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Chapter 121 The era of super powers has arrived!

In the warm afternoon sunshine, many people looked out of the windows of the high-rise buildings on the surrounding dilapidated streets toward the square.

Tens of thousands of ragged refugees crowded around the outskirts of the square, which was separated by a simple wooden fence.

The entire square is approximately three thousand square meters in size.

There are a hundred simple beds in the center of the square, neatly and orderly placed every three meters.

There was a person lying on each bed, and next to it was an IV injection rod. The liquid in the bottle was a psychedelic blue color.

They all made enough contributions to have the opportunity to become the Sons of Lava.

Therefore, these experimental subjects were all full of anticipation and couldn't wait to become big figures like the Son of Lava!
The host of this event, called "Super Power Promotion", is actually a human experiment.

Naturally, it was the president of Pioneer Technologies and the local tyrant of this area - Oldritch Killian.

Killian was wearing a white suit and had short waxed golden hair. He looked unusually clean and tidy among the refugees around the square.

“Ladies and gentlemen, congratulations on your chance to become the Son of Lava.

In this increasingly dangerous apocalypse, only by becoming a lava saint can you truly control your own destiny!

This is the wonderful beginning of your new life and the beginning of great things to come for pioneering technology!
The era of super powers has arrived
Let us look forward to seeing how many people will become new Lava Sons in this promotion ceremony!"

In the square, Killian first gave a passionate speech, and then, amid the eager eyes of many refugees, he announced the official start of the promotion ceremony!
Besides Killian and his group of super-powered subordinates, the one observing this large-scale human experiment was Pierce, who had just arrived in the Paterson area two hours ago.

After being forced to carry out a nuclear explosion on the old nest.

Pierce didn't care about his serious losses, he wanted to return to the secret safe house first.

But Rumlow, who was a former elite agent, reminded them that those safe houses must have been under surveillance.

In desperation, Pierce could only bring six Winter Soldiers and a small number of death warriors such as Rumlow to the territory of A-Tech to seek shelter from their partners.

Now, Pierce sat on the temporary viewing platform in the square, watching Killian's speech expressionlessly as if he was watching a drama performance.

The shrewd Pierce had already seen through Killian's little tricks.

He openly invited me to observe the experiment, which was clearly a flex of muscle, hoping to take advantage of my heavy losses to swallow up the remaining Hydra forces.

But Pierce is now in a difficult situation. The base camp and two branch bases, in which he invested a lot of manpower and material resources, have been destroyed.

There were less than thirty of his trusted warriors left.

Therefore, even though Pierce knew that Killian had bad intentions, he had no choice but to sit in the viewing platform and put on a hypocritical flattering smile and said:
"Mr. Killian, I've heard that Avant-garde's biotechnology is very advanced. Today I see that it is indeed extraordinary. I just wonder what the success rate of this experiment is?"

Pierce is now very interested in any method that can supplement his own strength.

Not to mention that biotechnology like the Super Soldier Serum can even produce super-powered people on a large scale.

As long as the success rate is acceptable, let your subordinates also inject this "super soldier serum".

Pierce had made up his mind.

When Killian heard the question about the success rate of the experiment, he said proudly:
"Mr. Pierce, I can tell you very clearly that if it is genetically customized, the success rate of the Extremis virus serum will be as high as 35%!"

If Killian had brought up this 35% success rate at a military weapons department discussion meeting in the past, he would have been criticized to pieces.

But now, in the end times, the least valuable thing is human life.

Low success rate?

As long as there are enough experimental subjects, even a low success rate will not be a problem.

In order to mass produce the Extremis virus serum, Killian even used cheaper biological materials to develop a second version of the Extremis virus with a success rate of only 10%. Without the constraints of the military, Killian can now boldly cut costs without having to consider the problem that the success rate of the Extremis virus has always been very low and unstable.

On the other hand, Pierce frowned when he heard the low success rate of 35%.

He also wanted to inject this serum himself.

After all, he has realized that without extraordinary powers, he cannot fight against the Avengers.

But with such a low success rate, he didn't dare to risk his life.

However, Rumlow and other trusted men can let them try.

So Pierce asked indirectly, "I wonder if Mr. Killian is willing to sell this desperate virus serum?"

Killian laughed and said, "Pioneer Technology is originally a company, and the products it develops will of course be sold.

We support gold, rare precious metals, biomaterials, etc. as trading resources.

I just wonder if Mr. Pierce has enough resources?"

There was a hint of contempt in Killian's words. After all, Pierce had lost his hometown, and a phoenix in distress was no better than a chicken.

What's more, in his opinion, Pierce's strength in his heyday was just that.

Now he has an army of more than 300 super-powered people under his command. This amazing power is almost enough to rule the world.

How could Killian look down on the distressed Pierce?
Facing the aggressive Killian, Pierce suppressed his anger and made a subtle threat:

“Don’t worry, Mr. Killian. Although we at Hydra have suffered a heavy loss, we still have some assets.

For example, two intercontinental nuclear missiles that can strike over a long distance of 10000 kilometers should be able to raze an area of square kilometers to the ground.

We also have a lot of gold and precious metals, so Mr. Killian doesn’t have to worry about our funding issues.”

Hearing Pierce's threat, Killian's pupils shrank. Two thousand square kilometers? Isn't that exactly the territory of Pioneer Technology, the size of Paterson County?
However, this threat is obviously just talk. Pierce himself is still here. How could he go crazy and hug himself to die together?

But he couldn't push him too much, otherwise, Pierce, who knew if he would suddenly go crazy after suffering a severe blow.

Killian didn't want to be killed by the power of a nuclear bomb, so he smiled gently and said:
“Mr. Pierce, you are joking. I naturally believe in your ability.

Well, let me first give you a brief introduction to the price.

The customized version of the desperate virus serum is priced at twenty tons of gold per bottle.

What you are seeing now is the serum that has only a 10% success rate in the promotion ceremony, and it is sold for 10 tons of gold per bottle.

The price is fair, what type of serum do you want?"

After hearing the price, Pierce felt like killing someone. This seemingly decent Killian was actually more cruel than Carl, that scum and profiteer.

You just want to exorbitant amount of money because you see that I'm in trouble, right?
The cheapest serum costs 10 tons of gold, which is 10 billion US dollars in ancient times. This is clearly robbery!

Old Pierce, with his face full of wrinkles, kept enduring it, and his breathing became so rapid that he was about to have a myocardial infarction.

In the end, he gritted his teeth and ordered ten low-end versions of the desperate virus serum.

“Mr. Pierce, your decision is wise. I wish us a happy transaction in advance!
By the way, there will be a celebratory dinner later."

Having made a lot of money from this sucker, Killian was in a good mood and immediately invited Pierce to watch the promotion ceremony and have dinner together.

(End of this chapter)