Marvel: Awakening the Universe.

Chapter 220 Hawk in the Incubation Chamber!
A black Audi A8 was parked on the side of the road.

Gwen unbuckled her seatbelt, opened the passenger door, and stepped out, looking at Hawke, who was also getting out of the driver's side door.

"I'll go to the airport by myself tomorrow."

"Ok?"

"Just pick me up from the airport after you've finished your business."

Gwen spoke quickly, then kissed Hawke, patted his chest, and looked at him: "Get this sorted out as soon as possible, I don't want to see many more of you."

Hawke raised an eyebrow, met Gwen's gaze, and nodded.

next second.

Hawk vanished from Gwen's sight in an instant, followed by a sonic boom thousands of miles above, and a beautiful sonic boom cloud appeared in the night sky.

Gwen also looked away, got into the car, and drove towards Palm Street.

At this moment.

Alice Springs, Australia!

This is a small town located in the desert region of central Australia, surrounded by red desert and low hills. The Todd River, which has dried up and exposed its riverbed, runs through the town, forming a unique landscape.

And in that seemingly endless, unremarkable red desert, a battle was breaking out.

call out!
The rocket, trailing flames, blasted a desert vehicle into a fireball with a deafening roar. The shockwave from the explosion sent four S.H.I.E.L.D. agents flying from the sidelines.

Chu Chu Chu!
Several gun barrels emerged from the desert, constantly sparking, forming a dense network of fire that made it difficult for Aegis fighter jets in the desert sky to get close.

The fighter pilot really wanted to press the button and launch a bunker buster.

but……

No!

This place is suspected to be a Hydra cloning base. The operations command center has ordered that it not be destroyed, but rather captured as much as possible.

However, in the desert, Hydra has cover, but they don't.

"Natasha."

"explain."

"Hawk is on his way."

"perhaps……"

"Already arrived."

Hawke appeared silently behind Natasha, said something, and then instantly released his six senses, taking everything around him and underground into his perception range.

He spotted a Hydra base hidden beneath the desert, shaped like a beehive.

He saw Hydra agents pacing back and forth in the base, their expressions tense and anxious.

At the same time, he also saw a familiar stranger in the base, wearing a white coat and glasses, who looked refined but had an evil aura.

Dr. Merrick!
Hawke even saw a container in the Hydra base hidden beneath the desert that looked exactly like a cloning pod from a movie.

Don't ask him why he's so sure this thing is a cloning incubator.

because--

In these cloning chambers, he saw himself sleeping.

"Ah!"

"Got you."

Hawke's lips curled up as he looked away from Natasha and asked, "There aren't any of your spies in this base, are there?"

Natasha saw Hawke rushing over and realized what was happening.

shook his head.

"No."

"That's good."

Hawke said something, and then, with his telekinesis, a fiery phoenix projection appeared behind him, beginning to burn.

next second.

The scene that had previously unfolded at the S.H.I.E.L.D. headquarters was being reenacted here once again.

One by one, Hydra agents, who thought they were safe and holed up in their bases beneath the desert, were instantly teleported out by Hawke's "Sixth Sense - Teleportation".

They sat in a row and shared the fruit.

Before the Hydra agents could even change their expressions, a blazing and dazzling phoenix ray appeared before them.

As the Phoenix Ray swept across, in the blink of an eye, the two hundred-plus Hydra agents in front of them instantly vaporized and vanished without a trace.

"It's done."

"I'll go down first."

Hawke's eyes recovered, and he said something to Natasha. Then, he took a step and used "Sixth Sense - Teleportation" to arrive at the breeding room of the Hydra base located beneath the desert.

His gaze fell upon a cultivation chamber filled with blue liquid.

Inside the incubation chamber, Hawke, who looked to be about the same age as Hawke, was curled up like an infant, seemingly fast asleep.

next second.

Hawke withdrew his gaze and looked to the side at Dr. Merrick, who was wearing a white coat and had been dragged here from the command room.

Dr. Merrick, wearing a white coat, had just been dragged over by Hawke. Seeing Hawke facing him sideways, he realized what was happening and lowered his head like an ostrich, not daring to breathe.

Hawke raised an eyebrow. "Dr. Merrick?"

"Yes, it is."

Dr. Merrick's voice trembled unconsciously, then he seemed to realize something and looked at Hawke: "Mr. Phoenix, this has nothing to do with me. I was forced to do it. Hydra forced me to do this. If I don't do what they say, they will torture me."

Hawke smiled.

If it weren't for his sixth sense, which allowed him to witness the scene in the command room where he was issuing orders as if he were the boss, he might have believed Dr. Merrick's nonsense.

but……

He wasn't here to listen to Dr. Merrick's nonsense, so whether Dr. Merrick was there voluntarily or forced was none of his business.

Hawke pondered this, turning his gaze away from Dr. Merrick, who was placing all the blame on Hydra, and looking once more at himself in the incubation chamber before him, somewhat curious: "So, is this a successful cloning, or a failed cloning?"

It is said that the cloning was successful, and indeed, Hydra did clone him.

But Hawke did not detect any life energy in the clone of himself before him.

Put it plainly.

The clone in the cloning chamber before us is less a clone of Hawke and more a submerged corpse that looks remarkably like Hawke.

He didn't find any other incubation chambers in this Hydra base, so he was curious whether it was a success or a failure.

After Hawke finished speaking, he turned his gaze back to Dr. Merrick.

Dr. Merrick met Hawke's gaze and his heart skipped a beat.

His scientist's intuition told him that the answer to this question would determine whether he lived or died.

and so……

Dr. Merrick swallowed hard, his throat tightening, and said in a slightly hoarse voice, "There were successes and failures."

Hawke raised his eyebrows.

"Where does success lie?"

"It was destroyed."

"destroy?"

"Yes."

Dr. Merrick swallowed again: "Five were successful, but they became disoriented and collapsed quickly after opening their eyes. We had no choice but to destroy them."

Hawke nodded thoughtfully upon hearing this, then looked again at himself sleeping in the incubation chamber before him: "What about these few?"

Now that they've already spoken up to fight for their own lives, there's nothing they can't say.

Dr. Merrick made no attempt to hide anything: "These five were originally planned to have their consciousness introduced today, but before we could do so, you discovered them here."

It was quite a coincidence that this place was discovered.

Well known.

This base was built in the desert.

The desert is arid and lacks everything, but there are more than two hundred Hydra agents in the base. If this were during the previous Hydra infiltration period, the supply of living materials would be easy to solve.

However, with the exposure of Hydra and the rapid completion of Maria Hill's integration of S.H.I.E.L.D., the crackdown on the remnants of Hydra has become increasingly powerful.

The Hydra remnants grew increasingly fearful, terrified that one day S.H.I.E.L.D. would send in surprise troops to capture him.

Therefore, some Hydra agents were wavering, including those who lived in the small town of Alice Springs and ran factories that provided supplies to the base.

One of them, a Hydra member who had only been with the organization for less than three years, felt that he shouldn't let his prime years be wasted with Hydra, so he decided to turn to the light and contacted S.H.I.E.L.D. on a very secretive online forum, hoping to become a witness for the prosecution.

If Dr. Zola were still alive, given his control over the internet, he would have been exposed and destroyed as soon as he did this.

But now that Dr. Zola has disappeared, Hydra's advantage in controlling the network has also vanished.

Natasha led the team and quickly destroyed the Hydra base in Alice Springs.

However, not many Hydra members in Alice Springs knew about the existence of the cloning base, and even those who did were mostly loyal old Hydra members who had already been killed in the resistance.

So barring any unforeseen circumstances, the cloning base will not be exposed.

As a result, Natasha destroyed the Hydra base in Alice Springs precisely at the point where supplies were secretly transported to the cloning base every month.

Natasha saw that the warehouse was full of supplies, which clearly exceeded the factory's needs. She immediately suspected that there might be a secret cloning base nearby. So she ordered the traces of the battle to be cleaned up quickly and found the Hydra member who had turned to the light, offering to help them put on a show to atone for his crimes.

The cloning base, seeing that the delivery time for supplies had passed and they still hadn't arrived, couldn't sit still any longer. So they sent a Hydra agent to enter the small town to see what was going on.

As it turned out, the man also knew the Hydra member who had turned to the light, and thus, he was captured alive by Natasha without warning.

then……

There is no more.

The cloning base was thus exposed in a spectacular fashion.

Hawke could also hear the regret Dr. Merrick expressed when he said he hadn't had time to introduce consciousness.

but……

Hawke looked at himself in the five cloning chambers in front of him, his gaze seemingly filled with regret that his efforts had not been successful, and a slight smile appeared on his lips.

"I'll give you a chance to live."

"Activate them!"

"..."

(End of this chapter)