[Comprehensive] Road to Trench

Leaving from the attending physician, the family was silent, and the atmosphere was particularly heavy.

Tony couldn't stand the atmosphere, and couldn't help tugging at his collar: "Don't you want to contact me?"

Howard didn't respond for a while: "Who to contact?"

"Who else? Bucky!" Tony spoke quickly, "Isn't this situation calling him back? Could there be anything more important than Alex!?"

Howard opened his mouth, wanted to say something and fell silent again.

Seeing that her son's face changed, Maria opened his mouth as if he was about to say something hurtful, so she quickly reached out and grabbed her son: "Tony, it's not that we don't want to contact Lieutenant Colonel Barnes..."

Maria still kept referring to Bucky as he used to be in World War II, and she slowed down her tone: "It's because we have no way to contact him now."

"Why?" Tony felt unbelievable: Didn't Bucky go away after discussing it with his father?

Finding a quiet empty room to sit down, Howard pressed his temples, with a low voice: "In June, Lieutenant Colonel Barnes...Bucky contacted me, hoping that I would take care of it in July and August. alex . he found u

El company seems to be a very important base, from which he got some very important information. "

"What information?"

"Ancestor Virus—that's what it says in the data, u

The origin of all viruses in the el company. Howard rubbed his forehead, "I'm not an expert in biology, I can only understand part of those materials, but only for the part I understand... this kind of being u

The substance named by El company as Progenitor Virus has the form of RNA, which can improve various abilities of the human body, including physical strength, mobility, and prolong human lifespan-sounds familiar, doesn't it? "

He saw Tony showing a reminiscing expression, and smiled softly.

"It's like serum, isn't it - Tony, I know you don't like me mentioning that name, but you have to know that my life has been greatly affected by that name. Captain America Steve Rogers is not only a noble personality My fighter is even more my best friend. It’s the same for Bucky.”

Tony restrained himself from rolling his eyes.

"Back to the topic just now, after the inventor of the serum was assassinated, many people secretly stared at the serum. Some tried to steal Captain America's DNA information to try to recreate the serum, and some... tried to find something similar or similar to the serum. Drugs with the same effect."

"The Progenitor Virus was born from this. Its inventor extracted it from the flowers of a certain plant called 'Sun Ladder' in the tribal ruins of West Africa. But unlike the serum that has been perfected without side effects, the 'Progenitor Virus' is in the While improving the ability of the human body, the superantigen toxin contained in it will over-stimulate the human immune system, which will lead to inflammation, tissue necrosis, loss of body fluid and secondary infection after the collapse of the immune system, and then sepsis and severe shock. die."

"U

What the el company has done is to try to remove those toxic side effects while retaining its positive functions-but it seems that they have not succeeded yet. "Howard thought of the scene he saw in the base after the Winter Soldier cleaned it, and said.

"So you mean, Bucky is now looking for the very important ancestor virus, so he can't come back to see Alex?" Tony bit the accent on "very important", obviously he is in a very bad mood now.

And after hearing Howard's reply, the dissatisfaction reached its peak.

"Yes." Howard said.

When he was a child, he was sent pigeons countless times, his important graduation ceremony, school parents need to participate in these activities that required Howard to attend, but he promised but did not come to the memory again, the young Stark bit his lower lip, trying hard to The sourness in his heart was suppressed—he couldn't describe it, whether the sourness was because of Alex, or...

For himself.

Howard grabbed Tony who was about to leave: "It's for Alex, Tony, Bucky went to the ancestor virus to save Alex."

This sentence successfully stopped Tony in his tracks.

"……What's the meaning?"

Howard was silent for a while, before saying: "There is no need to hide it from you now, Tony, do you know how Alex got here?"

Tony said nothing.

"She's not an ordinary person, Tony, Alex was born in a laboratory." Howard saw Tony's eyes widen suddenly, "But Alex probably doesn't know it himself, so don't tell her about it."

"In our previous operations, we confiscated a large number of materials in the Hydra base. Inside, I found an experimental project code-named 'Mainfria'."

The experiment code-named "Mainfreia" is essentially a test-tube baby.The only difference from the general test-tube baby formed by combining sperm and eggs is that the basis of the experiment is to use the flesh and blood of two different races as materials to cultivate a life that combines the flesh and blood of these two different races.

"Different races?" Tony couldn't help interrupting Howard.

"Yes, the experimenters recorded that one of the two kinds of flesh and blood seemed to be human, but it contained some kind of special power—I suspected it was the flesh and blood of a wizard, but it was recorded in the later experiment log that they speculated that it was not a wizard. The other is not even human, according to their private guess, it should be the flesh and blood of some kind of soft-bodied creature with multiple tentacles similar to an octopus." Howard said.

It is very difficult to cultivate a fetus from non-reproductive cells that belong to human beings, not to mention the fusion of two completely different races of flesh and blood into one fetus.

At first, the laboratory could only get the two pieces of living flesh that were kept in special containers. According to the experiment log, the experiment that started more than 80 years ago failed for many years and was almost exhausted. It finally succeeded and produced the only experimental baby that survived.

"That baby is Alex, and the experiment log calls her 'Mainfria'—the code name for the whole experiment."

After Mainfria was born, she was taken away by the person who ordered the experiment, and the laboratory could only see her during routine checkups for her every month.

But even if the meeting time is very short and infrequent, the people in the laboratory have also discovered that Meinfria seems to have no soul.

She can't cry, she can't laugh, she can see and hear, but she doesn't react to the outside world.It is said that they are autistic children, but autistic children will still have things they want to do, and they will lose their temper if they break their rules, but Meinfria will not.

Day after day, she would just sit there, motionless, staring at the void with empty eyes, whether you took her away at any time, or put her to sleep when she was not taking a nap, she never showed any resistance.

People in the laboratory privately called her "a doll without a soul".

The experimental group’s inspection records on Meinfria have been recorded for 40 years. In such a long time, the members of the experimental group have changed several batches, but their inspection object, the Meinfria who was born more than 80 years ago But in such a long time, he only grew up to the appearance of a normal ten-year-old child.

The experimenters speculated that it was because of the flesh and blood of an unknown race.

"We don't know what happened to Meinfria afterwards. According to the experiment log and notes of some other experimenters, Meinfria should have been taken to live in Germany by the sponsor of the project, and was kidnapped for some reason. Arriving in Siberia... When did she return to normal, no one knows, the experiment log was broken four or fifty years ago." Howard calculated some time, which was almost the time when Hydra moved to the Soviet Union after World War II.

Around that time, the sponsor of the experiment code-named Meinfraia broke ties with Hydra.

The contact was disconnected, but the laboratory data was still there. According to the above data, decades of inspection data showed that Meinfria's physical fitness had been showing an insignificant downward trend.

At the back of that document was written a bold guess made by the members of the experimental team based on the previously obtained data: after reaching a certain critical point, Meinfria's physical fitness would show an L-shaped linear decline.

As for what will happen after the straight drop, it is not written above, but everyone can guess.

Now, that experimenter's guess has come true.

"Bucky, he wants to find a way to deal with it before Alex gets sick." Howard couldn't help but rubbed his forehead again, suppressing the soreness, "Ancestral virus is one of the ways... According to u

According to el's information, they are carrying out a project in a certain base, it seems that someone has used a very special method to fuse the gene of the ancestor virus and the queen ant, and select some plants' dna to assimilate with it, and finally successfully created a new type of virus 't-veronica' (t-Veronica).According to the records above, someone successfully fused with t-Veronica. "

"The t-Veronica virus can successfully improve the quality of the human body, and there will be no mental decline and body tissue destruction. Bucky wants to use this virus to save Alex. He tries to find this base and find the t-Veronica virus. Ronika..."

Speaking of this, Howard took a deep breath and sighed: "But I don't know where he went, I only know that he said before that he has a clue."

But what this clue is, Howard doesn't know.

The atmosphere of silence spread in the room until a voice broke the heaviness:

"Can you show me those files?"

It was a sweet girl's voice.

The three of them were startled and looked up at the door at the same time.

For the first time in his life Tony didn't know what to say: "Ai, Alex..."

He wanted to ask you if you heard it, and how much you heard it, but he couldn't say anything when he saw the smiling face of the little girl with silver curly hair.

"Almost all." Even though Tony didn't ask, Alex guessed exactly what he was thinking, "Next time you should stay away from the patient's ward before you get into an argument, otherwise it's easy to attract curious patients inside. like me."

"Okay, back to the topic, Uncle Howard, show me the information!" Wearing a loose nightgown, the little girl with silver curly hair standing leaning against the door frame smiled slyly: "I guess I can Find clues about where Uncle Bucky went from inside—don’t worry, I won’t give you any information, I will say that I dug out the information myself.”