Chapter 35: Confusion and Doubt

Neither Howard nor Brown in the office were willing to speak first, and seeing the stiff quarrel between the two of them, the adjutant knew that the only way to break the silence was to open his mouth at this time.

"Mr. Howard, before we talk about national security, we want to ask you a little bit about it. You and Li Ping'an are not friends who have a good personal relationship. The adjutant asked politely.

Howard hummed noncommittally, and then said: "Whether we have a good relationship or not is my personal matter, and it has nothing to do with the national security we are going to discuss." ”

"No, that's what matters. Because Li Ping'an is a factor that endangers national security. It wasn't the adjutant who spoke, but Brown, who had been cold-faced.

Although he was angry with Howard as a bastard, he still opened his mouth to communicate with Howard at the moment.

Because he already knew from Howard's noncommittal tone that this guy and Li Ping'an were not only friends, but also friends with a very good relationship, and the crow on his shoulder was probably given to him by Li Ping'an.

If the adjutant and Howard continued to talk like this, it would be impossible for Howard to help them with the next research, so he spoke at the right time, not denying that Li Ping'an was a person who endangered national security, because this was a lie and could not deceive a smart person like Howard.

So he characterized Li Ping'an as part of the threat, not all of it, so that for the sake of other threats, Howard would also help his side to study.

"First of all, I need to state that Li Ping'an is not a threat to the state, if you don't provoke him, he won't take the initiative to provoke you, and secondly, I'm very interested in other threats in your mouth." Howard spoke.

Brown knew that Howard had taken the bait, and although he was happy in his heart, he was still very calm on the surface. The fish are very cunning, and they are still in the bait stage, and if they laugh, they will be tender.

"See for yourself." With that, Brown gave his adjutant a look with a cold face, and the adjutant immediately understood, took out a stack of new-looking files from the cabinet next to him, and handed it to Brown.

Brown flipped through it for a moment, made sure it was correct, and threw it onto the table, and the whole stall slid crookedly on the smooth solid wood table in front of Howard across the table.

Howard first glanced at the file, and saw that it was marked with the words 'Top Secret', and he glanced at Brown very cautiously and said, "You let me see this?" It's top secret. ”

General Brown understands what Howard is watching out for, he has just had an unpleasant relationship with the other party, and now the other party is beware of arresting him for peeking at classified documents.

He snorted coldly: "Hmph, you had the courage to argue with me just now, but now you don't even dare to read a document?" ”

Howard didn't eat him: "I'm a law-abiding citizen, and I don't commit a crime to debate with you, but it's against the law to peek at classified documents." ”

Brown knows, the guy in front of him is unforgiving, and he said that he must come back, and he doesn't have time to talk nonsense about this guy.

So he waved his hand and said, "I authorized you to see it." ”

After getting Brown's verbal promise, Howard was relieved to get the papers.

He leaned sideways, watching Brown's reaction, and reached for the file.

After glancing left and right, he found that Brown and his lieutenant were not abnormal, and he slowly picked up the stall and looked at it. This look at it surprised him.

Turning the first page, I was greeted by a red skeleton wearing a *-shaped coat with a raging fire, although it was only a back, but the aura of tyrannical killing in it almost overflowed from the photo, making people shudder.

There is a specific introduction next to the stall, this is an old acquaintance of Howard.

"Red Skull? When did this guy become like this, I never saw him still have fire on him before. Howard exclaimed.

"Invincible Begins with Sacrificing to the Ancestors"

"This is the picture that the agent we planted in Hydra sent us, these photos are obviously intentional for the enemy to let us see, this is him showing his strength, we found our staff, he has become a pile of dry bones, the pocket camera that took the picture is randomly thrown on his corpse." Brown spoke slowly, a rare hint of loss and muffled in his voice.

Howard was speechless, he also had a position in the army, and he could understand the helplessness and sorrow of these secret agents, and he could understand the loss and sadness in General Brown's tone.

It also made him feel a lot better about Brown.

Howard then flipped backwards, and the first thing to bear the brunt of the Red Skull driver's own car that had been modified by hellfire was speeding again, and the gas-mad red flames on the ground formed a red line of fire that stretched for an unknown number of kilometers behind the vehicle.

"W, is this a magic trick?" Howard said in surprise.

"No one dares to joke about the top-secret file, and I can't, have you seen the record above?" Brown's eyes were as deep and cold as a deep tan, and he didn't know what terrifying creatures were hidden under the calm.

Howard had just been fascinated by the photo, and when he heard Brown's words, he quickly flipped through the records on the file.

The Red Flame Skeleton, formerly known as the Red Skeleton of the Hydra Leader, later transformed into the Red Flame Skeleton, for unknown reasons, and the original car also became a Red Flame Chariot, which is suspected of having autonomous consciousness.

Abilities unknown, contacts with them are scorched, highly mobile, appeared in Nevada and the State of Mexico in a single day, with a known death toll of 362 and no injuries.

Howard then flipped backwards, revealing the Green Flame Skeleton, the Iron Skeleton, and other toxin-laden toxins, power-generating shockers, bombermen, manipulative wizards, and so on.

Howard looked at the stall in front of him dumbfounded, feeling that this world was no longer the world he knew before.

Brown looked at the stunned Howard and said: "I'm surprised, I was also surprised when I first saw these documents, the guys in front of me have killed more than 10,000 people, that toxin man because of social injustice, he secretly entered the water company to poison him, he himself died in it, thousands of families and thousands of people died because of this." ”

Howard swallowed his spit and said, "There are so many bad incidents, why is there no news on the news." ”

General Brown sneered: "News? We are shocked to see these events, what will happen to the people when they find out? Do you think they are more receptive than we are? Instead of worrying all day long after knowing these news, it is better to live happily, and we have the ability and responsibility to bear these pains for them! ”

Brown stared at Howard, but his gaze was no longer aggressive, but made Howard feel a heavy responsibility.

"Now you know how terrible our enemy is, this is just knowing, you still have the last person you haven't seen, and you are also the most dangerous person we evaluated, you might as well finish reading."

Hearing this, Howard slowly reached out and flipped back, and the next dozen or so pieces of paper were all about a person, and Li Ping'an, the most detailed and dangerous person in this document.

Howard and his party looked over.

Li Ping'an, who once used the code name 'Zero', is a Chinese. The first records were in a transnational trafficking of eucalyptus traffickers, working as a mine worker, repairing railroad tracks, and finally being captured by a Hydra and later used in human experiments.

Experimental project 'Super Soldier Serum', trial host: Abraham. (Later, he became an American researcher and continued to work on the Super Soldier Serum Project, see File G-Hydra-0015 for details).

The target is currently the most successful individual known to be seroboosters, with no affected lifespan, and suspected to be related to Item ██ (classified).

At this time, the target hazard is tentatively set at -C.

Extremely combative, it disappeared for two years after escaping the Hydra base, and when it returned, its abilities were strengthened again, and according to unreliable sources, it is rumored that there were many fights with the Hand that resulted in the loss of thousands of elite ninjas in the Hand Clan.

Upon his return, he worked with Abraham on the Super Soldier Serum, with Phillips' approval (deceased, killed by the target. For details, see file L-Army-01035).

and is in love with Phillips Herald Lorraine, whose rank has been raised to (L-Army-01035-Attached) due to its relevance to the target.

Later, he researched the monster serum (it was confirmed that the monster serum came from the anomalous race), and successfully injected the monster serum to be transformed, with 13 tentacles, extremely powerful, and used it to kill the Eternals warrior Yin Karis (see file SS-Eternals-0001 for details), and seize its power (suspected to come from the function of the tentacles. )

At this time, the target hazard is tentatively set at -B.

Later, he had the ability to heat rays, fly, etc., and carried out a mission to kill the Ten Rings and capture ██, and after research, the mountain where the Ten Rings were located was completely destroyed, and the mountain peak was razed to the ground.

At this point, the target's danger rises to S level.

The number of people killed in this mission is immeasurable, and it is conservatively estimated that it will not be less than 2,000 people.

Due to the fact that the target hid and obtained item ██, which led to a conflict with his boss Phillips, he was later prompted by the former patriarch of the Finch family, Nell Finch (insufficient authority, the military cannot set up his file), ambushed the target, and invited the leader of the Eternals, Ajak (see File Eucalyptus SS-Eternal-0002 for details), to develop a serum, trying to make the target's genes collapse and die.

The mission failed, and the target detected it, Ajak, Phillips, Nair Finch, and Leke Finch all died, and none of the soldiers present survived. (except Lorraine)

In addition to the soldiers in ambush, the total number of soldiers in Phillips's camp was also killed, and the total number of casualties in this mission was - 2,504.

Since then, the target has disappeared, and four years later it has returned, and the Finch family has been purged, resulting in the death of all 176 members of the Finch family, including infants, and the death of no less than 20,000 of its security personnel and henchmen!

But that's not all, as a result of the demonstrations, the target sent security personnel (suspicious) from his company's location to massacre the marchers with submachine guns, and finally used human bombs to storm the crowd, killing 861 people, seriously injuring 1,236 and slightly injuring 492.

More than 700 people were killed and injured in the stampede and pushing.

The word doubtful is crossed out with a line of annotation: Identified as the target's work – Ross Brown.

The target disappeared again, and so far, the number of casualties caused by the target is conservatively estimated at more than 30,000!

The two big characters of 30,000 were written in bright red ink at this time, which formed a sharp contrast with the yellow paper sunspot in front, like the sticky blood that meandered and flowed, and the mournful cry of 30,000 souls was hidden behind it, and Howard was dizzy when he saw it.

Rao is Howard has long known that his friend is not a good person, and he treats the enemy mercilessly, but he did not expect that he would kill more than 30,000 people.

This kind of casualties are enough to be worth a tragic and large-scale battle.

Howard's feet softened, and he slumped in the chair behind him, and the papers in his hands were scattered all over the ground, as if Howard was in a complicated mood at this time.

"It's... How is this possible. Howard's voice trembled and said, "How could so many people die." No, I... I'm going to find that guy Li Ping'an and ask him if all this is true. ”

Howard tried to prop up his body with his arms strained, but he was so emotional that he had lost control of his muscles.

His feet were so weak that he almost fell to the ground.

Fortunately, the adjutant quickly helped him to avoid the fate of falling to the ground.

"Mr. Howard, now you know how vicious the enemy we are facing." Brown's eyes were full of heaviness and responsibility, and that heavy gaze was more difficult for Howard to look at than his cold, knife-like gaze at the beginning.

"Now we are facing an enemy that they are no longer capable of dealing with by conventional forces, which is why we took your vibranium without your consent to better protect our soldiers! I want to use the Cosmic Rubik's Cube to develop more powerful weapons. ”

Brown's voice gradually raised, less like a speech and more like a speech and singing an aria.

"I am responsible for the safety of our soldiers, for the security of the country, and for the safety of hundreds of millions of American people. So those brave soldiers chose to carry out dangerous reinforcements and make themselves the benchmark in their hearts - characters like Captain America Steve. Can you understand all this? Howard! ”

After Kang Qiang's powerful speech, Brown's gaze on Howard changed again, becoming heavy and tenacious, like an old man who worked tirelessly for the safety of the country and the people.

Howard was overwhelmed by this gaze, and everything on the stall and every person who died seemed to be staring at him, which also made him feel a heavy responsibility to the country and the people.

"I, I know, I will help you conduct research, but promise me that these studies should not be used to deal with Li Ping'an, let alone to satisfy selfish desires, but can be used to protect the security of the country and the people!" Howard's voice was like squeezing out of his throat at first, but the more he spoke, the smoother he spoke, and the firmer his eyes grew.

"Don't worry, your research will not be used specifically against Li Ping'an, and I don't want Li Ping'an to be our enemy, after all, he is so terrifying, so terrifying that we don't want to provoke." General Brown immediately made a promise to Howard.

His figure is calm and generous, giving people a sense of trustworthiness, which makes Howard involuntarily have a sense of trust, and Howard looks up.

The pair of firm and powerful eyes on the other side all provided Howard with a message that the general in front of him was a taciturn but trustworthy elder who would selflessly sacrifice everything for the country.

Howard couldn't help but ask, "What do you need me to do?" ”

"I want you to do what you can, Howard. And I'm sure you'll be able to do it well, Fastos is an alien and we can't rely on him completely, but we need his technology, you understand, Howard? ”

Brown is like a good animal trainer, slowly taming Howard, a man as proud as a lion, who was still fiercely resisting just now, and let him work for himself.

"I understand the general, I will definitely work hard, for the sake of the earth, for the country and the people, including enduring the rudeness of that alien from Fastos." Howard assured.

"I know you're going to do a good job, Howard, go ahead, I trust you!" After saying that, Brown also gave a decent military salute.

Howard felt the same and gave a military salute in return.

The lieutenant witnessed all this, and he watched with his own eyes how his generals used his free-flowing acting skills and Howard's sense of responsibility to take possession of Howard's things step by step and subdue them.

After Howard left, Brown picked up the stalls on the ground one by one and looked at the column: Kill the Ten Rings on a mission and capture ██.

The look behind his glasses was complicated, and even he didn't know what it was, but he was sure. This must be something that can make his own boss do whatever it takes to convince the president to target Li Ping'an, and to take it regardless of the lives of those who march.

He sorted out the stalls one by one and put them on the cabinet......

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