[Comprehensive Anglo-American] The First Mutant

In the early morning, the morning light is hidden in the smog in the mountains, the dew wets the leaves and grass buds, and the air is fresh and slightly cold.

A figure slowly approached from a distance, which made the two rows of guards at the gate of the camp a little nervous.They clenched their weapons tightly and watched the figure getting closer.He was wearing a black combat uniform, with a mask covering most of his face, and his half-length hair covering his cold eyes. He walked slowly, like an unsheathed dagger, with a breathless pressure.

In the main control center deep underground, on ten screens, one large, nine small, and ten small, the images of the man's journey were recorded.The researcher who was monitoring the screen couldn't help complaining to his colleagues: "I really suspect that Number Zero's brain was also damaged. The car broke down halfway, and he walked back without asking for help!"

The colleague turned his head and glanced at the man who was slowly walking into the base. He didn't dare to stop any longer. He withdrew his eyes and stared at the screen in front of him. Been staring at him all day."

"Your Winter Soldier is much more obedient than him." The researcher packed up the video data and clicked to upload, frowning and saying in disgust.

"It's really good," the colleague shrugged. "He's still debugging. He's either training or sleeping."

The screens in front of colleagues are also one large and nine small. The nine small screens record images from a period of time in the past, and the large screen is the current one.The screen was pitch black, indicating that the Winter Soldier had been in a deep sleep, and an instrument next to it that recorded several wave frequencies was also very stable. From heartbeat to brain, he couldn't even dream.

"Tell me, Adam is also very worry-free. I used to monitor it." The researcher sighed.

Now there is no Adam's screen in the main control room.It is very stable, and it has been like a day for decades.If it weren't for the constant presence of its wave frequency on the instrument, occasionally, the brain wave would fluctuate slightly, just like a corpse.

It is said that he can't bear the laboratory life and commits suicide?

It's a really long event.

"Ha, mutant."

After Zero entered the base, the monitoring in the main control room ended.There are cameras everywhere in this hidden research institute. Zero is a slightly buggy, but generally stable weapon. Because his activity track has never had a problem, everyone is used to it.

Get up in the morning and brainwash.

training or tasks.

After the end, an administrator like a maintenance worker gave him a basic inspection to make sure that there was nothing wrong with his body and head.

Then, if there is no other order, he can stare at Adam in a daze—just as if he is guarding the precious experimental materials.After being severely injured by Adam, the roaring commando led by Captain America made Hydera shrink again.This research institute preserves precious research materials and data. The materials are arranged radiating from Adam as the center and guarded by layers of guards.

Brainwash again before rest at night.

Sleep, wake up, repeat yesterday's process.

Zero sat motionless on the chair, letting the administrator skillfully cut his hair short.From this point of view, he is really a skilled weapon maintainer.

"Okay, baby, relax." The warm pruning is just an illusion, the man approached the zero ear and said softly.

In fact, it's useless for him to say it, the word "relax" doesn't exist in Number Zero's brain.He has always maintained a state of readiness for war, as long as he is ordered, he can become a war machine in the next second.

The man obsessively stroked his plump muscles, along that smooth back, like a sticky poisonous snake, climbed up to his shoulders.With a nimble turn of his fingers, the blade flashed coldly, gouging out a piece of flesh the size of a palm on his shoulder.

Zero stared blankly ahead, sitting motionless with no expression on his handsome face.The bright red blood slipped from the wound, ran along his chest, soaked into his pants, and then... nothing more.The wound healed at a speed visible to the naked eye, flawlessly, without traces.

The administrator threw the meat from his hand into the bag and sealed it, even the hair of size zero stuck to it.He didn't care, and threw them together on the tray next to him, where there were still a few bags, also sealed with a few pieces of flesh...

Hush

The administrator whistled and pinched the face of number zero frivolously: "Honey, you are still cute today."

He took out a towel to wipe his fingers clean, and then wiped off the blood on No. [-]'s face. He paused for a moment, sealed the towel into a bag, and muttered, "How about selling it for a hundred?"

Of course Zero would not object, he smiled: "You think it's good too, right?"

In order to avoid any bad accidents between weapons and researchers, especially for super weapons like Zero and Winter Soldier, their administrators are often changed. Earning a day is a day is also quite good.

The administrator has transferred out to deliver the materials. It has been three to 10 minutes since the last order, no more, no less.Zero, who was sitting on the chair, stood up and walked towards a certain place according to his feeling.

As the researchers in the main control room said, Adam is no longer the exclusive experimental material of the Red Skull.Researchers can obtain what they want through application, hair, blood, skin, meat, bones, brains... whatever, although it is a bit slow, it will eventually recover anyway.

When Zero found Phoenix, a researcher with a tray passed him by.At that moment, he saw a variety of experimental materials on the tray, red blood, black flesh and so on, and there seemed to be a finger bone?

Zero fixedly looked at the researcher who went away.This is a bit unusual, but fortunately, his administrators are not there.Before Phoenix's researchers noticed the anomaly, Phoenix called Zero.

[Don't care about those. 】 Phoenix said softly.

His voice is smooth and unwavering, just like the waves on an instrument, never fluctuating too much.

Zero turned around obediently, and looked at him stupidly: [Phoenix. 】

If Phoenix doesn't ask anything, Zero can call Phoenix all day long.This is his most proficient word.

[Not so close, zero,] Phoenix said, [I still need energy. 】

Zero blinked, outwardly looking the same as usual.His soul should have been swallowed by Hydera long ago, and only this body that remembers the fighting instinct needs to be left behind.

[I heard that they are going to debug the Winter Soldier, and you may be required to go there. 】

Zero is actually not stupid, and promised after hearing the words: [I will work hard. 】

【Well, I... go to bed first...】

My mind returned to silence again, and before the little sparks were annihilated by the overwhelming darkness, Zero's pale lips moved, and he murmured in his heart: [Good night, Phoenix. 】

Ling stared blankly at Phoenix's experimental cabin. His thin body was lying in it, and his breathing was so weak that it was like an illusion. If you didn't look carefully, you would ignore it.

Zero felt that he should think about something, but as Phoenix fell into a deep sleep, the light in his soul went out.He didn't know what to think, and couldn't think of anything.

The researcher bent down and took a look at Phoenix's dry wood-like body. He was severely shrunk and looked similar to an 11- or 12-year-old child—the kind of child who was severely malnourished and dehydrated.

It's hard to imagine such a thing as a living thing.The researcher who was familiar with him calculated in his mind, and said to the researchers behind: "Guys, it's a little bit dead. Are you going to wait a few days and come back, or cut the research materials by half? Well, maybe more than half."

"It's recovering more and more slowly." The researcher behind was a little dissatisfied.

"Are you comparing it with when it first came?" Feeling offended by his work, the researcher's tone was not very good.

"He didn't mean that, you know," someone acted as peacemaker, "it just got smaller, maybe older?"

"If the Red Skull is still there, send it out to bask in the sun for a second, maybe it will recover," the researcher was still upset because his research was delayed, and snorted coldly, "God, it's like a dehydrated salty dog ​​now." fish."

His friend was amused by his metaphor, and pushed him outside: "Forget it, it's really exposed to the sun, maybe we have to move again."

"Hmph, idiot!" The researcher guarding Adam snorted coldly.

Basking in the sun, that guy's head is growing on his butt, why not go to the sky?

Those voices seemed to reach Phoenix's mind through the water curtain, which was not very real.He was indeed asleep, but his spirit had awakened, and at the same time, he was awake in another person's body.

--zero.

It has been almost two years since their first conversation.Phoenix collects a large amount of light energy through the zero that can go out, and this energy can be shared to a certain extent because of the invisible and wonderful connection between the two.

If Phoenix wanted to, he could return to his original form now.But no, in order to ensure that the plan is foolproof, he compressed all the energy.

【Phoenix! 】

When Phoenix was fully awakened again, it had been several months since the last meeting.It was Zero who woke him up, which means he succeeded.

A silver light flashed in his sight, and Zero tightened his body and rolled to the side, avoiding the iron fist that almost hit him.

Even though they have shared zero vision, Phoenix still can't see the trajectory of the attacker's attack clearly.Two people come and go, fists and kicks often leave only afterimages, sometimes beyond vision, and the only thing that can be trusted is the consciousness of fighting except for one's own superpowers.It's like a sixth sense, reminding him where to avoid or where to attack before the attack comes.

The Winter Soldier's martial arts accomplishments are clearly beyond zero.After he appeared, zero "system updates" were all queued up behind him.However, Zero is a mutant, and his instant recovery and enhanced perception made him not lose in the battle with new weapons.

Phoenix, who only had energy left, couldn't catch up with the two of them, so he simply stopped watching and concentrated on absorbing energy.

Zero was born very smart, of course he used his full strength in the battle with the Winter Soldier, but at the same time, he led the Winter Soldier to the outside without leaving a trace.Maybe it was an evasion, maybe it was a borrowing, it was indeed an obedient attempt to test the various statistics of the Winter Soldier, but the battle was too fierce, they fought from the No. [-] training room on the basement floor to No. [-], and then from No. [-] Back to number one.Then Ling was accidentally beaten and hit the ventilation fan. He pulled out the ventilation fan on the spot and threw it at the Winter Soldier.After the dagger in his hand was kicked away, the Winter Soldier likes to attack with his special iron arm. That punch directly smashed through the dilapidated air vent.

Anyway, the data of the two weapons are normal, if you want to complete the test, you have to fight with your life, hit the outside... It seems that there is nothing wrong with it.

Phoenix took this opportunity to increase the intensity of absorption, and his behavior would also affect Zero.The recovery speed of the black-clothed weapon has increased significantly, and its movements are faster and more ruthless, changing from passive to active.

"Zero's adrenaline builds," said his observing researcher.

"It seems," the extremely smart bald man rubbed his chin, his eyes slightly narrowed with pride, "he's going to die."

As soon as he finished speaking, it was true that after an outburst, Zero's movements became inconspicuously stagnant.This was fatal in the fast-moving battle, and the Winter Soldier found an opening to grab him by the scruff of the neck and smash him to the ground.

Strack raised his glasses and ordered with a smile, "Tell them to stop. The relic of the Red Skull cannot be damaged by the Winter Soldier."

"Yes." The researchers were really not at all curious about the possible conflict between the two leaders.Act as if you didn't hear it. This is the way of the wise.

【Stop Attack】

Zero and the Winter Soldier are like robots, they both stop the moment they receive the order.Even though his head had been smashed into the dirt and his neck was obviously sprained, Zero pulled himself out without any response and stood up straight.

"Get them back and fix them up," Strack chuckled. "The Winter Soldier can try to use it."

【Find a chance to meet me,】After absorbing a lot of energy, Phoenix notifies Zero before going to bed, 【Wake me up. 】

Zero blinked his eyes, and the response in his mind seemed a little excited: [Yes, master. 】

The gray-blue eyes of the Winter Soldier hidden behind the blindfold were clear for a moment, but it was only a few tenths of a second like an illusion.In the end, he kept moving and returned to his lounge with a cold expression.