"Okay, give me a moment..."
Steve had just been about to continue their earlier conversation with Natasha.
At the very least, he needed to explain why he did not know, or say a little more about what had happened at home.
But when he remembered the flash drive Director Fury had given him, he guessed there had to be some crucial clue inside.
Crossbones's reminder came again, somewhat rudely:
"They want you there immediately."
A few seconds later...
"Fine~"
By then, Agent Natasha, with her exceptionally sharp powers of observation, had already noticed something unusual in Captain Rogers's microexpressions.
He must be hiding something from me!
A soldier from seventy years ago thinks he can fool me?
Does he even know anything about psychology or microexpressions??
Probably never even heard of them...
Looking at Captain America's foolish expression, she said disdainfully:
"You really can't lie..."
Then she turned and left.
Steve recalled Fury's final words to him.
—Trust no one.
Especially since Fury had mentioned there was a traitor within S.H.I.E.L.D.
That meant he could not keep carrying the flash drive on him.
His gaze swept across the corridor and paused slightly.
The scene shifted.
"Let's go."
The captain walked toward Crossbones and returned to S.H.I.E.L.D. with the special operations team.
Deep inside the shelves of a vending machine in the hospital corridor sat that precise flash drive.
"Mr. Stark, I can still detect that the systems of twenty-three suits of armor are operating. Strangely, I cannot locate them..."
Inside Stark Tower.
Tony Stark had already run a full system inspection and maintenance cycle on JARVIS using a diagnostic program he had written himself.
After a month of work, he had adjusted countless parameters and optimized numerous configurations, yet found nothing wrong.
It had exhausted Tony, and at the