Old Grounds

"Bucky?!"

Sure enough, after hearing Bucky's name, Rogers no longer looked worried. Instead, he hurriedly asked:

"Where did you hear about Bucky?"

"Boss... you have your own museum, and there are plenty of official biographies about you online, even novels. It shouldn't be hard to learn about Sergeant Barnes." Arthur shrugged.

In fact...

The US Government and military, which had signed the Confidentiality Agreement, as well as S.H.I.E.L.D. under Nick Fury's command, had no idea that Marvel existed.

Arthur had once suggested to William that if they wanted to reveal the truth—that Marvel had created this universe—they should at least wait until Umbrella had taken control of the entire planet and dealt with that Thanos bastard before making it public.

"..." After hearing Arthur's answer, Rogers fell silent for a moment.

After steadying himself, Rogers said in a low voice, "Arthur, you haven't told me the exact details or objective of this operation. Does that mean..."

"That's right." Arthur could not be bothered to keep him in suspense, so he said bluntly, "Captain, our Umbrella possesses top-tier Artificial Intelligence. That's why parasites like Hydra can be wiped out so easily by us.

Of course, when we breached the network of Hydra's internal members... we also found a very noteworthy file. Its codename was 'Winter Soldier.'"

As Arthur spoke, he took an Umbrella digital phone from the pocket of his military uniform, touched the lock screen, and activated its holographic function.

Before long, he brought up detailed information about the Winter Soldier, along with the facial data of this legendary Hydra assassin.

It was none other than Rogers' dear friend, the one he could never let go of: Bucky Barnes.

"This..." Rogers' eyes widened, and his lips trembled faintly, as though he were extremely agitated.

Fortunately, the old World War II