"Nick Fury?"

Looking at the former director of S.H.I.E.L.D. who suddenly appeared in the office, the Avengers members had different expressions.

"Jarvis."

Tony raised an eyebrow, not for Nick Fury, but for the fact that he was able to bypass the AI and enter the office.

"Sorry sir......"

In response to Tony's inquiry, Jarvis immediately spoke: "I didn't find the director. ”

"Looks like it's time for your security system to be upgraded, Tony."

Turning his head to Tony and saying a word, Nick Fury turned his body to look at the Avengers members in front of him, swept over Agent Hill with an excited expression and finally stopped at Steve: "Long time no see, captain." ”

"So do you, Director."

Looking at Nick Fury's familiar face in front of him, Steve's emotions were a little complicated, but he finally turned it into a welcome.

"In fact, I can't be called the director anymore, after all, S.H.I.E.L.D. has been disbanded."

Hearing Captain America's address, Nick Fury raised an eyebrow and corrected the other party's address. Then he turned the conversation back to the information about Hydra: "The specific welcome ceremony is brief, I don't like too fancy parties myself, especially cakes and cookies, as for the location of the Hydra base, according to my investigation, it can basically be determined that it is located in a remote area in Western Europe." ”

"Looks like you've done a lot of things in this time, Nick."

The appearance of Nick Fury helped the Avengers shrink the location of the Hydra base at once.

After determining the approximate location of Hydra from the mouth of the former director of S.H.I.E.L.D., Tony immediately teased.

"I thought you were just going to sit in your office and stare at each other."

"Actually, that's not all I've done during this time, Mr. Tony Stark."

His eyes swept over Tony in front of him, and as Nick Fury's words fell, a tall figure with long blond hair and a beard immediately appeared in the office: "Hey, guys, did you miss me?" ”

"Thor!"

……

"How long will it take?"

Western Europe, among the bases of Hydra.

Straker puts the data he gets from Doctor Doom into the hands of Hydra's engineers.

"The data that Dr. Zora brought back is very detailed, and according to these data as a derivation, it may only take us about half a month to be able to make a machine that generates space storms."

"No, it's too long."

Hearing the mechanical engineer's answer, Straker furrowed his eyebrows, and a look of dissatisfaction flashed through the round glasses on one side: "I need to see results in a week." ”

"But, Mr. Straker, we need time to fumble ......"

Faced with Straker's order, the engineer couldn't help but explain.

"Listen, soldier."

Without hesitation, he interrupted the engineer's defense, Straker looked at the engineer in front of him, and said with a blank face: "I handed over the things to you, not to listen to your explanation, I only need results, if you can't meet my requirements, then I can only regret to change to a new engineer to carry out my orders, so, tell me, soldier, can you do my orders." ”

"Gollum~"

Looking up, the engineer was silent for a moment in response to Straker's grim gaze, but finally nodded and replied, "Yes, sir." ”

"Good."

Getting the answer he needed from the engineer, Straker nodded in satisfaction and raised his arm to his chest: "Hurrah, Hydra." ”

"Hurrah, Hydra!"

……

"How's the meteorite research going?"

After completing the daily brainwashing of the Hydra members, Straker looked at the engineer who had carried out his orders according to his request, and then turned to another part of the base.

"It's still the same as before."

In the laboratory, Doctor Doom shook his head when he heard Straker's inquiry, glanced at the meteorite in the center surrounded by many Hydra researchers, suppressed the thoughts that were about to stir in his heart, and replied in a cold voice.

"The instrument can scan the meteorite contains quite strange powers, which can have a certain degree of impact on biological cells, but the extent of this impact needs to be studied in more detail. However, judging by the situation of the meteorite in New York, it seems that the Fantastic Four has studied the meteorite quite deeply. ”

"Cell-level influences?"

Hearing Doctor Doom's description, Straker's first thought was a space cosmic storm.

He turned his head to look at the figure who was wrapped in layers and wore a steel mask on the side, according to Hydra's information, Doctor Doom's mutation was the radiation from the space cosmic storm.

"Can meteorites be used in built machines?"

A thought flashed through his mind, and Straker put the problem back on the plan.

"Maybe, maybe not."

In response to Straker's inquiry, Doctor Doom gave a mock-up answer, but then continued, "But even if the meteorite can't be used, I have prepared an alternative." ”

Hearing the alternative from Dr. Doom's mouth, Straker raised an eyebrow and suddenly understood.

"I don't care if the meteorite will work in the end, all I want is the result, Doctor."

In the face of Straker's faintly threatening reply, the expression under Doctor Doom's steel mask did not change, and he still calmly replied.

"I promise, Mr. Straker, that when the machine is built, you'll have a mighty group of extraordinary soldiers."

"I hope so."

Hearing Doctor Doom's assurance, Straker nodded slightly.

Standing in the lab, Doctor Doom looked at Straker's departing back, his gaze flickering under the steel mask for a moment, then he turned his head and swept over the meteorite in the lab and lingered on the scepter on the other side, before retracting his gaze and turning towards another part of the Hydra base.

Doctor Doom walked down the cold concrete hallway of the base, and finally stopped in front of the metal gate deep in the building.

He glanced up at the heavy metal gate in front of him, then turned to the Hydra soldier standing next to the door and ordered.

"Open the door."

Because of Straker's connections, the soldier is no stranger to Doctor Doom, and at his command, the Hydra soldier immediately turns the doorknob of his metal door.

With a piercing figure, the door did not open, and Doctor Doom stepped inside.

"Fate is so impermanent, Susan."

Walking into the captive room, Doctor Doom looked at Susan in the room and said slowly in his own cold and emotionless voice.

"I didn't expect that in the end, we would meet again in this way."

"I don't lament fate, I just regret that I actually liked you in the first place, Victor."

Inside the room, Susan, the Invisible Woman, sat motionless on Hydra's purpose-built device, her face visibly pale and weak in the face of Doctor Doom's exclamations.

The Hydra created a device that could continuously extract the power from Susan's body, leaving her always weak and unable to use her superpowers.

"It doesn't matter what you think of me, Susan."

Hearing Susan's merciless words, Dr. Doom's expression remained unchanged, and he stepped up to the invisible woman and stretched out his cold silver-white metal palm to slash across her beautiful face: "At least, I used to like you, so, for the sake of our past feelings, I will try my best to let you live to see Reed and them die at my hands, which can be regarded as my last mercy to you." ”

"Your plan won't succeed, Victor."

Turning her head away from the palm that Doctor Doom placed on her face, Susan stared directly at the steel mask in front of her with her eyes open, and said word by word, "The Fantastic Four will definitely defeat you, just like the previous time." ”

"I'm looking forward to it."

In the face of Susan's threat, a look of disdain appeared on the face under Doctor Doom's steel mask: "However, I think it won't be long before there will be only three of the so-called Fantastic Four left." ”

……

"Did you find it?"

Seven days later, in a remote town in Western Europe.

Johnny controlled the flames burning on his body to fall from the sky, extinguishing the flames, hearing Reed's question, and then shaking his head with a straight face.

"Nope."

"It seems that Hydra is hiding much deeper than we thought."

Hearing Johnny's answer, Reed's face couldn't help but show a look of disappointment, but he quickly relented and said his own situation: "I have asked the residents of the town, and they have also said that they have not found any suspicious characters walking around the town, perhaps in the eyes of the townspeople, we are the most suspicious people. ”

"Hey, Reed, Johnny, can you come along?"

At the edge of the town, just as the Fantastic Four were disappointed by the results of their search for days but still finding nothing, the shouts of the stone people came from inside the tent.

Because of his special appearance, in order not to frighten the townspeople, Ben was forced to stay in the tent and act as a liaison.

"What's wrong, Ben?"

Hearing the stone man's shout, Reed and Johnny immediately arrived in the tent as soon as possible.

"Hopefully this time it's good news."

Looking at the stone man in the tent, holding a headset in one hand and looking funny, Johnny didn't have the slightest intention of teasing again. The failure of the search for days made the originally unruly Johnny lose his former appearance.

"It's news from the Avengers, and Stark seems to have found traces of Hydra's activities."

……

Inside the base of Hydra.

Straker stood in the laboratory, looking at the huge machine in front of him and the busy engineers and researchers around him, with a look of excitement on his usually calm face.

After receiving Mr. Fantastic's data, after nearly a week of sleepless operations day and night, Hydra finally built the machine device that generated the space cosmic storm. Although the appearance of this machine is limited and rudimentary compared to the machine Reed made in the Babbitt Building, and many of the wiring machines are exposed, Straker clearly does not care about this.

Taking a deep breath and suppressing the excitement in his heart, Straker reached out and took off the one-sided glasses on his face and wiped them, then turned his head to look at Doctor Doom on the side: "Doctor, the next thing is the key." ”

Looking at the huge instruments in the base, Dr. Doom's inner excitement was no less than that of Straker on the side. However, under the shield of the steel mask, he hid his expression well and nodded in cooperation.

"Sir, the machine has been deployed."

In front of the console, the final data was fed in, and a researcher-like member of the Hydra breathed a sigh of relief, and then immediately turned to Strick to report.

"Next, then, it's your turn, Doctor."

Nodding, Straker looked at Doctor Doom to the side.

Hearing Straker's request, Doctor Doom turned his head and swept the surrounding figures, and he could see that the only two men and women who had succeeded in the previous Hydra experiment were standing behind him, vaguely surrounding him. Apparently, Straker didn't trust him as much as he seemed.

Fortunately, Dr. Doom was prepared for this.

So he looked away from the man and woman behind him, swept over Susan, who was controlled by the Hydra, and finally stopped at the meteorite that had been carried out of the laboratory at Straker's orders.

There was a glint in his eye, and Doctor Doom spoke.

"To put the meteorite into the machine, we need to first try to see if everything is working with the machine."

Doctor Doom is more concerned with Susan, or rather the radiant power of the space storm peeking inside her, than the mysterious meteorite that can't be fathomed.

Therefore, it will not be so easy to take Susan out and take risks.

In the antique shop, the meteorite has been silently following the development of the Hydra base.

When Li Ran heard Dr. Doom's request, his heart moved.

To be honest, the development of the situation in Hydra went more smoothly than he originally expected, and even made Li Ran have the illusion that Dr. Doom was not his doppelganger for a while.

In response to Dr. Doom's request, Straker looked up and met the eyes under his steel mask, and said in a tone that didn't rise or fall in the slightest, "We had a very pleasant collaboration before, so Doctor, I don't want to see something regret happening." ”

"Everything I do is to make the experiment go well."

Hearing Straker's words, Doctor Doom replied with an unchanged expression.

Retracting his gaze from Dr. Doom, Straker looked at a man and a woman standing behind him, and then gestured to the leather-clad subject named Wanda.

Receiving the order from Straker, Wanda nodded, and then raised her palm to produce red energy that fell on the meteorite.