Chapter 741 The ghost walking in time

What is courage?

That is having the courage to face death, being able to remain calm and composed under the red-dot sightings of dozens of elite agents, even if the mountain collapses in front of you without changing your expression.

Even in Paige's slightly raised eyebrows, everyone could faintly feel a hint of sarcasm.

"I'm so sorry, Agent Paige!"

Grant Ward waved his hand and cut it down like a blade, and made a ruthless voice: "I have the highest authority on the scene to order that the traitor Peggy Carter be captured alive and the obelisk be recaptured."

This order is undoubtedly declaring the sovereignty of this mission to everyone.

Grant's tone was extremely tough and he had no intention of discussing with them.

"you......"

Steve's expression changed slightly, and he was about to speak to stop Grant, but was stopped by Natasha on the side.

Natasha's face was solemn, with a hint of warning in her eyes, and she shook her head slightly.

"Captain Rogers, do you have any objections?"

Grant Ward looked at them and said meaningfully: "Retaking the obelisk is the highest directive of the Security Council, and it must be done at all costs. You should understand what this means. I have tried my best to protect Agent Paige."

Steve's expression changed again and again, but he couldn't say anything.

"We will cooperate with you, Agent Ward." Natasha took a step forward, looked into Grant's eyes, and said.

"That's good."

Grant smiled and said: "Then please leave it to Captain Rogers. If even you can't do it, then I can only apply for higher-level authority and take back the obelisk at all costs."

Steve's expression changed again, he understood the meaning of Grant's words.

If Peggy cannot be caught, SHIELD will use more advanced forces, and Peggy's safety will not be guaranteed.

Grant... what a great trick.

Natasha sighed secretly in her heart. Maybe Steve couldn't see the above trick and Grant's thoughts, but she knew it clearly.

The purpose of granting Grant the highest authority by the Security Council was to guard against Steve Rogers, lest he let Peggy Carter go due to personal concerns and cause the mission to fail.

However, Grant was also very shrewd. He knew that if he ordered the killing of Peggy, Steve would probably rebel on the battlefield, so he chose a compromise method: capture Peggy Carter alive and force him to find out the whereabouts of the obelisk.

In this way, even if Steve felt unhappy, he had to choose to obey the order due to the highest authority order.

"I'm sorry...Paige!"

Steve secretly made up his mind to take Paige back: "You will be fine, I swear to you!"

"It doesn't matter."

Peggy said calmly: "It's better to wait until you catch me to say these words."

The last word fell.

The whole bar shook suddenly, and there was a crisp explosion. Like a tyrannosaurus, Steve stepped a few meters away in one step. Extremely powerful force was poured into his feet, setting off a roaring wind.

boom--

The wooden floor in the bar was lifted up by the air waves visible to the naked eye, and the broken wood chips were shot in all directions like projectiles, making a harsh sound of breaking through the air.

Steve didn't do anything, but when he did, he used all his strength, even exceeding the speed of sound, and the sonic boom suddenly reverberated throughout the bar like a piercing siren.

Hula la——

Everyone felt that there seemed to be a black shadow flashing before their eyes, and then a strong wind hit their faces. Their faces seemed to be slapped, and their whole bodies seemed to be trapped in the turbulence, and they fell to the ground.

After Grant was thrown to the ground, he rolled several times. His straight suit became wrinkled. He got up from the ground with a gray face. Looking at the agents around him who were overturned by the strong wind, he suddenly cursed in his heart with anger.

This guy... obviously did it on purpose.

"I'm sorry, Paige!"

Steve apologized in a low voice, moved his hands up and down, and aimed at the joints of the woman in front of him in a standard grabbing posture, intending to directly restrain Paige.

Peggy Carter's eyes flashed, knowing that Steve was serious about it. If he were to restrain him, it would be really difficult to escape with his own little strength.

but......

Paige still didn't resist, letting Steve restrain her joints.

As a result, the agents present saw a scene like this. The two looked like a couple in love, with the woman nestled in the man's arms. Of course, the premise was that Steve's grasping posture had to be ignored.

But even so...

Paige's affectionate eyes and the male protagonist's loving expression can be selected as Hollywood's classic love scenes.

More than a dozen elite agents on the scene were fed a mouthful of dog food for no apparent reason, and each one looked uglier than the last.

"It's over, Peggy Carter!"

Although Grant felt as if he had eaten a fly, he still tried to maintain the smile on his face and try to appear calm.

Natasha cursed a bitch in her mind, then dusted herself off and stared at the pair of bitches angrily: "Agent Paige, you have been arrested. Please tell us, Obelisk." 's whereabouts."

Faced with the questioning of the two agents, Paige ignored them, but looked at Steve with a slightly frivolous look: "Do you remember what I told you?"

"Remember."

Steve looked at her affectionately: "I still owe you a dance, so... don't struggle, come back with me, I will definitely protect you, okay?"

"Now is not the time."

Peggy shook her head and chuckled: "As for the dance you owe me, pay it back to me after everything is over."

As if he felt it, with the woman trying to escape, Steve pressed his fingers slightly, clasped the woman's joints, and said in an excited voice: "No, Paige, everything is over, you must go back with us! "

"No, it's far from over."

Paige looked calm and said calmly: "Remember what I told you, I hope that the next time we meet...you can hold me firmly."

The moment he finished speaking, Steve felt his hands loosen and found that Paige had disappeared.

Without any warning, it disappeared from their eyes like a ghost.

"Look at the bar quickly!!!"

Natasha's expression suddenly changed, she pointed in the direction of the bar and exclaimed.

Everyone looked in the direction of her finger, only to see a neat row of wine glasses placed on the empty bar, and each glass was filled with scarlet wine, like a Bright red blood.

Counting the number of glasses, it happened to be the people in their bar.

No...that's not right!

There was an extra wine glass, and it had already been drunk.

The lipstick mark remaining on the edge of the cup was like a thunderbolt exploding in the clear sky, roaring in everyone's minds.

They were 100% sure that there was nothing placed on the bar before Peggy Carter disappeared, and it was even more impossible for anyone to sit there and drink a glass of wine without being noticed.

It felt like there was a ghost, invisible to everyone.

Sitting at the bar with a faint smile, watching their every move, he made a glass of wine for everyone, drank one of the glasses alone, and at the moment when he couldn't react, he rescued Peggy Carter from before their eyes.

...

On the deserted street outside the bar.

In the old bungalows on both sides of the street, in the dark corners of the streets and alleys, Grant had arranged a large number of S.H.I.E.L.D. surveillance and backup agents in advance to prevent Peggy Carter from escaping again.

The two women walked slowly down the street, one behind the other.

But these elite agents seemed to be blind, ignoring the two figures on the street.

No... exactly.

They are not ignoring or neglecting their duties.

Everyone's expressions were frozen at a certain moment. Their eyes were still staring at the street very sharply. Their fingers were on the triggers of the firearms. You could even see the raised veins on their necks, and the blood that had just oozed out from their temples had not yet dripped. Beads of sweat and all.

Time seems to be suspended.

But if you observe carefully, you can find that time is not actually suspended.

It's just that the time at this moment has been stretched infinitely, just like a tool in video editing, turning into a frame-by-frame stop-motion animation, resulting in the phenomenon in front of you, where time has been slowed down to the extreme.

"No matter how many times I watch it, I will still be shocked."

Peggy Carter held the hand of the woman in front of her, with shock that could not be concealed in her eyes: "Like a ghost walking in time, you are worthy of your perfection technique [(My Heart Will Go On)]."

"Am I... not just a ghost?"

The hazy moonlight falling from the sky covered the woman with a layer of silvery gauze. In a world where everything was almost stagnant, she looked extremely beautiful. Her long golden hair, paired with a pure white dress, really seemed like a ghost.

The woman's voice was filled with loneliness and loneliness.

"Yvette, you are not a ghost."

Peggy stared at her back, feeling a lot of emotions in her heart, and comforted softly: "You are our most important family member. If it weren't for you, we might not get together at all, let alone take revenge on Hydra. "

"Well, we're family."

Yvette turned her head slightly, with a stunning smile on her face as delicate as an angel: "It is precisely because of your support that I, who is fragile, can persevere to this day, just like... back then. Same as Luca.”

Paige remained silent, with only distress in her eyes.

For more than seventy years, Yvette has been relentlessly searching for a man named Luca.

She really wanted to know, what kind of bastard could he have the heart to watch a kind girl spend seventy years of her life, traveling to almost half of the earth, trying to find him at all costs?

But unfortunately, Yvette never told them this man's story.