Winter Soldier

After 20 years, the mysterious base in the deep mountains is still quietly hidden in the snowy forest. With the traces of the years, a group of new young forces have been enriched, but their research object-the Winter Soldier has not changed, as if time has stagnated on him.

However, no researcher envied the Winter Soldier's youthfulness.

In the past 20 years, the Winter Soldier has been thawed 28 times. After completing the mission, he was forcibly brainwashed and put back in the cryogenic chamber. Like a precious high-powered gun, he was carefully taken out, shot, and then carefully maintained. He was locked back into the safe again, passively obeying orders from beginning to end.

Over the past 20 years, the ghostly figure of the Winter Soldier has become the number one warning target of secret intelligence and espionage organizations in various countries. The Suez Canal Incident, the Berlin Crisis in Germany, the Cuban Missile Crisis, India, Vietnam, Czechoslovakia... There are mysterious traces of Winter Soldier activities everywhere. .

To be precise, it was the sight of Winter Soldier and Lin Yan.

Lin Yan has already regarded himself as the Winter Soldier. Repeated brainwashing has severely damaged Lin Yan's memory and thinking body. Only his mental power has been tenaciously resisting and repairing the thinking body, but the activity time after each thaw is too short. Before the thinking body could recover, it was damaged by brainwashing again.

The only good thing is that Lin Yan was not the first target of brainwashing. The Winter Soldier stood in front of him and gave him a chance to breathe, so he was not completely washed into a blank slate.

The strange thing is that the thinking bodies of him and the winter soldier are getting closer and closer. The winter soldier and Lin Yan have self-cognition confusion, and they both think that the other is a part of themselves, just like the left and right brains of people. The two are confused. Appear alternately, do recovery training together, and perform tasks together.

Both of them didn't realize that the other was an independent person. To be precise, they didn't know the existence of the other, and they both thought they were normal.

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Today, a small group of soldiers in field combat uniforms came to the research room of the base, holding General Lukin's warrant, demanding to activate the Winter Soldier.

After carefully checking the opponent's order, they were taken into the base's long-rumoured mysterious freezer by a tall and thin white coat. The room of more than 80 square meters was empty and silent, except for a three-meter-high freezer standing on the left side. The huge iron cabinet with glass windows on the front made the sound of humming machines.

The white coat deftly pressed on the operating table next to the iron cabinet. After a while, looking through the glass window, the white mist flowing in the iron cabinet slowly dissipated. A brown semi-long-haired man sleeping with his eyes closed appear in people's eyes.

The white coat hurriedly directed the people to move the man out of the iron cabinet and put him in another iron cabinet that was just 2 meters smaller, and explained, "This is an incubator to help winter soldiers recover from extreme low temperatures, about 6-8 Hours later, the Winter Soldier will wake up on his own."

After finishing speaking, he hastily introduced himself, "I am Sergey Researcher. Since General Lukin ordered the Winter Soldier to perform multiple tasks in a row, I will follow the Winter Soldier and be responsible for his training and maintenance," said shyly. With a shy smile, he stretched out his hand and said, "Everyone, happy cooperation."

Hearing this, the leader of the field team quickly smiled and shook hands with him, and introduced: "Good day, researcher Sergey, I am Ivan, the field captain who follows the Winter Soldier, this is the first time we have met, and it is a pleasant cooperation."

After the two exchanged a few words, the researcher turned and said goodbye and walked away. Captain Ivan called the other five team members to sit down and rest, quietly waiting for the Winter Soldier to wake up.

Seeing the researcher walking away, the lively and active Menkesha couldn't bear it anymore. He looked at the Winter Soldier in the incubator and asked curiously, "This is the super soldier Winter Soldier who makes people fear? That shiny silver metal arm doesn't look like anything."

The calm and capable Captain Ivan sat lazily on the ground with his knees bent, squinted at Menkesha, and said reprimandingly: "If you knew that his previous field captain, the buffalo, died in his hands, you wouldn't be like this." said."

"The bison was killed by the Winter Soldier?!" Menkesha exclaimed.

Bison is the most powerful field team member in the base. With his strong body and fierce fighting skills, he has always dominated all the field team members. He is quite arrogant. Since he went on a mission last year, he has disappeared and never returned. The base, I didn't expect it to be under the hands of the Winter Soldier.

The other team members were also attracted by the topic of the two, and looked at the captain one after another.

"I don't know the specifics. I only know that the buffalo and the Winter Soldier went on a mission and then died. According to Millie, say, say..." The captain who noticed the leak quickly pretended to cough and said, "As far as I know One of the office staff said that the Winter Soldier himself admitted that he killed the buffalo."

They could all hear the captain's blunt cover-up, and the five team members winked and sniggered. Who in the team didn't know that the captain had gotten along with Miria, and pretended to be...

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On the vast and desolate snow field, a military truck was running alone. The bumpy vehicle swayed on the harsh road conditions. The soldiers in the vehicle were pale and endured the churning in their stomachs. Running around in the snow field exhausted the soldiers' physical strength, and even the capable special field soldiers couldn't stand it a little bit.

The field captain Ivan held the submachine gun, relaxed his body and swayed back and forth with the carriage, half-closed his eyes and looked drowsy, but in fact, those light gray eyes were secretly looking at the Winter Soldier sitting diagonally opposite.

The violent shaking of the car didn't affect the Winter Soldier much. He was still sitting upright in a corner of the car in a military posture, his thin lips were tightly pressed, his brows were slightly wrinkled, and his face was expressionless. Inorganic indifference, only the half-length brown hair swaying with the car brushed his face from time to time, adding to his popularity.

"It's really like a human-shaped ice sculpture exuding air-conditioning, quiet and lifeless." Ivan thought to himself, "This cold guy is very different from the fierce appearance in Omsk five days ago. Those gods The mysterious scientist has really created a powerful killer."

Ivan didn't know that the Winter Soldier, who seemed to be in a daze, was trying to think about a serious philosophical issue at the moment.

"who am I?"

The Winter Soldier, who had been following orders and carrying out tasks invariably, was stumped by this question that suddenly popped into his head today.

The instructions engraved in his mind clearly told him, "I am the Winter Soldier, a super soldier who is absolutely loyal to the Soviet Union and obeys the orders of his superiors." But when he dug deeper into the details, his mind was empty, and there were very few supporting memories. The mission just carried out has nothing, no past, no childhood, no relatives and friends, and no experience in the army. The memory is desolate like a dry desert.

But immediately, another memory popped up vaguely. I don’t know where the idea came from. The subconscious knew that "I am Lin Yan, an ordinary civilian", but other memories were like naughty wind, always passing through my hands. And pass, can't grasp, can't see clearly.

Two different memories, like tangled balls of wool, deeply troubled him.

"Who am I? The Winter Soldier or Lin Yan?"

Ivan saw that the Winter Soldier frowned even more for some reason.

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This philosophical question did not bother him for long.

When he wakes up from a light sleep with his eyes closed in the carriage, he opens his eyes again... well, he has no eyes.He was surprised to find that he was trapped, with no limbs, no body, and no way to move, but he could miraculously see the outside scene.

Although there was a problem with his memory, his IQ was still there. He calmed down the initial panic and observed calmly for a while. Outside was the familiar carriage, the familiar field team members, and the familiar captain who was peeping at him just now (he always knew the captain's peeping, It’s just irrelevant), combined with the mechanical arm that came into view from time to time, he boldly speculated: what he saw was from the perspective of the Winter Soldier, what the Winter Soldier saw.

He was watching the whole time what the Winter Soldier saw outside.

But I am trapped here, who is the Winter Soldier outside?He turned his brain that had been frozen and stagnant for a long time to think hard, but to no avail.

So, he watched what the Winter Soldier had seen for a whole day, and finally the Winter Soldier closed his eyes to rest, and he had no choice but to fall asleep.

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When he opened his eyes the next day, he found himself the Winter Soldier again.He is used to being silent, and he doesn't like chattering and startling. Even after yesterday's day of wandering away from the body, he is still silent, silently and calmly following what he saw yesterday, and continuing to perform tasks step by step.

On the third day, he was trapped again, watching every move of the Winter Soldier outside.

On the fourth day, he came out again.

Oddly enough, when he was trapped, the Winter Soldier outside was able to seamlessly pick up what he had done the day before. "Obviously," he thought, "the Winter Soldier could be in a similar situation to him and see His actions when he became the Winter Soldier."

In this way, the two Winter Soldier appeared alternately every day. In order to distinguish them, he named the Winter Soldier "Winter Soldier" and himself "Lin Yan". For some reason, he prefers the name Lin Yan.

Because of the Winter Soldier's reticent behavior and the same expressionless face, no one discovered the Winter Soldier's weirdness.

Only Captain Ivan, who was ordered to monitor the Winter Soldier, expressed doubts about the fluctuations in the intensity of the cold air emitted by the Winter Soldier every day.

Today, it is still extremely freezing cold in the Himalayas style, and tomorrow it will become the weird cold air in Lake Baikal style with wind and water.

Ivan shook his head, and began to fall into self-doubt: "Isn't I nervous? A chill can have so many tricks!"

He ran non-stop for two months, crossed seven countries, and successfully completed three missions. Captain Ivan led the Winter Soldier and the field team back to the base.

Speaking of leading the Winter Soldier on missions, Ivan feels like a nanny who combines forward scouting and logistics services.He comes in contact with local intelligence agents, collects weapons and transports him, arranges his retreat route, and he comes for medical rescue. The Winter Soldier only needs to wait for the information sent to him like a grandfather, formulate operational and tactical plans, and attack and close the team. Then it turned into an ice statue that ignores everything.

Feeling extremely aggrieved, Menkesha, the liveliest member of the team, often complained behind his back, and Ivan knew this.

However, when the superior sent him to serve as the field captain of the Winter Soldier, he gave a clear order: While cooperating with the Winter Soldier to successfully perform tasks, the Winter Soldier is strictly prohibited from touching the outside world at will, and the Winter Soldier's information is strictly prohibited from leaking to the outside world, and the Winter Soldier's situation is strictly monitored at all times.

Although the order was a little weird, the shrewd Ivan didn't ask why. There were a lot of weird things in the base, and he didn't have so much curiosity. He just followed them strictly.

Ivan didn't know that the superior was doing this to maintain the Winter Soldier's mechanical absolute rationality and obedience, and to prevent him from developing redundant emotional awareness due to exposure to too much external information.

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The timeline at this point is around 1970.