Marvel: The Alchemist Just Wants a Peaceful Life

Hawkeye, Captain America, and Tony: "???"

Chapter 231 Tony's Strange Focus

Seeing the strange looks from everyone, Scarlett Johansson had no choice but to tell them about her past.

For Scarlett Johansson, her past is like a scar, but when facing this group of teammates who are both reliable and unreliable, she is willing to tell them about her past, which she herself is unwilling to face.

In truth, Scarlett Johansson's story is quite cliché: a 'family' temporarily formed to complete a mission. This is Scarlett Johansson's initial understanding of the word 'family,' and it is also the most beautiful yet most untouchable 'secret' in her memories.

Black Widow's father was the Red Guardian, created by the Soviet Union to rival Captain America. In simpler terms, he was the Soviet version of Captain America. Black Widow's mother was a Black Widow. The two formed a "family" that infiltrated the U.S. military at the time to obtain intelligence from S.H.I.E.L.D.

Scarlett Johansson and her sister Yelena were the 'cover' used by the two to conceal their identities as spies.

At that time, Scarlett Johansson had already undergone some training in the Red Room, but her sister Yelena had never undergone any training and didn't even know their parents' identities.

After infiltrating the U.S. military for some time, once Black Widow's father obtained the information he needed, he led Black Widow's family to evacuate the U.S. military and return to Russia from Cuba.

That marked the beginning of Scarlett Johansson's tragic life. She and her sister, who knew nothing about her, were forcibly separated and sent to the Red Room for training, losing contact with each other.

Then comes the familiar story of Black Widow growing up, encountering Hawkeye during a mission, and with Hawkeye's help, breaking free from Drake's control and 'killing' him.

After listening to Black Widow's story, Tony's expression was extremely strange. He looked at Black Widow with disbelief and said to her.

"Blackie said my father, Howard, was one of the founders of S.H.I.E.L.D., so to put it simply, your father infiltrated the U.S. military for some 'intelligence' that my father possessed, and even managed to steal that intelligence from my father?"

"Tony!"

Upon hearing Tony's question, Hawkeye called out Tony's name with some displeasure, seemingly wanting to stop Tony from continuing. However, Tony immediately raised his hand to interrupt Hawkeye.

Not only Tony, but even Black Widow raised her hand to signal Hawkeye not to interfere in their conversation before speaking to Tony with a guilty look on her face.

"Yes, everything you said is true!"

However, to Black Widow's complete surprise, Tony's focus was not on the love and hate entanglements of the previous generation, but on a strange point that she had never expected. So much so that the moment Tony spoke, the guilt on Black Widow's face froze instantly, and even a crack appeared.

"So your father and my father were from roughly the same era, and my father and the captain should also know each other, since the shield the captain is holding was made by my father."

Tony paused slightly at this point, a sudden, indescribable excitement appearing on his face. He turned to Sherlock and said to him.

"In other words, in terms of seniority, Natasha should call Old Popsicle 'Uncle'? Holy crap! Sherlock! Send me a copy of your home security camera footage. I'm just too curious to see the Captain get psychologically traumatized by his own junior!"

Upon hearing Tony's words, Sherlock paused for a moment, seemingly shocked by Tony's way of thinking, but after realizing what he meant, he gave Tony an OK sign without hesitation.

At the same time as Sherlock's OK gesture appeared the utterly dejected expression on the face of the Hydra Captain, who had transformed into a mustache version.

Seeing the captain's utterly hopeless expression, and Black Widow's face showing three parts shock, three parts incomprehension, three parts surprise, and one part existential doubt, the group burst into laughter.

After that, things became much simpler. Tony and Sherlock took away the Black Widow and the meat-eater who was responsible for treating her. The two of them needed to find out as soon as possible how Drake controlled his Black Widows from the Black Widow who had now gained her freedom.

They also sought to extract the antidote as quickly as possible to liberate the Black Widows enslaved and controlled by Drake, while Captain America and Black Widow were tasked with developing a concrete action plan.

Hawkeye and Zhao Weike, on the other hand, had it easier. They only needed to prepare the group's equipment and find a way to stabilize the operation of the Hydra base in front of them, and try to delay Drekoff from discovering that his subordinate Black Widow was missing.

After a period of intensive research and development, using Tony's technology combined with Sherlock's alchemy skills, and the reverse engineering of various chemicals that the Red House had purchased from this base over the past year.

Sherlock and Tony successfully reconstructed the potion Drake used to control the Black Widows, and deduced the antidote from it.

A red liquid that vaporizes into a red gas the instant it comes into contact with air, thus releasing Drekoff from his drug control.

To be on the safe side, the two not only captured many Black Widows in the base to test the drug's effectiveness, but also captured Black Widow herself and forcibly administered the antidote.

After all, although Black Widow did break free from Drake's control, no one could guarantee that Drake's drugs were still remaining in her body. In any case, the antidote had no side effects, so there was nothing wrong with letting Black Widow have a go.

The plan that Black Widow and Captain America devised was actually quite simple. First, they needed to find a way to free Yelena. After all, if Yelena remained under Drekoff's control, it was hard to guarantee that the bastard wouldn't use Yelena to threaten Black Widow.

Therefore, only after Yelena is freed can Black Widow, or rather the group, focus on dealing with Drake without any worries.

The plan to liberate Yelena was simple: gather the freed Black Widows together, spread a little word, and when the so-called hunting team appeared, they could rescue Yelena from Drekoff's clutches.

Once Yelena is free, she'll be free to do whatever she wants, and dealing with Drekoff will only be a matter of time. If all else fails, Jarvis can always conduct a global scan; he'll eventually find some clues about Drekoff.

Of course, before that, they still need to deal with the problem of the base in front of them!

Chapter 232 The Grand Show Begins

Regarding the problem at the base, the captain's original plan was to simply contact Black Egg and have him handle it, but this suggestion was rejected by Sherlock. Sherlock's suggestion was to contact Coulson to resolve the issue.

After all, directly contacting Black Egg might lead to Hydra taking back the base and reactivating it after a period of silence. It would be better to contact Coulson and have him contact Black Egg, which would also serve as a reminder to S.H.I.E.L.D.

The captain and his group did not object to Sherlock's arrangements. In their view, contacting Coulson or Black Egg was essentially the same. What they were more concerned about was how to maximize the value of the base.

Sherlock didn't waste any time. He wrote a letter, included a small mustache pill, called Coulson who had just been discharged from the hospital and was on vacation, asked for his address, and then used the Anywhere Door to send the letter and the pill over.

Coulson had a bad feeling after receiving Sherlock's call, and that feeling reached its peak when he found the letters and pills left at his house.

Looking at the Avenger's signature on the letter, along with an ordinary address and a repeated instruction to take the pill before arriving, Coulson pondered for a long time before contacting his friend Agent May to arrange a plane to go there.

As instructed by Sherlock, the moment Agent May approached the base after taking the pill, the guard at the gate's greeting, "Hi! Coulson!" almost made her draw her gun and point it at Coulson.

Fortunately, their long-standing relationship, along with the pills from Sherlock Holmes, the nemesis of Eggman, allowed Agent May to barely control her urge to draw her gun. However, when the two entered the base, the ubiquitous Hydra symbols still deeply shocked them.

According to S.H.I.E.L.D.'s records, Hydra was supposed to have been eliminated, but reality clearly tells Coulson and May that Hydra was not eliminated.

Recalling the time when S.H.I.E.L.D. took in Hydra scientists, Coulson's face turned deathly pale, and he dared not think any further.

When Coulson reported this to Blackie, Blackie's already dark face turned even darker. Recalling Sherlock's words during the Battle of New York that S.H.I.E.L.D. was not clean, Blackie began to secretly transfer funds and technology within S.H.I.E.L.D. without the slightest hesitation.

After all, Black Egg isn't stupid. When you find a cockroach in your house, it proves that there's already a cockroach infestation in a corner you can't see. Black Egg knows this theory.

Of course, that's a story for later. After Sherlock delivered the letter to Coulson, the group began their own plan without hesitation.

First, Hydra issued a notice to the Red House in the name of the base, stating that the Black Widows in the base had collectively rebelled, causing significant losses to the base, and that Hydra would retaliate against the Red House.

Given Drake's cowardly nature, he naturally sent people to negotiate immediately, trying to ease tensions between the two sides and, incidentally, investigate the reasons for Black Widow's rebellion.

That was exactly the effect the group wanted. Tony, together with Sherlock, placed a low concentration of the antidote near the base. When Black Widow, sent by Krekkov, got off the plane, she was in a dazed state the moment she came into contact with the low concentration of the antidote.

Behind the scenes, the captain and others manipulated the base commander to condemn Black Widow, who came to negotiate, and demand compensation.

Everything seemed normal, without even the slightest flaw. The Black Widow in charge of the negotiations was living evidence of the reason for the Black Widow's rebellion within the base.

Left with no other choice, Drekoff had to pay a large sum of money in compensation, which Sherlock then divided equally among everyone present, bringing smiles to everyone's faces for quite some time.

Of course, although Drekoff lost money, the base controlled by the captain and others, or rather Hydra, will not resume its cooperation with Drekoff.

Under the captain's instructions, the entire base, or rather Hydra, still stated that it would not continue to cooperate with the Red Room, and the relationship between the two sides dropped to a freezing point. Drekoff's compensation was only to ensure that Hydra would not retaliate against the Red Room, but if the two sides met, Black Widow would still be a target for Hydra to eliminate.

This announcement infuriated Drake, but he dared not retaliate against Hydra or the base, and could only vent his anger on the rebellious Black Widows.

And that's exactly the effect the Avengers wanted.

After the director finished this grand performance, the group stayed at the base for another day to thoroughly erase all traces of Black Widow's existence.

Sherlock used the Anywhere Door to temporarily transport the Black Widows, who had gained their freedom and removed their locators, to his house, Captain America's house, and Zhao Weike's house. He instructed them to stay in his house, Zhao Weike's house, and Captain America's house and try not to go out.

Only then did they pack up their belongings and leave the base through the Anywhere Door.

As for their destination, it's simple: Budapest, the capital of Hungary, where there is a private safe house belonging to Scarlett Johansson.

The group hid in Black Widow's safe house and stayed there quietly for several days before starting their operation. On the first day, Black Widow appeared on the streets of Budapest as the first Black Widow to gain her freedom.

Like someone who has just gained freedom and is very curious about everything, she wandered around the streets of Budapest, leaving her footprints in shopping malls, cafes, dessert shops and even tourist attractions.

The remaining people set up extensive security around Black Widow's safe house in preparation for a sudden attack from the Red House.

However, one day and only one person were not enough to attract the attention of the Red Room. So on the second day, Black Widow grabbed Sherlock, who was the thinnest among the group, and dressed him up as another Black Widow. Black Widow also changed her face.

Just like on the first day, the two left their mark in almost every place in Budapest where cameras were everywhere.

After a whole day, the first thing Sherlock did when he returned to the safe house was to kick off the high heels he had been wearing all day, even saying that they were torture instruments.

Everyone laughed heartily at the sight of Sherlock forced to cross-dress, especially Tony, who even secretly took several photos of Sherlock.

However, Tony's smile vanished the next day, because Black Widow had her eye on him!

After all, apart from Sherlock, Tony was the only one among the group who was relatively thin, so on the second day, Tony was also forced to experience the pain of wearing women's clothing and high heels.

This situation terrified Hawkeye and Zhao Weike, who were afraid that Black Widow would punish them the next day. In between setting up security and surveillance, the two of them worked out like crazy, trying to get as big as possible so that they wouldn't be punished by Black Widow.

Throughout the entire process, only the captain remained a smiling observer. After all, among everyone present, he was the most muscular, with arms almost as thick as Black Widow's thighs, so the captain wasn't worried at all about being drafted by Black Widow.

Chapter 233 Captain, are you sure you don't have any relatives or anything?

As it turns out, the captain underestimated the wickedness of society and the darkness of human nature, especially when it involved Sherlock and Tony, two of the Avengers who were most skilled at creating things.

Actually, if Black Widow had only targeted Sherlock or Tony, there probably wouldn't have been any problem. After all, it was a mission, and everyone present understood that some sacrifices were necessary.

Let alone the Avengers, even ordinary military scouts would be taught the skills of cross-dressing scouts; it's not a big problem.

But the unfortunate thing was that after Black Widow had her fun with Sherlock, she then spent another day having fun with Tony.

As we all know, when the same thing happens to two people in a boy group, it is no longer just an 'event', but becomes an obsession.

These two men, who had experienced the same thing, would try to make other boys experience it too, just like when they were caught skipping their dorm by the counselor, that guy would mobilize all his connections for life.

The main point is that I can be caught, but I absolutely cannot be the only one caught!

After experiencing Black Widow's rampage, Sherlock and Tony had this mindset. Originally, they might not have paid attention to Captain America's big body. After all, compared to Captain America, it would have been better to first target the relatively 'skinny' Zhao Weike and Hawkeye.

However, the captain's "it's none of my business, I'm just watching for fun" expression was just too infuriating. His detached, detached attitude made not only Tony and Sherlock grit their teeth, but even Zhao Weike and Hawkeye were itching to get theirs.

The result was that the four men didn't sleep all night. Some were collecting materials, some were on guard, some were on watch, and some were creating. In one night, with the help of Sherlock's alchemy and Tony's technology, they managed to customize a bracelet for the Captain.

The next day, when Black Widow came to conscript men, the four men subdued the captain without saying a word and put the bracelet on his wrist.

As the bracelet was fastened to the captain's wrist, the captain let out a painful growl the next second. A wave of air emanated from the captain, instantly sending the four people hanging on him flying.

By the time the four people got up from the ground, the captain had already transformed. In front of them was a woman with a slender figure, a curvy figure, broad shoulders, a narrow waist, and a big butt, who brought out the S-shaped figure of women to the extreme!

That's right, the four of them spent the whole night researching. Tony contributed his portable armor transformation technology, Sherlock contributed his human transmutation technology, and together with the materials that Zhao Weike and Hawkeye obtained, they managed to customize a transformation bracelet for the Captain.

Seeing their captain successfully transform, the four men on the scene were incredibly excited and started celebrating. However, when the captain looked up at them with a resentful expression, the four men were momentarily stunned.

Sherlock: "I don't know why, but I feel like the captain's face is strangely familiar?"

Tony: "I feel like I've seen this somewhere before, but I just can't remember!"

Hawkeye: "That being said, I don't know why, but I always feel like this face isn't quite serious."

Zhao Weike: (_)