Chapter 870: Bright Stars (XV)
Peter returned to Stark Tower again. In the corridor, he called Colson, but Colson didn't answer. He called Steve again, and Steve's sad and tired voice came from the other side:
"Peter, I know you can't believe it. Stark doesn't want to tell you just because he's afraid of hurting you. However, I just saw the corpse with my own eyes..."
Steve's voice began to become a little trembling, and he said: "Perhaps you don't know that although Nick has a long life, he relies on a special medicine. That medicine is different from my super soldier serum. He doesn't have it." The method provides people with super strength and recovery ability. Peter, Nick is different from us, he is not a super soldier, he is just an ordinary person.”
"A sniper bullet passed through his chest and shattered his heart. I saw the big hole in his chest and the fragments of his heart..." The sadness in Steve's tone made Peter have to believe what he said. .
He knew that the captain would not lie or intentionally deceive him, and when he dealt with Nick Fury before, his spider sense also told him that the person in front of him was not a threat.
This shows that Nick Fury may be the king of agents, but his physical fitness is not much higher than that of ordinary people. A sniper bullet is enough to kill him.
At this time, Schiller's voice appeared on 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 is held. "
"Let me tell you, they will never give up! I warned Nick at the beginning not to go alone, but he insisted on doing it. You stood by his side at the beginning, now okay?!" Stark's voice came from the background, looking equally angry and sad. He said:
"Steve Rogers, you have lost another comrade! Who do you want to blame now? The world?"
"I've told you a long time ago that the development of things is not as optimistic as you thought. You will just have fun every day, and that group of people... those people who are engaged in conspiracy, they are ready to kill us anytime and anywhere!"
"Okay, Tony, it's not Steve's fault." Schiller's voice sounded. Because he was relatively close to the microphone, Peter heard it very clearly. He heard Schiller say: "We did ignore that they dared to attack Nick." Let’s do this…”
"Moreover, there are not many killers who dare to take action in Congress and escape smoothly. He must be a veteran, and the person who hired him..." Schiller sighed slightly and said, "Before, SHIELD and the military had The contradiction is so sharp that even if we say it was not the military, no one will believe it.”
"I'm going to go talk to them." Steve's voice sounded. He said, "I have to go talk to them!"
"Is this your reaction to this matter?" Stark's sarcasm sounded again. He said: "Your old comrades died in front of you, and your reaction was just to go talk to them. ? Go and negotiate with those human traitors? ?
"Okay, stop arguing, let's discuss a solution..."
Peter's hand held the phone tighter and tighter. Before he could hear the subsequent content, there was a "stuck" sound and the phone was crushed into pieces by him.
When the fragments fell to the ground, a mechanical arm landed at Peter's feet, picked up the fragments, and threw them into the trash can. Peter turned around and Jarvis put a hand on his shoulder.
The eyes on the mechanical mask lit up, and Peter asked him with a trembling voice, "Jarvis, why on earth did they do this?"
Jarvis shook his head slightly. The sound of mechanical parts rubbing was a bit harsh. Peter closed his eyes and turned his head in the dark corridor. He clenched his fists helplessly and said:
"Every time I thought everything was going in the right direction, something like this would happen. I thought mankind was united and we could work together. Am I really too naive?"
The tall robot squatted down and looked at Peter with flashing eyes. Through the flashing light, Peter gradually recalled what Nick said to him when he left him in SHIELD to persuade him.
"Peter, you have to know that we must seize this opportunity, seize this best period, this may be mankind's only chance to move into the universe." Nick looked into Peter's eyes and said: "We need more Talent, this is nothing to be ashamed of, this is the dream of mankind, no matter which universe humans are in, they must think so..."
Nick's eyes shone with a different kind of light, and Peter heard from his tone a sincere hope that was completely different from his usual temperament. He said: "We don't have much time, so we need more people to come." Work hard for it, right?”
"Director Fury, every research is done step by step. Even if we send 10,000 people to the Mercury base now to lay all the foundations, we still have to wait for the research on the building components to be completed." Peter pushed up his glasses. Explained: "Scientific research cannot be rushed. If you rush to produce results, it is easy to make mistakes, and the losses will be even greater."
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 current situation? Isn't it pretty good?" Peter shrugged and said, "Everything is going on in an orderly manner, whether it is the research and development of aerospace technology in various countries or various technical research at the Mercury base. A few days ago, I just heard Dr. Dora say that another project has been completed and achieved quite good results. "
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Peter looked at Nick and said, "Director, you may be a little anxious. In fact, if things continue to develop smoothly like this, sooner or later, humans will be able to step into the universe and travel among the stars and the sea."
Nick walked back to the desk and sat down. He said, "Peter, as a child of the new era, maybe you don't know that this is not the first time that mankind has come infinitely close to this great goal."
"In that era that you don't understand, we did even more than we do now. In that era of rapid advancement in basic science, all human beings had the idea that we were about to leave the shackles of gravity and fly freely. A dream between the universes.”
"Perhaps you have seen many rusty rockets and space model toys in museums of that era. That is not an exception."
"I was born into an ordinary farmer's family in Alabama. The only toys I owned were small rockets that could be ejected."
"The principle is very simple. There is a yellow spring at the bottom. Just press it and it will fly up a little. It doesn't fly very high. Moreover, the quality is not good. After flying a few times, the paint will fall off."
Nick Fury picked up the pen in his hand, made a rocket launch motion, and then let the pen fall on the table. He said: "It's like this, very childish, right? But at that time, this was already very remarkable. It’s my favorite toy.”
"Later I joined the army. During World War II, I lost an eye due to being hit by a shrapnel. I was also injected with medicine and 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 and looked at the ceiling with his only remaining eye. He said: "Perhaps it is hard for you to imagine that although they are my opponents, people in my group and department all believe that the future of mankind Half of it is on them, and the KGB guys think the same way about us.”
"We all have to prove that we are stronger than the other party, but at the same time, we also admit that the other party is strong. You may not believe it. A lot of the intelligence we collected was used to praise the Soviet Union. It is incredible, right? You can see it today The only thing that can be done is to smear, but that was not the case at the time..."
"When their rocket was successfully launched, we expressed our admiration and acknowledged that they had made leading progress. Then, we approached our aerospace department, and they would swear to ensure that we are not weak either."
"That's it, today you launch the rocket, and tomorrow I test the equipment. At the peak of technological development, we used a method that is unimaginable to modern people to send some equipment that seems extremely crude now to the sky. , and then be proud of it.”
"That was the time when humans were closest to the stars in tens of thousands of years."
Peter looked at Nick in a daze. He had never thought that the director of S.H.I.E.L.D., who always used various glib ways to persuade him to go to other universes to defraud labor, had such a side.
He felt that at this time, Nick and Steve were very similar. People of their era always had an amazing vitality, which was different from this era that had been blown away by decadence and punk. In that era, They always have an inexplicable belief.
But Peter actually knows that the technology at that time is completely incomparable with the current solar system development plan. Now, they can easily send equipment to Mercury and assemble them. No matter what era, human beings can No such great achievements have been achieved.
Standing in the corridor, Peter admitted that at that time, he was somewhat contemptuous of Nick's idea.
He feels that times will only get better and better and will not go backwards. In fact, technology has indeed progressed and mankind has been moving forward steadily. Why bother to miss the past?
But now, Peter understood what Nick was missing. The point of his words was not how much iron sheets humans had thrown into the sky in that era.
What's more, Nick Fury, as a native American, an American soldier who received American education since childhood, and an outstanding agent of the CIA, still misses the era when the Soviet Union was still there after so many years.
This is almost unbelievable. 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 received was not the education of hatred between ethnic groups and countries. What he saw was the bright stars of mankind. .
Peter suddenly understood what he was anxious about. At this moment, he realized that he should not underestimate the wisdom of an immortal. The longer he lived, the more thoroughly he could see human nature.
And he has been fantasizing about certain things. Peter recalled, did he really not realize the essence of human nature? Maybe that's not the case. He's just been using the development of technology to avoid certain things.
And now, the gunshot from the Congress was telling him that there was no use in escaping, and don't have useless illusions. Otherwise, no matter how solid the armor, no matter how strong the chest was, it would not be able to withstand the heart-breaking bullets fired from the darkness.
Putting on his battle suit and mask, Spider-Man stood in front of the window, stopped, turned his head and looked at Jarvis, who waved to him as if saying goodbye.
Spider-Man leaped out, swung in the cold wind over New York, stood on the roof of Stark Building, and roared silently.
Dark clouds covered the sky, and the moonlight was no longer bright. At this moment, New York was covered by dark clouds.