Marvel: The Alchemist Just Wants a Peaceful Life

"impossible!"

The two almost simultaneously refuted the captain's conclusion. After exchanging a glance, Tony frowned and spoke to the captain.

"Hydra was destroyed after the end of World War II. According to official records, Hydra began to disintegrate after Red Skull disappeared, and was eventually defeated one by one and disappeared into the long river of history."

“That’s right, S.H.I.E.L.D. has clear records of this matter. This was confirmed by both Howard and Agent Carter. Logically speaking, this organization couldn’t possibly be Hydra!”

I'm even more inclined to believe this is just a coincidence, and that these armed men are likely terrorists or drug traffickers lurking in the rainforest, since they would also launch attacks against outsiders.

Moreover, if it really were Hydra, they would have no reason to attack us at this time. Doing so would only expose them to the Avengers' attention, especially in front of Captain America, their old adversary.

Hawkeye followed up with his analysis, unwilling to accept the captain's conjecture. After all, in S.H.I.E.L.D.'s training, completely eliminating Hydra was one of S.H.I.E.L.D.'s touted achievements, and even one of the greatest achievements of the original co-founders of S.H.I.E.L.D.

If we were to admit now that those militants really were Hydra, then the history of S.H.I.E.L.D. would be a joke, and even Hawkeye wouldn't dare to actually follow that line of thought.

However, the captain did not change his mind despite their rebuttals. Instead, he still asked them in return with a serious expression.

"Who can guarantee that S.H.I.E.L.D. really destroyed Hydra? After all, S.H.I.E.L.D. can't achieve global surveillance. Even if they could, how would S.H.I.E.L.D. have discovered Hydra, which is hidden in such a remote tropical rainforest?"

The captain's question successfully silenced Hawkeye and Tony, after all, such things had happened before, including with the Japanese.

Those damned Japanese soldiers managed to hide in the rainforests of Southeast Asia for decades, and even in the end, they didn't know that the Japanese had surrendered. It's hard to say that a similar Hydra organization might emerge here.

It's even quite possible that they could grow their power little by little in such a remote environment by interacting with drug dealers and gold prospectors.

For a moment, everyone fell silent, as the current situation left everyone unsure of what to do next.

Unable to contact the outside world, let alone gather intelligence, they didn't even have a complete set of protective gear, aside from the civilian weapons Zhao Weike was carrying. It was truly an embarrassing situation, like a skilled cook without ingredients.

In the end, it was Sherlock who stood up and put an end to the matter.

"Alright, regardless of whether these people are Hydra or not, we need to find their hideout. Only then can we figure out where we are and even send a signal to the outside world."

And if I'm not mistaken, my Anywhere Door has also fallen into the hands of those armed men who seem to be Hydra. In other words, unless we find their hideout, we have no way to leave this place.

Sherlock's words had kept the situation calm until they were spoken, at which point everyone in the room tensed up instantly.

After all, the veterans present at the scene clearly understood the strategic value of Sherlock's Anywhere Door. It's no exaggeration to say that if those people were truly Hydra, then once they possessed a divine artifact like the Anywhere Door, destroying the world would only require a few bullets.

All you need to do is open a portal in the offices of world leaders and then indiscriminately fire at them; nuclear bombs will then naturally help them destroy the world!

Seeing the anxious crowd practically jumping up and down, Sherlock remained unusually calm, even having the mind to check how much was left in his four-dimensional pocket.

Seeing Sherlock's calm demeanor, the captain finally lost his temper and yelled at Sherlock.

"Stop dawdling, Sherlock! You have no idea the value of your Anywhere Door. If we don't hurry, those Hydras might really start World War III!"

Faced with the captain's statement, Sherlock calmly waved his hand at the captain, then unhurriedly put back on the gloves that had torn open Tony's suit last night, before winking at the captain mischievously.

"Don't worry, Captain. I swear those Hydras will never figure out how my Anywhere Door works, let alone try to replicate it. As for your concern about using my Anywhere Door, I advise you to forget about it."

While escaping, Hawkeye proved one thing: the biometric authentication system I installed on the Anywhere Door really works!

Upon hearing Sherlock's words, everyone's attention immediately turned to him.

"Biological, authentication, system?"

The captain recognized each of the three words individually, but when put together, it undoubtedly touched on the core of his stubbornness. He had no idea what this so-called biometric authentication system was and could only look at everyone present with a blank expression.

Tony, on the contrary, kindly explained the situation to the captain.

"So, Sherlock put a lock on that Anywhere Door, and no one but Sherlock can open it! Wait, Sherlock, Pepper's Anywhere Door probably has one too, right?"

Faced with Tony's questioning, Sherlock nodded with some doubt but also with a sense of entitlement. How could he possibly trust giving such a thing to Pepper without a biometric authentication system?

Seeing Sherlock nod, Tony seemed to deflate instantly, and roared helplessly at the sky.

"No wonder, no wonder I couldn't open that damn door every time, no matter how many times I scanned it, it was useless, damn it! Damn it! I should have had Pepper cooperate with my research!"

Chapter 219 Jungle Adventure (Part 1)

Sherlock wasn't at all surprised that Tony would study his alchemical artifacts. After all, when he was making alchemical artifacts at Tony's house, Tony hadn't hidden his curiosity about them at all.

Of course, Sherlock himself didn't care about Tony's research on his alchemical items, so he didn't respond to Tony's annoyance. He just stood up with a smile, looked in Tony's direction, and rubbed his hands, which were wearing mittens.

It was only at this moment that Tony noticed that Sherlock seemed to be wearing a glove that looked quite familiar to him. If Tony remembered correctly, it was this very glove that had torn open the armor near the buttocks of his suit of armor as easily as tearing paper.

Looking at Sherlock, who was smiling and cracking his knuckles as he walked towards him, Tony admitted that he was indeed a little flustered.

"Sherlock! What are you doing? I'm warning you, don't come any closer! Stay away from me! Oh my god~~~"

Unfortunately, Sherlock didn't let Tony off the hook. Amid Tony's screams, Sherlock pounced on him and, like Iori Yagami unleashing his ultimate move in King of Fighters, pinned Tony to the ground and began tearing at Tony's armor.

Seeing such a 'tragic' scene, Hawkeye felt as if his eyes had seen something he shouldn't have, and he desperately wanted to wash his eyes. As Sherlock began to dismantle Tony's armor, Hawkeye's eyelids kept twitching.

"If I'm not mistaken, the gloves Sherlock is wearing should be the energy-saving gloves from Doraemon, right?"

Hawkeye whispered to Zhao Weike beside him, and after hearing Hawkeye's question, Zhao Weike, who was also looking at the brutal scene in front of him, nodded blankly in agreement.

Zhao Weike, who had the longest contact with Sherlock, already knew that Sherlock liked to borrow from all sorts of random things to make gadgets, and Doraemon was a major source of reference for Sherlock, so he wasn't surprised at all.

But seriously, is this how you use a labor-saving glove? And Tony, why the hell are you yelling so pitifully? Anyone who didn't know better would think you were some young girl about to be defiled!

For a moment, everyone present subconsciously distanced themselves from these two drama queens.

Sherlock quickly finished dismantling Tony's armor. Thanks to his labor-saving gloves, Tony's armor was no different from some thin wooden planks in front of Sherlock.

Of course, reality isn't an animation, so these so-called labor-saving gloves aren't as convenient as they are in cartoons. Essentially, they're just an external human enhancement alchemy. Sherlock might be fine using them, but if it were someone else, they'd probably be whipped into a dried-up corpse by these gloves.

Of course, Sherlock wasn't some kind of devil. Although he was supposed to remove Tony's armor, he didn't completely remove it. Instead, he left Tony with a vest that looked like a bulletproof vest, and even preserved the portable computer on his arm and the barely functional palm cannon in one hand.

After resolving Tony's problem, Sherlock took off his gloves, rummaged through his four-dimensional pocket, and pulled out a camera that looked like an instant camera, then started fiddling with it.

Hawkeye became unusually excited when he saw Sherlock take out the camera, pointing at the camera in Sherlock's hand and saying something to Sherlock.

"Is this some kind of camera that can change your appearance?"

Upon hearing Hawkeye's words, Sherlock looked up in surprise, as if he had discovered something, and teased Hawkeye.

"Wow, I didn't expect you to know so much about this! What, are you a hardcore anime fan in your spare time?"

Upon hearing Sherlock's teasing remark, Hawkeye merely scratched his nose awkwardly before giving Sherlock a perfunctory reply.

"No, no, I just often watch TV with my child."

Sherlock rolled his eyes at Hawkeye's answer. It was obvious that Hawkeye was a die-hard anime fan! Otherwise, why would he go to Japan to become a 'ronin' in the movies?

However, Sherlock wasn't in the mood to deal with Hawkeye, this old anime fan. After fiddling around for a while, Sherlock took a picture of Tony. The next second, Tony, who was wearing the armor that Sherlock had torn into a bulletproof vest and was wearing shorts and flip-flops underneath, was transformed into a person wearing a set of jungle adventure gear.

Of course, the armor he was wearing, which had been torn into a bulletproof vest, was still there. After all, Tony was the weakest guy on the scene, both in terms of physical ability and marksmanship, so he still needed some protection.

As for the rest of the people, apart from Zhao Weike Sherlock, who was disguised as Rambo and did not take any photos, the clothes of the rest of the people were changed by Sherlock into the same jungle adventure suit.

Hawkeye was even a little dissatisfied with this, saying, "Why can't we just give everyone a set of bulletproof vests or something? Wouldn't that be better?" Sherlock responded that he was just a little toy based on alchemy, not a wish-granting machine!

Even the original camera that changes clothes wouldn't just put a bulletproof vest on someone, right? Of course, if Hawkeye doesn't like it, Sherlock wouldn't mind letting Hawkeye revert to his previous state of wearing a feathered crown and strips of cloth.

Two sentences were enough to intimidate Hawkeye immediately.

After changing their gear, everyone went to the pile of weapons that Zhao Weike had just unloaded and began to choose the weapons they wanted to use.

Of course, these weapons are not for fighting, but for self-defense. After all, Zhao Weike only carries civilian firearms that can only fire single shots. If he were to fight the other side with these weapons, unless he were to use sniper fire, he would definitely be met with the enemy's frantic firepower suppression.

Therefore, apart from Tony, almost everyone present knew what these guns were for, since having guns and not having guns made a world of difference in the desolate rainforest.

To give a simple example, imagine you're walking along and you notice a snake, whether poisonous or not, staring intently at you from a tree not far away.

If you don't have a gun, all you can do is keep your eyes glued to that damn snake, then slowly back away, maintaining a safe distance from it, and try to find a way around it.

If you have a shotgun at this time, all you need to do is pull the bolt, roughly aim, and pull the trigger.

The claim that firearms can be called carbon-based biological coolers is not without reason.

When wild animals don't have guns, no one will object to wild animals calling humans "little skinny monkeys." But if you have a gun, even if it's just a .22 caliber weapon that's supposedly a water gun, if you don't call humans "terrifying upright apes," humans might as well exterminate your entire class!

It's no exaggeration to say that if the author had given that evil emperor a Barrett rifle from the beginning, all those blood corpses, zombies, Miluotuo, human-faced birds, giant centipedes, and giant pythons would have been a joke.

If one shot doesn't kill, then fire a few more. If it still doesn't kill, then the caliber just isn't big enough! How many 155mm rounds can the Bronze Gate withstand? Even if the Queen Mother of the West is incredibly powerful, one DF-61 round would probably turn her to ashes!

Chapter 220 Jungle Adventure (Part 2)

Once everyone had chosen their weapons, the differences between them became quite obvious.

Sherlock's primary weapon is a Benelli M2 tactical shotgun with an extended magazine, loaded with a mix of buckshot and birdshot rounds, while his secondary weapon is a 7.62 caliber AK47 loaded with steel-core armor-piercing rounds.

As mentioned before, the primary purpose of these firearms is self-defense. Therefore, Sherlock took a lot of shotgun shells, and only took two magazines of AK47 ammunition before stopping.

With Sherlock's two guns, he can handle both large and small animals, making it arguably the most complete combination.

Zhao Weike's choice was completely different from Sherlock's. Confident in his marksmanship, Zhao Weike opted for an ordinary AR rifle paired with a Glock pistol, using the pistol as his primary weapon and the rifle as a secondary weapon to deal with large animals.

Hawkeye chose the only sniper rifle in the group, an M24 bolt-action rifle, equipped with its dedicated sniper ammunition. Its power is self-evident. Paired with a small pistol, this became Hawkeye's weapon setup.

It's worth mentioning that the M24 in Hawkeye's hand is a plain gun without a scope, but Hawkeye doesn't seem to care at all, and even proudly says that his Hawkeye title is well-deserved.

The captain chose the only machine gun among the pile of weapons, an M2-SLR rifle. Of course, if the name is not familiar, then changing the name should make it very familiar.

Lao Gan Ma!

That's right, this is a civilian version of a firearm based on Lao Gan Ma (a popular chili sauce brand), and the one in the captain's hand has obviously been modified to have a grip and stock.

To be honest, the United States is indeed a magical land. For example, the thing that Captain America is holding, which is obviously a heavy machine gun, has been modified into a single-shot weapon, then given the name of a rifle and put into the civilian market.

However, given the captain's physique, even though this thing is a heavy machine gun, it wasn't that heavy for him.

The only one worth mentioning is Tony.

Thanks to Tony's abysmal marksmanship, almost everyone agreed to give him only a bolt-action shotgun. Yes, you read that right, it wasn't even pump-action, it was bolt-action, and even the bullets were bird shots, all to prevent Tony from 'accidentally hitting friendly fire'.

Although Tony was extremely dissatisfied with this, he was powerless to resist.

Finally, after everyone had chosen their weapons, Sherlock put all the remaining weapons and ammunition into his four-dimensional pocket, and the group began to retrace their steps, following the trail from the previous night.

To be honest, humans are sometimes truly amazing creatures. Just last night, they were all wearing shorts and flip-flops and were completely drunk, yet they could still walk around this rainforest with incredible agility.

But during the day, even though it was the same road and they had even changed into professional equipment, the journey back was still incredibly difficult.

The ground was covered with rotting leaves, making it difficult to walk, and the dense bushes around them were also a problem. Sherlock even had to take out Ryujin Jakka from his four-dimensional pocket and give it to the captain to use as a trailblazer.

Fortunately, without saying the release command, this thing is just a sharper katana, which is suitable for clearing the way. I bet Ryujin Jakka himself never imagined that one day he would be used as a katana for clearing the way, just like he never imagined that he would be used by Yamamoto to roast sweet potatoes.

After spending most of the day, the group finally arrived at the place where the battle had taken place the night before. As expected, the Anywhere Door that Gong Baiwan had knocked to the ground had disappeared, and nothing was left except for a mess.

Despite having a premonition, everyone still felt a sense of gravity when faced with the reality of the situation.