Clearly, this HYDRA Baron had never truly trusted anyone.
He did not lower his guard just because of the confidence Makima displayed.
All that nonsense about heavy snow blocking the mountains and making travel inconvenient, or taking her to tour the underground facilities to see the experimental results... it was all bullshit!
How could he possibly be so kind?
All of this was merely to lower Makima's vigilance, drag out time, and secretly verify the truth of her words.
However... all of this was actually within Makima's expectations.
One of her goals in coming here was to let Wanda and Pietro awaken their superpowers.
Now that the twins had obtained their powers, her mission was half complete.
As for the other half... it was just about to begin.
As for having her identity exposed... to be precise, she just didn't want to keep acting anymore.
If she really wanted to stall, with her eloquence and means, she could have easily fabricated a few more flawless excuses and dragged things out for a few more days to create opportunities for herself, but... she didn't want to act anymore.
Outside the castle, the wind howled, and the severe weather with swirling snow grew increasingly worse.
Faced with Dr. Hoffman's accusation and the Baron's questioning, Makima merely tilted her head slightly.
On her stunningly beautiful face, she still maintained that smile, one so composed that it made the Baron and the others feel a chill deep in their hearts.
It was precisely because of this excessive calmness that the Baron, even now, stubbornly believed she was a confidante sent by Pierce.
The Baron calculated that even if he exposed this mole in public now, Pierce would likely step in to protect her, and he could use this as a pretext to blackmail a significant amount of resources from Pierce.
But no one had expected this.
Makima did not open her mouth to defend herself at all; instead, she elegantly raised her arm and pointed her index finger at Dr. Hoffman, who had just accused her.
Yes, Makima pointed back.
Whoever gets pointed at gets rich, meow (of course that includes me too)
Baron Strucker, Dr. List, including Dr. Hoffman himself—who had been pointing at Makima and was now being pointed back at by her—as well as the surrounding HYDRA soldiers holding assault rifles, were all stunned.
What does this mean?
Was this some kind of performance art?
But the next second, Dr. Hoffman, who was being pointed at by Makima, suddenly twisted, as if gripped by an invisible, formless hand out of thin air. Before he could even let out a scream, the muffled sounds of bones shattering merged into a continuous stream.
Blood splattered onto the cold floor and also onto the tip of Strucker's nose.
The scientist who had been alive just seconds ago was, in the blink of an eye, crushed into an irregular ball of flesh.
!!! This sudden and horrifying turn of events left everyone in the hall deeply shaken, their minds blank; they hadn't been able to react at all.
What was going on?
A perfectly healthy living person turned into a pile of minced meat just by being pointed at?
The first to recover from the shock was Baron Strucker.
That pile of minced meat fell right next to his feet, and a few drops of blood even splattered onto his face.
The intense visual impact made him suddenly realize that the woman before him was definitely not an ordinary person!
Watching Makima's finger slowly move toward him, the Baron's hair stood on end. A suffocating feeling of being approached by the God of Death washed over him, and he even felt that he was about to be crushed by that bizarre power!
A strong survival instinct made him unable to care about Pierce or resources anymore.
The Baron instinctively drew the handgun at his waist and pulled the trigger at Makima's perfect face...
"Bang! Bang!" The deafening sound of gunfire echoed through the hall.
Gunsmoke filled the air, and the bullets precisely shattered the red-haired woman's skull.
Blood splattered. Her slender body leaned backward from the impact of the bullets and fell straight onto the floor.
That finger also fell helplessly.
"Dead... is she dead?" Dr. List collapsed to the ground and tremblingly uttered a sentence with great caution.
His gaze uncontrollably drifted back to the puddle of "Dr. Hoffman" on the ground, and he was instantly terrified, his face turning deathly pale, cold sweat pouring down.
Twisted flesh and blood were scattered everywhere, as if a person had been wrung out like a wet rag.
What on earth was this?
A perfectly healthy person turned into a puddle of minced meat just by being pointed at?
Strucker was equally terrified, his mouth subconsciously spewing a string of German curses.
He frantically called for his men to bring the encrypted phone, his fingertips trembling as he dialed Washington.
Damn Pierce!
What is the meaning of this?
Trying to pull a double-cross on him?
Although the various factions within HYDRA never trusted each other, they had always maintained a tacit understanding of staying out of each other's way.
You in the U.S. branch stay honestly in Washington, and I in the Eastern Europe Base stay quietly tucked away in Sokovia.
Now you suddenly send a woman who knows sorcery to wreck the place; what exactly are you trying to do?
But when he took the special phone, there was nothing in the receiver except for harsh static.
This damn weather had cut off all communication, turning this castle into an isolated island!
"Bastard! This damn weather! It had to be at this time!"
Baron Strucker's features were twisted with anger; he wanted nothing more than to crush this broken phone into pieces.
On the other side, Dr. List swallowed, gathered his courage, and approached Makima's corpse. The woman on the ground had long lost her color, and on her smooth forehead was a horrifying hole, from which one could even clearly see the red and white mixture spilling out.
After confirming she was thoroughly dead, Dr. List breathed a long sigh of relief in his heart, secretly sighing that heaven was helping him.
Since the person was dead, there was naturally no proof, and the credit for the awakened twins would naturally belong to him!
He wiped away some cold sweat and had just turned around, preparing to speak, when his peripheral vision caught sight of the flat floor in front of him—
Under the bright lights of the hall, a slender shadow swept across the floor, slowly standing up from behind him.
This feeling, but this old bastard List is definitely not as cute as Power
A chill shot straight up his spine to the back of his head; Dr. List seemed to realize something, and his hair stood on end.
His legs went weak, and his lips trembled, unable to utter a complete sentence for a long time; he could only call out repeatedly in a distorted voice.
"Ba... Baron... I... I... behind..."
Strucker was feeling irritable because the call wouldn't go through. Hearing these ghostly noises from Dr. List, he turned his head in annoyance, just about to start cursing.
But before the words could leave his mouth, he felt as if he had been struck by lightning. With a "clatter," the phone in his hand fell onto the stone floor.
He saw that Makima, who should have had her brains splattered everywhere, was now standing completely unharmed behind Dr. List.
On that face, delicate as porcelain, where was there any trace of a gunshot wound?
She was still looking at the two of them with a smile, except that the colored contact lenses she had used for disguise were gone, revealing those golden ring-patterned eyes that exuded an eerie and inhuman feeling.
What the hell!
The Baron's scalp tingled, and he instinctively raised his handgun again to aim at her.
"Fire! Open fire!"
The surrounding HYDRA soldiers snapped out of their daze, and amidst a series of dense bolt-action sounds, the dark muzzles of their guns aimed in unison at the red-haired woman in the center.
This formation scared the wits out of Dr. List, who was caught in the middle.
Terrified that he would be turned into a sieve, his legs went limp, and he knelt on the ground, waving his hands repeatedly and shouting.
"Wait! Don't shoot! Don't you dare shoot!"
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