This is a large research institute with a built-in botanical garden, numerous cylindrical culture tanks, sterile isolation rooms, and a variety of instruments for biological detection and analysis. It seems capable of conducting large-scale in vivo experiments on organisms - if it is still intact.
if.
Most of the isolation doors of the institute and the automatic weapons protruding from the floor and ceiling have been destroyed. Judging from the way of destruction, it was obviously a violent blow, although the attackers seemed to be very careful not to destroy those for unknown purposes.
culture tanks, but still destroyed the equipment that maintained them.
At this time, in a certain laboratory that was basically a mess, a young man in a white coat slowly got up from the ground.
He looked around with confusion and a dull expression: "Who am I? Where am I? What am I doing?"
He tried to think and recall, but the content in his head was as empty as the environment in the laboratory at this time.
"I am..." When his eyes fell on his name badge, he finally thought of a clear answer: "I am 'Alex Mercer', the third officer of the AIM Los Angeles branch.
Researcher at the institute?”
After having a clear "anchor point", related memories began to flow out like the rising tide of the sea. The latest scene was: "I" was observing a petri dish through a microscope and writing the observation results into an experimental report.
However, a dazzling red light suddenly lights up in the laboratory, which means that an accident requiring emergency evacuation has occurred. All researchers must seal the current experimental results, lower all fire isolation walls, and hide in the safe room equipped in the laboratory to wait for rescue.
"Alex" obviously had not seen this fight. He threw the contents of the petri dish into the sink and washed it away, and then hid in the small safe room next to the laboratory work room.
The next memory was only the narrow environment of the safe house, only the huge roar vaguely coming from outside, the simultaneous sound of steel collisions, weapons firing, and more steel collisions.
Finally, the door of the safe house was opened, and two armed men with live ammunition walked in from the outside. "Alex" was about to say something to them, but was hit in the head by a gun butt, and the memory was interrupted.
Therefore, two additional attributes are added to my identity, "dangerous" and "illegal".
No, it seems less illegal?
After the new judgment appeared, the memories related to it made waves again, including the military authorization that "Alex" saw when he came for the interview, and the results he saw in other departments of the institute.
Generally speaking, AIM is trying to create a new type of enhancer, based on the "Abomination" enhancer that can rival the "Hulk" but has obvious flaws, mixed with some of the aliens that were used when New York was invaded.
Alien DNA - God knows why aliens use DNA the same way as humans for their inheritance. According to the few photos he could see with his authority, those aliens look like a humanoid owl.
As for the "results", Alex continued to recall deeply and successfully found their appearance - a "Red Giant" that was very similar to the "Hulk" that the military had been obsessed with.
However, the only similarity is their appearance. Their abilities and essence are very different from the Hulk.
The Hulk is infinitely powerful and invulnerable, while the Red Giant is only enhanced in strength, and comes with additional abilities such as high-speed healing, lightning reactions, extremely high body temperature, and the ability to breathe fire. Although the entries have increased, overall it seems to have become
Weaker.
In essence, the source of the Hulk's power seems to be anger. The angrier the more powerful he is, but the power of the Red Giant is neither anger nor "hate", but "despair". The more desperate the user, the more powerful he is.
The stronger it becomes, so this enhancer is named "Desperate Potion".
However, the "Desperate Potion" has a very obvious "self-respect": if a person has strong power, his psychological despair will become weaker - after all, he is so powerful, what else is there to despair about?
The results of AIM's research on this have shifted from "how to prevent the user's despair from reducing production" to "how to stably generate despair after erasing the user's consciousness."
The current conclusion is to allow users to use the drug in a state of complete desperation without knowing its effect. However, this is difficult to implement because the "volunteers" provided by the military all clearly know about the "Desperate Potion"
It was created to strengthen the user's power. If the experiment fails, they will turn into a monster. This is really disappointing, but once they start to change, they will subconsciously know that the experiment has been initially successful, and they will no longer despair.
Recalling this stage, Alex's memory became complete and continuous, and he finally remembered why this institute was attacked: In order to achieve the goal, the director of the institute sent people to arrest homeless people in Los Angeles. They perfectly
Meet the requirements - these people will be extremely desperate after learning that they are used as experimental subjects by the military, and when they find out that they have become monsters, they will only be even more desperate.
The experiment was successful, and this improved version of the drug was renamed "Black Light Virus". The reason why it was called a virus was because of AIM's final rigor as a scientific research institution: it does not have an "antidote" for reversal like the Extremis drug.
Neutralization can only be achieved through the "White Light Virus" which is still being planned.
Originally, such a trivial matter would not cause much trouble with the support of the military, but by chance, the "Avengers" who originally came just to track down other assassins discovered the "product" of the "Desperate Potion"
, I followed the clues all the way and found it.
Then, the military faction that learned the news immediately terminated its contract with AIM, and then angrily announced that they had no knowledge of AIM's inhumane experiments. Then, there was the "latest scene" that Alex remembered from the beginning.
But, it's a bit strange. If he had been knocked unconscious at that time, why didn't the two "SHIELD agents" take him away?
Could it be that they also encountered the trouble of "being unable to complete the set task and must retreat first"?
Alex left the research room with doubts and walked out based on his general impression of the terrain of the research institute.
The conditions along the way were basically consistent with what he had guessed, with twisted steel and bullet holes everywhere, as well as traces of explosions and flames. Although he knew in advance that AIM had set up strict defense measures at the research institute, he was still amazed by those automatic turrets and laser launchers.
At the same time, it is even more outrageous that SHIELD, which breaks through all the way to Huanglong, is even more outrageous.
But what are the patches of black asphalt on the walls and ceiling?
With indifference and uneasiness, Alex walked out of the gate of the institute that had been smashed into scrap metal. Before he could adapt to the sunshine outside, he saw a girl wearing a white lady's suit and a pointed hat walking through.
A circle of flame appeared out of thin air and came to him.
"Hello, first time meeting," she said, "Mr. Vision."
