As Baron Straker recovered from the tingling sensation that spread throughout his body, he realized that his armor seemed to be completely paralyzed. The monitor has gone black, probably because the relevant wiring on the back was damaged in the impact just now.

He felt that his hands and feet were completely immobile as if they weighed several tons, and it must have been damaged by the power structure that mimicked muscle fibers. However, it is unlikely that it was damaged in the impact, but it is more likely that someone scanned the structure of his armor and destroyed it with precision.

But the armor system is still working. Straker gave the command to pop up, and the still intact mechanical parts "clicked" apart, and the heavy armor opened like a gray iron shell from the middle.

The baron crawled out of his devastated armor in disgrace, except for the "Satanic Claw" on the right part of the armor. This blood-red claw is completely independent of the armor system, making it a formidable weapon to be reckoned with on its own.

He turned his head sideways and saw that Ivan Vanko's armor was deeply embedded in a wall not far away, and the reactor in his chest had been shattered from the outside, completely paralyzing the armor function, and he did not know whether he was alive or dead.

It's better than his condition.

Straker staggered to his feet, and as soon as he looked up in the direction of the exit, he was desperate to find that the black armor had already blocked his way, and the blue light in the V-shaped mirror was cold.

The baron gritted his teeth and decided to make a last-ditch effort. He let out a low roar and flew forward. Satan's claws activated, filamentous energy screaming towards the cold body.

Michael lightly slapped the energy attack away. The baron stepped in front of him, and the high-temperature blood bonus claw was gripped down. Michael single-handedly led his way away, and grabbed the wrist of the "Satanic Claw" with a flip of his palm. The system in his gauntlet worked, and the power was transmitted to the palm of his hand, and the sudden increase in grip easily pinched the delicate "Satan's Claw" shell, and the sparks crackled and flew in large numbers.

He reached out and gave Baron Straker a gentle push on his shoulder, and the baron, who had lost his equipment, fell to the ground and fell in disarray.

Seeing that the last chance had passed, Baron Straker finally gave up. He raised his hands, "Well, I lost, Dr. Norton." We all lost, through and through. ”

He lay on his back on a rebar-embedded bulge in the shattered floor, slowly calming his chaotic and rapid gasps.

"You've dealt us a lot of damage, and no one has ever done that." "But to this day none of us have figured it out...... How did you do that? How do you know everything? We thought through all the possibilities and looked through all the channels that could leak the information......"

"I'm pretty sure you've checked, and more than once." Michael interrupted in a flat tone, "But the truth is that my sources are not some hidden loopholes. If I had to say anything, your security flaws are present throughout your network, and they are everywhere. ”

"You're trying to say that you hacked Hydra's intranet." Straker sneered, "That can't be. No one in this world can hack our network, and it's so complex that even its builders themselves are prohibitive. The network systems of each Hydra branch store their own set of security protocols, and at the same time, they are all interconnected. Attacking from any one branch will alert the entire network......"

"Start from the outside, maybe. I'll admit that even I probably wouldn't be able to. ”

Baron Straker frowned, "Are you trying to say that you started hacking into our network while you were still within the organization?" That's even more impossible. That was more than three years ago, and Hydra's network is cleaned several times a year, and security protocols are constantly updated and upgraded......"

"But what I'm telling you is the truth." Michael interrupted again. He crouched down and leaned in front of Straker, "To be precise, I didn't take any aggressive offensive action at the time, but just used the authority I had at hand to create a backdoor in Hydra's entire network system, ready for this moment today."

To be honest, it was a long, huge project, and it took me a year, three months, and five days to complete it. It felt like ...... It's like a prisoner trying to escape with a spoon and digging into the wall of his cell every night, except that I'm digging a firewall. ”

"But after your betrayal, everything related to you has been thoroughly censored." "Even if your backdoor wasn't discovered at the time, our network would be upgraded to self-check every month, and there's no way the kind of vulnerability you're talking about has gone undetected so far." ”

"In general, indeed." Michael said lightly, "But what if the loophole I mentioned will cover itself up?" ”

Straker was stunned: "What? ”

Michael continued, "What if it could think on its own, learn on its own, update with every system update, and shift itself every time it performs a self-test? ”

"You...... You mean...... Artificial intelligence? Straker was so shocked that he couldn't control his expression, "You mean it's been ...... Are you hiding an artificial intelligence in our network? ”

"That's pretty much what it means."

In fact, this was not Michael's original intention. According to the original idea, he just wanted to dig a one-time backdoor in the Hydra network, in order to use this vulnerability to hack the security system of his base and help him escape from the control of this organization.

But later, as he began to get in touch with the knowledge of the world's artificial intelligence field, even he himself was frightened by his amazing learning speed. As mentioned before, the process of plane crossing somehow greatly strengthened his thinking ability in the field of electronic information, and he created the first artificial intelligence program in his life in Hydra without even knowing it, which is the prototype of Shirley.

Since then, the AI program has been embedded in the interior of the Hydra network. As he gains greater security privileges with each promotion within the organization, his AI roots go a little deeper. After a certain level of learning, it no longer needs help, and then it has the ability to dig deeper on its own. It learns to evade security checks in the data world on its own, and marches its own way through separate networks of Hydra sub-divisions, until it lurks within the entire Hydra network system.

When he broke away from Hydra, Michael copied the core code of the original AI and used it as the basic framework to create the current Shirley. Today it is part of Shirley, and its system has established a one-way channel with Shirley, and for many years it has been lurking in Hydra's internal network to obtain various information and secrets, and feeding these information back to Michael through Shirley.

That's why he's always one step ahead.

"That's all you need to know, and hopefully this will help you understand my next question." Michael said, "I can't find the data about the abilities of the superpowered twins and the experiments you've done on them, so I'm guessing you're probably hiding on a local server somewhere." Maybe it's because you don't want to share this information with the rest of Hydra? ”

Baron Straker snorted heavily.

"And the scepter, sir." Shirley reminded me in time, "You asked me to write it down in the memo." ”

"Yes, and the scepter." Michael added, "The scepter that gave the twins superpowers, I'm sure that one should be in your hands as well." ”

"You want a scepter?" Straker frowned, "Then you'll have to be disappointed." The scepter is not in my hand, it has long since been transferred, but I don't know exactly where it went. ”

Michael stared at him for a moment, until the Armor's polygraph module popped a "truth" prompt into the monitor in front of him after combining a series of measurements such as heartbeat, pupils, and micro-expressions.

"Well, looks like you're not lying about that. But it doesn't matter, sooner or later it will show up again. "But at least you still have the experimental data, right?" Tell me where it is. ”

"I don't know." Straker replied coldly.

This time, the word "lie" popped up in the monitor.

"It's not a good habit to lie."

"Then maybe you can just blow my head off."

"Not necessarily. You see, I've been in Hydra, and I'm well aware that you have a special knack for getting people to talk. But I've never been a big fan of those practices, compared to ......"

Michael raised his right palm, and dark green magic fluctuations brewed in his palm.

“...... I'm still more inclined to do my own thing. ”