Chapter 373: Avengers 1 Split (Part 3) (Patreon)

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Let's turn back time a bit to when Peter was with Steve to destroy the Hydra base.

After Schiller took over Hydra's operations, the Avengers' missions became increasingly difficult. This left Peter feeling frustrated, so he called Schiller to seek some comfort.

Peter understood the advice Steve gave him, but sometimes it's hard to shake off feelings of disappointment. During his stay in Schiller's clinic, he was able to consult Schiller about all of his emotional problems. It was the most emotionally stable period of his life, and he missed it even after he left.

"My uncle often said to me that failure is commonplace in the adult world. You may have to experience many failures before you achieve success."

"I understand what Captain said, but even in learning and exams, it still takes a semester's worth of time, let alone dealing with Hydra, such a formidable spy organization."

"But before, our missions were going smoothly, and we caught many Hydra agents, avenging the victims."

"At that time, I was very happy, but recently, I saw more disgusting and horrible experiments in the Hydra base. However, we couldn't catch the mastermind behind it all right away..."

"Whenever I think about the pain that those victims had to endure, I feel like I can't breathe. And when I think about those evil people who might threaten others, it makes me even more uncomfortable."

Peter sighed on the phone, and Schiller asked him, "Where are you now? Are you in the Avengers base?"

"Yes, they are outside discussing tactics, and I'm making a call in the lounge. I'm afraid they might hear me and think that I..."

"Your base should be underground, right? You should find a coffee shop on the surface with a landing window to sit for a while."

"Adults can generally handle pressure from various aspects, including work, relationship problems, and living conditions being dark and without sunlight. But this doesn't mean that minors can do the same."

"Especially when facing several adults like you, who are not ordinary people, their psychological endurance is much better than yours. So you will feel like they are unaffected, but it will only bring you more pressure."

"Maybe in this comparison, you will feel weak, and you will downplay the difficulty of the mission, thinking that it is because of your own inability. But that's not the case."

"So should I go out now? That's okay, I need to go home and get some clean clothes."

Peter walked out while talking on the phone. Steve and Stark greeted him, and he smiled in response. However, when he left the crowd, his expression became a bit lost.

"Yes, Dr. Schiller, as you said, I feel like they don't care about these failures at all. It always makes me wonder if I'm overthinking it."

"That's okay. Although psychological counseling may slightly alleviate some of your emotional stress, it is not a fundamental solution. I think we can try some fundamental methods."

"Fundamental methods? What are they?"

"That's solving Hydra."

Peter chuckled helplessly and said, "If we could do that, what else would I be worrying about? Every time I listen to them discuss the battle plan, I can understand the content, but I dare not expect the effect. No one knows what those crazy people can still do..."

"I don't know if you can understand, Doctor, but I always feel like we're fighting with our hands tied behind our backs, while the other side can use all kinds of weapons and blades."

"That's not your illusion. Good people always encounter this kind of situation when facing bad people. So let me tell you what I do when I face this situation..."

"What is it? Can it really eliminate Hydra?" Peter asked curiously. He couldn't think of any other way to deal with Hydra other than outsmarting them.

Schiller smiled and said, "I have a plan..."

So, Peter became Schiller's other informant within the Avengers. Yes, he also cooperated with Grant, who was responsible for making noise and attracting the Avengers out, then leading them to the Hydra base where the Winter Soldier was hidden.

After Captain America and Iron Man began arguing, Peter had to seize the opportunity and pretend to be injured, and it had to be from being struck by the Winter Soldier.

In other words, it was a tactic of feigning injury, which could also be seen as a way of diverting attention. Even if the worst happened, it could at least ease the intense argument between the two.

People in a rage often speak without thinking, and the argument can escalate until they have a complete falling out. However, once they break free from this atmosphere, they have more time to calmly reflect on the reasons behind everything.

Iron Man and Captain America are both smart people, and even if they are momentarily blinded by various emotions, once they calm down and think things through, they won't want things to develop into the worst-case scenario.

In the office of the Arkham Sanatorium, Peter rubbed his left shoulder and said, "Fortunately, I have the symbiote. It can suppress my pain nerves and quickly repair my body."

He pressed the spot where there should have been a wound and said, "It's like a dream. Was I really struck?"

"Don't doubt it. If you hadn't been injured, Iron Man and Captain America might have already started fighting."

"But now they're besieging Mr. Strange, treating him like a punching bag." Peter shrugged, "I think his spells are pretty powerful, so he should be okay, right?"

"However..." Peter's tone changed, and he showed a worried expression. "I think Captain's behavior is a bit strange. Every time Bucky is mentioned, he seems to lose control of his emotions."

"He may have post-traumatic stress disorder from the war, which many veterans have, it's just a matter of whether it's obvious or not."

"But he seemed perfectly normal before? He could be considered the one with the best mental state among us."

"This kind of stress disorder can't be triggered by special stimuli. Bucky may be the switch that triggers his stress response."

"What should we do? When Bucky wakes up, the two of them will definitely meet, and then Mr. Stark will..." Peter covered his forehead and sighed helplessly. He could already imagine the chaos that would follow.

"So, the real problem is still Hydra." Schiller reached out and took a file from the nearby bookshelf. "I have some information about T'Challa's injury and poisoning."

Schiller handed the file to Peter and said, "I called you here because I want you to take this information to the Avengers."

"What is this?" Peter asked, taking the file.

"The origin of Hydra."

"The origin of Hydra?" Stark said, holding the file. "Isn't Hydra just a spy organization developed by the Nazis? What does its origin have to do with..."

As he spoke, he opened the first page of the file, which had two big characters written on it: "Hive."

The most well-known origin story of Hydra is the one related to the Nazis, and this origin story is actually true. The current, huge Hydra organization developed from the intelligence agency established by the Nazis.

However, if we trace back to the era when Nazi Hydra was created, Red Skull was actually inspired by another organization, also called Hydra, but completely different from the current Hydra.

A powerful alien hive was sent to Earth a long time ago, and a group of believers on Earth revered this hive as a god and established an organization for the purpose of welcoming it back.

In the long river of history, this most primitive version of Hydra developed countless historical branches, and the original version of Hydra silently supported these branches.

Compared to later spy organizations, this original version of Hydra was more like a secret church, with many talented and ancient families. Their only goal was to win back the powerful hive and let the alien hive occupy Earth, while they became the only people of the new Earth.

As for how Schiller obtained this information, it all started with a certain snakehead who was sold to Mephisto. These high-level figures are very knowledgeable about this history, but in the memories of this snakehead, he had never seen the members of this mysterious original Hydra, and according to him, only the high-level members of Nazi Hydra could see them.

Schiller had a good understanding of Hydra's history, so he wasn't surprised when he learned about it. He just needed to inform Stark and Steve about it.

"Do you think the current Hydra is difficult to deal with? No problem, there are even more difficult ones waiting for you."

Schiller wasn't interested in this organization because he had already dealt with a similar organization in the DC world, namely the Court of Owls. These two organizations had similar origins and natures, and Schiller wasn't interested in collecting information on them again.

But what he didn't expect was that while he didn't go looking for the original Hydra, the organization suddenly came looking for him.

It was a dark winter night, and Schiller had just finished counting the spoils he had recently obtained from Hydra and was about to go to bed when the door of his clinic was knocked on.

Schiller heard the knocking, and then... he turned around and went to sleep.

Don't expect him to be like the protagonist in a horror movie, who hears some strange noise in the middle of the night, and goes down in his pajamas to investigate. Schiller treated it as if the wind had blown the door open and had no intention of opening the door.

The person outside knocked for a while and realized he looked stupid.

This kind of horror movie scene only appears more frightening when the protagonist cooperates. The door at night looks like Beast's big mouth, the sound of the protagonist's footsteps echoes in the empty corridor, and with the sound of "creak," the mysterious figure in black appears outside the door...

But if the protagonist doesn't cooperate at all, it looks like a lame insurance salesman knocking helplessly on a customer's door...

The person outside finally realized this and walked directly into the clinic's door, walked up the stairs, and knocked on every door upstairs, but received no response.

The dark corridor only had faint shadows in the blink of an eye. At this moment, the identity was reversed. The mysterious person who knocked on the door in the middle of the night seemed to have become the protagonist of the horror movie, and the owner of the clinic was the monster who didn't know when it would appear.

Schiller had no intention of chatting alone with this uninvited guest, so he took out his phone and called Stark and Steve.

Any trouble that can be found now should be thrown on them. As long as they have enough trouble to deal with, they won't have time to argue.

With this principle in mind, Schiller first called them, and then appeared at the end of the corridor, face-to-face with the person in the black cloak.

The person in the black cloak looked at Schiller. Schiller was wearing a set of pajamas, but strangely, he was holding a black umbrella. The mysterious person in the black cloak slowly spoke with a hoarse female voice echoing in the dark corridor.

"Are you the 'doctor'?"

"I am indeed a psychotherapist."

"You don't need to beat around the bush with us. I am also a member of Hydra, but I come from the Hive."

Schiller remained silent and didn't ask any questions. The atmosphere became eerily quiet. After a while, the person in the black cloak, who called themselves the Hive, had to ask and answer their own question.

"The Hydra you joined is our derivative organization. The Hive Hydra has a power that you can't imagine, and now we need fresh blood..."

"We originally had our eye on your superior, Alexander Pierce, but he's too old, and although we have a way to make him young again, he's not worth it."

"We have been observing the entire Hydra organization and selecting talented individuals to join us. According to your performance during that time, you have earned a ticket..."

"What if I refuse?" Schiller asked.

"It's okay, soon you will understand the greatness of the Hive."

As she spoke, the mysterious person in the black cloak suddenly took off her hood. Schiller saw that it was a white woman, but her entire forehead was tattooed with a huge Hydra symbol. She opened her mouth, and an unidentified object flew out from her mouth and hovered in front of her.

With a loud bang, the window glass behind Schiller was shattered, and Iron Man's armor flew in. He looked at the person in the black cloak and asked, "Who are you? Why are you here?"

Steve also walked up the stairs, and Schiller turned to Stark and asked, "Did you both come together?"

"Of course not!" "That's right!" they both said in unison.

Schiller was about to mock their relationship, but suddenly had an idea. He opened his umbrella with a bang, and a small injector, like a bee, was rapidly injected into the umbrella. Without this umbrella, he would have been hit by the injector.

Schiller's expression didn't change much. He knew that the woman would use hidden weapons as soon as she opened her mouth.

But what happened next exceeded his expectations.

The injector suddenly turned into a spinning blade, emitting an extremely loud buzzing sound, and then with a hiss... it cut open the umbrella.

The black umbrella was cut open diagonally, and more than half of the umbrella surface fell off, leaving only the umbrella frame exposed.

Schiller didn't care about the needle that hit his shoulder. He just looked at his new umbrella, which he had just obtained a few days ago, and was already cut open.

Steve and Stark had a really bad feeling, and soon they realized that their feeling was completely correct.

Because suddenly, Schiller stiffened there, as if there was no consciousness controlling his body.

A few seconds later, his eyes regained their luster, but with the recovery of consciousness came a crazy and terrifying smile.

"Listen, I have a plan..." His voice contained some uncontrollable laughter.

"I call it... Hydra's big defeat! Hahahaha!"

A ghost story: it's not about the Avengers breaking apart, it's about the umbrella breaking apart.

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