The flames dissipated, revealing Steve and Bucky.
They looked around, but Mu Yang was nowhere to be seen in the coniferous forest. Their eyes fell to where Mu Yang had been standing, now just a pile of rubble.
"Enter."
Clutching Bucky's collar with his left hand, Steve muttered.
Space shifted, and the familiar scene came into view.
Behind the bar, Mu Yang sat in a recliner, swaying back and forth as he browsed the Dimensional Store.
"Bucky."
Steve exclaimed in alarm, the Bucky he had been holding with his left hand was now gone.
"Without a membership card, or being a lucky one, you can't enter the store! Unless I allow it."
Mu Yang turned his head and explained to Steve.
Hearing this, Steve 'swooshed' away, returning to the pine forest, Bucky lying beside him.
Letting out a breath, and lifting Bucky, Steve ran deeper into the pine forest.
The initial plan was to escape through the Dimensional Store after rescuing Bucky, but he didn't expect Bucky couldn't enter the store.
The transportation vehicles inside the Hydra base couldn't be used, who knew if there were bombs or tracking devices installed.
And this place was also a desolate and uninhabited area, there were few people within miles, otherwise, Hydra wouldn't have built a research base here.
First, escape to a safer location and remove Bucky's brainwashing before discussing anything else.
Steve, carrying a person on his shoulders, continued to sprint at a speed exceeding the 100-meter dash record, as if the person he was carrying weighed nothing at all.
After an unknown amount of running, Steve entered deep into the forest, and he didn't encounter any pursuers during his escape.
Perhaps he had scared off the enemy earlier, or perhaps the enemy had other plans.
He placed Bucky on the ground, supporting him against a tree trunk. Then, Steve gathered some snow and dead branches to conceal him.
Bucky had been frozen for many years anyway, a little more wouldn't hurt.
After hiding Bucky, Steve entered the shop once more. Mu Yang was still in the same form as before.
Sitting in the recliner, Mu Yang slowly rocked back and forth, his fingers swiping across the air as he browsed the items in the Dimensional Store.
"Boss Mu, do I have enough money to buy something to make Bucky normal again, and a motorcycle?"
Mu Yang didn't even glance at Steve. Instead, he handed Steve two gray cards. One had a picture of an off-road motorcycle on it, the other a glass bottle.
Delivery, payment.
Steve grabbed the two cards and rushed out the door.
Back in the coniferous forest, Steve first looked around, then dug Bucky out and gave him the potion.
After waiting for a while, Bucky showed no signs of waking up, and Steve couldn't bear to give Bucky artificial respiration.
So, Steve took out the motorcycle, helped Bucky onto it, and held onto him with one hand while gripping the handlebars with the other.
Floor it. Let's go.
At the same time, the base's invasion was reported to the head of Hydra. Steve had entered the high-level Hydra's radar.
Whether the Hydra higher-ups could guess that the intruder was Steve Rogers was unknown.
Even though Steve didn't hide his appearance when he attacked the base. He wore his iconic suit and held his iconic shield, practically screaming that he was Captain America.
However, modern plastic surgery is advanced, and disguise techniques are also not bad. The most crucial point is that Captain America…
No! He is a superpowered person!
"Heh! A copycat? I don't know where he got the information, but he barged in and caused a ruckus."
"Put him on the kill list. Now is not the time to surface. Anyone who knows of Hydra's existence must die."
A message quickly spread throughout all levels of Hydra. It's believed that Hydra organizations around the world would soon begin searching for Steve's whereabouts and would do everything in their power to kill him.
And the person at the center of the vortex, Mu Yang, was lost in a coniferous forest.
The vast coniferous forest was rarely visited, so there were no roads. After Steve rode his motorcycle around for a while, he found himself lost.
He wanted to look up at the sun to determine his direction, but the dense trees dashed his hopes. He could only use the knowledge he had learned who-knew-how-many years ago to identify the direction by looking at the slopes: the side with less snow and faster melting was south, and the side with more snow and slower melting was north.
Steve looked around, but there were only trees, no slopes.
Pass, next method.
The growth patterns of trees: branches and leaves are lush on the south side, and moss grows easily on the north side.
Steve examined several trees carefully, but he couldn't come to a conclusion.
Pass, next method.
"Enter."
Upon returning to the store, Mu Yang bought a navigation device.
Holding the navigation device, Steve asked, "Shopkeeper Mu, is there any way to make Bucky a customer of the store as well?"
"Yes," Mu Yang replied succinctly, "Buy it with money."
"One slot costs ten thousand gold coins. Ordinary customers can purchase it twice, meaning two slots to enter the store. Customers who purchase slots with money are not eligible to buy slots for others."
"Ten thousand!" Steve's cheek twitched. He glanced at his balance: 998.
Then, he thought about his debts, totaling fifty thousand gold coins.
The road is long.
Even if Tony didn't demand he pay up quickly, saving up ten thousand coins would still take him some time. He wasn't sure how long exactly, because he'd never had ten thousand coins before, so he had no idea how long it would take.
Thinking about it like that, I feel a little pathetic.
Steve's expression was a bit odd.
Returning to the coniferous forest again, Bucky had already woken up. He stood silently in the woods, gazing blankly at the sky.
The potion Steve had given Bucky not only purged Hydra's control over his mind, but also soothed his spirit, allowing him to easily access the memories of when he was controlled.
Just as he was in unbearable pain, unsure of what to do, subsequent memories surfaced, causing him even more pain, until the memory of being beaten up by Steve emerged…
"Stop! Something seems wrong with my memory. Is this a side effect of the brainwashing?"
Bucky said, lowering his head and patting his forehead. When he looked up again, he suddenly found someone standing before him.
It was his good buddy, Steve Rogers.
"Ah! Looks like something's really wrong with my head, I'm even hallucinating."
Bucky thought to himself. He could swear there was absolutely no one in front of him a moment ago, but now there was someone, and it was the person he missed day and night!
And Steve didn't have any superpowers like space-time manipulation, so it could only be his own messed-up brain creating a hallucination.
"Bucky, you're awake!"
The familiar voice interrupted his confused thoughts. Bucky's eyes widened, "Hallu… hallucination, talking? Wait, you're not a hallucination!"
"Who are you!" Bucky assumed a fighting stance.
As mentioned before, the Steve he knew didn't have any strange abilities. In other words, the person in front of him was likely not Steve, but someone else wearing his face.
"I'm Steve Rogers!" Seeing Bucky's wariness, Steve quickly said, "Let's use our secret code, say some things only the two of us know."
After a simple verification, Bucky believed the person before him was Steve Rogers.
"Steve, when did you master so many strange abilities, like controlling fire and spatial movement?"
"As for controlling fire, I got it today after eating a Devil Fruit. The spatial movement is thanks to the Dimensional Store," Steve explained while getting on the motorcycle.
Bucky sat behind Steve, asking curiously, "What is the Dimensional Store?"
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