Chapter 53: Winter of the Wolf and the River Styx (Two Chapters in One)

"Teacher, my parents died very young, and there is no such thing as Sergeant Barnes in the world outside the manor."

James watched as Bucky's eyes became more and more complicated, and listened in silence as he continued.

"After Steve met you many years ago, he is no longer a brother who needs my care, and now hehe, hehe, although he still likes to do stupid things, but with you, there is nothing to worry about."

"Thank you for showing me a possibility, so. I want to try to go that way. ”

Bucky's right hand pinched the muzzle of Edelman's palm, rubbing the lines on it, and raised his head, grinning playfully and winking at James.

Greenland, a certain uninhabited area of permafrost.

A short, flattened model resembling a military transport aircraft, covered in a blue-black coating, with an additional pair of tail wings, and four aircraft spewing ice-blue powertrains, slowly landed vertically on the ice.

The blazing energy flow rapidly melted the solid ice cap, exposing the frozen soil below that had not seen the light of day for thousands of years, and the four-wing transport plane came to a standstill, and the tail hatch was lowered.

It was the polar day of another year, and a group of wolf warriors wearing pitch-black combat uniforms and killing with a fierce momentum threw their figures to the ground.

Remus Pitt stepped down first, surrounded by the eight "Winter Wolves" of the first generation, all of whom were over fifty years old, years of training and cultivation, and at least the second peak of the killing technique, to maintain their physical condition as much as possible.

The injection of super soldier serum allowed them to break through their physiological limits and reach their peak.

There are a total of thirteen new-generation wolf packs, all in their early twenties, heroic age, looking forward to the upcoming Winter Wolf Ritual.

Bucky rubbed his left shoulder in pain, his Edman's metal arm had been removed, and the flesh that had been connected to the mechanical synaptic structure had been peeled off again, exposed.

The injection of the Evolution Serum will change the body shape to a certain extent, so after the ceremony, Dr. Zora and others will re-modify the size and structure of the metal arm, and because of Bucky's trial in the past six months, there is room for improvement in many technical aspects.

He touched the tightly wrapped severed arm with some discomfort, and after getting used to the weight and convenience of the metal arm, Bucky really didn't want to experience the one-arm state again.

However, I felt a lot more relaxed, because the density and quality of Edelman's metal were extremely high, and the complex internal components were like a huge solid lead block hanging on my body every day, and the musculoskeletal muscles on the other side of my body would feel sore and uncomfortable.

Ordinary people's prosthetics are adapted according to the weight of the other limb in order to be used normally, but after the injection of serum breaks through the limits of the various attributes of the body, it should be possible to ignore such a weight.

Under the frozen ground, Asazzo teleported with James, and he watched as a huge underground space, a rock wall had been carved out of a dark space, which had been transformed with various steel structures, and rows of metal cabins were displayed.

The werewolves came down from the passage above, saluted, and the thirteen newly promoted winter wolves took off their clothes one by one, wearing only a pair of shorts, and came to their respective serum injection warehouses.

"Sir, this is the last remaining 'Styx' serum, excluding the heart-shaped grass material used for research before, and the ten plants you used when you broke through, only this one is left, and this tube of potion is prepared."

Dr. Erskine holds a rustic metal box with a serum injection tube that glows purple and glows.

The Wakanda heart-shaped grass is catalyzed by the special radiation of the vibranium meteorite, and it cannot be recultivated after leaving the land.

This magical plant does not die quickly after leaving the radiant soil, but over time, the heart-shaped grass gradually loses its medicinal properties and can only be preserved for a long time if it is extracted or placed in a vibranium box.

"I see, let's get ready."

James stared at the Styx serum for a few seconds and nodded to Dr. Erskine, who walked to the evolution chamber beside Bucky and placed the very special reagent tube in his hand into the injection tank.

Except for the difference in serum, all the other rituals of Bucky are the same as those of the wolf pack.

"Let's get started."

James said loudly, and after a dozen young men listened, they couldn't wait to lie down in the evolution cabin, Bucky looked at Dr. Erskine next to him, he nodded imperceptibly, and his eyes were quite peaceful.

Airplanes.

The thirteen evolution modules emitted a continuous low-frequency roar one after another, and the potion had been pushed in, and the high-energy energy crystals extracted from the cosmic cube supplied all the energy needs of the evolution modules at the same time.

This is a new type of ray converted from pure and clean Rubik's Cube energy, which is more stable and safer than the vitamin ray that Steve used at the beginning.

After Bucky pushed the serum into the veins of his neck, he felt all the blood vessels in his body burn hotly, and the pain became more and more intense, and with the flow of blood, the serum was quickly pushed to every large and small tissue in the body, and Bucky couldn't help but roar.

"Ho!"

His evolution module shook violently, and Dr. Erskine and Zora looked at each other, and hurriedly activated the alloy lock in the evolution module to control Bucky's no longer shaking violently.

The roar of the thirteen evolution modules became more and more sharp and high-pitched, and the ice-blue energy rays filled the entire cabin, emitting light through the observation glass, and James sank his mind, feeling their rising breath, and couldn't help but worry about Bucky.

Inside the cabin, Bucky's eyes were wide open, his body crawling with thick or fine veins, his skin peeled off layers of epidermis and filthy bodily fluids, and his bones and muscles were like small rats burrowing under his skin.

His black pupils were numb and out of focus, and his soul seemed to be detached from the skin.

In Bucky's mind, he was falling.

It was a towering glacier peak, his left arm had been broken, and the broken stubble and flesh were still gushing blood in the air, and he felt like he had fallen for a long, long time, as if he would be crushed in the next moment.

He looked at the vast snow-capped mountains and the gray clouds, and wanted to fall asleep more and more, this continuous sense of weightlessness made people a little fluttering and confused.

Rumble!

James suddenly attracted the energy in his body, and the blood-red qi around his body that had condensed like a substance exploded out of thin air, his hair flying, staring closely at Bucky's evolution cabin, and his heart pulse gradually converged with Bucky, resonating with him.

Knock knock knock

Bucky was almost about to enter an eternal consciousness, slowly awakened by the strange vibration sound, he became more and more clear, and once again opened his eyes in the world of consciousness, and saw a pair of eyes that were splashed with blood-red flames in his mind countless times.

"Ho-hoo. Whew."

His dull pupils regained focus, and his chest continued to rise and fall, as if a drowning man had finally rushed out of the water and inhaled his first breath of life-saving oxygen.

Every part of the body was full of itching and soreness, and the wound on the left arm was even more itchy, as if something was about to grow, but soon the scabbed break was slowly healed with the naked eye.

Bang, bang, bang.

The evolution module bounced open the hatch one after another, and the newborn winter wolf warriors inside jumped out, their bodies were dripping, their muscles were swelling, and their bodies were faintly larger.

Bucky tugged at the edge of the hatch with his right hand and slowly got up.

He is a few centimeters tall, about 1.83 meters, and the whole person is a lot wider, especially the arms and shoulders, thick and exaggerated, and the strong back muscles brought by practicing the "Falling Star" heavy punch are overdeveloped, like a hideous grimace.

The realm of killing has also jumped to the third stage, and the parts that have not yet penetrated the strength have also been achieved overnight, and there is no more cover door.

James had already retracted the torrent of hunting drumming, glanced at the new generation of wolf warriors one by one, watched them hit their chests with their right fists, knelt down on one knee, waved their hands casually, and signaled to get up.

"Sir, it's time."

Remus Pitt smiled as he walked over to James and looked back at his son, Colin.

Nine winter wolves of the previous generation walked into a deep pit carved out of the underground space, and James came to them and stared deeply at each of them.

"Take care of your mother."

Remus instructed Colin, and Opper, who was on the other side, was also talking to his father for the last time, and after the injection of the serum, he had changed the most exaggeratedly, and he already had the tall stature of his father.

The vast majority of the wolf warriors who decided to join the "Winter of Wolves" program were pure warriors who were obsessed with combat training, and some of them did not even have families, while people like Remus and Opo's father had to choose between family and ideals.

Once the ice is frozen, there are no special circumstances, and it will take decades or more to wake up again, except for these old fellows and Mr. James Howlett, their families will not be there.

"Father, it's okay."

Colin, who has always had a calm temperament, looked at Remus with a smile: "I will take care of my mother, and when she leaves one day, I will also enter the winter of wolves, and see you again on the day the frost melts." ”

Remus patted his son on the shoulder one last time, and stood in the erected frozen cabin, James and his eyes met, nodded slowly, walked to the middle of the two ice cabins, and said solemnly.

"For you, it may be only a moment when you close your eyes, and when you open your eyes again, I will bring the promised era, sleep, my brothers."

Squeak squeak

Patches of frost filled the corners of the cabin, and the nine winter wolves actively silenced the pulsation of their hearts, gradually falling asleep in the extremely low temperature, and they would spend a long and short time in this thick and solid gate made of vibranium, on the day when the ice and snow melted.

Revert.

"Alright, Sergeant Barnes."

Dr. Zola's small, high-pitched voice rang out, and he finally checked the nerve interface in his left shoulder, signaling that Bucky could attach his arms on his own, and his short stature and strength could not be handled, and the Edelman alloy arm was a few centimeters longer and larger.

Bucky was topless, muscles clinging to it, and he picked up the wrist of the metal arm in his right hand and tossed it, no longer feeling the weight.

Lightly clasped at the metal anastomosis of the left shoulder, the alloy fingers tried to shake it, stood up and shook the left arm, a crisp sound of breaking the air and a unique sound of metal arm movement.

He felt the neuromuscular tissue of his left shoulder heal rapidly, without the first continuous pain, and slightly encouraged the already abundant as if inexhaustible energy, infused into the metal arm, and became more sensitive to the manipulation and touch of the arm.

He still needs to slowly get used to the power of the "Styx" serum, and what he can experience now is the soaring power, and the majestic strength exercised by the killing technique, as well as a certain self-healing ability.

The left shoulder of his severed arm had a strong itch and growth sensation after the successful absorption and transformation of the serum, but in the end it only healed the wound of the section, and this self-healing power from James Howlett's blood was not enough to regenerate the severed limb.

"Mr. Barnes, the lord told you to go to the mountain behind the manor."

Mr. Housekeeper of the old mansion came to the laboratory of the dungeon and said to Bucky elegantly, he looked at the rough and unskilled metal arm with a little surprise, nodded with a smile, and walked up.

Behind the manor, there is a valley that extends from the Rocky Mountains, not majestic, but the mountains are empty and flat, with only sparse trees and boulders, and James often used to practice here as a child.

Bucky's legs were like a galloping horse, and in seven or eight breaths he ran up the mountain, leaping over boulders and mountain streams from time to time, like a nimble bobcat.

When James saw him come up, he casually threw away the cloak on his body, and said casually with a white jade-like upper body with a strange physical structure.

"How is the strength of the serum adapting?"

Bucky seemed to have guessed something, and suppressed the excitement in his heart and said, "I haven't used to it yet, and I don't know how far I've improved." ”

James waved his hand: "Do your best." ”

Rumble!

As soon as he finished speaking, a fiery torrent erupted from Bucky's body, and the space in his vision suddenly distorted, and his shoulder-length long brown and black hair fluttered and fell.

With another stroke of luck, he shattered the brown linen shirt on his upper body, and the marble-like muscles were congested and swollen, and the grass under him was pressed against the ground by the air current.

James looked at the energetic energy released by Bucky, which had a faint blood-red color, hooked the corners of his mouth, and became a little interested.

"Ho!"

Bang!

The air was suddenly compressed and the explosion made a loud noise, echoing through the valley, and Bucky burst up with all his might, and the ground and rocks under his feet were deeply plowed through a hole more than two meters long.

His figure flashed a distance of more than ten meters in an instant, and Erdman's metal left arm spewed out fiery white steam from every crack with the power of the falling star heavy punch that exploded in his body, piercing James's head.

Bang, the huge punch was firmly caught in James's palm, he just trembled his forearm slightly, revealing four protruding canine teeth, his eyes smiled terribly, his right hand clenched his fist, and pressed down on his wrist.

Bucky fell to one knee with a pop, a tooth-sore squeak from his alloy arm, and a strange sound of his twisted metal wrist rubbing against him.

Rumble! Click!

James lifted his foot and blasted Bucky, who was desperately wrestling and struggling to no avail, and smashed the big tree surrounded by a person behind him.

Burst. Bucky clutched his collapsed chest and vomited a mouthful of blood, his alloy palm clenched subconsciously, and a piece of bluestone crushed into powder.

He stood up, twisted his neck, the depression of his broken sternum slowly clattering, and before he could fully recover, he threw himself up again.

James narrowed his eyes a little happily, facing an opponent who could heal himself to a certain extent, so that he could also let go of his hands and feet a little and play for a while.

Wow, Bucky's body shook more and more ghostly, obviously thick and exaggerated, but always narrowly avoided the opponent's punches and kicks, James deliberately slowed down the speed and rhythm, so that his strength was as low as possible Bucky.

The two of them fought back and forth.

"Full strength! Full! ”

James urged his disciples, he was tired of cooperating with the feeding moves, he didn't stir up the Gang Qi energy, but just used part of the strength of the physical level, and lightly slapped away Bucky's iron fist like a high-pressure increase in speed, wrapped in a vast blood-red steam.

The palm knife slashed, severing bones in his shoulders and collarbones.

Bucky's right arm was temporarily paralyzed, he took two steps back, the energy on his body still surging, and James smiled hideously.

Swish!

The bone blades and claw spikes of both hands were revealed.

"Goo-dong. Teacher, you, take it easy. ”

Bucky swallowed in some panic, and snorted in fear as he watched James' nearly half-meter-long, pale and shiny bone blade glowing with a faint silver-gray sheen from the back of his hand.

"Don't worry, I won't cut off your head!."

Wow! The spark burst out of the stabbing Lala, and Bucky subconsciously blocked the metal arm in front of him, and the bone blade slashed through the air, splashing strings of sparks.

James' left hand swung from the bottom up, controlling the depth, cutting Bucky from his waist to his shoulders, making a deep intrail opening.

Bucky was shocked into a cold sweat, he could feel that the teacher's bone blade probed forward a little more, and he would be cut into several pieces by the waist, and he didn't dare to be careless, his body was turned to the right, his left arm was forward, and he was desperately carrying the dazzling slashing and stabbing of the bone blade.

After James finally fully discovered the power of his physical body and mutant genes, the bones of his whole body, especially the exoskeleton weapons that grew out, surpassed all the toughness known to humans except vibranium and Erdman.

With all his strength and energy, he can even destroy the secondary Edelman metal that is infused with a certain amount of vibranium.

But for pure vibranium and Edelman, there is still nothing that can be done.

Hyperactivity. Excessive.

After chopping for a long time, James finally got a little bored, tired of the movement of chopping the target, and put away his bone claws. Looking at Bucky, who breathed a sigh of relief and had palpitations, he said slowly.

"The strength of the 'Styx' is not bad, the increase in all aspects is almost double that of ordinary serum, the self-healing speed is so-so, remember, if it is a severed limb injury, it cannot be regenerated, but it can quickly pick up the severed limb."

"As for your cell lifespan and various specific data, go back and wait for Dr. Erskine's research report, there is a high probability that it will be extended a lot."

Bucky shook his hair, smiled flatteringly, and said, "That's not rubbing your light." ”

He knew that the "Styx" serum was prepared from the teacher's blood as part of the basic research, so the self-healing and anti-aging abilities he had obtained now were also derived from him.

"With the ability to heal yourself, the level of the second layer of the killing technique will be much easier, go back and think about it slowly, I have told you how to practice, and it is your own business to break through and develop in the end."

Bucky nodded thoughtfully, puzzled and a little curious: "Then what level has Steve practiced now?" ”

"He, although the physical body is just an ordinary super soldier serum for the time being, but the level of killing art"

James patted Bucky's shoulder, which was now too thick, and encouraged, "You still have to work hard." ”

When he accepted Steve Rogers as a student, it was not in the ordinary sense that he found a child with excellent talents, and in James's eyes now, Steve is the only person he has so far who has hoped to practice to the level of seeing gods like him.

"Captain Rogers, I need you to figure out what you're talking about."

Mr. Roger Dully, the head of the New York branch of the Strategic Science Reserve Agency, also known as the Strategic Science Corps, wears a meticulous, shiny and slick mid-range style.

His eyes widened as he stared at Captain Steve Rogers, who was tall and handsome, with his hands straddled behind his back, and his words were suppressed with an angry growl.

"I know that, sir."

Sub-Chief Du Li narrowed his eyes, and he sat back, his chest straightened, trying to make himself look more imposing.

"Do you know what happens when a soldier openly disobeys an order? Obey orders! It's a soldier's vocation! ”

Du Li slapped the table, finally stopped being depressed, and roared loudly.

Steve frowned slightly, a little unhappy in his heart.

The duty of a soldier is an incomparably huge hat, and every country will, and must do so, to discipline professional soldiers, which is a logic that cannot be simply judged by the so-called morality and the perception of good and evil.

However, his original intention in joining the army was to defend his country and dedicate himself to the duties of a citizen. But when the goals and demands of the battle turned to pure aggression and bullying, Steve Rogers hesitated.

"Sir, I admit that I am not a good soldier, and that I should not have my own will as a soldier, and I am powerless to refute it. But I joined the army desperately to defend the country, but—"

His gaze was unusually sharp, no longer low, and he stared straight at Roger Duley, and his words were sonorous.

"I don't think that crossing the ocean to fight in a country on a peninsula is defending the United States, which is pure hegemony. I am willing to accept military justice and even accept retirement. ”

Steve stopped talking, didn't say too clearly and sharply, and threw the problem to Director Du Li, who was flushed and his apple muscles were a little throbbing with anger.

Roger Duley was speechless and said that he had no authority to deal with "Captain America", who had great achievements in World War II and had great prestige throughout the United States, and could not afford to force the "property" of the country and the military away.

He tugged at his neckline, the delicate Windsor knot was a little disheveled, waved his hand, and finally didn't say a word, allowing Steve Rogers to turn away.

Du Li pondered for a moment and dialed the phone, he listened to the somewhat hoarse voice in the microphone, and nodded frequently: "Okay, the time is indeed a little short, I understand, yes, at least he can fulfill his wish to dedicate himself to the country."

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