A silver ray sliced through the space, causing a short hiss.

After the sharp edge, the bookshelf next to him and the books inside slid diagonally, and the cut surface was unusually smooth.

"Good sword." Ryan gave a thumbs up and added, "I don't like the way it looks, though." ”

Melina looked at the mess with a calm look in her eyes.

"I think I know what you mean, but can you guarantee it?"

"Although I don't have to promise you anything, ...... OK. ”

After receiving such a definite reply, Melina instantly closed her eyes and immediately felt dizzy.

Ryan glanced at her and quickly had a guess.

"Any new drug requires a long period of research and experimentation, and even the most evil organization uses animals, such as the pigs you raise. When a drug has achieved initial results, most people will urgently apply for clinical trials to collect data. However, the Red House does not need to apply to anyone, and your clinical trials are probably directly used on human subjects for observation. ”

In the original plot line, Melina's appearance and the collapse of the Red House came after the civil war, that is, around 2016.

About six years ago, it is not a long time, but it is not a short time.

But for drugs that can directly control the minds of others, they should have at least entered the "clinical" stage by now.

Judging by Melina's facial reaction, he guessed correctly.

Ryan sat back on the couch, sword in both hands, and asked, "Tell me, where have you been?" ”

Melina walked back with a vague step and began to tell.

Many years ago, the world pattern at that time was still the well-known struggle for hegemony between the United States and the Soviet Union.

Alexey and Melina, two excellent agents, infiltrated Ohio with their respective missions, and Melina entered the Northern Research Institute.

This organization is also not unfamiliar to everyone, although it is ostensibly part of S.H.I.E.L.D., in fact, all the Hydra scientists gathered have quickly shifted positions since the defeat of Germany, that is, the Red Skull John Schmidt and Dr. Zola's branch, which was later derived and merged to give birth to the Hydra led by Alexander Pierce in S.H.I.E.L.D. today.

Mind control, doesn't that sound familiar?

Today's Hydra has a very mature and powerful brainwashing method within them, and the Winter Soldier they control is a group of cold-blooded killers who appeared earlier and were controlled by others.

Melina's current research results are completely from the same source as the "Winter Soldier" project.

It's just that the two later parted ways, and then two completely different branches were born.

Even judging from the results, Melina's results were born later, but the effect was better.

The Winter Soldier project, which dissected and structured the brains of an unknown number of people, creatively drew a cellular blueprint of the first and only basal ganglia, which is the center of human cognition, controlling the body's autonomous learning, procedural learning, and more.

This blueprint, which took the life's work and experience of many Hydra scientists, is the goal of Alexei and Melina's mission, and the ultimate result.

In addition, when he left the Northern Institute that year, Alexei blew up everything there, that is, Hydra made a new and expensive wedding dress for the current Red House completely on this project.

As agents, their task is clearly impeccable success.

But the results of their missions could not influence the course of world history.

After completing the mission, Yelena and Natasha are sent to the Red House for training, and the two go their separate ways.

After the collapse of the Soviet Union, Alexei, who disagreed with the authorities, was thrown into prison, and Melina became the chief scientist of the Red House after being adopted by Dreykov.

The family, no one got any benefit from this, but fell into decades of pain and struggle.

The only one who seems to be living the most comfortable is Melina.

Ryan looked at her fluttering eyelashes, and only felt that in the past time, she should not have been as safe and calm as she looked.

Up to now, the mind-control drug has been in human experiments for half a year, but Melina is not responsible for this part of the work, so all she knows is the data passed on by the other party.

Dusk falls.

"In the course of the experiment, less than 10 people died due to the side effects of the drug, and with continuous progress and improvement, the current effect is getting closer and closer to the ideal goal set at the beginning. According to the plan of last month's meeting, we will officially start mass production and put into use in early July. ”

Ryan nodded: "It seems that I arrived in time." However, do you know how many people have participated in the experiment so far? ”

"Six hundred, one hundred people a month, they come from different countries and regions in the world, doing different jobs."

"Very well, then, what about the antidote?"

Melina pursed the corners of her mouth.

Ryan chased after him, "Before becoming the chief scientist, you were also a very elite agent, you should know that the Red House is not so trustworthy, I even suspect that you have to fix yourself every day to take two sips of the antidote, so as not to fall into the mind control of others without knowing it." ”

Hearing the last sentence, Melina couldn't help but tug at the corners of her mouth: "You even know that the antidote is an absorbent gas." I've said all I know, can you tell me who you are now? ”

"No problem." Ryan bowed, "But before I do that, I want to ask you, are you really ready for this?" ”

"Of course."

The two looked at each other, their gazes not shifting in the slightest, nor did they blink.

After a while, Ryan stood up and put his hand into the flower pot next to him.

Melina's eyes narrowed.

Ryan grabbed a black ball and said, "John? ”

"All the devices she has there don't exchange internal and external data, Ryan, in other words, she's not connected to the Internet."

"Understood."

Turning around, he looked at Melina: "You cut off the communication, I think they should be over soon." ”

"Now that you've found out, why don't you hurry up?"

"I'm here for them, why should I go?"

"You should know that you know too much."

"If the more you know, the more damn it becomes, then I don't think my director will see the sun tomorrow."

"Director?"

Ryan nodded, "Not bad, S.H.I.E.L.D." ”

Melina's eyes jumped.

Ryan continued, "I should also thank you for mentioning the information about Hydra's infiltration into S.H.I.E.L.D., which I think is a very heavyweight piece of news that would be beneficial for a self-investigation and personnel purge within S.H.I.E.L.D. That would have to happen after I solved the Red House, though. ”

"How many of you are there?"

"Yes and only me."

Outside the window, a bright light suddenly fell from the sky.

Melina got up: "If you're from S.H.I.E.L.D., then I think you'd better call for backup." ”

Ryan looked out the window at a figure flickering in the window.

"Madam, please find a safe place to hide first, and don't delay my work, okay?"