The masked man fled in the distance and was about to climb over the roof of the building and disappear.
Steve immediately summoned the Holy Light War Horse, and a dazzling light flashed, and a golden horse that was half virtual and half real carried him up and flew across a bright trajectory in the night sky.
Riding the Holy Spirit War Horse, Steve instantly crossed a distance of tens of meters and easily caught up with the masked man.
The fist of punishment!
For most paladins, the power of attack spells is completely different whether they have weapons in their hands or not.
But Steve is a special case. His flawless heroic character gives him extraordinary affinity and control over the Holy Light, so the impact of weapons is much smaller.
The sandbag-sized fist shone with holy light and hit the masked man on the back!
Powered by the speed of the Holy Spirit War Horse, this shining golden punch directly knocked the masked man away, causing him to vomit blood and blood overflowing from the gaps in the mask.
The masked man fell to the ground unconscious.
Steve stepped forward, leaned over and took off his mask, then froze, his eyes filled with disbelief.
"Bucky!"
Under the mask, there was a face he was very familiar with, Bucky Barnes, a close comrade he met during World War II.
Seventy years ago, the two fought side by side on the European battlefield to fight against Nazi Germany. It could be said that they had a close friendship through life and death.
When Bucky fell from the train on the snow-capped mountains, Steve thought he would never see him again in this life. Unexpectedly, after seventy years, the two would meet again in such a scene.
Steve still couldn't believe it.
Although the appearance of this masked man is exactly the same as Bucky in his memory, he seems to not recognize him at all, and his appearance has not changed from seventy years ago. Could it be that he has also been frozen for more than sixty years?
Maybe just a similar looking person?
But the similarity is too high.
Steve looked at a scar behind the masked man's ear. He had witnessed the birth of this scar with his own eyes.
Steve frowned and made a decision immediately.
This masked man should be Bucky, but the current Bucky is obviously not in a normal state, and seems to be brainwashed and controlled by someone. The top priority is that he should send Bucky to a safe enough place.
According to Fury, SHIELD has fallen.
He didn't know about a safe enough place outside SHIELD a few months ago. Fortunately, after becoming a Paladin, he knew the existence of such a place.
Steve takes the unconscious Bucky back to the room.
"Fury, come with me, I will take you to a place."
"Where to go? No place is safe now, even SHIELD has been controlled." Fury said.
Without saying anything else, Steve took Fury and set off. Soon he arrived at a hidden street corner in New York, where a bookstore was still open late at night, even though there were no customers.
"Welcome, knight, are they your friends?" The store manager is an ordinary-looking white-haired old man, but in fact he is an older paladin, and this bookstore is also owned by the Silver Hand.
A secular stronghold, the Holy Light is the knight's identity proof that needs no words.
"Yes, we need help now." Steve said, "Will anyone repent?"
"Repent?" The old knight frowned slightly, then realized something and looked at the unconscious Bucky, "Is his mind controlled by someone?"
Steve nodded.
The old knight said: "Repentance is a very profound magic, and there are not many knights who can master it... But it just so happens that there is such a knight in New York."
"Dufresne?" Steve asked.
The old knight smiled and said: "Of course."
Dufresne is the most virtuous and respected among the human paladins. He is the founder of the Golden Hand. All secular institutions of the Knights are managed by him.
Be respected.
"Dufresne? Golden Hands?" Fury said.
"You know about the Golden Hand?"
Nick Fury smiled: "Of course, I am the director of S.H.I.E.L.D., and the Golden Hand gave me a car back then."
The store manager said: "It's very late now. If there's no rush, we can go find the Dufresne Knight tomorrow. You guys can rest here for the night."
"Okay." Steve thought for a moment and nodded.
The next morning, they were about to take Bucky to find the Dufresne Knight, when Steve's phone suddenly rang.
"It's SHIELD's call."
Steve answered the phone and heard the voice of Alexander Pierce: "Captain, I heard you have returned."
"Yes, Mr. Pierce."
"Very good, I am now the head of SHIELD. Since you are back, you should visit SHIELD as soon as possible." Listening to Pierce's voice, Nick Fury couldn't help clenching his fists.
Steve hesitated for a moment, then responded: "Okay, I'll be there right away."
After he hung up the phone, Nick Fury quickly said: "Why did you agree to him? SHIELD is in danger now."
"Maybe." Steve said calmly, "But I have to investigate."
"You take Bucky to see Knight Dufresne, and I'll go to S.H.I.E.L.D."
After saying that, Steve put on his shield and went straight to SHIELD headquarters.
Meanwhile, S.H.I.E.L.D.
"The Winter Soldier has lost contact. It must be Steve. He is coming now. What should we do?" Crossbones Brock Rumlow said.
"Maybe we should talk to him first." Alexander Pierce mused.
"Do you think it's possible for us to persuade Steve Rogers to surrender?" Crossbones said, "Don't forget who the Winter Soldier was. Steve must have seen his true face."
"What do you think should be done?" Pierce asked.
"Catch him or kill him!" Crossbones clenched his fist. As an outstanding fighter who is a master of combat even among agents, he prefers to use his fists to solve problems.
"Steve Rogers is here!"
"Why so fast? Did he fly here?"
Pierce immediately ordered: "Rumlow, take people over immediately and capture Steve Rogers. If you really can't catch him, you can kill him on the spot."
"Don't worry, I will capture him alive!" Crossbones showed a confident smile, then turned and left.
Two minutes later.
Steve entered the elevator with his shield on his back, pressed the floor number and waited silently.
Although his shield has become a dragon-man shield, the pattern is still the same, with red and blue intertwined, and a five-pointed star painted in the middle, as if taken from the Stars and Stripes Banner, which makes his image look unchanged from the past.
After a while, the elevator door opened halfway, and Crossbones came in with a group of agents. He said hello casually: "Ah, long time no see, Captain."
"Long time no see, Rumlow." Steve responded.
However, he was keenly aware of something.
Watching the agents swarming into the elevator, Steve understood that a battle was inevitable.
