James Buchanan Barnes, nicknamed Bucky, Captain America's best friend, a member of the Allied Roaring Commandos during World War II, and an elite battle-hardened warrior.

During the final battle with the Red Skull, Bucky falls off a cliff and becomes the only member of the Roaring Commando to "die".

But few people know that Bucky is not actually dead, he only lost a hand when he fell off the cliff, fell into a dying state due to excessive blood loss, was taken back by the members of Hydra, and after being forcibly brainwashed and modified by Dr. Zola, Bucky became a sharp weapon under Hydra.

The brainwashed Bucky has forgotten all his precious memories of the past, leaving only the simple thinking ability to obey orders and complete tasks.

The Winter Soldier connects all the plots in Captain America 2 and 3, and it is precisely because the Winter Soldier was forced to order the killing of the Howards that directly led to the break between Captain America and Iron Man.

Regardless of whether Bucky had a hard time behind killing the Howards, Tony Stark, who admits death, will inevitably seek revenge on the Winter Soldier, and Steve Rogers will definitely stand up to protect his best friend, and the break between the two is almost inevitable.

Lu Xiao can't go back in time to eliminate the crimes of the Winter Soldier, and sooner or later the things committed by Bucky will explode.

The purpose of capturing the Winter Soldier is not to help him clear his name, but to complete the side quests given by the system, as well as to make some arrangements in advance for new side quests that may be triggered in the future.

The side quest Shield and Serpent requires the elimination of the threat caused by the entanglement between S.H.I.E.L.D. and Hydra, which is simply the destruction of the North American branch of Hydra, the deeply parasitic S.H.I.E.L.D. division.

In addition to "hail hydra", the members of Hydra also have a favorite phrase on their lips.

"Cut off one head, and more will grow."

Lu Xiao didn't believe that if he deliberately pretended to be concave deep, the members of Hydra were just hiding deeper, and there were more branches around the world.

As long as he could find them out one by one and eliminate them, Lu Xiao didn't believe that the hydra could really multiply indefinitely.

As an underground organization, it doesn't matter how many members Hydra secretly has...... Or believers, they all need huge sums of money to complete their plans.

As long as the source of the Hydra's funding is cut off, the invincible Hydra will become a shriveled Hydra.

The North American branch of Hydra is rooted in the United States, the world's largest economic power, and has the most abundant capital flow of all branches, as long as the largest head can be cut off, the power of Hydra will be attenuated by at least half.

The Winter Soldier was originally part of the Soviet branch of Hydra, but with the collapse of the Soviet Union, the local branch also plummeted, and had no choice but to accept funding from the North American branch.

is the so-called softness of taking people, and if you accept money from Alexander Pierce, you will naturally have to pay a corresponding price.

Temporarily handing over Hydra's super-soldier Winter Soldier to the North American branch is the price paid by the Soviet branch for this.

Lu Xiao found some problems while exploring the spirit of the Winter Soldier.

As a result of being forcibly brainwashed many times, the part of Bucky's memories and personality that belonged to him was locked in the deepest part of the spiritual world, and he was shown to be a ruthless Winter Soldier who only obeyed orders.

Lu Xiao didn't know the principle of Hydra's brainwashing technique, but it seemed that they hadn't really completely eliminated the part of Bucky's personality.

Due to the Winter Soldier's mental instability, Bucky spent most of his time in a frozen dormant state, with the exception of important tasks that he had to complete in order to complete them, which allowed him to survive the decades after the end of World War II.

"Hmmm......"

After understanding the mental state of the Winter Soldier, Lu Xiao sat cross-legged on the edge of the bed and fell into deep thought.

Now he has two options, one is to pull Bucky's personality and memories out of the depths of the Winter Soldier's mental world, and restore him to the same Bucky that Rogers is familiar with.

The second is to use the brainwashing technology of Hydra to implant a "Trojan horse" in the spiritual world of the Winter Soldier like a nesting doll.

If you choose one, you have a good chance of gaining Steve Rogers' friendship and gratitude, but you will lose an important piece that has been planted inside the enemy.

After weighing it again and again, Lu Xiao decided to choose two.

He used the mind manipulation ability of the Golden Apple of Eden to rewrite the first authority in the Winter Soldier's already chaotic logical thinking, and downgraded the priority of Hydra's orders.

Without Lu Xiao's first priority order, the Winter Soldier would continue to follow Hydra's orders and would not let them see any clues.

But in fact, the Winter Soldier would quietly pass on the information of the Hydra branch around the world to Lu Xiao without him noticing.

After completing a series of spiritual transformation processes, Lu Xiao opened the portal and threw the Winter Soldier into a forest on the outskirts of Washington, D.C.

Regaining consciousness from his coma, the Winter Soldier has no memory of being captured before, only remembering that he had a fight with Captain America and had been delayed for some time.

After sorting out the information, the Winter Soldier hastened his return to the North American branch of Hydra according to the last order he received from his previous mission.

Lu Xiao, who was hiding behind the scenes, knew everything about his whereabouts according to the spiritual seeds buried in the Winter Soldier's brain, and thus successfully found the secret residence of Alexander Pierce, the leader of the North American branch of Hydra.

Alexander Pierce, Minister of the World Security Council, Nick Fury's most trusted ally.

The World Security Council was set up to oversee S.H.I.E.L.D., and as the former head of S.H.I.E.L.D., Alexander Pierce sat in this position "reluctantly" at Forry's behest to provide support and assistance to Forry's actions and plans.

Even the cunning Fury didn't expect that the source of S.H.I.E.L.D.'s undercurrent was actually from his old friend, and until he was assassinated by armed men of unknown origin, Fury did not put his suspicion on Pierce.

The seeds had been planted, and Lu Xiao temporarily allowed the Winter Soldier to act according to Hydra's orders, while he focused on how to invade Pierce's secret residence.

Like Fury, few people know the true location of Pierce's residence, who is also an agent.

Confident in the seclusion of his mansion, Pierce swaggered to set the meeting place for the Winter Soldier in his home.

The Triple Wing Mansion is almost entirely taken over by a low-level artificial intelligence developed by Iron Man, and a corresponding ID must be obtained in order to pass through the building.

Alexander Pierce, as the leader of the North American branch of Hydra, secretly produced a large number of unnamed IDs in order to facilitate the entry of his own people into the Triqual Wing Building.

These ID cards can bypass the AI check, allowing Hydra to enter the Trigram Building smoothly by non-S.H.I.E.L.D. personnel in case of emergency.

During the day, Pierce needs to play his role as he is in the open, going to the top floor of the Sanqu Wing Building to argue with the members of the World Security Council.

On the other hand, in order to destroy all the clues that Fury may have left before his death, Pierce deliberately called Rogers, who was the last person who came into contact with Fury, and asked in a coercive tone if Fury had revealed anything before he died.

Rogers wasn't a good liar, and old fritter Pierce saw the clue in his flickering words, and Captain America got on his must-kill list.

When Rogers made a big fuss about the Triqu Wing Building, Lu Xiao had successfully infiltrated Pierce's secret residence and obtained several unnamed IDs from the basement.

"It's not easy."

Lu Xiao sighed with emotion, stretched out his finger and stroked the surface of the ID card, and his photo and name were neatly filled in on the surface of the blank ID card.

"In the high-tech era, this is the trouble, many places have to be recognized by fingerprints or pupils, and it becomes even more difficult to sneak into fortresses out of thin air."

With a legal ID, Lu Xiao's next action plan can be implemented smoothly.

However, before entering the Sanquyi Mansion in the open, he still has to return to his temporary apartment and wait for a subsequent key event to be triggered.