"Hmm." Joaquin opened his sleepy eyes and reflected for a moment before he remembered where he was.

This is the U.S. state of Utah, and there's nothing more fun than searching for the last hydra in a desert. Joaquin smiled self-deprecatingly, and his hand touched to his side, but it was empty, Joaquin was slightly stunned, closed his eyes, and searched carefully, but did not find Isabel's shadow in the apartment.

Walking out of the bedroom door, passing through the corridor, and coming to the hall, the charming face of the little crimson is amazingly charming, under the reflection of the beating flame of the fireplace, it looks particularly moving, the hair is lazily scattered next to the ears, sitting leisurely on the sofa, with a layer of woolen blanket on his knees, holding a book in his hand, reading silently. On the side, Little Quicksilver curled up on the sofa on the other side and fell asleep, and a few snoring sounds were heard from time to time.

"She left, didn't say where she was going." Crimson whispered, her eyes not taking off the book, but answering Joaquin's question.

"It's already three o'clock in the morning, are you still reading and not sleeping?" Joaquin yawned, rubbed his hair a little distressedly, and walked out of the gate step by step.

"He's asleep, someone has to keep a vigil." Xiao Crimson looked at Xiao Kuaiyin who was sleeping soundly on the side, her eyes showed a trace of tenderness, she shook her head with a smile, and gently slid her hand on the book, which was quite intellectually beautiful.

"Huh?" Little Quicksilver, who was curled up on the sofa, was awakened by the sound and opened his eyes suddenly, but obviously he had not woken up from his sleep and looked around in confusion. When he saw Joaquin, he immediately realized his mistake and fell asleep, his face turned red. I scratched my head in embarrassment.

"It's fine. Sleep for a while. Little Crimson stretched out her hand. A crimson mist drifted towards Xiao Kuaiyin, and after a while, the embarrassment on Xiao Kuaiyin's face dissipated, holding a blanket in one hand, lying softly on the sofa, rubbing the soft blanket from side to side with his face, and falling asleep sweetly again.

"Okay." This time it was Joaquin's turn to be helpless, the relationship between the brother and sister. The continuous sublimation in the war makes outsiders look a little envious. Even if they don't have their minds connected, there is a magical telepathy between the siblings, which is amazing, perhaps a twin trait.

Joaquin wrapped his nightgown tightly and opened the door with one hand, and the sudden drop in temperature made Joaquin shiver.

"She went east." Crimson muttered softly, her eyes still on the worn-out book, not looking up.

"Thank you." Joaquin thanked him, and his body slowly floated up. Fly to the east, using her psychic abilities to find Isabel.

It was the first time that this team had set foot on a frontal battlefield in the United States. It's been four full months, almost a quarter. At the beginning, they embarked on their journey in the spring, and at this time, time passed, and it was already a scorching summer.

However, in this desert city, the temperature difference between day and night is so great that I can't wait to wear a gauze shirt during the day and a down jacket at night.

This remote city in northwestern Utah looks a little run-down, and it fits well with the atmosphere of their desert setting. With few lights and a terrible silence, this place has long since lost its former glory. However, things always have two sides, and the advantage is that the lights of the city are lost. At this time, the night sky is so dazzling, the stars are shining, and the beauty is like the Milky Way.

Less than two miles after the search, Joaquin saw the huge silver armor on a huge flat-topped mountain.

"You must know that this place is not completely safe, and we are searching for a possible Hydra base." Joaquin locked onto his target, and his body flashed, appearing behind the massive armor.

"I'm sorry, I just wanted to be quiet." Isabel's gentle voice floated out, audible, a little muffled.

"Isha, you've changed a lot, you've become a bit reticent since you came here." Joaquin stepped forward, stood side by side with the silver warrior, and said with a little concern.

"They're beautiful, don't you think?" Isabel looked at the bright Milky Way in the sky, it was more than three o'clock in the morning, it was still dark all around, and the Milky Way in the sky was shining uncontrollably.

Under the firmament, far east is the real snow-capped mountains, behind the west is the small town when it came, surrounded by a barren desert, crisscrossed by ravines and canyons, countless decent flat-topped stone mountains stand around, quite like human architecture, but this is the magic of nature. In the desert, weeds show their tenacity, and occasionally a few red wildflowers sway under the night sky.

"Well, being in the desert, but being able to see the snow-capped mountains in the distance, really answered that sentence, eating watermelon around the stove. What an eerie midsummer, Utah is a magical place. Joaquin laughed, pointed to the canyon in the distance, and said, "Don't you think that the Hydra is likely to open a door from the ground and rush at you and slaughter you?" ”

"Joaquin, I killed a lot of people." Isabel whispered.

"Does that bother you?" Qiao Jin sighed silently, thinking that at the beginning, he was also an ordinary young man, and at some point, his hands were already covered with blood.

"You know, ever since I was three years old, I've seen all sorts of dead faces every day. I'm not a person who has a very bad mental capacity. Isabel shook her head slightly, "But these months have been different. ”

"I know, I'm not a good person, and that painting I painted at my home in New York when you were besieged on Alcatraz took the lives of countless ordinary people." Isabel's voice was faint, adding a touch of coolness to the already cold summer night, "But, I seem to be used to it, although the picture is very realistic, but I feel like I am playing a game." Never took it seriously. ”

"I've been on many missions with you, destroying sentry planes and defeating countless Hydra soldiers. None of this bothered me, on the contrary, I felt a little excited, and I felt like I was doing something right. Isabel bowed her head silently, and the silver samurai also lowered her huge head.

"However, this time is different." Two crisp sounds, Isabel holding a blade in each hand, the bright silver giant is unusually beautiful, "Whenever I see them, they are all blinding bright red, they give me a lot of nightmares." I used to think that what I was doing was right, I used to think that I was standing on the side of justice, but in the past few months, I don't know when, when I took the lives of those people again and again, I no longer have any pride and pride, only sadness, self-blame, and guilt. Even, some of me began to loathe myself. I knew exactly what I was fighting for, but I really couldn't help but start hating myself, oh god I don't even think God wants to hear me cry out to him when I'm sad."

"Eh, Isa, listen to me, it won't be long. The state has repeatedly announced that we have achieved a total victory, and now we are only looking for some remnants of the army that may survive. Even the Amazons and Atlantis have left the continental United States one after another, trying to leave here before causing a misunderstanding to avoid misunderstanding. We've won. Joaquin patted the silver arm with one hand, "If you don't like it, we can withdraw right away and go back to the life you've always wanted." ”

"Is it really possible?" Isabel's words did not have the surprises of the past, but with a hint of depression, "Can I really go back to my original life, am I still the same person I used to be?" Isabel's voice grew smaller and softer, and it was clear that her heart was in a desperate struggle.

"Can you get out of the armor, maybe at this time, as your boyfriend, I need to give you a hug." Joaquin opened his mouth, but he didn't know how to enlighten Isabel, and in the end he could only talk about him.

After a long time, the silver armor finally opened, and Isabel seemed unwilling to come out of here, or rather, unwilling to face the world. Joaquin saw her red eyes and that complicated expression. Without hesitation, Joaquin took the girl into his arms.

"It's my fault, I shouldn't have brought you here. For such a long time, you have been in such a situation for a long time, but I have been focusing on the war and have not taken care of you. Joaquin comforted softly, the girl's blonde hair fluttered in the night sky, and had grown to her waist, like a golden waterfall, so gorgeous.

"At the beginning, I was just deceiving myself." There was a hint of crying in Isabel's voice, "Give orders to the Assassin Alliance, coordinate the delivery of sentry planes, I know what they will do after the order, but I don't have a clear understanding of these actions. You brought me here and taught me a lot. It's really terrifying, the lives I have slaughtered with my own hands in the past few months have not hurt as many lives as the decisions I made in Japan. However, here, I clearly realized that I was a killer, and I had been for a long time. I can't imagine touching our two children with these hands in the future, oh my God."

"Eh, listen, Isa, listen, how about this, I'm here to watch the sunrise with you." Joakin's hand fumbled for a while, and he took out a silver headband from the girl's right pocket, turning the girl's body around.

Joaquin whispered as he gently stroked the golden waterfall, "Tomorrow morning, we will go back to the mutant school, and at Professor X's grave, we will tell him what we have done." Just let him listen to what we've done, how?. ”

Joaquin's palm clumsily tied the headband, tried to tie a bow, put his hands on the girl's shoulder, and said softly: "Then, we will go home, and we will not wait a minute or a second, we will go home immediately." ”

Isabel lowered her head, tears falling like pearls, and she couldn't cry.

Joaquin silently hugged her body from behind, and gently kissed the white and tender face, the tears on it, salty, and a little bitter.

Did we really win? Is this what victory tastes like? It's not what I expected.

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(To be continued......)