[Comprehensive British and American] Space Patrolman Hydra

"..."

The alien girl, who has always been chirping like a little bird, just couldn't stop, was silent for a while when faced with this question.

"some."

she said softly.

There is the first Hydra.

once.

——The alien girl uses the past tense.

Steve Rogers, keenly aware of this, lowered his voice too.

"What kind of existence is that?"

"He is beautiful, powerful, and has a longer life...Compared to him, I can only be regarded as an underage cub."

Hydera lowered her eyes.

"According to the doctor, strictly speaking, he is my... father."

The blond soldier was stunned for a moment because the alien girl's words were too vague, and he couldn't help asking.

"Strictly speaking?"

"Yes, strictly speaking."

Hydera nodded and said vaguely.

"While I do come from him, we don't have a biologically defined kinship, we've never even actually met...but I feel him a lot."

—in every inch of time and space in the world.

Burning stars, flowing dust, dazzling nebulae, black holes devouring everything, galaxies flowing quietly... In her universe, his voice can always be heard.

"Boss, I found it."

At this time, Arnold's search was completed.

"I captured and locked the bioelectricity left on the mural and traced it to Coney Peninsula, Brooklyn, New York."

"Walk."

Hydera stopped talking, and arrived at Coney Peninsula with Steve Rogers following Arnold's guidance.

The remaining traces of the bioelectricity route terminated outside the roof of a circus.

"Another mural."

The blond soldier stood in front of the wall and stretched out his hand, trying to find clues on the mural by touching it.

"Don't touch."

Hydera grabbed Steve Rogers, staring at the mural on the wall all the time, with a rare solemn expression.

"There are energy fluctuations in the painting. Celephis covered some kind of strange energy field on the painting. I have never seen a similar energy system. I can't analyze the effect of the energy field for the time being, just in case...Arnold .”

"It has already begun."

Arnold, who formed an amazing tacit understanding with Hydera during the long time of getting along, responded.

"The second calculation line is turned on, the program is parallel, and it is calculating."

"Is the strange energy field a power similar to magic?"

Steve Rogers, who has experienced enough ups and downs and incredible things, accepts this kind of unreasonable things well, and is carefully looking at the murals that seem to have nothing unusual at this time—even with a little curiosity.

"But it looks like an ordinary painting."

This mural is different from the one in Brooklyn.

In the last mural, a group of handsome knights riding on streaky horses, wearing shiny armor and gold silk battle robes decorated with strange heraldry, are riding up to the cliff at night. ramp.At the end of the ramp stands the iconic ivory gate that was tattooed on the arm by members of Celephis.

And this one.

The knights passed through the white ivory gate, the part that was shrouded in darkness before was lit up, and the end of the cliff shone with golden light, setting a circle of dazzling light on the edges of all scenes.The abyss below the cliff is depicted as a chaotic brilliance of rose and sky blue, and brilliant clouds and shining silver lights shimmer in the night sky, so that the sky is hidden in a haze of glory.

"These two murals are connected together."

Steve Rogers realized.

"It means there are more murals to come."

Hydera snorted.

The murals in the clouds, the untraceable enemies, and the feeling of being led by the nose passively made Hydera's mood worse and worse.The alien girl impatiently ground the ground with her toes, and the huge force directly crushed the stone bricks into an obvious deep pit, which continued to deepen.

"Hydra, listen carefully."

Steve Rogers said suddenly.

The alien girl was distracted, she blinked and asked, "Listen to what?"

"Listen, Brick is crying."

The blond soldier put his eyes on the pit under the alien girl's feet, and said seriously.

"It's screaming it hurts."

"..."

Hydera lowered her head and saw the deep pit under her feet.

“…………….”

The alien girl instantly turned red from her neck to her ears, and her head was firmly buried in her chest, refusing to lift it up. She even began to seriously consider whether to secretly reverse the time in the area and erase her criminal traces.

"Just now I thought you wanted to use your feet to drill into the center of the earth to travel, doesn't it look like it?"

Steve Rogers teased with a smirk, and when Hydera was so embarrassed that he was about to shrink into a ball, and the previous gloomy and violent atmosphere completely disappeared, he finally stretched out his hand and gently landed on the alien girl's head.

A stroke, a stroke, along that brilliant blonde hair very reassuringly.

"Never be impatient. Impatience will make you ignore many clues."

He admonished gently.

Hydera pressed the big, generous hand above her head, separated her fingers, and crossed them.And the blond soldier was no longer too gentlemanly as before, and in turn held Hydera's hand tightly.

"No matter what Celephis wants to do, there is absolutely no possibility of success."

The dry warmth enveloped Hydera, miraculously soothing the burning anxiety in her heart.

"A specific target bioelectrical response emerges," Arno said.

"Walk."

The alien girl's feet stroked from left to right over the deep pit, and the re-exposed places were flattened and filled, leaving only an imperceptible arc.

"Look at what these lunatics are going to do."

This time, the mural is in the back alley of a hospital in the Hamptons of Long Island, New York.

As Hydera and Steve Rogers thought, the murals they found along the way were continuous.At this time, the above content has changed again:

The knights walked up the cliff, walked up the mist, and rose all the way in glory.

Next Specific Target Bioelectrical Responses, University of California, Berkeley.

In the mural, at the end of the glory that the knights arrived at, a more glorious space is depicted——

——a magnificent city surrounded by valleys and seas.

"Through the gate of ivory, arrive at the real and beautiful country life..."

Hydera muttered about the beliefs of the Celephis organization that had been investigated before, but it was not even the slightest bit of ease to reveal the answer.

She stared at the mural, pursed her lips unconsciously, and rubbed her fingers back and forth at the corner of her mouth.

——Something is wrong.

Hydera was a little uneasy.

She felt as if she was missing something.

No, she must have missed something.

While she was trying to remember, the person next to her suddenly spoke, and the voice line was unusually erratic, like talking in a dream.

"...Celephas."

"Steve?—what are you doing?!"

Hydera was awakened by Steve Rogers' trance voice. Turning her head, she saw the determined and unshakable blond soldier with a dazed expression at this moment, and his eyes were out of focus. Looking at the mural, it seemed that he saw another world.

"This is Celephaz..."

His hand stretched out at some point, only a few centimeters away from touching the mural.But his eyebrows were tightly furrowed, and he unconsciously fought against the force that attracted him.His fingertips trembled in the air, struggling to move.

Hydera's heartbeat stopped.

For the first time, her body was faster than her thoughts, and she dragged the abnormal soldier behind her.

Pulled away from the mural by external force, Steve Rogers regained clarity in an instant.

"What happened just now... Hydera?"

He shook his heavy and dizzy head, blinked hard, but saw Hydera standing in front of him, firmly blocking him and the mural.

Noticing the icy side face of the blond girl who did not hide his guard and the vertical pupils shrunk into a thin line, the blond soldier followed Hydera's line of sight and was surprised to find that the exquisite mural was faintly glowing.

It was obviously a beautiful sight, but as soon as he looked at the soft light, his head suddenly felt sick for no reason.

Steve Rogers slammed his mouth shut and his eyes shut.It was as if a derailed train screamed and ran over his ears, hitting his nerves. The hiss of the car crash and the flames stirred his head, making the world spin.

Suppressing the dizziness and vomiting, a vague voice squeezed out from the gap between his fingers.

"What is this……!"

"It's not a good thing anyway."

Hydera's voice sounded.Immediately afterwards, the cool palm touched the forehead of the blond soldier, and a comfortable coolness spread from the contact surface to the whole body, which greatly relieved his discomfort.

"Steve, what did you just see?"

Hydera asked while sorting out Steve Rogers' disordered bioelectricity.

"I saw……"

The blond soldier recalled slowly.

——It is a beautiful sight.

Beautiful red and white flowers, green leaves and lawns, white paths, brooks shining like diamonds, blue ponds, bridge buildings decorated with ornate carvings, pagodas with red spires standing on snow-covered peaks From the top of the pure white peak, you can have a panoramic view of the vast blue sea beyond. Painted in gorgeous colors, sailing out of the port, sailing to the distant place where the sea and the sky meet, the galleys are dotted in the sea.

"You just called this place Celephis."

Hydra said.

"Ever since I saw that vision, there was a voice in my heart that kept repeating, telling me that this is Celephis, the land of abundance."

Steve Rogers nodded, evaluating objectively.

"I think I know why the members of Celephas firmly believe that the current world is a false and ugly shell. Even now that I know the weirdness of the murals, in retrospect, I still can't hate that scene."

—even reluctantly.

And this kind of mentality is simply impossible to appear in Steve Rogers.

Hydera suddenly realized.

"The energy fields on these murals are specific to humans!—it lures humans to touch them."

Steve Rogers apparently had this layer in mind as well.

"What happens when you touch it?"

"It will be absorbed."

Arnold looked at the results of the analysis, and his tone was rarely dignified.

"Energy analysis is complete. Boss, the outer layer of the mural is covered with two kinds of energy fields, one of which is used to manipulate human biological currents to guide human touch through interference, and the other has the function of deforming and simulating inorganic objects..."

"These are not real murals."

Hydera understood.

"What is it, have you analyzed it?"

Arnold paused.

"...is a phase energy rectifier."

The author says:

Description of Celephais, referring to Celephais, by H.P. Lovecraft, November 1920, published in The Rainbow, May 11