Vol 2 Chapter 118: Calling for love in the center of the world

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Cheerful Christmas songs are played all over the street, people with festive smiles on their faces, and they take their children to the shopping center to buy ingredients for Christmas dinner and buy holiday gifts.
Businesses in the U.S. often hire a kind-hearted old man dressed as Santa Claus and ask the children to sit on his lap and take a group photo. Santa Clauses warn the children that they can only receive Christmas gifts by being a good boy, or they will only Get coal.
The atmosphere is so warm and warm. This is the first Christmas after the earth’s two catastrophes that are on the verge of destruction. People will cherish the good life even more and the Christmas atmosphere will be more enthusiastic.
The white snowflakes landed just right. There was no wind, and the snowflakes fell slowly like soft cotton wool. The snow was not too cold, but the world was white as a picture.
The colorful lights hang high and the Christmas tree is erected, and the golden stars decorate the top of the Christmas tree, pinning people's good expectations for the new year.
On the square in front of the Rockefeller Center in New York, as in previous years, a giant Christmas tree was erected. Tourists and New Yorkers gathered here to enjoy the beauty that can only be seen once a year.
Among the cheerful crowd, a lonely figure stepped on the snow and walked aimlessly in the snow.
It was a beautiful girl, wearing a gray coat and having long golden hair. She is out of tune with the joyous world. She is not at all infected by the festive atmosphere, and her plain expression hides a bit of loss and confusion.
The girl tightened the collar of her coat tightly. She is not afraid of the cold when she has reached the pinnacle of human physical quality, but she feels chilly.
It was caused by a kind of loneliness, and the coldness emanating from the inside out.
Stephanie was in a bad mood, but the enthusiastic festive atmosphere made her even more pathetic.
The first Christmas after she woke up was the worst Christmas in her life, and it was countless times worse than the Christmas on the battlefield more than 70 years ago.
On the battlefield Christmas 70 years ago, as Captain America, he spent time with the soldiers. Maybe there were no gifts, no Christmas trees, no food and family, but there were comrades who accompanied him, and they sang together in a rough voice. Changing the tone of the Christmas song, eating nauseating Spam luncheon meat and dark chocolate, full of hope that the Nazis will be defeated.
The atmosphere of that Christmas was warm and enthusiastic. The conditions may be simple, but it was really happy and nostalgic.
Stephanie’s original plan for this Christmas was to spend with Nick Fury. This was not because she had a special relationship with Nick. Nick was chosen because Nick was also alone and not accompanied by family like other people. It's a group of poor people to keep warm.
Among her colleagues, Stephanie has a good relationship with Hawkeye Button and Falcon Sam. Both of them have a soldier style and are very temperamental towards Stephanie.
Patton once invited Stephanie to his home to spend Christmas with his family, but Stephanie refused. She didn't want to insert a warm family forcibly, because that would make her feel uncomfortable.
And Sam is going to spend Christmas with his girlfriend, of course Stephanie will not be a light bulb.
I thought Nick, an old comrade I knew during the Roaring Commando, could spend such a special day with her, but I didn’t expect Nick to officially date Hill. They will spend their first Christmas together after becoming a couple. .
It's okay to spend Christmas by yourself, Stephanie won't lose to the point of wandering aimlessly, but a phone call this morning hit her hard.
Peggy Carter passed away.
The woman she once loved died of myocardial infarction on Christmas morning. She walked quickly and peacefully without suffering.
Stephanie had visited Carter, who was lingering and sick, but she was only as Nick's niece and did not reveal her true identity to Carter.
Looking at Carter with white hair, she could still vaguely find a trace of the charm of the year from her old face, Stephanie's heart was like a knife, and the sadness could not be restrained.
After that time, she never went to the hospital again.
It wasn't because she disliked Carter's old face, but every time she saw her weak and dying, Stephanie couldn't bear the sorrow.
When the time came, Stephanie thought she was mentally prepared, but she broke down when she received the news of Carter's death.
The strong soldier would not cry, and Stephanie was so tortured by her inexpressible grief, she walked out of the house and strolled in the streets.
However, at this sad moment, there are no friends around, no one can talk to her, the girl's heart is like a boulder, and the hard edges and corners sharpen her increasingly fragile warrior heart.
She felt more and more that she did not belong to this world.
I don't have any hobbies, and I don't know what I like to do and what I can do after leaving SHIELD.
When Sam joked with her, she suggested that she be a wrestler or ultimate fighter after retiring. She just smiled and concealed the past. In fact, this suggestion was a sharp irony to her.
Except for a muscular body or a pretty face, she doesn't even have any means of making a living in this new world.
Stephanie knew Sam was unintentional and didn't blame him, but this sentence was nailed in her heart like a thorn.
Maybe fighting is everything she has, but even with this only specialty, she did not do well.
In the battle against the Zetarus, facing the powerful generals and guards, even the captain of the ground team with the magical ability failed to lead the team to victory, and even suffered serious injuries because of the protection of his teammates. If it were not for the commander to mobilize the steel army to form In the battlefield, she might die in that battle.
Due to the serious injury, she had to be hospitalized to recuperate. When she was lying weakly on the hospital bed, she received news that Director Luo Feng frustrated the conspiracy of Hydra and uprooted the Hydra parasitic in S.H.I.E.L.D.
When she got the news, Stephanie was very happy. Hydra is her lifelong enemy. It is definitely a great thing to defeat Hydra's conspiracy to destroy the world.
However, after being happy, she was very regretful again, regretting that she had not been able to take part in this campaign to eradicate Hydra, and she had not even received any news in advance.
Does Chief Luo also think she is useless?
Would not let her participate in this kind of task?
Maybe I am really useless and useless.
A useless person who does not belong to this world, this is what Stephanie knows about herself now.
It was getting dark, and thousands of lights in the city were on.
The girl came to Times Square and sat on a bench on the side of the street, watching the neon lights and the electronic screen shine, watching the happy crowd around her, she was as strong as her, and a tear ran down her cheeks Sliding down slowly.
Snow fell and the cold wind was blowing.
The tears were cold, and the traces across it were like a scar on the face.