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Chapter 124 Opening Boxes Together

"At that time, Walter Hardy's true identity had already been discovered by the CIA. He had retired from crime for several years, had a family and children, so he was not planning to take any risks."

So, what happened next was quite simple. The CIA might not have many other skills, but they were exceptionally adept at using family members to coerce people into working for them. Thus, Walter Hardy was forced to accept the mission and travel to Russia to commit theft. He hoped to find an opportunity amidst the chaos following the collapse of the Soviet Union to steal the Soviet Union's mature super-soldier serum.

Actually, there's a very big question here: if the Soviet Union's super-soldier serum could also be mass-produced, then why didn't the Soviet Union mass-produce super-soldiers? However, Walter doesn't need to worry about this question; he just needs to carry out his mission.

Finally, it is said that in Budapest, the Clyde completed his mission, but he did not return to Budapest alive. Only a corpse returned to Hardy's house. The CIA said nothing, only that Hardy was discovered by the Russians and ultimately shot in Budapest.

"That's how it is. He brought back the Super Soldier Serum, but he himself didn't come back."

The black cat finished telling the whole story in a calm tone. Peter was about to ask something when the black cat tossed him a test tube. Analysis revealed that the test tube contained trace amounts of radioactivity. What was even more striking was the symbol on the test tube—the symbol of Hydra.

The serum the Cynthia ultimately found wasn't the Soviet-developed super-soldier serum, but rather a Hydra-developed one. Therefore, it's highly probable that a Hydra agent within the CIA killed the Cynthia and brought back a sample of super-soldier serum that, at least on packaging, wasn't Soviet-developed. It was precisely because of this that the US military discovered the true function of the Erkins serum, thus initiating new research—Luke Cage was a result of this research.

Peter had always known that Hydra likely existed, but he had no evidence. Even Nick Fury and Coulson were giving vague and ambiguous explanations. The moment the test tube was scanned, Peter cut off the video call with Jarvis and demanded that Jarvis delete any video evidence.

"Jarvis, how are the captain and the others doing?"

"The Avengers are still searching for clues about Jim Hammond in Southeast Asia."

That's right. Ever since the Avengers learned from Peter that the original Human Torch, Jim Hammond, had appeared in Madrid, they mobilized as a whole. Captain America, in particular, couldn't wait to get involved when he heard that his comrade might have been transformed into a biological weapon.

So now Spider-Man is the only Avenger left in New York.

“Tell them to come back as soon as possible. There’s confidential information here that must be kept secret.” Peter said, putting the test tube back into his pocket. “I took this back to Avengers Tower. Is that alright?”

"It's alright. Everyone knows only Captain America can handle this, but are you sure you need to be this careful?"

Peter shrugged. Everyone needs to be careful when dealing with Hydra; who knows just how many departments Hydra has infiltrated?

"So, the one the civet found wasn't the Soviet super-soldier serum, but something else entirely."

"He hid it away, and only special people can find it."

Peter looked at Felicia. He now understood why Felicia possessed superhuman physical abilities: she had been injected with the same Hydra Super Soldier serum as the Winter Soldier, enhancing her physical capabilities. Otherwise, what other way would she have to deal with such a terrifying enemy?

"The underground laboratory on Rikers Island has been urgently dismantled; there's nothing left."

Peter told Black Cat to prevent the girl from doing something pointless again. She just nodded and then asked while walking backwards, "Then... will you arrest me? After all, I didn't steal anything, and you even retrieved the information about Osborn Technology."

"If all of this ends, will you not follow the same path as Lingmao and obediently become a good student?"

The black cat simply smiled and walked to the edge of the rooftop, then leaned back and quickly left using her rope gun. Peter watched her departing figure, pondered for a moment, and then swung on his web towards Avengers Tower.

With the Avengers not around, Peter first put the empty test tube into the safe, then prepared a special spider web solution and filled the area around it.

All that's left is to wait for Captain America and the others to return. Hydra and the U.S. military—these are things that require the entire Avengers to handle.

After finishing all that, Peter swung home on his spiderweb. He had pretended to be unwell and had gone to bed early before sneaking out. Uncle Ben was responsible for keeping Aunt May occupied so as not to give himself away. Judging from the fact that Uncle Ben hadn't sent any messages, the disguise had been quite successful. Now it was time to go home and sleep.

Back home, Peter quietly slipped into his room from the second floor. Relieved, he pressed the spider mark on his chest and removed his mask. Just then, his spider senses went off, and almost instinctively, he shot out a web, sticking something thrown in from the window to the wall. He then looked out the window.

In the distance, the black cat standing on the roof waved at Peter Parker, then turned and left. Peter had no idea what was going on. He looked at the thing he had glued up and ripped it off.

It's a simple radioactive isotope detection instrument. As long as the radioactive energy of a specific radioactive element is detected, it can perform a fuzzy localization.

He had just obtained a test tube that once contained the Super Soldier Serum, which still contained residual radioactive elements. In other words, if he came into contact with this substance, he would definitely be detected unless he underwent a complete radiation removal process inside Avengers Tower and even changed into a different suit.

She'd been tracking me ever since she took out that test tube. And no matter how you look at it, once I got my hands on that test tube, the black cat was bound to find me.

Peter chuckled self-deprecatingly. He thought he had Black Cat wrapped around his little finger the whole time, but in the end, Black Cat had turned the tables on him. But it didn't matter. If Felicia Hardy knew that Peter Parker was Spider-Man, and Peter Parker knew that Felicia Hardy was Black Cat, then neither of them would have any leverage over the other.

It's nothing more than being equals.

"Not wearing masks is a form of openness. See you tomorrow, Senior Felicia."

(End of this chapter)