Chapter 1033 Shocking the Ordinary People (10)

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

More importantly, he had planned to take a day off to recover his energy. Psychological treatment is also very energy-consuming. However, when Jarvis called, Schiller had no time to rest and drove to Stark Building.

As soon as he arrived at Stark's laboratory, he smelled a familiar smell of alcohol. Schiller coughed twice at the door. Jarvis made a "beep" sound and said, "Sorry, sir, I forgot to turn on the air purifier in advance. Please wait..."

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

Quite unsurprisingly, Stark was lying on the laboratory table like a drunkard, with empty beer bottles at his hands and muttering to himself.

Schiller listened attentively for a while, but didn't understand what he was saying at all, so he reached out and pushed Stark. Stark looked at him with lifeless eyes, waved at him as if he didn't know him, and lay on the table again.

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

Jarvis led Schiller to the next room. He first poured Schiller a cup of coffee, 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. This is the latest physiotherapy massage chair launched by Stark Group. It will make you feel better."

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

"It may take some time for Mr. Stark to sober up, so you can watch a movie here first. If you need anything, call me. I'm at your service at any time." After that, Jarvis left.

Schiller saw that the picture played on the projection screen was the first-person perspective of Stark's mecha. 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 and hesitated for more than half an hour before he reached out and knocked on the door. A familiar voice came from the door. It was Bucky Barnes, the Winter Soldier.

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

Bucky was obviously surprised to see that it was Stark who came in, but he still put the comic book aside, stood up, stretched out his mechanical arm, and wanted to shake hands with Stark, but Stark ignored him completely.

Stark looked at the table next to Bucky's bed, where there were a lot of medicines, so he pointed there with his chin and said, "Steve sent it to you?"

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Bucky looked back at the various medicines on his table. His expression still seemed a little stiff, and he seemed unable to express his emotions well, but he still nodded and said, "Yes, Steve went to re-prescribe me a different medicine. It is said that it will be better."

Then, the two fell into endless silence. Neither side knew what to say, and Stark didn't even know what he was doing here. , but after a while, he finally remembered the main topic, so he asked:

"I want to ask you, do you still remember how you..." Stark paused and took a deep breath. Just when he mustered up the courage to say that sentence, Bucky looked into his eyes and said, "Yes, I remember, I remember every detail, they are all in my memory."

Bucky lowered his head and whispered, "The psychiatrist broke the mental shackles set by Hydra on me, but at that time, the memory of everything I did remained in my mind, and I couldn't erase them."

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

Stark actually knew that Steve was caught between the blood feud of his two best friends and was under great pressure, but he never told anyone, and in essence, this matter had nothing to do with him, but in the end, it was Steve who was hurt the most.

Howard is not only Stark's friend, but also Steve's friend. It can even be said that Howard and Stark have a bit of an awkward relationship, but he and Steve are really like-minded and fight side by side.

His best friend and comrade-in-arms killed another comrade-in-arms, and decades later, he indirectly hurt his comrade-in-arms' son. This series of tragedies weighed on one person, and the pressure can be imagined.

However, Steve never complained, nor did he say to anyone, "Why don't you understand me? Why don't you look at this matter from my perspective?"

Stark knew that Steve didn't want to put pressure on him. After all, in this matter, Stark was the first living victim.

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

Bucky could also understand this, so before Stark could ask, he told the truth:

"At that time, I received an order from a high-level person within Hydra. Of course, I didn't know who issued the order, because I was just a killer and they wouldn't let me know too much."

"They ordered me to stop the Starks' car and create a car explosion. At that time, I set a trap on the road. After the car stopped, I jumped on the hood and smashed the car with my fists. Window glass.”

"That's when 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 robotic arm gradually turned into a fist. He said: "My fist hit his 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 car's engine..."

"Everything ended in an explosion." Bucky's tone began to tremble: "After the flames extinguished, I stepped forward to confirm whether the mission was completed. Those were indeed the bodies of Mr. and Mrs. Stark."

"Also, I found the remains of a safe box for confidential documents in the trunk, but because the explosion was so violent, there was nothing left."

After saying that, he unclenched his fists, as if he was resigned to his fate and waiting for the trial.

The next second, the Iron Man grabbed his neck and pressed him against the wall. The light on Iron Man's mask showed mechanical indifference and ruthlessness.

Bucky was able to struggle, but just a second before he was about to pass out due to suffocation, Iron Man heard him squeeze out one word from his throat: "...Thank you."

The next second, Iron Man let go of his arm, and Bucky fell to the ground, his head hanging to one side, the mask opened, and Stark stared at Bucky and asked, "Why is it '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 he said in a trembling tone: "If you can kill me, of course I want 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 consciousness, all the scenes 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 and then said: "But I know that I can't commit suicide because I still 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 doesn't wake up."

"Nothing in this era can support him to continue walking, and I must live on and become the same evidence that he has witnessed that era, reminding him that he is not alone, even if he has to face endless and eternal life. 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 all this..."

At this moment, Stark calmed down. He looked down at Bucky sitting on the ground and said, "But I won't do it, 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 no longer bear such a tragedy for the second time. ”

After speaking, Stark turned around, not looking at Bucky, and tried to calm down.

After a while, he turned back and asked: "Before you killed Howard, what was his expression and his eyes? Tell me every detail and any clues you think are valuable..."

"I'm just a killer, I don't know much..." Bucky, who was sitting on the ground, curled up one of his legs, put his hands on it, lowered his head and said, "It was the winter of 1991, when Christmas was approaching. Many experimenters have gone home for the holidays..."

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

"How did they get this information?" Stark asked with a frown.

Bucky shook his head and said, "I don't know, but the information is very detailed. Even when he will pass which road, and which road sign he will pass in minutes and seconds, there is detailed information."

Stark's frown deepened, and Bucky continued: "They set the program. I came on stage when I was supposed to. When I jumped on the hood of the vehicle, Howard didn't show any signs of it." surprise."

Stark opened his eyes and said: "...What did you say?!"

"I said he didn't show surprise that he was attacked. He was surprised later because he recognized my identity. He recognized me as 'Bucky Barnes.'"

Then, Bucky turned to look at his robotic arm and said, "I'm not sure, but it seems that at that time, Howard looked at my arm... and showed a surprised and angry emotion."

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

"When Howard found that someone attacked his car, he subconsciously wanted to press the button. I punched him, but failed to stop his action. 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 not hide when he knew he would be attacked?"

"Maybe he knew there would be such a day." Bucky took a deep breath and said, "Hydra in that era was not as easy to deal with as you think now. Howard Stark had become a thorn in their eyes and a thorn in their flesh. Maybe he had thought that Hydra would kill him."

"Then why didn't he protect himself, or go find Seeking asylum?" Stark said in confusion: "He knows someone is going to kill him, why doesn't he hide? ? ! ! "

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

Bucky hesitated, but still said: "He may not want to hide, but he can't hide."

For the first time, Bucky looked up at Stark's eyes and said to him: "In that era, all those who rushed forward had things behind them that made them unable to hide, unwilling to hide, and knowing that they would die, they could only continue to move forward bravely. "

"It was not the times that shaped them, but they built that golden age. "