Chapter 454: Return
It's been three hours since Evenson left for the Nameless Alien, and Malik and Stephanie are still anxiously waiting.
Stephani was still calm, and sat quietly flipping through some files. Perhaps it was because she had not yet inherited the family business of the Malik family, her father had not passed on the responsibility and mission of the family to her, and the Malik family had long been unaware of some inhumane secrets.
But Malik is a little restless now, feeling like his heart has been forced into a husky, and he is very conflicted now.
On the one hand, Evenson is the person he has ever seen who is most likely to reach the other side of the portal and return safely, as long as he can bring back the god of hydra, the hive, from the alien planet, then his family's thousand-year-old mission and the prophecy of his ancestors will be fulfilled in his own hands. This great sense of accomplishment and the benefits to be obtained is exciting to think about.
However, Malik's excitement could not hide the fear in his heart.
The Malik family seems to be very loyal to their mission, and the oath they made thousands of years ago has been held to the present day, making retrieving the hive their first priority. But beneath this loyalty lies selfishness and deceit.
Thousands of years is too long for a short-lived species like humans, and I don't know how many generations have been passed down in between, who can guarantee that all of these descendants are loyal?
It would be better if the mission they had inherited was just a matter of waiting, costing them money and energy. But all the ancestors of the Hydra family made a pact together, and every once in a while, they would gather the talents of each family, select one by drawing lots, and send them to the opposite side of the portal to save or serve their master.
It was a matter of human life, because no one ever came back from that door. It is better to say that the generations of the origins of each family were all out-and-out fanatics, and regarded entering the gate as the supreme glory, just like the Mayan polo game, where the head was cut off and sacrificed to the gods was the champion.
But how many generations can this fanatical spirit be passed on? No one among their descendants has ever wondered whether this act akin to sacrifice is correct? For thousands of years, I have only seen countless people who died for their mission, but they did not see a single person for the mission, and it did not bring me the slightest benefit. Has no one ever thought this way?
There must be, otherwise it simply doesn't fit into the basic human mindset. It's just that no one dares to bring it up, after all, this is an iron law set by several hydra families, if you rashly raise an objection, maybe you will be attacked by people from other families as traitors, and after seeing too much of these, you will be numb.
But there are always accidents in everything, and an ancestor of the Malik family, I don't know if it was because he was too bold, or because the people who were more important to him were sacrificed, such as relatives, friends, lovers, etc., were too stimulated. So he decided to make a change.
He starts cheating on the lottery to decide the candidates, and you make sure that you will always win, or lose all the time, and that you will never be chosen.
This little trick has been passed down in the Malik family, and the current head of the family, Mr. Gideon Malik, learned of it many years ago with his brother.
At that time, the two brothers were in the prime of their youth, after discovering that their beloved father, and possibly their grandfather or even great-grandfather, had been cheating on ceremonies. Their first feeling was that they were glad that their ancestor Lao Tzu was not chosen by this means, so they could exist now.
What they felt was shame and anger, and the two upright boys in the middle two of them agreed that this method was a betrayal and deception of their own family mission and other families. I won't say what it was like before, but in short, this method stopped at them. So the two brothers swore to the sky that they would be loyal to the mission of the family and be a true man!
However, the nine sons of the dragon are different, and Gideon Malik is different from his brother, and after thinking about it, he decides to continue cheating from his heart. As a result, in the first ceremony they experienced, his brother was unfortunately chosen.
This matter was the deepest secret in his heart, and he never mentioned it to anyone. But he wasn't sure now that the Hive in the other world knew about it? After all, his brother who knew the inside story had been sent over, and had he seen the Hive? Could it be like the Hive confessing everything? This made Gideon Malik have no bottom in his heart.
But since things have come to this point, he has no choice but to comfort himself like this now, maybe his brother didn't say anything for the sake of his past relationship, or for the sake of the family, and the hive didn't know anything. Or maybe the hive knows everything, but for the sake of his own great work in saving him back to Earth, he won't pursue it.
"Father, there's something going on here, maybe you should take a look. Just when Malik was in a state of frustration, Stephanie, who was looking through the files, suddenly called out to him, apparently discovering something.
Malik cleaned up his messy thoughts, walked over to Stephanie and bent down to take a look, but he couldn't take his eyes off this look, and his whole brow was almost wrinkled, "Peggy Carter?
Now Evenson's identity is different, he used to just treat him as a fool, but now he seems to have become his biggest collaborator, so it is necessary to re-study some of his deeds in detail, and also from a completely different perspective than before.
And now, Stephanie has discovered a piece of information that has been ignored before, Peggy Carter, the veteran of S.H.I.E.L.D., the sworn enemy of Hydra, and the old woman who is about to go to the coffin to cover the national flag, can get up again to fight and become the existence of the Avengers, known as the Demon Heart Housemother, the reason why all this happened was actually made by Evenson.
And just when they wanted to delve into the analysis, the room suddenly turned green, and with a burst of space distortion, Evenson suddenly appeared in the room, and the most interesting thing was that he was still carrying a person in his hand.