"System! Give me a lottery draw!"
Kurohane initiated his lucky draw as he followed Crossbones out of the room. There was no interest to be gained by saving Justice Points, so it made sense to draw as many as possible. With another cheap sound effect, the large spinning wheel in Kurohane's mind began to turn. A few seconds later, the winning pointer stopped at the skill slot.
[Telepathy: A limited version of Professor X's superpower, without offensive capabilities.]
Kurohane: (???)
I'm truly speechless! Why have the recent draws been so strange? Either it's a one-time trial card, or it finally draws a skill, only for it to be a limited version!
The phrase "no offensive capabilities" was easy to understand. Professor X's telepathy had many forms of expression. First, he could understand and perceive others' thoughts, memories, and emotions, as well as engage in mental communication with others, second was mind control, manipulating others' thoughts and actions, third was a defensive mental shield, the ability to protect oneself and others from psychic attacks, fourth was a Telepathy network, which could be considered a mental-level wireless local area network, fifth was psychic search, which is finding people through thoughts.
My limited version, most likely, can only understand others' thoughts and memories. It's still uncertain whether I can perform mental communication with others. I can only try it on someone! But right now, I'm surrounded by Hydra members. I can't just experiment with this trump card skill. However, secretly peeking into someone's mind shouldn't be a big problem!
Kurohane looked at Crossbones walking in front of him and activated [Telepathy] on him! In just a short moment, Kurohane felt as if he had directly entered Crossbones' mind. All his memories were available for viewing at his leisure. After casually flipping through some memories, he found that in Crossbones' mind, aside from bloody massacres, there was only inhumane training! Of course, there were also some scenes that wouldn't pass censorship. As one of Hydra's secret agents, Crossbones usually had a lot of psychological pressure, and his relaxation methods were limited to a few. Better not to mention them.
Then he probed Crossbones' thoughts at that moment and found that this guy was quite excited!
"Kurohane, this pervert, even the Winter Soldier is no match in close combat. His accuracy? Lethal. No wonder Nick Fury values him so much. Avengers? Now that's interesting."
Kurohane: (???)
I don't know what you're so excited about. Can you handle that big green guy? He can withstand alien battleship artillery. I don't even know how to defeat the Hulk right now!
"Kurohane, why aren't you moving?" As Crossbones walked, he saw Kurohane stop, as if he was rooted there, thinking about something. At this moment, Kurohane was still using [Telepathy]. It was only when Crossbones asked that he realized he wasn't walking.
Kurohane: (′?w?)?
So when I use the [Telepathy] ability, my body stops moving? Turns out my brain is still single-threaded and can't handle two things at once?!
"No, I was thinking about the secondary serum injection I'm about to receive," Kurohane replied as if nothing had happened, dismissing it casually. "Steve Rogers' process of becoming Captain America back then, I remember it seemed to be recorded within S.H.I.E.L.D. The Super Soldier Serum used is a secondary thing. The most important thing is the immense energy consumed during the process. More than half the city was even temporarily paralyzed. Could this be the key to success? Or rather, will you electrocute me when you inject the serum later?"
Staring into Kurohane's clear eyes, Crossbones felt his long-lost guilt return. Even when he massacred over 500 people in a certain African tribe back then, it wasn't as painful as looking into Kurohane's eyes!
"Don't worry too much about this. I went through the same thing. But I can give you a little advice," Crossbones unconsciously revealed his true thoughts, "When injecting the serum, you must stay conscious. The longer you remain conscious, the better effect you will get!"
Kurohane nodded contentedly. My limited version of [Telepathy] isn't completely useless! Even old guys like Crossbones, I can subtly influence his emotions, making him say things he wouldn't normally utter without realizing it.
The two walked towards a specific laboratory, chatting and laughing. As for the Winter Soldier lying on the ground, the other Hydra members would certainly handle him. Organizational property must not be damaged!
The Serum Injection
In a simple laboratory, besides the shadowless lamp overhead, the entire room only had an electric chair bolted to the floor. It didn't look like a laboratory at all. It looked more like an execution chamber for death row inmates! Crossbones patted Kurohane on the shoulder and smiled, a rare sight.
"Take off your top, shoes, and socks, then put them on. I won't help you with this. Since you're receiving a serum injection, you can't avoid this!"
"Hail Hydra!" Kurohane immediately put on a show for Crossbones. On the other side of the camera, Alexander Pierce also smiled with satisfaction.
Kurohane quickly stripped off his top, shoes, and socks, revealing his well-defined upper body muscles. After the enhancement from the character trial card earlier, even without the serum injection, Kurohane's muscle lines were exquisitely beautiful, like a muscular jaguar! Crossbones looked at Kurohane's muscles and curiously squeezed his arm. Being able to kick the Winter Soldier just now wasn't just due to the Kung Fu bonus, these muscles also played a big role!
"You must spend a lot of time at the gym!"
Kurohane pushed Crossbones' hand away in disgust and said loudly: "Now I suspect you have British descendants. Please don't come near me, thank you!"
Sitting in the electric chair before him, Kurohane's hands and feet were automatically locked together. Then six mechanical arms extended from behind Kurohane, each with a light blue syringe attached!
"Didn't we agree on one secondary serum injection? Why are you giving me six injections at once?!" Kurohane felt fear for the first time in a long while. In his previous life, he was somewhat afraid of needles. Well, this is great, these syringes are enough to make me faint six times!
However, no one answered Kurohane's question at all. Crossbones left as soon as Kurohane sat in the electric chair. After all, the electric chair's power was too high, and it was too dangerous to be near Kurohane.
Buzzz—buzz!
Six sharp needles were aimed at various parts of Kurohane's body. Kurohane unconsciously swallowed. "Can you be gentle when you do it... Ah!!!!!"
Before he could finish his sentence, all six syringes had already been plunged into Kurohane's body!
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