sinovels Chapter 309
Chapter 309
It was still very early when Carl came back, and everyone was resting in their own rooms, except Bucky, who sat silently on the sofa by himself without turning on the lights, like a ghost.
If he suddenly said a word at this time, this scene could be directly used in ghost movies.
"You're busy," Bucky said slowly.
He actually spoke.
Although he knew that the other party's brain waves must not match his own, Carl still had a weird sense of humor... especially under Bucky's very serious demeanor, which seemed to have an inexplicable sense of grievance.
"No way," Carl replied, "I'm hardly ever not busy."
He walked over to Bucky and sat down, specially choosing the side of the mechanical arm. After sitting down, he turned his head and observed carefully. The X vision allowed him to observe the innermost parts of those precision parts very easily.
The status of the big brother of the Soviet Union should not be underestimated. The technology displayed in this robotic arm that was manufactured and started to be used in the last century will not be outdated even today, and it is even surprisingly exquisite in some aspects. .
When he was just found and captured, Tony cleaned up, repaired and simply modified his mechanical arm. Basically, as long as he no longer performed high-intensity assassination tasks, this arm would be used until Bucky died of old age. Not necessarily a fault.
But Bucky certainly couldn't be content with being...an anonymous deserter, an assassin who would be hunted down and stigmatized all his life.
Even if he had thought of escaping before, he can no longer do so now.
"This thing is very useful." Bucky said indifferently, "I still remember that in the first few years, almost no one could resist the strength of my attack, and they asked me to capture powerful mutants as test subjects ;The task of assassinating high-ranking officials also belongs to me, and it is only those tasks that have already failed once."
The difficulty of a mission that has already failed once will definitely increase greatly, and the security level of the other party will definitely rise several levels, and the social impact brought about by the failed assassination will also prompt the government to attach great importance to the personal safety of the assassinated target.
But even under such circumstances, Bucky must still be able to successfully assassinate-not only took the lives of high-ranking people from the hands of the government, but also severely slapped them in the face.
Only then did Carl have a general understanding of the high rewards, invisible achievements and power represented by the "Winter Soldier".
But it's nothing.
Even knowing this, Karl's mood is still extremely relaxed, because these worldly difficulties are really very simple to solve.
"The structure of the robotic arm has really been pushed to the extreme in a way, and even Tony can't upgrade it without changing its core model," Carl said, laughing, "How angry he was And not reconciled, I am afraid you can imagine."
"..."
"Don't be so repulsive, Bucky." Carl said lightly, "Get out of the past and look to the future."
This was said so easily, so easily that any listener could not help but refute.
"Did you go out there?" Bucky asked.
"As everyone knows," Carl replied, "I don't have a past to get out of, Bucky."
He got up from the sofa, patted Bucky on the shoulder kindly, and walked up the stairs to his room.
The reporters who stayed at the gate of Ayer's main house finally got their wish and interviewed several important figures in the party.
Tony.Stark, despite his impatience when stopped, managed to answer a few questions with difficulty;
Scott.Cyclops, who is more widely known as the captain of the X-Men, is a big window for the X-Men to show to the outside world, and he is already very experienced in interviews with reporters;
Charles.Xavier, the most well-known mutant leader, is also the one with the best attitude towards the reporters. Even if the attitude of the reporters becomes a bit rude, he can respond calmly.
The three of them became the main focus of the reporters, and just as they were attracting the attention of the reporters, Steve, Natasha and the rest of the guests, who were not suitable to be exposed in public, drove from AI Leaving through the side door of the Manor.
Bucky and Dick were left at Carl's house, the former at his own request and the latter by his parents' orders.
"Bruce doesn't know what he's been up to lately. He seems to be going to the headquarters in the UK for some meetings." When Carl asked, Dick curled his lips, full of resentment. This time, even Afu brought it along, and no one at home took care of me, so he simply asked me for a few days off and asked me to come and play with you."
Carl smiled and nodded while listening to the previous part. After hearing that Afu also went to England with Bruce, his heart suddenly moved.
If he remembered correctly, Alfred seemed to be a secret agent before he became the butler of the Wayne family?
It is said that he is still the top secret agent of MI6.
At this time, no matter how bad-minded people are, they can imagine that Mycroft must have played an important role in this so-called "meeting". So wide... Does that guy know who Bruce's other identity is?
He must have known that even without evidence, conclusions could be easily drawn by reasoning alone.
Carl lamented insincerely for a while that Mycroft's hand was too long, and those high-level officials in the United States were too incompetent, and then he threw this matter behind him.
The cause was a phone call from James.
"I know you usually don't care about the company's affairs, and I'm used to it," James said, "but this time you pay more attention to the two movies we are shooting, so I think you might be interested in this." Interesting thing: The release date for the X-Men series has been set, and pre-publicity has begun."
This incident has caused quite a stir in the outside world. After all, D&M company is rich and powerful, and Karl himself is a character with a degree of topicality. When the film has not yet started shooting, he played the "Around the World and Met the Leading Man By the Way" "But it has attracted the attention of a large number of people. Just relying on this gimmick, countless people have added the column of watching "X-Men" to their plans.
In addition, the topic of mutants has always been a hot topic among the people in the past few decades, and whether it is Professor X or Magneto, they are the most famous mutants, the most well-known, and the most popular among mutants. A character who arouses people's curiosity.
"Has the movie passed the review? It's so simple?" Carl was a little curious about this. "If I remember correctly, this movie has 'smeared' a lot of big names."
During the actual shooting, of course, these big figures will do some blurring, but anyone with a heart can guess the true identity of those deliberately blurred people from the details. Karl doesn't believe that those in charge of review can't see it.
The movie must be able to pass the review, but he just didn't expect it to be so simple, so simple that there was no disturbance at all.
"It is said that the higher-ups recently had new ideas about mutants. It may also be that something happened to the person in charge of those experiments at the time. Hey, who knows what those people are thinking?" Regardless of the image, he let out a sneer, "Anyway, our movie has no cards, and that's enough."
"Okay." Carl didn't say much, "I know the situation, and I will talk to them both before they start promoting..."
Like he always did, he would have a good chat with those people.
After the phone call, Carl put the matter of the movie behind him. There are too many things in this world that he needs to deal with and worry about. A few movies really can't win him too much attention. Frequent visits and inquiries during filming are already the greatest importance he can show.
He now spends more of his free time with Dick.
Dick was a very interesting kid, not only because of his precocity and intelligence, but also because of certain things he said.
Taking advantage of the time, Carl took Dick to visit various sights of the metropolis. Dick still found it interesting in the first few days, but as time passed, the expression on his little face became more and more worried.
"Aren't you working?" One day he finally couldn't hold back.
"Although I really hope to establish a positive image in front of you, unfortunately," Carl lay on the sofa, spreading his hands, "I really don't work very much."
"So what do you usually do?" Dick asked what had been bothering him these days, "I've looked at your room and your house, and you've hardly left any traces of use anywhere. I can understand your assiduous efforts to replace electronics, but your sheets—Carl, I bet you never slept on them, even with all the creases in them so realistically."
"Hmm." Carl stared at the TV, pressing the remote control back and forth to find his favorite program, "Continue."
"There is never anyone in the villa, because you don't allow anyone to stay here for too long. I heard that your former assistant, Rao, once lived here for a while. Out of curiosity, I also asked him Questions about you, and guess what?"
"He won't tell you anything, Dick, you are asking the wrong person." Carl shook his head, "He is very vigilant against any words and actions that pry me."
"And everything I've said means you must have a secret," Dick said. "Big secret."
"Surely you have come to a conclusion?"
Dick nodded.
He looked at Carl curiously and seriously, his eyes still full of certain uncertainties.His conjecture seemed too outrageous and unbelievable no matter what, and he couldn't find any evidence to prove his reasoning. The latter was the most frustrating and depressing fact for him—without evidence, reasoning was just reasoning.
And reasoning has a considerable amount of uncertainty.
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The tense atmosphere between them was overturned by a burst of laughter from the TV.
Carl's attention shifted from Dick almost immediately to the TV, and he leaned forward, the defensive position Dick had secretly put into place before he made the move, affirming the acrobatics he had learned before he was eight years old. The skill is enough for him to dodge Carl's arm in time, and the training he received in the Batcave has given him the ability to make the right counterattack without hurting Carl...
Unless Carl is no ordinary person at all.
And that just confirmed his incredible guess.
"Shh, take it easy," Carl said, pulling Dick easily into his arms.
The little boy who was less than ten years old was almost a big doll in front of his size. Carl carried Dick to the sofa and let the little boy lean on his shoulder.
He'd wanted Dick to sit on his lap, but after thinking about it, he decided that Bruce should be the first to do it, and his knee should be reserved for Connor.
his own little boy.
A family member linked by blood.
I don't know if Lex took good care of him, and instilled some weird theories into his little boy, such as "you are just a tool made by me to kill Superman", "your destiny is to obey me My orders" and other miraculous arguments...that was all done by Lex.
In the secret laboratory on the top floor of the Lex Group.
Connor, who was seriously doing his homework, suddenly shivered, raised his head quite alertly, and looked around.
Lex is not by his side all the time, and when he is not around, Connor has to complete a lot of homework he assigned before leaving, and self-study Lex thinks that Connor's Basic knowledge that the intellect can fully grasp.
Connor, who just came into this world not long ago, of course could not like this kind of cramming education, but he has an almost instinctive fear and obedience to his papa.
He always had the feeling that if he didn't listen to Papa, something terrible would happen.
And he still wants to see his other father, Papa said, if he studies hard enough, he will consider taking him to meet Superman, his daddy, before the scheduled time.
If he doesn't study hard, the planned time may be delayed.
This is so unfair!Even without any life experience, Connor can still know from the common sense of life in his brain that children can see their parents in the first place!
However, Lex's words dealt him a rather heavy blow:
"According to common sense, of course this is the case, Connor, but you are not a child born in common sense at all. Your parents are two men, not a man and a woman-the technology you were born with is too old for this world. It's ahead of time, I have to hide you, or you will be captured and turned into an experiment in the hands of some scientists."
This possibility frightened Connor, so he had no choice but to stay in this lab aggrievedly, studying, writing, and doing things he didn't like at all.
I just don't know why, just now he suddenly felt a very strange, very strange feeling... as if someone close to him was missing him.
Connor looked up, looked around furtively, and listened carefully for a while to make sure that Mercy, his father's secretary, the woman who occasionally came to bring him food, was not there.
He has almost written the homework that Papa left him, and now there is no one guarding outside, and he has quietly memorized the access codes for the laboratory.
The door that symbolized freedom gleamed in Connor's eyes.
But he was still hesitating, out of timidity and faint excitement that had never left the laboratory.
In Al's main house, in the villa, Dick was dumbfounded after being carried on the sofa by Carl.
Although he is still just a child with insufficient strength and physical strength, he does not lack sensitivity and flexibility at all.
Or rather, for a child of his age, sensitivity and flexibility are at their peak.
As Robin and Batman, Dick had a lot of actual combat experience when he was on the night patrol in Gotham City. He is very confident in his own strength and has a very precise positioning for himself. Even against eight or nine adult men, he can easily get around them with the help of small props.
Even if he didn't use any kind of props in front of Karl now, but Karl is only alone, he should be able to avoid that moment just now.
However, in fact, he only saw the movement of Karl's shot clearly, and he didn't know what happened afterwards. He only remembered a flash in front of his eyes, and he sat beside Karl.
The other party's strong arm gently embraced him, but his eyes still stayed on the TV, as if he had been fascinated by the program.
This failed escape did not make Dick feel frustrated and lost, on the contrary, he was so excited that he almost trembled.
It is impossible for any ordinary person to do the action just now, which means that Karl who can do the action just now is not an ordinary person at all.
Before meeting Bruce and knowing Bruce's second identity, it was impossible for Dick to have such a bold guess, but Bruce.The fact that Wayne is Batman has made him extremely receptive, and Tony.The fact that Stark disclosed that he is Iron Man not only refreshed Dick's three views, but also made him realize once again that he must never rely on a person's image in the eyes of the outside world to define each other.
There is such a truth:
You never know if the person you pass by is a superhero, let alone if the person you meet day and night has dual identities.
So, after swallowing a mouthful of saliva, Dick bravely asked.
"Are you Superman?"
"I am," Carl said.
He answered so bluntly that Dick was caught off guard and froze in place, with all kinds of thoughts swirling in his mind, and all kinds of questions came to his mouth, and he swallowed them again.
No wonder Bruce believed in him so much, no wonder Bruce reacted so strangely when Superman landed in Gotham City, no wonder Karl knew so many superhumans, no wonder Karl never worked but was haunted every day.
A promotional program for "X-Men" was playing on the TV. It was a rather famous interview. Ethan and Gaston sat side by side on the same small red sofa.
This scene made Carl, who knew the plot of the movie, show a subtle smile.
It is conceivable that when the program is broadcast, how the video of this program will be taken out for spoofing and ridicule.
Dick was still in a state of shock: "Carl! You...how can you be so calm?"
"Why should I not calm down because you know who I am?" Carl asked back, peeling off a piece of chocolate and stuffing it into Dick's mouth.
Dick started to chew like a conditioned reflex. The dark chocolate is not sweet, but very mellow. Besides, it is slightly bitter, which is not the taste that Dick likes. However, Dick just became more and more sure that Bruce already knew Carl's other identity up.
Otherwise, how to explain the dark chocolate at home!
This new discovery made Dick a little restless, but Carl was very stable, watching TV leisurely, and when Dick twisted, he raised his hand to rub Dick's head.
"...Actually, I'm really curious about the plot of the movie, Ethan, it's you, don't look aside, I called your name." On the TV, a slightly fat host smiled and asked the question, "No Anything you can reveal? I don't believe it."
The camera gave Ethan a close-up shot. This handsome young man showed a somewhat helpless smile. He subconsciously looked at Gaston, hoping to get some support or strength from him.
Gaston turned his head just right, and they stared at each other for a few seconds. Under the careful arrangement of the camera, these few seconds of staring at each other were clearer and more eye-catching than the passionate kiss.
Carl thought to himself that I have told countless times that we are not allowed to have sex during the movie promotion period, have they listened to it?
Looking at it like this, it's too suspenseful to want the audience not to see the tricks.
"Sorry, I can't really tell you what happened, I can only promise that it's definitely a great story," Ethan said with a smile, "But I do have something to reveal, for example, although the name of the movie It's "X-Men," but the members of the X-Men don't have a lot of roles, and this movie tends to depict things that happened before they were formed."
"That's what happened between Charles and Eric," Gaston said.
He smiled at the auditorium, reserved, indifferent, and somewhat arrogant.
This expression can be said to be very "Magneto", and immediately caused a small scream at the scene, and the host uttered a series of "wow" exclamations, but failed to suppress the atmosphere of the scene.
"Okay well, since Ethan won't tell us what the movie is about, let's ask Gaston—tell me, you don't behave like Ethan, right Gaston?"
"Yes, I'm the most unruly person." Gaston leaned back a little, putting his arms lightly on the back of the sofa, "but I won't tell you the specific content of the movie."
"What?" The host showed an exaggerated shocked expression, "Why? Doesn't breaking the rules make you happy?"
This is teasing Gaston and Ethan based on the personalities of their characters.
During the movie promotion period, this is a very common method, which can make the audience more interested in the content and plot of the movie. At the same time, the extension of the movie characters to the real world will trigger the audience to have more sense of substitution.
"Of course breaking the rules makes me happy, but if what makes me happy makes my dear best friend unhappy, then I don't necessarily do it."
"You guys are really good friends, huh?" the host laughed. "So, how do you rate your relationship in the movie? We all know that between Professor X and Magneto..." He shrugged, "Friendship and disagreement."