Courtyard House: My Time Travel is a Bit Too Strong

Chung Kwok-hung immediately added, "But once you're in S.H.I.E.L.D., you're one of us. Even if Ross sends another division, they won't be able to cross our threshold."

Banner nodded slowly: "...I agree."

"However, Dr. Banner, the internal structure of S.H.I.E.L.D. is quite complex..." Chung Kwok-hung changed the subject slightly, slowing down his speech.

This was a foreshadowing, laid in advance, just to completely win over this person later.

Just like in a school, classmates may secretly take sides because of their stance, background, or interests.

The same applies to S.H.I.E.L.D.—on the surface they obey Nick Fury, but behind the scenes, someone has to clench their fist.

The Radiant Sun team currently consists of four members: himself, Wanda, Pitno, and Natasha.

Banner will soon become the fifth member.

Back at S.H.I.E.L.D. headquarters, Chung Kwok-hung went straight to the director's office.

After explaining his position, Nick Fury decided to restart the Super Soldier Serum program.

There are quite a few mutants who are violent and domineering, and S.H.I.E.L.D. urgently needs a group of controllable, loyal, and highly capable new fighters.

Although Professor X's Team X often collaborates, it remains an independent force, not under the control of S.H.I.E.L.D.

More importantly, Nick has confirmed that Hydra has already infiltrated the upper echelons of S.H.I.E.L.D.

He decided to entrust the serum project to the two people he trusted most: Chung Kwok-hung and Banner.

Zhong Guohong, who personally rescued Rogers, naturally became the project's chief person in charge.

"Chung, Banner, Wanda, Piteno, Natasha—from this day forward, all of you are to be kept strictly secret. No one except me is to divulge a single word about the serum research." Nick's voice was deep but resolute.

"Understood," the five replied in unison.

"The lab address is ready, here you go." Nick handed over a slip of paper with the coordinates written on it.

Chung Kwok-hung reached out and took it, then turned and pushed open the door to leave.

Wanda, Natasha, and the others followed him with steady, unhurried steps.

"Rogers has been back for a while now, Hydra must be getting restless... This mess can only be left to Chung and Banner." Nick murmured to himself, staring at the closed door.

Just three blocks from S.H.I.E.L.D., the convoy was suddenly attacked.

Bullets rained down on the car, crackling and making the windows vibrate.

This vehicle, specially made for S.H.I.E.L.D., is already covered in bulletproof steel armor.

Zhong Guohong's eyes narrowed slightly, and his mental power surged—one by one, the bullets were redirected by the airflow and whistled as they pierced the attacker's forehead.

More than twenty assassins in black fell to the ground before they could even scream.

"Baens isn't here?" Chung Kuo-hung's mental energy swept across the entire area like a fine net, his brows furrowing slightly.

At this moment, Banes is leading dozens of gunmen in a raid on S.H.I.E.L.D. headquarters.

The headquarters' defenses were practically nonexistent; guards fell one after another after being shot, and the alarm blared through the air but no one answered.

Rogers, the shield warrior, was tightly entangled by Banes and unable to break free for the time being.

……

Upon arriving at the secret research facility designated by Nick, Chung Kwok-hung and Banner immediately began developing the super-soldier serum.

Natasha oversees the overall operation, while Wanda and Piteno work together to build a defensive barrier.

The research institute has excellent equipment and complete data, and even the original experimental records, molecular maps and failure cases of the first-generation serum are well preserved.

Besides the three of them, there were more than thirty researchers in the institute—it was obvious to anyone with eyes that these people were all spies planted by Nick.

Based on the initial serum data and combined with Rogers' fresh blood samples, the formulation derivation progressed rapidly.

Nick, who faked his death and disappeared from the world, has quietly retreated to the shadows to strategize and plan.

Rogers, who was wrongfully convicted and wanted by the police, became the number one target on the national manhunt list.

Without Natasha's help, he could only flee for his life in the cracks of the city, repeatedly facing perilous situations.

To put it bluntly, Rogers was just a combatant with superhuman physical abilities, not a systematically trained intelligence officer.

Without cover, intelligence, or backup, he relied entirely on instinct and explosive power to maneuver.

Nick, hiding behind the scenes, didn't send a single soldier to support him—he was hoping Rogers would expose all of Hydra's secret agents.

With the close cooperation of Chung Kwok-hung and Banner, the first improved super soldier serum was successfully developed in just over thirty days.

Rogers's genetic sequence has been fully analyzed, and it's only a matter of time before his physiological characteristics are replicated.

With the raw material supply chain running smoothly, mass production of serum is just one step away.

Hydra's "Winter Soldier" is not just Baynes; in this world, there is no single formula for the super soldier serum.

"What are the next steps for human testing?" Natasha asked.

"Natasha, do you know anything about cloning technology?" Chung Kwok-hung didn't answer directly, but instead threw out a question.

"Umbrella Corporation, Essex Laboratories, Trask Industries... they've all done this." She spoke quickly, as if reciting a menu—as a top S.H.I.E.L.D. agent, she knew these things behind the scenes better than anyone else.

"Just get to the point." Chung Kwok-hung's lips curled into a slight smile.

"Umbrella was founded in 1968, specializing in genetic modification and bioweapons; Trask specializes in mutant suppression technology..." She laid out what she knew one by one.

"How much does a clone cost?"

"A clone of average size costs about $100,000 each."

"Could we transfer a batch of people from different genetic backgrounds from the protection umbrella?"

"No problem. How much do you want?" Natasha wrapped her arms around his neck and tapped lightly with her fingertips.

"It's not safe here, there are too many cameras." He said in a very low voice.

"Say the quantity."

"Ten, please." He hesitated for a moment.

She turned and walked to the terminal, her fingers flying across the keyboard as she placed and confirmed the order.

Using living people as test subjects? Chung Kwok-hung couldn't get over that hurdle in his mind.

He is not a cold-blooded butcher, and he is unwilling to use the lives of innocent people as experimental materials.

The clones look exactly like real people, but are essentially controllable biological products.

Two days later, after inspection and payment, the ten clones were quietly transported back to the research institute.

The first three rounds of injections all failed, and the three people died on the spot.

"The serum that works for Rogers may not work for others."

The thought flashed through my mind like lightning.

"People have a thousand faces, and their genes vary greatly. Yin and Yang flow, and the Five Elements interact and restrain each other."

His thoughts surged like a river, and he immersed himself in the dense forest of data and molecular structures, completely forgetting himself.

"Customized serum – one formula for each individual, precise matching, with a theoretical success rate approaching 100%."

Seven new formulas were launched one after another, and seven clones were successively enhanced: muscle density soared, nerve response accelerated, and metabolic efficiency doubled.

"Zhong, how is this possible?!" Banner stared at the monitoring screen, his voice trembling.

"Dr. Banner, I am not only a PhD in genetics and bioengineering, but also an expert in traditional Chinese medicine diagnosis and treatment." Chung Kwok-hung smiled, his tone calm.

In traditional Chinese medicine, mountains, rivers, plants, birds, and beasts can all be used as medicinal guides, and each herb has properties of cold, heat, warmth, coolness, ascending, descending, floating, and sinking, which are in line with the principles of Yin-Yang and the Five Elements.

By using the diagnostic methods of traditional Chinese medicine, we can accurately analyze the qi, blood, meridians, and hidden genetic diseases of cloned individuals, and then formulate exclusive gene modulators, which greatly improves the survival rate and stability.