novelraw Chapter 156 Under the Conspiracy
Chapter 156 Under the Conspiracy
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In the comics, Sister Widow and Baji did have a past, and Baji is also the instructor of Sister Widow. In fact, I have always been a winter widow, and I mean BG upward, so there is no green widow in this movie~
Update today, no need to click on the next chapter
In fact, before Steve called Ma Linglong, he was not sure that the Winter Soldier he encountered was the real Bucky, until two days later when they were fighting fiercely, Steve took the opportunity to pull off the other side's mask.He sees him clearly, Steve will never forget Bucky's face, even though his hair is much longer than before, it won't make Steve mistake his best friend.
This incident has to be traced back to three days ago, when Captain America was identified as the target of arrest by S.H.I.E.L.D.
Steve lowered the brim of his baseball cap subconsciously. He pretended that Natasha and Natasha were a couple, and just happened to pass by the agent sent by S.H.I.E.L.D.This is due to Natasha's ability to disguise, otherwise they would have to fight with at least 8 or more agents in full view.
It wasn't the first time Steve had been inconvenienced by his toned appearance since his serum injections, and he was very much in the spotlight.Whether it is in a living supermarket, or wandering on the street, or sitting alone in a coffee shop.Especially in cafes, there are always girls who strike up a conversation with him, and occasionally men, people like to peek at him or not only peek.This era is mostly peaceful, and everyone has the energy to pursue beautiful things, and will not be forced to stop paying attention to others because of the impact of war.
Who doesn't like a handsome guy who is strong, clean, and smiling?
But this is not conducive to avoiding tracking. Steve means that he thinks that being tall and mighty is not always a good thing. He must very deliberately hide his attractive enough features.You know, before being transformed, Steve dreamed of having the current figure.
Steve knew who killed Fury because the black commander was in his apartment at the time, uninvited.He didn't look unscathed when he arrived, Fury was wounded and his black trench coat was dusty, suggesting he'd been through a rough fight a few minutes earlier.Steve wasn't surprised that Fury had the ability to get into his apartment, he just wondered what exactly caused Fury to be in such a mess, but before they could talk about it, the sniper fired at Fury from a distance. gun.
The sniper's marksmanship was very precise, and the bullet was shot directly at Fury's heart without any deviation.
Through the blinds, Steve saw the reflection of the building opposite, he chased out with a shield, and then Steve discovered that the neighbor named Kate turned out to be an agent of S.H.I.E.L.D., code-named 13.
Steve doesn't have time to piece together the clues about the pretty neighbor, and he tracks down the sniper who shot Fury very quickly.
The figure of the other party was not tall, and he was covered with all kinds of firearms in a pitch-black uniform. He stood there like a ghost without saying a word or moving.Although the sniper was wearing a protective mask, Steve couldn't see the opponent's face, but he could also feel the oppression emanating from the enemy's bones.
The metal arm on the left of the sniper caught Steve's attention, and several thoughts flashed through his mind, and Steve wanted to catch a definite idea from it.
The enemy started shooting at him, and Steve's thinking was interrupted. He raised his shield, and the sound of jingling in his ears made his eardrums ache a little.They fought for a few rounds, and the sniper's strength exceeded Steve's assumptions, so that Steve couldn't take the top spot at all, but he didn't give the opponent room to breathe.
The sniper escaped, but that may not have been a real escape, but an evacuation after the mission was completed.
Fury was taken to the hospital, but unfortunately, he was not revived.
Then, Steve finally confirmed the vague answer he had formed in his head before, because Natasha said that the sniper he and Fury encountered was the Winter Soldier.
As for whether the Winter Soldier is Bucky, it's hard to say. The Winter Soldier in the Soviet plan is not alone. They have several Winter Soldier with similar skills as Bucky.James Barnes was indeed one of them, but each of them had the same assassination technique and attire, and it was difficult to distinguish them under the masks.
Some people think that Fury's death has something to do with Captain America, so Steve turned from a hero to a fugitive overnight. Although his captors only asked him to cooperate with the investigation, he did not intend to submit. It's all a conspiracy.
After Fury was shot and handed Steve a USB drive, he warned him with his last breath not to trust anyone, Steve wasn't sure who it was referring to, but it was definitely with S.H.I.E.L.D. of agents.The appearance of the Winter Soldier, the death of Fury, and the arrest warrant from S.H.I.E.L.D., there must be some kind of ulterior secret among the three.
It's just that he has no clue now.
Steve hid the USB drive in the hospital's vending machine just in case, thinking it must be hiding the key to the problem.
Natasha found the USB flash drive, but it was not an accidental gain. She suspected Steve was hiding something from the beginning, and Captain America is the worst at sneaky things. It is its own.
At this time, Natasha received an order from the top of SHIELD to secretly arrest Steve. Natasha ignored this task, so she quickly became a wanted criminal.
She believed that the Winter Soldier Steve saw was the real murderer, not what S.H.I.E.L.D. said, Captain America killed his superior.
The two cooperated to find out the truth. They came to an abandoned factory according to the signal source of the U disk, and Steve was deeply impressed by that place. 70 years ago, when he was a dwarf, the factory was there, surrounded by barbed wire, like some kind of secret base.
The two walked in and came to the lowest floor of the base, which contained computer equipment from 70 years ago. They were old but brand new.
Natasha inserted the USB flash drive into the interface, and all the computers in the basement started up, and the truth gradually surfaced.
All of this has something to do with Project Paperclip.
It was a very secret program by the US government to absorb German Nazi scientists during World War II. The government smuggled a large number of controversial German technicians to the United States and provided the Nazis and their allies with a comfortable "safe haven" ".
A man named Arnim Zola was also among them. He was a dwarf less than 1 meter tall, and his intelligence was no less than that of Howard back then.Dr. Zola served Hydra and worked under Red Skull, researching various new weapons for him. [The Story of US Team 1]
After Red Skull was defeated by Captain America, he was arrested and imprisoned. The US government recruited him into S.H.I.E.L.D.
To this day, a large number of S.H.I.E.L.D. agents have become members of Hydra, even some of the most important high-level officials.
During the 70 years, many people discovered Hydra's conspiracy, including the Stark couple, but in the end, they all died in an accident created by Hydra.
Many years passed, and Dr. Zola died of cancer. Before he died, he wrote a super program of his will to survive in the computer. It can also be said that it may be the prototype of artificial intelligence.Zola has not stopped for a moment to make Hydra rise. He has become more rampant than before. In the ever-changing era of big data, Zola has a wide range of information in the world, including of course people.
Zola is familiar with all the information of each person from birth to the present, through their economic status, phone calls, text messages, social circles, and books they read, etc., to calculate whether this person poses a threat to Hydra.Zola named this mission "Insight Plan", and he didn't intend to let go of any possibility. Hydra took advantage of the convenience of S.H.I.E.L.D. to find out all the threats set by Zola, and then treat them as target of eradication.
However, Steve and Natasha did not ask Dr. Zola's artificial intelligence about the specific content of the insight plan, and a missile launched from S.H.I.E.L.D. destroyed everything in the base.
Almost including both of them.
"When I first joined S.H.I.E.L.D., I thought I had made an aboveboard choice." Natasha said in a self-deprecating tone, "Actually, I switched from the Red House to the Hydra. It seems that there is no difference. I'm so happy. Clint is on vacation in Hawaii right now."
"Life always goes the wrong way." Steve tried to comfort her, he didn't know if this old-fashioned language could achieve the effect of soothing the soul, "The most important thing is, what do you do next."
The two hid in the home of a black pilot, a running buddy Steve had known for less than two months. His name was Sam Wilson, a former air force second lieutenant of the secret special forces.Sam admires Steve or Captain America very much, he accepts them, and is willing to provide them with more substantial help.
"What about you, Captain?" Natasha said, "What do you think?"
"First we have to figure out what Project Insight is," Steve said, "and, I want to find the Winter Soldier."
"I want to find the Winter Soldier too," Natasha said, "I owe you a favor Steve, you saved my life, but in turn, I might not necessarily save you. So, I don't want to hide your My business, and me and the Winter Soldier or James' business."
Steve said in a skeptical voice, "You and James?"
"Actually, I knew from the beginning that the Winter Soldier might be him, but I said that James is not the only one who is the Winter Soldier. So, I just guess that what you met may be James, but it may be someone else." Nata Sha thought for a while and said, "The Winter Soldier existed earlier than me. When I was still doing dirty work for the former Soviet government, the Winter Soldier was already a legendary figure."
"Wait." Steve looked at her suspiciously, "You said you and Bucky, do you know that Bucky is the same age as me, how could you..." He seemed to think of something, "You were Transformed, you're like me, like Bucky?"
Natasha shrugged her shoulders: "It's not a problem anymore. I'm only 11 years younger than you. Everything you know about me has been completely revised. You don't even know the Zola algorithm. But I hope you still Think of me as a girl, not an old woman."
Steve was indeed a little surprised. He thought he was the only "monster" in this world, and he meant the world of ordinary people.Of course he had doubts about Natasha, he knew how good she was at disguising, including those emotions that seemed sincere, but he still chose to believe her words, Steve was simply a problem with the Winter Soldier and Bucky Confused, and Natasha just seemed to know the answer.
"James trained me. Of course, I didn't know his name at that time. I only knew his code name. I think he only knew my code name was 'Black Widow'." Natasha shouldn't have revealed these For Steve, it was almost only her, a secret that had been frozen for half a century.If Natasha was still an agent of S.H.I.E.L.D., she would never say it, but now that S.H.I.E.L.D. no longer exists, she was sure that it was necessary for her to tell Steve these classified information, Then it disappears for a while, then another, I can't tell what they asked James to do during the time that disappeared. We only got together for a month, and he taught me fighting and killing skills, and a month later he was gone. My vision was completely gone and I never saw him again."
Steve asked uncertainly, "You, love him?"
"What?" Natasha blinked her eyes in disbelief, "How do you see... it can't be considered love, but he is different from others, he is not the same as the legends. Most of the time James is right I'm confused by what I'm doing, and I don't understand why I'm doing it." Natasha paused, "Me too, we're in tune, in every way, every way you can think of it."
"The look in your eyes when you talk about him reminds me of Linglong. Her eyes soften only when she talks about Stark." Steve pretended not to care that Natasha was implying that she and Bucky After going to bed, he felt that he should focus on more critical issues. "So, how did you know that the Winter Soldier who taught you to fight was James?"
"Because of Stark." Natasha said, "Two years ago, Stark was the target of the Winter Soldier. At that time, you hadn't woken up. Linglong asked me to investigate the whereabouts of the Winter Soldier. From then on, I Both were looking out for the same thing. Then you asked Linglong to help you find James, I think, that's when she connected them. You know, she always has a way of knowing some secrets, but she may not know about the Winter Soldier There's a lot of that."
Steve's expression was extremely solemn, he didn't notice that his hands were clenched tightly into fists, his nails were already embedded in the flesh, and his heart was beating violently.
"Maybe, we should do something instead of reminiscing about the past here. If that person is really James, we have to find him, or determine whether he is the Winter Soldier we need." Natasha said, " Come to think of it, who in S.H.I.E.L.D. has the right to launch missiles within the territory?"
"Pierce." Steve thought of him immediately, "Pierce and Fury, but Fury is dead."
"Yes, Pierce, he's sitting on the top floor of the most secure building in the world." Natasha said, "Remember, Ghostbusters, I suspect he planned it, he probably wanted us all to die in it. Linglong has said many times that she thinks that someone asking us to do the mission last time is against us, but we thought it was just a complaint from her."
Steve thought for a moment: "He must not be fighting alone, there must be allies."
"I think I know who we should go to," Natasha said. "It's a pity that it would be nice if Coulson were here so we wouldn't have to worry about it. He's probably the only person we can trust, but Fury He was sent on a mysterious mission a week ago, and I heard that this time he will personally lead the team." [Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. Plot]
Steve finally relaxed his muscles: "Did Linglong give you any convenient props?"
Natasha rolled her eyeballs, showing a sweet smile: "Veritaserum, I don't know if it counts."
Steve shut himself in the bathroom before leaving, put his ear close to the door, and made sure no one was outside before he said to Howard, "Do you know anything about the insight plan?"
"It's also the first time I've heard it." Howard replied.
"Do you know Zola?" Steve's impression of Dr. Zola stayed in the period of the Red Skull. He met the dwarf once. He always thought that after the collapse of the Red Skull, Zola should be imprisoned instead of being sheltered.The weapons he invented are not backward even if they are available now, not to mention that during World War II, countless soldiers died under Zola's weapons.
Of course, including Bucky, on that train, the robot they encountered was Zola's masterpiece.
However, the U.S. government let him go and gave him the best treatment because he was a scientist.
For the first time, Steve questioned the government.
"Many scientists know Zola. He was originally Swiss and always had some dangerous ideas in his head." Howard said, "I'm sorry, Steve, a lot has happened since you disappeared. Me, and Pei Gee, we all know about Project Paperclip, but Peggy and I can't change anything."
Howard didn't even discover the problems within S.H.I.E.L.D. until later in life, but he failed to notify the Pentagon of the incident in time.
"I understand." Steve stared at the sink thoughtfully, "By the way, thank you, if you hadn't blocked the fatal explosion for me, I think it would be very difficult for Natasha and I to escape."
"Are you thanking me?" Howard chuckled, "Come on, just be nice to my little Tony."
"Howard, has your color faded?" Steve said suddenly, "You were not like this before."
Howard looked down at himself: "Really, I can't see it." He said guiltily, "You must have made a mistake."
"It's not right." Steve observed more carefully, "Is this the first time you've used your power?"
Howard said: "I'm really fine. The most important thing is that you have nothing to do, Steve. I've lost you once, I hope you remember that I'm dead, I can't die again, so don't make a fuss."
"But you will disappear." Steve became anxious, "I know, I have learned that once the law between humans and ghosts is violated, the color of the ghost will become lighter, which means that your spirit body has been hurt. "
"When did Captain America become superstitious?"
"Because I've seen it and learned it." Steve couldn't help raising his voice, "Howard, you can't always be by my side, you should... wait, why are you by my side, I never asked You. I guess you must have some regrets that you didn't achieve, you can tell me, I helped you complete it, is it because of Tony?"
Natasha knocked on the door: "Steve, who are you talking to?"
"Okay, Steve, don't always think about talking to me, people won't see me, you will be regarded as crazy." Howard shook his hand at him, "Speaking of little Tony, he just had an operation , I have to accompany him, so be careful yourself."
"you have not answer my question yet."
"Linglong was the first person to see me. Compared to you, she is an expert in this field. Also, don't inquire about the secrets of ghosts unless I want to tell them myself."
Ma Linglong noticed that Dumbledore's face was extremely pale, it must not be caused by the reflection of his beard and hair, Dumbledore saw Ma Linglong walking towards this side, and forced a difficult smile, although From Sirius' point of view, Dumbledore was no different from usual.
"I knew Sirius would call you back," said Dumbledore, walking from the Pensieve to the headmaster's chair. "What do you know?"
"Mostly." Ma Linglong said, "Why don't you disqualify Harry? I think the heads of the other two schools are very happy to see this happen."
"You know what happens when you cancel Harry's match," said Dumbledore, trying not to sound too stiff. "He is a contestant chosen by the Goblet of Fire himself. Once it has not started, it is over. The players will be severely punished." Dumbledore said to Sirius, "Can I talk to Professor Lillian alone?"
"Of course." Sirius said, "I went to find Harry, he must be very sad now."
"What would you like to drink?" said Dumbledore, who saw Sirius poke his head in for a look before leaving the office.
"No need." Ma Linglong said, she is not in the mood to drink or eat now, "Someone must have tampered with the Goblet of Fire, some magic that you can't even detect, making the Goblet of Fire think that there are four school, and Harry was the only applicant for the extra school."
Ma Linglong had already checked the trophy device on the screening list on the way here, but there were no suspicious spells on it, most likely because the magic against Harry was a one-off.Once the sifting is over, the excess magic disappears.
"Yes," said Dumbledore, "I thought about that at first, but I couldn't see what the man could gain by doing it." He suspected the headmasters of the other two schools, but neither of them had any motives. Who would want another competitor from the rival school to come out, "Many people think that Harry himself put the name in, and this rumor has spread among the students, if the conspirators want to see Harry being treated as a joke, Then he succeeded."
"Perhaps, he just wanted to isolate Potter." Ma Linglong said, "I plan to find clues from the teachers around me, especially the new ones."
"Moody has a bad temper, be careful." Dumbledore stared at a crystal ball on the table, "Have you ever met a dark wizard?"
"Raza, I thought the Ministry of Magic should have caught him a long time ago, but not only did he get away with it, he also caused a large number of Muggles to die in the illusion he created." Ma Linglong said unabashedly, "I have handed him over. Let it be dealt with by the people of the Magic Congress."
"This is really strange." Dumbledore shook the beard around his lips, "The Minister of Magic told me that Razar has been re-imprisoned in Azkaban."
"Not at all." Ma Linglong said, "I caught Raza, not someone else disguised himself, let alone drank transforming water..." She suddenly paused, as if she had thought of something, but she was a little vague, "Professor, Ministry of Magic, are there Death Eaters?"
Dumbledore didn't answer right away, he looked serious, staring intently at the glowing crystal ball.
Ma Linglong knew that Dumbledore must have seen something from the divination ball, she did not urge her, but waited patiently until Dumbledore came back to his senses.
"During this time, a lot of things have happened around you, right?"
Ma Linglong nodded slightly.
"I hope Anthony is well."
"He's fine. What did you see, Professor?"
Dumbledore whispered, "A skeleton."
"The Dark Mark?"
"Not the Dark Mark." Dumbledore took out his wand and drew in the air the strange pattern he saw, "Like some kind of evil octopus."
Ma Linglong recognized the pattern, she pointed out with some surprise: "Hydra." She said, "The mark from the Muggle terrorist organization."
"Unbelievable." Dumbledore looked at the mark and said, "All the troubles you and your friends have encountered come from this mark, and it is gradually growing." While Dumbledore was speaking, the red skull floating in mid-air The head is slowly getting bigger.
Ma Linglong shot a golden spell at the skeleton, and the mark was scattered: "Someone will crush it again." Ma Linglong figured out something, she seemed to understand why Iron Man and Captain America would meet at the same time to danger.
It was all calculated, using some inconspicuous means to force the Avengers to separate, intending to eliminate those who threatened Hydra one by one.