The Death Knell

The pair of little mandarin ducks flew from Cambridge to New Zealand, a Pacific island country covered by rainforests.

In the following days, Tony and Cassandra had a great time, living a life without shame every day.

Tony felt that he was getting better, and that aspect had become too strong. If he didn't taste the 'meaty' taste every day, he would simply not be able to sleep.

Even Cassandra, who had always made fun of him before, couldn't bear it anymore and passed out almost every day.

But Tony was not a beast, and he still felt sorry for her. After a month of such gloomy days, he decided to take her to take a day off, and the two of them went out on a boat to go fishing.

However, when he arrived at the vast, uninhabited sea, Tony looked at the beautiful sea and his beautiful fiancée in a swimsuit, and couldn't help but twitch his index finger...

The boat was parked in the open sea for two hours. Cassandra woke up from her coma, and the two decided to set off to the fishing spot to prepare a fishing lunch.

"What are you thinking, Captain Stark?"

Naked Cassandra basked in the sun, lying on the deck enjoying the afterglow.

"Nothing?" Tony put on his sunglasses and looked like he was concentrating on driving the boat.

"Nothing?" Kassandra raised her body on her elbows and twisted to look at him, trying to get some clues from his expression.

Tony smiled, turned his head and blew a kiss to his fiancée: "You only have one chance to ask me 'what are you thinking' every day, and you used it when you teased me before."

"But you didn't answer when I asked. You just put me down like a bull..."

Cassandra blushed slightly. Although she complained on her lips, she was very satisfied in her heart.

Tony was as careless as ever: "My mother told me that there is no need for a harmonious couple to get to the bottom of things. It is enough to be able to sit together quietly and hand in hand."

"Stop talking nonsense." Kassandra laughed and cursed, climbed up from the deck, and got behind Tony. She not only pressed two soft balls against his back, but also blew into his ears: "Hurry up and tell the truth. "

Tony felt that he was getting excited again, and he suddenly became distracted: "Okay, I'm thinking about how to make this ship fly."

"Then it's not a ship, it's a plane. You already have a plane." Cassandra tilted her head and hung on Tony's back like a sloth.

"I think I can create a power system that can fly underwater, on the water, and in the sky. This is all the inspiration you gave me. I already have a prototype in my mind."

Tony actually had a plan at this point, such as adding four turbines to the sides of the ship, like helicopters.

"Do you need to write this down?"

Cassandra didn't understand much of this, but she found it interesting, but her intuition told her that this was not what he had thought before.

Because he always smiled when he was thinking about scientific issues, but his expression was very serious just now.

She wants to know the truth.

Tony shook his head: "No, I remember."

"Aren't you worried about forgetting?" Cassandra kissed his neck and took out effective means.

The shawl-haired young man felt the moist breath on the back of his neck, endured the fire in his heart, pushed his girlfriend with his back, and flattened the two loaves: "I am a genius, and my memory is so good that I want to forget some things. Can not forget."

The girl laughed, she made a gurgling sound, and whispered into her boyfriend's ear: "Captain Genius that day, how about we go to a hotel in Sydney after dinner? As long as you tell the truth, whatever you were thinking about before, it must not be anything anyway. About the spaceship.”

"Okay, let me tell you what I was thinking just now. I was wondering why my dad thought you were a 'honeypot'. The old man's words kept spinning in my mind."

Tony couldn't stand this anymore. Now that he was so beautiful, he honestly confessed his previous thoughts.

Cassandra was a little confused. She even jumped for joy: "Honeypot? Does he mean that I am sweet? Then when do you think he will recognize us?"

"That's not what he meant. He thought you were... you were deliberately seducing me." Tony looked at the sea in front of him and looked down at the direction on the dashboard.

"...I have." Cassandra hugged him behind him, but stopped smiling.

Tony didn't pay attention to her emotional changes. His mind was more on sailing and the trip to Sydney after lunch: "He thinks you are using me to bring him down for your parents. My dad is really an old fool." .”

However, Cassandra had already left behind him, picked up her swimsuit from the deck, put it on, and fell silent.

Only then did Tony realize the loss of warmth, the midday sea breeze blew on his back, and she left.

"What's wrong?"

He turned to look behind him, and she was standing not far away, hesitant to speak.

She gritted her teeth and looked into his eyes: "...He was only half wrong."

"Half of what?" Tony frowned, realizing that things might be different from what he imagined, and his fifth limb also lost strength.

Now that Cassandra had spoken, she decided to show off her cards: "It is true that I met you deliberately according to the instructions from my family, took you to my house, and asked you to talk about your father. But that was... ..before that.”

"Before what?" Tony stopped the boat and turned around to look at her. He felt like a thunderbolt struck him and he couldn't accept this reality at all.

It turns out that Howard was right, and he himself was the wrong person, and he was still being played around by others.

Cassandra shed tears when she saw Tony's terrifying face. She held his hand, looking like an abandoned pet: "That was before I really fell in love with you!"

But Tony couldn't hear anything anymore, anger filled his mind.

He didn't know why he was angry. Was it because his lover had lied to him? Or was he wrong and his father right?

He gritted his teeth and shook his head, turned around and continued sailing, not to go to any fishing spot, but to return to the dock in New Zealand. He felt that there was nothing to do today, so it would be better to go back to their home and think calmly. .

His sudden cooling down made Cassandra feel a little at a loss. She felt that she should be honest about this, because the two met at first as a conspiracy, but now everything is different.

She told him everything because she loved him, didn't he understand this?

So along the way, she took his arm and explained to him, but Tony never said a word.

When the boat docked at the dock, he jumped off the boat and walked quickly towards the car on the side of the road. Kassandra chased after him with bare feet, explaining desperately.

"Tony! Listen to me, I had a hard time telling those truths! Tony, please, listen to me!"

"You're using me, Cassandra."

Although Tony turned his head away from her, he did not shake off her hand holding his. He was like a child waiting for her explanation.

The girl shook her head: "I wouldn't use the word exploit. It was just a wrong start, but it doesn't mean the result is bad."

"Very good, semantics? Your family also arranged for you to take classic literature?" Tony took a deep breath and slowed down a little.

"I love you! Tony!"

Kashan wiped the tears from her face. What she said was true, but she didn't understand that the truth was sometimes unacceptable.

What was originally a sweet trip for two has now become...not sweet at all.

"Fuck you! Now tell me, my father is right, is he right?!" Tony turned around and shouted at her. He finally realized that he was the one who was wrong.

And he couldn't accept this. He always believed that he could not make mistakes.

"Only the beginning..." Cassandra lowered her head and looked at him with pursed lips, looking very pitiful.

"Is the Hydra attack real?" Tony recalled that coincidence, and he didn't know if Howard was right on this point.

"I have no idea......"

Cassandra closed her eyes. She really didn't know. She only knew the beginning of the whole plan. She thought it was just her mother who wanted to find out information about her business rivals.

But after Tony rescued her mother, she found herself falling in love with him, and things were never the same after that. But now Tony is asking if that street assassination was real. Does the question really have anything to do with that?

I'm afraid those assassins were also arranged by their parents, because none of them checked the bodies of those assassins...

"You don't know? You don't even know if the terrorists who attacked your family are real? Isn't this enough for you to see the true face of your family?!" Tony already had some bad suspicions, his tone It was inevitable that he would get high: "And your parents, they know where we are now, right?"

Cassandra sighed: "Yes, they know, but they just want to make sure that I am doing well..."

"So you didn't run away with me, but took me to live under their surveillance." Tony calmed down strangely. He shook off Cassandra's hand and turned around to continue walking. He felt that he had seen through everything.

"I don't have the same hostility towards my parents that you have towards your father. You know this. Besides, you have been to our house and they all like you." Cassandra quickly caught up with Tony and wanted to go Holding his hand, Tony didn't give her another chance.

"That's because they need you to use me against my father, and they have me now, even though it's all a stupid waste of time because I never mention him."

Tony pulled his hair and scratched it, looking like a defeated lion.

"No, you mentioned him." Cassandra was a little tired and couldn't walk fast at all.

"I never mentioned him!" Tony emphasized over his shoulder.

"You keep mentioning him, 'My father invented something, I think my improved version is better than his', or 'My father bought something, I feel so stupid', you almost said it in three sentences Will mention him once..."

This left Tony speechless. Thinking back carefully, this seemed to be a reality he didn't want to accept.

So he took a few sharp breaths and became angry: "Okay! Family, right? You go back to your family! I don't know you! I don't need you anymore!"

"But I love you!" Cassandra cried again, but she still grabbed Tony and wouldn't let him go.

Everything has been clearly explained, can't he forgive himself?

"Stop lying to me, we all..."

Just when Tony was about to say something else, a row of black helicopters suddenly flew in from the sky and landed not far in front of him.

The wind caused by the propeller lifted the edge of Howard's suit. The white-haired man jumped out of the cabin. A large number of armed bodyguards got off each plane behind him. He himself held an energy weapon that emitted blue light and walked over. In front of the two of them.

"Stay away from that girl, she's a terrorist, come to me, son."