"It's Hydra who kidnapped you."

Stark stared at Schiller as he said this, trying to find a little guilt on the doctor's face, but Schiller's face was calm.

"So you directed it all?"

"Not exactly."

Stark slammed his hand on the table next to him and said, "Don't say anything more than exactly, yes or no?" ”

"Sort of." Schiller nodded and said, "Don't worry, it's not that I'm shirking my responsibility, I'm just telling the truth." ”

"Tell me from the beginning." Stark closed his eyes, held out a finger and said, "Stop using these ambiguous words, I want to listen to concrete, accurate facts." ”

"The truth is, you never listened to me seriously, you didn't use your wisdom to scrutinize the experience I told you, you just imagined me as a victim and a good person."

Stark frowned deeply, he reached out a hand to stop Schiller's next words, and recalled in his mind what Schiller had told him before,

According to the timeline, Schiller should have been kidnapped to the laboratory for human modification when he was a child, and after escaping halfway, he returned to the United States to go to school, during which he killed many of the masterminds behind this plan, and was finally arrested by the FBI and worked in a secret military laboratory.

At first glance, it sounded very experienced, but Stark thought about it carefully, there were no details in it, and naturally there was no point to deduce, so he looked at Schiller and waited for Schiller to give him an answer.

"I told you a long time ago that I have no morals, why do you think that I will honestly bow to the law and work for my enemies?"

Stark opened his mouth and closed it again, then he looked at Schiller and asked incredulously, "So you've joined Hydra a long time ago?" ”

Schiller nodded and said, "There is another loophole, you have seen my ability, so how did the FBI catch me?" ”

"You joined Hydra so early?"

"Earlier."

"How early?"

"How do you guess I got back to America?"

Stark slapped himself on the forehead.

Not because of Schiller's legendary experience, but because he felt that he was really stupid.

If Schiller had been kidnapped and subjected to human modification when he was a child, then his social identity would have been long gone, and he would certainly not be a black household or a smuggler to study in a serious college in the United States, so how his later social identity came about is obvious.

Suddenly, Stark realized something, he frowned and looked at Schiller seriously and said, "Hydra can help you get back your nationality and identity, which means that your people have a high social status. ”

"It's actually quite high, remember? Chop off one head and grow two heads. ”

Stark was about to speak, but Schiller interrupted him, saying, "And that brings me to why I brought you here instead of the Hydra base." ”

Stark shuddered, and he suddenly realized that he trusted Schiller a little too much, and even got into his car knowing that he might be a Hydra, and let him drive with him.

He didn't dare to think about what would happen if this base was the secret base of Hydra, although the robot he created was powerful, but after all, it was not him, if the other side was prepared and fully armed, and he fell into the trap so defenselessly, the external force was useless, and the other party pointed a gun at his head, he could make him obediently hand over the remote control.

It shouldn't be an unmanned robot! Stark gritted his teeth and thought to himself that it would be better to arm himself with a suit of armor.

Stark thought in his heart that if he had the opportunity to leave here, he would definitely make a set of intelligent armor and wear it on himself, and no one would want to threaten his body at that time.

But Stark still felt uneasy, and for the first time he developed a real fear of Schiller.

Stark didn't know why he had only been with Schiller for such a short time, and his IQ suddenly went offline, and he didn't find fault with Schiller's words at all, and his sense of trust was suddenly full, and he even became dependent on the other party.

It was more terrifying than the shrapnel that hit him, because it was silent, imperceptible, and he couldn't even find the direction of the bullet.

Stark swallowed and thought that it was not enough to have external armor, he was afraid that he would have to study psychology systematically.

Then Stark was also a little puzzled, Schiller took so much effort to direct a play to kidnap him and gain his trust, so why did he give up at the last moment?

Stark asked his question, but Schiller didn't answer it directly, but said, "Just the last time I left the cave, I learned from my teachers and superiors what they had planned for you, and it was a little more radical than I thought. ”

"What's that?" Stark asked tentatively.

Schiller tilted his head slightly and said, "My teacher thinks that Tony Stark's social identity is too easy to cause trouble, even if he kidnaps you, once you find an opportunity to show up, it will cause great turmoil." ”

"So ......"

"They've prepared a human modification experiment with the goal of changing the brain, so that no one will admit that you're Stark, even if you show up in public, and that it won't hurt your intelligence."

Stark keenly grasped the key to Schiller's words, repeating the words: "Human modification experiments? ”

He found that Schiller had never looked him in the eye during this process, and Stark lowered his eyes and lowered his voice and said, "So that's why you changed your mind at the last minute?" Because you don't want me to go through the same tragedy as you? ”

"I've said it all, don't make my brain a hero." Schiller still looked at Stark with that gentle gaze and said, "I just think their plan is too stupid, think about it, this stupid experiment will definitely go wrong, I am for their good, not for you." ”

"Then you can leave it all to me." Stark felt that he had finally caught Schiller's life, and he pointed pointedly: "You just have to hand me over to whoever you want and let them take me back to America, instead of bringing me here and explaining it to me personally." ”

"Then why do I do that, in your opinion?"

Stark leaned forward, he pressed a hand on Schiller's knee, looked him in the eye and said, "Actually, you want me to repay the favor, don't refute, I'm talking about your instinct." ”

"You say you're not interested in going back to society, and you don't want to go back to the United States, but the only reason you're doing this now is that if I know for sure that you saved me, then I'm going to make good on my promise to help you get back into civilization and be a doctor, not some hydra."

"But it's a pity that it's not civilized society that gives me the initiative, it's Hydra."

"Not anymore." Stark said firmly: "I don't care what your position is, you saved me in action, and twice, you didn't get any benefits from civilized society, so it's not your responsibility, so of course I will repay you." ”

"It's time for you to go." Schiller stood up and said, "I'll explain to you the real reason for all this, I got the phone number of your personal secretary through the media, I told him the news that you survived and the address here, and he will send a plane to pick you up right away." ”

As soon as Schiller finished speaking, the sound of a helicopter propeller was heard outside the door of the base.

The door slowly opened, and after a violent storm, the rare bright sunlight gradually came in through the cracks in the door.

But instead of Pepper, a group of heavily armed agents appeared outside the door.

Stark saw a shocked look on Schiller's face for the first time, and he looked up to see a familiar man.

"Alexander Pearce?" Stark called out his name, and he remembered seeing him at a banquet.

The agents rushed up quickly, swept past Stark's side like a school of fish, and pinned Schiller to the table next to him with lightning speed.

Pierce stepped forward, showed a worried and happy expression, gave Stark a hug, and then said: "Mr. Stark, it's okay if you're okay, I'm Alexander Pierce, the director of S.H.I.E.L.D., you should remember me, right?" ”

Stark's mind was a little confused, why did Schiller say that he summoned Pepper, but it was the director of S.H.I.E.L.D. who came? And why did he hold down Schiller as soon as he came?

"I'm sorry, Mr. Stark, but S.H.I.E.L.D. is here because we ran into our old rival, and I'm assuming you already know that your kidnapper is the resurrected Hydra?"

Stark turned his head to look at Schiller, and Pierce also turned his head, he lowered his eyes and looked at Schiller and said: "We have confirmed the identity of the suspect, according to the report of an informant in a group of Hydras planted by S.H.I.E.L.D. in Eastern Europe - Schiller Rodriguez, a member of the terrorist organization Hydra, was sent to a US military base in Afghanistan three years ago by his boss, the leader of Hydra, codenamed Baron Straker. ”

Pierce touched his wrist lightly and said, "He is the one behind the kidnapping of Tony Stark, and he also instructed the local terrorists to carry out terrorist attacks." ”

Pierce's voice was so loud that Stark felt that it wasn't meant for him, but for everyone present, and it was clearly not just S.H.I.E.L.D. employees at the scene.

"I didn't expect that after so many years, this terrorist organization is still stubbornly resisting, which is indeed a dereliction of duty by S.H.I.E.L.D." Pierce sighed softly and said, "I'm very sorry, Mr. Stark, we will communicate with Congress next on how to better carry out the work of S.H.I.E.L.D., during this time of your disappearance, your family and friends miss you very much, let's get on the plane first." ”

Looking at Pierce's smile, Stark suddenly thought of something, and his back was soaked in cold sweat almost instantly.

Hydra easily helped Schiller restore his nationality and social identity, which shows that they have long achieved a pivotal position in the upper class of the United States, and it also shows that Schiller's boss and teacher are in the United States, and they are definitely not ordinary people.

Schiller said he contacted Pepper, but it was Alexander Pierce who came, and the most terrifying thing was that Schiller's previous expression proved that he knew Pierce.

Stark was about to blurt out his suspicions when he couldn't help but look at Schiller.

Then he saw that Schiller, who was holding two hands and pressing him on the table, with half of his face against the table, looked at him with an extraordinarily focused and even slightly terrifying look, and made a lip gesture to him: "Quiet."

Stark's legs went limp.

He instinctively touched the gun in his pocket, but Pierce saw his movements, Stark could only take out the gun, rub it in his hand, and pretend to be relaxed: "Fortunately, you came in time, this little guy is useless." ”

"Yes, a small pistol is useless against such cunning terrorists."

Stark heard the temptation in Pierce's words, and he directly threw the pistol to an agent next to him and said: "Your S.H.I.E.L.D. level is terrible, this Hydra killer almost killed me, but let's go back and talk about this, I have to go back and clean up the mess of the Stark Group quickly." ”

Pierce looked relieved, and with a wave of his hand, several agents escorted Schiller away, and the two of them walked together towards the exit.

But he didn't notice that Stark turned his head to look at Schiller's back, clenching his fists tightly.

A hook in the shape of a ball of yarn

(End of chapter)