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Chapter 18 Hydra Base

"What did you say? You lost them? You can't find them anywhere?" At S.H.I.E.L.D. headquarters, Nick Fratten stood up from his chair upon hearing his subordinate's report.

"Yes, sir, we haven't found any trace of him within the United States, at least. We suspect he has already left the country illegally!" the agent said with a hint of helplessness.

Driven by a desire for revenge, Frank concealed the fact that he was still alive.

Therefore, in a legal sense, although Frank has not been recognized as dead because there is no body, he is still considered a "missing" person.

Moreover, conventional methods of entering and leaving the country are easily tracked. Knowing that he was being tracked by S.H.I.E.L.D., Frank would be even less likely to use his original identity to enter or leave the country.

Therefore, smuggling himself into the country was his only option.

Frank was, after all, a former secret agent with his own network of connections.

Smuggling himself across the border was not a difficult task for him.

So when the S.H.I.E.L.D. agents reported to Nick Fury, Frank had already changed his appearance and was on a crab fishing boat heading to the Arctic Ocean.

"So, was anything unusual before he disappeared?" Nick Fury asked, unwilling to give up.

If before he only appreciated Frank Castle's talent, then after the research department released the test results of the several vials of medicine he had smuggled from him, Nick Fury had elevated Frank's importance to several levels.

According to the research department's report, the ingredients of those drugs are not actually complicated; they simply contain various substances that are beneficial to the human body.

But in addition to these substances, the potion also contains a magical energy.

It is this magical energy that has given these substances, which were originally only beneficial to the human body, a sublimation effect.

For example, red medicine (healing potion) contains ingredients that are only effective in promoting wound healing, making it a good medicine for injuries.

However, with the addition of special energy, this effect is multiplied several hundred times.

What was originally just a decent wound medicine has been transformed into a miraculous medicine capable of achieving healing effects in an extremely short time.

The situation is similar for other medications.

It has transformed from a regular tonic into a medicine that can temporarily enhance physical fitness.

Although in terms of effectiveness, it cannot be compared to the super soldier serum recorded by S.H.I.E.L.D.

However, if it can be mass-produced continuously, it will also be a very useful combat agent.

Moreover, the replication of the Super Soldier Serum has never been very successful.

These medicines, however, are real.

Moreover, there are no side effects.

However, based on Nick Fury's understanding of Frank, he was clearly not the kind of person who could make such a potion.

Therefore, there must be someone behind Frank who provides him with the drugs.

Clearly, the person behind Frank is far more valuable to S.H.I.E.L.D. than just a top agent.

This is the real reason why S.H.I.E.L.D. continued to send people to track Frank even after their recruitment attempt failed that day.

Otherwise, Nick Fury wouldn't have done something so obviously offensive.

"We didn't find him during the time we were monitoring him, but we lost track of him a few times," the subordinate said helplessly.

Clearly, Frank's sudden departure was premeditated.

It's just that the agents responsible for tracking him failed to notice.

“Find him… there must be a reason he left!” Nick Fury ordered after a few seconds of contemplation.

Frank's sudden abandonment of revenge and departure from the United States is highly suspicious.

Nick Fury didn't believe that the other party had given up on revenge because of his previous warning.

Things...are starting to get interesting.

With Nick Fury's order, S.H.I.E.L.D. sprang into action, launching a worldwide search for Frank Castle. Such a large-scale operation naturally reached Alexander Pierce, the top Hydra agent within S.H.I.E.L.D.

"Retired soldiers and miraculous human enhancement drugs?" Alexander Pierce, after listening to his subordinate's report, also showed an interested expression.

However, he did not order his Hydra agents, who were also within S.H.I.E.L.D., to get too involved in the matter; he simply instructed them to keep a close eye on it.

“What belongs to S.H.I.E.L.D. is ours. We just need to follow in Nick Fury’s footsteps!” Alexander Pierce said.

What he never imagined was that it wouldn't be long before Frank would take over his hometown.

………………

After a long voyage, Russia arrived at Frank Castells on Alexandria Land. After two days of effort, they finally found the Hydra base that Levy had told them about, near the Arctic Circle.

That's right, it's neither Alexander the Great Island nor Alexandria Island.

It was Alexandria.

A somewhat strange name.

It belongs to the Franz Joseph Land archipelago of Russia.

There are no inhabitants living on these islands.

However, on Alexandria Island, one of the main islands, there is a Russian military base called Nagulskoy, which is Russia's northernmost military base.

Because when viewed from the sky, the entire base resembles a clover.

Therefore, it is also called the Clover Base.

This base existed as early as the time of the Russian bear.

It served as a strategic foothold in the Arctic established by the Soviet Union during the Cold War.

However, what the Russians didn't know was that just a dozen kilometers away from their own base, about one kilometer outside the Arctic Circle, there was another military base.

A secret research and military base established by Hydra.

This is the military base that appeared in the movie Captain America 3, which was once used to put the Winter Soldier into hibernation, and later used to create and put five new Winter Soldiers into hibernation.

In fact, this military base also existed in Li Wei's previous life's world.

The difference is that Hydra didn't exist in Li Wei's previous life—so this military base was built by the Germans during World War II.

It wasn't until the 21st century that Russia discovered this abandoned base, which had been abandoned for decades, and found more than 500 items belonging to the Third Reich during World War II.

This base is also the prototype for the Hydra base in the Marvel movies, which was built by the director.

In his past life, Li Wei only learned about this place by chance while chatting with fellow Marvel fans online.

It was precisely because of the relatively clear area pointed out by Levi that Frank was able to find the base so easily.

But finding this base was just the beginning.

Because the worst thing that Li Wei had feared before setting off had happened.

That's the base. In 2003, it wasn't the abandoned base that appeared in Captain America 3.

Hydra still has a considerable number of personnel stationed here.

The leader of this base is also the highest-ranking Russian commander at the Clover base.

No wonder the Russian army was unaware of this place's existence.

These two bases can be considered to belong to the same company.

However, Frank still managed to find a way to enter the base.

That colonel who also leads two bases!

(End of this chapter)