「... Driving on the dark desert road, the cool breeze blows my hair, and the strong smell of big horses fills the air..."

"Looking up into the distance, I see the lights flickering... Then she lit a candle, and there was a burst of talking down the hallway, and I think I heard them talking..."

"Welcome to Hotel California, what a beautiful place, what a lovely face......

........

The sun, the road, the warm wind.

The "Mustang" roared on the interstate highway in California, and the warm summer breeze swept through the woman's thick silver-white hair, like the warm hands of a lover through the hair.

The Eagles released this song "Hotel California" almost ten years ago, and even after listening to it thousands of times, Dr. Wendy Lawson still can't help but indulge in the touching sadness of the world, and the longing to return home when he wanders far away.

About 150 kilometers from Los Angeles, on the empty and lonely road leading to Edwards Air Force Base, the guitar strumming in the car stereo and Dr. Lawson slapping on the door frame of the car, the long and boring solitary walk seems to be no longer lonely.

From time to time, she rubbed two orange cats coiled up on the co-pilot, and soon, the outline of the air base came into her eyes.

Founded around the thirties of the twentieth century, Edwards Air Force Base was one of the training centers of the American Air Force during World War II.

Today, in addition to regular Air Force pilot training, it is also a test base for the special research project "Project Pegasus" jointly established by the Department of Strategic Science of S.H.I.E.L.D., THE NATIONAL NAUTICS AND NAUTICS Administration, and the Air Force led by the U.S. government.

"Pegasus", one of the most famous fantasy creatures in Greek mythology, is said to have been born of Medusa and Poseidon, the god of the sea, and is better known as the Pegasus.

"Dr. Lawson, Mr. Stark is already waiting for you in the lab, and by the way, you look great today!"

"Oh! Thank you Harrison, I'm already an old man, and you're going to spoil my ...... like that."

The guard on duty at the test base looked at Dr. Lawson's gentle smile and watched her turn away happily.

Strange to say, Dr. Wendy Lawson has short silver gray hair, and is said to be in her fifties, but her mature and intellectual temperament, tight and fair, beautiful and hearty face, looks only a charming lady in her thirties.

Guard Harrison and a few other guards often gossiped and speculated that Mr. Stark's concern for the advancement of the "Pegasus Project" was probably inseparable from the charming female doctor.

Dr. Lawson came to the office and changed into a white lab coat, and told the orange cat "Guz" as if he were talking to a child, and before she could go to the "Lightspeed Engine" research and development lab, the door was gently slammed.

Howard Stark leaned into half of his body in response to the "please come in" from inside.

"Hi Wendy, I was just passing by and saw you just arrive... I've seen the new and improved engine model, a stroke of genius! Without you, I don't know how many years it would have taken for the Pegasus Project to get to where it is today."

Mr. Stark subconsciously pressed one side of his hair properly, and wanted to interact with Dr. Lawson's orange cat a few times, but Mr. Goodz rolled his green eyes and gave him a fat ass and fell asleep.

"Thanks to Mr. Stark, although the theoretical basis of the current engine is mature, relying only on these extracted energy modules, we have a good understanding of the universe... Ahem, this kind of research on unknown dark energy is very difficult to meet the required standards."

Dr. Lawson shook his head calmly, unconcerned about Howard Stark's compliments, and continued to list the problems encountered in his research.

「..... Most of the dark energy storage modules are still captured and collected from the Second World War, and the purity and magnitude are not on the same level as those of the Howlett Group, and although I trust the Carroll driver, the engine is still too unstable and dangerous..."

Mr. Stark was no longer the sassy chief scientist of the Strategic Science Corps

, but his body shape has remained well-proportioned over the years, and Stark, who is accustomed to wearing formal clothes and being well-groomed, is still a charming old gentleman.

He reclined at Dr. Lawson's desk, remembering that his Ark reactor had been stuck in a dead end for years, and that all the gains and distress had come from the mysterious energy bodies that had been captured from the Hydra forces.

"So I deliberately wanted to ask you again today, knowing that it is much more difficult to meet that Mr. Howlett than to meet the president, and I still got this opportunity through the relationship of two old friends..."

Howard turned his head sideways and pressed the bow tie, lowered his voice slightly, and continued cryptically:

「...... You don't want to see that world, 'that' world! Legend has it... The most terrible man on the planet?"

Wendy Lawson's eyes blinked and seemed to be flustered for a moment, and she combed the ends of her silver gray hair a little uncomfortably, pulled over a stack of data calculus and looked at it casually.

「... You see, there's a lot going on here, and I'm not good at PR, hehe... It's up to you to coax that gentleman, just to do some research with the core source of this energy, I don't think that kind of big man will be stingy."

Mr. Stark shrugged his shoulders indifferently, the arranged helicopter was already waiting outside the laboratory building, and he had just stood up and walked out, only to hear Dr. Lawson chuckle and say:

"Haven't you congratulated you on raising such an outstanding son, the youngest All-Honor graduate in the history of MIT? Tony is only seventeen years old, so let's ask him if he's interested in participating in the Pegasus project."

"Ho! I didn't raise him, that kid... Hmph, as for the youngest and most successful student is a young man named Reed Richards. He was a down-to-earth kid who was studying for multiple PhDs in science at Caltech, Harvard, and other universities.....

Dr. Lawson listened to Howard Stark as if he had opened a conversation, complaining and bitter about his son Tony's perverse behavior.

She couldn't help but smile and shook her head, the father-son relationship at this age seemed to have always been limited to the script of mutual discord.

Reassuring Mr. Stark a few more words, Lawson was stunned for a moment as he left the office, slowly pulling open the drawer and staring at the golden armband lying in a metal box.

Wendy Lawson's fingertips caressed the bright star lines on it, and after a long time, she finally muttered to herself:

「... James Howlett, known as the 'Wolf Emperor'... Almost a planetary god-level figure, alas... How dare I go to him, in case - Supreme Wisdom... Is it true that you will never make mistakes?"

........

350 Fifth Avenue, Manhattan, New York, Empire State Building.

On the hundredth floor at the top of the building, in an empty and solemn dark golden hall, with a ceiling of nearly nine meters, the space of thousands of square meters is empty, only a blue-black quaint rectangular stone table.

The video projector in front of James had just seen Hank McCoy's velvet face.

The "Beast" wore a pair of large round-framed glasses, a bare and strong body with a tie, and a wild and hideous appearance like a lion with a gentle and elegant demeanor, quite a bit of tiger and rose elegance.

He bowed his head and saluted James, rumbling like a beast roar in his throat and eyes, and reported seriously.

"Sir, with the recent launch of two satellites, the global extraterrestrial orbit exploration system can finally be activated, and we are no longer blind to the 'visitors' that may arrive beyond the Earth."

Hank's image was hidden from the light curtain projected in the center of the rectangular stone table, and then transformed into a miniature model of the Earth, a pale green omentum-like shield completely enveloping the planet under the regular circle of forty-eight special orbiting satellites.

Theoretically, this satellite monitoring system can detect everything that passes through the Earth's atmosphere from outer space, whether it is a meteorite, a rocket spacecraft, or even an individual of organic life.

With James Howlett's order ten years ago, it set off a "big search" in the world

like a transcendent power search action,

After Emma, Peggy and others discussed and researched this system, it was included in the task list of the "Wolf's Lair" base science team, and it was finally completed and launched today.

After listening to Hank's detailed and responsible introduction, James smiled drunkly, and half quipped, not so cautiously:

"Hank, maybe before this system was activated, there were already unknown how many aliens had slipped in, and we were always in the stage of creating behind closed doors, hehe, maybe some alien technology was really encountered, and people had already had more advanced countermeasures.

「... James wore a slim-fitting gray casual suit, half-length black hair tucked behind his ears, and didn't really care if the technology could really "guard" the earth.

Because he promised Steve and Peggy to meet Howard Stark in person today, he rarely came to the headquarters of the Howlett Group in the Empire State Building in New York.

After chatting with Hank McCoy about the orbiting satellite, he said a little seriously:

「...... Compared to this monitoring and defense system, I hope to really improve the technology of transgalactic navigation, and it is really difficult for you, if you can get a few so-called alien spaceships, it will allow you to no longer have to explore alone from scratch.

The beast's thick fingers popped out of the tiger-like claw tips, and he scratched his chin, his long indigo mane like a thick beard, and the pair of vertical pupils thought and muffled:

"Sir, it's the Pegasus Project, led by Mr. Howard Stark and researched by Dr. Wendy Lawson, to solve this part of the problem from the perspective of the light-speed engine. This capable Dr. Lawson was born out of nowhere......

「...... If we don't have a significant breakthrough in space folding technology, and it is not advisable to use the means of freezing warehouses......

James raised his eyebrows, helplessly listened to Hank start to talk about the relevant technical issues in the professional field again, half a sound, and finally interrupted:

"So, Hank, I agreed to Stark's request and was willing to talk to him face to face, hehe, I wanted to buy Stark Industries many times decades ago, but he never let go, he's an interesting guy......

As James ended the call, he had just put away the video curtain when he heard a few clicks outside the dark gold door in the hall.

A tall young lady walked in a long green dress that covered her arms, twisting her slender waist.

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