After injecting the serum, Ilise reached out and pressed a button on the side of the experimental table.
Immediately, a mechanical whirring sound came, and a curved glass cover extended from a side gap, inverting over the entire experimental table.
Having completed all this, Ilise returned to her original position, which was Lin Feng's blind spot and also the control console of the entire laboratory.
On the computer screen, Lin Feng's vital signs data fluctuated randomly like a rollercoaster.
Lister stood beside Ilise, staring intently at the computer screen with a serious expression, while Ilise continuously recorded various data in a notebook.
About half an hour later, Lin Feng's heart rate, blood pressure, and other data stabilized at a level dozens of times higher than a normal person's and began to slowly decrease, no longer fluctuating wildly as before.
"Dr. Lister, the vital signs of Subject X-56 are abnormally chaotic. Even if the subject has super strong self-healing abilities, I highly doubt if the subject is still alive!"
Ilise's low voice sounded in Lister's ear, as she handed over the experiment log.
"The effect of C-13 is too intense. Besides X-56, none of the previous 55 subjects have ever lasted this long!"
"I think we should adjust the composition of C-13, otherwise, even if the X-56 experiment is successful, it will only be an isolated case!"
"It cannot be applied in bulk to the Super Soldier program!"
"Moreover..."
At this point, Ilise pursed her lips and said no more, but her meaning was clear: the experiment could also fail!
Even if Lin Feng was alive and woke up, there might be no change at all!
C-13 merely made him experience the sensation of death!
Lister looked at the exaggerated data in the experiment log in his hand, his eyes revealing a hint of excitement and longing.
Regarding Ilise's unspoken words, he naturally knew what she meant, but he didn't take it to heart at all.
When Lin Feng was first brought to him, he had already analyzed Lin Feng's blood samples and conducted corresponding drug experiments!
Lin Feng's blood cells showed irregular rupture, self-destruction, and regeneration after coming into contact with diluted C-13!
Although it was impossible to detect what effect C-13 had on the blood cells, at least the blood sample eventually returned to its original state!
However, perhaps due to a lack of energy supply, the total blood volume decreased by more than half after the experiment!
Only real human experimentation could determine whether C-13 had any effect!
And Lin Feng, because of his self-healing ability, would not die at all!
Just as Lister was about to open his mouth to briefly explain to Ilise, an internally encrypted phone on the control console rang.
Lister reluctantly put down the experiment log in his hand, took two steps forward, and picked up the phone.
"This is Lister!"
As his voice fell, a male voice immediately came from the receiver.
"Dr. Lister! A super-powered individual has been discovered in Laboratory D!"
"Baron Strucker requests your immediate presence!"
Lister's eyes lit up. He glanced at Lin Feng's position, licked his lips, and said excitedly into the phone, "I'll be right there!"
Putting the phone back, Lister packed up the paper records he had just made while giving orders to Ilise.
"Strictly monitor all data of X-56! Report any abnormalities to me immediately!"
Having said that, Lister tucked the document bag under his arm and hurried to Laboratory D...
Meanwhile, inside Laboratory D.
Various instruments, equipment, and paper documents were piled up all around the laboratory, and there were a few scattered corpses on the floor!
The entire laboratory looked as if a missile had been thrown into it, with the explosion blowing everything outwards, leaving an empty "vacuum" area in the middle.
At the center of the explosion, a girl of about fifteen, sat on a special chair, wearing a helmet covered with various wires.
At this moment, the girl had already fainted, slumping in the chair with her head down.
If Lin Feng were here, he would definitely recognize that this girl was Misha!
Misha and Vicki, the siblings, had been here for three days.
Three days ago, when Tie Gou Gang retreated after capturing refugees from the slum, the intense gunfire from their battle with Lin Feng attracted a group of government troops.
While evading the government troops' pursuit, they accidentally trespassed into Baron Strucker's territory. The Baron's guards, hearing the gunfire, intervened and rescued the refugees.
Subsequently, everyone was brought to this Base. The guards told them that the Baron could provide them with temporary shelter.
If they passed the Baron's assessment, they could even stay and work for the Baron!
The next day, all the refugees were given a dose of "nutrient solution."
This nutrient solution was very miraculous. Everyone who drank it said they felt very comfortable, and their bodies felt warm.
Vicki, who had been shot in the shoulder during the previous capture, felt less pain after drinking the nutrient solution.
The wound, which would have normally taken some time to recover, scabbed over that very night!
However, Misha felt nothing; she only thought the nutrient solution didn't taste very good, and she didn't feel any warmth after drinking it.
This morning, My Lord Baron suddenly personally sought out the siblings and asked if they were willing to participate in the assessment!
Misha asked the Baron if she could avenge her family if she passed the assessment?
The Baron replied yes!
So the two were separately led to a laboratory, sat on a strange chair, and put on a strange helmet!
After putting on the helmet, Misha felt her emotions slowly becoming uncontrollable.
Memories of happy times with her parents in childhood kept flashing in her mind.
Then came the destruction of her home, becoming a refugee...
As time went on, the memory images in her mind got closer and closer to the present time.
Finally, the scene froze on Lin Feng falling before her eyes.
His bloodshot eyes stared fixedly in her direction. Misha seemed to return to the evening of his death, and his unwilling gaze clearly reappeared before her eyes!
Lin Feng's death seemed to be the last straw that broke her!
At this moment, Misha felt that the sadness and pain in her heart had almost materialized, and a restless energy continuously gathered in her chest!
With a painful cry, Misha felt a release in her chest, and a red energy radiated outwards from her center!
Immediately, Misha's consciousness plunged into darkness, and she fainted.
For Lin Feng, Misha and the other person had accompanied him for two years; they were the first ray of light that shone into his heart after he came to this World.
But for Misha, how could it not be the same?
Misha and Vicki lost their parents to war when they were ten years old. Their house was bombed, and the siblings were trapped in a small room!
Beside them lay an unexploded dud, and the "Stark Industries" logo on it was carved like a knife into the hearts of the two ten-year-old children!
For two full days!
Lin Feng's predecessor accidentally moved aside the rubble where the siblings were while scavenging!
The two little ones were huddled together, already so weak they were like flickering candles in the wind!
After being rescued, the siblings followed Lin Feng's predecessor in exile!
It wasn't until three years later that Lin Feng's predecessor realized he had late-stage esophageal cancer and was already experiencing difficulty swallowing!
So he chose to leave the remaining meager food for the two children!
After he starved to death, his body was quietly taken over by Lin Feng, who had transmigrated.
In the eyes of fifteen-year-old Misha, Lin Feng, who had depended on her for five years, was like Vicki, her only two family members in this World...
When Lister arrived at Laboratory D, the entire laboratory had been largely cleaned up.
Although most of the instruments and equipment were untouched, it still looked as if it had been bombed by a missile.
However, the various documents and corpses on the ground had been cleared away.
Ignoring the busy staff, Lister walked directly towards the elevated blast-proof control room.
Inside the control room, Strucker stood silently behind the blast-proof glass with his hands behind his back, a single-frame tactical test eyepiece on his face continuously refreshing lines of data.
"My Lord Baron!"
"What happened?"
"Is that girl the super-powered individual you mentioned?"
Lister walked over to Strucker, asking eagerly.
Strucker did not reply, but instead raised his chin towards a man in his forties beside him, who was writing and drawing in a notebook.
"Dr. Lister!"
Upon seeing Strucker's gesture, the man put down his pen.
"The batch of refugees brought back two days ago, yesterday we distributed a batch of diluted C-12 solution to them!"
"The subject below had no reaction after taking it!"
"I think you should be clear that for C-12, no reaction is precisely the biggest reaction!"
"So today we conducted an emotional stimulation experiment on her!"
The man roughly described Misha's situation and today's experiment process to Lister.
"Oh, and the subject also has a twin brother who experienced accelerated wound healing after taking C-12!"
"However, his emotional stimulation experiment just finished, and no abnormalities occurred during the experiment. He is currently in a comatose state!"
Lister listened with sparkling eyes, exclaiming in his heart that he had found a treasure!
These past few days have brought one good news after another!
"My Lord Baron! Hand these two children over to me!"
"The success or failure of the Winter Soldier program might depend on them!"
Lister was somewhat excited.
Dr. Erskine, the inventor of the Super Soldier Serum, never left any written records; all the data was in his head!
But now Dr. Erskine was dead!
Currently, research on the serum relies entirely on fragmented data collected by HYDRA during World War II!
So many years have passed, and it has been reverse-engineered to the 13th generation!
But there are still many side effects!
Even the death rate of the 13th generation was 100% before Lin Feng arrived!
Lister originally thought he might never be able to develop the complete serum in his lifetime!
But the appearance of Lin Feng and the Misha siblings gave him a glimmer of hope!
Compared to Lister's excitement, Strucker was calm.
"Dr. Lister!"
"What I want has never been a serum!"
"What I want are Super Soldiers!"
Strucker turned and looked at Lister.
"And your most perfect creation to date is only Ilise!"
"But she still experiences periodic emotional outbursts and rampages!"
"Have you solved her rampage problem?"
Strucker's expressionless questioning extinguished much of the excitement in Lister's heart.
Ilise was a product of the tenth-generation serum, and also his most successful and proud creation since he began researching the serum!
Other subjects either died or completely lost control and were unusable, so they were disposed of!
But this was the only case!
She was usually in a state of hibernation!
Firstly, to extend her lifespan so she could serve HYDRA longer.
Secondly, because the serum would enhance the user's emotional fluctuations and amplify the user's personality traits!
The incomplete serum might cause the brainwashed Ilise to develop self-recognition disorders due to emotional side effects, leading to her emotional outbursts!
This time, because it was the first time dealing with Lin Feng, a super-powered subject, Lister unsealed Ilise and familiarized her with C-13's historical data as a precautionary measure, making her his assistant!
But this was clearly not what Strucker wanted!
He wanted truly stable and obedient Super Soldiers!
Not unstable bombs that could only stay in hibernation pods and had a chance of rampaging when awake!
"My Lord Baron!"
"Ilise's rampage issue is mainly due to the incomplete serum!"
"Currently, we can only re-brainwash her when she loses control to help her overcome her self-recognition disorder!"
Lister's tone was somewhat uneasy.
Strucker, however, smiled slightly.
"Dr. Lister, don't be nervous!"
"I'm not blaming you!"
"Like you, I have poured my life's work into the Super Serum!"
"But when the energy erupted from this ordinary girl and overturned the laboratory below, I suddenly realized..."
"Super Soldiers, perhaps, don't necessarily have to rely on serum!"
A glint flashed in Lister's eyes; he suddenly realized that he might have been too fixated on the serum!
"My Lord Baron..."
Before Lister could finish, Strucker spoke again.
"X-56 can already satisfy your research on the serum!"
"As for this child..."
"Analyze her genetic sample and try to replicate her abilities!"
"Execute the brainwashing procedure! Re-implant a memory into her!"
"From now on, she belongs only to HYDRA!"
"From now on, her name is Wanda Maximoff!"
"Codename – Scarlet!"
Lister's body trembled slightly, it was excitement.
Researching super-powered individuals, replicating superpowers!
And there was already a super-powered subject right before him!
When has our old Li ever fought such a rich battle?!
"I understand! My Lord Baron!"
Strucker looked at the excited Lister before him and nodded in satisfaction.
He liked such pure scientists!
"Regarding Scarlet's brother, although emotional stimulation had no reaction.
"But since they are twins, he might also have hidden super-powered genes!"
"Try to activate his super-powered genes!"
"Re-implant memories into him too!"
"From now on, he will be called Pietro Maximoff!"
"Let them change their names and be siblings again!"
Lister became even more excited upon hearing this, nodding repeatedly, and even began to flatter Strucker!
He gave Strucker a slight gentleman's bow.
"I thank you on their behalf for your generosity! My Lord Baron!"
"Thank you for bestowing new names upon them!"
"You are truly merciful!"
Misha and Vicki's fates were completely changed by Strucker's few words!
It was as if even a super-powered individual like Misha was merely a tool that Strucker could easily manipulate!
This was the confidence HYDRA gave him!
But he didn't know that Misha had no superpowers at all!
The energy she unleashed was not merely an ability, but magic! Chaos magic!
It wasn't that she awakened Chaos magic; Chaos magic chose her!
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