[Zhongyingmei] After inheriting the throne

Gladys stared at the two researchers who were opening the lock, and his vigilance was raised to the extreme.In the previous experience of dealing with them, she fully felt the madness of Hydra, and the obsession that she completely believed in a certain idea and was willing to give everything for it.Although these researchers look trembling, who can guarantee that they won't be playing tricks in the dark?

The two researchers took off their gloves, rolled up their sleeves and raised their hands, indicating that they were not hiding anything suspicious, and then walked to the console.They pressed the button, typed out the password, opened the glass cover on the small control window that appeared, inserted the two keys in, and unlocked it.This series of actions does not seem to be receiving any experimental materials, but is as solemn as launching a missile.

Of course, in terms of its power, what [Poisoned Apple] can do is probably not much worse than the power of missiles, and it may be even better in terms of mind control.

Under the operation of two insiders, a door finally opened on the side, revealing the layers of checkpoints below.Bucky didn't step forward, leaving behind the captives who were guarding here. Gladys followed the two and walked into the passage leading to the next floor.

It was dark inside, and as people entered, the lights on the top were lit up one by one, faintly illuminating the road below.This road is not too long, and it only protrudes obliquely for a distance of one floor. When you go straight to the end, you will find a locked iron door, which looks like a safe in a bank vault—unbreakable.

The two researchers who went down to unlock the lock huddled below, and one of them stood on the side. After a series of scanning and password input, they finally got the system's permission, turned the handle, and opened the outer lock.

The door, which was only big enough for one person to pass through, opened, and a researcher looked back at the girl who was monitoring them, and asked hesitantly, "Shall we take it out?"

"Of course," Gladys replied, "I suppose it's just one person?"

Mistaking her words for the purpose of crossing the river and demolishing the bridge, the two of them subconsciously tightened their necks and leaned against the wall. The smarter one quickly shouted: "Let me do it, I'll get it here."

Gladys took a deep look at him: "Go and get something."

The other person immediately turned pale when he heard this, but when he saw that Gladys hadn't made a move, he couldn't help feeling hopeful again.

"As for you." Gladys watched one person get into the closed storage room, and said to the other person: "Tell me, what did you do about this plan?"

Five minutes later, three people came out from below, and Gladys joined Bucky with the [Poisoned Apple] wrapped in an unknown transparent material.

Bucky took a curious look, and found that the thing that was carefully stored in the box was really just an apple from the outside, and it was still brightly colored, with smooth skin and plump flesh, except for the strange color. Apart from the red and white half points, there is nothing peculiar at all.

"That's it." Gladys saw the doubt in his heart, and affirmed.

"Then let's go on..." Bucky asked with a gesture.

According to the plan, they should retreat first at this moment, but it is really difficult to let the researchers in this room move around, so it is better to continue to stay.

"Look for the information first." Gladys frowned slightly, but chose to stay here first.

According to her plan, she should take back the [Poisoned Apple] right now, and solve the trouble quickly.However, since the victims of [Poisoned Apple] have not yet got rid of the curse-like influence, Gladys can only recover the target item after all the victims wake up and cut off the communication with each other. .

"It seems that we can only make plans after this battle is over and return to the base." Gladys had to wait patiently for a while. "Perhaps, we can bid them a formal farewell."

Bucky gathered the researchers into an open space in the laboratory, and after a brief search, he and Gladys squatted at the door, guarding against the enemy's intrusion.He still had the time to talk to Gladys: "It's amazing. I thought they made so many poisons out of it. There should be only the core left. I didn't expect it to be a whole apple."

As mentioned before, [Poisoned Apple] is a conceptual product. When those researchers extracted special substances from it and conducted various experiments, they found that after the cut part was separated from the main body, the The gap will slowly return to its original state over time.This great discovery instantly ignited their research enthusiasm.

Think about it, if there is an inexhaustible food in this world, even if you don’t consider its role in promoting the development of science, just seeing it as a miracle of destiny in battle is enough to boost your morale Increased.

However, these researchers who were obsessed with research and even went to another extreme belief soon discovered that this apple was not a gift from God as they thought, but a demon-like apple soaked in poisonous juice. fruit.

Even so, they cherished it as a treasure, and after discovering that it could turn people into obedient puppets, they perfected the "Golden Apple" project on this basis, using it as the last resort to unify human will .

Therefore, in this retaliatory strike against large cities launched by Hydra, the new gas bomb developed by Poison Apple was also loaded on the fighter planes performing the mission.

The problem really became more troublesome.

After seeing the information about the gas bomb, Gladys quickly imagined the disastrous consequences it would cause after the fighter plane took off.She heard more and more noise outside, gunshots everywhere, obviously the Confederate army broke in.

"Bucky, go tell the captain they must not let the plane take off." Gladys made a decision.

"Me?" Bucky thought for a second, "These people should have nothing to threaten. I think you are more needed there."

In terms of combat power, Bucky believes that [Warrior Snow White] is comparable to Captain America at certain moments.

Gladys thought for a while, then looked at the [Poisoned Apple] in his hand.

"Let me hold it for you." Bucky reached out and took the box. "Go, I'm here, and I won't let them cause any trouble. You are more needed there."

Gladys saw that Bucky had already talked about this, so he also nodded: "I'll go back early, and I'll leave this place to you."

She ran to the door in two steps, and threw a small dagger that was also extremely sharp on her body to Bucky: "Be careful in everything."

Bucky took the dagger, stuck it in his straps, nodded at her, then turned to the researchers with his gun.

Gladys closed the door from the outside and quickly ran to the place in his memory.That was the airstrip she had seen while controlling Goshawk's body.As long as she ran to the airport, with her current fighting power and the indestructible sword in her hand, she believed that no plane could fly out of this base.

It's just that she was one step too late, probably because it took a little longer to open the combination lock in the research area by peaceful means. By the time she arrived at the empty warehouse, a fighter plane had already skidded off the runway.General Phillips and Peggy ran back from the blustery exit to meet Gladys.

"Schmidt is up there." Peggy's face was not pretty, but she tried to comfort her: "Don't worry, the captain is after him, and he will never let Hydra's plot succeed."

"Hydra created a poisonous gas bomb, I will destroy the remaining fighters." Gladys was not annoyed when he heard this, and quickly changed his mission.

"Okay, I'll go to the console to have a look." Peggy glanced at the retreating Hydra soldiers on the scene and chose to believe in her strength.

Gladys ran as hard as he could in the warehouse, cutting off the key parts of the remaining fighters one by one.

At this moment, a faint red color flowed through the air vents, spreading throughout the entire base.As the gas spread, all the soldiers who were fighting, regardless of whether they were the enemy or the enemy, lost the strength to support their bodies after being surrounded by the light red gas, fell to the ground, and then fell into a deep sleep.

Gladys was taken aback. The base had been equipped with poisonous gas early on. Could it be that Hydra had already implanted it into the system as part of the self-destruct program?

"Peggy! Peggy! Can you hear me?" Gladys shouted while inspecting the strange scene on the field.Her voice was so penetrating that if Peggy ever made it to the command room, she would have heard it.

"Oh, Snow, I saw it, we saw it!" Peggy's voice came from the radio. "Schmidt must have given the order to let the people here die with us."

"The poisonous gas has been released!" Gladys reminded loudly: "Hurry up and find the gas mask!"

"The command room is now closed, and poisonous gas cannot enter. We are safe here!" Peggy responded.

"Big trouble." Gladys was so nervous that he could almost hear his own heartbeat.However, for a guy like Hydra who is crazy and no one cares, it seems to be expected to do such a thing?

The sound of gunfire on the field gradually subsided, but for a moment, under the pervasive poisonous gas, the place became silent in a blink of an eye, so quiet that it was terrifying.Under the dark dome, this place seems to have become a huge cemetery.

A blue laser beam blasted from the fallen weapon and hit a bracket.Gladys heard the piercing crunch of metal as the boom of a crane dropped with an irreversible tendency.

With a loud bang, Gladys rushed over at that moment, resisted the falling end, and was dizzy for a while. [Warrior Baixue]'s strength did not far exceed the limit of normal people, she relied entirely on the high defense of the armor to resist.

After all, there are still people here.

"Snow—Snow——" Bucky's voice echoed in the empty warehouse and vaguely reached her ears.

"Bucky." Gladys choked out a cry from his throat.

"They all fell asleep suddenly." Bucky ran over. "Oh my God. Are you all right?"

"I can still hold it." Gladys put his hands up against the bracket, lowered his head and used his shoulders to resist the huge steel column, supporting an unimaginable weight like Atlas.

"Move them away quickly, I can't last long." Gladys held his breath, and couldn't think about anything in his mind. Now there is only one thought in his mind, and that is-hold on!

She also ignored Peggy's anxious inquiries upstairs, but couldn't hold back the doubts in her heart: Why didn't Bucky fall into a coma after inhaling that poisonous gas?

Then she immediately thought of the blessings given to those seven people before, and the link with "Snow White" helped them resist part of the curse belonging to [Poisoned Apple].

That's right, only the power of the same source can solve the current predicament.She thought of a way to detoxify!

"Bucky, give me the [Poisoned Apple]." Gladys saw that the person lying on the ground had begun to change from the red marking the "sleeping" state to the white "puppet" state, feeling the urgency of time.

It's too late!It has to be done before they wake up.

Bucky froze for a moment, then chose to believe, and quickly picked up the box that he had brought over just now.

The box was tightly closed, and Bucky couldn't open it by himself, so he tried to throw it on the ground, but the transparent material was not as fragile as he expected.He quickly took out the dagger he got before, and poked it a few times to pry open the box.

The apples were taken out of the box, exuding a tempting fragrance.

"Give it to me," Gladys said.

"But you..." Bucky was a little confused.What is she going to do?

"I thought of a way to detoxify." Gladys temporarily adapted to the gravity at this time, and squeezed out more sentences: "The effect of [Poison Apple] should be invalid after someone eats it and completes the goal of the curse. .bring it here."

This "eating" refers to the act of ingesting food, which cannot be accomplished by other means.In order to achieve the purpose of the curse, the poison applied by [Poison Apple] to other unknown soldiers will naturally disappear, and they can concentrate on dealing with the target in front of them.

Bucky's mind moved quickly, and he immediately thought of this level: "No, I can't let you..."

"Come on, Bucky," Gladys said, "I'll be fine. If you don't hurry, it's too late."

"No." Bucky took two steps closer with the apple, and stopped again: "This is the crime of Hydra, and you should not bear it alone."

"It's not going to hurt me." Gladys wanted to pounce on the apple right now, but she couldn't let go of the goddamn pillar—in that little time, Bucky only had time to drag two people from under it .

Gladys' urging at this moment became a declaration of self-sacrifice to Bucky's ears. In just a moment, he made up his mind: "If someone has to pay the price, I'd rather it be me."

"Snow, I'll leave the rest to you."

"No, Bucky." Gladys' eyes widened.

With a crisp "click", the big boy took a bite from the bright and dripping apple, and the sweet and highly poisonous juice gushed out from it, exuding a more charming sweet fragrance.He barely chewed, his Adam's apple rolled quickly, and he swallowed the apple flesh hard.

The apple rolled down from his hand. In Gladys' eyes, all the different colors representing [Poison Apple] gathered from all directions and returned to the body of [Poison Apple]. faded from others.

But someone fell.

Bucky fell down after the apple hit the ground.In her keen perception, the vigorous breath faded.

"Bucky!"

He was motionless and did not respond.A faint purple light and shadow poured out of him, and the cheetah emerged, moaning softly, lowered its head and licked his cheek, and then rushed back into Gladys' body without hesitation.

Gladys felt this recovered blessing, and tears finally fell.

"Bucky-"

Tears fell on the ground, splashing tiny splashes, turning from transparent to frosty white.In the air, the rapidly dropping temperature and the sudden cold wind intensified, and the ice flakes spread and climbed onto the big boy.

The frost condensed out of thin air quickly accumulated into ice and snow, covering the whole person, and finally formed a crystal clear ice coffin.He lay there peacefully, ignorant, and time was frozen on him.

Gladys watched the other people who woke up get up from the ground one after another, finally moved their stiff shoulders, and lowered the boom step by step.She pounced on the ice coffin, but things had already happened irreparably.

He won't respond to himself anymore.

A golden light shone on the missing corner of the apple, and finally collapsed and shattered, changed and torn, and reassembled into an old piece of paper.The paper seemed to have its own consciousness, shaking with the wind, and fell back into Gladys' hands.

The fairy tale book appeared in Gladys' other hand, and it spread out naturally, revealing the missing page, silently urging the owner to return it to its original place.

Gladys stared blankly as the old page broke free from her grasp and was blown back onto the book by the wind, where it fitted the ragged corners perfectly into the gap.

The twilight streamed, the pages returned to the books, and the invisible clock was swinging back and forth.

In half a year, World War II will end.

Thirty minutes later, the only fighter that flew out was about to crash on the uninhabited ice field.

In 10 minutes, this place will be completely controlled by the Allied forces, and the largest base of Hydra will be captured in one fell swoop.

And now, the Roaring Commando has the first soldier to die.

The pages of the book began to flip crazily, and a huge attraction tore Gladys away from the ice coffin she was holding on to.

It's time for her to go.

Gladys took one last look back, detaching the power that was working for her from herself.

【Crystal Coffin】dropped.

"I'm sorry." Her voice drifted away in the strong wind, and her figure disappeared into the blizzard, turned into wind, turned into snow, dissipated between the sky and the earth, and fell gracefully, finally calm.