It was another afternoon, and the weather was clear, with only a few thin clouds in the distance reflecting the brilliant rays of the sunset.

She was still standing on the hill where someone had once stood, staring into the distance, quietly watching the eagle in the sky crossing the sky. She has been like this for several days, devoted herself to work, but she couldn't help but stand here for a while when she was free.

Fortunately, time is the best medicine. Although the feeling of chest tightness at first was almost breathless, it was a little lighter.

Maybe it will eventually disappear in the future, but the female agent knows that her life has been deeply engraved with the unique marks of that person.

A gentle footsteps came from nearby, and a small soldier walked to her hesitantly.

"Miss Carter." Steve called her, and the female agent blinked before turning her head.

At this time, she regained her sharp and cold eyes. Under such indifferent gaze, Steve's originally comforting words suddenly stuck in his throat and could not say them again.

"Is there anything wrong?" Carter asked lightly. When I disturbed this time, she would not care if it was someone else, but she would naturally be a little polite to that person's friend.

"I just want to say, don't be too sad." Steve said ill-fatedly. "If Eric is still there, I don't think he would want to see you sad..."

"Thank you." After responding politely, Carter turned his head and turned his eyes back into the distance.

She is not in a mood to talk to others now.

In fact, after the initial shock, she read the notice more than a dozen times, and did not mention the exact evidence of Eric's death. Later, she also made some understanding through Colonel Phillips's relationship. In addition to the battle situation report, she only found the military card of his new supervisor, Army Intelligence Officer McTagoth, without a body or anything else. Although the battle was very fierce, under the enemy's superior force, the escort fleet was almost wiped out, and the damage to their warship was extremely serious. The upper deck was directly hit by shells, and the flames almost burned the entire ship. The Navy Search and Rescue personnel did not find the survivor on it------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Maybe he just fell into the sea with bad luck or was captured by the Germans.

Carter thought so, although he knew that he might not be as optimistic as he thought, but he was always a hope.

What made her even more panic was a series of documents signed by Eric after being recruited into the army before boarding the ship in New York. As a common practice in the army, soldiers usually set the insurance beneficiary as themselves or their family, and there was also a notarized will, which also set the name of the inheritance heir as her.

For Eric, he just did it casually. His initial idea was to get what he wanted, find a way to go back seventy years later and leave. There were not many people he knew in this world, and Steve and Bucky couldn't use it. Of course, the only thing left was Paige, who had a close relationship with him, so he left all the things he had on her, hoping that she would not have to worry about money for the rest of her life at least - but in Paige's opinion, this was another meaning.

There were so many things to do. The female agent was thinking quietly, immersed in her own world. Steve next to him could only helplessly lower his head and slowly walk down the hills.

When he returned to the flat ground and looked upward, he suddenly felt that he had lost something important.

At this time, an older man walked up to him and gently patted the young man's thin shoulders.

"She just couldn't accept it for a moment. Just go over." Dr. Erskine looked at Carter and shook his head, leading Steve to the corner of the playground.

"Do you think Eric was really killed?" the doctor asked casually on the way.

"I don't know, maybe not." Steve replied confusedly, unable to tell what it felt.

"I think so too." The Doctor is a veteran, and you can guess his mood. "Eric has many secrets, and he is not as simple as you think."

"I know, how could I pick up a genius casually?" Steve sighed. "But, although I'm sure I've never seen him before, I always feel a sense of familiarity between us."

"Maybe you have something in common, I hope he is not like another person I know." The doctor sighed and slowly told his story to the young people.

"I came from Augsburg, Bavaria. After the European War, my nation was very difficult. Later, Hitler came to power, marched all day long, with many major rallies, and flags fluttered. Later he heard about my research and that man was ambitious and interested in magic and German mythology like Hitler. Hitler inspired his followers with his fantasy, and for Schmidt it was not a fantasy. He believed that it was real. He believed that there was a powerful force waiting for higher humans to obtain. He hoped to become higher humans through my experiments."

"Has he succeeded?" Steve couldn't help asking, looking at the doctor who was immersed in his memories.

"Yes." Wake up from memory, the doctor nodded. "But there are also side effects, it strengthens not only the human body, but also the personality."

"That means..." the little man hesitated to guess.

"Good people are better, bad people are worse." The doctor admitted frankly. "That's why you are chosen. What is more precious than muscle is character. I believe you are a good person."

At this moment, this young man felt a heavy responsibility that he had never had before on his weak shoulders.

At this time they had arrived at a remote corner, and the doctor sat down on a nearby bench.

"There are many phenomena in this world that we do not understand. We try to explain them with logic and scientific knowledge, which has achieved great results. But the more we know, the more difficult phenomena we will find. In order to get closer to them, we must first build platforms on the ground and then build tall towers. But this is not high enough, and the truth can only be looked up to, so we must lay a solid foundation, build more towers to unite them, and build them higher layer by layer."

"However, the foundation has limited capacity, so the higher it extends, the narrower the top end, and finally people discovered that they built a pyramid. At this time, whether the original purpose was achieved, what is the truth is no longer important, because under the pressure of the class, the structure below was already breathless. No matter what gains the top end, it belongs to only a very small number of people, not the whole of humanity."

"Isn't this how society is?" From this perspective, Steve suddenly felt that the free country does not seem to be much different from the countries in history.

"Yes, the emperor, the head of state, the emperor, and the sultan, they are all above. Constitutionalism brings a glimmer of hope to society, but it only disperses power to the nobles. The representative system is the system that can reflect the will of the people. However, politics itself is full of deception and compromise. Once someone understands its mystery, the elite can control everything like the nobles of the past, but only change their name. Maybe your friend Eric is right, my potion will create an excellent nation, but instantly it will also make others lower."

"Eric?" Steve said the name in confusion, one was his friend and the other was his guide, but he never knew that the two had any intersection.

"Yes, we've talked a lot." The doctor replied lightly. "He is a wise man, and I hope he won't become another Schmidt."

Hearing the hint in Erskine's words, Steve's body shook violently.

The doctor ignored him and continued to speak down.

"I was born in a doctor's family. When I was very young, I saw the miserable life of patients. No matter how strong I was when I was young, I would always have a day old or a day sick. At that time, I wondered why humans would suffer such a fate. If the Lord really loved humans, it should not have been punished with such cruelty. Should we be born with original sin or be played with by the supreme existence? I couldn't find the answer, so I could only save humanity in my own way. I have devoted my life to studying human evolution, and now it is about to succeed. I suddenly felt a little scared. I don't know if I am the ones who have built pyramids, thinking that it can bring great changes to humanity, but in fact it only benefits a very small number of people."

"But it can help us end the war, and I think everything you do is valuable, Dr." Steve tried his best to comfort him.

Erskine smiled, no objection or nodding.

Now that he has seen through it, all politicians will not be much different.

If Schmidt was willing, he might not be able to re-extract serum from his blood and inject it into the body of the Nazi party members to help Germany win. But he did not, just sent a few people to deal with it at will, and Germany's failure was still a matter of time. Similarly, it would be the same if it were the top leaders of the allies. Part of the rebirth plan was super soldiers, and the other part was somewhat similar to Eric's superpowers. Their existence far exceeded the need to win the war. It is foreseeable that they would not be mainly used on ordinary soldiers in the future. Serve to the senior officials is the ultimate goal of their existence.

The doctor couldn't help but shudder when he thought that it might have created a stubborn ruling class by himself.

In the end, he could only remind the young man in front of him.

"No matter what happens in the future, you must assure me." The doctor looked at Steve tightly. "Keep yourself, not a super warrior, but a good person."

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