Chapter 0011: The Bigwigs Have a Meeting for Rollo
The Zola algorithm was designed and maintained by Anim Zola, who was recruited by S.H.I.E.L.D. after World War II, Rollo's maternal grandfather. Zola has been the leader of Hydra lurking in S.H.I.E.L.D. for a long time, and it is his plan to live and be reborn within S.H.I.E.L.D. It can be said that it was he who helped Hydra through its weakest phase. If he had been alive, perhaps Hydra would have recovered and defeated S.H.I.E.L.D. in turn. Unfortunately, he was diagnosed with a terminal illness in 1972, and the level of technology at that time could not save his body, but his brain, which even the Red Skull relied on, was preserved. Even after he died, he continued to contribute to the cause of Hydra. It was he who came up with the insight plan, and it was also the brain and algorithm he left behind that made the insight plan possible.
The Insight Project aims to collect all the electronic records of all people in today's electronic age, such as bank records, medical records, voting patterns, emails, call logs, grades, shopping tendencies, etc., and the Zorla algorithm can deduce everyone's future to determine whether the corresponding guy is likely to become a threat to Hydra. When the technical conditions allow, the plan is in its final stages. With the help of S.H.I.E.L.D., Hydra will create a weapon system capable of killing a large number of threats at once, thus removing all obstacles to Hydra's domination of all of humanity.
These are all things that Rollo saw from the movie in his previous life. Maybe now in '08, Hydra doesn't have a specific plan for the Insight Plan, but at least it has the first half of the plan. Rollo pretended what he knew as 'documents left by his mother', and made the illusion that he had 'inherited' many of the inside stories of Hydra. He also told Bakshi that he had kept those files somewhere in the time he had disappeared for more than a month before, and that someone would put them on the web as soon as he lost contact!
There is no doubt that even if Bakshi and his boss Whitehall doubted the authenticity of Rollo's arrangement in advance, they would not dare to gamble. And with such a fake hole card, Luo Luo does not have to be afraid that he will be wiped out by Hydra for a period of time, and even in the 'negotiation' with Hydra, he can be in a more active position.
Of course, with these, it is still not enough. He made a certain 'concession' - he was willing to give Hydra some of his blood in order to satisfy Hydra's research on superpowers. But don't worry, the system mother told him that although he has that waste material superpower, his cells and his genes still belong to the category of normal people. The system mother explained that according to her previous activation program, 23% of the activation degree will not genetically cause changes that can be detected by human technology at this stage. More precisely, 23% of the degree of activation, the changes all occur at a more microscopic level than the genes. So, Rollo didn't have to worry about Hydra being able to crack the secrets of his body at all. And this will not be the basis for Hydra to doubt him, on the contrary, it will make him a more valuable person in the eyes of Hydra's scientists.
So, a month and a half later, there was the following meeting.
It's a secluded room in a secluded place, soundproofed superbly. At this time, a number of prominent people sat at the round table in the room.
Among them are scientists in the field of biology, PhDs in history; There are high-ranking officials at the level of political axes, and there are big names in the banking industry; There are patriarchs of prominent European aristocracy, and there are people who control the lifeblood of energy. They all have their own professions, but they all have one identity in common: the leader of the hydra.
As the world knows, Hydra is an organization established by Red Skull during World War II, but in fact, Red Skull only borrowed Hydra's resources and concepts at that time. In fact, the history of Hydra is older than World War II and even older than one of the origins of European civilization, the ancient Greek civilization. Over the millennia, the hydra has gone through various events, and different regions have developed differently. Due to the transportation and communication of Rahu, members of Hydra have been scattered all over the world, and the Red Skull borrowed only the power of a few of its factions during World War II. Considering that what Red Skull did was not a way to reunite the organization, the other leaders of Hydra allowed Red Skull to fly the banner of Hydra at that time. Sadly, Red Skull failed, and his attempt to dominate all of humanity was severely thwarted by a certain 'Frisbee Master', but sadly, Red Skull succeeded, and through his 'Hydra', the real Hydra reunited.
For such historical reasons, it is not too difficult to understand that Hydra has faintly become a multi-headed system like its logo.
The Hydra lurking in S.H.I.E.L.D. today was developed by the original Red Skull believers, including Alexander Pierce, the current Secretary-General of the United Nations Security Council and former Director of S.H.I.E.L.D. bureau. Although Pierce was unable to attend the informal meeting in person because of his status, he nevertheless sent a representative named Jasper Sitwell. And apart from Sitwell, the others present were none other than the leaders of the other Hydra branches.
However, there is also a difference between a leader and a chief. Like Pierce, this is the real power chief. Pierce was joined by Daniel Whitehall and Wolfgang von Straker, both of whom had their own research teams, armed forces, and logistics departments. The difference is that they have far fewer resources than Pierce's. For no other reason, at this stage, the vast majority of the resources of the entire Hydra are focused on the insight plan that Pierce infiltrates S.H.I.E.L.D. and prepares to implement.
Speaking of the other leaders, they are more like financiers of Hydra than a few people from the real power. They provide their wealth, connections, and support the development of Hydra. You can wonder if they were willing to pay for faith or Hydra's position after the unification of humanity, but they did contribute greatly to Hydra. However, that is not the point of mentioning them today. The point is that they form a super-committee similar to the World Security Council, which oversees S.H.I.E.L.D., and is responsible for consolidating and allocating Hydra's resources. For example, since the sixties, the Super Committee decided to reduce the resource quota given to other powerful factions in favor of the Hydra division within S.H.I.E.L.D.
Now, there is another thing for them to decide.
"So, Sitwell, do you mean there's a guy out of nowhere who knows about our ultimate plan and uses it to blackmail us, our entire Hydra organization?"
It was a middle-aged man who spoke by the code name 'Banker'. He and his family control, directly or indirectly, a third of Europe's banking sector.
"This is not 'out of nowhere', he is the grandson of one of our pioneers, Animzola. For details, you can look at the computer next to the seat, which is described in the information that Dr. Whitehall sent you. Sitwell replied, "Anyway, it was our surveillance that discovered that a safe that once belonged to Dr. Zola had been activated, and since our identity could not be revealed, we commissioned Dr. Whitehall to contact the person who enabled it, and found that he was indeed a direct blood of Dr. Zola. In addition, his mother once underwent an experiment on superpowers, which was concluded to be a failure. Now it seems that the experiment was not useless, at least our newcomer has superpowers. ”
The banker's gaze was withdrawn from the computer next to him: "The hands release light, there is no military or even civilian ability, I don't think this superpower, this kind of experiment has any value." ”
"I disagree. His superpowers may not be of much value now or in the future, but he does. I suspect that the experiments on his mother, Dr. Zola's daughter, did give her superpowers, which our newcomers inherited. However, this trait has yet to be developed, and his superpowers are not yet complete. And from him, maybe we can crack the secret of superpowers. ”
This time it was Whitehall who spoke. He used to be a subordinate of Red Skull, but because of the cruelty of his research, he was not pardoned and recruited by S.H.I.E.L.D. after World War II, but was sent to a secret prison for life by Peggy Carter, Captain America's favorite object and one of the founders of S.H.I.E.L.D. Later, when Pierce was in power, he was released under an excuse, and as a result, he carried out terrible human experiments as soon as he came out, transferring all the internal organs of a superpowered person with self-healing ability into his own body, and suddenly returning from a nearly 100-year-old man to his 40s. Among the more than a dozen people present, a considerable number of them were very jealous of his means of rejuvenating themselves, which also made his words more supportive. At least the bankers, who have always been self-centered, did not say much about it, although they were unhappy that their opinions were dismissed.
"Well, let's assume that this Lolo Blake has the value you claim. What does he want? "It's another middle-aged man with an extraordinary bearing, Gideon Malik, the ruler of the Malik family's generation." And we have already accepted him as our new man? ”
The Malik family has been a loyal supporter of Hydra for thousands of years. In this generation, they had more wealth than bankers, more prominent backgrounds than another old woman codenamed 'Baroness,' and more connections than most of the people in the room. His words can even affect the person sitting in the White House with the red nuclear button at hand.
By the way, this one appeared at the end of "The Avengers" and became a villain of great importance in the third season of "Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.".
In the face of Malik's words, even Whitehall, who had lived for almost a century, had to be taken seriously.
'What he wants, maybe it's important to him, but it's not much for us. He doesn't want to be our enemy, but he doesn't want to be our pawn either. He is willing to contribute for the sake of Hydra, but does not want to lose autonomy. He has his own way and needs our trust. At this, Whitehold paused. In exchange for these, he promised to provide a tube of his blood every month for me to study, he promised that he would not reveal what he knew, and he also proposed a project. The data is on your computer. ”
When they heard that this 'newcomer' had proposed a project, no matter what their first impression was, the leaders clicked on it. Twenty minutes later, the slowest one was finished, and Malik was up again.
"So, what's everyone's opinion?"
The leaders expressed their distrust of the project proposed by Rollo and even Rollo himself with various reasons, and the banker gave the reason that seemed to be the most 'suitable': "Our business has reached a critical stage, and so is our investment, so there is no need to distract our energy and resources for an unnecessary project."
After that, the banker added: "According to me, I will kill him." It's also not a hassle. ”
This opinion was opposed by Whitehall. He's been coveting superpowered test subjects for a long time.
In addition, the Middle Eastern oil tycoon, codenamed 'Chief', suddenly asked: "What does the Zola algorithm say about this person?" ”
Everyone in the audience was stunned for a moment, including Sitwell. The Zorla algorithm is currently in the hands of their inner S.H.I.E.L.D. division.
"Well, for his grandson, Zola gave a mildly threatening assessment."
Mildly threatening, which is an interesting rating. It shows that Rollo may pose a threat to Hydra in the future, but the probability of this threat is not too high, the degree of threat is not too great, and there is even a certain possibility that it will be reversed. But considering the relationship between Zola and Rollo, who knows if there is anything greasy in this! Even the big guys in Hydra weren't sure how much self-consciousness Zola's brain had left behind after it was converted into tape recordings......
In the end, it was Malik who summed it up. According to his words: "After all, it's a superpower, isn't it a pity to give up like this." We don't need to trust him for the time being, just make sure that he doesn't get in the way of our cause. Since he proposes a project, let him go about this so-called project. After gaining the approval of the other leaders, he added: "Actually, we can go further, such as sending someone to 'help' him?" ”
So, the matter was settled.