The Death Knell

The Caravel Aerospace Museum displays models of various old and new rockets, such as Cosmic God, Thor, Hercules, Cupid, etc. The more than 70 rocket exhibits here represent various stages of the development of rocket technology.

Likewise, it is part of the Kennedy Space Center's exhibition facilities.

Kennedy Space Center, originally the Comprehensive Launch Area 39 at Point Caravel, was separated separately in 1962 and transferred from the Air Force to NASA.

But NASA was created to target the Soviet aerospace forces. It was not established for the peaceful use of space, but to compete for ownership of low-Earth orbit. The projects it was responsible for included anti-satellite weapons, manned spacecraft, and the Star Wars program.

Their personnel are basically from the Air Force, so the division of the Kennedy Space Center from Cape Caravel Air Force Base is equivalent to changing things from the left hand to the right hand. There is no difference.

A dozen kilometers further north from where Steve and others are currently located is the Kennedy Space Center, where there is a tour center that receives tourists from all over the world.

It houses two movie theaters, a 'Galileo Space Flight Museum', a wetland nature preserve, gift shops, cafeterias, a rocket park, sales and inquiry areas, and more for the Kennedy Space Center and Cape Canaveral. Convenient for visitors to the Air Force Base.

Its museum has exhibits from the Mercury, Gemini and Apollo projects, including a 1:10 model of Saturn 5, Gemini 9 space capsule, lunar rover, spacesuits, lunar rocks and sky laboratory and space shuttle scaled model.

The tour center also has free tour buses to facilitate tourists traveling to and from the Kennedy Space Center and Cape Canaveral Air Force Base. After all, this is a coastal area. The Caravel Peninsula is a wetland landform. There are many lagoons in the rainy season and a large number of saltwater crocodiles live there. In the wetlands.

The museum costs $4 for adults and $1.75 for children, and visitors are accepted every day except Christmas.

In other words, the Red Skull only needs to disguise himself and the troops, and then buy a museum ticket package of four dollars per person, and then he can take the "tour group" to visit the two museums, ride in the base's special car, and swagger into the U.S. Air Force's most important location. One of the secret areas...

Steve was also convinced. No wonder the Red Skull's actions were unnoticed, because he was a consumer who bought tickets to enter.

And when he entered the Caravel Museum, he probably controlled the people there instantly, so the news has not been leaked until now.

A vehicle carrying several people was speeding along the road between wetlands. The wide leaves of the tropical plants on the roadside swayed in the wind, but the sky suddenly darkened, as if someone had turned off half of the lights in the sky.

"Captain, a tropical storm is coming, very soon."

The black man driving the car also clearly felt that the sky was getting darker. He looked up and told Steve the weather forecast very experiencedly.

Steve looked at the somewhat nervous Pim couple and tried to ease the atmosphere: "Does the weather at sea always change so fast?"

The black soldier, who had no idea what the captain and the others were doing, and whose orders were only to lead the way, now seemed relaxed: "Yes, this is Florida, or the coastline. Basically half of the typhoons in the United States land from this state."

The group of people were riding in an open-top Hummer, with Steve sitting in the passenger seat and the black man driving the car. Bucky could only sit in the back seat with the Pims, which seemed to further confirm his identity as the assistant.

He stretched out his head and hooked his hands on the backs of the two chairs in the front row: "If there are so many tropical storms, why is the launch site still here?"

"Maybe it's because the closer to the equatorial launch window, the better? Sergeant, I'm just a soldier. My hometown is California. You're asking me." The black man smiled and shrugged, answering quickly as if rapping, while controlling the horsepower. Powerful vehicles speed on rough roads.

"I know this..." Pim was immediately ready to start explaining to Bucky about the launch window and the rotation of the earth.

"No, thank you." Bucky shook his head quickly. He didn't want to go to class at all.

Just like what the black soldiers said, the dark clouds that were rolling on the sea just now reached everyone's heads in just the blink of an eye. The black-hearted cotton-like clouds were getting lower and lower, and there were electric lights shining in them from time to time.

However, the soldier breathed a sigh of relief. He parked the car outside the entrance of the museum and let everyone out: "It's just a tropical storm. It may rain heavily. It's not a typhoon."

"Very good, thank you soldier, get out of here now." Steve put on his shield and raised his head to observe the building. It looked like a three-story giant factory building with a giant rocket painted above the door. logo.

The concrete structure is covered with corrugated plastic sheets, and there are almost no windows. It seems that there is only one entrance and exit, the main entrance. Of course, it is unclear whether there will be an underground structure.

"Captain." The black man started the car with a smile, and suddenly seemed to remember something: "I'm getting married this weekend. Captain, can you sign your autograph for me?"

Steve scratched his head. The other party really had no sense of urgency at all, but he still took the helmet and pen and signed it.

"Thank you, captain. When I go back to my hometown this Christmas, I can show it to my mother. She will admire you." The black man took back his helmet, saluted Steve, and drove away with a smile.

He couldn't explain why, but Steve always felt that what this black guy said was a bit unlucky, but there wasn't even a shadow of an enemy nearby, so he should be fine, right?

However, at this moment, the car that turned around and left was driving smoothly on the small road, and before it even left the sight of a few people, a bolt of lightning struck a big tree on the roadside, and the burning tree fell down instantly.

The car, which was turning the steering wheel in panic, fell off the road and hit a big tree on the other side. The black man, who was not wearing a seat belt or helmet, flew out of the cab and hit his head on a rock.

He kicked his legs and stopped moving.

When he realized something had happened, Steve ran in that direction, but the distance of several hundred meters took more than ten seconds for Captain America. By the time he came to the bloody soldier, he was already dead.

The black soldier vomited blood and opened his eyes, pointed to his chest, tilted his head and swallowed his breath.

Steve sighed deeply. He knew that when you go to the battlefield, you can't say anything about going home to get married or spend Christmas. Why don't young people nowadays understand?

He reached into the black man's breast pocket and took out a pocket watch. Inside was a picture of a fat black girl, probably the soldier's girlfriend.

He had experienced this kind of thing a lot, but Steve couldn't get used to it.

Although this soldier was only his comrade for the shortest time, his life was as precious as others.

He closed his eyes for the black man, took off his dog tag and put it away. After thinking about it, he picked up the signed steel helmet on the side of the road and put it on his head.

He stood up and returned to the Avengers. His expressions were not very good. The same was true for Pym and Janet. They rarely saw dead people at such a close distance, let alone that the dead person was joking with everyone for dozens of seconds.

Without even seeing the enemy's face, one of our own troops was reduced, which gave everyone an ominous premonition about this operation.

But even then, they had to go, and they had to succeed.

Bucky patted Steve on the shoulder. He knew what his brother was thinking: "Steve, let's continue the mission. We can wait until the mission is successful to bury our comrades."

"You're right, where's Black Widow?" Captain America nodded.

"Over there." Bucky raised his chin and gestured to the tour bus not far away: "She asked me for an assault rifle and went to the bus to check it."

As she was talking, Natasha jumped out of the car with the AK on her shoulders. She came to Steve and said, "If there are no enemies who enter the museum on foot, then we probably need to deal with about fifty people."

"How did you know?" Bucky was scratching his head. Can he know the number of enemies just through the tour bus?

"Footprints, Sergeant." Natasha turned around and looked at the building in front of Steve with Steve: "This is the Aerospace Museum. Will you visit here alone?"

"Impossible. If I had that free time, I would rather lie at home, drink beer and watch TV." Bucky curled his lips. Why did he, a grown man, come here alone? Taking a basic science course? Listen to the tour guide's explanation?

Unless Steve wanted to come, it would be better if he came with him. Steve always had some childish hobbies that might come to him on their own.

Natasha crossed her arms, and the zipper on the chest of the black tight leather jacket was squeezed down a little further: "This is it, the latest footprints on the car, the seats are full, all of them are adult men, not a single woman, not a single child, Do you think there will be a large group of men coming here in a group?"

"Could it be the World War II Veterans Club holding an event?" Bucky deliberately argued. Although he knew something was wrong, he didn't want to lose.

Steve raised his hand to stop him from continuing: "World War II veterans now have to use crutches even if they don't use wheelchairs, not to mention there was no Space Force at that time. Let's show them that tanks are about the same, so forget about space shuttles. .”

Bucky took his gun back from Natasha and pulled the bolt: "Now that we know the enemy is inside, it's easier. Let's rush in. As usual, you provide defense and I'll shoot."

"No, we still find a way to get in from the roof, take the ventilation ducts, and conduct a surprise attack." Natasha proposed another way to avoid surveillance.

"Well, let me and Wasp go in first. Our abilities are the most suitable for investigation." Pim patted his chest at this time, showing full confidence.

Steve felt that they all seemed reasonable. Out of trust in the strength of his teammates and the urgency of time...he chose to have them all!

"This museum is very large. Black Widow, you enter through the ventilation duct on the roof. Bucky, follow me and rush to the main entrance. Ant-Man and the Wasp, look for any gaps behind the first floor of the building that you can get through. We will double-team at the same time." enemy."

Well, everyone's opinions have been adopted. I'm glad that it is indeed a fair team.

‘The Avengers and Captain America are so good. ’

The team members all thought so, as if they felt the warmth of spring, and their strength surged up!

So everyone immediately adjusted the contact frequency of the walkie-talkies, checked their watches, and started to act separately.