Chapter 379: Avengers 1.5: Invasion (Part 1)

"Hey! Shiler, what's wrong with you?!!!"

Stark turned his head to look at Shiler, but didn't see his figure. Instead, he saw a mass of gray mist floating in the air. Stark watched that mass of gray mist suddenly drift away, then directly wrapped around the woman in the black robe, and with extreme speed, retreated, crashed through the window, and flew away.

Stark and Steve looked at each other. Steve opened his mouth, then hesitated for a moment, and asked: "... Did Shiler kidnap her?"

"Shouldn't it be that she kidnapped Shiler?" Stark also hesitated for a moment and said.

"But..."

"Just now, it was Shiler who called to tell us there was an enemy here, so it should be that he was kidnapped by the enemy, right?" Stark continued.

"But clearly..." Steve still wanted to say something, but he paused, then said: "Alright, Shiler also has no reason to kidnap her, otherwise why call us here? Maybe Dr. Shiler was controlled by her..."

"We have to find a way to save him back." Stark touched his chin and said: "Did you hear that just now? That kind of terrifying laughter, it gave me a feeling of hair-raising..."

Steve nodded and said: "That's right, maybe there's a problem with that thing that person hit Shiler with... Yes, it must be that! After that needle hit Dr. Shiler, he became somewhat abnormal..."

Steve frowned, his expression looking a bit anxious. He said: "We have to save Shiler back quickly, otherwise he might be in danger."

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Stark pressed a button on his arm and said: "Go back first, we have to start investigating from that file Shiler gave us earlier."

"He just had Peter bring that file to us, and in the blink of an eye, he was attacked by a mysterious person. This might be Hydra wanting to silence him." After speaking, Steve jumped out from the window frame and landed on the balcony. He looked back and said: "I know, you are still angry with me. It was indeed my fault about Peter getting injured..."

Stark also flew out from the window. He flew to mid-air, looked back at Steve, and said: "Apologies can wait. The score between the two of us hasn't been settled yet."

On the other side, the mysterious woman in the black robe, who left the asylum wrapped in gray mist, was dropped in the corner of a pitch-black alley. Shiler condensed back into human form, except that there was a clown mask with a grinning mouth on his face. Before the woman could speak, he said first: "You idiot! You almost exposed me!"

"I finally managed to infiltrate the superhero squad organized by S. H. I. E. L. D. This is a secret plan that has gathered all the powerful superheroes in New York, including our arch-enemies, Captain America and Iron Man..."

"Recently, the organization has lost too many people, and I had to surface to solve these problems. Those two have been watching me, and you, like a stupid grasshopper, jumped in front of me. If it weren't for my quick reaction, we might both have been caught by them now!"

Shiler's tone was suppressed with anger. His attitude made the woman in the black robe somewhat dazed. She opened her mouth and said: "I didn't know..."

"You didn't know anything, yet you dared to come find me?! I really don't understand what makes you all so arrogant."

"Perhaps one Captain America is not enough to make you wary, but what if you add Iron Man Stark? What if you add S. H. I. E. L. D. Director Nick Fury? And even add alien races and mutants you don't know about?"

The woman in the black robe frowned and said: "It seems you know more than I imagined. What is that plan? I mean, that superhero squad plan you mentioned?"

"I don't want to explain too much to you, and I don't want to join your stupid organization. I have a more important mission."

As he spoke, Shiler wanted to turn and leave, but the woman called him back and said: "You wait! The nanite syringe on your shoulder hasn't been pulled out yet. You must treat this wound in the correct way, otherwise, it will get infected."

Shiler looked down at the small needle on his shoulder. He directly pulled the needle out. The barbs on it brought down a part of his flesh, but it healed quickly. He threw the needle in front of the woman and said: "Haven't you realized yet? We are the same kind of people. Don't compare me to those weak ordinary people."

"That's why you should join us even more!" The woman went around to his front and said to him: "My name is Jacqueline. I am a high-level agent of the Hive Hydra organization, and also one of the high-level candidates for the Hive parasite."

"Before this, I want to ask you first, where does this special ability of yours come from? Is it innate?" Jacqueline stared into Shiler's eyes and asked. Shiler lowered his head slightly to look at her and said: "I am a mutant. Is there a problem?"

Jacqueline smiled and said: "It seems I've struck gold. You perfectly meet all the conditions to become a high-level agent."

"Listen, this is the most precious opportunity in your life, to become one with that great existence..."

"Next, I will tell you about that great existence named Hive..."

Within the Avengers base, Stark projected the data about Hive onto the projection screen. He pointed to one of the parts with a laser pointer and said: "Pay attention here. Regarding the origin story of Hive, according to this high-level Hydra leader, Hive is an experimental product of a high-level alien civilization..."

"And here, Shiler made a key annotation. He suspects that the race that did this experiment might be the Kree, because he heard from that Hydra agent that the agents of Hive Hydra had mentioned that the race that did this experiment had blue skin, and the only blue-skinned race we know of currently is the Kree..."

"And this part, regarding the reports on the Inhumans, it mentions here that the Kree's experimental products were not just Hive, or rather, Hive was just a part of it. They also did experiments on Earth, creating a race called the Inhumans..."

"Here, Shiler's annotation shows that the Inhumans might be related to mutants, but they are not exactly the same, and Hive is very likely a member of the Inhumans, because they are both experimental products of the Kree."

"According to the data, the ancient Inhumans and Hive might have lived together, but later, because Hive was too powerful, he was expelled by the ancient Inhumans and exiled to a planet..."

"And Hive is a parasitic organism that can parasitize others..."

"Wait!" Blue Spirit interrupted him and said: "Hive is a parasitic organism?"

Several symbiotes looked at each other, and then Thunder said: "In what way does it parasitize? Don't tell me it launches spores or eggs..."

Stark flipped through the paper data in his hand and said: "The back indeed mentions it. It seems it shoots a parasitic seed from its tentacles or mouth. It can control the bodies of intelligent life forms through the small hives that hatch from this seed..."

Several symbiotes looked at each other again and said: "Are you sure it's a product of the Kree's experiment? These characteristics you describe remind me of a very disgusting race..."

Stark turned his head to look at them and asked: "What?"

Blue Spirit took a deep breath, as if just mentioning this race made him feel somewhat uncomfortable. He said: "We call them 'Brood,' but if transliterated, it's called 'Bu-lu-de'."

"'Brood'? Doesn't this word mean hatching eggs? Or a nest of birds?"

"That's right. This description is quite apt. They indeed parasitize others by hatching eggs. The process is very disgusting."

"Moreover, their way of acting is completely opposite to symbiotes, especially to cosmic agents. Their way of survival is to invade the entire universe through parasitism, destroy one civilization after another, and then strengthen themselves..."

A very human-like disgusting expression appeared on Blue Spirit's face. He said: "They and cosmic agents are mortal enemies. If our creator, Knull, is our number one enemy, then the Brood can also rank in the top three."

"That's not parasitism at all; it's complete devouring. Any life form parasitized by them will not have its own consciousness, but will be completely controlled, completely becoming a transport tool for the cosmic parasites."

"At the same time, they will also split into small sub-bodies, form groups, and then go to abduct other intelligent life forms, using them as tools and slaves..."

"Wait, it's mentioned right here..." Stark switched the data displayed on the screen. He pointed to a few lines of text again and said: "Look here, a Hydra agent once revealed that they had sent humans to the distant Hive planet through an operation called 'Project Far Star' to serve Hive..."

Peter, Steve, and the other humans present all frowned, obviously having some bad associations. Suddenly, Peter stood up and said: "Oh no! They might be trying to send Dr. Shiler over to be parasitized..."

"The data says they sent people over through something called the 'Monolith Portal,' and we are currently..."

"We need to find this portal, right?" Steve looked at Stark, but Stark showed an expression of looking at an idiot, then said: "No, we need to find the coordinates of this planet, then board a spaceship, and step on the gas..."

Steve covered his forehead. He still hadn't adapted to the fact that humans suddenly had incomparably advanced spaceships. However, what Stark said was also right. Rather than struggling to find that Monolith Portal which might be heavily guarded, it's better to fly there directly with a spaceship. Anyway, the Kree spaceship has a jump engine. Even if it's tens of millions of light-years away, it's just a matter of stepping on the gas.

"Does the data show the coordinates of the planet?" Peter asked.

"Of course not. This Hydra agent was just an ordinary person and had never even left Earth. How could he know the location of an alien planet?"

"However, do you remember what I mentioned just now? The Inhumans." Stark closed the file and then stood up.

"That's right. If it was the ancient Inhumans who exiled Hive, then they should know which planet Hive was exiled to. But the only problem is, where are the Inhumans?"

"The data has already told us..."

Stark looked up. Although he only saw the ceiling, his gaze looked past layers of rock and soil toward the sky, until it crossed the atmosphere, stepped into the universe, and looked at that small satellite rotating next to Earth.

"They are on the moon."

In a more gloomy underground base, Jacqueline stood with her hands down beside an altar. She said: "Perhaps you didn't expect that on the moon, which humans can see every day, lives a group of Inhumans who look similar to you but have vastly different abilities."

"But we are enemies with them because their ancestors were enemies with the great Hive. One day, we will make them pay the price..."

"You mean, you can go to the planet where Hive is through a portal? But why do you want to do this? You want to welcome Hive back to Earth, but why send people to that planet?" Shiler asked.

Jacqueline snorted coldly. She paced in front of the altar and said: "Planet? No, that's not an ordinary planet, but a main planet within the jurisdiction of the alien parasitic race, the Brood."

"Back then, the ancient Inhumans went to war with Hive just because they felt that such a powerful Inhuman could not be used by them, would not be under their control, and would eventually overthrow their kingdom."

"They originally wanted to kill Hive. This is of course. They had already become mortal enemies. Why wouldn't they want to kill their enemy? It's just that they couldn't do it."

"The great master Hive didn't appear out of thin air. He is a clone of a more powerful race, the Brood. After the great war with the ancient Inhumans, Hive became weak. Thus, he borrowed the power of the ancient Inhumans, opened a portal, returned to the Brood's territory, and resided on one of the main planets until today..."

"In order to take revenge on the ancient Inhumans and humans, Hive once drove a portion of Brood members to attack Earth. It's just that Earth also formed a superhero squad at that time, and the captain was named Imhotep."

Jacqueline looked up and said: "I say it like this, you might not be able to understand, but later, it was precisely this person named Imhotep who formed an organization named the 'Brotherhood of the Shield'."

"And then, the Brotherhood of the Shield developed into today's S. H. I. E. L. D. and S. P. E. A. R." ===== CHAPTER 380 =====