Chapter 677
Slaying the Nine-Headed Serpent
Chapter 677 Slaying the Hydra
Unlike the Hydra progenitor in the MCU universe, the Hive on Earth 616 is a product of modern technology; more precisely, it is a reverse engineering of Kree technology by Hydra.
As early as World War II, Hydra collected a large amount of information about the Inhumans and Kree's legacy technology and conducted in-depth research, understanding the differences between potential Inhumans, ordinary people, and mutants. Before awakening, Inhumans are no different from ordinary people, but as long as the Kree-modified codes in their genes take effect, these people will transform into Inhumans, becoming powerful superhumans.
However, they encountered a very serious problem: the catalyst that worked, the so-called "Terrigan fog" mentioned in the literature, could not be found on Earth at all.
It wasn't until more than a decade ago that Arnim Zola completed his research, replacing the Terrigen Mist with another type of parasite developed by Hydra. They had the parasite devour a Hydra agent, thus giving the Hive his mind and consciousness. Then, they used these parasites to infect humans who could awaken into Inhumans.
In this way, they would not only awaken superpowers but also be completely controlled by the Hive. However, this method has two drawbacks: first, all the Inhumans would be controlled by the Hive like puppets, and they would need to maintain control of the Hive at all times; second, all the parasites would naturally condense into the Hive, making it impossible to replicate the experiment.
The reason this project wasn't included in the weapons expansion plan is because it has too many limitations. It requires Hive himself to be tied to it. However, as long as Hive remains a member of Hydra, they will have an absolutely loyal, albeit poor, Inhuman army at their disposal.
Yes, until now.
"Where did Hydra get so many weird little bugs? They're disgusting to look at."
Janet crossed her arms and flew to the opposite side of the hive. She had just used Ant-Man's pheromones and infrasound frequencies to control a large number of ants to swarm the parasites and fight them to the death, quickly sending the creature scrambling around in a panic.
"Did you know that, according to fossil evidence, the common ancestor of army ants originated no later than the early to middle Cretaceous period? In other words, even this so-called barbaric continent may have army ants... Even if there are no army ants, there are termites. These things are found all over the world, although termites are not ants—good heavens, I never thought Hank's knowledge of ants would actually come in handy one day."
Janet was still talking to herself, while the hive was busy dealing with the army of army ants, a specialty of the wild continent. These brutal creatures were not only numerous and fierce in combat, but most importantly, they were small in size, so small that they could not be parasitized by the hive and could only release a part of themselves to tear each other apart.
In terms of sheer numbers, they are definitely no match for the other side.
"Stop! Someone come quick!"
The Hive's subconscious actions inadvertently rewrote the entire battle. The mindless puppet aliens rushed over and plunged into the endless sea of ants to fight them, directly drawing away an entire Hydra force.
Ignoring the beehive being attacked by ants on one side, Peter was blocked on the other side by Arnim Zola, a veteran of Hydra, a master of bio-engineering, and the head of the weapons expansion program. This guy was like a walking, giant TV with limbs attached. The screen showed his big face, and then he pointed the camera on top at Peter.
"Spider-Man, based on my calculations, I believe you are the second most dangerous enemy in the entire Avengers, after Bruce Banner and Thor. Therefore, I've come to deal with you personally." "Really? I'm that powerful? Why don't you upgrade yourself into a liquid crystal before you come? To highlight my esteemed status?"
Zola was taken aback by these words. After a moment of silence, he smiled, reached out, and a colossal giant composed of wind, sand, fire, and water appeared from behind him.
"For you, I created entirely new elementals to fight against you! This is the essence of the weapons expansion plan! Every powerful villain you eliminate is merely a weapon of Hydra; we can recreate them whenever we want—"
Before Zola could finish speaking, a member of the elemental beings exploded with a "bang".
Zola looked over in surprise.
"Oh, hey Peter, I saw you were having some trouble and thought I'd lend a hand." It was Katie who caused all this; she transferred from the new Water Elemental's body, causing the latter's direct explosion, and she herself didn't know what had happened: "This..."
"No, no, no, Katie, you did a great job! All you have to do is pass through the bodies of these elementals! When you pass through, you will disrupt the condensation of the molecules themselves, and these guys will explode as soon as you touch them!"
Peter immediately realized what Katie had done. He had actually done something similar to dismantle the elementals before, but Katie's ability to directly change the force of a minute was a truly unexpected surprise.
After a moment of silence, Zola seemed to understand something, so he nodded and immediately summoned a second batch of reinforcements to deal with Spider-Man: "It's not over yet, Spider-Man! I've specially prepared your old friend to deal with you! Thanks to Carnage's contribution, we Hydra now have a sufficient army of symbiotes!"
Row after row of Hydra soldiers appeared behind Zola, all dressed in mass-produced unconscious green symbiotes, standing in front of Peter with weapons in hand. Zola looked very proud. Each soldier here had received very strict and professional training. According to the Spider-Man data that Otto Octavia had passed on, these people would become the strongest weapon against Spider-Man!
Peter looked at the group of people and remained silent for a while. He looked around and made sure that Zola hadn't thrown out any new toys.
"Let me ask you, has your database not been updated since Otto Octavia died, or is all your data about me based on the data Otto sent back then?"
Zola looked at Spider-Man with some confusion. It's only been three months since June. What's wrong? Does Spider-Man mean that in this time, you've become so powerful that you can completely ignore this army of symbiotes with similar abilities to yours?
Peter shrugged helplessly and switched his battle suit to a white one with black stripes: "Well, it seems your information is really outdated, or the way the massacre was conducted has caused you to misjudge."
Have you ever heard of Anti-Venom?
(End of this chapter)