"Baron Strucker! Our defenses can't hold! The Avengers' combat strength is on a completely different level from ordinary soldiers. In another ten minutes, they'll reach the castle and launch a direct attack!" Dr. List rushed in from outside, shouting the warning with a tense expression.
At this moment, this high-ranking Hydra official who was obsessed with superpower research had lost all of his usual lofty composure. He looked utterly flustered.
Because he knew that, based on the experiments he had conducted, if he were captured, he would one hundred percent be sentenced to death.
There would not even be a chance to secretly strike a deal.
The reason was simple: his experiments had caused the deaths of at least a hundred children under the age of twelve.
Not even the International Security Council would dare pardon crimes like that. Otherwise, if it were exposed later, everyone involved would be dragged down with him.
"They're here for the scepter!" Baron Strucker made the judgment with a grave expression.
Because aside from Loki's Mind Scepter, he could not think of anything else here that was worth mobilizing the entire Avengers team and creating such an exaggerated show of force.
You must know, the last time the Avengers had all deployed together was when the entire Chitauri interstellar fleet invaded New York.
Even when dealing with Alexander Pierce's Project Insight, only about half of them had been deployed, with Iron Man—Tony Stark—as the only main combatant.
But now, aside from Alesia, who had promised not to involve herself in conflicts between humans, everyone else had arrived.
After figuring out the enemy he was facing, Baron Strucker immediately took a deep breath and forced himself to calm down. Then, without turning around, he asked his subordinate, "Can our people still hold them off?"
"Sorry,