Chapter 287: Missing
"Aunt Peggy, this is a report related to the captain during this time......"
In the room, Sharon Carter, her niece, who is also an agent of S.H.I.E.L.D., handed the information in her hand to the gray-haired woman in front of her.
"Thank you, Sharon."
On the bed, Agent Carter, who had once been agile but now old, stretched out his wrinkled palm to take the information handed by Sharon, her eyes swept over the familiar face on the information, and a trace of tenderness flashed on her face. Trembling through the materials in his hand, looking at the contents, Agent Carter's face showed a faint smile, and his expression seemed to be reminiscing and reminiscing.
She didn't expect that today, seventy years later, she would be able to wait for the news of Steve's resurrection.
Although, the news came a little too late and a little too long.
Looking at the aunt in front of her, who was caught in her memories, Sharon Carter hesitated for a moment before she couldn't help but speak: "Aunt Peggy, why don't you want to see the captain, you should know that the captain has been looking for you all along......"
Sharon Carter is no stranger to the relationship between her aunt and Captain America.
In fact, it was precisely because of the influence of Peggy Carter and Captain America in World War II that she chose the same life as her aunt when she grew up and became an agent of S.H.I.E.L.D.
"Sometimes, maybe not meeting each other is the right decision."
Faced with his niece's question, Agent Carter removed his reading glasses from the bridge of his nose and shook his head in refusal.
The long years have worn away the once love-and-hate Carter agent, and now she is just an old woman who is dying, and she has no courage to meet Steve again. Because she feared that if she met Steve, then the young and beautiful Peggy Carter in his heart would no longer exist, and would be replaced by the gray-haired, wrinkled old woman he was now in.
She didn't dare and didn't want to do that.
If so, she would rather Steve's impression of herself be forever stuck in 70 years ago, in that war-torn but unforgettable era.
"Ahem~"
As he spoke, Agent Carter on the bed suddenly began to cough, and Sharon Carter hurriedly stepped forward and began to pat her back, on the bedside table on the side, the few black-and-white photos that vaguely glimpsed Agent Carter's once young face were piled up with various bottles and cans of medicine.
Seventy years have taken away her youth, leaving only her old and fragile body.
……
"Then, Aunt Peggy, you have to take good care of your body."
Sharon Carter, as an agent of S.H.I.E.L.D., does not have much time, especially since the Avengers have just ended a battle and need S.H.I.E.L.D. to carry out the follow-up finishing work.
"Hmm."
Lying on the bed, perhaps because he had just taken the medicine, Agent Carter was visibly sleepy.
Looking at her aunt on the bed with her eyes closed, Sharon Carter gently closed the door.
With Sharon Carter leaving, Agent Carter slowly opened his eyes, glanced at the closed door, and then turned his head to look at the information about Steve placed on the bedside.
"I didn't expect that the once heroic Carter agent has now become like this."
At this moment, a strange and magnetic voice suddenly sounded in the room.
"I just don't know, if Steve saw this, how would he feel?"
[Legendary ...... from Peggy Carter]
The sudden voice in the room and what the other party said made Agent Carter's face look stunned, and she struggled to prop herself up from the bed, looked in the direction from which the voice came, and asked sharply, "Who are you?!" ”
"An old friend I haven't seen in a long time."
With this answer, out of the corner of the room came a strangely handsome man with blond hair and white skin, who did not look like a human.
Dior's gaze swept over Agent Carter on the bed, and a faint smile appeared on his bewitching face: "I just don't know if you are surprised by my appearance or ......"
[Legendary ...... from Peggy Carter]
"You are?"
Looking at the man who appeared in front of him, Agent Carter's memory seemed to be pulled back in time in an instant, the scene where he and Steve met for the first time, and there was a figure of the other party.
"Dior!"
A long memory awakens, and Agent Carter blurts out his name.
"You're not dead!"
In Steve's report, Dio eventually died in the flames of the explosion that fought him, however, the appearance of Dio in front of him clearly told Agent Carter that Dio was not dead.
"yes, I'm not dead." Hearing Agent Carter's words, Dio couldn't help but raise his eyebrows, sat down in the chair in front of her, propped up his chin, and showed a bewitching smile on his face, revealing his sharp teeth: "Are you disappointed in this, Carter." As he spoke, Dio changed his sitting posture and leaned forward slightly to reveal his still young handsome face: "In fact, not only did I not die, I did not even change and age in appearance, and the long years could not take away any of my life, but you, Peggy Carter, have aged into such a decaying appearance in the years." ”
As he spoke, Dior's gaze swept over Peggy Carter's face, and undisguised pity flashed in his eyes.
"At least, I didn't turn into a monster like you."
Obviously, even after 70 years, Agent Carter has not forgotten what Dior did.
"Vampires."
"What a monster, it looks like even after all this time, your mind is still as rotten as it used to be, Carter. For me, everything in this world has a meaning, if there is a god in this world, then he created human beings for only one purpose, that is, to exist as food for vampires, pigs eat grass, people eat pigs, and I eat people, and eating people is the real ruler of all things. ”
"What a twisted mind, Dio."
In the face of Dior's shocking remarks, Agent Carter obviously could not agree.
"Distorted, maybe I'm telling the truth."
Dior didn't care about it at all.
He slowly got up from his chair and looked at Peggy Carter, who was lying on the bed, drooping from the old age.
"It's really ugly, Carter, the way you look now is the best proof, human beings are too fragile, even if there is no pain, the years will easily take away your strength, now you, trapped in this ugly body, don't even need me to do it, the pain will easily take you away."
"Are you willing to die such an ugly death?"
Walking to the bedside, Dio looked directly at Agent Carter, his words full of bewitchment.
"If you wish, I will grant you eternal life and restore you to your youthful appearance once again."
As he spoke, Dio pulled out a pale and eerie mask from behind him.
"Stone ghost face."
Looking at the mask in Dior's hand, Agent Carter couldn't help but mutter.
Agent Carter is naturally no stranger to this mask, and it can even be said that this mask is the beginning of everything, which led to Dio's final choice to become a vampire.
Her eyes lingered on the stone ghost in Dio's hand for a long time before Agent Carter withdrew her gaze, she closed her eyes slightly, and replied in a weak but firm tone: "I'd rather die an ugly death like this, rather than live as a monster like you." ”
Bang Bang Bang –
Faced with Agent Carter's categorically rejected answer, Dior's face did not seem angry, but raised his hand to applaud him softly in encouragement.
"It's so touching, I'll admit, Carter, it's I want to see you. Even if you look ugly and become ugly, you are still the same you, I have to admit this......"
In front of him, he said a few words to Carter with a smile.
However, in the next moment, the expression on Dior's face changed suddenly, and the smile on his face became bad: "But why should I listen to you." ”
As he spoke, without waiting for Carter to react, Dio grabbed the stone ghost face in his hand and suddenly covered the other party's face.
"I'm looking forward to what Steve's face will be when he learns that you've become a vampire, hahahaha......"
[Legendary ...... from Peggy Carter]
……
"You mean, Peggy Carter is missing?"
S.H.I.E.L.D. Headquarters, Triple Wing Building.
Nick Fury listened to the news from Agent Hill, and a look of surprise flashed in the only intact single eye.
"Agent, you're sure there's nothing wrong with this message."
"Sure, sir." In the face of Nick Fury's doubts, Agent Hill did not hesitate to assure: "I have asked Agent Sharon Carter to confirm that she has seen Peggy Carter in the daytime, but at night, there is no trace of the other party in the room." ”
Hearing Agent Hill's assurances, Nick Fury also believed the information given by the other party.
However, after confirming the authenticity of the news, the expression on Nick Fury's face did not relax in the slightest, but became a little more dignified.
"Can you tell me how a woman in her nineties disappeared from her room?"
Peggy Carter is not only Captain America's former lover, but also one of the founders of S.H.I.E.L.D., so he attaches great importance to this predecessor who has a profound influence on S.H.I.E.L.D., whether it is Nick Fury or Agent Hill.
"I don't know, sir."
In fact, Nick Fury's question was the same question that flashed through Agent Hill's mind when he learned of this information.
"In fact, I've had agents investigate everything around Peggy Carter's residence, but none of them saw Peggy Carter come out of his room." As an old woman with gray hair, Peggy Carter is also a very conspicuous target in a sense, but strangely, no one living in the neighborhood has ever found any trace of the other.
Even the cameras on the side of the road did not find any footage of Peggy Carter walking.
"I suspect there's something strange about this, and I can't even rule out the possibility of containment."
Confused, Agent Hill offered his own guess.
With the emergence of the SCP Foundation and the containment effect shown by containment experts Long Pin, especially the existence of the two containment objects [Dog Charm] and [Dragon Charm] that the Avengers had personally fought before, Nick Fury's attention to containment objects has greatly increased.
Even, when he learned that the containment effect of the [Dog Charm] that appeared in the previous Avengers battle was actually able to produce undead magic, even the determined Nick Fury was a little shaken at this moment. After all, this is an immortal, and even if Natasha knows about the side effects of the containment, it still can't erase Nick Fury's desire for this spell.
If you can get this [Dog Charm], for S.H.I.E.L.D., it is undoubtedly a powerful weapon that is not weaker than Loki's scepter, with the end of the Battle of New York, Thor took away the Cosmic Rubik's Cube, and now S.H.I.E.L.D. only leaves the magic scepter used by Loki at the beginning.
It's a pity that Nick Fury's idea is good, but it's a pity that the charm was contained by the dragon, a containment expert from the Foundation, early, and Nick Fury shouldn't have had a chance to contact it at all.
"I don't rule it out."
Turning his thoughts back and forth to Agent Hill's inference, Nick Fury nodded his head.
Indeed, if it were the power of the containment, it would have been able to make Peggy Carter disappear in his room without even realizing it.
During this time, S.H.I.E.L.D., at the request of Nick Fury, has also collected some items with special abilities.
Most of this is the product of experimental accidents or mutations, and in the past, Nick Fury would have only experimented with scientific products. However, since learning about the concept of containment, Nick Fury has always looked at these objects and has always thought that these are also a type of containment, contained objects made by humans.
"Whether it's the effect of the containment or whatever, we have to get Peggy Carter back."
After a moment's thought, Nick Fury gave the order to Agent Hill again.
It stands to reason that they all have to act on the founder of S.H.I.E.L.D.
Even though, deep down in Nick Fury's heart, it is actually clear that the possibility of being able to find the other party is almost minimal.
"Yes, sir."
He nodded his head without hesitation, and then Agent Hill's face showed a look of hesitation, and the head of S.H.I.E.L.D. asked, "Well, sir, do we need to tell the captain about Peggy Carter's disappearance?" ”
“……”
Nick Fury was silent for a moment when Agent Hill asked him before replying.
"No, I don't."