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Chapter 73 Straight to Hades

Gideon Malik was beginning to waver a little.

Two weeks ago, the research team led by two of his best scientists finally found a plan that might welcome the return of Hydra's great leader from another world after long-term and unremitting efforts.Malik pinned all the hopes of their surviving organization or revival on this plan, and he desperately sent his best team, led by the two scientists, through the portal to another world Find the whereabouts of their great leader.

After that, even he couldn't believe it, he actually did something that Hydra's hundreds of generations had never done.He could hardly contain himself from laughing when he saw the leader parasitizing Jonathan Burt, his elite agent, crawl out of the portal.

The details are not mentioned in the family lore, and Malik only roughly knows that the exiled Hydra leader is actually the first Inhuman born from the genetic modification of the Kree on Earth.But only now did he understand that this alien is actually a collection of parasites that can parasitize human hosts, control the host's body and obtain their memories.

Now, two weeks later, Malik is starting to wonder if he was right in his gamble.

Since climbing out of the portal, the hive—that is, the "God of the Hydra"—has basically spent every day sitting on the sofa in a special room.He needs neither food nor excretion, nor sleep and rest.24 hours a day, like a stupid stake, he stayed rooted on that sofa, watching TV in exactly the same posture.

At first Malik arranged for one television in front of him, but he soon became dissatisfied, and two days later he asked for four.Three days later, he was watching eight TVs at the same time, each with a completely different content sped up on each screen.His eyes kept switching and wandering between the eight screens, like a sponge thrown into the water, absorbing crazily, as if he was determined to make up for the thousands of years of knowledge he had missed in the shortest possible time.

Then he started to read.He also reads very fast, and in one day the sofa is filled with a large pile of books.And he is not picky, he does not refuse books published in any language and in any professional field.Malik had to arrange for cartloads of books to be brought to him every day, and it felt like this guy was trying to be a generalist in all subjects in a week.

One thing that bothered Malik was that the other person didn't seem particularly interested in communicating with him.Malik asked him if he needed to change to a better host, and the guy replied flatly no; Malik told him about Hydra's current predicament, and this guy also showed no interest, as if the organization He was irrelevant.

Perhaps most disturbing of all is Giera's transformation.

Jiera is the henchman of Gideon Malik, a powerful Inhuman with the ability to teleport inanimate objects.Malik never doubted Giera's loyalty to himself and Hydra, he was like a devout believer, even if Malik ordered him to rush into the flames, he would execute it without blinking an eye.

He saw with his own eyes a pale yellow mist of countless tiny parasites projected from the fingertips of the hive, and entered Jiera's eyes and nose like gas.Giera seemed unaffected afterwards, but Malik noticed a marked change in the way he looked at the hive.If Jiera had doubts about the ability of the hive like Malik before, after that he behaved like a brainwashed puppet who pulled strings, worshiping the god who returned from aliens from the bottom of his heart .

A day earlier, the hive had made another request to him.

"Bring me five people." These were his exact words, and he especially emphasized at the end, "To live."

So Malik arranged for him to find five men who were as healthy and strong as possible.Hive asked to be alone with them, leaving everyone else to wait outside the room.No one saw exactly what happened, but when they opened the door, they only saw that the room was filled with dark red blood like a river, and the hive stood in the middle of the dripping blood, with five charred bones lying beside them, The dark red blood coagulated on the surface of the bones, and every drop of flesh and blood was eaten away.The blood-red skull had sunken eye sockets and opened its mouth wide, as if screaming silently.

Gideon Malik considers himself a man used to seeing blood, but even he must admit to being shaken by the horror.

He began to suspect that what he had brought back from another world might not be a god after all.

Maybe he put back a devil.

***
Ever since he accepted the invitation to come to the United States, Dum has made up his mind to use their technology to create a machine that can enter the underworld and help him rescue his mother.

On the surface, Dum maintains a good cooperative relationship with the military, but actually uses their resources to obtain all the necessary materials to build this machine for his private purpose.From Dum's point of view, the uninformed idiots in the military are really easy to fool. He only needs to keep providing them with the minimum development results, and they will happily give him the highest praise.

After years of accumulation, Doom now seems to have finally touched the edge of realizing his dream.He built that machine, in a private laboratory that accompanies his dorm.

From the outside, it was basically a metal seat, followed by a bunch of complicated wiring, and behind it was assembled a generator made by Dum.

Thanks to Michael Passo's visit three days ago, his little proposal perfectly solved the biggest problem of Dum's machine operation. After three days of non-stop modification and debugging, Dum is now convinced that this machine has The project was officially completed, and he was able to take on the important task of leading his soul to break through the dimensions and open the gate of Hades.

After finishing the last adjustment, Dum turned on the power and sat in the seat himself.The generator worked well, and the electricity was charged into the chair through the intricate wiring, lighting up each luminous body above and below the seat with a strange green light.

Everything was ready, Doom picked up a black helmet ready to put on.But at this moment, he suddenly paused, remembering the advice Michael gave him three days ago.Michael solves his biggest problem with the device's operation for him, but warns him that success is still a ways off.

What does that guy mean?Does that mean I'm not ready to face hell yet?
But the thought just passed by.

He's Victor von Doom, and he's fearless.

Doom put his helmet on and activated the switch on the device.The machine started, a majestic energy rolled through the line, and red current burst out in all directions.For a moment, Doom felt as if thousands of electric currents pierced through the helmet and rushed into his cochlea, and then rushed all the way into his brain.The snake-like electric current violently stirred his brain nerves, and the extreme pain almost pierced him.

He tried to scream, but found he couldn't open his mouth.

He felt himself disappearing.

(Thanks to book friend AsinauuKi for the reward of 1000 starting coins, and alucious for the reward of 500 starting coins!)

(End of this chapter)