Chapter 124: People living in computers

"It's already a secret office, why hide the elevator?" Steve Rogers frowned and realised that things were not that simple. This elevator must lead to something truly secret.

Natasha Romanov swiped the code lock of the elevator with her mobile phone, and a projection interface appeared, and the code was easily cracked.

After entering the password, Steve Rogers and Natasha Romanov took the elevator and went in to the underground. After the elevator door was opened, they saw it was a dark room outside.

Steve Rogers and Natasha Romanov looked at each other. They got out of the elevator and walked into the dark room. The elevator door behind the door closed with a bang.

At this moment, everyone in the answer space had a feeling, as if in the darkness, some cannibal beast was waiting for Steve Rogers and Natasha Romanoff.

Though they don't know if there were any actual beasts in the dark, there must be lights. As the two walked step by step, the lights in the room suddenly turned on one by one, before the lights became brighter.

Everyone was able to see the situation within this room clearly. There are a lot of computers everywhere, but they are different from the thin and light computers of the modern age. These computers here are almost thick walls of metals, and the screens were not like any liquid crystals. These were old-fashioned computers that had been long eliminated from history through tech evolution.

"It can't be that the data source here, these are old antiques." Natasha Romanov looked at the computers.

But as soon as she finished speaking, she saw a data port on the table and inserted the USB flash drive in.

As if a switch was turned on, all those old antique computers flicked on at the same time.

"Do you want to turn on the computer?" In the mechanical voice, a simple line of instructions appeared on the screen of a computer.

Natasha Romanov stepped up and typed "Yes".

Then, a data stream began to flash on the screen of that computer, and a data face began to form.

"Steve Rogers, born in 1918." The electromechanical voice rang again, and an old-fashioned camera turned around, capturing the facial information of Steve Rogers and Natasha Romanoff. "Natasha Alia Lozna Romanov, born in 1984."

"What is this? A video?" Natasha Romanov asked suspiciously.

"I'm not a video, young lady," the electronic voice said. "I may not be the one who was taken to prison by the captain in 1945, but I am still me."

Having said that, a photo of a person appeared on another computer screen. With this photo for comparison, it can be clearly seen that the previous data face is an abstract image of the man in the photo.

"Do you know who this thing is?" Natasha Romanoff asked Steve Rogers.

"That is Arnim Zola is a German scientist working for the Red Skull." Steve Rogers said as he walked around the computers. "He has been dead for many years."

"First of all correct, I am Swiss." Electronically synthesised sound continued, "Second, look around you, I am more energetic than ever!"

"Could it be that within these computers there is Arnim Zola?" In the answer space, Bruce Banner caught on to the clue, "He lives on within the computer?"

"It should be more like his knowledge was stored in these computers." Tony Stark said, "What a lunatic, what's the point of being alive like this!"

"Huh, people living within computers?" Thor felt ridiculous, "How can those electronic components and circuit boards allow people to survive?"

In the video, Arnim Zola immediately gave the answer: "In 1972, I was diagnosed with a terminal illness. Science could no longer save my body, but my mind was worth saving and preserving. All these devices store it. In this foot-long database, you are standing inside my brain right now."

"How did you get here?" Steve Rogers asked casually as if he was no stranger to this kind of thing and that people living in computers was a daily occurrence for him.

"I was invited." Anim Zola said.

"The paperclip operation after World War II." Natasha Romanov remembered, "S.H.I.E.L.D. recruited many German scientists with strategic value."

"They believed I could help their career." Arnim Zola continued Natasha Romanov's words, "So I also helped my own career."

"Hydra and Red Skull died together." Steve Rogers said.

"Cut off one head and two new ones will grow." The Hydra logo appeared on the computer screen, and then Arnim Zola's data face split in two.

"Prove it to me." Steve Rogers would naturally not be fooled by a few words.

"Accessing the archive." A picture of the red skull appeared on the computer screen. Arnim Zola started to explain, "The original belief of Hydra was to remove the freedom from humans. What we didn't realise was that, When you try to take their freedom, they resist."

Steve Rogers, wearing a star and striped suit, appeared on the screen: "War taught us a lot. Humans needed to give up their freedom and surrender voluntarily. After the war, S.H.I.E.L.D. recruited us to them. The new Hydra is growing, a beautiful parasite hatching inside of S.H.I.E.L.D.."

Natasha Romanov and Steve Rogers were a little bit stunned when they heard this. Hydra, the evil organisation, that had been thought to have been eliminated is still there, and it had infiltrated S.H.I.E.L.D.!

"Hydra has been secretly contributing to various crises and benefiting from wars." The picture on the screen is still playing, and Arnim Zola was still explaining, "When history refuses to cooperate, we changed history. ."

"That's impossible." Natasha Romanov said, "S.H.I.E.L.D. will stop you."

"Accidents always happen." Arnim Zola ignored Natasha Romanov, and then continued, "Hydra has created an extremely chaotic world, and soon mankind will be finally ready to sacrifice their freedom in exchange for safety. Once our evolutionary process is completed, the new world order of Hydra will be born."

"We won, Captain." At this point, Arnim Zola's voice added a touch of pride, "Your survival and death values ​​are the same, both are equal to 0."

*Boom!*

Steve Rogers punched the computer with a punch and smashed the computer screen on the spot.

"Like I said..." Arnim Zola's data face appeared on another computer screen.

"What's in the USB flash drive?" Steve Rogers asked before Arnim Zola could finish.

"The insight plan requires insight, so I wrote the algorithm needed." Arnim Zola said.

"What kind of algorithm and what is it used for?" Natasha Romanov asked.

"Though to answer this question is very attractive, it's a pity that I can only tell two dead people the answer." As soon as Arnim Zola finished saying this, two iron doors slowly closed behind him.

*Whoosh!*

Steve Rogers hurriedly threw his shield to stop it, but it was a pity that the elevator door was closed just before the shield hit it's mark.

Then the shield bounced back and flew back and was caught by Steve Rogers.

Natasha Romanoff's cell phone rang as an alarm, she picked it up and looked at it, her expression changed, "Steve, there is a flying object, a short-range ballistic missile, and there are 30 seconds at most."

"Who sent it?" Steve Rogers asked.

"S.H.I.E.L.D.," Natasha Romanov said.

"I'm sorry, Captain, I have only been procrastinating for time." Arnim Zola said, "You should accept your fate, it's actually better. We are all the same. Time is almost up."

During Arnim Zola's "Villain monologue" time, Natasha Romanov and Steve Rogers will of course not naturally just wait to die. The former pulls out the U disk, and the latter takes the ground. An iron net was lifted, and the two jumped in together.

*Boom!*

The missile hit the outside of the room, blasting the roof down, but fortunately Steve Rogers had a shield held above his head to protect him and Natasha Romanoff from harm.

Seeing this, everyone in the answer space thought the video was over, but it didn't stop. The video was still going on. A black man was running on the bridge.

"It's the birdman!" Tony Stark couldn't help but said, although Sam Wilson was only a silhouette at this time, who else has appeared in any of the video around this time, besides him?

"It seems that the next plot is about after the captain and Romanoff survived the missile attack and came to seek help from this winged man." Bruce Banner said.

The next plot is exactly the same as Bruce Banner predicted. After Sam Wilson went home after running, he opened the refrigerator and took out a bottle to drink, but just as it was brought to his mouth he heard a knock on his door.

After opening the door, Steve Rogers and Natasha Romanoff stood there with disgraced faces.

"Hey, buddy." Sam Wilson said hello.

"I'm very sorry to come here suddenly, but we need a place to hide." Steve Rogers said.

"Everyone we know wants to kill us." Natasha Romanov added.

"Not everyone." Sam Wilson turned his eyes on the two of them, then invited them into the room and closed the door.

"What's the matter?" At Sam Wilson's house, Steve Rogers found that Natasha Romanoff looked a little wrong and couldn't help asking.

"When I first joined S.H.I.E.L.D., I thought I was on the right path." Natasha Romanov looked very frustrated, "I didn't expect it to be hydra in the end." She laughed mockingly. "I thought I knew who to lie for, but now I can't tell."

"People like you may not be suitable for this job." Steve Rogers said.

"I owe you my life." Natasha Romanov was silent for a while, then looked at Steve Rogers and said.

"It's nothing." Steve Rogers said.

"If the two of us turn upside down, if you need me to save your life, tell me the truth." Natasha Romanov asked, "Do you believe I will save you?"

"I Believe it," Steve Rogers said, "I always tell the truth."

"You just found out that you sacrificed in vain, but now you seem to be very happy." Natasha Romanov said.

"Well..." Steve Rogers leaned back in his chair, "I know who my opponent is."

"So, the question now is who in the bureau has the right to launch a domestic missile attack." Natasha Romanov began to talk about business.

"Pierce." Steve Rogers spit out a name.

"He is the head of the safest building in the world." Natasha Romanov said.

"He is more than one person, Zola's algorithm is based on the Star of Lemuria." Steve Rogers said.

"Jasper Sitwell is also on that ship." Natasha Romanov said.

"So the real question is how can the two most wanted criminals kidnapped senior officials of S.H.I.E.L.D. in broad daylight." Steve Rogers said helplessly.

"The answer is, you are not going." Sam Wilson put down the breakfast he was making and threw some documents and photos in front of Steve Rogers.

Natasha Romanov picked it up and recognised it after just a glance, "This is Bakamara? Khalidha'o is yours."(Author note; don't know what that means)

Sam Wilson defaulted.

"You didn't say he was an airborne rescuer." Natasha Romanov said to Steve Rogers.

"This is Riley?" Steve Rogers asked, holding the photo, which was a photo of Sam Wilson with another person.

"Yes." Sam Wilson nodded.

"Because there are rockets that can't send a helicopter, did you use a stealth parachute?" Natasha Romanov guessed.

"No, this is what I used." Sam Wilson picked up a document and handed it to Steve Rogers.

"I thought you were a pilot." Steve Rogers glanced at him and said in surprise.

"I never said that." Sam Wilson smiled.

Everyone knew that Sam Wilson showed Steve Rogers, it must be the photo of the pair of wings on his back.

"I can't ask you to do this." Steve Rogers closed the document. "You have a good reason to retire."

"Hey, Captain America needs my help. This is the best reason for me to come back." Sam Wilson said.

The video finally returned to a future moment, the plot was all the same again, the scene turns to a roof, Jasper Sitwell was roughly thrown to the ground, and Steve Rogers strode over.

"Tell me Zola's algorithm." Steve Rogers said.

"Never heard of it." Jasper Sitwell pretended to be a fool.

"What are you doing on the Star of Lemuria?" Steve Rogers pressed on.

"I'm vomiting, I'm seasick." Jasper Sitwell stepped back.

Backing back, Jasper Sitwell retreated to the low parapet wall, almost fell off, and was caught by Steve Rogers.

"Will you throw me down because of this little thing?" Standing on the edge of the building Jasper Sitwell laughed instead, "This is not your style, Rogers."

"You're right, it's not my style." Steve Rogers stepped aside. "It's hers."

*Boom!*

Natasha Romanoff kicked Jasper Sitwell downstairs without saying a word.

"What!!!"

The long scream cut through the city.