Gwen was stunned for a moment, and even her train of thought was briefly interrupted as if she had pressed the pause button.

Mr. Paso...... Have a gift for me?

Well, it must be counted that this is not the first time, and it is not that she has not received gifts on her past birthdays, like the gorgeous fireworks on her first birthday. But no matter which time it was, it was never given to him face-to-face, although it was nominally sent by him, but it is estimated that it was also prepared by the secretary Miss Elizabeth instead, and it always feels different.

A gift to give to yourself in person...... What could it be?

Gwen was inexplicably a little nervous, and there was some anticipation.

In fact, it's not just her, everyone else is also very curious about it. The birthday gift given by the boss himself always feels as mysterious and exciting as himself.

"Actually, it's nothing special, after all, I don't have much time to prepare." Michael reluctantly walked to the middle of the room under everyone's gaze. He raised his hand and slapped it twice loudly.

"Shirley, start that."

"Yes, sir."

All lights in the room were turned off at the same time, and the monitors were blacked out again, except for the projection unit that was still working at full capacity. The light casts a screen in the air, and a countdown appears in the center of the screen, reminiscent of the opening credits of old-fashioned movies.

Gwen swallowed, and suddenly began to feel an indescribable sense of anticipation.

The sound of three-dimensional music began to echo in the enclosed room, followed by a gradually amplified image. The girl closed her eyes tightly and was unconscious in a glass jar filled with an unknown liquid. She had long eyelashes, and her blonde hair slowly rose and fell with the bubbles rising from the jar.

It's ...... I? Gwen was surprised.

Playback continues. In the next picture, the girl in the jar has been freed, and in the next picture, she is besieging her creator, Doctor Octopus, with a group of Spider-Man. Then everyone saw her change into civilian clothes and walk towards the campus with a backpack like an ordinary girl. In the next photo, she changed into a combat uniform with the mark of the Heavenly Sword again, and was embarrassed under all kinds of rigorous training.

At this point, everyone began to understand what the image was trying to express.

The answer is, growth.

From being discovered by Michael in a culture tank six years ago until now, the girl has gone through countless ups and downs. Crises and adversities have made her resilient, and difficult battles have given her a wealth of experience. Six years have passed in the blink of an eye, and now she is already like the girl who was picked up from that dark base.

The play still continues, and so does the growth of the protagonist. Everyone watched her grow from a rookie who was forced to be scrambled by a bunch of training robots when she first came to Tianjian to a difficult fight with the Winter Soldier only by relying on reflexes and skills, and watched her go from the trouble of recklessly going to Jin He back then, but almost exposed her identity, to now giving heavy blows to the underworld forces in New York with her own strength.

Although the protagonist in the video is Gwen, who among the people present is not like this?

Thinking back to myself back then, thinking about the so many things that everyone has experienced together after joining Heavenly Sword, everyone is no longer what it used to be.

But for Gwen, the image is more than that.

So many images, so many moments that even she doesn't remember...... He filmed it all and recorded it.

It's like parents taking pictures of their children walking for the first time, eating by themselves, and going out for the first time...... And a lot of growing moments.

Gwen couldn't help but laugh happily, but the tears couldn't stop rolling down.

Really, I've been thinking about something until now, what's there to be jealous of. No matter what happened, that person had been watching him seriously. Despite this guy's terrible and awkward personality, he never writes anything on his face...... But he does care about himself. It has been since the beginning, and it hasn't changed yet. What else is there for her to be disappointed and frustrated?

It is enough to have these.

"Actually, I just had this idea." Michael explained, "It was Shirley who did the editing and post-production, and I didn't ......??? ”

Before he could finish speaking, he was overwhelmed to see Gwen hugging his waist, and her golden head buried deep in his chest.

"Thank you! That's ...... for me It's already the best gift ever! ”

"Yes...... Yes. ”

Wanda smiled and patted him on the shoulder: "It's praised." ”

***

Antarctica, longitude 71.20, latitude 81.91.

It was a land of ice and snow as silent as death, a realm where even the air was almost frozen, and it was close to a "forbidden land" for most life on Earth. As far as the eye can see, there are glaciers, and the white snow and the gray sky are combined, and it looks as if the whole world has been frozen.

However, it is in such a place that is close to a "forbidden place" that there are living people - and facilities exist.

It is a fortress in the style of German architecture in the last century, standing like a solemn giant in the wind and snow. The snow outside the fort was densely packed with crosses, each carrying a soul that had long since passed away.

Two tightly wrapped figures walked through the cold cemetery, leaving two long footprints towards the fortress in the snowstorm.

Cynthia Schmidt and Brock Rumlow, daughter of the Red Skull and Crossbone.

"The group of people we're about to meet has been stuck in this place since 1942." "They have been isolated from the world for nearly a century, and the communication and radio waves have been completely blocked from the outside world due to the image of the area itself, coupled with the influence of the climate on the satellites and the camouflage treatment of the facilities by the top technology of the Na, no one knows about this place for so long...... Even Hydra too. ”

Cynthia stood at the bottom of the castle and looked up at the giant facility: "So, you said these are my father'......"

"The Red Skull left the facility, and the people inside. Thanks to the super-technology he perfected back then, the facility has survived in this environment to this day. "And the great leader commanded them to stay here for generations, to defend this uninhabited castle alone." This place is also the last habitat of Adolf Hitler's Thule Society. They were told that unless Hitler himself opened the gates, they would defend the secrets of this place to the death. ”

"Then it is clear that neither you nor I are Hitler." Cynthia crossed her waist and asked, "So what's the plan now?" ”

"Now," Crossbones assembled, assembling a portable bazooka and slung it over his shoulder, "we're going to kill them all." ”