Chapter 159: Raccoon Town Incident
Chapter 159: Raccoon Town Incident (Part )
"T-Virus."
"That's its name."
On the train leading to the depths of the underground hive, the Red Queen, who seemed so real and illusory, explained to everyone.
"It is an artificially synthesized virus. Its predecessor was an original virus extracted from a flower called 'Stairs of the Sun' that grew in the remains of the Diya tribe in West Africa. It was discovered by Umbrella scientist Ashford."
"Dr. Ashford discovered that this original virus is an RNA virus. Once it can successfully integrate into the human body, it can significantly enhance the human body's abilities, including but not limited to strength, speed, agility, spirit, and even self-healing ability, as well as prolonging human lifespan."
"However, this RNA virus itself is extremely aggressive. Dr. Ashford has conducted many experiments and found that no cell can withstand this virus for a long time after fusion. Umbrella Corporation cannot afford this loss either, so the experiment has been shelved for the time being."
"Later, Dr. Ashford's daughter Angela was in a car accident when she was a child, resulting in high paraplegia. Dr. Ashford, in pain, started researching the Progenitor virus again. However, at that time, he was no longer obsessed with turning people into supermen. He mainly focused on regeneration ability."
"So he weakened the virus through various means and added leech genes to the original virus."
"Uh, wait, kid, why did he add the leech gene?"
Tony Stark interrupted Red Queen's explanation. As a genius scientist, he thought there was nothing wrong with the story itself, because humans started out by imitating nature. But he couldn't understand why such a magical original virus needed additional genes to contaminate it?
"I don't know. Ashford didn't mention it in the records. However, according to the data stored in my database, Ashford added genes from many different organisms to the Progenitor Virus. In the end, only the leech gene was the most stable."
"Tsk, it turns out I was just lucky."
Tony Stark looked disdainful.
"Mr. Stark, you are really annoying. Obviously, the father has devoted all his efforts to research for his child."
"What are you researching? Are you researching the T-virus?"
Tony Stark holds his nose.
"I'm not sure about Raccoon Town. I mean, adding genes from low-level creatures will cause the Progenitor Virus to become uncontrollable and weaken the Progenitor Virus's advantages. Only the stupidest people would do that, right, kid?"
"That's right, but fortunately, the cell-activating properties of the Progenitor virus were retained. So, after a series of experiments, Dr. Ashford used this virus to heal his daughter's damaged spinal nerves."
“But that’s where the problem lies.”
The Red Queen continued.
"During Dr. Ashford's experiments, the various organisms he used would become overly activated if they were not injected with a reversal antidote after being injected with the T virus for more than 20 minutes. As a result, the organisms would appear dead, but their cells would still be alive. They would show an extreme desire for flesh and blood, but at the same time, if they did not take in food, they would be able to survive for years in a slowly decaying, shrunken state."
"Also, a small number of individuals will experience atavism and possess powerful powers similar to those infected with the Protoss virus."
"OK, I understand."
Tony Stark clapped his hands.
"The evil Umbrella Corporation has taken a fancy to its characteristics and plans to use it for biochemical experiments to develop stable mutants to serve as biological weapons, right, kid?"
"Yes, sir. For this purpose, Umbrella Corporation chose Raccoon Town. This small town is surrounded by mountains and there is only one way out. A beehive was built right below the town to study the T virus."
"But today, the virus was leaked. Someone used a privilege pass to enter the virus laboratory and stole the T virus. Before leaving, he smashed a copy of the T virus with the intention of causing chaos. However, he had no idea how powerful the T virus was."
"Through the ventilation ducts, the T virus spread throughout the laboratory. My defense mechanism was activated, and I gained the highest authority. So, I sealed off the entire laboratory and killed everyone."
"Hey, kid, don't you have the antidote?"
"The antidote is limited in quantity, and I have no way to communicate with them directly."
"All right."
Tony Stark touched Red Queen's head again. As the creator of Jarvis, he could understand the thought process of artificial intelligence very well. They would firmly and seriously execute human orders, and killing everyone when the situation was irreversible would naturally be a dilemma for humans, but artificial intelligence would not have such thoughts. It was simple, direct and effective, that's all.
"What's the situation down there now?"
"At present, the Umbrella Special Operations Team has broken through the blockade of the gate, but because the T virus will be inactivated in the air within 20 minutes, simply opening the gate will not cause the virus to leak. However, after entering the hive, if they come into contact with the dead Umbrella staff, they will become a mobile source of infection, and there is a high probability that the virus will spread outside the hive."
"At this moment, they took the elevator along the cold storage room of the biological weapon 'Licker' and came to the location of my mainframe. They are trying their best to crack my firewall. At present, I can only hold out for half an hour at most before the firewall is breached. The train will arrive in five minutes, so they should be in time."
"Speaking of which, Mr. Stark, your skills are so amazing, can't you help the Red Queen counter the enemy's invasion?"
"If you don't understand the technology, don't talk nonsense."
Tony Stark rolled his eyes at Spider-Girl.
"The other side also has basic permissions. In other words, if I attack them, it is equivalent to attacking the firewall of Red Queen, which will only make things worse. Hehe, what do you think, kid, you don't understand what we are talking about."
Suddenly, Tony Stark looked at Li Zhongren and challenged him in a mean and mean way. He, Tony Stark, would not suffer such a big loss and remain indifferent.
"Can't understand."
Li Zhongren, who was leaning against the wall of the carriage, shrugged.
"I can only understand that even the famous Mr. Tony Stark can't do something."
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"Ha ha ha ha."
The carriage was once again filled with a cheerful atmosphere.
Strategic Homeland Defense Attack and Logistics Agency
Top layer
This is the office of Alexander Pierce, former director and member of the United Nations Council.
As the former director, he shouldn't have had such an office, but his identity as a congressman could provide a lot of conveniences to the Security Bureau, so at Nick Fury's insistence, the former director and teacher was allowed to stay.
At this moment, he was watching everything from "Raccoon Town" through internal authority.
The reason is very simple. From the very beginning, after he knew the existence of the "Raccoon Town" barrier, he developed a strong interest in it. This is the keen sense of smell that a Hydra leader should have.
Facts also proved that there was nothing wrong with his sense of smell.
Just by listening to the description of the artificial intelligence, he was attracted by this virus, so he placed people in the place where fortifications were built, so that once the barrier was broken, they could extract the virus from it.
But now, with the Spider-Girl and the Qian Country boy here, a mere special operations team would not be able to complete the restart and release the virus. According to past experience, when a disaster that was originally going to happen in a barrier is prevented, the barrier will completely disappear.
Therefore, if he wants to get the T virus, now is his last chance.
"Hmm" After hesitating for a moment, Alexander Pierce dialed a person's number through Hydra's exclusive encrypted channel.
"Hey"
A woman's voice that sounded a little old came from the phone.
"Mrs. Gao, it's me."
Alexander's voice became a little gloomy. It was obvious that he did not want the woman opposite to know his true identity, because the relationship between them was not that of a superior and a subordinate, but that of an employer and an employed.
"Oh, it's you. What do you want?"
"Activate the undercover agent I asked you to place in the defenses of Raccoon Town. In ten minutes, someone will enter the Raccoon Town barrier."
"You are truly powerful. You are worthy of being the leader of Hydra. You can actually do such a thing."
"It's obvious that the woman across from me seems to be very interested in this matter as well."
"hehe."
Alexander Pierce did not explain this. The more he said, the more mistakes he would make. For such a person, it is more important to maintain a sense of mystery than to give a so-called explanation. Of course, he also had to admit that if he told the truth, it would make him look low-class.
After all, the resource they need to pay to cross the barrier is almost non-renewable.
Without sufficient benefits, they naturally would not waste this resource.
The outer fortifications of "Raccoon Town".
Several construction workers quietly came into a room, took off their clothes, revealing the ninja uniforms underneath. Their usually warm eyes turned cold and ruthless, as if they were born just to follow orders.
"Are you all ready?"
Without any warning, a woman's voice rang out in the room.
Several ninjas instantly assumed fighting stances.
Then, they watched with their own eyes as a woman wearing some kind of white protective clothing, whose head was covered by a helmet with six built-in cameras, appeared in front of them out of thin air, little by little.
"Long live Hydra!"
The woman spoke up.
Several ninjas then put down their weapons.
"We are ready."
"The five of you hold hands, and then you hold my hand. Remember, no matter what happens, don't let go and don't make any noise. Can you do it?"
"Please don't underestimate us, the Hand's ninjas."
"Ah"
The woman did not explain, but hooked her finger, and then they followed a secret passage to the outside of the barrier. This was a blind spot, just right for avoiding the omnipresent Sky Eye.
Then, everyone lined up and held hands.
"Sigh~~"
At that moment, the leading Hand Ninja couldn't help but gasp. If the woman hadn't told him in advance, he would have almost cried out. It was so painful, as if someone was using something to tear every cell in his body apart.
Of course, the good thing is that he watched the woman lead him and his subordinates into the barrier so carelessly. Before that, he knew that even the most powerful nuclear weapons could not have any effect on this barrier.
"Whoo~~~"
After entering the barrier.
The woman loosened her hands and half-knelt on the ground, breathing heavily, as if taking these short steps had drained all her strength.
"I will wait for you here. Of course, if you haven't come here by the time the barrier dissipates, I can't guarantee what will happen to you who sneaked here halfway."
The leading ninja nodded, and led the others to disappear into the depths of the forest.
"Hu~~"
The woman, or rather Ava, the former SHIELD agent and current Hydra member, took a few breaths and rested under a big tree.
Her abilities came from an accidental experiment by her father when she was a child.
His father was killed on the spot, but he himself was unharmed and gained the so-called 'quantum state' ability, a Schrödinger state between existence and non-existence.
Simply put, she can place herself anywhere as long as her body can reach it or her sight can touch it.
This ability allowed her to become a member of SHIELD. She worked for SHIELD, and SHIELD provided her with treatment plans. However, there was almost no progress. As a result, one day, Hydra found her and hoped that she would join HYDRA. The benefit was that they would also provide her with better treatment plans.
She just wanted to live, so she chose to join.
Unfortunately, the Hydra could only suppress her pain, the pain caused by each cell disappearing and reappearing, splitting and reuniting, but it could not allow her to freely control her own abilities. However, at least now she could sleep peacefully. As for completely curing herself, she no longer had any hope.
"How long will it take to crack it?"
At the door leading to the Red Queen's computer room, special operations team leader James Shade paced back and forth. As a professional who lives on the edge of a knife, he had a very bad premonition that this underground laboratory was full of weirdness and he wanted to leave here as soon as possible.
"Captain, the Red Queen's resistance is very tenacious. It will take at least five minutes."
Chad Kaplan, a computer expert from the special operations team, had his fingers clacking on the keyboard, debugging the cracking program.
"Five minutes, yes!"
Suddenly, James Shade raised the submachine gun in his hand.
Because the only passage leading here is the elevator, and this elevator has been activated.
First it rose, then waited for a moment, and then slowly descended.
Finally, with a ding, the elevator door slowly opened.
First update
I guess it will be difficult to update three times today. I will try to pay off my debt tomorrow.
(End of this chapter)