civilwarnovels Chapter 3688: The Mercury Age (8)
Chapter 3688: The Mercury Age (8)
Chapter 3688: The Mercury Age (VIII)
"Many of you think that I felt my ideals were shattered when the Soviet Union collapsed. But this is true for every relationship in this world. Disappointment never happens overnight, but accumulates bit by bit.
"Not long after I was transformed, I met the previous generation of Black Widow. She was the perfect creation of the Red House, but she was completely different from what I imagined."
Pepper and Wanda also moved a chair and sat down to listen to Natasha's stories of the past. Although most people's impression of Natasha is her neat skills and beautiful face, everyone who has come into contact with Natasha thinks that she has a literary and artistic temperament. When she tells something seriously, it always carries a romantic and tragic atmosphere, sounding like some literary masterpiece born in the flames of war. This may be the innate talent of the Slavs.
"She looked very tired and had no enthusiasm. I could even sense a deep sadness. Something had torn her soul apart, and even after she had stitched them back together, the deep scars were still visible. This made me feel fear for the first time.
"I wanted to know what was going on, but they wouldn't let me talk to her. I was too upset to listen to any words of comfort. So one night, I found her. She asked me, 'Do you know what it takes to be the Black Widow?'
"Later, she left, but I still felt vaguely uneasy. In the winter of that year, the Winter Soldier was seconded here to become our instructor. He was handsome and strong, with a stern face. The girls all liked him, and I was the best among them at that time, so he paid special attention to me.
"We fell in love very quickly. Unlike what I had imagined before, that I would have a partner who shared the same ideals and soul mates with me, it seemed that the attraction between us was pure hormonal attraction, so passionate and irresistible.
“Until one day I asked him, ‘Do you know what it takes to be the Black Widow?’ He didn’t answer me.
"Some time later, on the night before we left for Minsk, at our departure party, the other two instructors got drunk. They fell outside the wall, muttering about the Winter Soldier. One of them said to the other, 'We should do the same. After this winter, all those girls will die, and no one will know what we did.'"
"I had guessed something by then, so I rushed to his room and questioned him. I asked him what exactly our final year selection assessment was going to be about. He said he didn't know, but after I scolded him, he still told me."
"At that time, the people in the Red Room told us that there could only be one Black Widow among us. I thought the person with the best test score would be the Black Widow, but that's not the case. Only one of us can leave here alive, and she is the Black Widow."
"The final stage of the assessment is cannibalism. You must kill all genetically modified trainees in order to become the dreaded Black Widow. I think you should understand how devastated I was when I heard the news."
"They told me that we were all comrades working hard to build this country, but they wanted me to kill my own comrades with my own hands just to make myself cruel and indifferent. How terrible."
"You know, Buggy at that time wouldn't understand me. They wouldn't talk about doctrine with a brainwashed humanoid weapon like him. They just wanted him to obey, unconditionally. So he couldn't understand my extreme reaction at all. He warned me not to tell anyone that I knew the content of the test in advance."
"I also knew I couldn't. If it was just a love affair, it might not be fatal, but if he leaked the secret, he would most likely be destroyed. I didn't tell anyone about it, but I thought of a way to let our relationship be discovered. The transfer order to separate us came soon. He chose to obey, and I chose to accept. That's how it is."
"You finally passed the test," Pepper said. "Did you kill all those girls?"
"Yes, but I promise I did it quickly and they didn't feel any pain." Natasha shook her head slightly and said, "That was the first time I realized that some people had changed."
"That should be very early," Wanda frowned and calculated the time. "The Cold War hasn't even started yet."
"It's not too early," Natasha said. "Counting the time of the previous generation of Black Widow, this cruel training program that completely goes against the core spirit probably started at the beginning of the founding of the country. Some people think that the struggle is over, the cake is on the table, and the next step is to forge the knife to kill other diners, so there is the Red House."
"The Afghan war was foreshadowed," Pepper said, shaking his head. "It will be the same for all regimes that ultimately choose to resort to extreme force. These things will happen in every tyranny, no matter what kind of guise it is wrapped in, it is equally evil."
"So you went to see Bucky to talk about this?" Wanda asked.
Natasha stood up and waved at them mysteriously. They hurried over, thinking she had some secret to tell them. But when they came over, Natasha yelled at the top of her voice:
"I went to see him to tell him in person that he was fucking wrong!! I was right!! He didn't believe me when I told him that the Soviet Union would end sooner or later!! Now you know!!!"
Pepper covered her ears, dizzy from the shock. Natasha hung her bag on her arm, stomped her heels hard and said, "Your ex-boyfriend chose the company between you and his unscrupulous company, and now the company is bankrupt. Even if I die, I will crawl out of my grave to watch his joke!"
Wanda covered her forehead helplessly and said, "I feel like you and Dr. Schiller are becoming more and more alike. You are motivated only when you see others having fun, and you always dress up to show up when others are having the worst time of their lives."
Natasha rolled her eyes and said, "Of course, this is also thanks to the psychiatrist. I wouldn't have the time to do this before, but now, I just want that damn bastard to admit his mistake in person! He has to wait for me tonight!"
Pepper and Wanda looked at each other. Pepper said with a forced smile, "I've almost finished choosing the clothes. Let my makeup artist come and check out your makeup."
Then she winked at Wanda. Wanda slipped out the door while Natasha was putting on makeup, took out her phone and sent a message to Jarvis: "Bucky should be with Steve now, right? Send them a message quickly, Natasha must be crazy!"
Jarvis replied with a series of question marks. Wanda replied with a lot of words that were not clear and logically confusing. She herself felt that what she said was a mess, but she didn't expect Jarvis to understand it.
Two minutes later, Steve gasped as he stared at the long string of messages Jarvis had sent him.
Just as he was about to reply, he found himself being dragged into a small group called "BB Rescue Plan". Jarvis, Steve, Wanda and Pepper were all there.
“Are you sure?” Steve asked. “You’re saying that the two of them weren’t forced to separate, but that they had fundamental disagreements. Now it turns out that Natasha is right and Bucky is wrong, so Natasha wants to take revenge on Bucky?”
"That's totally wrong," Pepper replied, "It's not the kind of revenge you think. Natasha might be trying to trick him into bed."
"so?"
“Did you know that 80% of the people killed by Black Widow die in their beds? Even if she doesn’t kill Bucky, she’ll probably put him in intensive care,” Jarvis said.
Steve gasped again. He glanced back at Bucky, who was tying his tie, and typed quickly, "But Bucky isn't planning on having sex with her. It's not like he wants a one-night stand, otherwise there's no point in dating. And there's no one in the Avengers' lounge."
"The question is, are you sure he can control himself?" Pepper replied quickly, "Anyway, I don't think I can if I were a man. You don't know how beautiful she is tonight. I don't want to say dirty words, but she's really fucking hot!"
Steve was about to say something, but Pepper sent a photo - a photo of Natasha today. Although it was a little blurry from a distance, the enchanting charm was clearly visible.
“Oh no,” Steve said in barely a second. “Unless Bucky is an alpaca, they’re bound to end up on the bed. What’s to be done?”
"What if we try to ruin the date?" Jarvis offered a constructive suggestion. "It's better to have them part ways on bad terms than to have them kill each other in bed, right?"
"That makes sense," Wanda said. "If they fight in the restaurant, we can rush over and pull them apart, but if it's in the hotel, you go, I won't go."
“If we were in a hotel, we definitely wouldn’t be able to open it, unless Bucky was really an alpaca,” Pepper replied finally.
Pepper put down her phone and walked back into the house, and saw Natasha also replying to messages. Seeing her coming, Natasha looked up at her. At this time, her makeup was almost done.
Seeing that extremely beautiful face, Pepper was stunned for a moment. She suddenly felt that there seemed to be no need to save Bucky, and it was not a loss to go to the intensive care unit.
Just when Steve and the others were discussing how to ruin the date, he suddenly found someone sending him a private message. When he clicked on it, it turned out to be Coulson.
"Captain, don't be fooled!" Coulson posted a screenshot of the chat history in the private chat interface. The name of the group chat was "Agent Ms. N Rescue Team". The chat history is as follows:
"Ding ding. I have an idea." Schiller circled Natasha and sent her a long string of messages.
There was a moment of silence in the group, as if everyone was watching. After a while, Nick replied, "I think it's okay. As long as Steve believes that Natasha might hurt Bucky, he will definitely try to stop the date, and then they won't be able to be together."
"I think it's not bad." Hill nodded and said, "As a senior agent of S.H.I.E.L.D., Ms. N should be able to deceive them, right?"
"I'll try." Natasha said, "Bucky and I do have some grudges, and it all started in Minsk..."
"It doesn't matter," Schiller said. "You just need to express your anger appropriately and express your desire to have sex with him, but don't say it too directly, otherwise it will be noticed."
"But will Steve be unable to react?"
"It's okay. I have an informant who will provide appropriate guidance." After Schiller closed the group chat window, he opened Jarvis' chat page and said, "Jarvis, do me a favor. Later you will do this..."