Marvel: Awakening the Universe.

Chapter 97 One Life for One Life

Chapter 97 One Life for Another (Fourth Update, Please Subscribe!!!)

As soon as Nick Fury said this.

Bruce froze in place for a moment.

next second.

With a swish, he looked back at the tombstone in front of him.

into the eye.

Betty in the photo on the tombstone seemed to be smiling at him.

Smile brightly.

Bruce was silent.

after an hour.

Bruce Banner returned to the apartment, walked out of the bedroom holding a cardboard box containing Betty Ross's belongings, and went down the stairs to the living room on the first floor.

He carefully took down the wedding photo from the wall, placed it against the wall, and sat down on the floor, looking at the wedding photo in front of him.

Bruce watched in fascination.

at this time.

A ding-dong sound.

Bruce came back to his senses, took out his cell phone, opened the email that Nick Fury had just sent, looked at the examination report from the SHIELD hospital in the email, didn't say anything, just found Nick Fury's number and called him.

The call was answered quickly.

"Bruce..."

"Were you part of the plan, or did you help formulate it, Nick?"

"what?"

Nick Fury on the other end of the phone was stunned and his heart skipped a beat when he heard Bruce Banner's words.

Bruce looked at the wedding photo in front of him calmly.

"Betty knows that the murderer who killed General Ross is the same person who killed Hulk. I think you told Betty that."

"what?"

"I'm not stupid, Nick."

Bruce Banner's voice was also calm. While looking at Betty, who seemed to be smiling at him in the wedding photo, he calmly laughed at himself at Nick Fury on the other end of the phone. "My IQ may not be high, but it's definitely higher than yours. However, now I wish my IQ wasn't as high as yours."

Nick Fury on the other end of the phone didn't speak immediately. After his breathing became slightly heavier for a few seconds, he spoke again.

"I don't understand, Bruce, you..."

"Betty can't get pregnant. At least I don't have the ability to make Betty pregnant."

"what?"

"I was exposed to high levels of gamma radiation."

Bruce took a deep breath and looked at the wedding photo in front of him with a gloomy gaze. "I'm curious, Betty wanted me to transform into the Hulk again to avenge General Ross. What about you, Nick? Why did you come up with such a fake pregnancy report? Did Betty ask you for a favor?"

Between the lightning and flint.

Nick Fury couldn't help but laugh at himself on the other end of the phone.

"Yes."

"You're lying, Nick."

"what?"

"Again, my IQ may not be high, but it's definitely higher than yours."

Bruce Banner's tone was deep.

"I once hid everywhere under General Ross's pursuit. For some people, even without meeting them, I can make a correct judgment based on their tone of voice whether they are lying or not. But you, Nick, you lied."

"I……"

"But your IQ is really not that good. Betty obviously rejected your proposal, but you still did it. I'm curious, why?"

While interrupting Nick Fury on the other end of the phone, Bruce Banner took out another mobile phone from his pocket, found the last video left by Betty in the mobile phone video, and clicked to play it.

The video was recorded on the morning of Betty's death.

Betty sat on the sofa with a calm expression, facing the camera in front of her.

"Bruce, by the time you see this video, I'll be dead."

"terribly sorry."

"I've thought about forgetting everything, following you, and starting a new life."

"real."

"But I can't do that. My father may not be good in the eyes of many people, but in my eyes he is the best."

"During these years apart from you, I will never forget every moment I spent with you."

"Similarly, I cannot forget the tragedy of my father's death."

"..."

"When I finally made up my mind to take action, Nick Fury found out about it and provided me with a good idea."

"Pregnancy is an important bargaining chip for me to ensure that you can avenge me after I enter the game with my body."

“But I refused.”

"I can use love to kidnap you for my revenge."

"But I will never use deception to kidnap you for my revenge."

"..."

"he came."

"Finally, Bruce, no matter what decision you make, please remember that I love you. At least, the moment I walked into City Hall with you, I married you because I loved you."

"Goodbye, Bruce."

"Love always, Betty."

"..."

That's all for Betty's video.

After Bruce finished the video message, he turned to Nick Fury, who was breathing heavily on the other end of the phone, and said, "Nick, you didn't expect Betty to leave me a last word, did you?"

Indeed, I didn't expect it.

Nick Fury on the other end of the phone was thinking.

but……

“He’s too dangerous.” “We need someone who can step in and stop him from doing anything unpredictable.”

"Natasha and Barton can't."

"Captain America can't do that either."

"Tony Stark has also decided to remove the reactor from his chest and no longer be Iron Man."

"Thor has never appeared since he went back."

"Now only you, Bruce, can stop this from happening by reawakening the Hulk."

"So, I'm sorry about Betty's death."

"But Bruce, you should have stood up."

Nick Fury explained in a deep voice on the other end of the phone.

In short, there is only one core idea.

Hawke is too dangerous and needs to be controlled by us, and you, Bruce Banner, are the best weapon we have to control Hawke.

but……

Bruce couldn't help laughing when he heard that Nick Fury didn't regret it at all after his plan was discovered, but instead gave a convincing explanation.

"Nick Fury, you are such a hypocrite."

"Bruce..."

"Aren't you just worried that Hawke will one day find out that the reason General Ross was able to find and attack him was because you provided him with information about Hawke and his location? Aren't you worried that Hawke will crush your head like he did to General Ross?"

"You're scared."

"So you want to use Betty's eagerness to avenge General Ross to fulfill your own plan."

"But you didn't expect Betty to reject your proposal."

"After Betty died, you didn't show up at first, just to observe whether I really wanted to help Betty get revenge."

"In the end, I remained unmoved and had no thoughts of revenge, and then you couldn't sit still."

"So you showed up and made this fake pregnancy report."

"What for justice?"

"You're such a hypocrite, Nick Fury."

Bruce Banner mercilessly tore off Nick Fury's fig leaf without any scruples, exposing Nick Fury's shiny black buttocks. "But this is very much like you. Just like last year, I accepted your invitation to help you deal with Loki, but you ended up preparing a cell for me."

Nick Fury on the other end of the phone listened to Bruce Banner's words without any change in his expression.

"Bruce, I'm sorry you would think that."

"You should be sorry."

Bruce Banner didn't indulge Nick Fury. He sneered and directly revealed Nick Fury's current thoughts: "Nick, the reason you haven't hung up the phone yet is because you don't want me to tell Maria Hill and the others about this. Don't worry, I won't tell them. Now you can hang up the phone in frustration."

The words fell.

There was a sudden tone of hanging up from the other end of the phone.

Just like Bruce had just said to Nick.

His IQ may not be very high, but it is definitely above Nick Fury's.

Bruce Banner looked at the hung up phone, shook his head, and didn't take it to heart.

He indeed had no intention of telling Maria Hill about this.

There is no need, and it doesn’t matter.

because……

His heart is dead.

Bruce Banner sat on the floor and continued to play the last video message that Betty Ross recorded for him.

In fact, he already knew what Betty was doing on the day she died.

As he said, his IQ is okay.

What he didn't expect was that Betty recorded all of this and told him everything.

In the video, Betty, who already knew that her death was approaching, had a calm expression. She recalled every moment with him and imagined the future they would have experienced if none of this had happened.

Three meals a day, a family of five, a park downstairs, supporting each other.

Betty said this seriously and with great regret.

As she said in the video, she loves Bruce and she loves her dad too.

So, because she loved her father, she chose to join in.

At the same time, because she loved Bruce, she chose to tell everything and left the right of choice to Bruce.

Bruce has made his choice.

He actually hadn't made a decision at first, but after seeing the video left by Betty, he had made his choice.

"actually……"

"I wasn't lying when I told you Hulk was dead."

"Hulk is dead, but I feel like I can make Hulk come back again."

“But it comes at a cost.”

"Exchange my life for Hulk's."