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"But first, I have to take care of some technical matters. Jarvis, give me an update on those two little guests. Did they try to remove the collars from their necks? Or burn a hole through the wall with their eyes?"
"Sir, Miss Maximov and Mr. Maximov's vital signs are currently stable, and their emotions are also stable." Jarvis's gentle voice sounded in the corridor.
"They weren't engaging in any destructive behaviour, they were just spaced out."
"Dazing off?" Tony curled his lips.
"It seems that my speech did have some effect. At least it made their brains, which were filled with hatred, start to think at the most basic level."
"Or maybe they are just simply hungry," Henry said casually.
"After all, not everyone is like you, who can survive on narcissism and coffee for a week."
The two of them bickered all the way back to the underground laboratory.
Tony sat back in his chair, picked up a cup of coffee that had long gone cold, and took a big gulp.
"Okay, let's not talk about those two burdens." He waved his hand, and the holographic screen lit up instantly, and began to scroll rapidly through the massive amount of data extracted from Stark's brain.
"Let's see what we gained from this luxury tour of Europe."
Henry also pulled up a chair and sat next to him.
He also wanted to see what Tony had discovered, and hopefully it wasn't some Hydra family reunion.
On the screen, all kinds of files, pictures, videos, and encrypted codes are dazzling.
Seeing Tony like this, Henry wanted to laugh.
Tony always looks like he doesn't care about anything, ever since he came back from Afghanistan.
But in fact, he cares about the people and things around him more than anyone else.
"I have to say, this Strucker's brain is really filled with a lot of good stuff. I used the Information in his brain to crack his private account and got some things." Tony was amazed as he quickly screened the information.
"Like the coordinates of various secret bases, lists of agents lurking around the world, and some, oh my god, this guy has really unique personal tastes."
He casually opened a folder, which contained hundreds of high-definition photos from different angles. There were even a few of himself in swimming trunks on vacation at the beach...
"Fuck." Henry looked at Strucker, who was wearing sunscreen on the screen, and felt that his eyes were contaminated.
"Turn it off! Turn it off! I'm about to throw up! Is this guy a pervert?!"
"It seems that the narcissism within Hydra is more serious than I thought." Tony suppressed his nausea, quickly closed the folder, and labelled it a biological weapon.
"Jarvis, clear this folder. I don't want to see it again."
"As ordered, sir. The target file has been permanently destroyed."
"Okay, no more jokes." Tony cleared his throat, and his expression became serious again.
"Besides these disgusting things, I also found some very troublesome information."
He retrieved several encrypted files, and after Jarvis used brute force to crack them, the contents of the files appeared before them.
"According to Strucker's memory, Hydra isn't as united as we thought," Tony said, pointing to an organizational chart on the screen.
"They've split into several factions, competing with each other, even hostile to each other. Strucker belongs to the more traditional fundamentalist faction, the old-fashioned ones who still cling to their legions and dream of conquering the world by force."
Henry looked at the screen quietly, his heart calm.
Besides loving to rule the world, this group of people also loves to argue about who is the boss.
"Yeah, that's right. Hydra's internal strife is a traditional art. A World War II veteran like Strucker and the guys behind them who are playing political infiltration are completely different people. One wants to build a super army and fight head-on, while the other wants to play dirty. Sooner or later, they will break up."
"Beyond this, there's an even more mysterious faction." Tony's finger slid across the screen, finally stopping on a name: Alexander Pierce.
"We all know this guy. He's a member of the World Security Council and the boss of Nick Fury, the one-eyed man." Tony's voice turned cold.
"He represents the infiltration faction. They believe that conquering the world through violence is too inefficient and backward. They prefer to infiltrate and corrupt a country's regime from within, like a virus, and then easily take control of it."
"S.H.I.E.L.D. is their greatest masterpiece."
Henry remained calm on the surface, but he felt like laughing inside.
This is the highlight, Alexander Pierce, one of the top leaders of Hydra and the boss of S.H.I.E.L.D.
Braised Egg Fury worked hard for decades, only to find out that he was working for the enemy and that everything in his home was stolen.
The so-called Insight Project was created by these guys. The three aerospace motherships, aimed at the whole world, are simply the sword of Damocles hanging over the heads of mankind.
Henry cooperated and said, "I said last time that our real enemy has been hiding under the nose of that one-eyed man."
"That's right." Tony nodded with a sarcastic smile on his face.
"That king of spies who thought he had everything under control was actually just helping others raise poison. I really want to see what kind of expression he'd have when he discovered that his most trusted superiors and colleagues were all a bunch of treacherous hydras with ulterior motives."
"But these aren't what interest me the most." Tony's eyes grew deeper as he clicked on the last document. It was an incomplete research report titled "Hive."
"Strucker's authority is not sufficient to see the entire contents of this document," Tony said with a frown.
"According to fragmentary records, 'Hive' seems to be Hydra's most core secret. He is an Inhuman, a monster they worship as a god. It is said that he can control all Inhumans and is Hydra's ultimate trump card to create an army of superpowers."
Henry was a little surprised and stunned for a moment.
Wait, Hive? How did that thing even appear?
Shouldn't this be the big boss of the Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. universe?
An ancient parasite that can infect and control Inhumans, the true ancestor of Hydra.
Strucker is actually researching this? This world line is really getting more and more confusing."
"Inhuman?" Henry repeated the word in a puzzled manner.
"Yes, a potential human with superpowers," Tony explained.
"Their genes harbour the imprint of an alien experiment by the Kree. Once activated by something called the Terrigen Crystal, they gain all sorts of bizarre superpowers. SHIELD has been secretly tracking and recording information about these people."
Henry shrugged and asked knowingly, "So this hive is the queen bee from the Inhumans?"
"It can be understood like that." Tony nodded.
"Also, according to the report, this monster doesn't seem to be dead. He was simply exiled to a distant planet. And Hydra has been trying to find a way to bring him back for thousands of years."