Steve shook his head slightly and said with emotion: "This is where Kyle and I started out in the military."
"The head of the family..." Natasha was surprised, and then looked at this inconspicuous military base, her beautiful eyes shining with a strange light.
It’s fine that Captain America was trained here, but I didn’t expect that even the symbol of peace came from here. It’s no exaggeration to say that this base is the place where legends rise.
During the war years of World War II, when the two soldiers left here, they were like two suns, shining through the darkness and radiating bright light in the world.
"Come with me. This building next to it didn't exist before I left. It must have been added later."
Steve waved and led Natasha to the front entrance of a building.
He raised the Adamantium shield and rammed the locked door with violence.
With a loud bang, the iron gate fell inward, raising a cloud of dust.
Natasha looked at the gap and shook her head secretly, muttering, "As expected of someone who fought with the master in the past..."
The two men entered, and as Steve fumbled to turn on the main power switch, countless light bulbs flickered, and then the entire building was filled with dim lights again.
The interior is clearly arranged like an underground studio, with many bookcases for storing files, desks and chairs, etc. There are also huge photos of people hanging on the walls on both sides of the hall.
From left to right, there are Kyle, Fury, Howard, and finally the SHIELD's eagle, sword and shield combination logo.
"This is the first batch of veterans who founded S.H.I.E.L.D." Natasha thought about it and said with sudden enlightenment, "So that's how it is. This should be where S.H.I.E.L.D. was first established. Later, when I was recommended by the head of the family to join, the S.H.I.E.L.D. headquarters building had been built in New York, and this old site was directly abandoned.
"It appears abandoned, but someone is still using it secretly." As Steve spoke, he searched with his rich experience in investigation and soon found an underground secret room.
They continue to go deeper to find the secrets hidden behind S.H.I.E.L.D.
five minutes later.
The two confronted a supercomputer in the basement.
That’s right, the enemy is a supercomputer!
To be more precise, it is a multi-unit storage machine that fills a room, plus old-fashioned monitors, dusty cameras, etc., which together form the "artificial intelligence" used in SHIELD.
However, this artificial intelligence is not machine-derived thinking, but was created by a former Hydra scientist who converted his own brain memory and consciousness into code data and stored it in the super brain before his death.
For decades, this intelligent host has been secretly guiding Hydra to conduct a comprehensive and covert infiltration of S.H.I.E.L.D., and even deleted and modified Fury's highest authority.
This is the most serious mistake SHIELD has made since its establishment. In order to achieve rapid development, they should not have chosen to accept former Hydra scientists to complete experimental research on transforming humans into machines.
"Captain Steve, I still remember very clearly that you boarded the train with that demon, intending to kill us all."
A digitally created smiling skull face appeared on the display screen, and a cold mechanical voice came from the loudspeaker.
"It's you." Steve frowned.
He thought of the Hydra scientist that the commandos were tasked to capture on a high-speed train more than sixty years ago.
In that battle, Bucky fell to the bottom of the icy valley to save him. If it weren't for Kyle's Blue Eagle, all three of them would have died.
"You finally remembered me." The skull chuckled and said proudly, "But among the three of you, there is a soldier who has fought for us for the past ten years. This can be regarded as making up for the sin."
Steve trembled all over, veins bulged, and he said in anger, "Is it Bucky? Where is he now? Tell me!"
"He was the one who attacked Nick Fury this afternoon. He is still in New York and is safe. But you two are about to die!"
Having said that, the skull lost its temper and revealed its hidden murderous intent and claws.
"Crack, crack, crack!"
The main door of the basement suddenly closed automatically, completely sealing off the hall where the supercomputers were stored.
"Captain!" Natasha looked around and had a bad premonition in her heart. Years of combat awareness reminded her to escape from here.
"What did you do?" Steve was shocked and raised his fist, smashing the screen showing the skull.
But then, another display lit up, and a skull popped out, laughing wildly, saying, "From the moment you came in, missiles were launched targeting this location. I have been stalling for time. In five seconds, everything here will be destroyed! It's too late to escape!"
"Damn it!" Steve's face changed drastically, and as quickly as possible, he hugged and pressed Natasha under him with one hand, and with the other hand he raised the Adamantium shield high to block the two people's heads.
The skull was still laughing wildly, acting as the god of death and counting down, "Three, two, one!"
next moment.
The expected missile bombing did not occur, and all the sounds stopped, and the basement fell into an eerie silence.
"…?"
Steve was surprised and looked up at the display screen, but the digital face of the skull was dull, as if even it didn't know what had happened.
The skull muttered doubtfully, "Where are the missiles? How could this happen? The missile signal... suddenly disappeared?"
'boom!'
At the same time, the automatically closed underground gate seemed to have suffered a violent impact from outside, and a huge hammer mark dented inward on the steel door.
Steve lowered his shield and let out a long breath, "He's coming."
"It's over." Natasha also spread her hands.
"Him?" The skull was confused.
The next moment, the sound of the impact increased several times, and the entire building seemed to be shaking violently under the blow. The theoretically impenetrable steel main door collapsed under the pressure.
At the door, Kyle retracted his left hand in the shape of a sledgehammer, held a piece of metal shell wreckage in his right hand, and walked in with a calm face.
One meter behind him, Yutong and Luna followed him into the hall, one on the left and one on the right.
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"Kyle." "Master."
Steve and Natasha greeted each other with a smile, and as if they had a backbone, the solemnity on their faces had disappeared.
"Are you okay?" Kyle nodded in response and threw the shell debris in his right hand to the ground.
"It was a close call, but what was that?" Steve lowered his eyes and looked at the oddly shaped metal shell with a little black smoke coming out of it.
"Could it be..." Natasha thought of a possibility and her mouth opened in surprise.
Kyle said calmly, "It was a missile. I just encountered it on the road, and then I shot it down."
Steve: “…”
Natasha slapped her forehead, "Sure enough..."