The days of being a spiritual mentor in Meiman

Schiller originally planned to spend half an hour having breakfast, and then let Gray Mist solve his hangover headache and the stiff neck caused by the wrong sleeping position last night.

More importantly, he originally planned to take a day off to recover his energy. Psychotherapy is also very energy-consuming, but when Jarvis called, Schiller had no time to rest, and drove to Stark Tower .

As soon as he came to Stark's laboratory, he smelled a familiar smell of alcohol. Schiller stood at the door and coughed twice, and Jarvis made a didi sound, and then said: Sorry, sir , I forgot to turn on the air purifier in advance, please wait later...

Schiller, who was standing outside the door, heard the buzzing sound of fans in the laboratory. After a while, when he walked in again, there was only the smell of air freshener.

Unsurprisingly, Stark was lying on the laboratory table like a drunk, with empty beer bottles in his hands, mumbling something.

Schiller listened intently for a while, but didn't understand what he was saying at all, so he stretched out his hand and pushed Stark. Stark looked at him blankly, as if he didn't know him, and looked at him. He waved his hand and lay down on the table again.

The rubbing sound of mechanical parts came from behind, and Schiller turned around and saw Jarvis driving the robot body. Schiller looked back at Stark, who was unconscious and drunk, and decided to go out to find Jarvis.

Jarvis led Schiller to the next room. He first poured a cup of coffee for Schiller, then pointed to the massage chair next to him, and said, Sir, if you feel uncomfortable in your neck and shoulders, you can go for a massage. Take a moment, this is the latest physical therapy massage chair launched by Stark Group, it will make you feel better.

Thank you, Jarvis, I need this exactly. Picking up the coffee, Schiller walked over, Jarvis adjusted the backrest for him, the mechanical arm stretched out, the hatch opened, and a picture popped up above the projection device .

Mr. Stark still has some time to sober up, so you can watch a movie here first, call me if you need anything, and I will serve you at any time. After finishing speaking, Jarvis left.

And Schiller saw that the picture played on the projection screen was the first perspective of the Stark mecha, and the time displayed in the lower left corner indicated that this happened this morning.

Stark appeared at the door of a ward. He stood there for a long time, hesitated for more than half an hour, and then reached out to knock on the door. There was a familiar voice from Schiller, that was Bucky Barnes, aka The Winter Soldier.

When Stark walked in, Bucky was reading a book. It was not a serious literary book, but a comic, and it was a funny comic from the previous era.

Seeing that it was Stark who walked in, Bucky was obviously a little surprised, but he still put the comic book aside, stood up, stretched out his mechanical arm, and wanted to shake hands with Stark, but Stark didn't care about him.

Stark looked at the table next to Bucky's hospital bed. There was a lot of medicine on it, so he pointed there with his chin and said, Steve brought it to you?

Bucky looked back at the various medicines on his table, his expression was still a little stiff, and he seemed unable to express his emotions well, but he still nodded and said, Yes, Shi Tiff went to re-prescribe me and changed to another drug, which was said to be better.

Then, the two fell into an endless silence, neither of them knew what they were going to say, and Stark didn't even know what he was doing here, but after a while, he finally remembered the topic, so he asked:

I want to ask you, do you still remember, how did you... Stark paused, took a deep breath, and just as he mustered up the courage to say that, Bucky looked at him The eyes said: Yes, I remember, I remember every detail, and they remain in my memory.

Bucky lowered his head and said in a low voice: The psychiatrist broke the mental shackles that Hydra set on me, but at that time, the memory of everything I did stayed in my mind. There's no way to erase them.

Stark opened his mouth, and he found that he was able to stand here calmly and talk to the murderer who killed his parents, all because of Steve.

Stark actually knew that Steve was under a lot of pressure being caught in the blood feud between his two best friends, but he never said it to anyone, and it was essentially the same thing as He didn't matter at all, but in the end, it was Steve who hurt the most.

Howard is not only Stark's friend, but also Steve's friend. It can even be said that the relationship between Howard and Stark is a bit awkward, but he and Steve are really congenial and fight side by side.

My best friend and comrade-in-arms killed another of my comrades-in-arms, and after decades passed, he indirectly hurt the son of his comrade-in-arms. This series of tragedies weighed on one person, and the pressure can be imagined.

But Steve never once complained, never said Why don't you understand me? Why don't you see it in my shoes? to anyone.

Stark knew that Steve actually didn't want to bring him pressure. After all, in this matter, Stark was the first victim who was still alive.

Just because Steve was willing to be considerate of Stark, Stark was also willing to be considerate of him, choosing to ask in a more calm way instead of attacking the psychiatric hospital, capturing Bucky violently, and then forcing him to question him.

Bucky can also understand this, so before Stark asked, he told the whole story:

At that time, I received an order from a high-level inside Hydra. Of course, I don't know who issued the order, because I'm just a killer, and they won't let me know too much.

They ordered me to stop the Starks' car and do a car bombing where I set a booby trap on the road and when the car stopped I jumped on the hood and smashed the car with my fists Window pane.

At that moment, I heard Howard Stark yell 'Sergeant Barnes?!'.

He recognized me, but he couldn't stop my next move, because at that time, I could only act according to the order.

Bucky took a deep breath, and the mechanical arm gradually clenched into a fist. He said, My fist hit him in the chest, but it didn't kill him. He pressed a button on the car, and I I thought he was going to activate the weapon, so I blew up the engine of the car...

Everything ended in an explosion. Bucky's tone began to tremble a little: After the flames were extinguished, I stepped forward to confirm whether the task was completed. It was indeed the bodies of the Starks.

Also, I found wreckage in the trunk similar to a safe box for confidential documents, but because the explosion was too violent, there was nothing left.

After speaking, he let go of his fist, as if resigned to his fate and waiting for the trial.

In the next second, the steel mecha grabbed his neck and pressed the pedal against the wall. The streamer on Iron Man's mask showed mechanical indifference and ruthlessness.

Buck was basically struggling, and just a second before he was about to pass out due to suffocation, Iron Man heard him squeeze out a word from his throat: ...Thank you.

The next second, Iron Man let go of his arm, Bucky fell to the ground, his head hung to one side, his mask was opened, Stark stared at Bucky, and asked, Why 'thank you'?

Bucky seemed to have finally collapsed, his mechanical arm pressed against the wall on the other side, his fingertips dug into the wall, and said in a trembling tone: If you can kill me, of course I would like to thank you, you Let me accept the trial I deserve, and from now on, I will never have to be tortured again...

Since I regained my sanity, all the pictures in my memory have been playing in my mind. The pleading, crying and death of innocent people have tortured me all the time...

Bucky paused for a moment, then continued, But I know, I can't commit suicide, because I have to support Steve, otherwise, he will become a real loner.

He doesn't love this era at all. In fact, he always hopes that he hasn't woken up.

Nothing in this era can support him to go on, but I must live on, to be like him, to witness that era as evidence, to remind him that he is not alone, even if it has to face endless, eternal Endless guilt and despair...

Of course you should kill me... Bucky gritted his teeth and said, Only you can kill me, only you can end this...

But at this moment, Stark calmed down instead. He looked condescendingly at Bucky who was sitting on the ground and said, But I won't do this, not just because I want you to be punished.

If I kill you, Steve will face such a tragedy again. One of his good friends killed another good friend. As you said, he can't bear the second such tragedy. .”

After speaking, Stark turned around, not looking at Bucky, trying to calm himself down.

After a while, he turned back and asked, Before you killed Howard, what kind of expression and eyes did he have? Tell me every detail, and the clues you think are valuable...

I'm just a killer, I don't know too much... Bucky sitting on the ground curled up one leg, put his hands on it, and said with his head down: It was the winter of 1991, near Christmas, the base's Many of the experimenters went home for the holidays...

An experimental assistant wrote new orders and brainwashing programs into my brain, including Stark's specific travel information.

How did they get this information? Stark asked, frowning.

Bucky shook his head and said, I don't know, but that information is very detailed, even which road he will pass by, and which street sign he will pass by in a few minutes, there are detailed information.

Stark's frown deepened, and Bucky went on to say, They programmed me to step in when I was supposed to, and Howard didn't act like I jumped on the hood of the vehicle. surprise.

Stark opened his eyes and said, ...what did you say?!

I said he wasn't surprised that he was attacked, he was surprised later because he recognized me, he recognized me as 'Bucky Barnes'.

Bucky then turned to look at his mechanical arm and said, I'm not sure, but it seemed like, at that time, Howard looked at my arm... and showed a kind of surprise and anger.

Stark's frown became deeper and deeper. He didn't know that such details were hidden in the original murder case. What's so special about Bucky's mechanical arm? Why did Howard focus on Bucky's mechanical arm before he died?

When Howard found out that someone had attacked his car, he subconsciously wanted to press the button. I punched him, but I couldn't stop him. He had expected all this...

Stark took a deep breath and said, How is this possible?? Wasn't he attacked for no reason? How could he, knowing that he would be attacked, not hide?

Perhaps, he knew that such a day would come. Bucky took a deep breath and said, The Hydra in that era was not as easy to deal with as you imagine now, and Howard Stark has become a thorn in their side , the thorn in the flesh, perhaps he has long thought that Hydra will kill him.

Then why didn't he protect himself, or seek asylum? Stark said very puzzled: He knows someone is going to kill him, and he still doesn't hide??!

Bucky pursed his lips, as if he wanted to say something, but in the end he didn't say anything, Stark saw this, then stared at him and asked, ...what do you want to say?

Bucky hesitated for a moment, but still said, Maybe it's not that he doesn't want to hide, it's just that he can't hide.

For the first time, Bucky looked up into Stark's eyes, and said to him: In that era, all the people who rushed forward had behind them that they couldn't hide, they didn't want to hide, they knew they were dead, and they just wanted to hide. Something that keeps going forward.”

It's not the times that shaped them, but they built that golden age.