Beneath Greenland's permafrost, frozen for millennia.
Around the egg-shaped energy chamber, which trembled faintly with a heartbeat-like rhythm, the nine members of the Wolf Pack, including Remus Pitt, each stepped into a cylindrical chamber beside them.
Dr. Erskine checked the tubes of deep-blue Super Soldier Serum one by one, then signaled the researchers to begin.
Remus regulated his qi and blood. Though he could barely contain his excitement and exhilaration, his exceptional control over his body kept him firmly in peak condition.
Mechanical arms extended from both sides. Three needles pierced each arm, and the serum was slowly injected. Once the injection was complete, the chamber door closed, and low-intensity Vita-Rays—converted from Tesseract energy, just like before—began to flood the chamber.
The nine "Old Wolves," undergoing Super Soldier enhancement at the same time, cried out in pain, one after another. Their heart-wrenching howls could still be faintly heard through the Evolution Chambers.
But they soon forced down the agony of their bodies breaking apart and regenerating. Gritting their teeth, they focused their minds and struggled to endure.
Remus felt his flesh begin to shift and adjust once more. Having already experienced the gathering of qi and blood and the transformation of his body, he was better suited to the changes, and his body required far less structural alteration.
But the eight team members in the other chambers, still at the second or third stage of the Killing Technique, were undergoing rapid physical transformations in the space of just a few minutes.
Old injuries were repaired, and organs or tissues that had been imperfect from birth were corrected. Their bones creaked as their structures realigned. Some could even feel their bodies rapidly growing taller and more powerfully built.
Arnim Zola clung to the glass of an Evolution Chamber, watching the changes