Black Widow Is Not a Widow

After hearing Kyle’s warning, Santana lightly bit her lower lip, turned her face away, and lowered her head. She no longer had any thought of resisting.

It was not because of the threat of the electric shock collar around her neck, but because of the oppressive force of Kyle’s overwhelming strength!

Having fought him personally once, Santana, who was highly skilled in tactical analysis, understood very clearly that the young man before her undoubtedly stood at the pinnacle of the world’s combat power. He was an insurmountable mountain!

"I like talking to smart people." Kyle smiled faintly, casually shut the door, and sat in the chair across the table from Santana.

Santana said with reckless resignation, "No matter how you deal with me, I won’t say anything about the Red Room."

At the mention of the Red Room, a trace of fear appeared in her eyes and on her small face.

"Perfect. I happen to have no interest in the Red Room organization. Besides, one day, I’ll go there and level it anyway."

Kyle smiled indifferently, tapping his fingers lightly against the tabletop as he said calmly, "I’m more interested in you, so I’ll only ask you some private questions unrelated to the organization."

As he spoke, he focused his thoughts on the blue Ability Card on Santana.

Super Agent…

Current status: Can be drawn, cannot coexist with Super Soldier ability.

"Can be drawn, yet cannot coexist. Isn’t that contradictory?"

The first time Kyle saw the card on Santana, that question had arisen in his mind.

However, Santana was also the only person he had seen so far who possessed a blue Ability Card—Super Soldier was a special Ability Card with a blue "rare" prefix, and blue rare cards also came with the restriction that they could only be drawn once.

What would happen if he drew a blue Ability Card that he could not use?

Kyle had come precisely for this experiment. He immediately focused his mind and began drawing the Super Agent blue Ability Card.

Drawing a blue Ability Card likewise required staying within one meter and reading continuously without interruption for thirty minutes.

Begin card draw. 1799, 1798…

The somewhat lengthy countdown began.

Kyle happened to use this time to speak with Santana. "The Red Room should have already given you a detailed briefing on me, so I won’t introduce myself here. As for you, introduce yourself first."

Santana replied coldly, "Don’t you have my file too? My name is Shatana Caroline."

"I don’t believe a Soviet agent infiltrating under a false identity would use her real name."

Kyle smiled slightly. Seeing Santana’s aloof expression, he leisurely pulled a small remote control from the pocket of his general’s coat and idly ran his fingers over it.

"This question has nothing to do with the Red Room. If you won’t even cooperate with basic questions and answers, how about you get a taste of the electric shock first? Losing control of your bladder or bowels would be very disgusting."

"You devil." Santana glared viciously at Kyle. Her gaze drifted over the remote, and she soon gritted her teeth. "Fine, I’ll talk. My real name is Natasha Romanoff."

"Oh? And what was your codename in the Red Room?" Kyle continued.

"Didn’t you say you wouldn’t ask about the Red Room?"

"You’ve already told me your real name. What’s so unspeakable about a codename?"

"You… bastard." Natasha thought for a long while before finally spitting out a term of deep hatred.

She was still only a Soviet Red Room trainee agent who had undergone a few years of training. No amount of brainwashing or grueling extreme training could conceal the fact that she was only a sixteen-year-old girl. When it came to schemes and manipulation, how could she possibly outplay an old hand like Kyle?

Natasha lowered her head dejectedly, her little mouth pouting. "Codename: Black Widow."

"Widow? I never thought you got married so young, and even lost your husband. That’s quite pitiful." Kyle teased her.

Natasha shook her head in protest. "You bastard! A black widow is a highly venomous spider! Not a widow!"

"I know, Black Widow." Kyle nodded as though he understood. He had suspected it earlier, but it really was her.

Black Widow Natasha, one of the founding heroes of the future Avengers. Though her combat power was considered relatively low-tier, she often produced crucial results in certain wartime situations. She was also something of a renowned social butterfly among the hero-level figures of the Marvel world.

Now, she bore the codename Black Widow, but in the future, she would also become a true husband-killing widow, a black rose with thorns.

After thinking for a moment, Kyle could not help asking, "Natasha, why did you join the Red Room in the first place?"

"Isn’t it obvious? To become one of the strongest." Natasha snorted coldly. She had lost her parents in war from a young age and had long since discarded the identity of a weak, helpless girl.

"As far as I know, in order to make their agents loyal to the organization, the Soviet Red Room implants fabricated memories into new members for brainwashing." Kyle smiled and guided her along. "Do you often feel that your memories of the past are incomplete, don’t add up, or are twisted and bizarre?"

Natasha fell silent, seemingly lost in thought.

"Think it over carefully. While the Red Room made you stronger, it also turned you into a killing tool that had lost itself." After saying that, Kyle quietly waited for the card-draw countdown.

3, 2, 1. Draw successful!

The card-draw countdown ended, and an Ability Card glowing with blue light appeared out of thin air within the Card Space.

However, unlike his previous Ability Cards, this card seemed to be rejected by all the other Ability Cards. It could not enhance his physical body and was forced to retreat to the edge of the blank area.

Kyle’s consciousness entered the Card Space, and he reached out to catch the blue Ability Card for inspection.

Super Agent…

Current status: Cannot coexist with Super Soldier ability. Can be granted to another person for use.

Warnings for granting cards:

Within the Card Space, two identical Ability Cards cannot exist at the same time, except for Life Cards.

Each time a blue-quality or higher Ability Card is granted, the Grant Card function enters a cooldown period of three days.

Each person can only be granted one blue-quality or higher Ability Card, and it cannot be drawn back. It can only be forcibly destroyed within a three-meter range.

"Can be granted to someone else for use?" Kyle’s heart shook as he unexpectedly discovered a third major card function besides drawing cards and Sacrifice Draw.

Grant Card!

Ability Cards that he could not use could actually be granted to others after being drawn—

What did that mean?

It meant that as long as there were people like Natasha, who possessed original blue Ability Cards, the Grant Card ability could cultivate a faction with the same blue Ability Cards given enough time.

Kyle’s eyes lit up as he looked at Natasha before him. For the sake of preparing his future faction, he made a decision in secret.

"Natasha can’t be handed over. I have to keep her in my own hands!"