Chapter 177
Chapter 177
When Natasha followed the location to find Joanna, Joanna was sitting with Peter on the stone steps teasing a golden retriever with a lame hind leg.
"Hey, Joanna." After Natasha greeted Joanna, she turned her head aside to Peter, who had been nervous since she appeared at the street intersection, "Long time no see, little spider."
"I'm not called a little...little spider." Peter pursed his mouth reluctantly.
Natasha looked up at the apartment building behind the two of them: "If I remember correctly, you lived here before you took over the mission of 'Captain America's Awakening Project'."
"Well. Later, I was going to Washington, so I gave up the apartment here."
Natasha looked at Joanna's calm face: "Are you planning to move back?"
"Questions?"
"No. But I don't think it's necessary." Natasha looked at Joanna, and said in an elite woman's tone, "Isn't it more convenient to live in the building? And I believe the accommodation conditions there are better than here. If You're concerned about privacy, and I assure you, that won't be a problem for you."
Joanna shook her head: "It's not like that."
Peter, who was hugging the golden retriever, couldn't help asking, "Isn't Mr. Stark here?"
"Stark? He was so angry with Miss Rickman that he almost shut himself up."
Joanna showed a wronged expression: "I didn't do anything."
"You said on the phone that you didn't want to see him."
"I mean 'inconvenient to see him'."
Natasha shrugged: "That's right. In Tony Stark's language system, 'inconvenient to meet' equals 'do not want to see'."
"Okay! It seems that I have to get acquainted with Playboy's scumbag language some other day."
Peter couldn't quite keep up with the two ladies, he just foolishly stroked his golden retriever and told himself that he wouldn't see his idol today.
Natasha raised her hand and looked at the watch on her wrist: "Looking for a place to eat? We can chat while eating."
Joanna stood up and patted the ashes on her pants: "Okay."
"What about you? Little Spider. Do you want to go together?" Natasha raised her chin at Peter.
"I'm not 'Spider'. Me too..." Peter sighed. "I'm not going either. May is coming back soon. I'll eat with her at home."
Natasha nodded, not forcing the other party.
Joanna got off the stairs and looked back at Peter: "Peter, if Mei asks, just say that you took care of Xiaotiao first for me. When I find a place to live, I'll pick him up."
"Will you help me raise it?!" Peter had a surprised expression on his face.
Joanna smiled and nodded slightly at Peter.
"Thank you, Joanna!"
Joanna shook her hand at Peter, turned around and left with Natasha.
"If it's a pet, the building is fine too. Just don't let the dog go to Bruce's laboratory or Tony's studio." Natasha persuaded as she walked.
Joanna smiled wryly: "Natasha, I've said it all. It's not what you think. It's just that I suddenly realized yesterday that if I live in Fulian, it will cause unnecessary trouble."
"for example?"
"I guess Tony explained to you why I didn't take up the role of PR spokesman."
Natasha nodded.
"When I found out that troublesome incident in the basement that I might not be able to solve for the time being, I kept wondering if keeping him in the custody of the Avengers would bring us a lot of trouble if he couldn't regain consciousness. PR troubles. At that moment, I suddenly realized that it wasn’t just him... I would also cause trouble if I stayed in the Avengers. No matter how much behind-the-scenes I was, even if I didn’t speak up from now on .'Tongue of Lies' will be a ticking time bomb, we just don't know when it will go off."
"Are you worried that someone will use this to attack the Avengers and accuse the Avengers of manipulating the minds of ordinary people?"
Joanna nodded a little decadently.
"Joanna, I think your thinking... is too narrow. I mean, since someone is determined to target the Avengers, no matter what we do, the other party will hold us. Even if you stay away from the Avengers , even if you don’t touch anything in the league at all, someone will make a fuss about your relationship with the captain. What will you do at that time? Break up with the captain? Because of those crazy words? Take a step back, even if You and the captain can give up the small ego for the big ego. Are you sure those people will let it go? You and Steve are boyfriend and girlfriend. Anyone who cares about this knows that the two of you are short of an official announcement on the Internet. Even if you are separated After all, some people will say that during your relationship, the captain used his influence on you to instruct you to use the power of a lying tongue to confuse others."
Joanna bit her lip and stopped.
She didn't expect this layer, or rather, she didn't dare to think about this layer at all.
According to Natasha's logic, no matter how she hides or defends, if someone wants to speak out with a lying tongue, she can't hide anyway.
"It sounds like... I'm a sure-fire troublemaker." Joanna smiled wryly.
Natasha patted Joanna on the shoulder: "So why don't you change your mind? Face up to the ability of the 'Tongue of Lies' openly. If necessary, use it? Just like this time."
Joanna looked a little more relaxed, but her smile was still a bit forced: "I just don't know when to use it and when not to use it. I don't always know what I should do like Steve. A lot of times , I don’t even know if what I’m doing is right.”
"Hey, Joanna. Look at me." Natasha walked up to Joanna, gently lifting her retracted jaw with her hand.
Joanna raised her eyes obediently, but that was just the obedience of the weak to the strong.There was still a little fear and bewilderment in her eyes.
Natasha said with a somewhat serious attitude: "Joanna. If you are unable to judge the situation and do not know under what circumstances it is safe to use the ability, I think I can help you. If you do not want to If you use this ability, I will support you. However, if you care about other people's opinions...Joanna, if you are undecided about whether to use the 'Tongue of Lies' ability because of this, it is very dangerous .It's not a good thing for you."
Smart people never need to say everything too plainly.Natasha didn't want to put more pressure on the relationship between Joanna and Steve, so she didn't point out Joanna's concerns and ideas.
"Will you tell him?" Joanna looked at Natasha complicatedly.
Natasha looked at her for a while, and said neither yes nor no.Finally, she took Joanna's arm: "Let's go eat first. Work is not as important as eating."
The reason why Natasha didn't agree to Joanna is because...she didn't intend to hide it from Steve at all.Of course, being honest doesn't mean she will directly tell Steve the conversation between her and Joanna.
Anyway, she also pushed Steve past him on the road of love. At this critical juncture, she doesn't mind contributing a little bit of her meager strength.
But before that, Natasha solved the awkward Tony first.Tony's problem is easier to handle.Natasha just relayed Joanna's words to Tony without changing the words, and then stood still and listened to Tony scolding Joanna ten times as "idiot", and the matter was over.
Joanna was rushed to Fulian Building by Tony's call the next day.In front of everyone in the public relations department, he briefly explained Joanna's situation to everyone: "This is Joanna Rickman. Your boss. She has the final say on public relations matters."
Tony is very efficient. After saying this, he turned around and left.Joanna was a little confused by this sudden public appointment.After holding back for a long time, she said "that's it, disband on the spot", and then ran out after Tony.
Everyone in the PR department:? ? ? ? ? ? ?
Tony strode towards the combat conference room.There, Natasha was already sitting at the conference table and waiting.
After Joanna realized Tony's destination, she couldn't help but stopped at the entrance of the floor.
Tony turned around at the door of the meeting room: "What are you doing in a daze? Hurry up."
Although she didn't know the reason, Joanna finally followed.
"It's all over?" Natasha in the meeting room raised her head when she heard the sound.
"Yeah." Tony looked a little annoyed.He pulled out the chair and sat down: "This is the first department head who forced me to introduce herself to her subordinates."
Natasha smiled, and signaled Joanna, who followed through the door, to find a seat with her eyes.
"I have already contacted the captain, and I explained to him what Joanna communicated with me that day. He also thinks that our current thinking direction is the most likely to be correct."
Tony interrupted abruptly: "Did I hear you right? Captain? Will he use the word 'probability'? Isn't he the most likely to say 'very likely'?"
"Tony."
"When I didn't say it, you continued."
Natasha sighed, and continued: "In the beginning, we really didn't consider that the 'Tongue of Lies' has requirements on the logic of the affected person. Judging from the previous test data, the problem should lie in this. Lou The one below... has been repeatedly brainwashed, so it is very likely that the consciousness is confused."
Tony called up the display screen, and there were several simple three-paragraph deductive reasoning on the screen: "So far, all the sentences I have collected that trigger the 'tongue of lies' are absolutely affirmative or negative sentence patterns, and then combined with The identities of the affected, all established examples, fit the basic model of deductive reasoning."
"So, in fact, I only came up with one premise, and the other premise came from the person being influenced themselves?"
"Bingo! Then the function of the 'tongue of lies' is that when you give a conclusion, it will cover up your logical flaws and mistakes in your premises for you. But the problem now is that the one downstairs has no brains. Clear. The part of the premise belonging to the affected person is broken, and the 'Tongue of Lies' cannot work."
Joanna frowned in distress: "Then what should I do?"
Tony shrugged, his tone cheerful like a demon: "Talk about philosophy with him."
"What's the matter?"
"Descartes' Discourse on Method."
Joanna took a deep breath, but in the end she didn't hold back, and suddenly lay down on the table, crying "Wow".
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Tony and Natasha let Joanna and Qilin Arm talk about Descartes, which is based on the wonderful process of Descartes' conclusion of "I think, therefore I am".To put it simply, it is to overthrow all one's cognition and then re-establish one's understanding of the world.
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