Illegal immigrants who sneak into the United States usually do not choose to live in Washington, D.C., because the consumption level here is very high and the housing prices are unaffordable for ordinary working-class people.
Most people who work in Washington, D.C., actually do not live here. In order to save the cost of living, most of them live in the neighboring states of Maryland and Virginia.
During rush hour, the roads in and out of the capital become overcrowded. In contrast, the dignitaries living in the special zone live a slow and leisurely life.
As a mystic, Lu Xiao would not have a hard time settling down locally even if he did not have household registration or a green card from any country. It was nothing more than a set of hypnotic suggestion spells.
In order to complete the task as quickly as possible, Lu Xiao tried many times to sneak into SHIELD's Tri-Wing Building.
However, this building filled with high-tech anti-reconnaissance equipment is extremely well-defended, and even if Lu Xiao turns on the aura blocker, there is still a risk of being discovered.
The core of the Insight Project is located underground in SHIELD. Without sufficient authority, Lu Xiao had difficulty entering the secret construction docks of the three aerospace carriers.
After many fruitless attempts, Lu Xiao temporarily gave up her plan to infiltrate directly and instead settled near Theodore Roosevelt Island, waiting for the plot to begin.
Lu Xiao still vaguely remembered that Captain Rogers and Falcon Sam Wilson, who also used to run in the morning, seemed to have met for the first time near the Lincoln Memorial.
...Of course, for Falcon, the experience of the first encounter does not seem to be so pleasant.
At 6 o'clock in the morning in Washington, D.C., the sky has not yet completely brightened up. The self-disciplined Wilson still maintains the habit of exercising every day after retiring from the army, jogging along the Lincoln Memorial at a steady pace early in the morning.
Suddenly, rapid footsteps came from behind on the left side, which aroused Wilson's curiosity. At the same time, a voice that sounded somewhat proud also came.
"Watch your left."
Wilson's morning jogging speed was very standard, a typical jogging exercise, and compared to the elderly people next to him who were walking slowly in the morning with big bellies, Wilson's speed was already very fast.
But the so-called fast and slow are actually relative and need to be compared with reference objects.
Wilson thought his running speed was standard, but he couldn't handle the fact that there was a weirdo nearby who was sprinting at full speed and repeatedly surpassed him.
What makes Wilson even more upset is that every time this weirdo passes him, he leaves a message.
The seventh time: "Watch your left."
The eighth time, Wilson heard the footsteps coming from behind and immediately turned around to warn: "No, don't say that again..."
"Watch your left."
"Hey! Give me...cough! Wait!"
Being ridiculed to overtake him again, Wilson's mentality finally became unbalanced. He speeded up and tried to catch up with the fast-moving weirdo, but this disrupted his running rhythm and stopped out of breath before he could catch up to a few dozen meters.
Lu Xiao, who was watching the whole process, couldn't help shaking his head and laughing.
Many people think that Captain America is a boring old guy who is out of touch with the times, a perfect man who is strict with himself.
Obviously their inherent impression is not entirely accurate. This "old guy" will also joke and use less dirty trash talk to annoy people when he is not on task.
Witnessing Steve Rogers being picked up by a beautiful red-haired girl with exquisite appearance and hot body, Lu Xiao jumped off the top of the Lincoln Memorial, blended into the crowd and disappeared without a trace.
The departure of Captain America and Black Widow means the official start of the plot. Nick Fury senses the abnormal undercurrent within S.H.I.E.L.D. and sends the two of them to a hijacked S.H.I.E.L.D. ship with different tasks.
With the extremely fast Quinjet flying to and fro, Agents Rogers and Romanoff will be back from the SHIELD ship named Lemuria Star in just over a week.
During this period, Lu Xiao met Falcon Wilson in the same way as Rogers, during nearly a week of morning jogging.
The house Lu Xiao rented after forging his identity was in the same apartment building as Falcon. With the help of his neighbor's identity, Falcon, who met frequently, quickly became familiar with Lu Xiao.
Lu Xiao forged a fake identity for herself as an independent IT practitioner who took orders at home. Thanks to her abnormally growing learning ability, Lu Xiao learned to get started with programming very quickly, and even demonstrated how to write a small program for Wilson on the spot.
Black Widow and Captain America are both agents affiliated with S.H.I.E.L.D., and contacting them rashly can easily arouse suspicion, and even alert Nick Fury, who is behind them.
In contrast, today's Falcon is not yet a member of the Avengers, nor is he a suspicious S.H.I.E.L.D. agent.
Considering Falcon's future status in the Avengers, it is definitely beneficial to make good friends with him in advance.
Moreover, Lu Xiao’s fabricated identity was not to harm Falcon, Captain America and others, but out of the desire to help them, and there was no need to worry about being blamed by Falcon when her identity was exposed later.
As Lu Xiao waited patiently, Steve Rogers and Natasha Romanoff successfully completed their mission and returned to Washington DC. However, Rogers immediately burst into Fury's office dissatisfied and asked him why he hid the Black Widow.
the real mission goal.
At the same time, Lu Xiao tracked the whereabouts of the Black Widow and quietly sneaked into her secret apartment to search for information while the ace agent was out heading to S.H.I.E.L.D. headquarters.
As expected, Natasha, who had been trained as a Soviet agent since childhood, was used to making multiple preparations, and there were a lot of traps buried in her room.
Using the clairvoyance ability of Eagle Vision to avoid the traps one by one, Lu Xiao found the backup materials that Black Widow had hidden in the wall, used magic to make a copy of all the text materials, and then opened the portal to return to her temporary apartment.
Be prepared to read slowly.
"Winter Soldier Project..."
When he saw one of the ancient documents recorded in Russian, Lu Xiao cheered up and read the entire document with difficulty using Google Translate, roughly understanding the origins of the Winter Soldier Project.
To put it simply, the Winter Soldier is a super soldier project proposed by the Soviet branch of Hydra.
Since the success of the super soldier serum that enhanced Steve Rogers, countries and major covert organizations have been trying to decipher the secret of this serum.
Among them, the one who is at the forefront of research results is the genius American scientist Howard Stark, who was also a direct participant in the super soldier project that year.
Hydra obtained a super soldier serum that was very close to the original version from Howard and injected it into several elite soldiers. This is Hydra's so-called Winter Soldier Project.
The material in the hands of Black Widow records the first and most active Winter Soldier so far. His biggest feature is a powerful metal left arm.
In addition to the Winter Soldier plan, the information hidden by Black Widow also contains some conjectures about Project Insight, as well as important information that Fury secretly ordered her to obtain, including some conjectures about the undercurrents within S.H.I.E.L.D.
"Agent Sitwell? Is he the breach?"
Sitwell is one of SHIELD's senior agents, and he was the director of the Lemuria Star, a SHIELD ship that was hijacked by pirates.
Nick Fury noticed Sitwell's abnormal behavior. In order to catch a big fish without alerting the snake, Fury sent Captain America to lead an elite commando team to deal with the pirates and rescue Sitwell. On the other hand, he asked Black Widow to rescue Sitwell.
Secretly copy all backup data of Lemuria Star.
Without SHIELD's internal identification ID, it would be difficult for Lu Xiao to sneak into the heavily guarded Tri-Wing Building.
But considering that the Winter Soldier would inevitably appear in this incident, Lu Xiao had a plan in mind.
"Physical brainwashing? I want to see if non-physical methods can cover Hydra's brainwashing technology."