Creak!
Just as he was vigilantly surveying his surroundings, the door was pushed open.
A woman the same age as Peggy Carter walked in with a warm and polite smile.
She even greeted Captain America.
"Good morning, or should I say, good evening?"
But Captain America didn't fall for the Agent's act at all; he just stared at her, "Where am I?"
"You're in a hospital room in New York."
The Agent gave this answer according to the pre-arranged plan.
"Where exactly am I?"
But it couldn't convince Captain America, and Captain America's gaze became even more pressing.
"I don't know what you're talking about."
"This game was a baseball game in 1941, and I was there."
"So I'll ask again, where am I?!"
Seeing that Captain America was already getting angry and things were getting out of control, the Agent quietly sent a signal.
Two armed Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. walked in, trying to control the situation.
But in front of someone like Captain America, they were completely asking for trouble and were easily taken down by Captain America.
Captain America punched through the wall of the so-called "hospital room" and forcefully broke out of the recuperation Base.
He burst onto the bustling, crowded street outside.
This is... where?
He scanned his surroundings: the towering skyscrapers, the huge billboards flashing with dazzling lights of various colors, the cars from another era coming and going.
And so on and so forth.
Everything severely impacted Captain America's eyes and his understanding.
What exactly is this place?
It was completely different from the World he knew!
Screech! Screech!
At this moment, a series of screeching brakes sounded.
Agent cars stopped around Captain America, surrounding him.
Eyepatch, Nick Fury, came before Captain America.
"I'm sorry for the charade, but telling you the truth takes time."
Nick Fury apologized to Captain America.
"What truth?"
"You've been asleep, Captain, for almost seventy years."
Seventy years!
Captain America's first reaction was disbelief.
Even if he was a super soldier enhanced by the serum, he couldn't possibly sleep for seventy years without dying, could he?
However, looking at the drastically changed, unfamiliar World around him, Captain America was speechless.
The facts were before his eyes; he had no choice but to believe.
And after temporarily recovering his senses, Captain America's face couldn't help but show a deep regret.
He had missed that date with Peggy.
Permanently missed!
"Captain, please come with me."
"I'm sure you have many questions."
Nick Fury waited until Captain America had mostly processed it before speaking again.
Captain America's reaction this time was not as intense.
After a slight pause, he agreed to Nick Fury's suggestion.
Following Nick Fury, he walked into the recuperation Base he had just burst out of.
Captain America now indeed had a belly full of questions.
Just like that.
Captain America, who had been sleeping in the Arctic Ocean for seventy years, was "reborn" in such a way.
However, this news has not yet spread, except for S.H.I.E.L.D. and HYDRA.
Nick Fury chose to keep it confidential.
From every angle, it was not the right time to publicize the news of Captain America's rescue.
Even Captain America himself did not want unnecessary attention.
In any case, there was a seventy-year time gap, and Captain America still needed a considerable amount of time to recover and adapt.
This meant that.
The famous, even World-renowned Captain America, would likely be a minor, transparent figure for a long time.
But then again.
This "minor, transparent figure" was for ordinary people.
Besides the relevant personnel of S.H.I.E.L.D. and HYDRA, there was another person who knew the fact that Captain America had been rescued.
It wasn't Zhou Cheng, who was a Transmigrator with precognition.
It was another diary holder, Tony Stark!
"Sir, a very interesting video has just been intercepted, and I believe you will be very interested."
"This video was uploaded to a personal social account fifteen minutes ago but was quickly deleted."
Inside the luxurious Villa.
As Jarvis's voice sounded, an image was instantly projected in front of the Playboy.
It was precisely the video of Captain America rushing out of the recuperation Base and causing chaos on the street.
"Captain America?"
"I knew it!"
Tony Stark glanced at Captain America in the image and didn't feel any surprise about it.
He just muttered to himself.
Since encountering Coulson and others in the Arctic Ocean last time, Tony Stark had temporarily suspended his search for Captain America.
Instead, he patiently waited for a few months before going back to the Arctic Ocean for another round.
The result was, well.
The Playboy made an even bigger discovery in the Arctic Ocean: he found the wreckage of Captain America's plane!
Not only that.
There were also traces of artificial cutting into the plane wreckage, and after scanning, the wreckage was empty; there was no sign of Captain America at all.
Combining all these circumstances, how could Tony Stark not realize that Captain America must have been rescued by S.H.I.E.L.D.?
Coulson and his team in the Arctic Ocean must have been searching for Captain America!
Since then.
Tony Stark had Jarvis keep an eye on related movements, and sure enough, there was a discovery.
Confirmed!
Captain America was indeed rescued!
So a question naturally presented itself to Tony Stark.
Why wasn't Captain America discovered by the Russia oil team, but by S.H.I.E.L.D. in advance?
Why was the development of this matter so different from the spoilers in the diary?
With Tony Stark's intelligence, he naturally came to the same conclusion as Black Widow.
There were only two possibilities:
Either this Universe is not strictly developing according to the 199999 Universe, and some things indeed deviate from the development of the 199999 Universe.
Or, someone in S.H.I.E.L.D. also holds a diary!
That's why they did something that deviated from the diary's spoilers, just like he had sent Stan away early!
And which of these two possibilities was more likely?
Because S.H.I.E.L.D. discovering Captain America didn't show any logical inconsistency.
So for a time, the Playboy also found it difficult to judge.
"Sir, your new assistant, Natasha Romanoff, has arrived."
While he was deep in thought, Jarvis's voice sounded in his ear, reminding the Playboy.
The reason she was a new assistant was that the original assistant, Pepper Potts, had already been appointed CEO by Tony Stark.
Naturally, she could no longer continue to be the Playboy's assistant.
"Natasha?"
"That Black Widow?"
"I really didn't expect Black Widow to be so well-endowed."
Tony Stark slightly spread his hands, a meaningful smile playing on the corner of his mouth.
Ever since he knew that S.H.I.E.L.D. was sending an undercover Agent to his side, the Playboy had shown a certain degree of vigilance about it.
And his changing to a new assistant was undoubtedly a golden opportunity.
So on Black Widow's first day as his new assistant, Tony Stark secretly investigated Black Widow.
Although Black Widow's fake information was flawlessly forged, even to the point where some intelligence agencies couldn't find any problems when investigating.
But unfortunately, it was useless in front of someone like Tony Stark.
Tony Stark directly had Jarvis perform in-depth facial recognition matching on Black Widow.
Ultimately, he successfully found Black Widow's true identity.
The reason he hadn't exposed Black Widow yet was because Tony Stark wanted to use Black Widow as a medium to investigate whether S.H.I.E.L.D. actually had a diary!
"Let her in."
After those thoughts flashed through the Playboy's mind, he casually instructed Jarvis.
Clang!
The glass door opened accordingly.
Black Widow, dressed in a red professional skirt, with a figure so hot it was almost illegal, walked in with a stack of documents.
"Mr. Stark, some documents require your signature."
Black Widow walked to Tony Stark's desk and placed a stack of documents in front of the Playboy.
She also turned to the signature page.
Swish, swish, swish!
Tony Stark didn't say anything unnecessary; he immediately waved his hand and signed his name on it.
"Is this alright?"
"Yes, Mr. Stark, if there's nothing else, I'll be going."
Black Widow collected the documents, greeted the Playboy, and then left quickly in her high heels.
Everything was as usual from beginning to end, without any inappropriate reactions or actions.
As if she really was just an assistant.
Tony Stark was the same; it was as if he didn't know Black Widow was an undercover Agent at all, treating her as just an ordinary assistant.
He even deliberately "ogled" Black Widow with lustful eyes to fit his persona.
"Jarvis, begin!"
And after Black Widow left, Tony Stark immediately issued an order to Jarvis.
Buzz, buzz, buzz!
Several highly simulated electronic flies, so realistic that no one would recognize them, flew out.
Following behind Black Widow.
They were precisely the surveillance devices Tony Stark had specially developed for Black Widow!
Hmph.
Black Nick Fury, you want to go undercover on me?
You just wait to be undercover!
Just like that.
After Nick Fury and Pierce's side staged a good show of undercover and being undercover, Tony Stark's side also staged the same good show.
However, this good show only lasted for half a month before it was interrupted by an event.
The Playboy's birthday arrived!
Even someone like Tony Stark, who usually didn't care about anything, valued his birthday very much.
That night.
Tony Stark held an extremely grand birthday party in his luxurious Villa.
Almost half of New York's "top tier" were invited.
The parking lot outside the Playboy's Villa was already filled with all kinds of luxury cars.
Colonel Rhodes, Stark's good friend, and other prominent figures.
Of course, hot girls couldn't be missing, and there were many, many hot girls.
And so on and so forth.
For a time, the Playboy's mansion was flashing with lights, music blared, and people swarmed.
It was incredibly lively and grand.
It's worth mentioning that.
Because there was no death crisis, Tony Stark's birthday party this time was much more normal.
And naturally.
Although it was a private gathering, given Tony Stark's identity, his birthday party was still reported by the media.
…
"We can see luxury cars driving out of the Marbury Villa area one after another; most of them are here to attend Stark's party."
"I wonder how Stark's birthday party will be different now that he's become the 'Destroyer'?"
"A few hot girls have come out; let's go interview them."
In front of the TV screen.
Zhou Cheng, who was following this birthday party, was quite surprised by it.
This birthday party was actually so peaceful?
From beginning to end, nothing happened!
The banquet had already ended, and Stark's luxurious Villa was all normal; that "Iron Golem Battle" didn't break out.
In addition, Zhou Cheng had also noticed before.
Tony Stark's figure also did not appear in the F1 Grand Prix in Morocco!
Whiplash also did not appear.
Deviation!
The development of events began to deviate from the plot he knew.
And it wasn't just a small deviation; it seemed to be quite significant.
It has to be said that this really made Zhou Cheng feel a bit melancholy.
So he instinctively had a thought and recorded this feeling in his diary.
…
"Sir, the diary has been updated!"
Stark's luxurious Villa.
All the guests had left, and the banquet officially ended.
Tony Stark had just returned when the thoughtful AI, Jarvis, immediately spoke up to remind him.
"Updated again?"
Tony Stark's spirit immediately lifted, and without any delay, he immediately picked up the diary and turned to the latest page.
Sure enough, new content had already appeared on it.
[Something's not right! Something's really not right!]
[Stark's birthday party actually had nothing happen?]
[Rhodes didn't beat Stark up and steal his armor?]
[The two didn't have a big fight and blow up Stark's mansion?]
[This birthday party was actually so peaceful!]
[And before that, Stark didn't go to the Morocco race, and Whiplash hasn't even appeared yet!]
[Except for the "Showdown at the Hearing," nothing that should have happened has happened!]
[It seems this Universe deviates quite a bit from the 199999 Universe.]
Haha, confused, aren't you!
Seeing Zhou Cheng's puzzled tone, that caught-off-guard tone, Tony Stark couldn't have been more pleased.
Thinking he controlled everything?
Thinking he knew all about Tony?
Thinking he understood Tony better than anyone?
You got slapped in the face now, didn't you!
But what's this about Rhodes beating him up?