American Comics: The Matrix

Chapter 459 Snake Team: Fortunately, Bant hasn't noticed anything amiss yet.

Las Vegas, inside the cave base.

Some of the street heroes who stayed behind at the base looked on in surprise as Bant and his men returned.

Most of the street heroes participated in the hijacking of the Hydra spaceship and were already in ambush, waiting for Natasha to deactivate the planetary shield.

However, a very small number of personnel remained at the Las Vegas base.

There are still many ordinary people inside the base, and residents of Las Vegas also need to be evacuated.

"You're back so soon?"

Some of the heroes asked, "You haven't been gone long, have you? Where's the Wasp?"

"We've already obtained the fragments."

Bant shook the fragments.

As for the Wasp, after Bant freed Dr. Pym from Ultron's body, she naturally stayed by her father's side and had no plans to return for the time being.

Perhaps Pym will join her in trying to use the power of Ultron to take some people away from Earth.

"My son Tony isn't back yet? Can I borrow his lab?"

The hero paused for a moment, then said, "Your son looks quite old."

"Are you planning to come up with some amazing invention?"

Bante nodded, placed the separated cube fragment on the analysis instrument, and said, "Have you heard of Dragon Ball Radar? Since they are also cube fragments, the energy frequencies they release should be the same. If we analyze one of them, we can find the rest of the fragments."

The information Rick Jones passed on to them may not have been comprehensive; the number of cube fragments may have been far greater than recorded, and Bant had more faith in his own technology.

The man nodded as if he understood, and walked away.

"Um, I'm going to make a phone call."

Scott walked awkwardly to a corner, muttering something like, "Sorry, Casey, next time..."

Bant glanced at him.

His expression held a hint of amusement.

While the instruments were analyzing the fragments, he called out to Azmith in a low voice.

“Azmith, wiretap Scott’s phone and find out who he’s talking to.”

Azmith replied in less than a second: "Sir, Scott's call signal is being transmitted to Hydra headquarters."

"Intercept it."

Bant looked surprised.

He found it very strange that Hydra's people arrived at Ultron's domain shortly after he arrived.

Although Hydra probably already knew the whereabouts of some of the fragments, the fact that they chose to go at the same time as them clearly indicates that they already knew the message Rick Jones had sent them.

“Sir, I checked their previous call records and can confirm that Scott’s daughter has been taken over by Hydra. Furthermore, Scott has not revealed all the information.”

Azmith said, "The Hydra ship hijacking plan and the headquarters infiltration plan are still classified, but your actions and those of the other members of the Spectrum have been revealed."

"At least he still has some conscience."

Bant snorted.

The hijacking of the spaceship and the headquarters infiltration plan concerned the lives of many people on Earth in this universe. Scott did not reveal these two parts, which only shows that he was still human.

As for Bant himself...

It doesn't matter, we'll always run into each other when we're fighting for the fragments anyway.

Moreover, the images he left in Washington were not particularly sophisticated, and it was only a matter of time before they were discovered.

"No, I'm still a little annoyed!" Bant slammed his fist on the table, furious. He was great in every way except for his pettiness!
"We need to find a way to trick Steve!"

He sat in the chair, thinking slowly.

"The Hydra captain doesn't know much about me, but he still sent Vision to deal with me. It seems that the other teams' operations are not going so smoothly."

He was right.

At this moment, in Atlantis, Hawkeye, Ai Tony, and Amadeus Zhao met Steve Rogers himself.

Of course, there were also his subordinates.

In the mutant nation of New Tian, ​​Quicksilver hadn't even had a chance to introduce Luma and Felicia to the mutant nation's ambassador, Beast, when they encountered Scarlet Witch, who was controlled by the god of the underworld, shortly after crossing the border.

Wakanda went relatively smoothly.

T'Challa encountered a distraught Thor at the border. This dejected god, who was outwardly compliant but inwardly rebellious, made way for T'Challa to return to his kingdom.

Even after encountering his counterpart in another universe, T'Challa, as king, refused to relinquish the fragments he possessed.

"T'Challa might be the most likely to get the remaining fragment, but it doesn't matter anymore."

Bant suddenly felt that it didn't matter whether he could get the fragment or not, and he didn't even want to look for the other fragments that hadn't been discovered yet.

Why waste this time?
He can just let Hydra collect them; he only needs to wait for Hydra to deliver the cubes to him.

“Azmith, simulate Scott’s voice and call Steve Rogers. It’s time to give him a report on our work, and by the way…” He glanced down at the analyzed wavelength.

"Hydra has so many people, it's time to give him more responsibilities."

"Also, drag Vision in."

……

Inside the Hydra submarine.

Steve Rogers put on the headset, and couldn't help but show a happy expression on his face.

"What?! They successfully obtained the fragment from Ultron, and even analyzed the location of the other fragments! Vision is returning with the fragment?"

He stood up excitedly.

But then his face darkened, and he felt immense grief.

"Zemo is dead?!"

Steve took a deep breath, overwhelmed with grief at the sacrifice of his best friend and brother.

But he quickly recovered and said:
"It's alright, these are necessary sacrifices! As long as I gather all the cubes, any bad situation can be rewritten! I can turn everything around! You too, Scott, you will have a happy dinner with your daughter."

Steve convinced himself and began to feel excited about the upcoming victory.

He turned on the monitor, and the screen showed an empty slush store in Washington, D.C., with several figures inside seemingly exchanging information.

But Steve already knew it was just an illusion.

“Bent Parker, you think you can fool us? You clever fool.” He chuckled. “Too bad you don’t know I’ve already planted informants within the Avengers. Your every move is under my control!”

He looked at Bant's face in the image with a mocking expression, as if he wanted to vent his hatred for Zemo's death.

"And you don't know that I was using the relocation of civilians as a pretext to gather Hydra's war forces, do you?"

He thought to himself, "Once the Cosmic Cube is all assembled, it will be the moment when Hydra attacks another Earth!"

What annihilation weapons are nothing compared to fireworks when faced with a force capable of rewriting reality?

He could even use the power of the Cosmic Cube to resolve the collision crisis and unleash the brilliance of Hydra upon the universe where Bant resides!

(End of this chapter)