Chapter 3696

Everyone else was stunned, obviously not expecting Shiler's train of thought to be so clear. Reed scratched his head, stood on tiptoe, cleared his throat and said: "Well, I don't have any opinion, but this matter mainly depends on the woman..."

After speaking, he looked at Susan. Susan was also surprised first, she thought about it and said: "Actually, I'm a bit confused, but since Franklin has returned from the future, then he is bound to be born, right?"

"Not necessarily." Charles said, "Don't have pressure, we don't mean to..."

"No no, my meaning is, he calls me mom, which means I must be his mom. But has he said who his dad is?"

Reed was suddenly anxious, he jumped and wanted to say something. Shiler patted him away, and then said: "As far as I know, the Franklin in other universes is bound to you, which means that no matter who you marry and have children with, the one born must be Franklin."

"Sure enough." Susan said, "In my life plan, I must have a child, so I very much welcome Franklin's arrival. But since the father is uncertain..."

"No!" Reed shouted, "I will of course be..."

"Alright, sir, you step aside first." Stark also couldn't stand it anymore, he bumped Reed away and said: "This beautiful lady, there are many young talents in Stark Company's laboratory, I think if I introduce one to you now, you two fall in love, get married, and have a child, it's completely in time..."

Reed was so anxious he was going crazy. Only Charles kindly touched Erik with his elbow, Erik glanced, reached out and grabbed into the void, and a shiny thing was thrown into Charles's hand.

Charles stuffed that thing into Reed's hand. Reed looked down, and it was a big diamond ring shining brightly. He hurriedly squeezed through the crowd and knelt on one knee in front of Susan:

"Ms. Susan Storm, will you marry me?"

Susan finally revealed a smile and nodded reservedly. Reed almost ejected from the floor, hugged Susan, and warm cheers sounded around.

Steve also laughed, he was obviously relieved, if Susan planned to have a child, then in fact they only need to ensure that there is no problem for more than a year, and the rest of the things will be easy to solve.

After all, although little Rogers is strong, he can't compare to Franklin who can directly modify the parameters of the universe. And Franklin is obviously conscious in the womb, which means it might not even take more than a year, just wait a few months for the embryo to develop a brain.

The one who was most relieved was obviously Erik. After all, if Franklin and little Rogers were separated, one on Earth and one in the Andromeda Galaxy, then both his old home and new home would be in danger. Even if he had great skills, he couldn't hold down two Omega-level mutants with one hand.

This is already the best result, and can even be called a false alarm. However, Shiler still said to Steve: "Before Franklin is officially born, you must move to my nursing home, otherwise I cannot guarantee to arrive at the scene in the first time when little Rogers has an accident. If it really gets out of control, it will be troublesome."

"Thank you so much, Doctor." Steve said, "If it weren't for you, I wouldn't know what to do. And, your new nursing home moved next to Central Park in New York, right? The land price there is very expensive, we will pay the rent on time."

"This is not necessary." Shiler looked at Nick. Nick shrugged and said: "S. H. I. E. L. D. is responsible for global supernatural security affairs. The insecurity index of your son has obviously exceeded the standard, so in the next at least one year, I appoint you two to go to Dr. Shiler's nursing home to take care of our little bomb. This is your only field mission in the next few years, and all activity expenses are provided by S. H. I. E. L. D."

"In addition, as a special safety officer, I should naturally enjoy an extra safety fund."

"Yes, a very reasonable request. I will talk to Congress, I believe as long as they collect the test data on cosmic energy from various laboratories just now, they will be very happy to provide this money."

Just as he finished speaking, Peter's phone rang. He picked up the phone and said a few words, then said: "Sorry, a cosmic observation project group of mine just detected a dark matter outbreak, the data is very amazing. The Solar System Development Plan Safety Supervision Group has already gone over, I'm afraid I have to go over immediately..."

Stark's phone also rang, and what he said was about the same thing. Obviously, even if the gray mist stopped the solar system from accelerating its revolution, there were still some aftermaths, and they had to deal with them as soon as possible.

Such things are naturally the top priority. Steve couldn't care about the birthday party, so he hurriedly sent people away, and then took his wife and children home to pack their luggage.

Shiler also had to go back to the nursing home, he had to pack the room for the Rogers family of three. But it just so happened that the second top floor of the hotel is a luxury presidential suite, which is just right for Steve and the others to live in.

Although the hotel is not open, many of the original cleaning staff remained. Shiler directed them to clean up that floor and specifically for the Rogers family to live in.

By the time everything was finished, the sky was completely dark. The Rogers family also rushed over in a hurry. Manhattan is still blocked to death at this time, but the flying car helped a lot, can directly ignore the traffic jam on the ground, and drive all the way over. Wanda followed them to help them move, and then used that magical housework magic, and soon put all the things in place.

Little Rogers hasn't slept well since his ability outbreak, and has been making trouble. Carter had to hold him back to coax him. Steve closed the door of the room lightly, took a step forward, but staggered and leaned against the wall.

Shiler walked over from the end of the corridor and said: "Relax, Captain. Seeing Natasha and the others are waiting for you downstairs."

Steve nodded and said: "I might have to go to S. H. I. E. L. D. for safety consultation tonight, please help me take care of Carter and little Tommy."

Shiler just smiled and didn't speak. Steve went downstairs, but didn't see the fully armed agents, only a pile of colorful gift boxes.

"You left too hurriedly, you didn't even take the gifts. They prepared for a long time." Seeing Natasha hugged her arms and said, "We all brought them to you. Nick said let you not worry, he will handle Congress and the Security Council. Xu Shangqi made a call to his boss in Shenzhen, he will fly back to China overnight to explain the situation. Charles and Erik returned to New Shangdu, they are preparing a global announcement for this situation. Reed and Susan went to prepare for the wedding. It will be fine soon."

Steve stood there silently, seemingly not knowing what to say. Shiler walked up and said: "Don't expect our good captain to have any reaction, he was too frightened, and now he might not have the strength. Move the gifts to the warehouse first..."

"No." Steve suddenly said, "I want to unpack them before my birthday ends."

Shiler looked at his watch and said: "There are less than two and a half hours left, are you sure?"

"Yes." After Steve finished speaking, he immediately took action, bent down to pick up a box on the ground and started unpacking, then waved to Shiler and the others and said: "You help me put the gifts in order, put the big ones here, and the small ones there..."

"Alright." Shiler smiled and said, "You still have some helpers."

After speaking, Shiler sent a few words in the group chat. Not long after, a group of young people in hospital gowns rushed down:

"Captain America!!! The doctor really brought Captain America back to us!!! Long live Captain America!!!"

Steve was helplessly squeezed into the crowd, and then they celebrated the victory like they were celebrating, throwing him up and constantly shouting "Long live".

The young people's movements were also very agile, and soon the gift boxes were sorted out. Steve unpacked them quite fast, although there were many gifts, they were just paper boxes after all, and soon unpacked them all.

Because he unpacked too fast, he didn't look at them carefully. Shiler prepared a large box and a cart for him, and he put all the gifts in a large box.

Shiler shook the wine bottle in his hand and said: "I'm afraid only I can accompany you to celebrate midnight. Let's go."

They came to the kitchen. Shiler went to get wine glasses to pour wine, while Steve checked the gifts one by one.

Bucky sent him a set of painting tools. Steve shook his head and said: "He is still so uncreative, sending this every year. But fortunately, it is the best gift that he can come to my birthday party alive."

Strange sent him a sling ring, the kind that can open a small portal through a person. He has been very busy in Kamar-Taj recently, so he didn't come to the party, the gift was entrusted to others to bring.

Loki didn't come either, he has also been very busy recently. But he also sent an Asgardian shield. Heard it seems to be what Thor used when he was young, but Shiler and Steve didn't believe it very much, because Thor didn't look like the type who would use defensive equipment.

Nick sent Steve a pair of shoes, the kind of tactical boots he loved to wear when he was young. Steve couldn't help but sigh: "This brand hasn't gone bankrupt yet. But these shoes are indeed very suitable for marching and hiking, we all wore this back then."

Xu Shangqi sent Chinese cigarettes. Steve laughed as soon as he saw it, although he didn't smoke, he was worried about what gift to bring when he went to see his old comrades.

"Eshan is a heavy smoker, he was the best at smoking during training back then. He not only smoked himself, but also went to steal cigarettes from the next squadron, and was caught once..."

Steve chattered about things in the past, drinking wine from time to time. Shiler didn't answer, just listened quietly, but he could also get a glimpse of the style of the group of idealists in the lighthouse back then from Steve's narrative.

"Oh, what is this?" Steve took out something like a book from the box, rubbed the cover lightly, leaned closer and looked at it carefully and said: "My God, could this be a comic book hand-drawn by someone?!"

Shiler laughed, and touched the wine glass in Steve's hand lightly with the wine glass in his hand. Steve looked at him in disbelief:

"You drew it?!"

Shiler nodded.

Steve looked down at the cover quietly again, and then flipped through it page by page. The first episode is not long, even if read carefully, it won't take long. Then he closed the comic again, looking at the title on the cover:

"Why is it 'Mercury Age'? I thought..."

"You thought I would use the 'Golden Age' you often use?" Shiler shook his head lightly after speaking and said, "The Golden Age is always now. No matter how good the past is, it is like mercury, shining and beautiful, but it will slip away from every crack, and you can't catch it no matter what."

Steve was silent for a long time, turned his head and looked out the window. The moonlight tonight is very beautiful, and that flying old car is parked on the lawn. The moonlight shines on its bright surface, almost unable to see the original black color, the whole car is like flowing mercury—just like the era it should have been in: bright, mysterious, with a bit of cruel indifference, when it flows, it is more delicate than sand, more cheerful than a stream, and also like mercury, making people ignore the dangerous essence because of its beautiful appearance.

Steve went to look at the pile of things lying in the box again. They were disorganized, neither having the beauty of careful carving, nor the holiness like a sculpture, looking ordinary and trivial. But Steve heard the sound of the harp being plucked constantly when he looked at them, every note was completely different, that was the echo of his heartstrings.

"You are right." Steve said, "Now is the best Golden Age, it's time to say goodbye to the past."

"The way to say goodbye to the past is not to forget, but to record. When something is written on paper, it becomes history, forever trapped between the pages of a book or passed down by word of mouth, instead of walking alive in the present." Shiler looked at the comic in Steve's hand and said.

"Then record it all, Doctor." Steve laughed and said, "I have a premonition that this comic will sell well."

?? Really annoying, every time I want to add more, something goes wrong. My house is being renovated, a worker fell from the roof without a safety rope, fortunately it was only two floors, but he didn't fall lightly, he went to the hospital, I've been running back and forth recently, everyone must watch the workers all the time when renovating! Must must take safety measures!!

? (But it's best not to renovate, renovation makes people crazy.)

? (End of chapter)