Chapter 62: Early Winter Routine (Part II)
As a social animal, human beings always have convergence, and it is inevitable that they will be changed by this environment in a group of what kind of environment, and now Stark has a deep understanding of this.
Peter is sweet with his childhood sweetheart Gwen every day, and after Gwen officially established a relationship with Peter some time ago, the two of them started dating at a rate of two or three times a week.
Spider-Man, who hasn't progressed to meeting his father-in-law, has been bubbling with happiness lately, and he can be heard talking excitedly every day, what girlfriend's small gifts he received, or which restaurant he went to eat which dish was particularly delicious.
Stark had to admit that even if the details Peter said were naΓ―ve, the restaurant they went to date was a roadside stall that a rich man like Stark would never go, but every time he heard Peter's description, Stark could fully feel his happiness.
In addition to Peter, through the broken mouth of Scrange, the story of Schiller and his wife has become richer and more poignant after a lot of money.
Originally, it was just the information that Coulson got during his routine investigation of Strange, but this kind of big gossip, how could he hold it in his heart alone, and the next day, Natasha and Nick heard a very real and detailed version from Coulson's mouth.
Strange's few short sentences are enriched into a story by the genius agent Coulson, and when this story reaches the ears of Natasha and Nick, Natasha is a woman, and she has a great interest in this kind of romantic love story, and the emotional brain that belongs to women alone allows her to add more romantic details to this story, making it more realistic.
And Nick, who is a skeptic, knows this fact, and he will inevitably investigate.
In this investigation, he really touched some clues.
He found out that the consultation fee paid by S.H.I.E.L.D. and Stark to Schiller was originally only in Schiller's American account, but just recently, this large amount of money was transferred by him to an international account in Switzerland, and then the whereabouts of the money, Nick could not find out, and he guessed that this money may have been used by Schiller to maintain his wife's life.
Some time ago, Schiller told everyone that he was going to be away for a while, in fact, at that time, Nick wanted to track his whereabouts, but the S.H.I.E.L.D. agents cast a net like a fish, and still couldn't find any trace of him, Nick felt that Schiller probably used his magical ability to go to his wife.
Nick has always believed that in order to be a good agent, in addition to the ability of careful logical thinking, you must also have the ability to associate and diverge, and many times, inadvertent inspiration may bring unexpected changes to the action.
Therefore, these various factors are superimposed, and Nick is sure that this matter is inseparable.
He believes that Schiller's wife may not be an American, because he can't find such a disappeared woman in the file, Schiller may have met her on a study tour, and after they fell in love and got married, this lady may have suffered from a temporary incurable disease, but it will continue to worsen, combined with the cryogenic technology mentioned by Schiller at Strange's before, Nick speculated that Schiller may have mastered a technology that can make people freeze forever to seal his wife and prevent the condition from worsening, And is always looking for a means of treatment.
Nick sees more than just poignant love in this story, he has always wanted to win Schiller to completely fall to S.H.I.E.L.D. to work for them, if S.H.I.E.L.D. can do something in the treatment of his wife, then Nick believes that soon, S.H.I.E.L.D. will have another strong arm.
Therefore, Nick also came with the information of various neuroscience experts, intending to see who is qualified to solve this problem.
If Schiller hears Nick's heart and knows the story of his brain, he must applaud the king of secret agents, isn't this the love story of Victor the Freezer and his wife?
The story of the frozen man is good, and the next second will be mine.
Later, when the story reached Stark's ears, he naturally assumed that Nick must have had solid evidence, and he also believed that Schiller was indeed because of his wife, who had been trying to find a cure for many years.
This fact was quite shocking to Stark, after all, most of the people he had met in all the years he had grown up with were rotten people who had spent as much time as his father did.
And the more fatal blow came from Captain America Steve.
The other day, Stark noticed that Steve was not running in the morning, so he went to ask Schiller what was wrong, and Schiller said that Steve had been in a bad mood lately.
Stark is happy, Captain America is in a bad mood, and Iron Man is in a good mood.
When Steve came back, Stark wanted to laugh at him, but Steve looked very haggard at the time, Schiller also looked serious and sad, and Peter basically didn't dare to come out.
In the past few days without Pepper, Stark has wandered around, and he finally knows how to read a little air, and when he sees everyone like this, he also holds back his words.
Afterwards, he went to Schiller again to ask Steve what was wrong, but Schiller just shook his head and told him to ask Steve himself.
How could Iron Man take the initiative to ask Captain America?
However, Stark's overzealous curiosity eventually led him to Steve to find him.
Then he learned from Steve's mouth about the romantic love story between him and Peggy that spanned a century.
The weak and helpless recruit who has just entered the barracks meets a heroic female commander who cares about him everywhere, and after this recruit becomes the famous Captain America, they are born and die together, and they are each other's perfect soul mates, even after a century has passed, Captain America is still determined, and only Peggy is his perfect dance partner.
But the end of this romantic story is sad, Steve met Peggy in a hospital bed a few days ago, and learned from the doctor that she was afraid of dying soon.
He saw that the photo of him kept by Peggy was not the strong Captain America after being injected with serum, but the cowardly Steve who had just entered the boot camp and was bullied everywhere.
He was really on the verge of a breakdown, and he even rushed to Nick's office irrationally and asked him if he had any special serum that would keep Peggy alive.
But unfortunately, in the end, Steve could only accept this ending with great pain and helplessness.
This story shocked Stark even more, because according to Steve, his father Howard was a participant in the whole story, and he and Peggy were once friends.
This made Stark start to think, is he a little too different?
When it comes to women, Stark is of course not lacking, magazine models, party girls or Hollywood female stars, Stark changes one a day, sometimes even several a day.
But when it comes to falling in love, when it comes to true love, Stark thinks back and finds that his head is empty.
Growing up, he didn't have a relationship that he could handle and resonate with his friends.
First love? It seemed to be a little impression, Stark tried to think about it, but he still had to admit that he had almost forgotten.
Peter and Gwen are alive and dead, Schiller and his wife are alive and dead, and Captain America and Peggy are alive.
And Stark, who was surrounded by this group of people, couldn't help but use his genius brain to think hard, why was he different?
"Pepper has been looking at me a little strangely lately." In the S.H.I.E.L.D. cafeteria, Stark, Schiller, and Peter sat at the same table to eat, and after Schiller threw Stark out, Pepper had to foster him in S.H.I.E.L.D., Stark was very reluctant, but if he didn't go, he had to sleep on the streets.
"Strange? What's weird? β
"I'm not kidding, I mean serious, her eyes, I can't tell, a little worried, a little relieved, but it seems to be a little sympathetic."
"I should really leave this profession to you, you can see so many things in your eyes?"
Stark waved his hand perfunctorily and said, "Please, the women I've seen are not a thousand but eight hundred, what they are thinking can be seen from the eyes, you say, what is wrong with Pepper?" β
"It depends on how you've been doing, what's going on with you lately?"
"What's wrong with me, I'm so good."
Schiller put down the fork in his hand and snapped his fingers, "Jarvis, can you analyze the difference in your master's behavior trajectory recently?" β
Jarvis dripped, and Stark held his face in his hand, waiting for his smart butler to answer.
"According to the analysis, you have pushed off 18 invitations of the opposite sex in a week, and this is the only difference from the usual behavior pattern......"
In an instant, Stark saw an almost identical expression on Schiller's face to Pepper.
"Damn, I'm not ......"
"You don't have to explain, huh...... If you figured it out, congratulations if you can't do it......"
Schiller shrugged his shoulders and said, "...... Then it can only be said that it is well deserved. β
Schiller knows that in the comics, this guy is a super stallion, not to mention his first love Meredith, who was beaten by a stick, and the ill-intentioned Bane, Gamora, Captain Marvel, Wasp, Spider-Woman, and Hulk, all of them fall asleep after flirting and run after sleeping.
"I'm not ......" Stark put down the cutlery in his hand and propped his hands on the table, "I don't think they have any good ......"
"Then who talked about the beauty of a yacht in the first place?"
"Okay." Stark said like a deflated ball: "I have never been in a decent relationship, you are always in my ear, talking about love, love, those romantic stories." β
"I thought they were all there was to it, sexy, charming, ephemeral and passionate, what's wrong with that?"
"But Peter actually said yesterday that his girlfriend was willing to listen to him talk about how he built those machines, and the two of them talked about it all afternoon!"
"Actually, we didn't talk enough, the next day we went to the exhibition hall again, it was the one from Stark Industries, the machines there were so cool, we didn't feel tired after a whole day of shopping......"
With Stark's murderous eyes, Peter silently stuffed his mouth with a sandwich.
ββ¦β¦ Well, no one has ever wanted to listen to me talk about this, they prefer to listen to all kinds of Hollywood intelligence, gossip about famous brand shows, what new clothes for winter and spring, how can anyone be willing to listen to me talk about how to make mechas? β
"But you'd love to talk about that, right? In your opinion, the mecha is actually much better looking than those designer coats. β
Stark pouted, he looked like a lemon essence right now.
"But it's useless for you to come to us and talk to us, you have to go to Pepper."
"But she doesn't understand these mechs either, and she's already busy."
"It's still the same sentence, as long as you say it, she must be willing to listen."