Chapter 1031 - 73: Boarding Training

The Space Airship, a super orbital command center developed by the Shield Bureau.

Initially, this research wasn’t actually intended for military action. On the contrary, it was a project developed for the rapid and covert deployment of Shield Bureau agents worldwide. The contemporary director of the Shield Bureau, Nick Fury, played a significant role in its efforts.

But what he didn’t expect was that he obtained too many resources!

Hydra infiltrated many countries in the world, including the United States. After World War II, Americans began revising a series of laws to accept scientists and other talents from defeated countries, which allowed many who should have been sanctioned to escape punishment due to their intellectual prowess.

The decision-makers at the time were too greedy and forgot one thing: if those they absorbed were far smarter and more organized than them, absorbing these people was the equivalent of handing over control of their organization.

The fact also proved that those who decided to absorb war criminals that should have been executed were indeed people without much of a moral bottom line.

This allowed Hydra to gradually infiltrate every aspect of the American bureaucratic system through the Strategic Scientific Reserve before the war, eventually reorganizing the Strategic Scientific Reserve into the Shield Bureau and embedding into the United Nations.

With the mole within the Federal Government, Hydra began to expand its sphere of influence globally, secretly siphoning funds, and on the surface, leveraging the United Nations’ name to scour the world for technology and talent to help them seize control of the world.

Rocksen was the adversary they encountered in this process, and after losing in the shadows, they made Rocksen one of their investors...

In a sense, Rocksen and Hydra could be seen as alike yet also wary of each other, in Piers’ eyes, without the Rocksen Group, they would have long since taken control of the global economy and America—

Of course, now is the same.

The national power of the former great nation was entirely drained in these years, with the final globalization results even thrown into the melting furnace, forging the immensely powerful Space Carrier.

A total of 5 Space Carriers, fully loaded with Quinn jets, overlooked the entire United States, controlling air supremacy through powerful strategic deployment, eroding states unwilling to accept President Ellis’s legal modifications, eliminating resistance forces—

Alexander Pierce, one of Hydra’s highest-ranking leaders.

"Dr. Zola... is this enough?"

His tone full of inquiry, extremely cautious.

Before him, in the computer room flickering with electric light, as the central processor, there stood an enormous brain!

Interspersed with soft tubes for oxygen and nutrient supply, bioelectric currents occasionally sparkled within its container, coolant boiled, fans within the whole computational space ran wildly, emitting engine-like roars!

The brain did not speak, but information was sent through the equipment, a stinging pain from Pierce’s nape brought a line of text into his field of vision:

[Dr. Zola: Not enough... not enough! Use all stored Super Soldier Serum!]

"But that’s not the Super Soldier Serum, it’s green-skinned monster... and very few can survive it..."

[Dr. Zola: I said, inject it!]

The signal instantly pinged all Hydra soldiers responsible for guarding the serum, the interaction between Zola and Pierce felt more like a formality:

If he wished, no soldier implanted with cyber prosthetics could escape his control!

The most powerful social control system on their side, at this moment, was precisely this Zola—

Pierce swallowed hard; but he knew that this brain wasn’t the real Zola, or at least not all of him, not entirely Zola...

To put it bluntly, it was just a mad superbrain.

[Dr. Zola: Ah... it’s starting... this time, I will not lose...]

Pierce trembled inside, feigning calm as he said: "In that case, let me admire the prowess of our Space Carrier fleet."

The black and white grey dots before him began to stabilize, a few windows appeared in his visual system:

The Space Carriers launched simultaneously towards New York City, or rather towards the entire coastline.

No matter how many foes, they would crush them...

But Pierce had just taken his seat when suddenly a tremendous explosion rocked one of the Space Carriers that had majestically taken flight!

This instantly reminded him of the day Tony Stark died: is that guy really back!

They truly needed the Super Soldier Serum!

...

The cruising Space Carriers were completely unable to spot the transport plane with optical and electromagnetic stealth both activated, at extremely close proximity, the transport plane ejected an airdrop pod holding the Night City squad, crashing into the outer hull of the Space Carrier like a cannon—

Boom!

The airdrop pod exploded violently, blasting several gaping holes in the Space Carrier’s outer hull!

The entire Night City squad already ejected from the airdrop pod before it exploded, using the prosthetics or exoskeletons on their bodies to grip the outer wall, clinging to the surface!

The intense change in speed itself was dizzying, landing on the outer hull of such a colossal object, the gale whipped their senses, the close-range encounter fully immersing them in witnessing the true enormity:

This flying object seemed even larger than Arasaka’s aircraft carriers in the water!

[Brick: Can’t we just use some big bomb to blow this thing’s engines up!]

[Lille: No—control damage, this is a landing battle, destruction is the last resort!]

[Pan’an: Breach!]

In everyone’s HUD, the entry path was displayed, but truly letting go, relying solely on that strand of Spider Silk to grip the wall, still evoked fear from the intense imbalance:

Falling from this height would result in immediate termination!

But here, every one was battle-hardened—or rather nerve-wracked lunatics, bodies reacting faster than thoughts, propulsion systems on their bodies fully engaged controlling the descent, spinning wildly, they entered the ship through the breaches!

Red warning lights flashed madly in the narrow metallic space, the enemy already assembled, automated gun turrets descended from the ceiling, the sweeping firepower forming a death trap!

But they were certainly no mere flesh and blood!

In Si Anweisitan’s world, bullets seemed less inscrutable—

A series of clinks and clangs echoed amidst the gunfire, to the Hydra soldiers’ shock and horror, someone powered through their storm-like blockade!

Some brandishing enormous shields, some darting like phantoms, some even under such terrifying fire suppression could counterattack with bullets...

They couldn’t hold them back!

The sparking Mantis Blade shot out from behind the formidable shields like a mountain, scalding Mantis Blade instantly reaping the lives of Hydras within the passage!

Jack lowered his left hand wielding the shield, raised his right hand with a shotgun, gripped a Hydra soldier not quite dead, and blew away his head with a single shot.

"The feel is a bit off..."