Chapter 4 The experiment begins
After completing Dr. Erskine's explanation, Duanmu Ruifeng did not continue to pay attention to Steve's follow-up, but returned to his apartment in New York, closed the door directly, and began to study the mysterious portal in his mind.
This situation lasted until half a month later, when Carter informed him again that the Super Soldier program was officially launched.
The base of the Strategic Science Corps in New York is hidden in a thrift store in the center of the city.
If you normally want to enter, you have to exchange passwords with the clerk disguised by agents, and you have to pass through layers of checks.
This inspection process may be useful for others who want to infiltrate, but for Duanmu Ruifeng, it is like a fictitious thing.
When Duanmu Ruifeng came directly to the core of the base through the portal, the test site specially prepared for the Super Soldier Program.
More than a dozen researchers, including Erskine and Howard, were already ready.
Colonel Phillips, on the other hand, was talking to several high-ranking government officials.
For these people, Duanmu Ruifeng just glanced at them casually and ignored them, but turned his head to look at Carter and Steve, who were talking and laughing in the distance, with an ambiguous smile on his face.
When Duanmu Ruifeng's eyes looked at Steve and Carter, Carter, with the keen intuition of many years of agents, also discovered his existence and nodded to him.
And Carter's actions also caught Steve's attention.
When he saw that it was Duanmu Ruifeng, Steve's face obviously showed a sincere smile.
Then, after saying a few words to Carter, he turned to the direction of Duanmu Ruifeng, "Sir, I haven't seen you for half a month, and I thought you wouldn't show up today!" ”
"I'm just an idler here, maybe my position is not as high as yours, so just call me Duanmu..."
Duanmu Ruifeng glanced at Carter in the distance through Steve, and said meaningfully, "And it seems that you should get along well with Carter, which really gratifies me!" ”
"Mr. Duanmu, I don't have anything to do with Miss Carter, don't get me wrong!"
Hearing Duanmu Ruifeng's ridicule, Steve was obviously a little flustered, and even couldn't help but glance back at Carter with a weak heart.
"I didn't say anything..."Duanmu Ruifeng shook his head innocently, as if he didn't understand what Steve was saying.
Duanmu Ruifeng's approachability also made Steve's originally nervous mood gradually calm down, and he didn't use honorific titles between words.
After confirming him as the final test candidate, he also learned something about Duanmu Ruifeng from Carter's mouth.
When he learned of Duanmu Ruifeng's mage identity, he couldn't help but feel a little curious about the young man who was about his age.
Therefore, after discovering that Duanmu Ruifeng was no different from ordinary people, he couldn't help but ask many questions about magic to satisfy his curiosity.
As long as it's not too important, Duanmu Ruifeng also has questions to answer.
For a while, the atmosphere between the two seemed very harmonious, and no one could see that it was just the second time they met, but like an old friend who had been together for a long time.
Just as the two were talking happily, Carter, who had been far away, suddenly walked over and said with a smile, "I didn't expect you two to fall in love so much, if I remember so wrong, this should be the second time you have met!" ”
"Haven't you heard the saying "Acquaintance at first sight?" Duanmu Ruifeng didn't care and replied with a Chinese sentence.
"Alright, I'll have time for you to chat after today, but now..."Carter put away the smile on his face and looked at Steve solemnly, "We're going to start, are you ready?" ”
Steve didn't speak, just nodded heavily at Carter without the slightest hesitation.
After receiving Steve's affirmative answer, Carter led the three of them directly to the center of the room, next to Dr. Erskine, who was debugging a recliner-like device.
At this time, in Erskine's eyes, it seemed that there was only Steve alone, and he didn't pay attention to Duanmu Ruifeng at all.
Duanmu Ruifeng didn't care about this, just took two steps back and stood behind Steve.
"Are you ready?"
"Yes!" Steve glanced at the recliner and nodded nervously.
"Very good, take off your top, tie and hat!"
Steve didn't shirk either, took off his shirt tie and lay down on the instrument under Erskine's guidance.
Immediately after that, several more researchers came up, took out the Super Soldier Serum, installed it on the injection equipment, and attached the device to Steve's arms.
It can be seen from Steve's violently undulating chest that his heart is also very unsettled.
"Agent Carter, Master Duanmu, isn't the upstairs seat more comfortable?" Seeing that the researchers had finished all the preparations, Erskine looked at Duanmu Ruifeng and the others, who were still standing in place and did not leave, and began to drive people away.
"Oh, sorry, okay!"
Duanmu Ruifeng and Carter hurriedly apologized, and then went to the observation room on the second floor together, and worked with Colonel Phillips and others, waiting for the experiment to begin.
And just when everyone was nervously waiting for the experiment to begin, Duanmu Ruifeng's eyes glanced at a man with glasses sitting in the third row, with a faint smile on the corner of his mouth.
If you want to kidnap Erskine and help him experiment with longevity enhancement potions, hope will fall on this person, I hope he won't let himself down.
"What's wrong?"
Noticing Duanmu Ruifeng's small movements, Carter asked suspiciously.
"Nothing, look, the experiment has begun!" Duanmu Ruifeng casually said a perfunctory word, and his eyes fell on the experimental hall outside the window.
At this time, Erskine had injected Steve with super soldier serum, and Howard also controlled a device like an iron box, loaded Steve into it, and began to gradually increase the output power of the device.
As the energy power continued to increase, the inside of Steve's iron box began to emit a bright white light.
This scene instantly attracted everyone's attention, and their hearts gradually rose.
Success or failure, it's a fight here!
As the light became brighter and brighter, Steve in the iron box suddenly couldn't help but let out a scream.
The sudden change made everyone nervous, and Erskine even lay directly on the iron box, shouting Steve's name loudly?
And Carter was also in a panic, and ran out of the observation hall directly, wanting to get people to turn off the equipment.
But just as Erskine was about to stop the experiment and ask Howard to turn off the equipment, Steve's roar of pain came from inside the iron box again.
"No... No... I can do it..."
Steve's voice made Erskine and the others, who were originally very worried, breathe a long sigh of relief.
After a short period of hesitation, it was finally decided to respect Steve's opinion and the experiment continued!