NOVEL WEB Marvel's The Dark Knight Rises
Chapter 31 I'm afraid I can't hold it
Chapter 31 I'm afraid I can't hold it
"Then you are the last person to be injected with this serum."
At night on the beach in New York, a bonfire was burning in front of the cottage. Bruce and Steve were sitting opposite each other. There was a grill in front of them. Greasy, Bruce held a large beer glass, touched Steve, and said lightly.
"Honestly, I don't know, Bruce, I don't know if they've done anything like this before, even though they told me I was the first to do it, but who knows? I don't want to think about it , it’s just that Dr. Erkins is a good man, a kind, upright man, and he didn’t deserve to end up like this.”
Although he said that he would not tell Bruce what happened to him, Bruce asked him a few more times, and Steve finally confided some of his thoughts, what happened to him during this period, and some distressed feelings. Emotions, his rationality told him that it was inappropriate to do so, but his rationality would always "failure" in front of only a few people, especially Bruce.
The bonfire illuminated Steve's slightly sad face, and Bruce said sorry in his heart, looking at Steve, he raised his glass and said: "I'm sorry, Steve, but this may be Destiny salutes Dr. Erkins for all the changes he has made for you."
Hearing this, Steve just silently raised his glass.
Both of them drank it down in one gulp. This little alcohol had almost no effect on them now, let alone getting drunk.
"Since sitting here, I have been talking, Bruce, tell me about you, how are you doing recently? The cannery you and Alfred opened, the business should be very good recently? The troops in Europe need There are too many supplies, our people, the British, and the French who are staying in the UK. It is said that the canned food being pulled to Europe is tens of thousands of tons.”
"I sold the factory."
Bruce shook his head with a smile, interrupting Steve.
"You sold it? But when I left, wasn't that factory operating well?"
"We're not in the canning business anymore, actually, we found oil in Texas, a huge, big, crazy oil field, so Alfred and I sold the cannery and took a big loan at the bank .We started a new company, Steve."
"Wait, you didn't lie to me?"
Bruce shrugged, "Of course not."
"This is really, really crazy news."
In the United States at the beginning of the [-]th century, the gold rush and oil boom were very popular. People who got rich overnight because of the discovery of gold mines and oil fields were the best embodiment of the "American Dream" at this time. Countless Americans went to the West, Alaska, or It was Texas that joined the gold rush, or the oil drilling army, and although few people were lucky in the end, Americans were still very enthusiastic about these two "causes".
So now when Steve knew that Bruce was "lucky" to discover a large oil field, he was also very surprised, and even the first reaction was that Bruce was making fun of him!
"Don't look so surprised, Steve, you're about to become one of the bosses of a start-up mineral energy company, take it easy."
"Me? Be the boss of the company? Bruce, this joke is really not funny."
Bruce stood up, put down his wine glass, turned around and looked at the horizon not far away from the two of them under the bright moonlight, and said to himself: "Do you remember? Steve, we came to this beach together that year , was also in this resort at that time, and also in front of this hut?"
Steve seemed to be awakened by Bruce to some long-sleeping memories in his brain. He looked at Bruce, and the flash of memory flashed in his eyes: "I know, I still remember. We rented a Ford car that day, but It ended badly. Bucky was drunk that night, and of course I was, and it was you who got the two of us into the room in the end."
Bruce just smiled lightly, the sea breeze messed up his casually managed hair, and he didn't care at all, "We both said that night that no matter what each of us develops in the future, we will leave the other two in our own achievements." The next one, belongs to our honor, shared by three people, belongs to our shame, also shared by three people, Steve, do you remember?"
As if he understood what Bruce meant, the smile on the corner of Steve's mouth faded away. He frowned and shook his head, "No, Bruce, that was just when I was young."
"A word of loyalty? Or a joke?"
Bruce turned around and looked at Steve indifferently, but the firmness and determination in his eyes made Steve choke what he wanted to say in his throat.
"But I'm sincere, I didn't take those words as a kid's joke, Steve, whether it's to you or to Bucky. You and Alfred are the only relatives I have in this world, so No matter what achievements I have now or in the future, with me, I will always keep a copy for you, Bucky, and Alfred."
"Bruce, I, I can't"
"Of course, this is also a responsibility and a trust. Steve, I can't always hold all the shares of the company in my own hands. Instead of handing over to others later, it is better to give it to you first, and I also trust you Always on my side, this is also my trust in you, Afu and Bucky, I can't trust others, do you understand, Steve?"
Steve looked at Bruce with a serious face. Growing up together, Steve also knew Bruce's decisive character and would not change his mind easily. In the end, he had no choice but to smile wryly and nodded, "Okay, Bruce. But let’s talk first! I’m just helping you keep these shares. If you need them in the future, you can take them from me at any time, or when you have children, I will hand over these shares to your children! Of course, the premise is that your company can be opened until then~”
Bruce smiled and stretched out his fist, stopped in front of Steve, "Deal!"
Steve also stretched out his fist, and lightly touched Bruce, "Deal!"
After finishing speaking, Steve seemed to remember something, and said curiously: "By the way, how big is your company now?"
Bruce thought for a while, and replied truthfully: "Dozens of employees, several small factories under construction, rented an office building, and used it as a temporary office location."
After hearing this, Steve breathed a sigh of relief.
"However, Alfred is now negotiating with those consortiums in Texas. It won't be long before the company can get a development fund of no less than 5000 million U.S. dollars, right? I'm planning to buy a building in Brooklyn as the company's headquarters , and then started to build our group's industrial zone, of course, the current funds are far from enough, we can only build a few first. Steve, what's wrong with you?"
Steve covered his chest, frowned, looked at Bruce seriously and said, "Wait a minute, you just said, how much development funds will the company get?"
"5000 million, what's wrong?"
"Bruce."
"Ok?"
"Can you take back the shares you left for me? I'm afraid of me and I can't take them back"
Bruce: "."
(End of this chapter)
"Then you are the last person to be injected with this serum."
At night on the beach in New York, a bonfire was burning in front of the cottage. Bruce and Steve were sitting opposite each other. There was a grill in front of them. Greasy, Bruce held a large beer glass, touched Steve, and said lightly.
"Honestly, I don't know, Bruce, I don't know if they've done anything like this before, even though they told me I was the first to do it, but who knows? I don't want to think about it , it’s just that Dr. Erkins is a good man, a kind, upright man, and he didn’t deserve to end up like this.”
Although he said that he would not tell Bruce what happened to him, Bruce asked him a few more times, and Steve finally confided some of his thoughts, what happened to him during this period, and some distressed feelings. Emotions, his rationality told him that it was inappropriate to do so, but his rationality would always "failure" in front of only a few people, especially Bruce.
The bonfire illuminated Steve's slightly sad face, and Bruce said sorry in his heart, looking at Steve, he raised his glass and said: "I'm sorry, Steve, but this may be Destiny salutes Dr. Erkins for all the changes he has made for you."
Hearing this, Steve just silently raised his glass.
Both of them drank it down in one gulp. This little alcohol had almost no effect on them now, let alone getting drunk.
"Since sitting here, I have been talking, Bruce, tell me about you, how are you doing recently? The cannery you and Alfred opened, the business should be very good recently? The troops in Europe need There are too many supplies, our people, the British, and the French who are staying in the UK. It is said that the canned food being pulled to Europe is tens of thousands of tons.”
"I sold the factory."
Bruce shook his head with a smile, interrupting Steve.
"You sold it? But when I left, wasn't that factory operating well?"
"We're not in the canning business anymore, actually, we found oil in Texas, a huge, big, crazy oil field, so Alfred and I sold the cannery and took a big loan at the bank .We started a new company, Steve."
"Wait, you didn't lie to me?"
Bruce shrugged, "Of course not."
"This is really, really crazy news."
In the United States at the beginning of the [-]th century, the gold rush and oil boom were very popular. People who got rich overnight because of the discovery of gold mines and oil fields were the best embodiment of the "American Dream" at this time. Countless Americans went to the West, Alaska, or It was Texas that joined the gold rush, or the oil drilling army, and although few people were lucky in the end, Americans were still very enthusiastic about these two "causes".
So now when Steve knew that Bruce was "lucky" to discover a large oil field, he was also very surprised, and even the first reaction was that Bruce was making fun of him!
"Don't look so surprised, Steve, you're about to become one of the bosses of a start-up mineral energy company, take it easy."
"Me? Be the boss of the company? Bruce, this joke is really not funny."
Bruce stood up, put down his wine glass, turned around and looked at the horizon not far away from the two of them under the bright moonlight, and said to himself: "Do you remember? Steve, we came to this beach together that year , was also in this resort at that time, and also in front of this hut?"
Steve seemed to be awakened by Bruce to some long-sleeping memories in his brain. He looked at Bruce, and the flash of memory flashed in his eyes: "I know, I still remember. We rented a Ford car that day, but It ended badly. Bucky was drunk that night, and of course I was, and it was you who got the two of us into the room in the end."
Bruce just smiled lightly, the sea breeze messed up his casually managed hair, and he didn't care at all, "We both said that night that no matter what each of us develops in the future, we will leave the other two in our own achievements." The next one, belongs to our honor, shared by three people, belongs to our shame, also shared by three people, Steve, do you remember?"
As if he understood what Bruce meant, the smile on the corner of Steve's mouth faded away. He frowned and shook his head, "No, Bruce, that was just when I was young."
"A word of loyalty? Or a joke?"
Bruce turned around and looked at Steve indifferently, but the firmness and determination in his eyes made Steve choke what he wanted to say in his throat.
"But I'm sincere, I didn't take those words as a kid's joke, Steve, whether it's to you or to Bucky. You and Alfred are the only relatives I have in this world, so No matter what achievements I have now or in the future, with me, I will always keep a copy for you, Bucky, and Alfred."
"Bruce, I, I can't"
"Of course, this is also a responsibility and a trust. Steve, I can't always hold all the shares of the company in my own hands. Instead of handing over to others later, it is better to give it to you first, and I also trust you Always on my side, this is also my trust in you, Afu and Bucky, I can't trust others, do you understand, Steve?"
Steve looked at Bruce with a serious face. Growing up together, Steve also knew Bruce's decisive character and would not change his mind easily. In the end, he had no choice but to smile wryly and nodded, "Okay, Bruce. But let’s talk first! I’m just helping you keep these shares. If you need them in the future, you can take them from me at any time, or when you have children, I will hand over these shares to your children! Of course, the premise is that your company can be opened until then~”
Bruce smiled and stretched out his fist, stopped in front of Steve, "Deal!"
Steve also stretched out his fist, and lightly touched Bruce, "Deal!"
After finishing speaking, Steve seemed to remember something, and said curiously: "By the way, how big is your company now?"
Bruce thought for a while, and replied truthfully: "Dozens of employees, several small factories under construction, rented an office building, and used it as a temporary office location."
After hearing this, Steve breathed a sigh of relief.
"However, Alfred is now negotiating with those consortiums in Texas. It won't be long before the company can get a development fund of no less than 5000 million U.S. dollars, right? I'm planning to buy a building in Brooklyn as the company's headquarters , and then started to build our group's industrial zone, of course, the current funds are far from enough, we can only build a few first. Steve, what's wrong with you?"
Steve covered his chest, frowned, looked at Bruce seriously and said, "Wait a minute, you just said, how much development funds will the company get?"
"5000 million, what's wrong?"
"Bruce."
"Ok?"
"Can you take back the shares you left for me? I'm afraid of me and I can't take them back"
Bruce: "."
(End of this chapter)
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