Chapter 263: Competition within Hydra
Due to the limited resources, all living things have a common problem, that is, when more than two organisms have a demand for the same resource, there will be disputes, as small as fighting between animals for food or mates, as large as wars between countries, in fact, all for the same reason, this is also the case within the Hydra.
As the largest evil organization within the human race, Hydra's resources are also not unlimited, and now, there are two rows of internal battles for resources.
One of them, led by Baron Straker and his loyal subordinate Dr. Liszt, had been obsessed with the study of the obelisk since the discovery of its strange powers during World War II, and at first, they only used the obelisk as a poison gas weapon, but when they used the obelisk to carry out mass murder in the concentration camps, they found that some people had survived.
They studied the survivor carefully and were pleasantly surprised to find that he had a special ability to control metal, but unfortunately, they discovered this a little too late, when the defeat of Germany was inevitable, or they would not have been in such a hurry to carry out the slaughter.
Captain Steve Rogers' Roaring Commandos attacked their camp, and in order to prevent the enemy from gaining strength, they used ceramic bullets to kill Max Eisenhart, the Adept who refused to surrender to them, before fleeing.
Unfortunately, the speed of the Roaring Commandos was so fast that they could escape before they could take the strange obelisk with them, and they were intercepted by the commandos, and later sealed by the Strategic Science Corps, the predecessor of S.H.I.E.L.D.
After the defeat of Germany, Hydra moved underground, but they quickly recovered after transferring a large amount of German resources, and when the former supreme head Red Skull was teleported away by Captain Rogers using the Cosmic Rubik's Cube, Baron Straker, who had obtained the most resources, became the new Führer.
When Baron Straker ascended the throne, the first thing that came to mind was to recover the obelisk, because he had suffered through the hardships of the super soldier Colonel Rogers, so he also wanted to establish such a legion of super-capable people.
Unfortunately, Hydra, who had just regained his strength for a short time, was unable to recapture the obelisk, so Baron Straker made two preparations, one was to continue to find objects with the same effect as the obelisk, and the other was to find ways to infiltrate the Strategic Science Corps, which had been renamed S.H.I.E.L.D.
Hydra did find items similar to the obelisk, but their fog content was extremely low, and it was scrapped after a few releases, so Baron Straker continued to set his sights on S.H.I.E.L.D.
The Hydra agents who broke into the inside of S.H.I.E.L.D. discovered Dr. Zola, and when they just came into contact with the doctor, he was impatient to express his willingness to return to Hydra, not because of how loyal the doctor was to Hydra, but mainly because S.H.I.E.L.D. had too many restrictions on his experiments, especially after learning that he wanted to use live people to conduct experiments, he was even more vigilant against him, so the unscrupulous Hydra was more in line with his appetite.
In order to return to Hydra as soon as possible, Dr. Zola began to keep a low profile with Baron Strass's plan, and helped S.H.I.E.L.D. complete many scientific research results, which also made S.H.I.E.L.D. let down his guard against him, allowing him to use the excuse of recruiting assistants to install more Hydra agents into S.H.I.E.L.D.
Later, after decades of infiltration, Hydra finally succeeded in recruiting their highest-ranking agent in S.H.I.E.L.D., Alexander Pierce, and from then on, they were truly in control of S.H.I.E.L.D.
Later, with the help of Alexander, the obelisk was transferred from the storehouse by Hydra and thrown by Crossbone Bullock to Hydra's submarine in the Indian Ocean and brought back to the wolf's den.
Baron Strass, who obtained the obelisk, immediately restarted the plan of the Super Legion, and they secretly kidnapped a large number of different people from all over the world to conduct human experiments, and finally discovered that the fog in the obelisk is only useful for minors, and adults who inhale the fog will only turn to ashes.
With this major breakthrough, Baron Straker immediately targeted the kidnapping of children, and Afghanistan, Syria, Iraq, any war-torn area became the best place for them to capture children.
However, at this time, different voices appeared within Hydra, and it would take a lot of Hydra resources to kidnap children, but even if the test subjects were all children, the specific transformation rate of the fog was outrageously low, so Dr. Zora proposed another plan, that is, the Transhuman Project.
Dr. Zola and Ivan Vanko hit it off, and they agreed that the combination of human and mechanical soldiers was more perfect, easier to mass-produce, and more suitable for forming an invincible army, and Baron Straker, as the current head of Hydra, did not immediately veto them, but showed great interest.
Seeing Baron Straker's performance, Dr. Zola and the others were encouraged, believing that as long as the Baron saw the power of the robot legion, the resources within Hydra would naturally pour into them, and they would become important figures within Hydra.
Driven by this interest, they intensified the research and development process, and the first generation was soon released, the silver monsters that appeared on the battlefields of Sokovia and Latvia, with Ivan Vanko building cyborgs based on human bodies, and Dr. Zora using artificial intelligence as their master program.
However, the disadvantages of a generation of products are gradually reflected, that is, artificial intelligence is still relatively low, these silver monsters can not complete the combat mission independently, someone must command in real time, and the number of commanders is not a minority.
Such a product obviously could not meet Baron Straker's requirements, so Dr. Zora was inspired by his own transformation to design and manufacture the second generation of products, that is, the batch of mecha led by Ivan Vanke now, these mecha have completely abandoned the human body, they are all designed and manufactured by Ivan Vanke, and unlike the first generation of products, their main control system is no longer artificial intelligence, but Dr. Zora made it with human minds.
He extracted the mind from the test object in his own way, and then injected it into the mecha after the computer injected a program that was completely loyal to Hydra, that is, these mecha are now completely thinking robots, and the battle to hunt Frank is their debut.