Counter-terrorism headquarters in Berlin, Germany——

After Wanda withdrew from the league, she prepared for a period of time to apply for a university. She had already decided on her major, which was classical music, and she was at a public university in Florida.She hopes that she can improve herself in this area. Music not only calms her heart, but also, she plans to become a singer-songwriter in the future.The most important thing is that Wanda has saved enough tuition fees and doesn't need Lin Lan to pay for her.

All the Avengers knew about this, so Steve was puzzled when Tony suddenly said that he could also restore Wanda to his post.In fact, he hopes that Wanda can live an ordinary life. She is in her youth and has a long future. It would be a wonderful thing for her to experience the campus time.

"Are you putting her under house arrest?" Steve asked immediately, "Don't tell me you're doing it, Stark."

"No, that's not called house arrest." Tony denied it flatly. "The base has a swimming pool, a screening hall, and a music room. She can do whatever she wants. By the way, Vision is always by her side. You can enjoy the world of two people. You should know that the relationship between the two of them is extraordinary now, and this is a good protection for her."

"Stark, why do you make me unbelievable every time I think you are right." Steve argued, "I guess you must have told Vision that she must never step out of the base One step, right?" He glanced at Tony and saw that he didn't refute, so he continued, "So you call this protection, this can only be called house arrest."

Tony regretted what he blurted out just now. He found that he couldn't name anyone other than Lin Lan when chatting with Steve, and that would only make things worse.Just like now, it is obvious that Steve has shaken his will and even picked up the pen on the table, and the agreement is in front of him just waiting for him to sign it, but in the end all his previous efforts were wasted because of a "Wanda", which is really annoying.

Maybe he should tell Lin Lan about this and let her make a decision, then Steve would not point the finger at him, and Lin Lan would always have a way to convince Old Antique about anything.But Tony can never do this, even if Wanda's house arrest is actually the result of his consultation with Vision, after Vision made a detailed assessment of Wanda's exposure to public view in a special period, the chaos that may cause, That's why I had to make such a decision.

Moreover, General Ross has been eyeing Wanda. She is so special that even if she quits the Avengers, her abilities will be coveted by the government.

But he didn't want to tell these details to Captain America, whose anger was about to reach its peak, because no matter what the process was, Steve would not agree with the end result, and Tony didn't want to see him go against the government.

Tony also hates the endless explanations: "Wanda is not considered a US citizen, Rogers, and the government doesn't enroll in WMD. Her application was rejected. Didn't you know that Wanda was in Nigeria? Known around the world.”

Steve didn't know about it, because Wanda didn't tell anyone, except Vision, and Tony, who put in her college application for her.That's one of the reasons Pietro suddenly felt Wanda's mood turn sour, and of course those house arrests.Even Pietro's application for admission has been reviewed, but no university is willing to accept a devastating superhuman to their school.

Tony used a lot of connections for this, even willing to set up the Stark Foundation in the school, but as soon as he heard the name of Wanda Django Maximoff, the other party immediately refused, even billions of dollars in education None of the funds made them compromise.Tony understands the concerns of the school. No one wants their students to come out to make trouble and destroy a teaching building anytime and anywhere.

Tony now misses the former SHIELD Academy very much. Although he had sneered at the academy back then, he has to say that if the school still exists, Wanda would not have to worry about the problem of not being accepted by the school. SHIELD Academy has always welcomed aliens. able to give birth.

"It's not the same as you putting her under house arrest." The news in Tony's mouth did make Steve's mood worse, "Unless Wanda stays at the base voluntarily, but I guess, she won't want to treat herself as a different kind."

Wanda is indeed afraid of her abilities. Her mental strength will increase and decrease with the ups and downs of her mood. It is difficult for her to control it freely. In the early stage of training, there were several situations where her strength lost control and injured her team members.Whenever this happens, Wanda will feel that she has hurt others and often falls into self-blame, and then there is a vicious circle.

Steve can fully understand that feeling. Wanda lacks a sense of security. She is afraid of losing control, of being regarded as a monster by others, and of not being able to do well in what is in front of her.She is very sensitive to a girl who lost her parents at an early age, lives with her older brother, and suffers so much to survive in a turbulent country.

Wanda finally found her own position, but it took a long time for her to learn to control her mood freely and not be influenced by her thoughts.

The reason why Steve was confident in letting Wanda go out to the field was all thanks to Lin Lan's guidance. She gradually stopped digging into corners and tried to face up to her own flaws and overcome the often chaotic emotions. She could stay in the training room for ten hours alone. I tried my best to push myself into a desperate situation, just to be able to control my mood well.

Wanda hopes to be recognized and accepted by everyone through her own efforts. Such a person would not want to see a situation where she has to stay in the room because she is a dangerous person.

And Tony's behavior will naturally go against the wishes of the parties involved.

"Haven't you forgotten that Lorraine was also protected in this way?" Tony said, trying to prove that he had considered it carefully.

"Yes," Steve replied, "so I owe it to this day, and if I knew from the beginning that Ferry had no right to do this, I would have fought for her freedom."

"It's pointless, it's pointless!" Tony slapped his desk, "If we didn't do that, she would have been killed!"

"Are you sure?" Steve retorted, "With Lin's abilities, she can protect herself. In fact, I always felt that if S.H.I.E.L.D. Ferry had his own goals, not just protection, and we all know that in hindsight."

Of course, Steve is still very grateful to be a special agent of S.H.I.E.L.D. at that time, and he was able to meet Lin Lan in that situation.But having a pleasant encounter does not mean that he agrees to the "house arrest" method implemented in the name of protection, because Lin Lan has been forced to accept supervision from the beginning to the end.It's just that she is gentle by nature, and she doesn't take the matter of house arrest to heart, nor does she care about Nick Ferry's purpose.

So Steve doesn't want this to happen again.

Tony stared at the man opposite and pointed to his chest, "So you think my 'protection' of Wanda is purposeful?"

"No such intention."

"You fucking spare me, Rogers!" Tony hammered the table again, and said angrily, "I'm so devastated by these crap things, I signed the agreement and put Wanda under house arrest. This is all to prevent the situation from getting worse. choose!"

"You're deceiving yourself, you..." Steve took a deep breath, "That's it, I don't want to continue arguing with you, if you don't care about Bucky, I will investigate it myself, in my own name." He paused After a while, "I won't let myself become a wanted criminal."

Tony hung his neck weakly: "Whatever you want." He thought for a while, and then said, "By the way, about this matter..."

"Don't worry, I won't tell Lin." Steve understood that once Lin Lan knew what happened today, she would never sit idly by.Neither he nor Tony wanted to drag her into this muddy water.

"I want to say that there is a problem with the network signal of Barton's farm. I'm afraid they haven't seen today's news, and it's better not to." Tony said to Steve, "But I canceled Lorraine's meeting at Stark Tower." All rights, you know she can get Friday to reach me, and I don't want to take her call."

Steve thought for a while and said, "Lin will doubt it."

"Yeah, she's as smart as me, of course she'll be skeptical, but this is the fastest way to prevent her from targeting us." Tony replied, "So, why don't you call her to reassure her, the hearing is over long ago Now, Lorraine must have discovered the problem by now."

Steve touched his pants pocket: "The phone was damaged in Romania."

Tony slides his "Starkphone" over: "Use my phone, just let her know that everything is normal here, and she can stay on the farm for a few more days."

Barton's Farm—

People from the Ministry of Defense appearing around the farm at this time will definitely not bring any good news, especially since they are also carrying armed forces and large-scale military helicopters.It should be said that no matter where they appear, it means that the other party has done something that violated military laws.Just like Lin Lan was warmly received by General Ross last time, they always have a reason to bring you unexpected accusations, and such accusations are much more difficult than the police station.

Barton ordered Laura to take the children (including Lin Lan and Pietro) to the attic and close the doors and windows, as if what they were about to face were not government envoys but inhuman terrorists.

In fact, in Patton's eyes, this group of people might not be as reasonable as terrorists.

"Clint Barton, code-named Hawkeye, good at long-range sniping, Avenger." A middle-aged man in a suit held a form in his hand, which was the information of Barton when he was in S.H.I.E.L.D., "It said You have retired." He said to Barton in a suspicious tone, "Are you really quit the Avengers?"

"Is there any problem, sir." Barton suddenly shouted to the middle-aged man's back, "Hey, you, pay attention to your feet, I just mowed the lawn, if you leave footprints, you are responsible for cleaning them again!"

No one really cares about the scolding of the farmers. They come on behalf of the highest military government, so they don't care about the lawn.Barton obviously knew what kind of people he was facing. Twenty armed military personnel. If this group of special operations teams shot at you and killed you, they would not need to pay any legal responsibility. .

As for the one in front of him, Patton had met another general who was only one level lower than the Secretary of State.

Barton was just deliberately bluffing. After all, the current Hawkeye is just an inconspicuous small farmer who maintains his own private land. He has to pretend to be like that.

"You have three children?" the middle-aged man asked.

"We are planning to prepare a fourth one," Barton replied.

He was not surprised that the U.S. government would find out his hiding place. Since S.H.I.E.L.D. lost its credibility, the U.S. government has taken over many things. Naturally, they have all the information on every agent who has worked for S.H.I.E.L.D.

Even if the material doesn't appear in S.H.I.E.L.D.'s archives.

"Aren't you going to invite us in, Mr. Barton? It's just a simple condolences to retired veterans. The government attaches great importance to talents who have served the country like you." The middle-aged man glanced at the villa behind him, "I hope there are no shameful people inside. Things, you know, the situation in the United States has not been very stable recently, and there have been some serious terrorist attacks this morning."

"I only care about whether my pension can be paid on time, and the rest has nothing to do with me." He pointed to the armed men, "They also have to go in with them? My living room can't stand so many people."

Barton didn't think he had done anything worthy of being investigated by the Ministry of Defense, unless they counted what he and his brother were thieves 30 years ago, which is obviously impossible.So no matter what the terrorist attack the other party said, it must have nothing to do with him.But the other party said "shameful things", and deliberately emphasized that this shows that the "terrorist attack" may have something to do with him, or, in other words, with the Avengers.

Did he mean Pietro?

But Barton thought about it. Fast Boy seemed naughty and occasionally liked to play pranks, but he couldn't do big things that attracted the attention of the Ministry of Defense, and the government couldn't get him into trouble for no reason.Button raised his eyes to look at the window on the second floor. Lin Lan stood by the window and cast a questioning look at him, with a worried look on his face.

He thought for a while, and said with his lips: "Don't let Pietro appear."

Facts have proved that the target of the middle-aged man is indeed Pietro. The government seems to be particularly concerned about the Maximov twins. He said about the twins no less than ten times in the 10-minute conversation. Panicked by the disappearance of the Superman.

Barton can't tell from the other side's words what exactly they want to do with the twins, but it must be good, because they use the word "panic", it sounds like the two children have done something to break the law yes.Looking at them carrying guns and wearing explosion-proof suits, you can tell that this is not an ordinary home visit, but rather a posture of arresting extreme criminals.

Maybe they want to do some kind of military research.

Could it be a study on superhumans?

Patton was glad that he had settled everyone in the attic in advance, the other party should not have obtained a search warrant, he just suspected that Pietro and Wanda were here.And their reason for suspicion is ridiculous, since former Avengers have made a home in the middle of nowhere.The other party did not launch a search immediately, but only used verbal probing, which shows that the search and arrest operation did not comply with legal procedures.

In this way, Patton still has the confidence to get rid of the idiots sent by the Ministry of Defense.

"I've been retired for a while. I don't know what those guys did after that. I've been taking care of my youngest son for half a year. He's only half a month old. I have to change his diaper every night and I can't sleep well. " Barton leaned on the sofa and ate the cookies on the plate. His appearance and tone of speech were quite different from the image of the super agent. Barton stretched out the plate to the other side and said, "Come together?"

"Thank you." The middle-aged man picked up a ginger biscuit, but didn't eat it. "You and the other Avengers should be in regular contact, right?"

"They don't like to listen to me nagging about the children, so the connection is not close." Barton shrugged, "You know, sir, it is not easy to raise three children. You have to worry about their health. Will they be in school? Being bullied, and being happy, there are too many things to worry about."

"I don't think Mr. Barton's children will be bullied. After all, you are a former member of the Avengers. They should also know some fighting skills." The other party seemed to mean something, "Or, they also have superpowers?"

"You mean, do I teach them to fight and bully other children?" Barton laughed, his gray-blue eyes were full of innocent innocence, "They are only eight years old, so I can't teach them to do this kind of thing. Also, how could the superpower you just mentioned happen to me, my wife and I are ordinary people."

"So, what about the children?" the man said, "I like children the most, maybe you will bring me to meet them?"

Barton spread his hands: "You don't want to see them being woken up after falling asleep. Anyway, I don't want to see them. They are too active. You know, children can sometimes be scary when they lose their temper."

"It's okay, I'll just check at the door." The other party took out a form, "Look, here are the contents of the visit that I need to fill out, including whether the child of the visit is healthy or not."

Barton knew very well that the other party's purpose was to confirm whether his child had superpowers, and he had already seen the outline of some kind of testing instrument hidden on the middle-aged man.He knew about that, the old S.H.I.E.L.D. invention that detects whether someone has cellular activity beyond normal human activity.

Back then, they used this to confirm the identity of superhumans.

I didn't expect this thing to fall into the hands of the government now.

Lin Lan eavesdropped on the conversation of the person downstairs by the door. The sound insulation effect of the wooden door panel would not be very good, so she could clearly hear the conversation between the visitor and Barton.

"I knew that something must have happened to Wanda." Pietro suppressed his voice, "If she has any damage, I will never let Vision go!"

"Okay, shut up, let's go back to New York as soon as this group of people leave." Lin Lan said to him, "People from the Ministry of Defense are not easy to mess with, they may come up at any time, we can't let that guy find you here, ghost Know what he's going to do with you. Now there are military people watching everywhere outside, can you run past them without being noticed?"

"You underestimate me, you question my speed?" Pietro raised his chin confidently and said, "Even the surveillance cameras couldn't catch my shadow, we did a test in the training room. "

Laura said: "Pietro, you can hide in the storage room in the backyard. There are a lot of sundries there, suitable for hiding." The woman who is also a former S.H.I.E.L.D. agent naturally knows what it means to be approached by the Ministry of Defense. It's aimed at the Superman, so Pietro must be his target.

As for how the government came here directly, it must have been determined through monitoring.

At this moment, Lin Lan's mobile phone rang slightly, but it was enough for everyone in the villa to hear.Startled, she was about to turn around to say something to Pietro, only to find that he had disappeared, only the corner of the curtain swaying slightly.

Lin Lan glanced at the caller ID, it was Tony's number, but she didn't answer it immediately, but said to Barton's children: "Want to play some crazy destruction games, but once you play, you will be called by Laura The spanking kind?"

The two children looked at each other, and they looked at their mother at the same time.

"I can assure you." Lin Lan winked at Laura, "Your parents will praise you today."

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