Chapter 9: The Honor
Nick looked at Steve, who was slightly anxious, and chose to ask the waiter to pour the wine again.
"Yes and not quite." Steve shook his head, this ordinary alcohol had long since been able to give him the same slightly drunken feeling as before, strengthened by the super soldier serum.
But when he is bored, he still chooses to drink as before.
It's just that now he is surrounded by a lack of drinking friends.
"People always have to let go of the past, and I accept the fact that it is 70 years after I woke up, but what puzzles me is the meaning of what I did in the first place."
"It's hard to understand." Nick shook the glass, the surface of the glass reflecting his very distinctive face, and Steve's face that had been sleeping for seventy years but was still handsome.
"In fact, I sometimes can't understand that I have given so much and given so much, but in the end the result still will not get better, what is the meaning of me doing this?"
"But later, I understood that the meaning of what I did was nothing more than to make good people live better, and people who didn't live well could be a little better than before, although the essence will not change, but that is judged according to the huge base of people, if you have to go into detail, there will definitely be more or less people, because of some of our actions and behaviors, so that life has changed dramatically, isn't it?"
"Hmm."
Steve nodded, and turned around with his glass.
It's just an ordinary casual top, but he just wears a smell of sexy tights, especially the unusually developed biceps brachios on the chest that is about to come out.
Nick believes that if Steve wants to, he can pop the top at any time, revealing a muscle that a man can't hold even if he looks at it.
"In my day, there were a lot of places like this.
Because there was still a war going on at that time, many people were overwhelmed by that war and chose to come to these places to relax.
Most of the time, they choose to throw a party to release their stress, and they can do whatever they want at the party.
Men and women will even openly start at the party when they are in the depths, some because of the paralysis of drugs, while others feel that they will go to war tomorrow and will not have a chance if they don't come again.
But I was a little surprised that today, 70 years later, there is still such a place.
At that time, people were there to release stress, but what about now?"
"Maybe these young people are also under a lot of pressure, but maybe they can't say?"
Nick smiled, and the girl in the middle of the dance floor had only the last cover left on her body.
That kind of half-covered and half-exposed scene directly detonated the emotions of the man below.
I can't wait to go up and tear off her clothes directly.
And when the men's plot succeeds, the party will also reach its climax.
"yes, it's stressful."
Steve sighed, he wasn't really interested in the environment, and it was clear from the expression on his face that hadn't changed much from beginning to end that he didn't like it very much.
"In the past, our enemies were the invaders, and now, the invaders have long been beaten away, but the enemy has never disappeared, and has always pressed those at the bottom to breathe.
In fact, I have been to those slums in the previous period.
Dirty, messy, poor, I can't even think of a whole word to describe them.
There was a disgusting stench in the moldy gutters, and in the mountains of garbage, could there be a few people's limbs, gunshots, cries for help, and cries, just like they did seventy years ago.
I really don't know if the ending I gave up my life in exchange for was the right one. ”
Looking at Steve's dejected appearance, Nick didn't know what to say for a while.
He didn't live through the era that Steve went through, so he wasn't in a position to judge him.
Anyway, Steve took another glass of wine to himself and spoke.
"So what? You came to me today, do you have any work for me?"
"No, no, no, I just heard from the doctor that you haven't been in good shape lately, so I wanted to see you in person." Nick explained.
"The words of those so-called doctors are not very credible, you should understand." Steve waved his hand.
"Sometimes they can't even handle their own emotions, so can they help me deal with them? There were three psychiatrists who just listened to me tell stories about falling asleep, and two misinterpreted me and didn't understand what I was talking about. ”
"I know, so I rarely communicate with them, it's just a waste of time." Nick clinked glasses with him, "That's why I'm proposing to let you out, let you go around, and see the era you created with your own hands, maybe your mood will change?"
"It doesn't seem to have much effect."
Steve hung his head, not knowing what he was thinking.
"Perhaps, it's just that you haven't adapted to your new identity, GI?"
Nick laughed and continued.
"You also know that times have long been different, the era that needed you has passed, and you are worthy of your country and your identity, because those have already been paid off when you chose to rush to the ice with a bomb.
So now you are a free body.
You can do whatever you want, you can do whatever you want, the world will not need you as much as before, if something happens, in addition to you, there will be me, and there will be many people to deal with.
So, I think it's time for you to let go of your past and do something that you wanted to do but didn't do.
Like, re-engage in a relationship?"
"Forget it, no one wants to fall in love with someone from their grandparents' generation."
Steve retorted.
However, Nick's words made Steve's mood relax a lot, as if he had woken him up or something.
I saw that his expression was a lot more relaxed.
"yes, it's time for me to take a vacation, to take a good look at the world in seventy years, what's different from before, to be honest, I'd love to get something you use called a mobile phone. I didn't have that much to do at the time, and I could put out so many fun things on that little screen. ”
"Indeed, it is long overdue."
Nick looked at Steve with satisfaction, and it seemed that his efforts had not been in vain.
At least the centenarian's mood has improved a lot.
"Thank you Nick, your words are much more effective than those doctors, at least not as much as they just instilled in me so many strange truths."
"Of course, I've never liked to force people."
Steve got out of his seat, looked at Nick, and held out his left hand.
"We don't seem to have introduced ourselves once yet, so let's make up for it now."
"Steve Rogers."
Nick smiled, and likewise held out a hand and shook it with the man in front of him.
"Honor sir."