At the Avengers base, Natasha took the Order of the Red Banner. Seeing the wear marks on it, her eyes widened.
"Is it real?" Steve asked.
Natasha opened her mouth, hesitated, then said, "I never received this medal, and the Order of the Red Banner has a long history with many different versions. But judging from these wear marks, it shouldn't be a souvenir..."
"The Order of the Red Banner was awarded in huge numbers. You can still find them on the market now. No one would go out of their way to make a fake, right?"
After saying that, Natasha weighed the medal in her hand with some confusion, looked at Steve, and said, "Are you planning to defect to communism now? Isn't it a little late?"
"Don't joke around." Steve's expression was rather serious. "We found this in Schiller's office at the sanatorium. Now we suspect that his wife may have been from the same era as you, and may also have undergone genetic modification. Maybe she came from the Red Room too..."
"Impossible." Natasha immediately denied it. After speaking, she lowered her gaze to the medal. Steve looked at her lovely face, but did not see any expression there. This female agent had always been excellent at controlling her emotions.
"Perhaps you don't understand what things were like back then. I don't want to talk much about it either, because it was so long ago. But no matter what, there could not have been anyone besides me who gained immortality through modification."
Natasha drew a deep breath and slowly began her account:
"I was born in Stalingrad in 1928. At the time, the Soviet Union's first Five-Year Plan had only just begun. Everything was still in its early stages, including intelligence work."
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