The Elderly Captain America!

Li Congxin did not ask who the other party was, nor did he care.

To him now, whether someone was Black or white, as long as they could help solve the problem of Ultron, they were good people!

After following George Carter to the study in the Carter family manor, the fifty-something man stopped at the door. "Mr. Clark, I believe you must have a lot to discuss with this person in private after meeting him, so I won’t go in with you. If you have time in the future, you’re welcome to visit us anytime."

Li Congxin smiled in response. "I’m afraid I’ll really have to trouble you quite a bit, then. Perhaps everyone may have a chance to work together in the future."

George’s eyes immediately brightened at those words. Given Li Congxin’s current strength and status, being able to cooperate with him would bring the George family nothing but benefits.

However, he also knew this was not the time to discuss such matters. After giving a slight nod, he took his leave.

Just who was this person, capable of earning such respect and caution from this English political heavyweight?

With that question in mind, Li Congxin slowly knocked on the study door.

"Knock! Knock! Knock!"

"Is that Clark?" A voice came from inside the room. It sounded vaguely familiar, but after carefully recalling it, Li Congxin was certain he had never heard it before. "The door’s unlocked. Come right in."

When he pushed open the door, he found the room’s furnishings to be extremely antique. Everything was arranged in a proper European medieval style. On the brown sofa along one side of the study sat a white-haired old man with a kindly smile. He looked about the same age as Peggy Carter, though he was considerably healthier. At least, Li Congxin could not sense the slightest trace of deathly energy from him.

Conservatively speaking, if this old man did not die, he could easily live another decade or more.

However, when Li Congxin saw the old man’s face, he could not help but freeze.

What a familiar face!

Yet Li Congxin was absolutely certain he had never seen it before.

The feeling was exactly the same as when he had heard the man’s voice. Familiarity and strangeness coexisted in the same person, creating an indescribably bizarre sensation.

"Clark Li." Seeing that Li Congxin had not spoken, the old man took the initiative. "Although this is our first meeting, I’ve actually been watching you for a long time. When exactly did it start again…?" As he spoke, the old man seemed to fall into thought. Only after a moment did he continue, "It was when you awakened a sleeping person two years ahead of schedule."

Hearing this, Li Congxin’s eyes lit up. He finally understood why the man’s voice and appearance felt so familiar!

But the truth was a little too shocking, wasn’t it?

"Ah… I’m getting old. Sometimes I end up speaking in a muddle." The old man suddenly seemed to remember something. After sighing, he hurriedly gestured. "Come, sit down. Making a guest stand for so long is truly discourteous."

After making a guess about the old man’s identity, Li Congxin no longer stood on ceremony. He immediately dropped onto the sofa beside him and said, "I just heard you mention that sleeping person I awakened, and it suddenly made me realize something."

As he spoke, Li Congxin stared into the other man’s eyes, as if he wanted to see straight through his heart. "Senior, are you that sleeping person?"

The two seemed to be speaking in riddles, but both knew perfectly well that the "sleeping person" they referred to was Captain America, Steve Rogers!

As for the old man before him, Li Congxin had merely felt that his voice and appearance were familiar, yet he had certainly never seen him before. He had no doubt about that. After all, with his life having evolved to this level, photographic memory had become instinctive. Especially when it came to someone familiar—he could never have forgotten them.

It was only after hearing the old man mention Captain America that Li Congxin suddenly realized that the man before him resembled Captain America immensely, both in voice and appearance.

Of course, there were many differences as well. It felt as if he were looking at an elderly version of Captain America!

That was rather terrifying.

There were actually two Captain Americas in this world!

Then which one was the real Captain America? Or was one of them the legendary Hydra Captain America or something?

Hearing Li Congxin’s question, the elderly Captain America actually fell into thought.

Seriously, did such a simple and direct question really need that much consideration?

"It could be said that I am, and it could also be said that I’m not." After thinking for a long while, the elderly Captain America finally gave Li Congxin an ambiguous answer. "Originally, the two of us should have counted as one person. But ever since you appeared out of nowhere, he and I should no longer be the same person."

What should one do when an elderly Captain America suddenly started discussing philosophy with him?

Asking online. This is urgent!

Li Congxin shook his head and finally sighed before answering frankly, "To be honest, I don’t understand what you’re trying to say."

Received Impression Points from Steve Rogers +12345!

The elderly Captain America smiled faintly and explained, "This involves a concept called the ‘Time Paradox.’ I don’t understand the specifics very well myself."

"According to Banner and Tony, I returned to the past from the future. If nothing had changed, then I would still be me. But your appearance caused the timeline to split. Both you and I are now on this branch of the timeline, so I’m no longer myself."

A flicker of understanding passed through Li Congxin’s eyes. "You really did return from the future. But can you explain the specifics in greater detail?"

The elderly Captain America nodded and continued, "In the next decade or so, disasters will continue to plague Earth. The Ultron you’re facing now is one of them. But compared to that, Thanos poses an even more terrifying threat. It will be a disaster that sweeps across the entire universe. Have you heard of him?"

Li Congxin did not answer. Instead, he simply spread out a hand and took out Thanos’s personal blade. After waving it once before the other man’s astonished gaze, he put it away and said, "I fought him not long ago. I was lucky enough to gain a slight advantage. This blade is one of my spoils of war."

Received Impression Points from Steve Rogers +66666!

"Sure enough, meeting you was completely the right choice." After seeing the broad-bladed sword, the elderly Captain America seemed to suddenly understand something. He straightened up and said, "On the timeline I came from, Thanos launched an Infinity War. He gathered all six Infinity Stones, then snapped his fingers, reducing half the universe’s life to ash."

"We Avengers found Thanos after he had retired to the countryside, but he had already destroyed the Infinity Stones using their own power. To save those innocent lives, we could only use Pym Particles to travel through time and return to the past timeline to collect the Infinity Stones."

Li Congxin suddenly felt something absurd. It seemed that Captain America was copying Spider-Man and Hulk’s style, spoiling the plot of Avengers 4 for him!

As the saying went, spoilers were fun for a moment—but constant spoilers were even more fun?

For people who enjoyed spoiling things for no reason, Li Congxin only wanted to ask, "In the end, did you win?"

The elderly Captain America nodded lightly. "We won. We paid a huge price and made great sacrifices, but we won in the end."

He glossed over the brutal course of the war in a few casual words. He did not explain how the war had been won, nor who had sacrificed themselves. Clearly, those details were painful memories the elderly Captain America was unwilling to revisit.

The elderly Captain America shook his head and continued, "After the war ended, I was responsible for returning to the past timeline and giving back the Infinity Stones. But after completing all my tasks, I did not return to the future timeline as planned. Instead, I went back to 1945, to the point when I was frozen in ice."

What happened afterward was essentially inevitable.

Captain America returned to 1945, assumed a false identity, and married and had children with Peggy Carter. Even now, his identification documents did not bear the name Steve Rogers. Instead, he used the alias Chris Evans.

Originally, he thought that as long as he kept a low profile, he could perfectly integrate into this timeline. The appearances of his two children with Peggy also confirmed this quite well.

He was Peggy Carter’s mysterious husband!

Li Congxin had spent all this time wondering which member of the Howling Commandos had cuckolded their captain, only to discover that Captain America had cuckolded himself.

What kind of spirit was that?

The spirit of cuckolding oneself!

It was only after Li Congxin appeared—especially after he dug his past self out of the ice two years ahead of schedule—that the elderly Captain America finally realized the timeline had changed.

Although this change had nothing to do with him, it was obvious that this world’s future was no longer the future he had once experienced, all because of Li Congxin.

And the future Steve Rogers was destined to experience a life entirely different from his own. That was why Captain America said that the other him was not him.

Although this change made him somewhat uneasy, it also inexplicably brought him a sense of relief.

If the timeline had never changed, he would have had to act with extreme caution no matter what he did, afraid that one careless move might affect the timeline’s flow and turn him from someone who had integrated into history into an unpredictable factor who changed history and created a new branch of the timeline.

But ever since Li Congxin appeared, the fixed timeline had already changed. Naturally, he no longer needed to have any reservations. Since they were already on a branch, as long as he did not crazily destroy the balance of the world, things could hardly get any worse.

The issue of the timeline was complicated, and Li Congxin had not come here today to discuss time travel. His purpose was simple: "Ultron has already appeared, and worse, it has also mastered Pym Particles. Although Eris can temporarily suppress its activity, that is ultimately not a long-term solution. Since you came back from the future, do you know of any effective way to deal with Ultron?"

There was one thing Li Congxin did not say aloud. Since Peggy Carter had repeatedly brought up this issue, he felt that she was hinting that he could come to her whenever he encountered a problem.

Now that a problem had appeared, Li Congxin truly needed some advice.

At those words, the elderly Captain America fell into thought again. "Tony is a crisis-minded person. He once predicted that a threat from an Artificial Intelligence similar to Ultron might appear. For that reason, he even created a targeted plan. The general idea was this…"

After carefully explaining Tony’s previous idea, the elderly Captain America looked at Li Congxin. "That’s all I remember. As for how the specific plan should be carried out, or how to trap an Artificial Intelligence without a physical form, that isn’t something a soldier like me can accomplish. All I can do is tell you Tony’s idea. That’s all."

Li Congxin silently committed this practical plan to memory, then bid farewell to the elderly Captain America.

Just as he reached the door, he suddenly thought of something and turned around. "Captain, I have one final question. When you returned the Infinity Stones, did you end up fighting their guardians?"

Received Impression Points from Steve Rogers +99999!

Elderly Captain America:…