[Zhongyingmei] The number one black powder

When Veronica woke up, she didn't rush to open her eyes. She first realized that she should be in a hospital by the smell of disinfectant that filled her nose and the soft touch of the bed.

Then she remembered what had happened earlier, why she was here.

She fainted.

She fainted the first time she met Tony Stark.

After first meeting and spilling coffee all over Tony Stark, she passed out.

Veronica can't wait to create a time machine to travel back to that point in time and shoot herself to death.

But on the other hand, her mind, which has already run away, began to think about what she would do when she opened her eyes later. She should apologize to the other party, try to compensate that expensive dress, and if she is lucky, she might be invited to drink A cup of milk tea or something, maybe she can make up for the lack of body with her own mind, and then the two hit it off and hit it off, sparking a spark of wisdom, then they will exchange phone numbers, and there will be a second and third meeting, She got to know each other better.Everything is as natural and logical as Rose met Jack, Paris met Helen, and Princess Anne met Joe.

Of course, the premise of all this is that when she opens her eyes, she can see...

"If you're awake, don't pretend to be asleep." A familiar voice sounded beside her, low and hoarse and magnetic, but definitely not the one Veronica expected.

So Veronica opened her eyes in frustration, and as expected, she saw John sitting on the chair beside the hospital bed with his legs up.

At this moment, the Titanic crashed into an iceberg, the Trojan horse entered Troy, and the holiday in Rome was over, so Veronica, who hadn't been brainstorming for more than a minute, was extremely disillusioned and couldn't help saying: "Fuck."

John raised his eyelids and glanced at her: "You don't seem to want to see me very much."

Veronica: I don't want to see you!

But what she said was: "Why are you in New York?"

"I don't worry about you." The old man answered her righteously, showing the worried expression of an old father, "You just left my nose and put yourself in the hospital for half a day."

Veronica felt that what the other party said was wrong, and she had to correct the other party to defend her ability to take care of herself as an adult: "I didn't want to get into the hospital, it was Tony Stark who got me into the hospital."

John: ...Do you know that your sentence is very ambiguous.

However, Veronica didn't have such self-consciousness at all. She looked around, as if she was looking for something.

John said: "Don't look for it, the person has already left."

So, Veronica burst out again: "Day."

John: ...

Veronica: "He just left so irresponsibly?"

So John told her, you don’t know how much time I spent trying to persuade people to go away, and I didn’t hesitate to pretend to be your father—he deeply felt that if he pretended to be Veronica’s boyfriend, now the little girl might jump up and strangle him—— As a result, the other party still left in doubt.At last he thought about it, and added, "He left you a bouquet of flowers and a card."

So Veronica raised her ears and opened her eyes expectantly: "Where are the flowers?"

John: "I'm afraid you'll throw it away because of your allergies."

Veronica continued to ask without giving up: "What about the card?"

John: "Throw it away together."

So Veronica broke out the third swearing sentence today: "Damn it."

John: "Can you pay attention to your language skills?"

As he said that, he stood up, stomped his long legs on the ground, then picked up the overcoat on the back of the chair, glanced at Veronica who was still exuding misfortune on the hospital bed, and said, "It's time to go." , or are you still waiting for Iron Man to pick you up?"

Veronica: "That's what I thought!"

John rolled his eyes helplessly, picked the little girl up from the bed, and poured a basin of cold water very directly, "Wake up, you still have an appointment."

In the end, Veronica followed John, because John was right, and she still had things to do when she went back.

So she got on the subway.It was the line in the opposite direction from the hotel where she was staying.

This subway is one of the earliest lines developed in New York. The exhaust system on the platform is outdated, and the old-fashioned trains will rattle when they enter the station. Now this line is not the most popular line at the beginning, and the time is not peak time. During this period, most of the people in the train were sitting on chairs, and the few who were standing were chatting together in twos and threes.

Veronica is sitting near the door of the train, chewing bubble gum and doing some simple statistical calculations with her mobile phone. At a certain station, someone walked into this carriage, and there was a person standing directly opposite her. Get up and make room for the opponent.

"Your body is the most important thing." Amidst the bang of the subway door closing and starting again, the person opposite said.

"Why do you say that?" Veronica raised one eye condescendingly from the phone. The person opposite was wearing a funny round hat covering his shiny forehead, and the round face under the glasses looked at him. He looked gentle and amiable, and he couldn't tell that he was the ruler who controlled half of New York's underground lifeline.

Elijah, the well-known New York godfather, reached out and tapped the back of his left hand, and Veronica found that the medical tape she had attached to the saline bottle in the hospital earlier was not removed.Veronica shrugged and continued to lower her head, complaining, "I thought we could choose a fancy restaurant or a scenic park or something.

"A wise man once gave me such advice." Elijah pressed the palm of his right hand with his left hand and answered him, without the domineering arbitrariness of a superior like him at all.

It's not that he is domineering and Veronica will be afraid of him.

A book is handed into the space between them.So Veronica had to look up from the phone again, looking at the book "The Invisible Man", but she didn't pick it up, and just looked at the other person for no reason.

"This was given to me by a wise man, and I think I should share it with you." Elijah still held the book and looked very persistent, so Veronica had to take it, flipping it casually was just a subconscious action, Then she dug out the bookmark in it.

An address was written on the bookmark, and at the same time she heard Elijah say, "Here's a little bonus gift, I haven't found the man you're looking for, but... this is where he used to work , I believe you will gain something."

"...Okay." Veronica stared at the dark green book cover for a while, then nodded. The next stop was coming soon, and she stood up to get off.

John, who was sitting a few seats away from her, also stood up. For a moment, Elijah looked at John and hesitated to speak.John also felt the prying eyes and turned his head.But Elijah turned his head and talked to Veronica again: "Are we even now?"

"Even?" Veronica paused as she was about to get out of the car, and there was a sense of amusement in her tone when she spoke again, "I don't think so, I saved your life, Elijah, and you think ..." She narrowed her eyes and glanced at the address on the bookmark in her hand, "Can a library address be enough to kill you?"

When they got out of the platform, John quietly came behind her, and Veronica said, "I think Elijah is interested in you?"

John's expression was tightly controlled, and he replied without any intention of wavering: "I don't know, and I don't care."

Then he asked again: "Shall we go to this address now?"

"No hurry." Veronica looked at the address carefully and remembered it, then tore off the bookmark and threw the pieces in the passing trash can before saying, "Find a hair salon first, I want to Dye your hair."

John looked at her in surprise and suspected that he had heard wrong: "What?"

"I just did a rough modeling statistics on the car, counting all the gossip girlfriends and one-night stands that Stark had ever had, and then classified the features..."

John: "All?"

Veronica: "Anything that has been reported in the news... In short, I have almost figured out his preferences. I decided to change my image so that I can make a good impression when we first meet, so first I have to dye it. A redhead."

John didn't know for a moment whether he should complain about gossip girlfriends and one-night stands as bad survey samples or redheads first, so he decided to start by saying, "You guys already met today."

Veronica stopped in her tracks. She turned her head, showed him a sinister smile, and answered in a sweet voice, "Today? What happened today? Why don't I remember."

John: ...

Veronica changed into a sunny smile in the next second: "I also ordered a set of teaching videos, and I am going to learn it."

"What to study?" For some reason, John's heart was full of alarm bells, thinking that the trend of this topic might not be as he thought, "Are 101 ways to seduce a rich man?"

"What? No!" Veronica frowned with a frightened expression, "It's Asgard's kidney stabbing teaching."

John: ...you wait.