American comics: You're asked to fish, but you catch a Superman template?

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Several Hydra researchers cautiously gathered together, picked up their identification tokens, and scanned the entrance to the passage.

One of the explorers shook his head, frowning as he looked at the group behind him. With Sector D completely sealed off, their work badges were no longer valid, and they could no longer move freely as before.

"It seems we must wait until the danger has passed before we can go out."

The party didn't seem too surprised by the result; in fact, they had tried many times since then.

It has been basically confirmed that there is no way to leave the locked-down D area in the usual way.

Does anyone know what happened?

Most of them didn't really know the whole story; many more were simply acting on the warnings broadcast on the radio.

Chapter 674 Busy with an experiment

They ran out with the crowd.

"No, I'm recording data in the lab."

"Me too."

"I heard the broadcast, so I..."

"It might be an accidental triggering, or it might be an explosion like last time."

When asked this question, the vast majority of researchers looked bewildered.

"I don't know much about it."

Unbeknownst to everyone, one of the researchers spoke up, revealing what he knew. "I was about to leave City D, but on the way I suddenly realized that some important experimental data hadn't been saved, so I had to go back and save it again. On the way back, I overheard someone say that Dr. Bruce Banner's lab also seemed to have made a mistake when using gamma rays." "150"

He didn't hear the conversation very clearly because he was on the road, busy conducting an experiment.

"Gamma ray accident?"

Upon hearing the researcher's words, the surrounding crowd immediately showed a skeptical attitude.

"If a gamma-ray accident had actually occurred, I doubt we would all still be alive, and those who saw it up close would not be able to leave the laboratory."

None of the people here are ordinary people who can work in the research department of a large company like Hydra.

It is for this reason that they have gained a better understanding of the dangers of gamma rays, even though this radiation has now been successfully used in research procedures.

However, they will not ignore the danger of gamma rays themselves. Gamma rays are a type of high-frequency electromagnetic radiation that, if in excess, can easily cause irreversible and fatal damage to humans. Moreover, this danger increases with the amount of gamma ray radiation, should an accident of the scale described by the researchers actually occur.

Enough to kill everyone in Sector D instantly, giving them no time to evacuate.

After all, how could a person possibly run faster than gamma-ray radiation?

"So I think that's one possibility, but of course I could also have misheard."

Faced with questions from the crowd, the researchers readily answered with the same half-sentence.

"Did you hear anything?"

As everyone discussed and speculated about the possibility of the accident, he suddenly frowned, listened carefully, and asked...

Upon hearing his question, the people present stopped their discussion.

Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom

Immediately afterward, in the rumbling silence, a faint rumbling sound came from the depths of the laboratory corridor.

At first, the rumbling sound was very faint and could be easily overlooked.

But before long, the sound grew louder and louder, eventually reaching everyone's ears and becoming deafening.

rumbling

"Rumble!"

The corridor walls in front of the explorers shattered into pieces amidst the distant sounds, and then a huge green figure burst through part of the broken wall, letting out a sharp, piercing scream towards the explorers at the entrance of the passage.

"Dr. Zola, what happened?"

Stepping out of the elevator, Helmut frowned as he looked at the busy base personnel and immediately asked the question on the screen in front of him.

For some time now, events within Hydra, especially Hank's disappearance, have cast doubt on Helmut's position. Had it not been for Ophelia Hydra's failure at Hydra's previous base, causing unexpected losses to Hydra, her personality wouldn't have allowed Helmut to escape so easily.

"An unexpected incident occurred during the serum experiment."

During Helmut's interrogation, Dr. Zola replayed the surveillance footage.

Turning to look at the green creature in the surveillance footage, Helmut frowned even more deeply and couldn't help but ask, "What is it?"

"Theoretically speaking, he is Bruce Banner."

In response to Helmut's question, Dr. Zola relayed what the researchers had just told him.

"What?".

When Helmut heard Dr. Zola's answer, the look of surprise on his face was even more pronounced than that on Dr. Zola's face.

As someone who had actually been in contact with Banner, Helmut couldn't reconcile the enormous monster in the surveillance footage with the skinny Bruce Banner he remembered.

“I am also investigating the specific situation, but according to people from the D-zone laboratory, the root cause of Bruce Banner’s mutation must be the gamma rays used in the experiment. In the serum animal experiment, there was a problem with the gamma rays they used. Bruce Banner himself was directly exposed to the gamma rays, but these rays did not take his life first. Instead, they stimulated his body cells to mutate.”

"This mutation is somewhat similar to Hyde-Frua's formula modification, but there are clear differences between the two. At least, even the modified Mr. Hyde would not survive such layers of gamma rays, but Bruce Banner not only survived, but also demonstrated extraordinary destructive power."

"Perhaps it's the super soldiers he's researching that's influencing him. Also, to go further, I just checked the gamma rays in the D-sector lab, and they're mostly at harmless low levels. It's clear that Bruce Banner absorbed the gamma rays released during the machine's mutation process. Even a fraction of that level of gamma rays would be enough to kill everyone in the entire building, except me—no, there might be another Brock Rumlow, who's currently in the consciousness register as well. A fraction of that level would be enough to kill 0.9 of everyone in the entire building, except me—no, there might be another Brock Rumlow, who's currently in the consciousness register as well, unaffected by the gamma rays."

"Dr. Zola."

Dr. Zola's incessant chatter interrupted the screen as Helmut watched Banner transform into a green monster.

Do you think Dr. Bruce Banner has a chance of being reinstated?

"that."

Interrupted by Helmut's own words, Dr. Zola's expression on the screen was somewhat displeased, but he hesitated for a moment when answering the question.

"It's still unclear. After all, this is the first time I've seen this kind of mutation. Maybe Bruce Banner will revert to his original state after absorbing the gamma rays in his body, or maybe he'll remain in this state forever."

Chapter 675 The Hulk

Watching Banner wreak havoc in the surveillance camera footage, Helmut squinted slightly behind his glasses before turning to Dr. Zola on the screen.

"In that case, help me catch him."

Looking at the green monster on the monitor screen, Helmut said with a cold expression.

"I think Field Marshal Johann Schmidt would be interested in this."

The Super Soldier Serum experiment has always been a key research focus for Hydra. Helmut invested a great deal of resources in this endeavor, even obtaining part of Hyde-Frua's formula from "Thunderbolt" in order to decipher the serum's formula.

This experimental project was spearheaded by the American Army during World War II, but stalled after the death of the American captain.

The research project was only recently resumed at the request of then-German commander in the United States, General Johann Schmidt.

Under pressure from John Schmidt, all the data left behind by Dr. Abraham Erskine, who was leading experiments to create serums for super soldiers, and most importantly, Captain America's body, were secretly transferred from the American military to a Hydra research base.

With the defeat in World War II and the long-term covert presence of the German army.

The vast majority of the American public has largely accepted the fact that America was a defeated nation, but a small number of soldiers who came from World War II are still unwilling to acknowledge America's defeat.

At this point, MacArthur began a crackdown in Hell's Kitchen, backed by American German troops, to eliminate these hardliners who refused to surrender during World War II.

This repression proved to be very successful. After World War II soldiers were brutally murdered and tortured in "Hell's Kitchen," the United States had virtually no established resistance organizations, except for a few scattered insurgents.

The group of beautiful Americans who emerged after the war were even called the "Lost Generation".

An era of despair, a microcosm of the United States' loss of national status.

Nevertheless, Captain America remains an iconic figure in the United States during World War II, and was even once included in American textbooks as a superhero.

Especially during World War II, he led an invading squad that caused a lot of trouble for the German army.

It symbolizes the period when the American army was invincible in battle.

Even today, the viewpoint that World War II would have unfolded differently if the American invasion team led by Captain America had not failed is still circulating in major American media outlets.

In his 1960s book, *The Stranger in the High Castle*, Philip K. Dick presented a subversive history, describing the Axis powers' defeat in World War II and the partitioning of Germany and Japan by the United States, exploring the themes of justice and injustice, inferiority and identity, and the impact of capitalism and racism on human society.

In this book, Philip K. Dick created a fictional superhero called Captain Justice who defeated the American nation.

Although Captain Justice is only a symbolic character in it, serving as a subplot in the background story of America's victory in World War II.

However, anyone familiar with the history of the defeated America will naturally connect the Captain Justice in the book with Captain America.

In particular, the story of Philip K. Dick mentions Captain Justice's growth story more than once.

"Without a doubt, the captain is a patriot, and he likes to wear clothes with the beautiful national flag that represents the country behind him."

"That war was extremely brutal, the most dangerous situation the captain had ever faced. At one point, the entire unit was dying on the battlefield because of them, but in the end they won. They changed the course of World War II and brought us an unprecedented victory."

It is precisely because of this consideration that the American captain has a potential impact on American society.

Only in this way could Hydra secretly study him without warning anyone.

Helmut knew that if all this were revealed, it would cause a huge upheaval in American society and create unnecessary trouble for Germany's military presence in the United States.

"I understand."

Inside the underground laboratory of the Hydra building.