69novels Chapter 170
Chapter 170
A few hours ago, Xavier College.
"Are you sure you want to do this? Honey, you just had a laboratory and stronghold blown up by Tony. I bet if Karl hadn't stopped him, he would have done more." Maria said, sitting sideways beside her husband Beside, "Are you sure you want to do this to his boyfriend? Just watch this happen and do nothing?"
"Lex is not a good thing." Howard snorted. "There is no evidence to prove it. From this point of view, he is terribly cautious. But one day I will grab his pigtails. I don't believe that he has a good attitude towards Hydra." Nothing is known of their existence or their plans."
"Oh," Maria said, "I think Karl would be pissed at testing Lex Luthor's life at the cost of his life."
"...No, he won't." Howard said this time after a moment of silence.
Maria looked at him.
"Please! Do you really think that he is an innocent and foolish boy who doesn't know what Lex Luthor is doing behind the scenes, has a good relationship with Professor X because of a large donation, and leaves when he sees a beautiful woman Don't know, sweetly called 'Sister Dale'? I always have a feeling that Carl is more dangerous and uncontrollable than his brother Alexander..."
He stared at the screen tightly, as if there was something important about the survival of the world on it, so he couldn't ignore it for a second.
"Hmm." Maria replied casually.
Neither she nor Howard is an idiot, because she has performed the most dangerous missions on the scene for many years, and her intuition is sharper than Howard's in some things.
The small details that Howard discovered were wrong, she had already discovered, even more than those Howard said.
Carl's sweet smile, his gentle and soft eyes, the constant small movements in his behavior, the vague evasion of the important in his words and speech, the special attention he pays to certain people, he has been loved since birth. He is well-loved, but his acting style is always so low-key.
He is always using costumes and backgrounds to create visual differences to slightly adjust his body proportions and height.
Very subtle and perfectly done, especially the last bit.
But it was that last point that gave him away.
Maria has too much experience in this area. Apart from Peggy and the agent from the former Soviet Union, she may already be the oldest special executive in the world. As a woman, her work requires more camouflage and Acting, with Cal not hiding himself much, she gradually sees that Cal is not what he actually appears to be.
The Carl that people know.Al wasn't all Cal.Al, but only a part of him, a small part.
She was vaguely aware of the hidden part of Carl.Who is Al, or she has actually determined who that part of Carl is, but she doesn't plan to go deep and explore, and without tangible evidence, she can't tell herself that her guess is right.
As for whether her guess is right... what does it matter?
Maria and her husband are not the same kind of people.
Both Howard and Tony are too harsh, even for those they love deeply from the bottom of their hearts, but she is more willing to back down and forbear for love, and willingly give up the initiative that should belong to her.
"You'd better not sit idly by," she advised, in an unusually soft tone. "Whether Lex is good or bad, that's not your responsibility."
"Who do you think is responsible for that?" Howard said. "It's not my responsibility whether he is good or bad, and it's not my responsibility whether he lives or dies."
"Honey, Carl is not Tony. Whatever you think, I never like to see Carl 'really' angry."
Though he shouldn't be offended by their indifference to what's happening to Lex right now.
"...Okay," Howard said.
He frowned and tapped on the keyboard, as if he was persuaded by his wife.
Maria smiled.
Knowing that Howard wasn't really going to do nothing, she got up with the empty cup and went to refill her husband's coffee.
The phone vibrated.
She absently took out her phone and clicked on the text message.
Carl: ":)"
"Oh." She raised one eyebrow and said to herself, "Although I know you can hear everything...but it's a bit scary."
Another message jumped into her eyes.
Carl: ":("
Maria shook her head with a smile.
A few hours later, Lex sat in the small lounge, quietly looking at the man sitting across from him.
The height is about 1.8 meters to 1.9 meters, and the figure is relatively slender among the same height.Limbs, fingers, and appearance are all ordinary. It is unclear whether he has special abilities, but from his physical reactions, he looks more like a mental worker.He is a middle-level manager in the Hydra organization and has a lot of power, so he has a somewhat arrogant personality.
Lex didn't speak first, which was his usual style.
But the person who invited him on the opposite side didn't mind his silence, he raised his head and showed Lex an amiable smile from any point of view.
"Please sit down, Mr. Luthor, I hope you don't mind the rudeness of me and my subordinates, but this is a last resort - in your capacity, it is difficult for us to find an opportunity to be alone with you."
"To be honest, I'm a little annoyed that Mercy didn't come in with me, but that's just a small thing." Lex said flatly, "You haven't introduced yourself to me yet."
"This is my mistake, Mr. Luthor, you can call me 'Sai'. Of course, this is not my real name, but people like us don't have many opportunities to use our real name. Instead, the code name is more recognizable." The man's tone was as polite as Lex's, "Don't gossip, Mr. Luthor, you must really want to know why we invited you here."
"Appreciate further details."
"The theme of the banquet tonight is to celebrate the official launch of 'HA-9'. I believe you are also attracted by her to attend this kind of boring party. Ming people don't say dark words, 'HA-9' has quite deadly Flaw," Cy said, watching Lex's expression, but all he saw was calm, "You don't look surprised—"
Not only was he not surprised by the flaws of the medicine itself, but also he was familiar with the dark forces behind this pharmaceutical company, which was vaguely revealed in his words.
But Lex avoided Cy's temptation to the latter and only answered the former.
"This drug itself is not prepared for patients with Alzheimer's disease. 'HA-9' is aimed at ordinary people. version of 'Captain America'."
Lex didn't mind sharing information he knew at all.
He didn't think that Sai and the Hydra organization behind him would be unaware of the fact that a small amount of "HA-9" leaked out, and most of the medicines in it were in his hands.
Of course, he has also conducted a lot of research on such medicines, and it is inevitable that some illegal human experiments will be required in the process-only human experiments can give the answer he got.
The "HA-9" reagent itself is a diluted version. Some elements in the reagent are extracted, and then injected into healthy ordinary people. The experimental subjects will have three to four times the strength of ordinary people in a short period of time, but What follows is a change in their personality.
Experiments will become extremely irritable and logic abnormal, maintaining their normal activities requires a lot of calories and nutrients, when not satisfied, they will eat any living thing they see.
Extreme irritability and logical abnormalities are manageable, but food fanaticism is difficult to control.
In return for Se revealing that there is a powerful force behind them, while Lex showed what he knew, he also gave the other party a lot of information about human experiments.
Se obviously understood this, because his expression softened visibly.
"You are a smart man, Mr. Luthor, of course you are, so I think you may provide useful help to the perfection of the 'HA-9' reagent. For this reason, I have spent all my efforts to convince those stubborn high-level, Let them give me a chance to have a face-to-face conversation with you."
Probably to ease the atmosphere, Sai also shrugged his shoulders pretending to be relaxed, and made a little joke.
"My application was only approved a few hours ago. I don't know what made them loose their tough attitude. Maybe they suddenly discovered that your talent is really unparalleled?"
That's it, Lex thought, that's why Hydra had planned to eradicate him for a long time, but hadn't done it for so long.
It sounds like the factional struggle within Hydra is more intense than he realizes, some people want to protect him, some people want to kill him, and some people intervene purely to increase the right to speak, plus Howard secretly stirs up the water Behavior, he delayed waiting for the Winter Soldier responsible for his assassination.
Let's take over their labs and researchers right away, Lex thought.
Since the "death" of the Stark couple, this group of people can't wait to start fighting internally. They don't care about the external situation at all, and there is no need for them to exist.
What's more, he got enough information about Superman from them in the early days.
Now that Superman has come into the light, he doesn't need Hydra's ubiquitous members anymore.
"You expect too much from me." Lex said, "As the maker of 'HA-9', I can understand your confidence in it, but unfortunately, I don't think I can make up for its shortcomings. There is an unresolvable substance in the reagent, and that is probably the key point for 'HA-9' to be effective."
This is undoubtedly a rather tactful rejection, or a temptation.
Se smiled confidently.
"As for the substance that you can't analyze, please don't doubt your wisdom, Mr. Luthor. Do you still remember the mutant who challenged your majesty?"
Lex had to admit his interest had been piqued.
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Mr. Lai: These retarded people thought Superman was a mutant.