Stark looked at Miss Rita standing on the small playground downstairs of the cell without hesitation.
And the other party looked at him blankly, as if some conspiracy was brewing.
In fact, Zhang Dianyu is thinking about how to communicate—it is best for Stark to speak first, after all, he is still a little guilty. Although he did not do the bill, he couldn't explain it clearly.
Stark was wearing an ordinary silver-gray coat today, with a purple T-shirt underneath. His combination of hot eyes and billions of assets made him the most eye-catching man on the island.
This is why the security guards can easily take away the troublemakers - Stark sits in the town himself, and although the tourists are dissatisfied, they will protest verbally at most. Is there anyone stupid enough to throw a fist in front of Iron Man
After the security guards took the tourists away one after another, the others gradually dispersed. Some tourists went to the pier to take the ferry back to San Francisco, while others found a shady place to rest, or went to the cafe next to the pier to play with their mobile phones, and scolded the fact that Alcatraz was only half open on social networks.
These are all relayed to Stark by the artificial intelligence steward.
"Refunds are open." Stark frowned and ordered briefly.
"But sir, you need to pay 50% of the turnover to the government every year, but if the amount is too low, the contract will be terminated." The artificial intelligence steward said.
"I know." Stark replied, "It's still early—maybe Stark Industries can buy tickets and donate them to middle schools in New York City, and organize students to come here to take a ferry and enjoy the distant view of the island."
"You mean, provide students with free flights and a two-day vacation, but no access to the island?" AI distilled the gist of his words.
Stark: "..."
It's kind of weird to describe it that way.
He waved his hand irritably: "There will always be a solution, and there is still a year to go." Maybe after a year, the affairs of this island will be settled, so there is no need to worry about how to make money for operating this attraction.
Through Miss Rita's remote interface, Zhang Dianyu saw the scene of the tourists gradually dispersing.
When only Stark was left in front of him, he controlled Miss Rita to walk over slowly, and said through the barbed wire: "It seems that the tourists are not very satisfied?"
Stark responded with a nasal sound.
Zhang Dianyu was silent for a moment.
"I know why."
Tourists buy tickets to go to the island, of course, not to watch the old prison site through the barbed wire. They want to see this prison where countless mysterious gangsters were once imprisoned. Through the scene in front of them, they can return to the terrifying and forbidding Alcatraz Island in the 20th century. .
Stark didn't answer, and looked up at Miss Rita: "Where's Mr. Warden? Are you the only one on this island?"
"Oh, there is another pilot." Zhang Dianyu replied.
Stark ignored this sentence, he stood with his arms folded, and raised his chin at Miss Rita: "So he plans to keep avoiding me like this?"
Zhang Dianyu thought for a while, controlled Rita and said, "Oh, I don't know what happened to you, maybe—"
Before he could finish, Stark interrupted him unceremoniously: "Bill once said you were his 'mother', do you think I'll believe you know nothing about it, Miss Rita ?”
Zhang Dianyu: "..."
It does seem so.
He glanced at Rita's control panel, and Stark's face appeared in the game box-like thing, the anger on his face seemed particularly comical and unreal.
On the other side is Zhang Dianyu's warden panel, where Stark looks like a pixel villain, with a thread-like fidgety symbol emerging from the bubble above his head, and an angry symbol next to it.
Zhang Dianyu couldn't help but glance behind him.
From the map, he could see Bill sitting on the bed in his own bedroom behind the green staff door, motionless, not even a bubble in his head.
He and Stark are completely different species - maybe not even "species", but in the real world, they look the same.
So much so that Stark believed this stupid joke.
Zhang Dianyu thought of the black-haired man in the desert. The act's botched plan was to make a deal with the world—a deal that was as simple as keeping the world "alive".
Although it is an immature product, it is also the result of Stark and the government who have lost everything in the other world.
Of course, losing everything is his own choice - he can not keep his promise and let Chaoying on the list reveal his identity, anyway, he has already been cast aside by thousands of people.
But he didn't.
Zhang Dianyu seemed to understand a little about the desire of the bill. He accepted the call of this universe to help it formulate a more perfect superhuman registration law, which seems to vaguely point to another possibility.
—If everything can be done again, can it be better.
The Stark in front of him is also doing his best to erase the negative influence. Including Batman and others, they have lurked around the prison across the entire Federation, obviously not for a change of vacation environment.
When the prison was threatened, Stark immediately put on his armor and rushed over; when the prison went bankrupt, he tried every means to invest; He took over the operating rights of the scenic spot and tried to drive away tourists.
But everything seems to be in vain, and the Super Human Registration Act is still gradually intensifying the contradictions between superhumans and ordinary people. Because superpowers who oppose the registration bill will be imprisoned in this prison, the prison has also been resisted by most superheroes.
Although Zhang Dianyu knows little about the conflicts between Chaoying outside, it can be seen from the news that the situation is not so good.
Gradually he began to understand. The purpose of Bill approaching Stark may be the opposite—he is not a human being and has no desire to survive, but he has a simple small goal, which is to be able to truly protect superpowers and ordinary people and eliminate the contradiction between the two.
Not that he needs Stark's help, but that he wants to help Stark.
Help him realize his wish and become a bridge between Chaoying and the whole world.
When the bridges fall, the whole world falls with it, into chaos and war—sometimes things gradually go from chaos to stability, and sometimes things fall apart completely.
That means the destruction of the world.
No one knows what the future of the world will be like, and it is this future that the bill wants to help Stark change.
Zhang Dianyu looked at Stark in the Rita panel. Although he rushed back to California in time after the Red Skull escaped, and has been active around here since then-but in fact, he still seems to be busy with Congress. Question about signing the bill.
During the time he lived in the Stark Industrial Park, Zhang Dianyu often heard the sound of footsteps outside at night, or the shadow of the armor passing by outside.
Judging from the slightly darkened eye circles on Stark's face in Rita's panel, it's clear that good time management skills also take a lot of work.
Zhang Dianyu looked at him for a while, then raised his hand and typed a sentence in the dialog box.
Rita looked at Stark seriously, slowed down her speech, and said word by word: "Bill's gene sequencing results are not wrong, and I can indeed be said to be his biological mother—maybe I invite you to visit my A mustache trim in the office?"
"... what?" Stark looked puzzled, was the topic a bit too jumpy.
But then he seemed to find a trace of familiarity from the memory, and then his face slowly changed.
He opened his mouth, feeling that what he said seemed outrageous: "A normal man..."
"—they will never share a razor." Miss Rita continued the second half of the sentence.
Stark was dumbfounded.
Miss Rita smiled slightly and turned her head slightly: "Because I'm mentally ill."
"... How do you know this?" Stark felt a little confused, but a ridiculous answer loomed in his heart. All kinds of events in the past are linked together - but somehow unbelievable.
"As you've guessed, Mr. Stark—of course I know, because I am, that's me." Miss Rita replied.
Stark: "..."
Miss Rita looked at Stark with a blank face with a smile: "I have a request, can you do me a favor?"
Stark nodded subconsciously.
He felt as if something had collapsed in his mind—in fact, he was not without doubts. He had already dug deep and searched for all the information he could find on the mysterious origin of the warden, but the files were so simple that they seemed to be forged of.
Maybe it was fake, he kept telling himself.
Until Bill's words and Miss Rita's hint made him confirm this absurd guess.
"I hope you can tell Peter all this." Zhang Dianyu said word by word.
He had promised Peter a long time ago and wanted to tell him a secret. Later, he fell into the trap of the Red Skull, and it was not until he returned to prison that he realized that he could not tell the truth.
Although it took only a few days for the boy to show his smiling face again, he even answered all this with Zhang Dianyu's "I am mentally ill".
But Zhang Dianyu couldn't let go. He didn't want Mr. Fergus' affairs to weigh on his mind forever like Peter's Uncle Ben.
"Wait wait—" Stark said incredulously, "what are you talking about, Mr. Fergus? The dead Mr. Fergus? What has he... got to do with this?"
Miss Rita remained expressionless, because Zhang Dianyu gave up on letting her make expressions.
"Oh, if I have to explain—he is also the father of Bill's biological son." He looked at Stark's fluctuating expression and added with a smile, "It's just like the fact that you guessed in your heart but couldn't believe it. .”
Stark: "???"
Miss Rita spread her hands: "As you can see, I am mentally ill."
Stark: "..."
He simply didn't know whether to take the word for it.
Because the reality that Miss Rita said is beyond the comprehension of ordinary people—but it can indeed explain all kinds of unusual things about the warden.
There was some confusion in his mind, and he didn't know whether to trust the other party or not.
"One more thing—'Bill' is not your illegitimate child." Miss Rita said, "Gene sequencing is also okay. You'd better ask him these things yourself, I can only say so much, because I am mentally ill... don't worry , he is different from ordinary boys."
"..." Stark was silent for a while and said, "Miss Rita, do you have to say that?"
Rita's tone was indifferent: "That's not something I can decide."
Stark: "..."
If it wasn't for a Stark brain growing out of his neck, maybe he'd be dead by now.
Stark thought for a while, then slowly took off his sunglasses, and looked directly at Miss Rita in front of him: "I'm sorry, I can't fully believe what you said."
Miss Rita replied: "Oh, you don't have to believe it, you can have your own judgment."
Stark was silent again.
Zhang Dianyu felt that the matter was more or less the same, and Bill's not-so-clever brain really didn't stop him from telling the truth through other hints.
Peter is also a smart boy, but his trust in the warden may exceed the doubts that popped up in his mind, which is why Zhang Dianyu did not directly tell him the truth in this way after repeated thinking.
Dr. Banner is still in a state of passive confrontation against Hulk. Zhang Dianyu persuaded him to join the Avengers but failed, so he can only wait and see for a while.
But he was going to get out of prison anyway.
Zhang Dianyu was about to control Rita to leave when he suddenly remembered something and turned to Stark and said, "If you're going to believe me—remember to tell Peter not to rush over tonight. Study hard. , be his good neighbor in New York, don't always set the flag and say that he will come back."
Stark: "... ok."
Rita turned around, and the man behind her stopped her again.
"Wait, I have another question."
Rita paused, then turned back to look at Stark.
"Among you... I mean, assuming that's true—who among you, apart from Mr. Fergus, is really you?"
Zhang Dianyu: "..."
In theory, the warden is really him.
But according to the bill, even if the warden's body is actually mortally wounded—such as being reduced to ashes or something—he will not disappear with it, but will become a secondary character.
Ordinary fatal injuries could not kill him.
Zhang Dianyu didn't want to answer this question, although he didn't think he would become Rita one day—and he didn't want to, but what if
Rita turned away and walked to the office next to the cell.
Stark asked loudly behind him, "So do you really have a razor?"
Zhang Dianyu: "..."
There is a landing pad on Alcatraz Island, but it is not within the scope of Zhang Dianyu, so he asked Wilson to park the helicopter on the small playground.
He was checking the plane at the other end, not following along to eavesdrop on the conversation between him and Stark.
As an undercover agent, he certainly wouldn't rush to reveal his purpose. Anyway, Stark is still a member of their camp at present, and there is no need for him to eavesdrop. Stark promised to share important information with everyone.
Although from his point of view, it's not entirely convincing.
Zhang Dianyu inspected the cell in front of him for a while, then glanced at the helicopter parked beside him, and fell into deep thought.
This old building obviously can't keep up with the roof of the prison cafeteria - if it is used as an apron, it is estimated that it will collapse in a short time.
Although the prisoners who will be transferred to this island are all heinous, he can't directly deal with them in private with justice.
Although it was an accident, the loss caused by mismanagement required compensation. After the amount of compensation reached the point where he could not afford it, he would lose his memory and become a prisoner in a prison according to the bill.
Obviously he didn't want to.
Zhang Dianyu thought for a moment, and instead of going into the dilapidated office next to him, he turned around and walked into the cell.
This is an old three-story building. The white walls have been simply maintained, and the sense of age can still be seen. Walking in from the door, the dilapidated furnishings make people feel very depressing.
That's why it's called "Alcatraz Island".
It was originally a prison for serious criminals and escaped prisoners. Those prisoners who try to escape from prison are often transferred to this prison. There is no hope of escape on the small island surrounded by the sea, coupled with high-pressure ruling methods, it leaves a strong psychological shadow on the prisoners.
Now the federal government is willing to reopen this small island, and the reason is self-evident-the officials of the federal government are not fools, they have long heard of the prison's illustrious reputation. But the Bureau of Prisons showed up only once, left a ticket, and left in a hurry.
In other words, the administrators are not opposed to Zhang Dianyu's use of high-handed tactics to rule the prisoners, and even hope that he can really give them some color.
This is a clear violation of human rights, and such a wish cannot be expressed publicly.
Zhang Dianyu walked in the hall of the cell silently, looking thoughtfully at the dilapidated displays around him.
Until there was a heavy landing beside him.
He turned his head and found that Stark had put on his battle armor at some point, and fell heavily behind him.
The visor opened, revealing a bearded face underneath.
Zhang Dianyu looked at Stark, wondering what he was going to do. It stands to reason that he should leave here to verify whether what Zhang Dianyu just said is true.
Stark raised his hand, and the battle armor peeled off him piece by piece.
He shrugged and looked up at Miss Rita.
"I think you ought to have a razor I can use."