Chapter Twenty-Four: Erskine's New Direction
Dr. Erskine smacked his mouth, feeling a little thirsty, and he suddenly touched his chest wildly, sat up reluctantly, and looked around the strange quaint stone chamber, as if he had come to some ancient ruin.
On the stone platform not far away, a young man with half-length hair sat cross-legged with his eyes closed.
His face was delicate and handsome, but his temperament was desolate and majestic. The body is burly, but the bulging muscles are not visible.
"James Howlett, fortunately, Dr. Erskine."
Erskine, who had just wanted to speak, saw the man open his eyes and said unhurriedly, he wondered a little strangely about the surname Howlett, and subconsciously asked, "Where am I?" ”
"Edmond, Canada, Underground at Howlett Manor." James said without concealment, and even reported his real name and surname at the beginning.
Dr. Erskine pondered for a moment, then said cautiously, "You are the 'Mr. Howlet'?" Rogers and you..."
"Yes, the ruler of the Howlett family, Steve Rogers is my student, but he doesn't know much about me."
James still has questions to answer and openly reveal his identity.
Erskine nodded, and in front of this man, he felt more and more settled, although he had just walked away from the ghost gate, and came to such a strange place, and saw a strange person.
"I guess I should thank you, I remember I was shot and I ......"
James smiled, "Dr. Erskine, how much do you know about the world for what it really is?" ”
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"Not everyone can take the beach, but we can all shout and cheer! E series defense bonds, for each additional one you buy, you will add an extra bullet to the soldier's gun......"
Steve was wearing a red and blue bodysuit, highlighting his majestic figure, holding a Star-Spantiled Banner shield, and skillfully speaking propaganda lines.
The passionate music and the hot female backup dancer in the short skirt behind him, the atmosphere of the fried performance scene is getting higher and higher.
It was one of the hottest shows of the moment for New York's top political and business leaders, and James had never been interested in such an event, and almost no one bothered him with such a thing.
However, when Asa mentioned that the protagonist of the show was "Captain America", which has become popular in recent months, he still came to watch it in a low-key manner with great interest.
"Hey, Captain Rogers, there's a big guy waiting for you in the theater room, and the senator told you to come quickly."
The show manager came backstage and said to Steve, who was changing clothes, who couldn't help but complain with a helpless face.
“...... Whose children are you taking photos and signing autographs? I've mentioned this thing many times, and I-"
"Rogers, it's our job, recruiting and collecting money for the country, it's as honorable as the warriors who fight on the battlefield, go ahead, Senator looks solemn."
Steve walked upstairs to the theater with a lonely expression, the current situation was not what he wanted, but the other option was to cooperate with the test in the laboratory, constantly draw blood samples and tissue samples, and reproduce the super serum a day earlier.
"The Legend of the Fairy Tree"
When he walked to the door of the VIP room, he saw Senator Brandt bowing slightly, retreating with a somewhat flattering face and closing the door, and urging him to go in after a few words of earnest advice.
James smiled and looked at Steve, who was stunned after pushing the door, he had become reborn, tall and strong, and Asa Zuo, who was standing on the side, was wrapped in bandages, and his tone was very ridiculous.
"Hats off! Mr. Steve Rogers, Captain America. ”
Asa Zuo even saluted strangely, Steve's face turned even redder, he rubbed forward step by step, lowered his head, and called out to the teacher in a sullen manner, his toes lightly slammed on the floor.
"You have to know that you are now, and it would be weird to be like when you were a child." James teased too.
"The test I gave you seems redundant, this way of joining the army really doesn't need to fight to the death."
Steve glanced at the palms of his hands, and said with a little anger: "I want to really go on the field to kill the enemy, but I have no choice, I..."
"You can come to me, you have a problem that you can't solve, and you can ask for possible help, it's a smart person's approach."
James shook his head, smiled, and continued: "But you have never been smart, except for boxing, you are extremely stupid." Asa left. ”
In front of Steve, the Red Devil teleported between the two, put his hands on their shoulders, and in Steve's shocked eyes, the three turned into a puff of black smoke and disappeared.
A reddish-brown moor as far as the eye can see, dotted with a few cacti and ground weeds, is a barren plain roughly located in northeastern Wyoming.
On an almost flat land, stands a boulder, prismatic like a tall tower, uprooted in the flat ground, the momentum is amazing, nearly 300 meters high, at the top of a nearly circular platform like an axe chisel, the diameter is more than 80 meters.
Asa Zuo led the two to the center of the basalt volcanic neck known as the "Devil's Tower", flickered again, and teleported to the side.
"Come on, what's the problem, wait for me to see what you're capable of now, remember, go all out."
James said with his hands in his pockets, relaxed but unquestionable.
Of course, Steve had too many things to ask in his heart, but at this moment, he also clenched his fists, pulled away the cloaked boxing that the teacher specially taught him, and drummed up the strength of his whole body.
After he entered the third stage of the killing technique, the strength of his whole body could flourish without stagnation, as if it was endless, and a wave of heat rose around his body, the steaming air twisted slightly, and his muscles became even more inflated.
Peng!
A puff of smoke erupted from behind Steve and rushed towards James, his arms and fists like two iron whips, and in an instant he pulled out a sonic boom and smashed it on James' randomly raised forearm.
The amazing blow was silent, like a mud cow into the sea, and Steve threw his fists and whips one after another, all of which were blocked by James to neutralize the attack.
Shawl boxing can also be called crackling boxing, Steve likes to play defensive counterattacks since he was a child, his boxing can protect his body very well, and then wait for the opportunity to counter-kill, James once said that this set of combat techniques designed for Steve belongs to the shield technique.
"Hurry up."
Steve saw the teacher calmly urging, roared, desperately speeding up the attack, since the injection of serum, he can no longer feel tired, his body will always have inexhaustible strength, gradually turned into an afterimage, a lake.
【Hundred Fist Wrapping】
Steve's fists and arms swung with strength, smashing into pieces to protect his body, like a shield-shaped afterimage, like a spinning top spinning at high speed, crashing into James.
Asa Zuo looked at Steve, who was attacking with all his might, if he was purely fighting and not using his ability, he should not be able to beat this kid.
Rumble! Boom
James flicked Steve's fist shadows left and right, and he relied purely on his own strength, speed, and boxing skills, without using any strength.
Seeing that this student's attack output was at its limit, he finally broke through the shield shadow, and counterattacked with a palm, hitting Steve's chest, bursting more than ten meters away, but it didn't hurt him much.
"It's okay, the strength and stamina are good, and the speed response is average."
Looking at the purple-faced student who was clutching his chest, he slowly recovered, and couldn't help but compare himself to the black panther in Wakanda, Steve was superior in pure strength and physical strength, but his speed was a little worse.
With the killing technique, he enters the third stage and generates the strength of the body, which must be a lot stronger in the fight, but he is far from being able to affect the vibranium armor.
Steve Rogers was mentally prepared for the fact that the teacher was not an ordinary person, but he didn't expect that his current self would not have the ability to make the other party serious at all.
His current pure body data has exceeded the level of serum theory by more than three times, which is also puzzling to a group of scientists, who feel even more sorry for Dr. Erskine, perhaps only he can uncover this secret.
"Dr. Erskine is with me, his gunshot wound has healed, and you'll see each other again when you have a chance."
James straightened up the sleeves of his shirt that Steve had made a little inappropriate, picked up the jacket that Asa Zuo handed over, and put it on his body.
"Teacher, what about you—" Steve said with a smile, not knowing what to say.
"This world is far more complicated than you think, look at yourself and you will understand that extraordinary power has always existed, but I didn't expect you to be ......"
James pondered for a moment and continued: "I will arrange for you to go to the battlefield when I go back, Asa Zuo will look for you from time to time, remember to tell him if there is any special situation, he will definitely be tempted to tell you about us, ask slowly, you are qualified to know this." ”
With that, James waved his hand, and the three of them returned to the VIP room of the theater for a while, and he gave Steve a few more words, and left with Assazo.
Edmond, underneath the old Howlett House.
Dr. Abraham Erskine was looking at the experimental materials under the microscope with his head down, and the spacious underground palace had become a high-precision experimental base, full of bright lights, and all kinds of experimental instruments and mechanically rocking reagent bottles were working in an orderly manner.
James stepped down the aisle and briefly mentioned Steve's situation to Erskine and his current physical level.
"The moment he succeeded in his experiment, he burst out with a power far beyond the expectations of the data, which must have something to do with your special cultivation skills."
Dr. Erskine asked with interest as curious about the unknown.
"Yes, he met me by coincidence when he was a teenager, and because he had a good understanding of the skills I studied, he accepted him as a student."
The doctor nodded, as if discussing academic research, and said eagerly: "Your ability seems to be another evolutionary path, I don't understand the principles and mysteries of it, but I can understand that it is extremely remarkable, at least my research now, I can't reproduce that power." ”
James smiled, "There are many powers of technology that I can't match, which is why I rescued you back, how about it, is there any progress in the research of it." ”
Hearing this, Dr. Erskine hurriedly asked James to come closer, motioning for him to look at the microscope lens, and excitedly explained.
"This amazing plant you're offering is really... Treasure, which was supposed to be a stimulating herb with the potential to stimulate the human body, but somehow it was influenced and evolved into a completely new plant. ”
James looked at the 1,000-fold magnified Wakanda heart-shaped grass extract under the lens, the purple cells were full of activity, and there was even a faint glow dissipating, which was very lively.
"It can be absorbed purely by ingestion, changing and intensifying the telomeres of the body's cells, stimulating growth and growth, this process is best placed in an anaerobic state of the body, and it has a neurological stimulus, and the process of taking may produce hallucinations."
"And its grass blades, and have the opposite inhibition traits, can quickly metabolize the heart-shaped grass effect of ingestion, if you rely purely on this plant to gain strength, then through the grass blades can also be counteracted accordingly, but simple swallowing is really a tyrannical thing, too simple."
"The serum I studied is essentially to develop the limit of human potential, or even break through, but this unique plant, if it is extracted and distilled through the extraction of serum, and then properly updated and blended, it will definitely be able to create a truly perfect super serum!"
James listened to Dr. Erskine's story, nodded slightly, he looked at the doctor, and asked seriously.
"And this serum, does it still help me?"
The doctor thought cautiously for a moment, then considered it and said, "Yes, but it's not big, I've studied your blood and some tissue samples, it's just ...... I can't imagine, I don't even know if your cells still have a limit to how long they can live, and how quickly they repair and multiply..."
Erskine kept shaking his head, what he saw shattered his understanding of the study and evolution of human genes, this innate mutant gene with infinite potential and change, under the continuous excavation of this Mr. Howlett, it was as strange as a mortal transforming into a god.
"I need to re-study the blending through your blood and genetic samples, plus the extraction of the heart-shaped grass, the basis of the super soldier serum, to make it possible to go one step further at your current level, but ...... Potions alone are not enough, and a large amount of high-purity energy is required to make a genetic leap. ”
"It's like when Steve injected the serum and took almost the entire Brooklyn electricity and converted it into vitamin rays to feed his body growth and evolution after breaking through the limits, you say... The energy requirements are extremely high. ”
James knew in his heart, lowered his head and thought for a while, looked at Dr. Erskine, who wanted to speak and stopped, and said directly.
"If you have anything to say, you might as well say it directly."
The doctor nodded slightly, looked at James with solemn eyes, and gently leaned on the test table.
"You're a character who has exposed your secrets to me and wants to become... Be strong, I don't know what you're ultimately trying to achieve. ”
James nodded, a well-ordered and kind person like Dr. Erskine would not succumb to power and oppression, and it was not surprising that he had such doubts.
"You've seen the corpses of those ancient frost giants."
Erskine bowed his head in silence, and the Mr. Howlett showed him the true face of the world, and led him to the majestic mound of giants hidden deep underground.
He didn't even have time to be surprised by the magic of the man who looked like a devil and resembled Schmidt, and was shocked by the pile of corpses of the green and black giants.
He also had to accept that the Norse gods were not rumors, that Schmidt's search for the power of gods was not absurd, and that as a scientist, "gods" became real, which made him even more cognitive.
"So you should know how fragile and small the human world is, even if you research a powerful evolutionary serum, in front of the gods and the universe, it will still be a drop in the ocean."
"The war between people is nothing but a fight between several different ant groups, and one day, we will face an enemy that is far from unimaginable."
Dr. Erskine suddenly raised his head, looked at James with burning eyes, and asked solemnly, "So you are planning for a rainy day for this world?" One day we will have enough strength to fight. ”
"No, no, no." James grinned, actually smiled, and he said calmly.
"I'm not that great, and I don't want to be that great, just for myself. If one day the world is going to be destroyed, if I can't escape, I can only face it, and for that day to come, I have enough strength to protect myself and protect what I care about. ”
"I don't like to leave my fate in the hands of others, waiting for the verdict, and grabbing power is what I have to do, no matter what the cost is in the process."
He shrugged his shoulders and said in a self-deprecating end, "Just let me have paranoia about being killed." ”
Dr. Erskine calmed down, and with a long sigh of relief, he relaxed, and after a while, extended his hand to James.
"Well, then, I will help you, Mr. Howlett."
Erskine has his own standards for measuring people, and this Mr. Howlett opens and closes his mouth for himself, but he is honest and truthful, and with Steve's example, the doctor inexplicably trusts his teacher a little more.
James shook hands with him, suddenly remembered something, and said briskly: "By the way, Doctor, don't care too much about the so-called gods, they are just more powerful beings." ”
He blinked, revealing four slightly protruding canine teeth, and smiled confidently.
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"Schmidt, so they can be obedient? If these monsters are thrown into the battlefield, the German army will also be attacked! ”
It was raining outside the window, and it was already winter in Poland, which was particularly cold.
Amon Gott was in the medical laboratory of Auschwitz and watched as Schmidt stirred in his head with an iron hammer deep into his brow bone next to the head of a monster with multiple huge pustules bulging up on its body.
Gort wore a well-fitting German uniform, with a grim face, deep facial features, tall and straight, and although an evil soul lived there, his skin was indeed good.
He covered his mouth and nose with a handkerchief, and looked at the operation of Xiao's hand with disgust, such a perverted behavior even he couldn't accept.
"Don't worry, my dear chief Goth, there are already a number of them sent to the front lines of the battlefield, and soon their role will be recognized by the Empire, and you will definitely receive the Führer's commendation order."
The iron cone in Xiao's hand was skillfully stirred, and the pus-filled monster who was still strangled and struggling desperately became extremely sluggish and calm, looking straight at the ceiling, and there was no movement.
"This is a kind of psychiatric therapy that I got from my early years, icicle therapy, which does not require surgery, by destroying the patient's anterior lobe, destroying his cognitive, emotional, and pain responses, plus training for behavioral stimulation in several other brain domains......"
Xiao pushed his glasses and said sneakily, "They will be the most perfect super soldiers!" ”
Amon Goth looked at the room, where several other mutants were already standing in the iron boxes, as if they had no souls, and uncomfortably loosened their collars, and there were rows of vacuum boxes used for "near-death experiments" in this wide room.
He'd seen Klaus Schmi's specially researched and modified monsters, a monster that had just undergone surgery and could spray extremely strong acid from pustules on its skin, which could corrode even armored tanks.
There are also those who can roar piercing sound waves, have hard skin and are not afraid of bullets, and have spikes in their bodies......
In the past five or six years, Schmidt has been experimenting with prisoners and concentration camp prisoners captured by the German army on the battlefield, and the probability of success has gradually increased, but it is very limited, and most of the mutants that have been radicalized by the experiment are not very capable and have little lethality.
Over the years, Sebastian Shaw has only obtained so many strong mutants, he has reported to the upper echelons, put into the battlefield five times, once the results are achieved and the attention of the Führer, he can replicate his experiments in Europe on a large scale, and mutants will continue to be "created".
And the valuable genetic data of the variants obtained from his thousands of near-death experiments also gave Xiao a rich research reserve for himself, a magical race that quietly appeared in the human race.
Suddenly there was a shout from downstairs, sounding Hebrew, and Amon Goth walked to the window with an angry face, and Xiao followed suit, looking down.
A group of newly captured Jews from Auschwitz were drenched in rain and mud as they swept in under the reprimand of German soldiers, who separated adults into men and women, and children out and put them in separate cells.
A wizened-faced couple, wrapped in coats, frantically cried out for their son, desperately tearing the camp's fences and barbed wire, crying for the soldiers.
"Mom! Mom! ”
The boy's voice was hoarse, he was very thin, his clothes hung loosely on his body, his skin was pale, drenched in rain, and he shivered with cold.
A soldier behind him dragged him and tried to pull him back to the cell, but found that the boy seemed to be being pulled by something, and no matter how he pulled it, he could not move, and was even faintly led forward.
Seeing this, several German soldiers next to him also stepped forward and pulled up together, and the boy continued to roar heartbreakingly, staring in the direction where his parents were being dragged away, tears and snot falling down the heavy rain, and his fingers were spreading, as if he could grasp his mother's hand.
Amon Goth pulled out his gun a little impatiently, he had seen too many such scenes, and Goth had always had no patience for noisy things.
Xiao gently pressed his hand and continued to watch with interest, and the scene seemed to become even more eerie.
Three or four soldiers who dragged the boy could not even move him in the slightest, and the iron door and wire of the concentration camp were squeaked and twisted by an unknown force, and the young man's hand seemed to be the source of this change.
Bang!
The soldier on the side picked up the butt of the gun and smashed it on the young man's head, he fainted, and several dragged soldiers lost their strength, were carried down by inertia, and fell into the mud.
And the thick and heavy iron door nearly three meters high turned out to be like a pile of waste paper that had been kneaded into a ball, seriously deformed and squeezed together.
Shaw took off his glasses, and those eyes seemed to see the rarest treasure in the world, faintly glowing with greed.