, "Just treat it as selfish." , not to care about you, but because I want to see you myself."

Captain Hydra is not stingy about saying this kind of confession, not to mention that it has to be compared. Tony is sure that the love words the other party has said in the past few months add up to more than his own Steve has said in more than ten years.

It's not that I don't like to hear it, it's just that I don't know how to deal with it.

"Where are you going?" Tony asked casually, after thinking about it, he felt that something was wrong, and corrected him, "Of course you don't have to tell me, I'm not interested."

But the Hydra captain didn't care about the answer, and simply said-"Sokovia. A strange signal was detected there. I don't know if it is the base of a terrorist organization."

Tony thought back, and he didn't find any strange signals showing inside Jarvis.But to put it bluntly, he really didn't pay attention to it. All his attention these days has been on the Wishbone and Winter Soldier that he has positioned.

He knew they were on a small island in the Mediterranean, but two days later they went from the island to Mexico.Presumably the small island is where the delivery will take place, and Mexico will be where the two stop for a short time.

"If you have time and are willing, you can use your smart system to check it for me." Seeing that Tony was a little distracted, Steve continued, "You know, with your help, the work efficiency will be much higher."

Tony responded briefly, indicating that he heard it, and then asked Jarvis to check the base station connected to the network in Sokovia, but within a few seconds, Jarvis responded with a cold and stiff voice—"No Suspicious signal detected, sir."

"Either Jarvis is about to upgrade, or you're about to make another trip for nothing," Tony turned the chair from facing the screen back to facing Steve, and closed Jarvis's search engine, "But it's always good to have a look, the machine is unbelievable, isn't it?"

Steve laughed, this is what he said a lot before, but now that Tony prevaricates him, he feels wronged.

But Tony had something on his mind, and spent 2 minutes watching Steve busy helping him clean up the table with distracted eyes, and suddenly remembered something, and said coldly—"I have a very personal question to ask you, You... you still don't have to answer."

Steve straightened up, put down the two changed shirts he was holding, and motioned for Tony to ask a question.

Tony organized his language, frowned slightly and looked at Steve, and lowered his voice to probe the tunnel—"I have read some of your Tony's information from Jarvis's storage system during this time, I really want to know what you and Tony have done. What the hell is the Winter Soldier...?"

Perhaps because he didn't expect Tony to ask this question, Steve smiled and asked, "Isn't the information in the newspaper news convincing to you? Or do you think there is something else?"

Tony raised his eyebrows, and responded lightly—"I told you, you don't have to answer."

You can tell by the look on Steve's face that he's happy, maybe because it's a way of saying—"You're starting to care about me, aren't you, Tony?"

Tony curled his lips in silence, organizing his words again.He wanted the question to be tactful, so Steve couldn't be sure of his motives for asking.

So he lowered his eyes, turned around on the floor, and returned to Steve's face after a few seconds, this time changing a more solemn tone-"Or you keep silent, I can Inference. Or you can tell me the truth, between you and the Winter Soldier... Is there any kind of physical or spiritual..."

Tony didn't finish his sentence, he left a word for Steve to take care of himself.

Steve did take note, and logically saw this as a good opportunity for clarification.He took a deep breath, his expression became relaxed, and he sincerely said to Tony——

"My Tony once cared about this before, but it's a pity that he's not like you. He never wants to ask. It seems like this will make him admit defeat, although I never think so."

Tony was noncommittal, crossing his hands and waiting for the other party to continue.

Steve was relieved that Tony cared, so the most concerning point also got the most truthful conclusion in Captain Hydra's confession——

"But what I want to clarify is—no, I have never had a physical relationship with Bucky, and spiritually...he and Captain America are just friends and comrades in arms."

That's good.

Tony secretly said.

As long as you haven't had sex, you're all set.

"Thank you, Rogers," Tony twitched his mouth and squeezed out a smile, as if he had really been brooding about it for a long time, staggered the topic, and concluded generously—"I am very satisfied with your answer, and I believe your original Tony will also very satisfied."

TBC