Natasha and Parker both stopped. They just stood there in silence and stared at the black man. Their eyes were no longer anxious as before, but filled with a searching meaning that made people feel frightened.
The black man's face changed, and he felt like a bug nailed in a specimen frame.
But suddenly Natasha said as if nothing was wrong: "You're right, this may indeed be a trap. We have to be careful. Parker, is there anything over the hatch of the spacecraft that can be used as a trap?"
"If they didn't ambush people there, I think maybe the safety gate would be a useful trap. Most gates on space stations are not allowed to be locked from the inside, but they can be locked from the outside. If the mastermind behind the scenes attracts us
If we go to a certain room and lock the lock from the outside, it will be difficult for us to escape."
Natasha glanced at the tool box that Parker never left, and asked, "So are you sure you can unlock the door from the inside?"
"No." Parker shook his head and said: "The gates in the rooms near the entrance and exit of the spacecraft have a very high security level. This is to prevent intrusion, and the control system is very sensitive and can be operated purely by software. Once we are locked up, it is almost impossible to
Even if I have time to react, I can't open the lock from the inside. I also want to ask you if you have any means of brute force cracking."
Natasha thought for a while and then said: "I have observed the material of the door before. It is not any alloy I know. I have never seen it before. I'm afraid the metal dissolving liquid prepared by SHIELD can't do anything with it."
"Then we really have to be more cautious." Parker said: "Let's stay in the corridor and never enter any room. Even if we find Lyman, we just need to break the water tank outside.
He probably won’t die so soon.”
Natasha nodded, and the plan was decided happily. The three of them started to set off towards the hatch, which was a bit far away.
The three of them got three scooters, which are very common in the space station, and rushed there while chatting. On the way, Natasha looked at the black scientist and said: "Don't blame me for acting like an agent, but I still want to know,
What specific research direction are you engaged in..."
The black scientist touched his nose and said, "Physics."
"Which direction is it specifically?"
"Aerodynamics." The black scientist replied again.
"Which university did you graduate from?"
"Hey, beauty, don't you think you're asking a little too much?" He expressed disgust and said, "I'm not a criminal."
"Okay, forgive my professional instinct, considering that I am a beautiful woman." Natasha smiled at him, and then started chatting again, "My boss is also a black man, and he is older, like
Stiff little old man, which community are you from?"
Natasha's typical agent-style questioning method makes it difficult for many people to react. One moment she seems to be chatting with you about ordinary things, using some lively words and witticisms, and the next second she asks a question that seems to be related to the previous topic.
Related but actually completely unrelated personal privacy issues, many people's brains will shut down during this transition.
The black scientist did not seem to have received professional training. He was stunned for a moment and then said: "From the Bronx..."
Before he finished speaking, Parker interjected: "That's not far from my home. My home is in Queens, which is what people call the lower-middle-class area..."
Natasha laughed and said: "You Americans are really interesting. Not only do you have to divide into the middle class, but also into the upper, middle and lower classes..."
Then they started talking about the differences between the United States and the Soviet Union, leaving the black scientists aside. This made him feel very awkward, as if there was always a breath that he had not vented.
It took the three of them a while to get to the hatch. This is the largest platform of the space station so far. It is divided into six areas and can park more than 2,000 small spacecrafts at the same time. Due to the nature of the space station, large spacecrafts cannot park, but they have already
Plans to build a star port on the moon.
It was a bit troublesome to check so many rooms. Parker tried his best to guide the two of them with his own memories, while Natasha did not give up on the way and kept trying to question the black scientists.
Ignoring Natasha's strength, her level of agent skills is also very high. She can be said to be a perfect hexagonal warrior. As long as she wants to, no one can escape the Black Widow's attack.
This black scientist was not a skilled person either. He was touched so hard that he didn't say a few words. His face was visibly pale and he was sweating.
Parker and Natasha quickly found the storage room at the hatch of Area B, but there were at least twenty rooms in the corridor this time, and they needed to check them one by one. They also followed the previous plan and did not
Entered the room rashly.
The faces of black scientists are getting worse and worse.
Suddenly, they heard a click in a room in front of them. Natasha and Parker ran over without thinking. As soon as they rushed to the door of the room, they heard a scream. When they opened the door, they saw a huge glass water tank.
It was shattered on the ground, and Lyman was lying on the broken glass, not knowing whether he was alive or dead.
Natasha brought Parker to a sudden stop at the door. Parker hesitated and said, "He doesn't look dead yet. I don't want us to..."
As expected, Lyman was not dead, and when he saw someone coming, he even shouted angrily: "Help, help me! That madman Oaks!!! He kidnapped me here, help me!!"
It seemed that Parker couldn't let him die like this, so he gritted his teeth and stamped his feet and rushed forward. Natasha cursed the good old man and followed her, and the two of them rushed to Lyman's side.
Suddenly, the room began to gradually darken, and the safety gate began to fall, and it fell very quickly.
"No!!!" Parker yelled loudly.
But after the gate was completely closed, the room became quiet. Except for Lyman's screams of pain from time to time, there was no sound.
With a snap, the light of the flashlight lit up and shone on Parker's face. Natasha shook her head and said, "It's too easy to take the bait. There's no challenge."
The two laughed under the light of the flashlight, and Parker shook his head and said, "They were too inconsiderate. How could it be that as soon as I arrived at the space station, the first door I opened was filled with acquaintances of mine?"
"It's hard to imagine that you have such vigilance, Mr. Parker." Natasha admired sincerely: "Like I said, the truth is hidden in the key details."
"Now let's speculate on what is going on." Parker said.
"Shouldn't you save him first?" Natasha asked, "I thought you were such a good old man."
"I am a good person, but I am not indifferent to right from wrong. Besides, if the two of us discuss the truth, it won't delay you from giving him stitches, right?"
"That's what I meant." Natasha took out the glue and needle for emergency sutures from the small equipment bag on her belt, and then said, "Tell me what you think first."
"These people, I refer to the people in the room we met before." Parker said: "They are all my acquaintances, but they basically met me in various ways after getting on the space station.
people."
"I remember that there was a problem with the circuit in Sophia's office, but it happened that no other electrician had time to repair it, so I went there. It happened that Li was also there at that time, and I got to know both of them. Later, because of
We met a few more times for some reasons, and gradually we became familiar with each other."
"Among the space station employees, scientific researchers account for more than 80%, and these scientists happen to be the team leaders of various departments. Having a good relationship with them is also beneficial to the work of the power department. The work in the space station is repetitive and boring. There are several
Friends can get together and relieve stress very well, so we become more and more familiar with each other."
"In that case, you are suspicious of them because they were waiting for you in the same room the moment you boarded the space station?" Natasha tilted her head and asked: "Maybe it's because they are familiar with each other, so they want to stay
In the same room?"
"It doesn't start here," Parker said. "I know you don't understand what it feels like because you probably haven't been bullied."
Natasha showed doubts in her eyes. She really did not have such feelings. Whether in the Soviet Union or the United States, her appearance was destined to be the dazzling one among the group. Only others trembled at the name of the Black Widow. She did not bully her.
Others are just fine.
Parker showed some nostalgia and said: "I was not outstanding when I was in school. Of course, it does not mean that I am now outstanding. It was just that I was more mediocre at that time, especially when I was in middle school."
"When I first entered middle school, I met a good friend. His home was not far from mine. We met on the way to school..."
Natasha didn't know why Parker suddenly mentioned something unrelated, but she instinctively felt that there might be a truth hidden in it, so she did not interrupt Parker, but listened to him quietly.
"Because we are the same age, have similar hobbies, and live close to each other, we quickly developed into very good friends, and then one day he took me to meet his friends... and the fairy tale started to take a turn from here.
And down."
"Without me, my good friend was the target of everyone's bullying. But with me, I became that little pitiful person. He brought me there just to sacrifice me."
"But their bullying is not the kind of bullying that puts you in a corner and beats you up, but they pretend to let you join their group and pretend that you are friends, but they establish an extremely strict class system in this group. They will always be
King, and I am the charging pawn, they are the masters, and I am the slave."
"Their daily activities are to play with me, make fun of me, ridicule and ridicule me, but they take me with them wherever they go and make me look foolish on various occasions."
"This has obvious benefits." Parker stretched out a hand and said: "Because there is no physical bullying, the teacher can't control them, and those who know about my situation will also say that you are not living up to expectations.
Just follow them."
"But in fact they will give you a feeling that if you dare to leave the group without permission, the bullying will not just stop at words and follow them, which will make you look less lonely.
and pitiful, just some verbal ridicule and ridicule, nothing intolerable."
Natasha frowned deeply, and Parker looked at her and said: "There is only one way for you to get rid of this kind of status, and that is to find another scapegoat. A bullying group only needs to have one prank target.
You can get away with others."
"You can be a bully when you have other people." Natasha said: "That good friend of yours is also involved, right?"
"Of course, in fact, he is the most vicious one, because he was bullied before and wanted to vent all his anger on me..."