Willowdale, Virginia, America.
Culver University, which worked closely with the American military, maintained a secret, military-controlled research facility on the outskirts of Willowdale.
The research program known as the "Army Biochemical Force Enhancement Project" was the core undertaking of this high-security institute, which had little public recognition and was known to few.
The staff sometimes jokingly called the entire base and its research General Thaddeus Ross's own "family business."
After all, Dr. Robert Bruce Banner, the chief scientist and primary director of this upgraded project derived from the Super Soldier Serum program, and Dr. Betty Ross were the daughter and future son-in-law of the "Thunderbolt General," who had just been promoted to a three-star general in the American Army.
In the high-energy radiation laboratory on the third underground level, Bruce Banner checked the Gamma-ray readings, placed the extracted new serum cells beneath the instrument slide, and began the day's experiment.
Thanks to this era, which produced extraordinary warriors in abundance, the original serum created by Dr. Abraham Erskine had been perfectly replicated decades ago. Though the selection and number of super soldiers were strictly controlled, they were far from rare.
But the American government and military, dissatisfied with the weak efficacy of the original serum, had continuously worked to improve and upgrade the technology, hoping to narrow the gap between themselves and that family standing above all regimes and powers.
Even without military volunteers, Dr. Banner had no interest in testing this serum on himself. He had no desire to gain some supernatural physique or power.
Besides, mad scientists who casually experimented on themselves were mostly just a comic-book cliché.
As the analysis results for the modified cells appeared, Banner's fingers tapped over the keyboard as he calculated and verified the Gamma-ray dosage. From time to time, he stopped to