Bruce Banner stood behind the glass and chatted with Stark for a while. Ever since coming here, he had never felt time pass so quickly. The researchers here neither discriminated against him nor feared him, and the living conditions were good. No one deliberately pried into his privacy. Even so, he still felt safer around friends, because he had barely interacted with the master of this city. Everything he knew about Salomon was hearsay, including what had happened after the conflict at Halle Airport.
Steve Rogers had effectively been exiled and wanted by the United States. The former Avenger had been rescued before being locked in a prison built on the Atlantic Ocean seabed. Some people had even, for their own purposes, shown him a Video Recording that exposed the truth behind Howard Stark's death—he looked at Tony Stark with deep guilt, but the Womanizer behind the bulletproof glass did not understand why the kind scientist wore such an expression. Tony Stark merely thought that the honest, somewhat weak-willed scientist had been locked up here for too long. That was precisely why Bruce Banner felt uneasy. He did not understand why Salomon had helped him, what exactly the scholars had researched in him, or why they had allowed him to learn that secret.
No one had told him anything about Kamar-Taj, and he had been injected with sedatives every time they performed an exorcism. As long as Bruce Banner's life was not threatened, Hulk would not emerge, so the research process had remained safe. Doctor Banner knew Hulk's destructive power, so he had voluntarily accepted the sedative injections every time. He thought he was merely undergoing some sort of examination, yet Bruce Banner found no traces of sampling on his body. The room had not been damaged, and no one