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Chapter 20 The Hydra Goes Astray

Frank Castle, impersonating Brock Rumlow, abducted the Winter Soldier and five Winter Soldier test subjects from Hydra's secret base.

It was four days later when Alexander Pierce, at the S.H.I.E.L.D. headquarters in Washington, D.C., found out.

Because Hydra's various branch bases cannot freely contact each other without the permission of the base's supreme commander.

To maintain secrecy, the highest commanders of these bases do not contact each other frequently when there are no missions.

Bervshka, as the supreme commander of the Winter Soldier base, spends most of his time at the Clover Russian military base, rather than the Hydra base.

Therefore, the Hydra base was not at all surprised that the supreme commander had not appeared for several days in a row.

Therefore, it was the Russian troops at the Clover base who first discovered Bervshka's disappearance.

Ultimately, the Russian troops at the Clover Base found their commander and his orderly in the attic of their own private building.

However, it was too late when they found it.

Because the two of them were only wearing thin clothes.

The heating in the small building hasn't been turned on for the past few days.

In places like Alexandria, where temperatures can easily drop to tens of degrees below zero, you'll freeze solid in no time if you don't keep warm enough, let alone after a few days.
Then came the internal military announcements and the investigation of the Clover Base.

Hydra, which was hidden within the Russian army, only learned of the death of a base commander after seeing the announcement. It then reported this to Alexander Pierce and sent people to urgently take over the Winter Soldier base.

After learning what had happened, Pierce slammed the table down!
The Winter Soldier is his trump card!
"Have you found out? Who did it?" Pierce asked his subordinates angrily.

"No, the other party is disguised. Our experts have also profiled him, but we haven't been able to get a definite result. However, overall, we suspect that the other party is one of our own!" the subordinate replied cautiously.

The "insiders" he was referring to were clearly not S.H.I.E.L.D., but Hydra.

“Why do you say that?” Pierce asked, squinting.

“Because of Commander Rumlow’s identity, the other party knows who he is. Although the appearance is not very similar, the figure and temperament are extremely similar, and they know a lot about our internal affairs... If it were another country’s organization, it would be impossible to infiltrate so easily!” the subordinate replied.

Pierce narrowed his eyes at his subordinate's words.

Because what the other person said was also what he was thinking.

The mastermind behind this was definitely someone from Hydra.

Of course, the person he suspected was not his subordinate, including the "person involved" in this matter, Brock Rumlow.

The other party was his close associate, and during the time the incident occurred, he was carrying out a mission as an agent of S.H.I.E.L.D. Operations, so this matter had nothing to do with him.

He was just unlucky enough to become the one being impersonated.

The possibility of other subordinates is also very small.

Therefore, what appeared in Pierce's mind was information about the other heads of Hydra.

Alexander Pierce was indeed the head of Hydra.

But just like Hydra's manifesto, cutting off one head and growing two more, Hydra never had just one head.

Although the origins of the Hydra organization can be traced back to the ancient hive of the Inhumans.

But people's hearts are yearning for change.

Over thousands of years of development, many of those who joined Hydra were high-ranking individuals.

Their motives for joining Hydra were never pure.

Under their influence, Hydra is no longer the simple organization it once was.

Today, each of the serpent heads adheres to different philosophies—to put it bluntly, Hydra is not a monolithic entity.

For example, during World War II, the Red Skull, who made a name for himself, was just one of the many "dissidents" among the smugglers.

Of course, this is also because Red Skull didn't succeed. If he had succeeded, he might have become the truly unique Serpent Head.

Therefore, Hydra has always been involved in more than just external world order issues.

Internal strife has never ceased.

However, compared to external struggles, internal struggles tend to be milder and generally do not go too far.

However, it's clear that the "stealing" of the Winter Soldier has crossed a line!
If Pierce finds out who did it, he will definitely not let it go.

He went through the information about the other snakeheads in his mind, but couldn't find anyone he suspected.

Or rather, everyone is suspicious.

However, Pierce never imagined that all of this was actually done by a nobody he had overlooked not long ago, who even inadvertently steered Hydra's investigation astray.

Frank impersonating Rumlow was entirely a spur-of-the-moment decision.

The name only appeared a little more frequently when Li Wei mentioned the Hydra organization.

In fact, Pierce also appears frequently in Levi's remarks.

However, according to Levi's description, Pierce is clearly a high-ranking government official, which does not match the person Frank impersonates at all.

Rumlow, on the other hand, is an operative, similar in role to Frank.

As for the fact that Frank's appearance, physique, and temperament are somewhat similar to Rumlow's, that is purely coincidental.

Crossbones Rumlow
The Punisher (Netflix series).

They're both former professional soldiers, how could their temperaments not be similar? Plus, they both have black hair and black eyes, and their face shapes and body types are also similar.

Even their hairstyles are almost identical.

In this situation, wouldn't it be easy to mislead investigators into thinking that the imposter is very familiar with Rumlow?
Moreover, he was familiar with Rumlow and knew about Hydra.

Furthermore, their target was the Winter Soldier; they only took away the Winter Soldier and related mission data, showing no interest whatsoever in any evidence of the existence of Hydra.

This doesn't seem like something that other countries or organizations would do.

If someone knew that their impromptu idea would have such an effect, even a cold-blooded villain like Frank would probably be amused for a while.

However, at this moment, he was aboard a submarine, drifting on the sea with the Winter Soldier.

In three more days, we will arrive in New York.

They were aboard a Russian-made Kilo-class conventional submarine with a maximum range of 7500 nautical miles and a speed of 10 (surface) to 17 (submerged) knots.

Alexandria is only about 6,000 kilometers from New York, which is about 3,000 nautical miles.

At full speed, it will only take a week to arrive.

However, as they got closer to the American mainland, Frank began to have some worries.

Because he will face several troubles next.

Will the submarine be detected as it approaches US mainland waters?

What should you do if you are discovered?
If he were on land, Frank would have a hundred ways to escape.

But in the deep sea...

And even if he wasn't discovered by the US Navy, where should he have landed?

Besides the six Winter Soldiers, what should be done with the sixty Hydra soldiers who operate the submarine?

I'm quite worried.

(End of this chapter)