Comics: Rise of Hydra

In the darkness of the night, the underground tunnel under the Hudson River exploded. The huge sound spread almost throughout most of New York. Countless police, reporters, firefighters, and the Coast Guard rushed over like crazy.

Lauren emerged from the water and walked step by step to the muddy ground by the river. The equipment on his body fell away silently, leaking out his wet clothes.

The communicator materialized and Lauren dialed a number. After three rings, Daken's excited voice sounded from the phone.

"Boss...?..."

"Do it."

Lauren whispered.

At the same time, while Dr. Zola was mobilizing his manpower and happily busy capturing Lauren alive in New York at night, Daken had already taken Yuriko to the outside of the AIM New York Research Institute.

With a call from Laurent, the attack officially began. Daken spent thirty-nine seconds clearing all the defense forces in the institute. Yuriko rushed into the institute immediately, and ten sharp claws killed those who were frightened. The researchers killed them all by hand, after copying all the research information on the Extremis virus and packing more than a dozen bottles of the Extremis virus original solution.

Daken happily placed more than a dozen C4 explosives in various corners of the institute.

All the actions took less than two minutes, and the research institute that Dr. Zola spent countless efforts on was reduced to ruins in the brilliant little mushroom cloud.

As the most important research institute of AIM in New York, the defense force will certainly not be so weak. However, the guards in the research institute are currently under the Hudson River. They are all filled with seawater. How can they still have strength? Resist Daken's attack?

A few minutes later, a Quinjet with the S.H.I.E.L.D. logo painted on its fuselage was suspended over the river in the distance.

Laurent smiled proudly, rolled around in the mud by the river, and took a few gulps of cold water.

Very cold, very fishy…

And it’s very bloated…

His wretched appearance looked like he was unlucky enough to have rolled around in the water for more than a dozen times before getting out.

With a big hand grab, an Adamantium alloy stick appeared in his hand. He raised his arm and Lauren hit the joint hard with the stick...

click...

The left arm drooped down weakly, and the flesh and blood turned out like a child's mouth, revealing the broken white bones inside.

"Very good, now everything is complete."

The corner of Lauren's mouth twitched, damn, it really hurts!

He took out a signal stick from his pocket, swiped it directly on the tree next to him, then raised it high and pointed it at the sky.

Hovering on the river, Scarlett anxiously guarded the door of the warehouse. Suddenly she saw a thick red smoke rising, and her eyes suddenly lit up: "Over there, go quickly!"

The Quinjet started quickly, and before it could hover to a position where it could land, Scarlett, who had already seen Lauren through the night vision device, jumped directly from the warehouse door into the water, and waded in quickly.

"Scarlett...!!?"

The shock on Lauren's face was not fake.

Wearing a black special combat uniform full of science fiction, with at least twenty deadly weapons hidden all over her body, the Scarlett in front of her was completely different from the female researcher who usually wore a white coat and glasses.

Laurent stepped forward quickly, rolling and crawling forward for a few steps. When his feet gave way, he faced the ground, pretending to be unconscious.

It was night at this time, and Lauren was face down again. In such a tense atmosphere, it could be seen that he was pretending?

Scarlett rushed forward to help.

"Damon, he is injured, hurry up..."

Scarlett urged anxiously, and you could hear the panic in her voice.

Two more members of the special forces jumped down and hurriedly moved him onto the plane.

puff!

Lying flat in the cabin of the plane, with Scarlett pressing her chest several times, Lauren spit out several mouthfuls of river water.

"God...this wound..."

Military doctor Damon quickly caught up. When he saw Lauren's wounds, he exclaimed and hurriedly helped him fix the broken bones of his forearm.

Although Laurent's actual recovery ability is not as exaggerated as that of Daken, such an injury can be fully recovered within a few minutes as long as some source energy is expended.

After counting a thousand times in his mind, Laurent woke up with a roar, trembling all over, and looking around with nervous eyes.

"Scarlett...is it really you?"

Scarlett was lying on top of his head, with a bright and reassuring smile on her face. She picked up Lauren's head and put it on her chest. She said in an unquestionable tone, "Lauren...it's me, it's really me... …You’re safe! You’re safe now!”

She gently stroked Lauren's forehead with her warm and gentle hands, helping Lauren to settle down quickly.

Lauren closed her eyes a little tiredly.

Next to him, May walked up to Lauren. Without giving Lauren any time to think, she asked in an interrogating tone, "Lauren Strike, I am a level seven agent. Melinda May...what happened?" What? Why did you blow up the underpass of the Hudson River? You have to tell us in every detail... Remember, no detail is allowed to be left out. If you don't have enough reasons, you will be dismissed as The charges of committing a terrorist attack are brought to court."

Scarlett made no secret of her dissatisfaction and stared hard at the almost inhumane Mei. Mei completely ignored her gaze and stared at Lauren.

Of course Lauren knew Melinda May's name.

The cold-faced beauty and the mission maniac. Within SHIELD, Coulson, the good old man who smiles all day long, is basically the only one who has a good relationship with her, while Lauren has basically no interaction with her.

Lauren quickly looked around at the surrounding environment, and his eyes quickly calmed down. It seemed that Scarlett had joined a certain project, and Mei was the person in charge of this project.

As a senior agent, Mei fully understood Lauren's reaction. If he didn't confirm the surrounding environment immediately, it would be suspicious.

Lauren, as if comforting Scarlett, said feebly, "I bombed the Hudson River Port?... Ha... The bomb has been activated and I can't defuse it. The explosion site is already the best choice with the least loss... Ahem... …”

Laurent spoke in an understatement, as if it was just a trivial matter.

But it was enough to make the people around him look at him differently. They looked shocked and could hardly help but applaud, especially Scarlett's eyes, which were filled with the gleam of admiration called love.

He used his body to transport bombs and saved Manhattan, tsk tsk...

It’s so touching... This is simply a superhero who sacrifices himself for the people...

Mei still had the same expression and asked in a dry tone, "I'm glad you can come back alive, but I also want to ask you to explain why you are the only one who survived... Don't tell me it's just luck? Such a collapse is enough Kill you a hundred times."

"plum…"

Scarlett looked like a hen protecting her chicks, her eyebrows raised.

"Scarlett, it's okay..."

Lauren patted Scarlett's arm with her hand, shook her head and said with a smile, "Agent May is helping me clear away the suspicion. Well, the reason why I survived... is indeed a gift from the goddess of luck."

Lauren took a button-sized device from her waist and weakly handed it to Mei.

"Is this... an inflatable capsule?"

Scarlett blurted out.

"The inflatable capsule can be instantly inflated into a water walking ball. It is a product of the Technology Bureau and is used for self-rescue in shipwrecks and air crashes. The two here were given to me by Scarlett, so I usually wear them...Scarlett , is my goddess of luck.”

Scarlett's face suddenly turned red and shy, and the people next to her were speechless, and they were caught off guard by a mouthful of dog food.

Luo Lun looked at Mei and smiled bitterly.

"I didn't expect it to be used this time. This is one of the reasons why I chose the undersea passage. After all, I don't want to die, so I'll take a gamble with this."

"Although the balloon was popped, at least I escaped the first wave of impact."

Mei listened to what he said and returned the capsule to him, silent and lost in thought.

At this time, Curly Dennis walked up holding the tablet computer.

"Captain, Lauren Strike's mission."

"it is good."

Mei nodded without any nonsense, took the computer and started reading.

Level 5 mission: Track the stolen explosive device from the military base xxxxx,

Executor: Lauren Strike,

Mission Issuer: Sitwell.

Of course, there were many other contents in the mission statement. The expressionless Mei read every word very carefully, but did not find anything suspicious.

Lauren's eyes vaguely swept over the surrounding members. It was obvious that there was at least one member of Hydra among them.

He originally wanted to use Mei's seventh-level authority as an excuse, but he didn't expect that in such a short time, a complete and detailed mission statement would appear in SHIELD's files.

So, SHIELD should be called Snake Shield!

After a long time, Mei said, "It seems that you are indeed lucky...take good care of yourself."

After she finished speaking, she turned around, walked to her seat next to her, and sat down, silent, showing no change in her mood at all.

Lauren frowned slightly and looked at his girlfriend. She was wearing a black combat uniform and had a heroic appearance. She looked like a different person than the usual genius girl. Lauren smiled, "I'll go find you. Soraya said you were on a mission! Well... Is this a new division of SHIELD?”

"Um…"

Scarlett blinked, indicating that she couldn't say more.

"The Special Forces Program is one of SHIELD's new projects. It recruits elites from various departments, including you, who was also on my recruitment list..."

Mei's voice suddenly interrupted.

"Me? I check my mailbox every day."

Mei glanced at Laurent and said calmly, "Two years ago, you were involved in a fight in a bar, and one of the guys was seriously injured by you."

Lauren hummed, "Those three noisy guys?"

Two years ago, Lauren, who was single at the time, and Daken, whom she had just met, went to a bar to hunt for women. As a result, three drunkards made trouble. At that time, there was a beauty in the bar that Lauren was very jealous of. In order to show his strength, he was very polite. "Please ask those three guys to leave.

Mei said coldly, "The one who was seriously injured was your tester. He gave you a negative score in the personality evaluation."

Laurent raised his eyebrows: "Really? That's really a pity."

Special Forces Program.

It's such a simple and straightforward name, very... S.H.I.E.L.D.

He finally remembered what team Scarlett had joined!

It turns out that there is still this relationship.