Chapter 3677: The Mercury Era (Part 8)

"Many of you think that I felt my ideals were shattered from the day the Soviet Union dissolved. But every relationship in this world is like this; disappointment is never achieved overnight, but accumulated bit by bit.

"Not long after I finished accepting the modification, I saw the previous generation of Black Widow. She was the perfect work of the Red Room, but she was completely different from what I thought."

Pepper and Wanda also moved chairs and sat down to listen to Natasha tell stories of the past. Although most people's impression of Natasha is her neat skills and beautiful face, everyone who has come into contact with Natasha believes that she has a literary and artistic temperament. When she tells something seriously, she always carries a romantic and tragic atmosphere, sounding like some literary masterpieces born in the flames of war, which may be a talent inherent to the Slavs.

"She looked very tired, without any enthusiasm. I could even feel a profound sadness. Something had once torn her soul apart, and after she stitched them up, one could still see deep scars. This made me feel fear for the first time.

"I desperately wanted to know what happened, but they didn't let me talk to her much. I was simply too uneasy and couldn't listen to those comforting words at all. So one night, I found her. She asked me: 'Do you know what you have to pay to become a Black Widow?'

"Later she left, but I still felt a lingering unease. In the winter of that year, the Winter Soldier was seconded here to become our instructor. He was handsome and strong, with a cold and stern face. The girls all liked him; at that time, I was the most excellent among them, so he paid special attention to me.

"We two soon fell in love. Unlike the partner I imagined before who would have the same ideals and soul resonance as me, it seemed to be pure hormonal attraction between us, so intense, manic, and irresistible.

"Until one day I asked him: 'Do you know what you have to pay to become a Black Widow?' He didn't answer me.

"After another period of time, on the night before we set off for Minsk, at our send-off banquet, two other instructors got drunk. They fell outside the wall, muttering and cursing the Winter Soldier. One of them said to the other: 'We should do this too; anyway, after this winter, those little girls will all die, and no one will know what we did.'"

"At that time, I had already guessed something, so I rushed into his room to question him. I asked him what the final year's selection assessment was going to be. He said he didn't know, but after I scolded him, he still told me."

"At that time, the people in the Red Room told us that there could only be one Black Widow among us. I thought it was the person with the best assessment results who could become the Black Widow, but it wasn't. Only one of us could leave here alive; she was the Black Widow."

"The final stage of the assessment was mutual slaughter. You must kill all the trainees who accepted genetic modification to become a terrifying Black Widow. I think you should understand how devastated I was after learning this news."

"They told me we were all comrades working hard to build this country, but they wanted me to kill my own comrades with my own hands, just to make myself sufficiently cruel and indifferent. How terrible."

"You know, Bucky at that time wouldn't understand me; they wouldn't talk about any ideology to a brainwashed humanoid weapon like him. They only needed him to obey, unconditional obedience. So he couldn't understand my overreaction at all. He warned me that I must never tell anyone that I had already known the assessment content in advance."

"I also knew I couldn't. If it was just a relationship problem, it might not be fatal, but if he leaked the secret, he would likely be destroyed. I didn't tell anyone about this, just thought of a way for our relationship to be discovered. The transfer order to separate us came quickly. He chose to obey, I chose to accept. That's how it was."

"You passed the assessment in the end." Pepper said, "Did you kill all those girls?"

"Yes, but I guarantee I did it quickly; they didn't suffer." Natasha shook her head lightly and said, "That was the first time I realized that some people had changed."

"That should have been very early," Wanda frowned and calculated the time, "The Cold War hadn't even started yet."

"Not early," Natasha said, "Counting the time of the previous generation of Black Widow, this kind of cruel training project that completely violated the core spirit probably started from the beginning of the founding of the country. Some people thought the struggle had ended, the cake was served on the table, and next, they should forge the knife to kill other diners, so the Red Room came into being."

"The Afghan War had long been foreshadowed." Pepper shook her head and said, "All regimes that ultimately choose to resort to extreme power will be no different. These things will be staged under every tyrannical regime; no matter what kind of skin it is wrapped in, it is equally evil."

"So you went to see Bucky, wanting to talk about this?" Wanda asked.

Natasha stood up and beckoned to the two of them mysteriously. The two hurried over, thinking she had some secret to tell. As a result, when the two of them leaned over, Natasha roared at the highest volume:

"I went to see him to tell him to his face that he is fucking wrong!! I am the one who is right!! I said the Soviet Union would be finished sooner or later, and he didn't believe it!! Now you know, right!!!"

Pepper covered her ears, dizzy from her shock. Natasha hung her bag on her arm, stepped hard on her heels, and said: "Your ex-boyfriend chose the company between you and his unscrupulous company, and now the company has gone bankrupt. I will crawl out of the grave to watch his joke even if I die!"

Wanda helplessly covered her forehead and said: "I think you and Dr. Schiller are becoming more and more alike, only full of motivation when watching others' fun, and must dress up to attend when others are at their unluckiest."

Natasha rolled her eyes and said: "Of course, this also has to thank this psychologist. If it were before, I wouldn't have this leisure, but now, I just want that damn bastard to admit his mistake himself! Wait for him tonight!"

Pepper and Wanda looked at each other. Pepper said with a fake smile: "The clothes are picked out, let my makeup artist take a look at your makeup."

Then she winked at Wanda fiercely. Wanda took advantage of Natasha going to put on makeup and slipped out the door, took out her phone, and sent a message to Jarvis: "Bucky should be with Steve now, right? You hurry up and send them a message, Natasha is probably crazy!"

Jarvis replied with a series of question marks. Wanda replied with a lot of words that were incoherent and logically chaotic; she felt that what she said was a mess, but didn't expect Jarvis to understand it.

Two minutes later, Steve looked at the long string of words Jarvis sent him, dumbfounded. He gasped.

Just as he wanted to reply to something, he found himself pulled into a small group called "B. B. Rescue Plan". Jarvis, Steve, Wanda, and Pepper were all in it.

"Are you kidding me?" Steve sent, "You mean they two weren't forced to separate back then, but had a fundamental principle disagreement, and now the facts prove Natasha is right and Bucky is wrong, so Natasha wants to take revenge on Bucky?"

"Completely wrong," Pepper replied, "It's not the kind of revenge you think; Natasha might be trying to trick him into bed."

"So?"

"Do you know that 80% of the targets killed by Black Widow die in bed? Even if she doesn't kill Bucky, she might send him to the intensive care unit." Jarvis said.

Steve gasped again, he looked back at Bucky who was tying his tie, and typed quickly: "But Bucky doesn't intend to sleep with her; he's not looking for a one-night stand, otherwise there would be no need to date. The Avengers' lounge is empty anyway."

"The problem is, are you sure he can control himself?" Pepper's message also replied very quickly, "Anyway, I think if I were a man, I couldn't. You don't know how beautiful she is tonight; I don't want to say dirty words, but she is really fucking hot!"

Steve originally wanted to say something else, but Pepper sent a photo—a photo of Natasha today. Although it was far away and a bit blurry, one could completely see that kind of soul-stirring charm.

"Uh oh, it's over." Steve replied in less than a second, "Unless Bucky is an alpaca, they will definitely end up in bed. What should we do?"

"If we find a way to ruin the date?" Jarvis put forward a constructive opinion, she said, "Let them break up unhappily, it's better than them killing each other in bed, right?"

"Makes sense." Wanda said, "If they fight in the restaurant, we can still rush up and pull them apart, but if it's in the hotel, you guys go if you want, I'm not going."

"If it's in the hotel, they definitely won't be pulled apart, unless Bucky is really an alpaca." Pepper replied at the end.

Pepper put down her phone and walked back into the room, seeing Natasha also replying to messages. Seeing her come, Natasha looked up at her. At this time, her makeup was almost done.

Seeing that incomparably beautiful face, Pepper was stunned for a moment. She suddenly felt that there was no need to save Bucky anymore; going to the intensive care unit once wouldn't be a loss.

And just when Steve and the others were discussing how to ruin this date, they suddenly found someone sending him a private message. Clicking it open, it was actually Coulson.

"Captain, don't be fooled!" Coulson sent a screenshot of a chat record in the private chat interface. The name of the group chat was "Agent N Lady Rescue Team". The chat record was as follows:

"Beep. I thought of a way." Schiller circled Natasha, and then sent her a long string of information.

The group was silent for a while, as if everyone was watching. After a while, Nick replied: "I think it works. As long as Steve is made to believe that Natasha might hurt Bucky, then he will definitely intervene to stop this date, so they won't be able to make it."

"I think it's not bad either." Hill sent a nodding emoji and said, "Our Lady N, as a senior S. H. I. E. L. D. agent, should still be able to fool them, right?"

"I'll try." Natasha said, "Bucky and I do have some grudges, it has to start from Minsk back then..."

"This is not important," Schiller said, "You just need to express anger appropriately, and then express your willingness to sleep with him, don't say it too directly, otherwise it will be detected."

"But will Steve not react?"

"It doesn't matter, I have an informant, he will guide appropriately." After Schiller closed the group chat window, he clicked on Jarvis's chat page and said, "Jarvis, do me a favor, later you do this..."

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