Stark stared at Schiller who said this with wide eyes, trying to find any guilt on the doctor's face, but Schiller's face was only calm.
"So you directed all of this?"
"not completely."
Stark smashed the table next to him with his hand and said, "Stop saying it's not exactly, is it or isn't it?"
"That's right." Schiller nodded and said, "Don't worry, this is not me shirking responsibility, I'm just telling the truth."
"Tell me from the beginning." Stark closed his eyes, stretched out a finger and said, "Stop using these ambiguous words. I want to hear specific, accurate facts."
"The fact is that you never listened to me carefully, and you never used your wisdom to examine the experiences I told you. You just thought of me as a victim and a good person."
Stark frowned deeply. He stretched out a hand to stop what Schiller said next, and reviewed the experience Schiller told him before in his mind.
According to the timeline, Schiller should have been kidnapped and taken to a laboratory for human body modification as a child. After escaping, he returned to the United States to go to school. During this period, he killed many of the masterminds behind the plan, and was finally arrested by the FBI.
Work in a secret military laboratory.
At first glance, it sounded like he had a lot of experience, but when Stark thought about it carefully, he realized that there were no details, and naturally there was nothing to discuss, so he looked at Schiller and waited for Schiller to give him an answer.
"I told you a long time ago that I have no morals. Why do you think I will obey the law and work for my enemies?"
Stark opened his mouth and then closed it. Then he looked at Schiller and asked in disbelief: "So you have joined Hydra a long time ago?"
Schiller nodded and said: "There is another loophole. You have seen what I am capable of, so how did the FBI catch me?"
"You joined Hydra so early?"
"Even sooner."
"How early?"
"How do you think I got back to the United States?"
Stark slapped himself on the forehead.
Not because of Schiller's legendary experience, but because he felt that he was really stupid.
If Schiller had been abducted as a child and had his body modified, then his social identity would have been lost a long time ago. Being able to study seriously in college in the United States must not have been a gangster or an illegal immigrant. Then it is obvious how his subsequent social identity came about.
Suddenly, Stark realized something. He frowned and looked at Schiller seriously and said, "Hydra can help you get your nationality and identity back, which means that your social status is not low."
"It's actually very tall, remember? Cut off one head and two grow back."
Just as Stark was about to speak, Schiller interrupted him and said: "And this goes back to why I brought you here instead of to the Hydra base."
Stark suddenly shuddered. He suddenly discovered that he trusted Schiller a little too much. He actually got into his car even though he knew that he might be a Hydra, and allowed him to drive away with him.
.
He didn't dare to think what would happen if this base was Hydra's secret base. Although the robot he created was powerful, it was not him after all. If the opponent had been prepared and fully armed, and he fell so defenselessly,
If you fall into a trap, external forces are useless. The other party can point a gun at his head and make him hand over the remote control obediently.
We shouldn't be making unmanned robots! Stark gritted his teeth and thought to himself, it would be better to make a suit of armor to arm himself.
Stark was thinking in his mind that if he had a chance to leave here, he would definitely make a smart armor and wear it on himself. Then no one would be able to threaten his body.
But Stark still felt uneasy. For the first time, he had a real fear of Schiller.
Stark didn't know why he only got along with Schiller for such a short time, and his IQ suddenly dropped off. He didn't find fault with Schiller's words at all. His trust was suddenly full, and he even became dependent on the other person.
This frightened him more than the shrapnel hitting him, because it was silent and subtle, and he couldn't even find the direction of the bullet.
Stark swallowed and thought that external armor alone was not enough. He might have to study psychology systematically.
Then Stark was a little confused. Schiller put so much effort into directing a play to kidnap him and gain his trust, so why did he give up at the last moment?
Stark raised his own question, but Schiller did not answer directly. He just said: "Just when I left the cave for the last time, I learned all the details of their plan for you from my teachers and superiors. Then
It’s a little more radical than I thought.”
"What is that?" Stark asked tentatively.
Schiller said with a slight aside: "My teacher thinks that Tony Stark's social identity is too easy to cause trouble. Even if he kidnaps you, once you find an opportunity to show up, it will cause great turmoil."
"so……"
"They have prepared a human body modification experiment with the purpose of changing the brain. This will ensure that even if you appear in public, no one will admit that you are Stark, and your intelligence will not be damaged."
Stark keenly grasped the key to Schiller's words. He repeated those words: "Human modification experiment?"
He found that during this process, Schiller never looked directly into his eyes. Stark lowered his eyes and lowered his voice and said: "So this is why you changed your mind at the last minute? Because you didn't want me to go through and...
Are you as miserable as you?"
"I've said it before, don't think of me as a hero." Schiller still looked at Stark with that gentle look and said: "I just think their plan is too stupid. After thinking about it, I know that this kind of
Stupid experiments will definitely go wrong in all kinds of ways, I am doing it for their own good, not for you."
"Then you don't have to tell me all this." Stark felt that he had finally caught Schiller's fate. He pointedly pointed out: "You just need to hand me over to anyone and let them take me back to the United States.
Just bring me here instead of explaining it all to me in person."
"So in your opinion, why should I do this?"
Stark leaned forward, put a hand on Schiller's knee, looked into his eyes and said, "Actually, you want me to repay the favor, don't refute, I'm talking about your instinct."
"You said that you are not interested in returning to society, let alone returning to the United States, but the only reason why you are doing this now is that if I know for sure that you saved me, then I will fulfill my promise and help you return to the United States.
Go into a civilized society and be a doctor, not a hydra."
"But unfortunately, it is not civilized society that gives me the initiative, but Hydra."
"No more." Stark said firmly: "I don't care what your position is. You saved me in action, twice. You didn't receive any benefits from civilized society, so this is not the case."
Your responsibility, so of course I will repay you."
"It's time for you to go." Schiller stood up and said: "I will explain to you the real reason for all this is that I got the phone number of your personal secretary through the media, and I told him the news about your survival and what happened here.
Address, he will send a plane to pick you up right away."
As soon as Schiller finished speaking, the sound of helicopter propellers came from outside the base door.
The door slowly opened. After a violent storm, the rare bright sunshine gradually filtered in through the crack in the door.
But it wasn't Pepper who appeared outside the door, but a group of heavily armed agents.
Stark saw a shocked expression on Schiller's face for the first time. He looked up and saw a familiar man.
"Alexander Pierce?" Stark called his name. He remembered that he had seen him at a banquet.
The agents rushed up quickly, passing by Stark like a school of fish, and pressed Schiller onto the table next to him with lightning speed.
Pierce walked forward calmly, showing a worried and thankful expression, gave Stark a hug, and then said: "Mr. Stark, just be okay. I am Alexander Pierce, the director of SHIELD."
, you should still remember me, right?"
Stark was confused. Why did Schiller say he was summoning Pepper, but it was the director of S.H.I.E.L.D. who came? And why did he hold Schiller down as soon as he arrived?
"Sorry, Mr. Stark, the reason SHIELD is here is because we met our old enemy. I assume you already know that the person who kidnapped you is the resurgent Hydra?"
Stark turned to look at Schiller, and Pierce also turned his head. He lowered his eyes and looked at Schiller and said: "We have confirmed the identity of the suspect. According to a group of Hydras installed by SHIELD operating in Eastern Europe,
Informant report - Schiller Rodriguez, a member of the terrorist organization Hydra, was sent by his boss, the leader of Hydra, codenamed Baron Strucker, to lurk in a US military base in Afghanistan three years ago."
Pierce gently touched his wrist and said: "He was the mastermind behind the Tony Stark kidnapping, and he was also the one who instigated local terrorists to carry out terrorist attacks."
Pierce's voice was so loud that Stark felt that it was not addressed to him, but to everyone present, and it was obvious that not only SHIELD employees were present.
"I didn't expect that after so many years, this terrorist organization is still stubbornly resisting. This is indeed SHIELD's dereliction of duty." Pierce sighed softly and said: "I'm very sorry, Mr. Stark, next we will
Communicate with Congress on how to better carry out the work of SHIELD. During the time when you were missing, your family and friends missed you very much, so let’s get on the plane first.”
Looking at Pierce's smile, Stark suddenly thought of something, and his back was soaked with cold sweat almost instantly.
Hydra easily helped Schiller regain his nationality and social status, which shows that they have already achieved a pivotal position in the upper class of the United States. It also shows that Schiller's boss and teacher are in the United States, and they are definitely not ordinary people.
Schiller said that he contacted Pepper, but it was Alexander Pierce who came. The most terrifying thing was that Schiller's expression before proved that he knew Pierce.
Just as Stark was about to blurt out his suspicions, he couldn't help but look at Schiller.
Then he saw Schiller, who was holding his hands firmly on the table, with half of his face pressed against the table, looking at him with an extraordinarily focused and even slightly terrifying look, and mouthed to him:
"Quiet".
Stark's legs instantly became weak.
He instinctively touched the gun in his pocket, but Pierce saw his movements. Stark could only take out the gun, put it in his hand and rubbed it, pretending to be relaxed and said: "It's okay."
You arrived just in time, this little guy is of no use anymore."
"Yes, a small pistol is of no use against such cunning terrorists."
Stark heard the temptation in Pierce's words. He threw the pistol directly to an agent next to him and said: "The level of your SHIELD is bad enough. This Hydra killer almost killed me, but this
Let’s talk about it when we get back, I have to go back quickly to clean up the Stark Group’s mess.”
Pierce seemed relieved. With a wave of his hand, several agents escorted Schiller away, and the two of them walked toward the exit together.
But he didn't notice that Stark turned his head and stared at Schiller's back, clenching his fists tightly.
