Chapter 870: The Stars Are Brilliant (15)
Peter returned to Stark Mansion again, and in the hallway, he called Coulson, but Coulson did not answer, he called Steve again, and Steve's sad and tired voice came from the opposite side:
"Peter, I know you can't believe it, it's just that Stark doesn't want to tell you for fear of hurting you, but I've just seen the corpse with my own eyes......"
Steve's voice began to tremble a little, and he said: "Maybe you don't know, although Nick has a long life, he relies on a special potion, which is different from my super soldier serum, he can't provide people with super strength and recovery ability, Peter, Nick is different from us, he is not a super soldier, just an ordinary person." β
"A sniper bullet went through his chest and shattered his heart, and I saw a large hole in his chest and a fragment of his heart......" The sadness in Steve's tone forced Peter to believe what he said.
He knew that the captain wouldn't lie, and that he deliberately wouldn't deceive him, and that his spider sense had told him that there was no threat to the person in front of him when he had dealt with Nick Fury before.
This shows that Nick Fury may be the king of agents, but his physical fitness is not much beyond that of ordinary people, and a sniper bullet is enough to kill him.
At this time, Schiller's voice came to the phone again, and he said: "Peter, don't think too much, go back to the laboratory, you will be fine in a few days, and we will tell you when the funeral comes." β
"I said, they won't give up! At the beginning, I warned Nick not to go alone, but he had to do it, you were on his side at the beginning, okay?! Stark's voice came from the background, equally angry and sad, as he said:
"Steve Rogers, you've lost another comrade! Now, who are you going to blame? This world? β
"As I said a long time ago, things are not as optimistic as you think, you will just be silly every day, and that group of people ...... Those people who are engaged in intrigues, they are ready to kill us anytime and anywhere! β
"Alright, Tony, it's not Steve's fault." Schiller's voice rang out, and because it was so close to the microphone, that Peter could hear it very clearly, and he heard Schiller say, "We did ignore the fact that they dared to do something to Nick......
"Moreover, there are not many killers who dare to do it in the Congress and can run away smoothly, he must be a veteran, and the person who hired him ......" Schiller sighed slightly and said: "Before, the contradiction between S.H.I.E.L.D. and the military was so sharp, we said that it was not the military, and no one would believe it." β
"I'll talk to them." Steve's voice rang out and he said, "I have to talk to them!" β
"That's how you reacted to this?" Stark's taunt rang out again, and he said, "Your old comrades-in-arms died in front of you like this, and your reaction was just to talk to them?" Go and negotiate with those traitors to humanity?? That's what you want?! β
"Okay, don't argue, let's discuss a solution......"
Peter's hand holding the phone became tighter and tighter, and before he could hear the follow-up, the phone was pinched into pieces by him with a "click".
As the debris fell to the ground, a mechanical arm landed at Peter's feet, picked up the debris and threw it in the trash, Peter turned back, and Jarvis put a hand on his shoulder.
The eyes on the mechanical mask lit up, and Peter's voice trembled as he asked him, "Jarvis, why the hell are they doing this?" β
Jarvis shook his head slightly, the sound of mechanical parts rubbing against each other seemed a little harsh, Peter closed his eyes, turned his head in the dark corridor, he clenched his fists a little helplessly, and said:
"Whenever I think that everything is going in a good direction, there will be such an accident, I think that humanity has been united, I think we can work together, am I really naΓ―ve?"
The tall robot crouched down and looked at Peter with glittering eyes, and through the flickering light, Peter gradually remembered what Nick had said to him when he had left him in S.H.I.E.L.D. to persuade him.
"Peter, you have to know that we have to seize this opportunity, to seize this best of times, this may be the only chance for humanity to step into the universe." Nick looked into Peter's eyes and said, "We need more talents, it's not a shame, it's a human dream, no matter which universe the human beings are, they must think so......"
Nick's eyes twinkled differently, and Peter could hear a sincere hope in his tone that was completely different from his usual temperament, and he said, "We don't have much time, so we need more people to work on it, don't we?" β
"Director Fury, every study is in order, even if you send 10,000 people to the Mercury base now and lay all the foundations, you have to wait for the research of building parts to be completed." Peter pushed his glasses and explained: "Scientific research is not rushed, if you are in a hurry to produce results, it is easy to make mistakes, and then the loss will be even greater." β
Nick took a deep breath and said, "Peter, I understand you, you are a researcher and will be as rigorous as possible, but you may have to try to understand the current situation......"
"What's going on with the situation now? Isn't it good? Peter shrugged his shoulders and said, "Everything is going on in an orderly manner, whether it is the research and development of space technology in various countries or the technical research of the Mercury base, I just heard from Dr. Dora a few days ago that another project has been closed and quite good results have been achieved." β
Peter looked at Nick and said, "Director, you may be in a little anxious, in fact, if you continue to develop smoothly like this, sooner or later, human beings will be able to step into the universe and swim among the stars and seas." β
Nick sat down behind his desk and said, "Peter, as a child of the new age, perhaps you don't know that this is not the first time that humanity has come infinitely close to this great goal. β
"In that era that you don't know, we did even more than we do now, in that era of rapid progress in basic science, all of humanity had the dream that we were about to leave the shackles of gravity and soar freely through the universe."
"Maybe you've seen a lot of rusty rockets and space model toys in museums of that era, and that's not unusual."
"I was born into an ordinary farming family in Alabama, and the only toys I ever owned were small rockets that could be ejected."
"The principle is very simple, there is a spring at the bottom of it, as long as you press it, you can fly up a little, the flight is not high, and the quality is not good, after flying a few times, the paint will fall off."
Nick Fury picked up the pen in his hand and made a rocket-launching motion, then let the pen fall on the table, and said, "It's like this, it's childish, right?" But in those days, it was already a great toy, and it was my favorite toy. β
"Later, I joined the army, and during World War II, I lost an eye because I was hit by a grenade fragment, and at the same time, I was injected with medicine, and I gained a long life."
"During the Cold War, I served in the CIA, and my main opponent at that time was the Soviet Union."
Nick leaned back in his chair, looking at the ceiling with his only remaining eye, and said, "It may be hard for you to imagine that although they are my opponents, my colleagues and departments believe that half of the future of humanity lies on them, and the KGB people think the same way about us." β
"We all have to prove that we are better than each other, but at the same time, we also admit that the other side is strong, you may not believe it, a lot of the information we have collected is used to praise the Soviet Union, which is incredible, right? All you can see today is smearing, but that wasn't the case back then......"
"When their rocket launch was successful, we exclaimed, acknowledged that they had made progress ahead, and then approached our space department, and they would swear that we were not weak."
"That's it, today you launch the rocket, tomorrow I test the equipment, at the peak of technological development, we used a method unimaginable to modern people, some equipment that now looks extremely rudimentary, sent to the sky, and then cheered and proud."
"That was when humanity was closest to the stars for tens of thousands of years."
Peter looked at Nick with some confusion, he never thought that the director of S.H.I.E.L.D., who always used all kinds of oil tones to persuade him to go to other universes to cheat labor, still had such a side.
He felt that at this time, Nick and Steve were very similar, and there was always an amazing vitality in the people of their time, which was different from this era that had been blown by the wind of decadence and punk, in that era, they always had an inexplicable belief.
But Peter actually knew that the technology at that time was completely incomparable to the current solar system development plan, and now, they can easily send equipment to Mercury and assemble them, no matter what era, human beings have not achieved such great feats.
Peter, who was standing in the hallway, admitted that at the time, he was a little contemptuous of Nick's thoughts.
He thinks that the times will only get better and better, not regressive, in fact, technology has indeed progressed, and mankind has been moving forward steadily, so why bother with nostalgia for the past?
But now, Peter understands what Nick is missing, and the point of his words is not how many iron sheets were thrown into the sky by humans in those days.
Rather, Nick Fury, as a native of America, an American soldier who was educated in the United States since childhood, and an excellent agent of the CIA, is still nostalgic for the era when the Soviet Union was still alive after so many years.
This is almost incredible, it is not the control and brainwashing of a small country by a big country, but the collision of two big countries, but what he has received is not the hatred education of nations and countries, what he sees is the bright stars of mankind.
Peter suddenly understood what he was anxious about, and at this moment he realized that he should not despise the wisdom of an immortal, and that the longer he lived, the more he could see humanity more thoroughly.
And he, all the time, had fantasies about certain things, Peter recalled, did he really not realize the nature of human nature? Maybe not, he's just been using the fact that technology is developing to escape something.
And now, the gunshot in the Congress is telling him that it is useless to escape, and not to have meaningless illusions, otherwise, no matter how solid the armor is, no matter how strong the chest, it will not be able to withstand the bullet that breaks the heart from the shadows.
Putting on his suit, putting on his face mask, and standing in front of the window, Spider-Man stopped and turned to look at Jarvis, who waved at him as if to say goodbye.
Spider-Man leapt out, swayed in the cold wind over New York, and stood on the roof of Stark Tower, letting out a silent roar.
Dark clouds obscured the sky, the moonlight was no longer bright, and at this moment in New York, black clouds were pressing down on the city.
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