Chapter 536 How Could Lainie Be Hydra?

"In 1972, I was diagnosed with a terminal illness. Science could no longer save my body, but my mind was worth saving and preserving. They are stored in a database two hundred thousand feet long, and you are just standing here with us. in the brain.”

As the green skull named Dr. Zola said, the Arnim Zola who had soul and life in the past is indeed dead.

But his way of thinking, memory, and knowledge and understanding of things were all preserved in the form of data by the original Snake and Shield Bureau.

Therefore, at this moment, it is not an exaggeration for Steve to call himself Dr. Zola when the Green Skull he sees is called Dr. Zola.

But does he really possess the soul of Dr. Zola from the past?

Leni has asked Mephisto this question in the past, and the answer she got was of course no.

Today's Zora is just an algorithm that digitizes human memory and thinking. Perhaps we can think of it as an artificial intelligence life with the memory of Arnim Zora, and the two can even be equal.

But Zola in the past was indeed dead, and his soul returned to the embrace of the goddess of death.

"How did you get here?"

"Invited."

During Operation Paperclip at the end of World War II, SHIELD at the time believed that these "scientists" who were bewitched by Hydra and the Red Skull still had strategic value, and re-recruited them into SHIELD.

Later, these scientists did make full contributions to the scientific and technological development of SHIELD, laying a solid foundation for SHIELD's subsequent flourishing.

But this also laid the groundwork for subsequent disasters...

"Cut off one head, and two new heads will grow."

With that shrill and strange mechanical voice, Dr. Zola uttered the hymn that once terrified people all over the world.

“Hydra was originally founded on the belief that freedom cannot be given to humans.

But what we didn't realize at the time was that trying to take away their freedom would arouse their resistance..."

Dr. Zola controlled the display screen to show Steve and Steve a series of black and white images, which were actually the World War II Germany that was ruled by Hydra in the past. Even the Red Skull, who rarely showed his true colors, was in the picture. Gone in a flash.

"After the war, SHIELD was established and I was recruited. Since then, the new Hydra has been growing, like a beautiful parasite living inside SHIELD..."

Dr. Zola's voice continued, and the historical images on the screen began to speed up rapidly.

The establishment of S.H.I.E.L.D., the disintegration of the Soviet Union, the Cold War between the United States and Russia, the Cuban nuclear crisis...

A series of historical pictures flashed before Steve and the other two people, indicating that the Hydra of the past had resurrected without people realizing it.

"For the past ninety years, Hydra has been secretly fueling crises and subsequently profiting from war..."

Natasha stared at the images in front of her, and an inexplicable sense of crisis began to spread in her heart.

It wasn't until the scene flashed across a metal arm with a red five-pointed star pattern that Natasha realized where this sense of crisis came from.

"The Winter Soldier is also a Hydra..."

Natasha murmured to herself, and Steve glanced at her when he heard the words, but then he realized the seriousness of the other person's words.

The Winter Soldier he met before turned out to be a member of Hydra today!

"It's impossible, there's no way SHIELD won't stop you!"

"That's true, but accidents always happen..."

Dr. Zola's sharp mechanical voice was actually a bit sarcastic at this moment.

"When history refuses to cooperate, Hydra will change history!"

The screen on the monitor turned and showed a newspaper from 1991. The content published on it was surprisingly that the genius scientist Mr. Howard Stark died in a car accident.

"Howard..."

Steve murmured with a pale face, and at this moment he finally understood the meaning of Dr. Zola's words.

It turns out that the death of his friend was not an accident, but a premeditated murder by Hydra!

However, this was not over yet. The picture on the monitor continued. A news report with a time and date flashed across the black and white screen. The content was about a United Airlines Boeing 737 taking off from Los Angeles and bound for Boston. There was a crash during the landing.

Natasha's eyes suddenly froze when she saw this, her pupils couldn't help but shrink, and then she looked at the Green Skull who was still talking in disbelief.

"Hydra has created a world of extreme chaos, and humanity will eventually be ready to sacrifice freedom in exchange for true security..."

The picture on the screen was still flashing, but it had changed to the war-torn Libyan capital Tripoli; then it was Director Price who was sentenced to life imprisonment but accidentally died of an overdose of sleeping pills; he was old and elderly. Agent Carter finally died...

And Nick Fury, the director of S.H.I.E.L.D. who just passed away and was killed by the mysterious sniper Winter Soldier.

"Once our purification procedures are completed, the new world order established by Hydra will be born!"

Bang!

Unable to stand this guy's chattering any longer, Steve became so angry that he punched the largest CRT monitor in front of him, smashing the display into pieces.

However, this is of no help to Dr. Zola, who has long been transformed into a data existence.

"Anger can't solve any problems, Captain Rogers."

A sharp mocking voice came from another small monitor beside him again.

"Although you sacrificed yourself in the past for temporary victory, we are still the final winners. Long live Hydra!"

"Hail hydra!"

A series of Hydra declarations came out from the player, including Dr. Zola, Red Skull, and tens of thousands of Hydra soldiers...

Men and women, all kinds of voices were repeating this Hydra declaration at this moment.

It finally turned into a sea-like pressure, surging towards the two people in the center of the vortex.

"Enough!"

Steve clenched his fists, frowned deeply, and the anger in his eyes was almost tangible.

"I defeated you in the past, and I can do the same now! Tell me what the Insight Plan is!"

Hearing this, the data stream of the green skull's mouth on the screen flashed, as if a sneer flashed briefly.

"What is Project Insight? The answer to this question is very attractive. I answered it once not long ago. She also asked the same question..."

Dr. Zora's voice paused, and then a female voice came from the player.

"Old Zora, what on earth is Project Insight?"

"Dear Miss Lainie, didn't that gentleman tell you?"

"That guy is just making up stories for me. I'm too lazy to talk nonsense with her. Just tell me!"

Boom!

Hearing this woman's voice, Natasha and Steve's eyes widened at the same time, and their bodies and minds were all shocked!

This voice is Lainie? ! !

The two looked at each other, and then clearly saw their expressions at the moment from each other's pupils, which were already full of shock!

"Laini, is it Hydra? How could it be?"

Natasha murmured in disbelief, but the recording played next in the player did not allow Natasha to disbelieve it at all.

"Hail hydra!"

A familiar and clear voice. Even though Natasha felt it was incredible, she could still tell that the owner of the voice was Lainie.

"Unfortunately, young lady, what you heard is the truth."

The sarcastic voice sounded again at this moment. The green skull on the old screen finally turned into a cyber ghost who succeeded in his evil plan and laughed out loud!

"It's a pity that you two can no longer get the truth you want to pursue..."

As soon as the voice fell, the elevator door at the entrance and exit of the basement quickly popped out two heavy metal doors, and the entrance and exit were completely sealed with a bang!

Even though Steve threw the shield in his hand with the fastest reaction, he still couldn't stop it in time.

Beep beep!

At the same time, the tactical terminal in Natasha's hand sent out dense warning prompts.

Natasha's face changed drastically when she heard the voice. She picked it up and looked at it, and her face was ashen.

"Steve, it's a short-range ballistic missile! There are at most thirty seconds!"

Steve was also shocked when he heard the words.

"Who launched it?"

"SHIELD."

...

Dinglingling~

[The operation failed, Captain Rogers was not found. ]

Looking at the message displayed on the phone, Lainie curled her lips in disdain.

I can only say that in terms of toughness, no one in the entire Marvel can compare to Captain America.

It is simply a pipe dream to want to kill them both with a short-range ground-penetrating ballistic missile.

[I know, it's expected. Let them clean up the place and don't make any big noise. ]

After typing a text and sending it back, Lainie turned over, took out her phone and called Pierce.

"Laini? Why are you calling me at this time? Did you catch Rogers?"

Pierce on the other end of the phone did not realize that this call was a little different from the previous ones.

"The old man Zola is gone, and Rumlow and his team let Steve and his team run away again."

"What?"

Pierce almost thought he had heard wrong for a moment, and then he looked at the screen of his mobile phone again, and then he found that the encryption program displayed on it was no longer the Zola program that he had been using in the past.

"What is going on?!"

"Half an hour later, Steve and his team found the underground space under the bunker and met Dr. Zola..."

Laini repeated everything that happened before to this guy in detail.

"Just now, Rumlow sent a message that they searched the entire ruins and could not find the shadow of the two people. In the end, they only found some clues and judged that they had escaped."

Since this operation was a secret operation carried out by Hydra, not many people knew the specific situation. Except for the combat unit that launched the short-range ballistic missile, there were very few people who knew about their operation.

Even Pierce, the current leader of Hydra, missed this important news because he had just returned home from get off work and was enjoying the dinner prepared by his nanny.

Rumlow and his men carried out the raid very quickly. It only took fifteen minutes from the missile launch to the dust settling on the ruins.

If they hadn't spent a lot of time searching for traces, the bad news would have been reported to Pierce even earlier.

"Rumlow is a man who is not good at doing things, but always makes trouble!"

Pierce hammered the table angrily, then came to his senses and hurried to the door of the study, opened the door and looked at the nanny who was still busy in the kitchen.

After making sure that the other party did not notice the movement here, he closed the door again.

"I know about this matter. I have contacted the Winter Soldier and he will solve it."

"I hope so."

After hanging up the phone, Lainie got up and poured herself a glass of water, then sat on the sofa and played with the phone in her hand thoughtfully.

At present, everything is continuing to develop according to the established route, but I don’t know whether it will continue to go so smoothly next.

...

"Coulson, Veronica just detected that SHIELD has launched a short-range ballistic missile, targeting an abandoned military camp somewhere in New Jersey."

At the same time, the members of the investigation team far away at the Slingshot Base cast their eyes solemnly at Phil Coulson, who was sitting in the main seat.

Fitz controlled the holographic screen in front of everyone and projected the images captured by Veronica's satellite onto the holographic screen.

Looking at the old camp on the holographic image, Coulson's face changed.

He recognized the camp, which was the training camp where his idol, Mr. Steve Rogers, had just joined the army.

This made him a little suspicious. Could it be that Captain Rogers, who had disappeared for a long time, was in that camp at this moment?

Noticing that everyone's faces were different, Sif, who was watching silently on the side, couldn't help but ask curiously:

"What's in that camp?"

In order to protect the confidentiality of SHIELD, Coulson did not tell Skye and others about what happened in the bureau during the day.

Skye and others only knew that Nick Fury was assassinated last night, and they were not clear about the current intrigue in the bureau.

But even so, the meticulous Melinda and Skye, who paid close attention to the security network of SHIELD, still smelled something unusual from the sudden tense atmosphere in the bureau.

"That was the military camp where Captain Rogers joined the army and received training. It was also the place where SHIELD was first established after the end of World War II..."

Coulson spoke slowly in a deep voice, with a hint of anger in his tone.

He knew that SHIELD was no longer the same as it used to be, but he didn't expect that things would turn out to be as Lainie had said before...

For some reason, Coulson reached into his pocket and his fingertips touched a piece of paper that Lainie had handed to him not long ago.

If Coulson took out the paper at this time, the members of the investigation team would probably be surprised to find that there was no text on the paper, but instead a very obscure pattern.

Happy New Year everyone!