Marvel: Saint Seiya Starting with the Reality Stone.

101. The Heart Gem Nobody Wants (First Update, Please Subscribe!)

Mike didn't slap himself because he suddenly went crazy.

His initial destination was Hydra Fortress, but just as he was thinking about it, he realized that he was back in the valley where he had stayed for fifteen days.

but……

The valley was not the end. He casually tossed it away, seemingly not knowing where it had gone, but in reality, after he upgraded his sixth sense cosmos, even if he didn't want to look, he always knew that the location of the Mind Stone was the end.

Because subconsciously he was still thinking about finding the Mind Gem.

After Mike successfully formed his sixth sense universe by using the Mind Stone as an igniter, even though he didn't intend to actively use the power of the Mind Stone, he still managed to glimpse a corner of the eternally infinite mental energy through it.

The seventh sense, the eighth sense, and even the ninth sense, which is said to be the realm of gods.

Humans are inherently lazy.

Mike was no exception.

and so--

If you can easily become a god-level Saint, why bother struggling to work hard on your own?

Although Mike knew that the Mind Stone's side effect was that it would corrupt the user's mind, the idea of ​​using the Mind Stone to take shortcuts still lingered in his mind.

Whenever his progress in comprehending the Sixth Sense universe slowed down, the thought of finding the Mind Stone would always unconsciously surface, eroding his heart and trying to make him find it.

Mike initially thought that by discarding the Mind Stone and getting rid of it, he could gradually forget about it over time.

But is it effective?

Have.

not much.

until--

The appearance of Wanda.

Mike recalled that early morning when the thought of finding the Mind Stone began to grow wildly again like weeds. It was then that he smelled the aroma of food, and when he saw Wanda squatting by the stone pit, the burgeoning thought vanished in an instant.

This is why he left the valley with Wanda at that time.

One reason is that he wanted to steal the prize.

On the other hand, it was because he wanted to be as far away from the Mind Stone as possible. Since he couldn't help thinking about the Mind Stone even in the valley, he might as well stay even further away from it.

The reason he's going to Hydra Fortress now is quite simple.

Wanda went grocery shopping.

He didn't want to stand there staring blankly at Pietro, so instead of sitting there like an idiot, he decided to go and see what was going on at Hydra Fortress.

Find something to do, and you won't think about the Mind Gem anymore.

Moreover, Mike also expressed his curiosity to Wanda that Hydra Fortress seemed to have been taken over again.

soon.

When Mike reappeared on the drawbridge of Hydra Fortress, he immediately knew who had come to take over Hydra Fortress.

Because he saw someone he knew.

"Commander Victoria Hand?"

“...Mike?”

Still dressed in a dark suit and wearing black-rimmed glasses, Victoria Hand was walking out of the Hydra fortress, talking to the S.H.I.E.L.D. agent beside her. When she saw Mike descending from the sky, she recognized him and quickly gestured to the S.H.I.E.L.D. agents around her who had already raised their guns at Mike: "Put down your guns, Mike is not the enemy."

Upon hearing this, the SHIELD agents on guard immediately put down their guns, which had already been released from their safety, and removed the muzzles from Mike's body.

Victoria Hand walked up to Mike and extended her right hand to him: "I didn't expect to see you here."

Mike shook hands with the other person, listened to the words, and looked at Victoria Hand: "Commander Hand, what brings you here?"

Didn't Heidi tell you?

"Heidi?"

Mike raised an eyebrow, then realized what he meant: "Heidi still gave you those documents."

He recalled his conversation with Heidi when he left New York City.

Heidi ultimately decided to hand over the information about Hydra that she had deciphered from Alexander Pierce to Victoria Hand.

However, the initial information did not include data from Sokovia.

But before Mike came to Sokovia, Heidi told him that if Mike made any progress, he had to tell her. Although she couldn't be of much help in New York City, she wanted him to at least not worry her there.

So when Mike took the Mind Stone to that valley, he spoke to Heidi on the phone again.

After learning that Mike had obtained what he wanted and that Baron Strucker was dead, Heidi asked if she could also hand over Sokovia's information.

Mike, of course, didn't object. Since they already had the Mind Stone, they could do whatever Heidi wanted with it.

This is why Victoria Hand is here.

Mike thought to himself, then looked at Commander Victoria Hand in front of him and said with a smile, "So, did you find anything good here?"

Victoria Hand smiled at Mike.

"There's a laboratory beneath the fortress, and our people discovered something interesting by examining the data left inside."

"what?"

"It seems that the laboratory was specifically designed to study the Mind Scepter, which was supposed to have been locked up in the slingshot base after the Battle of New York, but somehow ended up here. Moreover, when we arrived here, Baron Strucker and the Hydra here had already been killed, and the Mind Scepter had disappeared again."

Victoria Hand said this, and then, without any further cryptic remarks, looked at Mike in front of her and said, "Mike, you killed the Hydra here, didn't you?"

Mike smiled slightly and did not deny it: "Yes."

After receiving Mike's answer, Victoria Hand smiled again and said, "Okay, thank you."

Mike raised an eyebrow: "Thank you? I thought you'd try to get the Mind Scepter back."

Victoria Hand smiled.

"Take it back, in whose name, Aegis? Aegis no longer exists."

"So what are you doing now...?"

"Clean up the mess."

Victoria Hand explained, "Hydra Second Strike is S.H.I.E.L.D.'s last case, and I'm only in charge of this one. As for the others, they're not my responsibility. And let's just say, it's better for you to have the Mind Scepter than for it to end up in someone else's hands."

Mike listened to Victoria Hand's words and wondered if she was using a feigned retreat to advance, but looking at Victoria Hand, who didn't seem to be joking, he couldn't help but feel curious.

To be honest, the moment he first saw Victoria Hand, he thought about whether he should just hand over the Mind Stone to her and let her handle it, such as locking it up in some secret base where it would never see the light of day.

Anyway, he's already finished with his plans to use the Mind Stone, so now it's just a blue glass bead that does him nothing but harm.

So rather than letting him continue to know where the Mind Stone is, it's better to hand it over and completely sever his own desires.

As it turned out, Victoria Hand had no intention of taking over.

This puzzled Mike.

“You seem to have a lot of confidence in me, Commander Hand.”

"Because you're not a bad person, I can tell."

Victoria Hand met Mike's gaze: "Of course, you're not the kind of good person people expect, but you care a lot about your family, Mike. A person who cares about his family can't be too bad, at least he won't become the kind of bad person that everyone recognizes."

Mike listened to Victoria Hand's evaluation of him with a somewhat strange expression.

"Are you praising me, Commander Hand?"

"To tell the truth."

Victoria Hand smiled slightly, then changed the subject instead of continuing on the topic of the Mind Scepter: "You actually came at a good time. If you had come a little later, we would have left."

Mike was slightly taken aback.

"leave?"

"Correct."

Victoria Hand explained, “We’ve finished our final work here and are leaving soon. By the way, are you going back to New York City? If you are, you can take our plane.”

Mike smiled and shook his head: "Thank you, but no need. I'll be staying here for a while longer."

Returning to New York City to cultivate oneself is also a form of cultivation.

Cultivating here is also a form of cultivation.

He has just broken through to the sixth sense cosmos, and Wanda is here, so he doesn't plan to leave Sokovia anytime soon.

Upon hearing this, Victoria Hand, seeing that Mike really had no intention of returning to New York, didn't say anything more. After chatting with Mike for a few minutes, she said goodbye to Mike at the call of the S.H.I.E.L.D. agents, and then walked towards the lawn of the fortress.

Mike followed the gaze.

into the eye.

As Victoria Hand approached, a Quinjet transport plane, which was just as modified as Coulson's Airbus, suddenly appeared on the previously empty lawn.

soon.

The Quinjet's engines started, and after all the S.H.I.E.L.D. agents had entered, the massive aircraft took off directly from the ground. After reaching a certain altitude, it entered stealth mode and disappeared completely.

Mike glanced at the departing Quinjet transport plane, then at the completely deserted Hydra fortress, where even a scrap of paper had been taken from the castle, and chose to turn and leave Hydra fortress.

When he returned to his little house in the Novigrad slums, Wanda had already returned from the market and set up the oven in front of the door.

Wanda looked at Mike walking in from outside, a hint of calm flashing in her light green eyes.

"came back?"

"Ah."

Mike smiled slightly and walked towards Wanda, rolling up his sleeves as he did so.

"I'll help you."

"Then you start the fire, and I'll go inside and prepare the ingredients."

"it is good."