Marvel: The Alchemist Just Wants a Peaceful Life

"Stop, stop! Tony is fine, everyone is fine, but we've noticed something unusual that Black Widow needs to check on personally. Everyone is alright!"

Upon hearing Sherlock's words, the scene fell silent for a moment, and everyone's attention was focused on Black Widow and Sherlock. After all, judging from Sherlock's tone, it was clear that they wanted Black Widow to personally confirm that something serious had happened.

Despite their anger at the men's unreliability, the women, when faced with important matters, always maintained their rationality.

Black Widow was the same; despite her anger and confusion, she still greeted Pepper Potts and the others before leaving the hotel with Sherlock.

After following Sherlock to the entrance of the Anywhere Door on the beach, when Sherlock pushed open the door, Black Widow was completely bewildered upon seeing the scene inside.

What did she see? A captain in a military uniform with a mustache, his hair combed like an adult? Holy crap? Has this captain with those thick eyebrows and big eyes defected to the enemy or something?

What Black Widow herself didn't expect was that the moment Sherlock pushed her into the Anywhere Door, her body began to move uncontrollably.

Her right hand unconsciously rose forty-five degrees, and her mouth seemed to have its own ideas, shouting out directly without any control over Scarlett Johansson.

"Hey! Steve!"

Black Widow: ? ? ? ? ?

The moment she shouted the slogan, Black Widow's face was full of question marks, but before she could react, her body moved first.

"Hey! Patton! Hey! Wick! Hey! Stark!"

After everyone in the room finished shouting, Scarlett Johansson felt a bit uneasy. Putting aside the mouth and body that had their own thoughts, just the content they shouted out... damn it, had she stumbled into Mustache's lair?

Damn it, they even wholesale mustaches?

Chapter 227 Black Widow Arrives

While Black Widow was still in a daze, Sherlock, holding a notebook, cheekily approached her, looking like he was conducting an experiment. Black Widow just stared at Sherlock with a completely bewildered expression.

Seeing that Black Widow had no reaction, Sherlock began frantically jotting something down in his notebook.

This bizarre scene left Black Widow extremely puzzled, and she almost instinctively wanted to ask what was going on. However, the moment she turned her gaze to the captain who was closest to her, an indescribable sense of admiration rose from the bottom of her heart.

As a trained agent, Black Widow almost immediately sensed something was wrong with the admiration she felt for Captain America and instinctively wanted to resist it.

However, the reality is that the moment Scarlett Johansson prepared to resist, the feeling of worship was like a dam releasing water, instantly destroying her rationality with overwhelming force.

That feeling was quite magical. Even though I knew that my current state was not right, I still wanted to risk my life for the captain because of my admiration for him.

Seeing Black Widow's increasingly fervent gaze directed at him, Captain America, sitting behind his desk, was sweating profusely. He kept staring intently at Black Widow while simultaneously trying to distract Sherlock, who was frantically taking notes.

"Sherlock, stop messing around! Natasha's eyes are getting weirder and weirder, you better take care of her!"

Upon hearing the captain's words, Sherlock's attention shifted from his notebook to Black Widow. After seeing Black Widow's condition, Sherlock was also startled.

He hurriedly threw his notebook onto the table, took out the Mustache Pill from his four-dimensional pocket, ate one himself, and then gave one to Black Widow. Only then did Black Widow gradually regain her senses.

Tony, who had witnessed the whole thing, picked up the notebook that Sherlock had thrown on the table out of curiosity and took a look. After just one glance, Tony's face turned pale.

The notebook contained nothing but the usage details of the so-called "Little Mustache Pill."

1. After consuming the elixir, its effect seems to be related to the number of NPCs eliminated (Hydra belongs to the NPC system); the more NPCs eliminated, the higher the official rank.

[To be determined; it may also be related to moral standards. Further verification is needed.]

2. The application scenario of the pill is limited. Once you leave the scenario where the pill takes effect, it will lose its effect. The effective period is about 24 hours.

3. After leaving the scene where the effect takes hold, although it will lose its effect, it can block the effects of other players' pills, preventing them from affecting it.

4. After leaving the effective scene, external personnel entering the scene will not continue to trigger the pill's effect, but external personnel cannot refuse the pill's effect while still in the effective scene.

5.…

Looking at the densely packed notes, Tony broke out in a cold sweat. He glared at Sherlock, who had just finished dealing with Black Widow, and his voice trembled slightly as he pointed at the notebook in his hand and asked Sherlock a question.

"Sherlock, please don't tell me that this damn pill of yours has never undergone clinical trials!"

Upon hearing Tony's words, Sherlock rolled his eyes in annoyance before responding to Tony's question.

"Of course there have been no clinical trials. May I ask, given the effects of my pills, how do you expect me to conduct clinical trials?"

Upon hearing Sherlock's words, the crowd, who had already turned deathly pale upon learning that they had taken untested pills, suddenly adopted a very strange expression.

Indeed, just as Sherlock said, it's hard to imagine what a horrible scene the entire hospital would look like if this thing were to undergo clinical trials.

I'm afraid the experiment won't even be finished before the army drives tanks into the hospital.

Finally, the captain coughed helplessly and steered the conversation back to serious matters, speaking to Black Widow.

“In any case, Natasha, I suggest you take a stroll around the base first, and we’ll have a meeting to discuss serious matters when you come back.”

After hearing the captain's words, Black Widow's face was full of doubt, but she did not refuse. Instead, she walked towards the office door with a face full of doubt.

Nearly half an hour later, Black Widow returned with a dark expression and without saying a word. By then, she understood why the captain had told her to go for a walk.

She saw another Black Widow, just like herself! And there were quite a few Black Widows like her in this base!

Unfortunately, Sherlock's mustache pills can only order these people to carry out tasks; interrogation is completely impossible, especially for a group like the Black Widows, which is simply a pipe dream. All Black Widow can do is return to her office and study the situation of the Black Widows with everyone.

However, when Scarlett Johansson returned to her office, everyone who remained inside had already begun studying all the documents spread out on the table. Seeing this, Johansson didn't say anything and simply joined in.

Unlike Black Widow, who remained expressionless and frowning as she reviewed the documents on the table, the men in the room would glance at their own documents, then look up at Sherlock with a strange expression before continuing to study the documents.

Once or twice was fine, but as time went on, Scarlett Johansson noticed that the group of men in front of her began to move in unison, always glancing up at Sherlock from time to time, and even Sherlock himself would occasionally have an expression like an old man on the subway.

After holding back for a long time, Scarlett Johansson finally couldn't hold back anymore. She sighed helplessly and asked the crowd present.

"Why are you all looking at Sherlock with that expression? And Sherlock, why do you have that expression too?"

After hearing Black Widow's question, Tony hesitated for a long time before answering her.

"It just feels a bit absurd that we went all the way from Miami to Siberia just to see who was better, the captain or the tiger."

And right after Tony finished speaking, Hawkeye continued.

"What's even more outrageous is that, in order to escape for their lives, they unintentionally ended up in the Amazon rainforest, the most dangerous place in the world, from Siberia."

The captain sighed before continuing.

"The most outrageous thing is that, not only did we come to this rainforest, but we were also given such a big gift, which allowed us to discover such a secret base hidden in this remote corner of the world."

Zhao Weike then summarized the three people's remarks.

"Especially since everything happened after drinking, it was completely random. How should I put it, I don't know whether to call it good or bad luck."

Hearing the complaints from the people present, Sherlock rolled his eyes so hard they almost reached the sky, and grumbled at them in an annoyed tone.

"I'll buy a lottery ticket as soon as I get back. Seriously, if I had that kind of luck, I probably would have achieved financial freedom through the lottery long ago."

Chapter 228: Something Big is About to Happen?

Hearing the childish remarks of the men in front of her, Scarlett Johansson rolled her eyes so hard they almost reached the sky, and complained to everyone present in an annoyed tone.

"Isn't that outrageous? Zhao Weike, wasn't it outrageous enough that you stormed into a gun shop with a piece of wood? Patton, wasn't it outrageous enough that you illegally entered someone's pet shop? Tony, wasn't it outrageous enough that you defecated in public?"

And Captain, stop laughing! You're the most outrageous one yet—you actually came to fight a tiger! Do you really think you've transformed into some invincible superhero from the comics?

Scarlett Johansson pointed at everyone and complained about them one by one, not letting anyone off the hook. She even glanced at Gong Baiwan, who was lying on the ground with his belly exposed and looking bored.

Upon hearing Black Widow's complaints, everyone's first reaction was to focus their attention on Sherlock, since Sherlock was the only one who had come into contact with Black Widow first.

Sherlock must have violated their agreement not to spread their dark history, otherwise it would be hard to explain why Black Widow would know so much about what they did that night.

But Sherlock had already reached new heights of treachery. Facing the angry stares of the crowd, Sherlock showed no panic as an informer. Instead, he calmly rolled his eyes and looked at everyone glaring at him with annoyance.

"Don't look at me like that. Guess who cleaned up this mess for us?"

As soon as Sherlock finished speaking, an awkward expression appeared on everyone's face. Although they instinctively felt that something was wrong, they couldn't find any loopholes in Sherlock's words for the moment, so they could only give Black Widow an awkward smile.

Black Widow rolled her eyes in annoyance, but didn't expose Sherlock's lie. After all, the matter facing Black Widow was more serious now, and the reappearance of the Black Widow was undoubtedly the most important thing for her to deal with.

After studying all the information in the base, the group quickly came to a conclusion: the Black Widows were buying a neuro-control chemical from the base!

What Black Widow found most unbelievable was that the financial transactions between this base and Black Widow pointed to an account named Antonia.

Most importantly, the account holder's name, Antonia, involves a dark history that Scarlett Johansson was most reluctant to talk about!

The moment they saw the bank account name, both Black Widow and Hawkeye looked incredulous. Black Widow, in particular, had a look of utter disbelief on her face. She was so shocked that she stumbled back a few steps and plopped down on the guest sofa in the office.

Seeing the disbelief on Black Widow's face, everyone was at a loss for words. Finally, Hawkeye sighed helplessly and began to tell everyone about the relationship between Black Widow and this so-called Antonia.

Actually, it's quite simple. Scarlett Johansson was a special agent and assassin trained by the Red Room, and Drake was the former owner of the Red Room.

The reason Black Widow said she destroyed the Red House is because after the collapse of the Soviet Union, when the Red House was in the hands of Drake, Black Widow and Hawkeye killed Drake through his young daughter.

At that time, Drekoff's young daughter's full name was Antonia Drekoff!

After listening to Hawkeye's explanation, Tony raised an eyebrow and said to Hawkeye with some disbelief.

"You mean, a ghost that was already confirmed dead has regained control of the Red House and has even developed it?"

After hearing Tony's complaints, Hawkeye glanced at Black Widow, who was sitting on the sofa with a terrifyingly pale face, and after thinking for a moment, he spoke to Tony.

"I don't know, it's possible it's just a coincidence, but whatever it may be, I think we should listen to Natasha's opinion, shouldn't we?"

Hearing Hawkeye's words, Black Widow gradually came to her senses. Facing everyone's concerned gazes, she forced a smile back onto her pale face before looking at the crowd and speaking in a seemingly relaxed manner.

“Barton is right. In any case, this is my business, and I want to investigate it on my own first…”

Before Black Widow could finish speaking, a loud thud was heard. Startled by the sound, almost everyone looked in the direction from which it came, but what they saw was somewhat unsettling.

Sherlock had somehow opened the Anywhere Door and was now standing on the other side, holding a baseball bat and dragging a Black Widow who was clearly unconscious.

Judging from Sherlock's actions, it was clear that while everyone was discussing Antonia, Sherlock had secretly taken out the Anywhere Door and knocked a Black Widow unconscious with a single blow.

Well, just looking at this scene is enough to make one's imagination run wild. The captain even twitched his lips as he spoke to Sherlock.

"Sherlock, we have entered civilized society. Morality and law tell us that no matter how much you like a woman, you cannot knock her unconscious with a stick and drag her back to the cave like in ancient times."

Regardless of its moral merits, such behavior is absolutely unacceptable under the law.

Hearing the captain's teasing, everyone on the scene smiled. Everyone knew that the captain was just joking, but they all tacitly chose not to point out his sarcasm.

Even Sherlock didn't choose to point it out, but instead rolled his eyes and retorted in annoyance, following the captain's complaints.

"Captain, if you're alright, I suggest you go see a psychologist to clear your head. Didn't Black Widow just say she wanted to investigate? Shouldn't the first step in an investigation be to grab someone nearby and interrogate them? Don't tell me you Avengers don't understand such a simple principle!"

Upon hearing Sherlock's words, Black Widow instantly understood what he wanted to do. It was clear that neither Sherlock nor the others present agreed with Black Widow's statement about investigating alone.

Therefore, although Scarlett Johansson was very touched, she still did not want her friends present to get involved in this mess.

“Sherlock, you don’t need to do this. Besides, if I’m not mistaken, these poor people all have Drake planted inside them…”