My surname is Stark, who changed my job to become a female big gun?

Chapter 535 Shall we play a game?

"This should be the place where it was founded..."

The echoes of the two people echoed in the empty hall, and the dust accumulated on the floor and tables showed that no one had been here for a long time.

But the strange thing is that the electrical facilities here are still functioning, so that Steve can clearly hear the whirring sound of the ventilation system above his head.

"Strange, why do I always feel like I've seen this scene before somewhere?"

Natasha reached out and brushed the dust on the table nearby. Judging from the extent of the accumulation, this place had been abandoned for at least ten years.

She was sure that she had never been here before, but why did she still feel inexplicably familiar?

However, Steve on the side also had the same feeling. After the two of them entered the bunker, he felt that the furnishings here looked more and more familiar, especially the yellowed wall in the distance and the SHIELD logo on it... …

Suddenly, a thought flashed in Steve's head, and he couldn't help but think back to the time when he first woke up from a coma.

"Welcome to the 21st century, Mr. Rogers..."

"...After the victory of the war, the Strategic Science Corps as you know it announced its reorganization. It was led by your friends Mr. Howard Stark and Ms. Peggy Carter, and jointly established with General Chester Phillips to create the Homeland Strategic Defense Attack and Logistics Security Bureau."

"S.H.I.E.L.D. for short!"

Steve clearly remembered that after he woke up from the coma, Leni beside him gave him a piece of information.

In that document, a photo of the old logo that was determined when S.H.I.E.L.D. was first established was shown.

However, thinking back on it now, Steve suddenly realized that the logo on the photo seemed to be the side he was seeing at the moment.

"In 1945, after the end of World War II, S.H.I.E.L.D. was announced to be established, and this is where they were first established..."

The door of the office partition opened with a click, and the two stepped into an area that looked like a reference room. They were surrounded by bookshelves, but they were already covered with dust.

"That is……"

Suddenly, three photos hanging on the wall not far away caught Natasha's attention.

"Howard Stark, Tony's father..."

The photo in the center stands out the most and is the easiest to identify.

When he was young, Howard had almost the same temperament as Tony today, the same bohemian and equally talented.

Then, Natasha turned her attention to another photo on the side.

The woman in the photo is very young, beautiful and elegant, and looks quite heroic.

Natasha recognized the identity of the woman in the photo. It was obvious that her identity should be Peggy Carter herself, who had just passed away not long ago.

In other words, the first love of Steve Rogers was beside me at the moment.

"Agent Carter, she was really beautiful when she was young."

Natasha turned her head and glanced at Steve, and then found that he was staring at the photo in trance.

Steve seemed to be immersed in memories at the moment. Natasha looked at him with interest for a while, and then the latter came back to her senses belatedly.

"Huh? What did you just say?"

Natasha couldn't help but smile when she saw this.

"Nothing, I just want to say that Agent Carter was indeed unusual when he was young."

After saying that, without waiting for Steve's reaction, Natasha walked alone to a large bookcase where there was a faint sound of wind, and touched the thick solid wood partition of the bookcase with interest.

Noticing Natasha's movements, Steve immediately calmed down, walked to Natasha with a solemn expression, and also carefully observed the huge set of bookcases in front of him.

Then the two looked at each other, Natasha immediately gave up her position, and Steve stepped forward to move the set of bookcases.

Immediately afterwards, what greeted the two of them was an old elevator with a sense of age!

"Why hide the elevator when this is already a secret office?"

"Who knew, SHIELD likes to engage in mystery for more than a day or two."

Natasha complained skillfully, then took out her high-tech tactical terminal and scanned it in front of the elevator controller.

A set of fingerprints that were pressed frequently appeared on the terminal screen. After a series of analysis and calculations by the terminal system, a password result was finally obtained - 8539.

“So easy.”

Enter the results according to the displayed results, the green light will light up with a beep, and then the elevator door will open with a ding.

This elevator, which seemed to have been out of service for a few days, unexpectedly but naturally returned to operation.

"Men first?"

Natasha looked at Steve beside her with a somewhat narrow look. The latter smiled helplessly when he saw this, and stepped into the elevator first.

……

"By this time, Steve and the others should have found Dr. Zola, right?"

Lying on her back on the bed in the lounge where she had not lived for a long time, Leni closed her eyes and slowly let her consciousness sink into her mind.

"If we follow the development of the original timeline, the time is indeed almost here."

Ryan's voice came.

"I just don't know if anything will happen."

"Probably not. I have already told Sitwell that he will notify me as soon as there is any news."

Leni spent a whole day at SHIELD today and also spent a day acting.

Not to mention that she has a dirty mind no matter how she plays tactics. Leni spent a whole day pretending with palpitations, but she still couldn't do it perfectly.

How meticulous do those people who have reached the pinnacle of disguise like the second sister have to be?

"Director Geng, you must have seen something, right?"

Recalling her conversation with Director Hua Guo in the afternoon, Leni couldn't help but feel worried.

His plan was not very thorough. The old man could guess it, but Director Geng, who was also an outsider, couldn't guess it either.

"It's possible, otherwise he wouldn't have asked that, but he probably didn't expect that this matter would be related to Hydra. After all, at that time..."

Ryan was suspicious, but he didn't think Director Geng was so imaginative as to think of Hydra.

At most, they would probably think that Pierce and Leni were taking advantage of the opportunity to attack, trying to take advantage of every opportunity to seize SHIELD's rights.

"I hope, we'd better avoid offending them unless necessary."

"Yeah, that's what I thought too."

The sea of ​​consciousness fell silent for a brief moment.

"By the way, how is your training going, little girl?" As if she suddenly remembered something, Leni changed the topic to little Leni, whom she hadn't seen for a long time.

Since the second sister left them the gift of the female mechanical inheritance a few months ago, little Leni has been spending time in the training dojo almost 24 hours a day.

So much so that Ryan had to temporarily stop his training plan and stay in the sea of ​​consciousness every day to discuss the next plan with Leni.

"I don't know. I remember that when she came out last time, she had already matched our current level, but the professional skills that can be unlocked still seem to be a small part of the G series."

"Does it need to trigger a side mission to unlock it?"

"I don't know. According to what Michelle said, she is different from us and doesn't seem to need to be so troublesome."

Ryan was not sure about this. After all, Leni's occupation was an intelligence-based mechanic, which was completely different from the two strength-based gunners.

In addition, the system did not provide further branch unlocking tasks, which resulted in the fact that even if the two wanted to help, they could not help at all.

"Forget it, it's a blessing or not a curse. You can't avoid the curse. Whether it's good or bad, this is the opportunity for that little girl. Everything depends on her."

Shaking her head to get rid of the thoughts in her mind, Leni returned her consciousness to reality and reached out from the pillow beside her to pick up the mobile phone that had just received the message notification.

Not surprisingly, a message just sent by Sitwell was displayed on the phone screen.

[Rogers and the others were found and are currently in New Jersey. Mr. Pierce ordered a direct destructive strike! 】

Leni sighed softly when she saw this, and after pondering for a moment, she edited a string of text and replied.

[Do as he says, you will see people alive and you will see corpses when they die. 】

……

Ding!

A crisp elevator prompt sounded, and the elevator door in front of Steve opened again, revealing the silent and dark environment outside.

The whistling sound of the wind kept ringing in my ears, especially in the dead silence around me. It seemed even more eerie at this moment.

Steve pricked up his ears and listened for a while, and then he discovered that there seemed to be the sound of some electronic equipment running mixed in with the sound of the wind.

Cautiously clenching the shield in his hand, Steve motioned for Natasha to follow him, and then walked out of the elevator first.

After their eyes adjusted to the dim environment, the two discovered that there seemed to be a lot of ancient computer equipment stored here.

Deng!

Suddenly, the sensing equipment in the room seemed to sense someone entering, and the chandeliers overhead turned on again at this moment.

Soft light poured into the room, allowing the two of them to truly see everything displayed around them.

"Here...are they all old antiques?"

Natasha looked at the surrounding furnishings blankly, but the old equipment around her that seemed to be more than one year older than herself did not look like the data source they were looking for on this trip.

The entire room is filled with various storage devices that are twice as big as the bedside table. Even the main control computer displayed in the center is the largest that Natasha has ever seen only from popular science books.

"This doesn't look like the place we're looking for..."

Natasha was about to say this, but her eyes couldn't help but fall on a data expansion port that was completely incompatible with the furnishings here.

That's a USB docking station.

I would like to ask, why is a modern technological product that was only born in the 1990s connected with this group of antiques that are more than ten or twenty years older than it?

There is obviously only one answer, and that is that someone wants to use this set of USB docking stations to copy some kind of data stored in this set of antique computers.

"Someone has been here before us."

Steve noticed signs of use everywhere next to the docking station.

"Hmm, and I also took something away from these old antiques."

Natasha stared deeply at the docking station for a while, then took out the USB flash drive that concealed some important secret from her pocket and inserted it into the docking station.

hum!

At this moment, it seemed that some special program hidden in the USB flash drive was triggered, and the antiques around them resumed operation at the same time.

【INITIATE SYSTEM? 】

The old CRT monitor displays a line of prompt text "Do you want to start the system?"

Upon seeing this, Natasha couldn't help but recall the plot she had seen in a certain movie, and then walked forward and typed the "YES" command on the keyboard with interest.

"Shall we play a game?"

Natasha pulled off a movie gag that meant, "Are we going to play a game?"

But she didn't expect that Steve had already watched the movie released in 1983 and knew this movie plot.

Before Natasha could explain, the latter had already said the name of the movie - "War Games".

Natasha couldn't help but look at Steve with admiration. Unexpectedly, only 2 years had passed, and the latter had completely evolved from an "old antique" who couldn't understand the prank habits of young people to a modern person from head to toe. people.

But just when Natasha wanted to tease Steve, the CRT monitor in front of them suddenly flashed a series of strange green data symbols, and finally formed a very strange and terrifying skull pattern. .

"What the hell is this?"

Natasha couldn't help but frown.

She hadn't paid much attention when this bunch of antique computers were started just now, but at this moment, she suddenly realized that the old camera on the top of this set of antique computers seemed to be moving the lens following her movements!

Unconsciously, Natasha felt some shivers down her spine, as if the skeleton on the screen was watching them through the camera.

"Steve Rogers, born in 1918. Natasha Elianovna Romanov, born in 1984."

A sharp and harsh mechanical sound suddenly sounded from the antique player, making Natasha shudder.

"This shouldn't be a video, right?"

Natasha frowned. It was not that she had never seen similar artificial intelligence. After all, there were two similar beings in the Avengers Building.

But this was the first time Natasha had seen this guy in front of her being so weird.

Moreover, this kind of antique computer that is so old that it can be put into a museum at any time can also contain artificial intelligence?

"I am not a video, Miss Natasha."

The Green Skull continued to say in that heart-wrenching voice:

"I may not be the same person who was arrested and sent to prison by Captain Rogers in 1945, but I'm still me!"

Something very horrifying happened. The talking skeleton in front of him showed a picture to the two people in front of him. It was actually used by Hydra, and was eventually caught by Steve and imprisoned. Scientist—Dr. Zola!

"Arnim Zola, how is this possible?"

Natasha was a little unbelievable. She didn't fully understand SHIELD's information. After all, she only had level 7 authority so far, even one level lower than Leni.

But thanks to the latter, Natasha had had the opportunity to learn some information about SHIELD's past before, and she also knew a little bit about the person in front of her.

"Aren't you already dead a long time ago?"

"Strictly speaking, my body is indeed dead, but my consciousness and my mind have been successfully preserved..."

(End of this chapter)