[Comprehensive] How to raise a robot baby

It was sunset when Steve and his party arrived in the suburbs of Las Vegas.

The setting sun that is about to sink on the horizon renders a magnificent sunset glow.

The yellow afterglow of the setting sun is scattered on the criss-crossing Gobi Desert. Looking around, the whole Gobi seems to be coated with a layer of gold leaf.

Surrounded by large expanses of desert, brown-red soil, light green, almost dry land, fragile rock formations, hillsides can be seen one after another not far away, and the dam seen in the low sky just now is already [-] meters away. quite a distance.

The surrounding sky had begun to dim, and Steve only took the little bear outside for a circle.

This location was obviously carefully selected by the baby. It was deserted and uninhabited, with the bare hillside as a cover, so it was not easy to be found.

They still spent the night on the plane that night. Early the next morning, a group of them drove a Land Rover and went into the city pretending to be self-driving tourists.

Las Vegas in the early morning is not very lively. There are colorful buildings everywhere. There are no strange lights, but the colorful buildings are strangely integrated together, showing the tolerance and joy of this city.

Most of the hotels in Las Vegas have a casino on the lower floor and a hotel on the upper floor. The biggest feature is that slot machines are everywhere, and there are dizzying casinos and hotels on a road.

Also as seniors in their 90s, Captain and Winter Soldier are actually here for the first time. Although they have no ambitions, they have been passing through such card tables and gambling tables. It is impossible to say that they are not eager to try. .

Bucky is not too interested in the slot machine, which is a game that just pulls the handle lever casually and plays more luck than probability. Instead, he expressed interest in many new games on the gaming table that he has never seen before. Unfortunately, he overestimated his body a bit. Although he has recovered well, he is already mentally exhausted.

The three of them checked in and went to the room. As soon as Bucky went to the room, he consciously lay down on the big soft bed, and it was already three o'clock in the afternoon when he woke up.

"How are you?"

Seeing someone wake up, Steve walked up to Bucky.

"It's okay, it doesn't have much impact." His hands and feet have recovered a lot, and there is no problem with his movements.

Steve had already prepared some food for the man, and Bucky was naturally very hungry at this time, but while eating, the man thought of the casino downstairs, "By the way, you just went down to play for a while ?"

Steve shook his head: "No, I... I'm not very good at playing."

Bucky raised his eyebrows: "Just look at it."

Steve is ashamed to say he can't even play a slot machine.

"Where's that girl named Carter?" Bucky remembered that the baby was gone. "Won't you be abducted?"

"She's in another room." The captain handed Bucky a tissue and asked him to wipe the sauce from the corner of his mouth.

Bucky was eating happily, pretending not to see Steve's movements, and Steve wiped him off.

"She is so small, can she have a room by herself?" Bucky doubted.

In fact, Steve also doubted this problem, but the baby's life has improved by leaps and bounds recently, and it feels okay.

The two of them chatted one after another, because they were going to eat at the buffet in the evening, so Bucky didn't eat much.

"So what the hell are we here for?" Isn't it just food and drink?

Steve said uncertainly, "Fighting monsters?"

There was a knock on the door, but the sound came from the door in the room.

"Uncle Steve, I'm here, open the door for me." The baby called the two from behind the door.

The baby's room is next to Steve and Bucky's room. In fact, there are two doors between the two guest rooms. As long as both sides open their own locks, they can enter each other's room at will.

Steve hurried to open the door for the girl, and the baby hugged Steve's lap as soon as he entered.

"Uncle Steve, my room is so big, can you sleep with me first at night, and then come back to sleep?"

Steve: "..."

The room was obviously chosen by the girl herself.

She was very satisfied with her room just now, and she didn't show any fear at all.

Why did the style of painting change so quickly after only two hours? What's wrong? !

"You don't look like you're scared?" Bucky poked at the baby mercilessly.

The baby opened his eyes seriously, and lowered his voice: "It is said that this hotel is haunted."

Steve, Bucky: "..."

"What on earth are we here for?" Bucky looked at Steve.

Steve spread his hands, "Just get used to it, she is learning how to be a successful brat."

Bucky: "..."

The baby smiled: "I tell you a good news, we can rest for a while these few days."

Steve: "?"

The baby smiled brightly: "As long as we don't move, the Hydra people won't be able to find us."

Bucky still doesn't know much about the baby's abilities, and hearing her say that now, he feels inexplicably inconsistent.

"A Hydra person?"

"There are a lot of people." The baby nodded emphatically.

Bucky glances at Steve, who seems to be lost in thought.

Bucky looked at the baby and her big dog again, and suddenly realized that the conversation he heard half awake yesterday was really not his illusion, Steve was indeed discussing with the girl.

I don't know if it's because the brain was concussed yesterday, and the load on the brain was exceeded as soon as he used it, and Bucky's head throbbed with pain.

Suddenly, a flood of memories poured into his brain.

When Steve came back to his senses, he found Bucky pulling his hair in pain.

"what happened to you--"

The captain told both the baby and the bear to step back, and he took a step forward.

Bucky seemed to be out of breath, his breathing was rough and rapid, his whole body was shaking, and his veins were exposed.

His eyes were wide open, as if he was experiencing some horrible scene.

The extremely low ravings overflowed from the lips that were bitten out with bright red drops of blood.

Steve could barely hear a few words, and he stepped forward and shackled the person in his arms, lest the person lose control and cause extensive damage.

Bucky tried to struggle, but when his brain seemed to be pricked by thousands of fine needles, he couldn't use any strength at all, and could only passively be crushed by every cell in his body by these bloody images.

The battle scene flashed by, but it was frozen on the only two sentences——

"Bucky?"

"Who the fuck is Bucky?"

……

"Relax..." A vague voice came from my ears.

The man's voice was like the warmest spring water, nourishing the cold body in winter.

"Don't be afraid, I'm by your side, I will always be with you..." The gentle whispers were repeated again and again, making people feel like crying.

The pain in his body was sharp and aggressive, and he clung to the man tightly, as if grasping the last straw.

Daggers or bullets are mercilessly inserted into the living flesh, and the knife is fatal, and the bullets are always fired.Those bloody memories are still vivid in my mind, and the image of blood splashing in my brain keeps flashing back...

He was lying in an operating room, surrounded by cold instruments and doctors...

His hand was forcibly equipped with a mechanical arm...

Someone found him with a broken hand in the snow, leaving a long, winding bloodstain on the snow-covered ground.

……

"Buck, a lot of people are going to die, I can't let it happen..."

"Bucky, I'm Steve, can you hear me?" Steve pushed him on the bed, and he had to use all his strength to restrain Bucky, "Bucky? Buck?"

"Uncle Steve, do you need to give him a sedative?" The baby and the bear had retreated to the middle door between the two rooms. Before she came, she had put the sedative and other medicines in her room.

Steve had no time to answer.

"Buck, think about me, think about our childhood, don't think about those messy things..."

I don't know if it's Steve's voice that has some kind of comfort, or Bucky himself is adjusting his self-control, the man's movement range becomes smaller, and his struggle is not as tough as before.

Bucky gasped heavily, and his eyes began to focus a bit.

In front of him was a pair of blue eyes dyed with deep worry, beautiful and clear beyond belief.

To be watched by such eyes is like being surrounded by a pool of clear water.

Bucky tightly grasped the hand holding his cheek, generous and warm but sweating coldly, he watched the mouth open and open, and could barely tell if the man was saying, "Is it better?"

Sure, it couldn't be better.

Bucky stared blankly at Steve, and replied in a low voice, "Yeah."

Steve asked worriedly, "Did you remember something?"

Bucky didn't speak, he was trembling all over, as if he couldn't help shivering because he didn't wear enough clothes in winter.

The buffet in the evening, of course, was not eaten.

No matter what Steve said afterwards, Bucky didn't respond at all, and in the end he even fell asleep again because his body couldn't bear it.

Steve has been paying attention to Bucky's condition, so he woke up in the middle of the night. The lightly asleep captain was awakened by some slight movement, and turned on the wall lamp.

The other party probably didn't expect that the light would be turned on suddenly, and his figure paused.

Steve squinted his eyes to adapt to the warm yellow light, and said hoarsely, "Where are you going?"

"...Toilet." As he spoke, he really turned into the bathroom.

Steve simply turned on all the lights that could be turned on by the bed.

He leaned against the head of the bed and waited, almost suspecting that the other party had fallen into the latrine.Finally, someone couldn't help but jumped off the bed and walked towards the bathroom.

Just as he was about to knock on the door, the bathroom door opened from the inside.

Steve's hand stopped in mid-air awkwardly.Bucky's foot went out, but he withdrew again.

The two stood in a stalemate at the door.

The four eyes met, but within a second, Bucky's eyes moved away first.

But it was Steve who was defeated first.

The captain sighed: "Are you going to sneak away again?"

The Winter Soldier was taken aback.

"...Like that night at the gym, or maybe that night at Stark Isle?"

The man's back froze.

"Have you remembered everything?" said the captain.

"I think we need to have a good talk."

The expression on Bucky's face disappeared in an instant.

His expressionless face was very similar to the way Steve found him when they met again—the whole body was covered with cold armor, which invisiblely built an extremely indifferent line of defense.

Steve wanted to tell him that there was no need.

"do you like me?"

Bucky: "..."

Steve didn't blurt out that sentence himself.

He looked into Bucky's eyes, "I meant everything I said to you."

"Why don't you speak?"

Bucky's face was cold, he wanted to go around Steve, but the man got stuck in the middle.

As soon as he moved, Steve yanked him out and pinned him against the door panel.

The two got closer, "Half a day ago, when you lost part of your memory, that was what you really thought in your heart, right? Buck, I never thought that you were still alive. Since I found out that you were still alive, I I've always wanted to find you, if you really like me, why are you hiding?"

"...you don't know anything." Bucky popped out for a long time.

"What if I knew? I know that you were rescued by Hydra, I know that you have been trained as a top assassin for decades, I know that you have been washed out of memory and kept frozen, but... "

"You don't even know..." Bucky interrupted Steve.

His voice was very low, and there was a trace of imperceptible despair in his tone.

"How many people did I kill?"

"None of that was voluntary."

At this moment, Steve only felt distressed.

How bright and aboveboard this person used to be, who had such a firm belief, but in the end he found that he had done so many cold-blooded and cruel things that violated his beliefs.

Perhaps for this person, it is better to die than to live.

"Alive, everything is possible." Whether it is atonement, or looking to the future.

Hearing these words, Bucky's reaction was not as Steve expected.

"Ah-"

Steve raised his head and looked in surprise at Bucky who sneered disdainfully but had an ugly expression.