Chapter 430 Calling for Love in the Center of the World

"Jingoubang, Jingoubang, Jingoao must be fed..."

Cheerful Christmas songs are played everywhere on the streets, and people with festive smiles on their faces take their children to shopping malls to buy ingredients for Christmas dinner and holiday gifts.

Businesses in the United States often hire a kind-hearted old man to dress up as Santa Claus and let the children sit on his lap to take photos. Santa Claus will warn the children that they must be good children to receive Christmas gifts, otherwise they will only receive Christmas gifts. Get coal.

The atmosphere is so warm and warm. This is the first Christmas after the earth was on the verge of destruction twice. People are cherishing the good life even more after the disaster, and the Christmas atmosphere is even more enthusiastic.

The white snowflakes also fell at the right time. There was no wind, and the snowflakes fell slowly like soft cotton wool. The snow was not too cold, but it made the world white and picturesque.

Colored lights are hung high, the Christmas tree is erected, and golden stars are decorated on the top of the tree, expressing people's good expectations for the new year.

In the square in front of the Rockefeller Center building in New York, as in previous years, a giant Christmas tree was erected. Tourists and New Yorkers gathered here to enjoy the beauty that can only be seen once a year.

Among the cheerful crowd, a lonely figure stepped on the snow and walked aimlessly in the snow.

It was a beautiful girl, wearing a gray coat and having long golden hair. She is out of tune with the joyful world and is not infected by the festive atmosphere at all. There is a sense of loss and confusion hidden in her plain expression.

The girl tightened the collar of her coat. Her physical fitness reached the peak of human beings and she was not afraid of the cold, but she felt the chill.

It was a kind of coldness caused by loneliness, radiating from the inside out.

Stephanie was in a bad mood, and the warm festive atmosphere made her even more miserable.

The first Christmas after she woke up was the worst Christmas in her life, countless times worse than the Christmas she spent on the battlefield more than 70 years ago.

On the battlefield Christmas 70 years ago, as Captain America, he spent it with the soldiers. Maybe there were no gifts, no Christmas tree, no food and no family, but he was accompanied by his comrades, who sang together with their rough voices. Singing Christmas songs in different tunes, eating disgusting spam luncheon meat and dark chocolate, filled with hope that he will soon defeat the evil.

The atmosphere of that Christmas was warm and enthusiastic. The conditions may have been simple, but it was really happy and nostalgic.

Stephanie's original plan for Christmas this time was to spend it with Nick Fury. This was not because she had any special relationship with Nick. She chose Nick just because Nick was also alone and did not have family to accompany others like others. This was also It can be regarded as a hug for the poor people to keep warm.

Among her colleagues, Stephanie has a good relationship with Hawkeye Barton and Falcon Sam. Both of them have a soldier's demeanor and are very suitable for Stephanie's temper.

Barton once invited Stephanie to his home to spend Christmas with his family, but Stephanie refused. She didn't want to intrude into a warm family, which would make her feel uncomfortable.

And Sam is going to spend Christmas with his girlfriend, and Stephanie certainly won't be a lightbulb.

She thought that Nick, an old comrade she had known since the Howling Commandos days, could spend such a special day with her, but she didn't expect that Nick and Hill would officially date. They would spend their first Christmas together as a couple. .

There was nothing wrong with spending Christmas by herself. Stephanie would not be so lost that she wandered aimlessly, but a phone call this morning hit her hard.

Peggy Carter passed away.

The woman she once loved died of myocardial infarction on Christmas morning. She passed away quickly and peacefully, without suffering much.

Stephanie once visited Carter, who was lingering in bed, but she only acted as Nick's niece and did not reveal her true identity to Carter.

Looking at the white-haired Carter, and still vaguely able to find a trace of the past in her old face, Stephanie's heart was like a knife, and her sadness could not be suppressed.

After that time, she never went to the hospital again.

It's not because she dislikes Carter's old appearance, but because Stephanie can't bear the sadness every time she sees her weakening and dying.

What should come will always come. Stephanie thought she was mentally prepared, but she still collapsed when she received the news of Carter's death.

Strong soldiers do not cry, and the inexpressible grief tortured Stephanie to the point of losing her mind. She walked out of the house and walked on the streets.

However, at this sad moment, with no friends by her side and no one to talk to, the girl's heart felt like a huge boulder, and its hard edges were sharpening her increasingly fragile warrior heart.

She felt more and more like she didn't belong in this world.

I don’t have any hobbies, and I don’t know what I like to do or what I can do after leaving SHIELD.

When Sam was joking with her, he once suggested that she become a wrestler or Ultimate Fighter after retiring. She just smiled and covered up the past. In fact, this suggestion was a sharp irony to her.

Apart from a body of muscles or a pretty face, she doesn't even have any means of making a living in this new world.

Stephanie knew that Sam was unintentional and didn't blame him, but these words were like a thorn in her heart.

Maybe fighting was everything she had, but even with this one specialty, she wasn't very good at it.

During the battle to stop the Chitauri, facing the powerful general's guard, Captain Earth, who had acquired magical powers, could not lead his team to victory. He even suffered serious injuries while protecting his teammates. If the commander had not mobilized the Iron Legion to form In the battle formation, she might die in that battle.

Due to the serious injury, she had to be hospitalized to recuperate. Just as she was lying feebly on the hospital bed, she received the news that Director Luo Feng had foiled Hydra's conspiracy and uprooted the Hydra that was parasitic in SHIELD.

When she got the news, Stephanie was very happy. Hydra was her lifelong enemy. It was definitely a great thing to be able to thwart Hydra's world-destroying conspiracy.

However, after being happy, she felt very regretful. She regretted that she could not participate in the operation to exterminate Hydra, and she did not even receive any news in advance.

Does Director Luo also think she is useless?

Are you unwilling to let her participate in such a task?

Maybe I am really useless and useless.

A useless person who does not belong to this world, this is how Stephanie sees herself now.

It is getting dark, and thousands of lights in the city are on.

The girl came to Times Square, sat on a bench on the street, watched the neon lights and electronic screens shining, and looked at the happy crowd around her. She didn't know what was wrong, but as strong as she was, a tear fell from the corner of her eye and ran down her cheek. Slowly slide down.

Snowflakes are falling and a cold wind is blowing.

The teardrop was very cold, and the mark it scratched was like a scar on the face.