[Captain Detective] Captain Detective

[SR: Hit her or hit her, this is a question worth thinking about. 】

Although I haven't been with Ellie for a long time, I really feel that she is a wonderful person, and she can be at ease no matter what.Even though she was dismissed, I didn't see any change in her indifferent expression.

Today I saw her domineering on the street as a patrolman, which reminded me of the first time I saw her on the battlefield.She stood on the overturned bus with the light behind her back, but the monstrous anger seemed to set the whole street on fire.

That's probably the brightest color I've ever seen on her.In the next few times, whether she was standing at the door of our house or sitting on my sofa, or standing on the balcony blowing the wind, or wearing a uniform and driving a police car, she always seemed as light as the faint smile on her face.

If I hadn't seen her in high spirits the first time I met her, I might have thought that she was suitable for ordinary life.

And the reason why I suddenly thought of this is because I was separated from the burger shop for less than an hour, and I saw Ellie in high spirits again.I still remember the look of frustration on her face because she didn't have time to sit down and eat a burger.

The task I received was to rescue a group of high-ranking government officials who were kidnapped while discussing something in a technology company building. The kidnapper is said to be a radical organization that is active in the world and strives for absolute human rights. Recently, there are signs of bias towards terrorist organizations. .Judging from the fact that they dared to kidnap a group of senior government officials in Washington, they have already completed their transformation into a terrorist organization.

Judging from the composition of the people surrounding the building, the identities of the kidnapped high-ranking officials are very clear - the DCPD with the largest number of people, the FBI in raincoat-like uniforms, the CIA with cats in dark corners, and of course only the ones who came including me S.H.I.E.L.D. for two.

"Wow," Ellie was sitting on the front cover of her police car eating French fries when we arrived, "We meet again, Captain—" She seemed completely oblivious to the sudden tense atmosphere at the scene.

Natasha, who followed, couldn't tell more than Ellie-she actually ran to Ellie to ask for French fries.

Can't the two of them wink?Don't they see that everyone doesn't welcome our arrival?Look at this half-bald middle-aged man in front of him, his eyes almost popped out when he looked at me... Wait, this police officer with a badge on his waist seems to be Ellie's chief, and he still holds a A mug with my shield on it.

... Stay away from him later.

Our arrival made the audience silent, only the sirens of a few police cars were still ringing.Ugh, S.H.I.E.L.D. doesn't always feel like it's popular.

At this time, Ellie who warmly greeted me to eat French fries was very conspicuous: "Hey, hey, hey! Captain, come and eat French fries! If you don't hurry up, the widow sister will grab them all!" Natasha also waved cooperatively.

I went over with a dark face and pulled Ellie, who was enjoying this moment, from the hood of the car: "Officer Sallers, you are working."

Ellie was still biting the French fries, shrugged indifferently: "It's just that the progress of work is a little slow."

After swallowing the french fries in her mouth, Natasha also became serious: "Who is the leader here?"

A woman who looks to be about the same age as Ellie's chief walks up. Although she is wearing a lady's suit, the people standing next to her are wearing FBI uniforms: "It's me, these two are... Captain America and Black Widow ?”

I nodded, deliberately ignoring the excited Ellie's chief over there: "We want to ask, were you discussing this operation just now?"

Someone sneered: "Captain, let me remind you that we are not on the battlefield right now, and we don't need the word 'combat'."

I'm a little embarrassed, it's really said to get used to it, and blurt it out.Before I could change my words, Ellie also sneered: "Is it necessary to haggle over words with an old man who is not used to modern English?"

... Is she speaking for me?

The female FBI officer with a serious face in front of her glanced displeasedly at the person who just spoke, and then extended her hand to me: "Hi, Captain Rogers, I have known you for a long time. I am Agent Snow, and it is an honor to meet you."

"Hello, Agent Snow, I'm also very honored." I responded politely, just shook my hand a few times, and a black figure sprinted beside me, it was the half-bald DCPD officer.

Before I let go of Agent Snow's hand, he had already stretched out his hand with a particularly excited tone: "Hello, hello, hello! I, I am, I am FrankWilliamSmith! Nice to meet you! This is me, I am I, I," I saw him talking so excitedly, I had to hold his hand quickly and feel the sweat on my hand, "It's an honor in my life to meet you and shake hands with you!"

…This guy suddenly strikes me as Agent Coulson.

I withdrew my hand, stiffly left the fast-gluing Mediterranean Sea, and asked Agent Snow again: "Can you tell me about the specific operation?"

Agent Snow shook his head: "It's a pity Captain, it's not that we don't agree, it's just that we haven't discussed a complete rescue plan yet."

"What else is there?" I glanced at so many people around me.There are so many people, all of them are fully equipped, yet there is no plan?

"Actually, we have prepared two preliminary plans," Chief Smith interrupted suddenly, "one is to break in directly from the main entrance of the building, but this method is too simple and rough, and the risks and casualties will be great—their people are scattered in ten The floors above the fifth floor - we tried to rescue like this at the beginning, but it didn't work. Another way is to fall from the sky to the roof and forcefully enter the battle (he emphasized this word), but it's also a pity that the roof There are a lot of enemies, they may be armed with heavy weapons and snipers, and you have to be very agile to attack from the air."

Agent Snow added: "What's more, we have not been able to contact the prisoners so far, and they have not made any ransom demands-they seem to be trying to get some information from several officers."

Although she spoke very cryptically, I could still hear what she said: she didn't make any demands, that is to say, the kidnappers may tear up the ticket at any time.

I looked up at a certain science and technology building in the night with lights in all directions.It's about twenty stories high, and the conference room is on the nineteenth floor.Time can't be wasted for a moment, although they haven't figured out the correct method of combat—rescue method, but...

I couldn't help looking at the residential building opposite the building.The residential building is taller than the target building, and there are quite a lot of lights on. There are also many curious residents looking out from the balcony and window.

I visually measured the distance between the two floors, and it was about 20 meters... Well, it's not too far away.I looked at Natasha, who just turned her eyes back from the residential building, raised her eyebrows and smiled: "Steve, are you sure?"

I pressed the helmet: "Pretty sure."

"Wait, what do you want to do?" Ellie said in astonishment, and went to look at the tall residential buildings.It seems she also guessed what we were going to do.

Agent Snow and Officer Smith looked at us suspiciously, and I didn't say in detail: "Waiting for our signal, you lead people to rush to the fifteenth floor."

"Signal? What signal?"

"You'll know." Natasha finished before she finished, and turned around, "Let's go Captain, time is running out."

I nodded, and as soon as I turned sideways, I noticed a pair of eager eyes, so I turned back: "DetectiveSallers, come together?"

Ellie had been waiting there with anticipation for a long time. As soon as I said something, she immediately said to her officer, "You won't stop me now, will you?"

Officer Smith: "...Eleanor Sallers, don't make trouble for the captain!" He added, "If you are demoted again, you will become an assistant police officer."

"Of order." Ellie gave a military salute to Officer Smith, and followed quickly.

Amidst the crowd of residents watching, the three of us walked into the residential building.My first reaction was to climb the stairs, but Natasha and Ellie dragged me back to the elevator.

"Yesterday again, Steve." Ellie leaned against the metal wall inside the elevator and saw me from Natasha with a smile.

It was indeed repeated yesterday. During the Battle of New York, the three people left on the ground were the three of us.

"Ellie, aren't you a patrolman? Why are you here?" I asked her before the elevator arrived.

Ellie rolled her eyes: "Don't be surprised, my boss intends to reinstate me and go back to the office as soon as possible, so he called me to help."

"Your parents and officers are so kind to you." Natasha smiled lightly, "But FrankWilliamSmith, I seem to remember that name is on the list of retired officers of S.H.I.E.L.D..."

That officer used to be from S.H.I.E.L.D.?I froze, but Ellie shrugged: "I'm not from S.H.I.E.L.D., how do I know?"

Natasha smiled when she heard the words: "That's right, you're not from S.H.I.E.L.D...." Even I could hear the truth in what she said, let alone Ellie who directly faced this sentence.

But Ellie just smiled lightly and didn't respond.

The elevator stopped at the first floor of No.20. Ellie and I walked down, but Natasha still had to go up—she probably chose to use a wire to swing to the opposite side of the building. Watch my signal."

I gave her an "OK" gesture and led Ellie to find the window facing the target building.Just in time, after coming out of the elevator, along the empty corridor to the end, there happened to be such a window.

"Are you nervous, sweetheart? This is your first assignment, but you don't look nervous at all." Ellie's hair was tied up, showing the white nape of her neck. I glanced over and seemed to see the burn scar hidden in the under the collar.

"It's not the first mission." I didn't ask about the scar, but I was thinking about her wrist with a cut scar in my head. "The one in New York was the first mission." After a pause, I squinted To her, "Because I'm going to partner with you, so I'm nervous."

"Then why do you ask me to help? You and the widow are enough, right?" Ellie tilted her head suspiciously, "If you're nervous, just sing the national anthem. I sing the national anthem when I'm nervous about a task."

"..." I hesitated, and didn't ask her whether she was singing the German national anthem or the American national anthem, because I remembered that when I was on the battlefield of World War II, all the people I smashed and killed were her compatriots, so I had to skip this question, " Naturally, there is a reason for me to ask you to help me."

"Hmm... It seems that you don't intend to explain the reason clearly now," Ellie stopped, and stood in front of the window, her high ponytail swaying. "By the way, the national anthem I sang is the Chinese national anthem." "March of the Volunteers."

…but why the Chinese national anthem? ? ?

I couldn't get that out of my head because Natasha's laughter came through the headphones in my ear: 'I'm sorry to interrupt your jumping thoughts, but honey, are you in place? 』

I pressed the headset: "Yes, it's in place, you are ready to start."

"OK, give me 2 minutes. There was a voice from Natasha opening the window, "Go on, anyway, you still have 2 minutes to flirt—"

"...take care of yourself first."

"Hey, Steve, aren't you going to tell her?Said that you dragged her here to give her a chance to get promoted?You are so kind to her, she will be grateful! 』

"...Take care of yourself first." I repeated my previous sentence, and then decisively cut off the wireless.

Ellie pulled open the window in front of us and asked over her shoulder, "Do you have any plans, Captain?"

"Yes," I replied briefly, "jump to the opposite side of the building."

"... Just jump over like this?"

She spoke so succinctly, I was a little uncomfortable, but I felt that this was very good, so I nodded: "Just jump over like this."

"...Captain, let me mention that there is nearly 20 meters between them."

This time I shrugged and smiled indifferently: "It's only 20 meters." While talking, I stepped back.

Ellie seemed to be fixed in place, her eyes widened, and she looked at me with boyish eyebrows: "Sweetheart, are you kidding me? It's only 20 meters, are you hoping it's 200 meters? Just like this you still Dare to drag me in? What if you can't jump over? If something happens to you, my parents will kill me! I can stay here and prepare to call 911—"

"Natasha, light the flashbang." I calmly pressed the headset.

"What?now?Only 1 minute has passed! 』

"Don't say 1 minute, I can't stand it for a second." I remained calm, "Light up the flash bomb and jump."

"Even if you are hit by Officer Tiantian, you can't speak so concisely!" 』

"Natasha, click, jump." I dragged Ellie past me, backed away all the way, "Close your eyes, Ellie."

"OK—the last three numbers: 3, 2, 1! 』As Natasha’s voice fell from the earphones, I closed my eyes, but suddenly there was a dazzling light outside the window, and I could feel it through my eyelids, not to mention the snipers who might be ambushing upstairs opposite.The weapons produced by S.H.I.E.L.D. will surely refresh their eyes for a while.

After a pause of two seconds, Natasha replied: "I'm in place, it's your turn!" ’ Immediately afterwards, there was the sound of the steel wire shrinking and the gun being loaded.

He opened his eyes slightly, then narrowed them again, the effect of the flash bombs in front of him became weaker, at least he could see the window on the nineteenth floor opposite.I took a deep breath: "Get ready, Detective."

Ellie grabbed my arm, opened her eyes and said seriously: "Let me tell you, sweetheart, first of all, I am no longer a Detective, but just a little patrolman. Secondly, wow-"

Without giving her a chance to continue chattering, I hugged her with one hand, pulled the shield in front of me with the other, accelerated forward, and then jumped.The wind blowing extremely fast poured into her throat, but she could still hear the irritable "ahhhhh".

All the mischievous intentions in her heart were gone, and she just wanted to shut her up quickly.

Fortunately, however, it was over soon.

With the sound of glass shattering and the effect of the flashbang dissipating, I carried—or Ellie could be seen as—carried into the [-]th floor with the shield as a point of strength, and landed safely.However, the inertia of bringing one more person was too great, and I fell to the ground and couldn't get up immediately.

In the corridor in front of him, the enemy is raising his gun.

Before I got up from the broken glass on the ground, I yelled: "Ellie——!"

"Fucking sweetheart, I really misunderstood you! Where the hell are you, sweetheart! Your heart is black! Do you want to scare me to death!!!" The one who yelled so loudly just now did not lose his voice at all Ellie roared back vigorously, quickly turned over and squatted on the ground, her hands were unambiguous, and both guns were fired at once, and there was a sudden sound of fierce shooting in front of her.

The enemy also fired.Before their bullets flew, I quickly got up and squatted down to stand up the shield, and pulled Ellie over.Once again, I saw dazzling silver-blue eyes behind the shield.

She glared at me viciously, and amid the sound of bullets hitting the shield, I saw her grind her teeth: "Sweetheart, cover your ears."

I still have to support the shield, how can I cover my ears?But she didn't care, and took out a small bomb from her waist—it looked like it was produced by S.H.I.E.L.D.—pressed the detonation button with her fingers, raised her hand and threw it out, quickly plugging her ears.

The sound of breaking through the air seemed to be thrown quite far away, and I heard the enemy's terrified "Wow!", and then the explosion instantly occupied the entire corridor.

I pressed my hand against the shield hard, but was still pushed a distance by the blast wave.I couldn't cover my ears, and for a while I could only hear tinnitus.

In a daze, someone helped me, and kindly slapped the glass shards on my body, the wall paint brought by the explosion and other construction debris.I took a closer look, and the corridor in front of me was completely blackened by the bombing. There were people lying on the ground, some of them were motionless, and some of them were still in bed.

I rubbed my ears and grinned my teeth and asked, "Where did you get the bomb?" When I first met her, I didn't see anything on her waist other than a gun and a police badge.

"It's from the red-haired sister." Ellie blinked her eyes with an innocent look on her face, "Who told her to speak in a weird way?"

"It's not a good habit." I said, but I had to admit that Ellie was really brave enough to steal something from the black widow.The problem is, Ellie is a cop!Why did you do this?

Ellie noticed my unnaturalness: "Honey, what's wrong with your arm?"

I've been moving my left arm and it's a little numb because I brought Ellie with it and used it as a cushion: "Detective, you're much heavier than you look! All the extra weight Is that the nonsense you carry around with you?" I could actually hear the resentment in my voice.

"Ooooops," Ellie stuck out her tongue, "I haven't been exercising a bit lately—who taught you to be so proactive about taking Tofu out for a walk every morning, so I have no excuse to go out for exercise every day!"

She also blamed me for this.During the few days when she was suspended from work at home, she basically got up in the morning. Tofu was always locked out by her because of the noise at night. When I went for a run, it naturally followed me.

Looks like I shouldn't be saving her this time - she needs more exercise!

I solemnly said: "When you go back, don't sleep in anymore. I will wake you up every morning and run for exercise."

"Hey! What kind of evil did he do! You want to treat him like this!" Ellie covered her face and pretended to cry, "First I despise him for being fat, and then I despise him for being lazy—Ahem!"

She is such a fierce woman who fights so well, but she is still a girly "squeaky" and "other"!too disgusting!I couldn't hold back for a moment, and pressed down on her head hard.It was only then that I realized that since I knew her, I had accumulated so many urges to hit her, and today I finally did it.

I feel more comfortable, and then I am full of fighting spirit.

I wanted to educate her seriously, but I saw her rubbing her eyes uncomfortably.Those eyes were too bright, but a little redder and swollen than before.

"Don't rub your eyes!" I quickly grabbed her hand, "What's wrong? Did the explosion get into your eyes just now?"

Ellie waved her hand and said it was okay: "It's just a small matter, just eat a piece of chocolate after the task is completed."

But I don't think it's a small thing: "Quickly tell the truth, this is not the first time I've seen you like this!"

"Uh, the first time was in New York?" She squinted her eyes and smiled, "If you want to hear me tell the truth, you'll have to wait until we're done with this— fuck the dog! Damn it!" Ellie said Then, he suddenly covered his eyes and gritted his teeth.

"Did you see anything?" I quickly supported her.

"She probably saw in the meeting room, the stupid DCPD chief who wanted to be a hero, but was killed by three shots to the head." Accompanied by the sound of "tap, tap" footsteps, Natasha held the gun in one hand and the other Walked over holding the phone.She jumped directly to the roof of this building before. Agent Snow had said that there were enemies on the rooftop, but Natasha had made it through unscathed - and she was, indeed, very good, as far as skill was concerned.

Under Natasha's profound eyes, I suddenly felt a chill down my back.Remember that sentence Ellie took my arm and said seriously during the Battle of New York?

She said at the time: "A lot of people died over there!" A building away, she was able to say that with such certainty, as if the death happened right before her eyes—maybe it really was right before her eyes.

I stared at Ellie, her eyes still shining silvery blue.She didn't say a word, she was no different from her usual calm appearance, and I didn't know what to say.But I can be sure that Ellie's eyes can't only see the future in the next second.

Seemingly aware of what I was guessing, she suddenly looked at me, her lips moved, but before she could speak, I interrupted her: "Save people first."

In fact, it’s okay if she doesn’t say anything, I almost guessed it.

Ellie blinked, as if relieved.The evidence is that the magical canine tooth was exposed again: "Okay, I will tell you the truth on the balcony under the most beautiful night."

... Just find a place to be honest, I don't need such a dreamy place, thank you.

Natasha let go of her seriousness and depression, raised her eyebrows and raised one corner of her mouth: "It seems that I have to make some contributions to such a great topic..."

I glared at her: "Where is the conference room, lead the way!"

On the way, Ellie expressed great emotion to the machine in Natasha's hand: "OMFG! You actually have video of the inside of the meeting room?! It's too much! Because I don't know the internal situation, my parent's official was caught by a group of sabi bosses from the FBI. I'm so angry that I have high blood pressure and I can't think of a rescue method, you SHIELD even has a video?! This is not fair!!!"

"Stop talking," Natasha said without looking at her. "Although the hostages in the conference room are all high-ranking officials, our chief is a high-ranking S.H.I.E.L.D. officer."

I don't mean to flatter S.H.I.E.L.D., but Natasha is right, the director of S.H.I.E.L.D. is not comparable to other people's leaders.

When we broke through the enemy's line of defense and rushed into the meeting room, the officer named Alexander Pierce sat very calmly. Unlike other officers who were also calm on the surface but were betrayed by flustered eyes, his completely relaxed posture was clearly One meaning expressed: "Kidnappers, you are finished."

I've only seen this gesture on one person before.Well, or it's not a human being, it's a god--this is the attitude of the evil god Loki when he was captured.

But at the time, I really wanted to kill that bastard Loki with a shield, but seeing such a calm boss now made me feel really relieved.

Chief Pierce smiled calmly and watched us finish off the kidnapper a few times, and then greeted Ellie very kindly: "Hello, police officer, thank you for being willing to take the lead in coming to the front line."

"It's an honor," Ellie said with a half-smile, "Actually, I refused when I knew I needed to jump off a building, but you people from S.H.I.E.L.D. are much better than our DCPD."

Don't think I can't hear it, the accent on "Excellent" is too obvious.

The leader of the kidnappers who was electrocuted by a button of Natasha - so far it seems to be - twisted his mouth like a stroke, screaming desperately: "SHIELD! What defenders of world peace! You! You are like those who ignore human rights Power politics is no different! As long as you, as long as you take that thing——uh!" A flying kick beautifully removed his jaw, and also removed all the words behind him.

The guy who kicked him was a stocky, lean man with a little mustache on his chin - not like Tony's playboy beard - and he was a tough-looking man.He broke in through the window, and I was far away, so I didn't have time to stop him.

"You're welcome." He smiled.

But I didn't intend to thank him at all, I looked at the S.H.I.E.L.D. pattern on his shoulder and asked, "Who are you?"

He didn't speak, and at this time several people broke in through the window, and they all wore the uniforms of S.H.I.E.L.D.I looked out the window, the glare from the helicopter came down.It seems that the support of S.H.I.E.L.D. has arrived.

"This is Brock Rumlow," Chief Pierce, who was sitting silently, began to introduce to me, "Captain Rogers, you haven't officially met the STRIKE unit of S.H.I.E.L.D.?"

"I've heard that the S.H.I.E.L.D.'s backbone armed forces have high force values ​​and are brave in combat." I glanced at Rumlow, "The timing is also very good."

Rumlow smiled when he heard the words: "Don't say that, as seniors, we have to observe the novice's task progress carefully!"

As a "novice", I didn't want to talk to him. DCPD and FBI have teamed up to catch up. Officer Smith's eyes are still eager, and Natasha is busy negotiating with other officers, so I can only go to Ellie.She stood beside the leader of the kidnappers who fell to the ground. Her eyes returned to normal, but they were very red and swollen.Following her focused gaze, I saw a black card slipped out of the leader's chest because of the fall.

The font and color scheme above were a bit familiar, and I immediately read it out: "Triangular Prism?"

Rumlow wanted to come over to pick it up, but Natasha was one step ahead of him and had the card in her hand.She smiled: "Don't grab things from the lady——"

Rumlow smiled too, and turned to Pierce.

"Can I see it?" I asked.

Natasha dropped it without thinking.When I held it in my hand, I realized that the card was double-sided, and the other side was a different color, blood red.There is still a line of bumps to the touch, but because the color is the same, I can't tell what the word is.

I fumbled, trying to read: "Bloo—"

"BloodRed (blood red)," Ellie suddenly said in a low voice, her eyes fixed on the card, her expression was normal, I couldn't see anything wrong, "this color is blood red."

I look at Ellie, and I look at Natasha. Natasha smiled: "A prism can always refract all kinds of colors, right?"

A prism that refracts various colors...?

I returned the card to Natasha - she might be investigating the group.And Ellie went to her officer.I just stood there and breathed a sigh of relief, touching the shield to check it again.

It's still cold but strong as ever.

After a while, Ellie came back again.I looked at her swollen eyes and pursed my mouth: "Is this a big contribution?" Now she should be promoted to Detective, right?Although the chief of their police station died, at least she participated in saving many other high-ranking officials.

"Okay," Ellie shrugged, "but I still like the days of being a patrolman, so I asked the officer to push me away and replace it with a more practical reward, for example, buying particularly delicious chocolate or something."

"...Eleanor Sallers, are you stupid?"

She smiled brightly, showing her small canine teeth, and answered very naturally: "But I still want to meet you on the street!"

I choked, looking at the frank Ellie, not knowing what to answer.