Canadian borders.

The snow is falling, everything is covered in white, and the ice crystals on the trees reflect beautifully in the sunlight, adding a touch of magnificence to the scenery.

Above this snowy field, all you can see is barrenness and desolation, as if there is no trace of human activity here, and the only thing you have is an endless stretch of snow-covered mountains and rivers.

Stretching along the two footprints, in this white world, two figures are moving slowly.

"Seriously, Melissa, you don't actually have to come along, this is my mission, not yours." Old Patton walked on crutches, step by step.

With his current age, it is no longer easy to travel long distances, not to mention that he is still climbing the snow-capped mountains on foot at this time, and this extreme weather environment has greatly consumed the physical strength of Hawkeye and Singing Bird.

"No, this is also my choice, I will not be silent anymore, I don't deserve to say the words 'avenge my teammates', what I have to do now is just to atone for what I did before, if I unfortunately die, then I deserve it."

Melissa's tone was very flat, as if she was not talking about herself, she seemed to have seen through life and death, and it could even be said that she would rather die on the road of accompanying Hawkeye than to live in the world.

As a result, she looks more like a 'real' hero.

Perhaps, this is the deformed mentality of these transcendents in this world, most of the villains want to die in the battle with the heroes, and those heroes want to die in the old battles of the year.

Whether it's the Punisher, the Twilight Wolf, or the other surviving heroes, they have long since been 'deposed', and they will never be able to regain the tenacious heart full of hope of the past.

Perhaps, this is also the reason why Hawkeye wants to embark on this road.

Hawkeye is fed up with all these years of inaction, and when he embarks on the path of revenge and puts himself in the eyes of all the villains, he has put his life and death on the line, and perhaps death is a better destination for him.

At least this act can ignite the blood of some people in the wasteland.

After a moment of silence, Barton didn't know what to say about Melissa, so he silently continued to look down at the map.

On the one hand, although the chirping bird did not attack the heroes back then, she was indeed labeled as a 'traitor'.

She is one of Barton's revenge targets, but on the other hand, Barton really can't do anything about it, and at the same time, Barton is also very happy that the bird will choose to follow him on this trip, which at least means that she has not abandoned the hero's heart.

Unlike some old wolf, he doesn't want to step out of his fence house.

However, it is gratifying to be relieved, and the elder Barton still has a great prejudice against Melissa in his heart, and he wants to relive the old days when he fought side by side with Melissa, but he is not willing to be too intimate with her.

It was these two opposing thoughts and feelings that made Barton not know how to handle his interactions with Melissa.

Melissa herself knew this, she didn't expect Barton to forgive her, because she wouldn't forgive herself, she wanted to help Barton go to revenge together, just because she had been waiting for this day for a long time.

The two had their own different ideas, and there was hardly much communication along the way, and the atmosphere remained very weird.

Until—

"Something seems wrong."

Melissa stopped, she put her hands to her ears, and turned on her superpowers to sense the small sounds around her.

What's wrong, what do you feel?"

Old Barton also stopped when he heard this, he didn't hear anything, but this didn't mean that he didn't trust Melissa's judgment, as an old teammate and as the former captain of the Thunder Secret Service, Hawkeye immediately took out his weapon and waited for it.

"Something is approaching," Melissa replied with her eyes closed.

"Directions?"

Barton asked calmly.

A white snowfield made his eyesight deteriorate even more, he frowned slightly, and at the same time his heart became vigilant, after all, he was also here for the first time, and he didn't know what he would encounter.

"At four o'clock, that sound sounds like a mechanical artifact, familiar? We've dealt with each other before. Melissa gave her own judgment, but instead of relenting, she became more vigilant.

The same was true of Hawkeye, who jerked his bow at the position Melissa had given.

"In today's world, the things we've dealt with are obviously not friendly guys."

"Yes, after all, when did the Thunder Agents run into trouble with good handling?" Melissa wanted to smile, but she hadn't smiled in a long time, and her facial muscles were very stiff.

As soon as the two of them were ready for battle, it didn't take long for the sound of a machine running from afar, and judging by the loud sound, it was clearly a huge thing.

"I'm coming." Melissa reminded.

Barton's palm holding the bow and arrow couldn't help but tighten, although he hadn't seen the true identity of the other party yet, but judging from the huge movement, the other party was obviously not something easy to solve.

The next moment, a gigantic robot parted the pine trees and emerged from the trees.

It was a blue and purple robot, but it was scarred, one eye was broken, and some of the circuit boards on its body were exposed, so it was hard to imagine what it was fighting before.

"What are you kidding?"

Old Barton's mouth was wide open, although he had glaucoma and his vision was not very clear, he could still see the identity of the thing from the other party's huge body.

"Singing Bird, you didn't tell me there were mutant hunting sentinel robots here!"

"I don't know how to be careful!"

Just as the chirping bird was about to say something, the sentinel robot on the opposite side launched a direct attack.

Old Barton dodged the sentry robot's big hand with a flying body, and before he could turn around and fight back, the sentry's only eyeball shot a red laser.

"Oh my! Why does this guy keep chasing me, I've had a physical examination before, I'm not a mutant! ”

Hawkeye dodged the laser sideways again, cursing incessantly from his mouth.

With his current state, it was obviously impossible to single-handedly pick up a sentry robot, even if the sentry robot was covered in bruises, but Barton was only a mortal after all.

But at this moment, the chirping bird struck.

(End of chapter)