The Winter Soldier was abandoned.
Pierce was a little surprised. You must know that this old guy has always regarded the Winter Soldier as his private property. Although the Winter Soldier is the common property of Hydra, in fact, he is in charge of a series of maintenance and upkeep of the Winter Soldier. But now he actually wants to abandon the Winter Soldier.
"Isn't it too wasteful?" Pierce felt distressed at this time. Apart from anything else, the Winter Soldier was absolutely perfect as a weapon. There has not been a single problem with his mission over the years, which is the best proof.
"It's a bit of a waste... but the problem is, there's not much value we can extract from him. Over the years, the super soldier serum project has completely failed. His greatest value is gone. As for being a weapon... to be honest , He is indeed great, but he is not irreplaceable. If one person cannot replace him, then use more people, it won’t cost much." Daniel Whitehall said coldly.
To this day, Whitehall suspects that Dr. Erskine's creation of Captain America was just an accident, and that he himself was not able to create the perfect super soldier serum. If they study a defective product, they will only go further and further down the wrong road!
So everything they do needs to be reinvented.
What Whitehall didn't know was that he was right... The original sample source of Dr. Erskine's Super Soldier Serum came from Evil Dead!
This kind of creature is completely different from humans, and the power contained in its body is impossible for humans to understand. This also made it impossible for their expected super soldier serum to succeed from the beginning. The extreme power of the devil has a very undesirable influence on human beings.
Probably only good people can control that kind of power, while bad guys will become out of control because of that power.
In other words, good is better and bad is worse.
For example, Red Skull thought that he became like that because the serum was not perfect, but in fact it was not the case. Just because he's a bad guy.
This is why Dr. Erskine would choose Steve Rogers, a small, sickly, but kind-hearted little man with a strong sense of justice. Logically speaking, shouldn't this kind of experiment be conducted on subjects who are as healthy as possible?
Perhaps Dr. Erskine had guessed the reason from that time.
In short, no matter what, after decades, Hydra has almost given up on the research of super soldier serum and turned to other directions.
For example, the Death Warrior project that Clairvoyant is responsible for.
It's the other direction of the Super Soldier Serum.
In this way, the Winter Soldier itself becomes dispensable. As for the effect of the Winter Soldier's force...that's even more ridiculous. No matter how strong the Winter Soldier is, he is only one person.
He can do the work of ten people by himself, which is great.
But Hydra is ten men short?
Their human resources should not be too sufficient. With SHIELD, a huge organization, they don't even need to open an additional agent training base.
So the Winter Soldier isn't as important as you might think.
After Pierce put aside his special feelings for Captain America and the Red Skull, he immediately reacted.
Without the emotional bonus, the Winter Soldier is just a useful agent.
"I think I know how to do it." Pierce nodded.
At the same time, Pierce also knows another meaning of Whitehall, that is... he will lead the plan against Wakanda!
This is an exchange.
"That's good. Everyone, I still have an experiment to do, so... see you soon." After saying that, Whitehall logged off.
The others didn't say much and went offline one after another. After all, even if you want to do something, there is no reason to say it here.
Except for one person.
Lady Hydra.
"Madam...what's the matter with you?" Pierce looked at Madam Hydra in surprise.
"I need you to share some information." Madam Hydra said calmly.
"In what respect?"
"The superhero aspect!"
"all?"
"Everything!" Madam Hydra then emphasized: "The more detailed the King of Knights, the better."
"Well...it seems that I have shared this information." Pierce raised his eyebrows.
"What I want is something they don't know. In exchange, I will transfer part of the Blood Orchid to you." Madam Hydra said very calmly.
This time it really surprised Pierce.
Blood Orchid is no ordinary thing.
In the 1990s, an explorer named Bill Johnson was hired by a pharmaceutical company and found this plant in the primitive jungle of Borneo. According to local legends, the blood orchid has the ability to use The mysterious power of immortality, and the rumor that "almost no one has ever obtained it" also made Blood Orchid gradually become a legend. None of the expedition team that followed Bill Johnson into the jungle survived. They were all devoured by giant pythons influenced by blood orchids. Only Bill Johnson returned to civilized society with a limited number of blood orchids.
Guess whose industry that pharmaceutical company belongs to?
Yes, it is Mrs. Hydra.
Afterwards, Bill Johnson was silenced, and Madam Hydra led a group of people to kill the giant pythons and poach all the blood orchids.
Unfortunately, the subsequent results were not satisfactory. Artificial cultivation of blood orchids was a complete failure. True blood orchids seem to only grow where they originally were. And the place was very small, just beside a small waterfall. Blood orchids could not be cultivated anywhere except there.
Even if Hydra restores its ecology 100%, it cannot be cultivated elsewhere.
In addition, the growth rate and conditions of blood orchids are extremely harsh, and the yield of blood orchids is very impressive.
However, the effect of Blood Orchid is also very infectious.
The extract of blood orchid has the unlimited regenerative ability to keep cells in order. It is because of this that those pythons can grow to more than twenty meters long.
This thing can really make people immortal.
Also because of its rarity in function and output, Blood Orchid has always been a forbidden favorite of Madam Hydra, and no one else is qualified to get involved. Of course, Madam Hydra will not really let it out at all, but it needs to be exchanged for something!
But now, Madam Hydra is actually willing to give up all the blood orchids in exchange for information.
"Are you serious?"
"What do you think?"
"Okay! Change!" Why not change!
There is no way to live forever for Pierce. Whitehall has his own scientific approach. But there are too many side effects of that thing. Look at Whitehall. Basically, he can only stay in his base and cannot go out at all. He must strictly follow the requirements when eating, and he is not even allowed to touch alcohol. Forget it, you still have to wait for a while to replace all your internal organs... This thing requires a lot of surgeries, and with the subsequent complications, it can't be considered alive at all.
Baron...his method of immortality cannot be copied at all. Just don’t mention it.
Madam Hydra's method of immortality...no one knows. Anyway, before Xuelan was discovered, others lived for almost a hundred years.
As far as he knew, both he and Gideon Malik were expending vast resources in exchange for Blood Orchid extract from Madam Hydra.
…
After Mrs. Hydra, or Mrs. Viper, went offline, she sat alone in her seat in a daze.
Ophelia Sargsyan, this is the name of Lady Viper. In fact she has been around longer than anyone within Hydra knows about. The reason why she was able to live for such a long time was because she signed a contract with the ancient evil god Chthon, which gave her the ability to greatly slow down aging and stay young almost forever. This contract has no time limit, but there is a corresponding price to pay.
soul.
She needs a lot of souls to satisfy the evil god's desires.
During World War I, she created the most terrifying poison gas for Germany in order to cause greater death. Unfortunately it was stopped.
She ran away in a panic and failed to offer a sacrifice to the evil god, so she suffered an unprecedented punishment.
It was also because of this encounter that Madam Viper made up her mind to surrender to the control of the evil god. Hard work pays off. In order to recruit her during World War II, the Red Skull helped her find an artifact. This artifact could not touch her contract with the evil god, but it could prevent the evil god from finding her again.
This kept her free for decades. This is why she has kept a low profile over the years. Don't let her have to prepare sacrifices for the evil god all the time, just like a machine.
Unfortunately, things always happen unexpectedly.
Not long ago, the power of the evil god suddenly became stronger. The artifact used to obscure her presence had begun to fail.
It won't be long before the evil god will find her!
Thinking of the punishment she had experienced, Madam Hydra immediately felt a chill to her bones. That feeling... she was unwilling to experience it again. But the worst thing is that death cannot allow her to escape the evil god. Even if she dies, she will be sending herself into the hands of the evil god!
Not even death.
So she must save herself.
Unfortunately, she simply couldn't do it.
In order to completely get rid of the evil god, she used almost every method. Unfortunately they all failed.
Now she has reached the edge of the cliff.
And the last straw that can save her... is in the United States.
Mrs. Hydra pulled out some photos.
They are Wonder Woman, Angel Witch and King Knight!
This is her last chance!
…
The secret base of the Bureau of Shadows.
Peggy Carter looked at Steve Rogers solemnly.
"Steve, I hope you can calm down!" Ms. Carter used as soft a voice as possible to comfort Captain America.
Steve closed his eyes, but the moving eyes under his eyelids showed that he was not calm.
"I have to find him, Peggy. It was my fault I didn't save him. I can't let this mistake happen again."
"I know, I know. Steve. But when you see this, you should understand that he is no longer the Bucky Barnes we know. He is a terrorist... Steve." Peggy didn't either. I want to believe this, but...facts speak louder than words.
"No! Bucky is a hero! He's a patriot! You know that!" Steve stood up and shouted.
"But this doesn't change the fact! Steve!" Peggy also shouted in response.
"No! There must be a misunderstanding! I will find him, and I will find out why!" Steve stood up and was about to leave.
Peggy suddenly said coldly: "Just like you don't believe Bucky killed Howard?"
Steve paused.
"I believe there must be a reason!"
"What's the reason? Do you think Howard is a bad guy? So Bucky wants to kill him?" Peggy shouted. "I know you and Bucky are best friends! But Steve, you can't judge things by your own emotions alone!"
Steve stood there. After a while, he whispered: "I will find out!"
After saying that, he walked away without looking back.
Peggy sat on the chair holding her forehead.
Things are in trouble.
Then she took out the intercom: "Strictly monitor Steve's whereabouts, and also closely monitor Tony Stark."
"Director...Tony Stark is out."
"What?" Peggy immediately became nervous. She was afraid that Tony would find Bucky: "Where has he gone?!"
"He just flew over my head and it seemed he spotted me. He went towards the NYPD."
…
"Please have your condolences, Prince T'Challa." In the morgue of the New York Police Department, Kai accompanied Prince T'Challa, the son of the King of Wakanda, to claim the body.
Originally, according to the customs of the Kingdom of Wakanda, their king had to be sent back to Wakanda as soon as possible. The New York Police Department does not have the ability to detain the body of a kingdom, even for the purpose of investigating a case.
But Prince T'Challa unexpectedly agreed to let the New York police conduct an autopsy.
For this autopsy, the CIA, FBI, Department of Homeland Security, and New York Police all sent the most capable forensic experts to conduct a comprehensive autopsy on the body, and in a manner that minimized damage to the body.
In fact, there was nothing detectable, and they were killed by the bomb.
All right.
"No, my sadness has passed. Wakandans are not afraid of death. We believe that death is just the beginning of another journey. The king of Wakanda will eventually return to the Black Panther God. I am only full of joy now. Anger and hatred must be liquidated! This is the best way for Wakandans to remember their loved ones!"
T'Challa said calmly. If it weren't for the deep sadness and anger in his eyes, Kai would have doubted whether this man had a bad relationship with his father.
"Ahem, although I can understand you. But please pay attention to the prince, this is New York. You have no law enforcement power, let alone kill people." Kai said a little embarrassed.
A primitive prince had no extraterritorial rights in New York.
T'Challa turned to look at Kai.
"I know you, Kai Wayne. The superhero of New York, all the deeds I know. Tell me, what would you do if you were me?"
Of course, fuck him!
What else is there to say.
But the problem is that his current status is not suitable for him to say this.
"I personally believe that paying blood for blood is a barbaric custom." Kai's words made T'Challa frown, and he felt that he had been discriminated against.
Well, Lao Hei likes to think about everything about his basic operations. But Kai's next words made him frown.
"But sometimes, isn't this barbaric custom the fairest thing to do?"
This was said very quietly.
Then Kai said: "But it's best not to, after all, you don't want to cause international disputes, right?"
T'Challa thought for a while: "Of course! We are here to visit. But..."
"What?"
"I heard there are a lot of vigilantes in New York City, right?"
"Well, it's quite a lot."
"By the way, have you heard that another vigilante appeared recently?"
"Who?" Kai asked thoughtfully.
"His name is Black Panther!" T'Challa said with a serious look: "If Black Panther kills the murderer... it shouldn't have anything to do with Wakanda, right?"
"Well... vigilantes are troublesome. Especially the kind that kill people. They will be wanted." Kai could probably hear the underlying meaning. So I thought about it and said. Meaning, don't cause trouble and don't get caught.
"Black Panther is a cautious and principled person. He will not attack innocent people. Of course, he is also difficult to catch."
"Tsk...it's really troublesome."
At this moment, there was a sudden noise outside.
"Mr. Stark! Mr. Stark! You can't come in, you can't..."
bump!
The door was pushed open roughly, and Tony strode in wearing a steel suit.
