Pedal stare.

With heavy steps, Schmidt walked step by step to the deepest core of the Hydra base. This is the place that belongs to the core of Hydra, and like the Winter Castle in the North Pole, it has always been under the direct jurisdiction of Schmidt.

It is not connected to the external network, and has a completely independent power supply system, which is physically and completely cut off from the outside world. And this is where Hydra's biggest secret is held.

Knock~ The high-wattage bulbs are turned on one by one. It's a huge showroom. A showroom full of petri dishes, to be exact! just like Captain Rogers and Logan had seen at Eagle Castle in Switzerland. (Note: For details of this paragraph, see Volume VI of Fear and Mutation, A War Eighty or Seventy Years Ago, and Chapter 9 of the Seamen)

It's just that the petri dish at that time was lined up with one submarine man after another, who were the people of Atlantis, the remnants of the previous civilization. In a way, they're a lot like Inhumans

And this time, instead of one submarine man after another, the petri dish was filled with something even more terrifying. Although they are of different genders, they all have highly similar faces. Red Skull's terrifyingly bright red skull face!(Note: As mentioned earlier, Schmidt was here on his first trip back to Bermuda, and the entire basement was filled with his replicators.) ）

Yes, this is a non-stop study that lasted for 70 years, and when the war was coming to an end and the Nazi Third Reich was about to collapse, Schmidt, the supreme scientist of Hydra, actually pinned his hopes on ethereal superstition. He gathered a group of Norse wizards to summon something.

But in the end, they summoned nothing, just a hammer falling from the sky. Ah, there's also an accompanying Frost Giant. Rogers and Namor, the leader of the Undersea People, broke through the affair, believing that the Frost Giant created by Schmidt was the ultimate weapon he had summoned. (For details, see Chapter 10 of Volume VI of the Attacked Factory)

But the real ultimate weapon is actually that hammer. However, the hammer's origins are not ordinary, and even some of the silver decorations it drops have triggered a mutant rampage. Because Schmidt used to study these special silverware (hammers were too strong to be split).

On the verge of defeat, Schmidt ordered the silver decorations to be melted down into ordinary silver platters for camouflage. But in the end, the Eagle Fort was breached, and the disguised silverware was melted down as trophies and turned into silver armor medals, which became souvenirs for the GIs of the time. (For details, see the silver necklace in Chapter 35 of Volume 5 of the Hero's Path above)

And a few years ago it caused a big mess. At that time, in order to calm down this chaos, Li Jie and Professor Charles and others took a lot of effort. (For details, see Book VI, Chapter 3 above, It is You Who Saved Yourself.)

And this extraordinary hammer actually comes from the father of the gods of the previous generation in Asgard, the brother of Odin. The earthly python Jörmungad, or his god name: Kuhl. (For details, see Thor, Chapter 12, Volume 6, and Thor's Fate in Chapter 13, above.)

It's a terrible artifact, and Kuhl is a terrible person. He once set off the first Ragnarok and caused countless gods to fall. And it was that Ragnarok that turned the Earth into a godless land. Although there are still myths and legends on this planet, the kingdom of gods on earth has been completely destroyed.

The impact of that war was widespread not only among the gods, but also on the remote earthlings.

In the myths and legends of mankind and the epics sung they have different names: the fall of the gods, the fall of Olympus, the war of the gods, etc.

But no matter how the name changes, it's actually the same thing. Kuhl led his army and slaughtered the gods like crazy. In the end, Odin traveled to the Endless Sea in search of the Fountain of Wisdom to increase his strength.

Eventually, he received the Fountain of Wisdom at the cost of his own eyes, and gathered another group of forces to defeat Kull. Before he died, Kuhl (?) shouted that he would return one day, and that the day of his return would be the true twilight of the gods!

So whether Kuhl is dead or not? That's a question mark. (See above for details...... ）

Schmidt has kept this secret personally, including Winter Castle in the North Pole, where Captain Rogers first fought after his awakening. Although they captured Wintercastle, all important information was transferred by Schmidt. This includes a number of uninterrupted secret studies that have been going on for more than seventy years in the Winter Castle.

However, Winterholder's information can be transferred, but there is something that cannot be transferred, and that is the terrible hammer. Maybe it's the commonality of the Asgardian hammers.

Probably they have organized a club where "if it's not my master, you can't lift me". Thor's hammer is this virtue, and so is Kull's hammer. Anyway, this hammer can't be moved or moved.

Schmidt can't, and neither can Tony Stark. In fact, in the classified documents within the Illuminati, the Hammer of the Serpent in the Arctic has always been an extremely confidential matter.

It's guarded by Tony's Marine-type Iron Armor around the clock to keep it from going wrong. It's a bit of a terrible dynamite, but it's missing a detonator.

In fact, Odin is also monitoring the hammer, and he has blessed it with many seals. Whether it's Thor, or Lee Jay last time he went to Asgard for Loki's triumphal ceremony, they all told Odin to let him find a way to get the hammer away.

But Odin said that there was nothing he could do, and the hammer was made by Odin's father. At that time, it was given to Kul as a symbol of succession for Wang Wei. There is a taboo on it, that is, people other than Kur will never be able to lift it.

Both the Ancient One and Odin have studied this matter, and it is no fun to move the hammer. It was as if it had grown roots on the earth. If you remove it, you have to remove the inner core of the earth as well. Odin and the Ancient One were able to do this—remove the inner core of a planet—but then Earth would be finished.

So it's really a nuisance. The only good news is that no one has found a way to use it yet. In addition, Odin repeatedly confirmed that Kuhl could not have appeared, so the hammer was still left on Earth.

Li Jie: They have all prepared for the worst and accelerated the cosmic age. Maybe a hundred years from now, humanity will abandon the earth, or most people will move to space.

At that time, it was up to Odin to remove this thing along with the earth's core. Of course, we also have to find a planetary core that is similar to the Earth's core to move in. I just don't know if the ancient one mage will be alive by then. Without the assistance of the Supreme Mage, Odin would not have been able to perform such a surgical-level maneuver.

And now Schmidt sighed as he stood in this vast space, he had been studying this thing for a long time. Even in his frozen years, the research did not stop. He had found the Key, but he had never opened Pandora's Treasure Box.

Because Schmidt knew exactly what was hidden in the box when it was opened.

But look at the collapsed base outside, all your hard work and efforts will be in vain. The earth may be destroyed? Whatever, I can't rule the earth anyway!

PS: Don't complain about too many notes in this chapter, I can't help it. This story line is buried very deep and scattered. It is a lot of branch lines connected together, and finally intertwined into a big main line. A lot of the plot foreshadowing starts before more than a million words or even two million words. There was a gap of almost a year, and I guess many people may have forgotten it.

If you can't remember what happened, then double the previous article.