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Chapter 726 Hydra Decides to Quit

While Peter and his crew were excitedly preparing a "Bloodstone Trap" for Velasco, Hydra received a message from Dario Agger. To be precise, Dario, who had become quite independent, had entrusted the demons of the Hell's Frontier to Hydra.

What kind of devil's deal is this? Get lost! If Hydra is planning to deal with the Avengers, go ahead and do it yourselves. I'm going to make my own plans!

So on Hydra Island, Viper, as the temporary Supreme Hydra, looked at his subordinates with great difficulty: Dr. Faust died on the Savage Lands, Gorgon was shot dead by the Punisher, Daario was clearly going to jump ship to Malekith's side, Strucker was still locked up in the mansion prison, Zemo went undercover again, and Alexander Pierce couldn't possibly come to Hydra Island for a meeting.

Now, when the Hydra Council meets, it's just her, Hydra, and Anim Zola left.

What the hell happened to Hydra?!
Lady Viper grew angrier the more she thought about it. This plan hadn't even been given to them by Dalio; it had been sold to them. Hydra had provided the technology and the money! When had Hydra ever been so pathetic!
Lady Viper sighed as she thought about this, then asked the others, "Let's discuss this. What do you think of this plan? Those who participated in the Kang Dynasty should have a deep impression of Ultron. Let's see how this... devil's plan turns out."

"I think it's very unreliable."

Hydra, a veteran in the field, directly voiced his opposition: "Putting everything else aside and setting aside all the premises, what we know so far is that Ultron, this artificial intelligence, did not betray the Avengers until the moment it was deleted. What does this mean? It means that it has not yet developed to that stage. I believe that if we really intend to create Ultron, what we create will only be an ally of the Avengers. It will take at least a few months before it becomes their enemy."

Hank Pym was able to delete it the next day.

Moreover, this plan is suicidal no matter how you look at it. If you want to use the data Mephisto brought back to reconstruct Ultron, you need to find Ultron's data remnants—not data remnants that Hank Pym didn't completely delete, but traces of Ultron's operations in various actions, such as fighting against the Green Goblin AI and fighting against Nimrod.

So, where are the Green Goblin Legion's equipment, Nimrod, and the body of the super-adaptor?

The answer is Avengers Tower.

In other words, in order to destroy the Avengers, they need to create Ultron. To create Ultron, they need to storm into Avengers Tower, break into the Avengers' vault, and then get the program running until Ultron is fully activated.

Then they have to bet that Ultron will definitely become the enemy of the Avengers, and be able to hack the Avengers' technology system and fight them in an instant.

If I have the ability to storm Avengers Tower and hold out for hours, why don't I just wipe out the Avengers? I bombarded the Avengers with nuclear bombs in the Savage Lands for half an hour and they were completely unharmed. What am I supposed to use to storm Avengers Tower?
"Yeah? What are we going to use to storm Avengers Tower?"

Anim Zola's giant TV head also expressed his dissatisfaction: "We have lost the entire Hand and almost all of its major bases. Faust is dead, a large number of people are in prison, Strucker, Reaper, Mordor... Our super soldiers were bombarded by S.W.O.R.D.'s flagship in the Wildlands, and we have almost no reserves left. We still haven't recovered. The Symbiote project can be declared bankrupt. Spider-Man alone can suppress all the Symbiotes."

For the first time, Viper felt Hydra so helpless. She covered her head and pondered, then tentatively asked, "How are Dr. Koyama's experiments going in Madrid?"

Koyama, a Japanese-born doctor originally belonging to the Hand, has been shining brightly ever since he was directly promoted by Hydra. He repaired Bullseye's spine, turned Luke Cage into a superhuman, and created the Cloak, the Dagger, and Mr. Negative...

His contribution to Hydra is now completely negative.

But he at least managed to reconstruct the Erkins serum and has been actively researching the so-called "Erkins serum with a thousand times the effect," always reporting that progress is going well.

When faced with the question about Viper, Arnim Zola, who was in charge of the science department, hesitated for a moment before saying helplessly, "He's having some problems in his lab in Madrid..."

"What happened? Did some superhero find out?" "No, but he said all the test subjects who received the injection...died."

Viper paused for a moment, then asked incredulously, "That's over a thousand fucking people."

"I know."

"That was at his request. We used SHIELD and Hydra agents from various governments to match the DNA of more than a thousand people."

"I know."

"That's because we even delayed the base relocation, and we rushed to transport more than a thousand people to him with Norn Stones."

"……I know."

Viper sighed helplessly. Xiaoshan had originally said that everything would be foolproof and that at least ten invincible superhumans could be created. But it turned out that his report to Hydra was actually fabricated. It was all just a PowerPoint presentation and contained nothing of substance.

"Hydra, go and cut his head off. We Hydra don't keep idle people around."

"I'll go right away."

"No, no, no, let's finish the meeting first."

After covering his mouth and remaining silent for a while, Viper asked Zola again, "So, there's no news from the ominous place either?"

“He’s like a dead man. Of course, he might have actually died during the Kang dynasty,” Zola said apologetically. “In short, we have no soldiers to use.”

"So we're really just going to do nothing, just take this and do absolutely nothing?" Viper retorted, not entirely resigned. "This is something a super demon brought out, right? It can't just be a simple resurrection of an AI, can it? Maybe it hides something else?"

The two veteran officers present, who had remained since World War II, fell silent. After a moment, Hydra looked at Viper and said, "Actually, it's not that we can't try, but our goal absolutely cannot be to revive Ultron. Or rather, reviving Ultron can be a pretext; that's not what we really want to do."

"what is that?"

“We’re going to break into the mansion prison and rescue Strucker and the others. Even if we can’t rescue them, we can at least rescue one of those scumbags and villains we can. It’s good to cause some trouble. But we can’t go ourselves. We’ll have someone else do this with the USB drive.”

Viper nodded knowingly: "You mean... outsourcing?"

(End of this chapter)