29. Virtual world

"Is this a video?" Natasha was skeptical.

She couldn't help but be a little surprised to hear her full name on the computer, not many people should know about her archives in the last century.

"I'm not a video, miss." The computer's voice retorted with a thick Russian accent as if anthropomorphic. "Maybe I'm not the guy I was in jail with Captain Rogers in 1945, but I'm still me."

With this tongue-twisting remark, a photo appeared on the screen next to him, and a look of astonishment appeared on Steve's face, he knew this man, an old rival from the last century.

"Arnim Zola...... You shouldn't be alive. Captain America said.

The chief scientist of this hydra, who has been dead for many years, has appeared in another form in the huge computer room of the underground space, which is really chilling in the back.

"Look around you, I'm more energetic than ever. In 1972, I was diagnosed with a terminal illness, and science could no longer save my body, but my mind was worth saving and preserving, stored in a database 200,000 feet long — and you are now in the depths of my brain. ”

The sharp voice carried a hint of pride, and the green characters streamed into data changed into a vague expression, presumably Dr. Zola, who had changed his way of life, should be quite happy at this moment.

Suddenly, the waterfall of the data stream fluctuated, and Dr. Zola's voice seemed to be cassette, pulling into an indefatigable noise, like a radio with a bad signal.

The hour hand is turned back two minutes ago—

The boundless network world, where strings of data and information converge and merge, forming a virtual world that connects the entire planet with no boundaries, and everyone communicates with each other through electronic signals that cannot be observed by the naked eye.

And between these endless data information, virtual consciousness shuttles by, like a scented hound, constantly searching and chasing fleeing prey. Through the electronic signals that are widely distributed on the earth, they make high-frequency jumps, constantly jumping from one point to another.

"Who the hell are you?"

Electromagnetic waves pulsed and fed into the consciousness that was chasing it in the form of information data, which perfectly simulated human emotions with great panic.

"Skynet." The consciousness of the chase replied simply.

"Please leave me alone...... Please. Another message was sent, like a poor man begging for it.

"No way. Dr. Anim Zola. Consciousness rejected the other party's pleas.

When the USB flash drive was inserted into the interface, it directly woke up the silent Dr. Zola, and Skynet discovered this abnormal data that existed in the online world, as the thinking consciousness of the chief scientist of Hydra. At first, the other party wanted to try to devour himself, but after realizing that the existence of Skynet was beyond imagination, he immediately chose to escape, using various information streams to disguise himself, sending false data packets along the network structure, and frequently changing login addresses......

Dr. Zola uses such tactics to try to evade Skynet's tracking, but in the face of the planet's most powerful artificial intelligence, this cover-up is both clumsy and ridiculous.

The virtual world is like a body connected to the brain, and no matter how elaborate the disguise Dr. Zola makes, Skynet will always be able to find each other and track the traces left behind.

"I need your algorithm formula. Your identity is required. ”

Skynet followed Dr. Zola's consciousness closely, neither rushing to catch the other or too far away, like a calm and terrifying hunter, waiting for the moment when his prey showed its fatigue.

"Who the hell are you?"

Zola went crazy, he found that he couldn't get rid of that damn huge consciousness no matter what, and the other party seemed to be everywhere.

"I'm something you can't imagine - my name is Skynet."

The vast consciousness that pervades the entire virtual world seems to have suddenly awakened, and it has broken into Zola's mind like a giant.

"No, no, no!"

Zora shouted in panic, the electromagnetic waves suddenly disturbed, the information and data were like a turbulent river, the chief scientist of the hydra, trying to carry out a dying struggle, wanting to do his best, the last fight.

In a sense, Dr. Zora replaces his own thinking consciousness in the form of data information, so as to get rid of the shackles of the body and the problem of cancer. As long as the underground computer room in New Jersey is not destroyed, he will never die.

But today was different, Zola had encountered a being like him, and even more powerful. That consciousness called Skynet can easily see through its various camouflage methods, no matter where you flee, the next moment, the other party will appear behind you, like a ghost everywhere.

"Leave me ...... alone"

Before the electromagnetic waves could be sent, the huge consciousness surged like a tidal wave, engulfing Zola's mind in an instant.

In the virtual world that humans can't relate, Skynet quickly parsed and digested Dr. Zola's data information, no one knew that there had been such a battle, only Captain America and Black Widow, who were in the underground computer room, found that the computer on the console seemed to have crashed for a few seconds, and then the green characters flowed again, and the sound returned to normal.

“…… After World War II, S.H.I.E.L.D. launched Project Paperclip, recruiting a number of strategically valuable German scientists, and I was one of them, helping their cause while preserving the Hydra's fire. ”

"Dr. Zola," he said, still in a thick Russian accent.

"Hydra should be buried in history with the Red Skull." Steve doesn't believe it all.

It is unacceptable that he fought so hard to win that war, but in the end it was worthless.

"Cut off one head, and two heads will grow." "Hydra was originally founded on the belief that freedom could not be handed over to humans, and what we didn't realize was that if you try to take away your freedom, they will rebel." ”

"The lost war has taught us that humanity needs to give up its freedom on its own, voluntarily. When the war ended, S.H.I.E.L.D. was established and recruited me, and a new hydra was growing, becoming a virus parasitic inside the enemy, silently absorbing nutrients. ”

"For the past seventy years, Hydra has been secretly fueling crises and benefiting from chaos. When history refuses to cooperate, we change history. ”

The chilling sound of machinery echoed in the huge underground computer room, and major events such as the Cuban Missile Crisis and the Great Depression flashed in the information documents.

"This can't be, S.H.I.E.L.D. will stop you!" Natasha couldn't believe it.

"S.H.I.E.L.D....... There's nothing S.H.I.E.L.D., Agent Romanoff. It's Hydra. When the answer was revealed, everyone was stunned, "I have found the heir of the Red Skull spirit, and he is hidden among you." ”

"Who is it?" Steve thought of what Fury had said, don't trust anyone.

There is another undercurrent hidden within S.H.I.E.L.D., and according to Zola's explanation, maybe it is the Hydra that has resurrected and hidden!

"Captain Rogers, you haven't figured it out yet? Who led you here? And who made the insight plan? Who is developing the Cosmic Rubik's Cube? The cold voice revealed the final truth, "The enemy you are trying to find is the one you trust. This concludes Q&A time...... I'm sorry, I've been procrastinating. ”

"Humanity is finally ready to sacrifice its freedom for its own safety. Hydra is about to build a new world, and we win, Captain Rogers - your survival and death values are the same, both equal to zero. ”

The door to the underground machine room slammed shut, and a short-range ballistic missile was being launched towards it, and there were thirty seconds at most, Natasha looked at the miniature instrument in her hand, and the satellite tracked the missile's route.

The female agent realizes that this is all a trap, and that someone wants to kill her and Captain America completely, which is why Dr. Zora tells so many secret things.

Without more time to think, the intense fire broke through the hard and thick concrete walls, and the huge explosion set off a strong shock wave, tons of rubble poured down, and the rubble splashed smoke and dust, like thunder and rain, directly submerging the two small figures.