While the Avengers and Meng Ran were discussing how to deal with Hydra and the Monster Group, Strucker and Mill were also busy with their own affairs.
Their busyness began with the failure of Pierce's faction of Hydra a few days ago.
Although they didn't have the full details, it seemed to them that Pierce's original plan had failed, and his strength had been significantly damaged as a result.
The damage to Pierce's power was a great thing for Strucker and Mill.
This nominal leader had been pressing down on them for many years, preventing them from achieving their own goals.
Now that an opportunity had finally presented itself, Strucker and Mill naturally wouldn't let it pass.
Strucker had been busy expanding his own power base these past few days.
Because of Pierce's failure, many Hydra groups had fallen apart, turning into smaller, fragmented forces.
Strucker had been absorbing these collapsing forces to strengthen his own power, aiming to become the new leader of Hydra.
Unlike Strucker, who was absorbing external forces, Mill had been consolidating his own internal Monster Group forces.
As mentioned before, although Mill was the leader of the Monster Group, known as the tyrannical ruler…
…there were still some dissenting voices among his subordinates. The reason these voices had persisted was mainly due to Pierce's behind-the-scenes support.
Pierce wanted to use this method to prevent the Monster Group from fully coalescing into a single entity and to divide Mill's power, thereby reducing the pressure that this massive violent department, the Monster Group, placed on Hydra.
Therefore, the recent failure of Pierce's faction within Hydra provided Mill with an opportunity to eliminate the dissenting voices within the Monster Group.
Without Pierce's support, those dissenting voices and personnel within the Monster Group were like fish on a chopping board, at Mill's mercy.
After these few days of clearing, Mill gradually gained complete control over the Monster Group.
Because they were both under Pierce's shadow, Strucker and Mill actually had a good working relationship.
The Avengers' discovery of the Loki Scepter swap over the past few days was the beginning of their cooperation.
When Loki appeared, Strucker and Mill both set their sights on the Scepter in his hand.
After some negotiation and communication, the two sides reached an agreement to cooperate.
The main points of their cooperation were as follows.
The first point was about Loki's Scepter. Both sides agreed to jointly research it after swapping it back.
Strucker provided researchers and research technology, while Mill provided Enhanced Humans as experimental materials. The final research results would be shared by both sides.
The second point was about the specific actions. After negotiation, both sides decided that Mill would be responsible for making the replacement replica, and Strucker would be responsible for implementing the swap plan.
The reason Mill was tasked with producing the replica was because making a fake Loki's Scepter required a Cradle Device, a machine only the Monster Group possessed.
This device was the foundation of the Monster Group's existence and the origin of all Enhanced Humans in the world.
The birth of this device was also quite accidental.
At the time, Professor Erskine, who had developed the super-soldier serum, brought the serum to America and used it to create the world's first super-soldier, Captain America, Steve Rogers.
After seeing the success of the super-soldier serum, a Hydra spy hidden among the observers shot and killed Professor Erskine.
After Professor Erskine's death, the perfect formula for the super-soldier serum became an unsolvable mystery.
The only remaining vial of the super-soldier serum became a unique, solitary specimen.
Later, Hydra also wanted to create their own super-soldier army, but due to the loss of the formula, they were at a loss.
Finally, with the efforts of Dr. Zola and a group of scientists, they accidentally created an alternative energy source using the energy of the Tesseract.
They named this energy source Blue Sea, and after research, they discovered that it could emit a light that caused genetic changes in people.
Because the leader of Hydra at the time, Red Skull, was also a product of the Super Soldier Serum, Zola and the others used Red Skull's blood to reverse-engineer an incomplete Super Soldier Serum formula.
This Super Soldier Serum formula, when combined with the light emitted by Blue Sea, could cause mutations in people, and those who mutated successfully would gain some extraordinary abilities.
After reaching this conclusion, Dr. Zola and the other scientists used the Blue Sea energy and this incomplete Super Soldier Serum formula to create a complete device that could cause mutations in people. This device was the Cradle Device.
The first batch of people who gained extraordinary abilities through this device were also called Enhanced Humans.
Although this system had very powerful abilities, capable of turning an ordinary person into an Enhanced Human, its drawbacks were also very obvious, namely, the success rate was too low.
This was also the reason why Hydra didn't have many Enhanced Humans until the end of the war, let alone forming an Enhanced Human army.
After Hydra's rebirth through Operation Paperclip in America, the Cradle Device was placed within the Monster Group, which was established as a violent department.
Because Blue Sea energy was accidentally created using the Tesseract, it could also be used to simulate the fluctuations and radiation of the Tesseract.
Therefore, this replica could successfully be swapped without any anomalies being detected.
Apart from the absence of the Mind Stone, the replica was basically indistinguishable from the original Loki Scepter.
After the Monster Group completed the replica, they handed it over to the Hydra faction led by Strucker.
Then, Strucker, through Agent Sitwell, who had infiltrated Pierce's Hydra faction, successfully carried out the swap.
After agreeing on the division of labor for the implementation plan, the third point of agreement between the two parties concerned a change in the status quo.
Strucker wanted to replace Pierce and become the new leader of Hydra. Mill, on the other hand, wanted to break away from Hydra and lead the Monster Group to become a truly independent group, free from all constraints.
They both got what they needed and cooperated for mutual benefit, each steadily developing in peace and harmony.
So, after Pierce's Hydra suffered a setback, both sides immediately launched rapid expansion and cleanup operations the moment they received the news.
They both wanted to achieve their goals as quickly as possible, taking advantage of this opportunity.
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