A retired reincarnation of a certain American film.

sometimes.

Spoken pleas are not as effective as silent pleas.

Because this involves a most basic issue.

Only when there is a request, there will be an answer.

If Seve pleads for Zola, no matter what, Luke must give Seve an answer. It would be fine if he agrees, but what if the answer does not satisfy Seve?

and so!
Seve chose another path.

Silence is better than sound.

In this way, no matter what answer Luke chooses to give, no matter what, it will not affect the relationship between the two people.

At least that's what it looks like on the surface.

In the adult world, all that matters is face-saving.

Just like what Rachel said to Luke.

It doesn't matter what kind of beer you drink out, but at home, in formal settings, you can only drink bourbon.

Lu Ke was convinced.

at this time.

A SHIELD agent found Natasha. After a while, Natasha nodded and then leaned into Jack's ear.

next second.

Jack glanced at Natasha, then walked to Luke's side.

"Boss."

"explain."

"A SHIELD agent found a lot of...suspicious cute bodies in a room on the seventh floor of the base that looked very much like a crematorium."

"..."

Luke turned his gaze away from Seve, who was not far away, and looked at Jack.

"A lot? Define."

"Fifteen bodies were found in the incinerator..."

"I see."

When Luke heard this, he instantly knew the origin of the corpses. He interrupted Jack and said, "Those were killed by Lu Jia during the survival of the fittest with Lu Jia."

Natasha on the side was slightly stunned.

"Lu Jia?"

"The name of a daughter that the boss just acquired."

Jack turned around and explained to Natasha, then changed the subject and said, "But boss, the SHIELD people have almost turned the entire base over, and they still haven't found a place to hide Mengmeng."

Luke frowned.

"Has the surveillance been called up?"

"Recalled."

"Mengmeng must have entered this hive base."

Natasha took Jack's words and said to Luke: "Alice also retrieved the time when Dr. Bai came here. After comparing the pictures, it was confirmed that when Dr. Bai came, one of his subordinates was holding him in his arms. With a baby."

Luke nodded.

"Last seen."

"right here."

Natasha said, glanced at the computer room in front of her, and her eyes fell on the server not far away where the switch was pulled and a bright light appeared: "If the monitoring provided by Alice is credible, then on the night Dr. Bai arrived, I came to this computer room with a seemingly cute baby in my arms, but when Dr. Bai left, there was no trace of the baby in his arms."

Jack's eyes also looked around. As the core server was lit up, it began to look like daylight. Except for the servers scattered all over the place, there was almost no hiding place in the computer room: "It's impossible here. Don't talk about babies here, even if they are. I, I feel like if I stay in the air here for too long, my breathing will be sluggish, let alone a baby.”

Natasha shrugged and said nothing.

Luke didn't speak. He just glanced at the right corner of the computer room, and then looked at Seve, who turned around and walked towards him with his coat tied around his waist after relighting Dr. Zola's server.

"On the line?"

"Ah."

When Luke heard this, he looked directly at Jack.

"Jack."

"Boss."

"You take Seve and Natasha and wait outside the door for a while. I want to talk to Zola about something first."

"it is good."

Jack nodded.

Sever also nodded with a normal expression and walked towards the door.

Natasha, on the other hand, looked at Luke with some hesitation.

After all, after Luke ended the call with Hill, Hill sent her an undisclosed instruction, asking her to stay with Luke as much as possible when he asked about Zola.

Again.

Maria Hill is not Nick Fury, not the kind of person who believes whatever others tell her.

No matter what Luke said, Maria Hill still remained suspicious.

Luke also saw Natasha's face and chuckled: "You can stay if you want. Jack, you and Seve go out first."

Natasha seemed to have seen through Luke's thoughts, and smiled apologetically: "I have the order."

"Understood." Luke smiled.

Jack and Sever looked at each other, nodded, and then turned and left the computer room.

As the door of the computer room closed, Luke also turned his attention to the server in front, which was all turned on, and all the fans were turned on to dissipate heat, and said: "Come out, Zola."

The words fell.

Several red laser beams were projected down, accompanied by rapid jitters, and finally converged into Zola's electronic image.

Zola's eyes fell on Natasha.

"SHIELD?"

"You couldn't contact me. I thought you didn't want to be my informant and just collaborated with the enemy, so I had no choice but to use Aegis."

Luke said in an understatement.

Zola understood instantly.

"As you can see, they saw through me and I was taken offline by them." "Heh."

Although he doesn't want SHIELD to know about Hydra, that's what Luke has in mind.

but……

Luke didn't want to play with Zola here and asked questions knowingly, so he directly brought the topic to business: "My daughter, Zola."

Zola didn't care about him, and didn't even say a haha.

"Mengmeng is still alive."

"where."

"Z Dimension."

Luke's eyes fell to the right side of the computer room.

"Open."

"it is good."

After the words fell, under Luke's gaze and Natasha's observation, along with several scarlet magic surges, a magic door that seemed to lead to another world was opened.

Natasha looked surprised.

"what is this?"

"space."

Luke said without looking back, and then walked straight to the magic door that could swallow people like a whirlpool. Then, under Natasha's gaze, he stepped directly into the magic door.

Natasha was shocked, but she chose to follow.

Just as she gritted her teeth, followed Luke, and walked through the magic door together, she felt countless crimson colors flashing in front of her eyes, and then her eyes lit up.

After Natasha recovered, she found that she seemed to be in a different world.

Above our heads are blue sky and white clouds.

Underfoot is the green prairie.

just like……

In a parallel world, the default interface of the computer operating system used there is the same.

"so beautiful."

"Beauty, don't let appearances fool you."

Luke turned his head and glanced at Natasha who was following her. He chuckled, stretched out his right hand in his pocket, and then shook it in the air.

next second.

Fragmented sounds resounded in every corner of this space.

The blue sky, white clouds, and green grassland began to fall apart like broken mirrors. Then, Natasha saw the true appearance of this space.

There is no blue sky and white clouds above the head, the dark black is intertwined with the crimson that symbolizes chaos.

There is no green prairie underfoot, everywhere visible to the naked eye is yellow sand.

Endless yellow sand.

Luke bent down, picked up the yellow sand on the ground, rubbed it, put it on the tip of his nose, and sniffed lightly.

After confirming the smell, it was the yellow sand he was looking for that gave these clones soul fragments.

at this time.

In front of Natasha, she saw two figures appearing at the end of her sight, then trying hard to climb over the yellow sand and appear in front of them.

"Look, there's someone there."

"..."

Luke looked up.

into the eye.

The figures of two women, one in red and one in black, looming in the yellow sand gradually became clear and real.

The first thing that became clear was the girl in front of her who was dressed in red, and even Natasha was somewhat impressed when she saw this face. She looked about seventeen or eighteen years old.

Natasha looked at the girl in red, a little surprised.

Look carefully.

This clearly looks a bit like how Alice grew up after the projection just now.

Thick and greasy Xie Te!

"You are not that Ellie..."

"Hello, father."

The girl in red interrupted Natasha, looked at Luke with a smile, and said hello: "Father doesn't seem surprised at all."

Lu Ke smiled and said: "Do you need to be surprised? Haven't you seen it before?"

The girl in red said with a smile: "My father is talking about the Alice outside. It was created by my grandfather with my consciousness. Because I have no way to leave here to see my father outside, that's why my grandfather did this. "

Lu Ke smiled and said: "Other clones are smuggling outside. If you go out, you are not smuggling, but robbed in person."

If the other clones are able to show their living side, it is because they all use the yellow sand here that is rich in soul fragments.

Then the girl in red who said she couldn't get out was not a so-called soul fragment, but a completely new soul assembled here.

Simply put.

The girl in red in front of her is no longer a clone, because she has a complete soul.

but……

She couldn't leave this space because her soul belonged here, not outside.

The other clones have small amounts of soul fragments, so they will not trigger the defense mechanism of life and death, but the girl in red in front of her.

Unless Mephisto was blind, he would have noticed that someone was robbing him of his authority.

In fact, even if Mephisto doesn't come to trouble him, because of the instinctive and xenophobic will of the world, once the girl in red appears outside, her complete soul, which has been kneaded with countless fragments, will become fragmented.

This is the main reason why the girl in the red dress said she couldn't leave.

but……

This is not the point.

The focus is on the girl in black next to the girl in red.

Unlike the girl in red who acted familiar to Jilai when they first met and seemed to be Luke's good girl from the beginning, this girl in black has not spoken since she appeared and just stared with a pair of big black and translucent eyes. Luke. (End of chapter)