Chapter 63

Humans, as social animals, always possess conformity. Being in a group in any kind of environment, it is inevitable that one will be changed by this environment. Now Stark has a deep understanding of this.

Peter is sweet with his childhood sweetheart Gwen every day. After Gwen officially confirmed her relationship with Peter some time ago, the two of them started dating at a rate of two or three times a week.

Spider-Man, who has not yet progressed to the stage of meeting his father-in-law, is simply bubbling with happiness recently. Every day he can hear him excitedly talking about what little gift he received from his girlfriend, or which restaurant and which dish he went to eat that was particularly delicious.

Stark has to admit that even if the details Peter said were childish, the street stalls they went to for dates were places that a big tycoon like Stark could never go to, but every time he heard Peter's description, Stark could fully feel his happiness.

Besides Peter, through the broken mouth of that little smart aleck Strange, the story of Shiler and his wife became more and more rich in detail after being polished by many people, and also began to become more and more poignant.

Originally, it was just information obtained by Coulson during a routine investigation of Strange, but how could he keep such big gossip in his heart alone? The next day, Natasha and Nick heard a very real and detailed version from Coulson's mouth.

Strange's few words were enriched into a story by the genius agent Coulson, and by the time this story reached Natasha and Nick's ears, Natasha was a woman, and she had great interest in this kind of romantic love story. The emotional brain unique to women made her add more romantic details she imagined herself to this story, making it appear more real.

And Nick, he is a skeptic. Knowing this fact, he will inevitably go to investigate.

This investigation really touched some clues.

He found that the consultation fee paid to Shiler by S. H. I. E. L. D. and Stark originally only stayed in one of Shiler's American accounts, but recently, this large sum of money was transferred by him to an international account located in Switzerland. After that, Nick could not query the whereabouts of the money. He guessed that this money might be used by Shiler to maintain his wife's life.

Some time ago, Shiler told everyone that he was going to leave for a period of time. In fact, at that time, Nick wanted to track his whereabouts, but S. H. I. E. L. D. agents were scattered like casting nets to catch fish, but they still couldn't touch his tracks at all. Nick felt that Shiler was very likely to use magical abilities to go to his wife's place.

Nick has always believed that to be a good agent, besides rigorous logical thinking ability, one must also have the ability of association and divergence. Many times, inadvertent inspiration might bring unexpected changes to actions.

Therefore, with these multiple factors superimposed, Nick determined that this matter was eight or nine out of ten.

He believed that Shiler's wife might not be American, because he could not find such a disappeared woman in the files. Shiler might have met her during his study tour. After they fell in love and got married, this lady might have suffered from a disease that could not be cured for the time being but would continue to worsen. Combined with the cryogenic technology Shiler mentioned at Strange's place earlier, Nick speculated that Shiler was very likely to have mastered a technology that could freeze people forever to seal his wife, prevent the condition from worsening, and had been looking for means of treatment.

What Nick saw from this story was not just a poignant love story. He had always wanted to win Shiler over to S. H. I. E. L. D. completely to work for them. If S. H. I. E. L. D. could make achievements in treating his wife, then Nick believed that soon, S. H. I. E. L. D. would have another powerful arm.

Therefore, Nick also asked for the data of various neuroscience experts, intending to see who had the qualifications to solve this problem.

If Shiler heard Nick's inner voice and knew the story he imagined, he must applaud this King of Agents. Isn't this the love story of Mr. Freeze Victor and his wife?

Mr. Freeze's story is good, the next second is mine.

Later, when this story reached Stark's ears, he naturally thought that Nick must have mastered conclusive evidence, so he also thought that Shiler was indeed seeking treatment methods because of his wife after years of effort.

This fact was quite shocking to Stark. After all, in the many years of his growth, most of the people he met were rotten people who were as debauched as his father.

And a more fatal blow came from Captain America Steve.

A few days ago, Stark found that Steve was not running in the morning, so he went to ask Shiler what was wrong. Shiler said Steve was in a bad mood recently.

Stark was so happy. Captain America was in a bad mood, and Iron Man's mood was good.

When Steve came back, Stark wanted to mock him severely, but Steve looked very haggard at that time, Shiler was also serious and sad, and Peter basically didn't dare to breathe.

In the days without Pepper, Stark wandered everywhere, and he finally learned to read the air a little bit. Seeing everyone like this, he also swallowed his words.

Afterwards, he went to Shiler to ask what was wrong with Steve, but Shiler just shook his head and let him ask Steve himself.

How could Iron Man take the initiative to ask Captain America?

However, Stark's overly exuberant curiosity finally led him to Steve.

Then he learned from Steve's mouth about the romantic love story between him and Peggy that spanned a century.

A weak and helpless new recruit who just entered the military camp met a heroic and spirited female officer who cared for him everywhere. After this recruit became the famous Captain America, they went through life and death together and were each other's most perfect soulmates. Even after a century, Captain America was still firm that only Peggy was his most perfect dance partner.

But the ending of this romantic story was lamentable. A few days ago, Steve saw Peggy lying on the hospital bed, aging endlessly, and learned from the doctor that she was probably not long for this world.

He saw the photo of him that Peggy kept, not the strong Captain America after injecting serum, but the Steve who had just entered the recruit camp, was bullied everywhere, and was cowardly and weak. After being transformed into Captain America, Steve hadn't cried himself to the point of almost fainting for a long time.

He was really about to collapse. He even rushed to Nick's office irrationally to ask if there was any special serum that could keep Peggy alive.

But unfortunately, in the end, Steve could only accept this ending with extreme pain and helplessness.

The shock of this story to Stark was even greater, because in Steve's mouth, his father Howard was a participant in this whole story, and he and Peggy were also friends.

This couldn't help but make Stark start to think, is he a bit too alternative?

Speaking of women, Stark is of course not lacking. Magazine models, party girls, or Hollywood female stars, Stark changes one a day, sometimes even several a day.

But if it comes to falling in love, speaking of true love, Stark recalled and found that his head was empty.

From childhood to adulthood, he didn't have any love experience that he could take out and resonate with his friends.

First love? It seems there is some impression. Stark tried hard to think about it, but still had to admit that he had forgotten almost all of it.

Peter and Gwen are affectionate, Shiler and his wife are separated by life and death, Captain America and Peggy are born at the wrong time.

And Stark, he was surrounded by this group of people, and couldn't help but start to use his genius brain to think hard, why is he different?

"Pepper's look at me recently is a bit strange." In the S. H. I. E. L. D. cafeteria, Stark, Shiler, and Peter sat at a table eating. After Shiler threw Stark out, Pepper could only foster him to S. H. I. E. L. D. Stark was very unwilling, but if he didn't go, he would have to sleep on the street.

"Strange? Strange in what way?"

"I'm not joking, I'm serious, her look, I can't say, a bit worried, a bit relieved, but it seems a bit sympathetic."

"I should really leave this profession to you. Can you see so many things from a look?"

Stark waved his hand perfunctorily and said: "Come on, I have seen no less than eight hundred women. I can see what they are thinking completely from their eyes. Tell me, what's wrong with Pepper?"

"That depends on what happened to you recently. Do you have anything recently?"

"What do I have, I am very good."

Shiler put down the fork in his hand and snapped his fingers, saying: "Jarvis, can you analyze whether your master's behavioral trajectory has anything different recently?"

Jarvis beeped twice, and Stark also supported his face with his hands, waiting for his intelligent butler to answer.

"According to analysis, you have declined 18 invitations from the opposite sex within a week. This is the only place that is different from the usual behavioral pattern..."

For a moment, Stark saw an expression almost exactly the same as Pepper's on Shiler's face.

"Damn it, I am not..."

"You don't need to explain, um... if you have figured it out, then congratulations, if you are powerless..."

Shiler shrugged and said: "... then it can only be said that you deserve it."

Shiler knew that in the comics, this guy is a super stud. Not to mention his first love Meredith who was beaten by mandarin ducks and the Bane who had ulterior motives, Gamora, Captain Marvel, Wasp, Spider-Woman, She-Hulk, all of them were slept after being teased, and ran away after sleeping.

"I am not..." Stark put down the tableware in his hand, supported his hands on the table and said: "I just feel that they are not good either..."

"Then who was the one who kept a yacht of beauties on his lips?"

"Fine." Stark said like a deflated ball: "I have never had a decent love. You are always in my ears, mentioning love, love, those romantic stories."

"I originally thought they were all there, sexy, charming, short-lived and full of passion, what's wrong with that?"

"But Peter actually said yesterday that his girlfriend is willing to listen to him talk about how he made those machines. The two of them actually talked about this topic for a whole afternoon!"

"Actually, we haven't talked enough. The next day we went to the exhibition hall again, the one from Stark Industrial. The machines there are cool, and we didn't feel tired after shopping for a whole day..."

Accompanied by Stark's murderous look, Peter silently stuffed his mouth with a sandwich.

"... Fine, no one has ever been willing to listen to me talk about these. They are more willing to listen to various Hollywood intelligence, gossip about famous brand shows, what winter and spring new clothes, how can anyone be willing to listen to me talk about how to make mecha?"

"But actually you really want to talk about these, right? In your opinion, mecha is actually much better looking than those famous brand coats."

Stark curled his lips. He is now very much like a lemon essence.

"But this matter, it's useless for you to come to us to say it, you have to find Pepper."

"But she doesn't understand these mecha, and she is already very busy."

"Still that sentence, as long as you say it, she is definitely willing to listen."