Chapter 373: Opening Guidance for Hydra (Part 1)

"You know? I hate people who only say half of what they mean the most..." Shiler held Pikachu with both hands, placed it on the table, and stared at his fat face, saying: "... as well as rats."

"Cough, cough..." Pikachu put his short little hands to his mouth, coughed a few times like an old man, and said, "You'd better show some respect. Only I can solve your trouble now."

"Oh, is that so?" Shiler stood up, walked to the bookshelf in the office, and his gaze swept back and forth on the bookshelf. He said, "Let me see where my cookbook is. God bless, there must be a dish called Braised Rat here..."

"Do you know how ugly your face looks right now?" Pikachu wasn't afraid at all. He shook his lightning-shaped tail, then put one hand on the wall and the other on his hip, saying, "The poor plan-maker finally exhausted himself into this state with a stupid plan. How long have you been working overtime continuously? Four days? Or five days?"

Saying this, Pikachu walked to the table again, spread his hands to Shiler, and said, "When you formulated this plan to play with Hydra, didn't you think they would pester you?"

Shiler took a deep breath, seemingly suppressing his anger at being mocked. After a while, he sighed helplessly and said, "I knew it would be very troublesome, but I didn't expect it to be this troublesome."

That's right. Up to now, Shiler had been working 18 hours a day for five consecutive days. And this didn't count the time he was woken up by phone calls in his sleep.

As everyone knows, Hydra is a spy organization. Stark and Steve were both right. Anyone who goes to bed at 9 o'clock in the evening cannot engage in work like spies or agents. A spy who guides spies is also a spy. Shiler, who infiltrated Hydra, had been exhausted to death lately.

Shiler wasn't air-dropped with nothing, but took over the team Pierce left in S. H. I. E. L. D. in the name of Pierce. Just like anyone who is air-dropped to lead a team, in the initial period, there were a bunch of troublesome things to deal with.

In this world, the predecessor of any unlucky person who is air-dropped to work in a group must be a reckless person who is good at causing trouble, poking holes, leaving a bunch of bugs unfixed, and leaving a bunch of work unfinished. Otherwise, they wouldn't have been replaced by others.

Although Pierce was rigorous by nature, ever since he retired from S. H. I. E. L. D. and went to the World Security Council to serve, he had been remote-controlling S. H. I. E. L. D. The efficiency of this remote control was not high, so he left a bunch of work unfinished. If Shiler wanted to get useful intelligence from these works, he had to work overtime to sort out the context of this damn work.

However, this was not the most fatal thing. If it were a Hydra in a normal state, Shiler wouldn't have so much to do. But now, that group of snake heads who were chased by Stark and Steve were all silent. Only Shiler opened the channel. That was really calling him for every little thing.

People he knew and didn't know, things that should be managed by him and shouldn't be managed by him, things he could handle and couldn't handle—finding the "Doctor" for everything was right.

And what was even more fatal was that initially, Shiler didn't anticipate this situation. Therefore, he just wanted to finish these things quickly, so he figured out the mess Pierce left behind in a flash, executed the security plan vigorously, and also grabbed the forces of several snake heads, arranged them to be reorganized, and arranged for them to enter Arkham Asylum.

This kind of work efficiency couldn't be said to be mediocre in Hydra, but could only be said to be one in a hundred.

Don't forget, although Pierce was one of the snake heads, he also had superiors. The deeper hidden Hydra leader looked and thought, this is a gold medal salesperson bringing out another gold medal salesperson. This must be adding a burden to him?

So, one morning, Shiler received a mysterious phone call, requiring him to fully take over all affairs in New York State. His overtime nightmare came.

Could some things be ignored? Actually, it was possible. But Shiler had a bit of obsessive-compulsive disorder. He saw that this personnel work schedule was a mess and couldn't help but sort it out. He saw that the security loopholes in this base were like a sieve and couldn't help but re-formulate...

Going back and forth like this, he had been working overtime for five or six consecutive days, and looking at this situation, he had to continue working overtime.

During these days, the words Shiler repeated the most were "Where is Iron Man? What is Iron Man doing?!", "Query Captain America status!"

If you guys don't close the net quickly, I'm really going to save Hydra from fire and water.

The impact of this situation was not just on Shiler's schedule, or rather, this was just the event with the least impact brought about by Shiler taking over Hydra. What was truly turned upside down were Stark and Steve.

After they joined forces, they began to track down matters related to the secure stronghold. But it didn't affect their other work of fighting Hydra. However, in these few days, they felt that the difficulty of the whole game went up like a rocket "whoosh". The blood pressure of the two also went up like a rocket "whoosh".

Shiler's tactics were very simple, but incomparably effective. He finally let Hydra, this bloated and famous spy organization, truly achieve coming without a shadow and going without a trace.

Simply put, it was three steps: early warning, security, disappearance.

Hydra has developed to this day, and its personnel composition is like a huge tree crown. Every main trunk involves countless branches, and branches involve even smaller branches.

Their personnel structure is more like a spindle. The number of middle-level personnel is the largest. This group of people is different from those bottom-level personnel who don't know they are working for Hydra. Most of them choose to join because of Hydra's philosophy, but they don't work just for ideals. In necessary times, they also seek benefits for themselves, just like the vast majority of spies in this world.

There will be a few people with broken brains in every organization in this world. Due to the huge middle-level base, there are extra many people with broken brains among Hydra's middle-level personnel. And the ones most likely to reveal flaws are precisely the high-level intellectuals mentioned by Steve.

They are not professional agents and have not received agent training, but they have very high treatment because of their authority in professional aspects. And there are extra many self-interested people among this group, unwilling to pay more price to hide themselves, so it is precisely this group of people who are pulled out by Steve and Stark, one after another.

And the reason why Shiler could reverse the situation was precisely by taking a knife to this group of people. The process sounds complicated, but it actually summarizes to four words: cut off the wrist to survive.

In all evacuation actions, data must be completely destroyed, all experimental equipment must be destroyed, and even the entire base can be burned. And when notifying evacuation, Shiler wouldn't contact the highest person in charge in this base, because those people are often PhDs and professors. He would only contact the security personnel, requiring them to forcibly take away those researchers. All those who are unwilling to go are shot on the spot.

Shiler's reasons are also very sufficient. Knowledge data must be secured, and Hydra's most precious knowledge assets are these researchers, so they must go. Those who don't obey the arrangement are directly regarded as transfer losses.

In most experimental bases, the contradiction between security personnel and researchers is not a day or two. Any professional agent cannot tolerate the personality of this group of scientists who make trouble for no reason.

So after receiving Shiler's order, the whole evacuation action was faster, and there was no situation where they were dragging their feet, not cutting off the power, not burning the data, and even leaving behind several large boxes of hard drives.

【My Healing Game】

Maybe someone will ask, since this kind of plan can very effectively deal with Stark and Steve's investigation and raid, why didn't Hydra adopt it in the past?

If you take out a statistical data from God's perspective, you will find that the Hydra talents lost in the evacuation actions arranged by Shiler are more than the Hydra talents captured by Stark and Steve.

Killing one's own people so that the enemy has no one to kill is the secret to success.

To put it bluntly, this field is not Shiler's, so Shiler naturally wants to sell whichever piece he wants. He doesn't have to consider how Hydra will deal with the experimental suspension caused by the lack of a large number of technical talents, or the problem that the original technology cannot be maintained.

But from another perspective, Stark and Steve had a bit of high blood pressure. In the Avengers base, Stark pressed his temples and said, "I think we need to re-evaluate Hydra's leadership level. They are actually willing to cut off their tails to survive."

Steve's expression was a bit hesitant. He said, "I suspect they might have received direct leadership from the German headquarters."

"In the era when I fought in the war, we all knew that the American Hydra was not worth mentioning. The most terrible thing was that group of people under the little mustache. Although I often say they are a group of lunatics, I also have to admit that the capable generals under him are very powerful."

"Indeed, such decisive decision-making is not something ordinary people can do. They are more troublesome than I imagined." Stark said with a serious face. He stood up from the sofa and walked to the battle map, saying: "My tactics for dealing with Hydra come from the tactics I prepared for dealing with S. H. I. E. L. D. before. My imaginary enemy is Nick Fury."

"But now it seems that the person on the opposite side is more ruthless than Nick. They are actually willing to lose two-thirds of the personnel in the base to ensure the evacuation of important figures..."

"But I have to say, they are very smart." Steve also walked over and stood next to Stark, saying: "Actually, this is the best choice. If they have been dragging their feet and caring about sacrifices, they would have collapsed by now."

"Because the more important personnel we capture, the more branches we can touch along this trunk." Stark continued fluently: "Capturing a hundred branches is not as good as capturing one main trunk."

"But it's a bit strange..." Immediately after, Stark frowned and said with some doubt: "At the beginning, their reaction didn't exceed my expectations, but recently, their strategic level has advanced by leaps and bounds. If they had shown this momentum at the beginning, I would definitely have readjusted their threat level."

"That's why I said, it's very likely that a powerful person from the German headquarters has taken over the work here. This style of action is too similar to those few people under Red Skull."

"We have to readjust our combat plan. If necessary, I will also ask for help from those few people in the Glorious Alliance." Stark said with his arms crossed.

"Organize a meeting within the Avengers first." Steve turned and walked to the conference table to sit down. Just then, a ringtone came from Stark's pocket. He took out his phone and connected the call, saying: "Hello? Shiler?... Why is it you again? Can you stop calling me?"

What Stark didn't expect was that the other side hung up the phone very briskly. Immediately after, the phone of Peter, who was playing billiards on the side, rang. He picked up the phone and said: "Hello? Dr. Shiler?... What? How are we progressing? I'm afraid it's not going very smoothly. Mr. Stark and the Captain plan to adjust their tactics..."

"Alright, I will help you urge them, but why are you so anxious?"

"... Oh, indeed, this damn evil organization has harmed too many people. We really have to act immediately to prevent them from continuing to make trouble!" Peter said seriously to the other side of the phone: "Yes! I think so too, then I'll go now!"

After finishing, he hung up the phone, walked to Stark and Steve, and said to them: "Dr. Shiler asked me to ask you, why haven't there been any progress these past few days? He is very anxious..."

Peter said seriously: "He said, he can no longer endure these evil Hydra agents, not even for a second!" ===== CHAPTER 374 =====