This is a typical New Mexico town. It is located next to the famous Highway 66. Corn fields, wastelands and sporadic cactus can be seen everywhere nearby. There are taverns selling sparkling wine, motels with flashing neon lights, and gas stations with quaint and old styles. When outsiders walk into it, they are like walking into an old movie to relive the legendary stories of the West.

In this town, every dusk, the sunset will turn into a bright red projectile, wandering among the hills, and the crimson glow dyes half of the sky like a dream.

Fitz usually likes such colorful scenery the most. He always feels that this moment can give him endless inspiration, but today the rookie agent almost delayed the time to enjoy the sunset. From the afternoon, he went to the contact room and the headquarters far away in the east to report the situation. He went to the living room before returning to the living room after trying his best.

"The report is completed?" At this time, Zhenma was sitting on the sofa holding a biology journal, holding a pencil in her hand and spinning it quickly between her fingers. When she saw Fitz come out, the pencil that was dizzy suddenly stopped.

"Yes, it's finally over." Fitz didn't notice this. He sat down exhausted and buried himself deeply in the soft sofa cushion.

Although the last incident passed, Thor and his friends returned to Asgard, and the miniature city built by Colson around Thor's Hammer was also demolished, Fitz and others could not leave like them, because their leader Eric just called ↑, ww+w. Hear and then disappeared.

how so?

Every time I think of it, Fitz can't help but complain. How can a great man with many titles and halos be so tempting to do things? At least he should also say where he went, what he did, and what follow-up arrangements he had. They really couldn't report to the top. So the current situation is that after the team leader disappeared, other members were forced to stay in the town and wait to see if the gentleman came back himself or if there were any new instructions in the bureau.

However, according to bald agent Sitterville, a bald agent, privately, it is unlikely that the senior officials in the bureau will be willing to stand up and take responsibility. After all, Eric is not an outdated battlefield hero like Rogers. He is involved in many current power competitions. For example, the Council hopes that he can balance Fury, who is used to taking self-righteous actions, and bring some fresh air to this increasingly closed system, so that they can control this powerful agency more effectively.

Of course, this has nothing to do with Fitz and others. They just hope that Eric can come back as soon as possible to end the current embarrassing situation.

They currently live in the houses rented by Dr. Servig and Jane in the town, and one of the few intact houses left in the town in the previous incident. Three astronomers stayed for a few days and left. Colson left a little later. He applied for a sum from the bureau and spent a lot of effort to appease the townsmen who suffered huge losses. Under his promotion, the reconstruction work proceeded very quickly. In just two weeks, the town seemed to have roughly restored its old views.

"This time the above asked me to explain why Miaoer Neil was the hammer. Colson's people heard the Asgardians say Thor's father promised that anyone could get ownership of it by picking it up. It was for this reason that Commander Hill personally interrogated me for a long time."

"Then why don't you leave it?" Jenma didn't say anything, just blinking her big eyes, her long eyelashes flashed a few times, and Fitz immediately understood her thoughts.

"I just figured out something." The boy looked up at the ceiling and said slowly. "I figured out what I really need to cherish. I don't have to fight if I want to be a hero... I feel very close to him when I hold Miaoer, as gentle and cute as a kitten. But I am ashamed, because that's not my power, it was Eric who helped me, just like the time when Manhattan saved Jane. I don't want to deceive him and deceive myself. I shouldn't have that, I should be myself, I am Leo Fitz, not Thor Fitz or Eric Fitz. That's like a dream. Now I'm awake, and I'm still me."

"Fitz..." After hearing these words, Zhenma was a little moved. She put down the extremely attractive biology journal and looked over. Only then did she find that a circle of green and tender beard had already grown on the boy's cheeks.

Before she could sigh, Brownsky ​​passed by the door. When Fitz saw him jumping up and then went out to see the scenery.

At this time, dusk was about to pass, and the sunset completely sank into the wasteland. There were only a few colorful clouds of crimson and light purple in the sky. As the sky gradually darkened, the crimson and light purple clouds quietly turned into different levels of indigo, and then evolved into full and gorgeous navy blue, drifting leisurely in the sky like velvet satin.

"Why not go out together?" As Zhenma looked outside in a daze, a man's voice rang behind her without warning.

The girl was so scared that she jumped up and pointed at the person behind her and shouted incoherently. The man was Eric. He was returning to the living room at some point and was sitting on the sofa with a cup of steaming coffee slowly.

Ten minutes later, Zhenma's accusations gradually faded.

"Okay, okay." Eric comforted her, and there was also teasing. "I've just been out for a few days. I told you before that I would be worried and nagging like a frightened deer... Do Fitz know about your habit?"

"What does this have to do with Fitz!" Jenma instinctively protested. "And after you left, Fury asked us to report the situation directly to him. Do you know how much effort it took to deal with it?"

"Don't pay attention to him." Eric replied lightly. "You are my people. If he asks this again, let him come to me directly."

"But there must be a reason, after all, you have disappeared for half a month..."

"That's it." Eric clapped his hands and found a reason casually. "The universe is so big, I want to go and see it."

"What an excuse." Zhenma said softly, even if this matter had a final result.

"Do I need to know anything other than the concern from Mr. Fury?" Eric asked when he mentioned the gap during this period.

"There is nothing else, but I feel that Fitz is weird. He said he figured it out, but I am still a little worried. I know Fitz. He is not a person who can hide his thoughts, but I have been unable to understand his ideas recently." Speaking of the boy, Jenma was a little worried. She said Fitz's words not long ago, and even imitated his tone.

"That means he has grown up." Eric smiled. "After experiencing these things, he is psychologically about to grow into a man, and you are involved in this process."

"Me?" Zhenma's eyes widened, her body shrank toward the back of the sofa, looking indifferent. "I don't have the surname Foster, nor do I study astronomy." There was a faint resentment in her words. At this time, she looked a little like an ordinary girl, rather than the calm and composed female researcher.

"Don't be too picky about Jenma, you are Fitz's spiritual harbor." Looking at the girl's appearance, Eric chuckled softly. "Men sometimes go crazy for fantasy, but after they go crazy, they still have to go back to the closest person, which is his best destination."

"This is unfair, I have never destroyed the tacit understanding!" Zhenma immediately complained.

"Really?" Eric looked at the communication room with some meaning.

The girl soon came over and her face turned red immediately. Now she finally understood that her little secret was not hidden from the target's eyes. This made her feel guilty for her private behavior and grateful that she was not exposed in public to make her friends disgusted. When she thought so, she suddenly realized that she had some emotions in her heart, but she was not afraid at all. At this time, Zhenma realized that she had already regarded herself as a member of Eric's team, so she was so calm.

This understanding made her feel relieved, as if she had finally finished watching a depressing and tragic movie and returned to her relaxed and interesting daily life. At this time, she would have another feeling when she listened to Eric's nagging.

“… Men are like birds in cages. It’s easy to open the cage, but not every bird is willing to fly back.”

"Enough, stop! Don't preach!" The girl who put down the bag rolled her eyes and interrupted the other party. "This kind of thing sounds like my dad is teaching me a lesson."

"If you want, you can call me dad." Eric shrugged and said he had no objection. "The last suggestion..."

He glanced at the door and saw two people outside walking back from the roadside, so he raised his voice slightly so that people outside could hear it.

"From the future, work in the lab and change clothes in your own room, don't worry about unreasonable things according to my office Emil and Leo are good people."

Zhenma just curled her lips, and the two members who went out to see her walked in, and happened to hear Eric's words.

"Why are you talking about this again?" Bronsky was quite dissatisfied and felt that he had been misunderstood for no reason. "I have never peeked at someone changing clothes, no matter who it is!"

"Neither I." Fitz's rash defense. "And there is nothing good about Jenma."

His meaning was originally intended to mean that the two were too familiar with each other, but the girl sounded like another meaning.

"Fitz!" She angrily called the boy's name, stood up and kicked his calves heavily. Fitz jumped up with a "scream" and rubbed his legs desperately.

"I agree with other points, but there is one thing you said wrongly that his father didn't grow up at all."

Jenma emphasized her new name to Eric, and looked at the girl's back and Fitz was confused.

"What's wrong with her? Why do you call your father?" the boy asked inexplicably.

"Hey, how do you ask me to answer this question, Fitz?" After teasing others, Eric spread his hands helplessly, with a look of regret on his face, but he was filled with joy.

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Chapter completed!