"Secretary, it seems... it seems our system has been hacked!"
Hearing this, Pierce immediately threw down the operator in his hand, turned his head, and looked at the speaker with bloodshot eyes, his voice filled with uncontrollable rage.
"Impossible! Absolutely impossible!!!"
"The Helicarrier's operating system is completely closed! Unless there's a physical intrusion, it's impossible for anyone to modify the programs within the Helicarrier!!!"
As the ultimate plan Pierce had been leading, Project Insight, although he himself was not a technical person,
how could he not understand the details of this plan at all?
These three Helicarriers each had their own independent servers, all isolated from external connections, and each was equipped with a 'Threat Algorithm Program'.
To modify the target settings, unless someone directly fought their way into the Helicarrier's server room and manually replaced the chips, there was no way to change the target.
And this was also the approach Captain America and others chose in the original story.
However,
the operator, despite being somewhat fearful, still braced himself and whispered in response to Pierce's furious questioning.
"Secretary, the Helicarrier's operating system has indeed not been compromised..."
"Then!" Pierce suddenly stepped forward, and seeing this, the operator quickly sped up his words.
"It should be the satellite system that was compromised!"
Hearing this, Pierce paused, forcibly calmed the anger in his heart, and tried to make his tone sound more peaceful.
"Keep talking!"
"Alright... alright..." Seeing that his boss seemed to have finally calmed down a bit, the operator slightly organized his thoughts and then began to explain.
"Our Helicarrier's system is stored in the carrier's servers, and currently, there's no possibility of external intrusion. However, the carrier's built-in radar cannot precisely lock onto enemies deemed threats by the system; it must connect to the Insight satellites to pinpoint targets."
"However, the current situation is that the carrier is operating normally, the satellite signal has not been intercepted, but all ground-to-air weapons have lost their targets."
"Then it can only be that the Insight satellite system has been compromised, sending us only blurry data, preventing the threat algorithm from determining who to attack, and the fire control program naturally stopped firing as well."
After saying such a long passage in one breath, the operator looked at Pierce with an innocent face, awaiting his decision.
At this moment, Hive's sinister voice came from behind Pierce.
"Alexander, is this the new era you were going to show me?"
At this moment, cold sweat instantly covered Pierce's back, and only one thought was in his mind.
'Which bastard came up with this plan that has such a huge loophole!!'
In fact, the HYDRA operator's analysis was not wrong.
Let's rewind the time a little.
Above a desolate area in Pennsylvania.
Which was where Stark's private jet was attacked earlier.
In the sky, two inconspicuous small black dots were slowly descending towards the ground.
One of the slightly larger black dots was Luca, who was being held by the Erha Mecha as they landed.
At this time, Luca's suit was clean and tidy, and he didn't feel cold or frostbitten, as the [Tuxedo], as a sci-fi prop, itself had the functions of automatic ironing and heating for warmth.
But his exposed cheeks were red from the cold, and his hair was blown into a bird's nest by the high-altitude airflow.
However, Luca didn't care about his appearance at the moment. After landing, he casually ran his hand through his hair a few times, then took out an empty universal capsule from his In arms and directly put the energy cube containing the plane into it.
He just thought about it, but was still a bit unsure what effect such a large plane would have when released, so Luca still chose to hand the universal capsule to Five Haro next to him and ordered,
"Go, to the open space ahead, and release the plane."
It was fortunate that this was a desolate area. Luca himself had never tried what effect releasing a compressed cube would have in a place with obstacles.
The Five Haro mecha naturally would not disobey Luca's order. After receiving the capsule, it immediately ascended, and dropped it in an open space not far away.
"Pang~"
A cloud of White smoke exploded.
The huge plane appeared out of thin air, and the airflow it generated blew Luca's hair wildly.
"Luca--!"
A familiar shout came from the cabin, followed by a flurry of startled and chaotic noises.
Hearing Tony's lingering shout, Luca walked to the broken hole in the cabin with a smile.
He immediately saw Happy, the bodyguard, who was desperately holding Tony back from coming out, while he himself was stealthily peeking out of the plane.
However, the moment Tony saw Luca appear outside the cabin, he didn't bother to figure out the situation and directly pushed away Happy, who was blocking him.
He rushed to the broken hole in the cabin in a few steps, then directly jumped down, rolled several times on the ground, and without stopping, rushed in front of Luca before slowly slowing down.
"Hey..." Luca had just opened his mouth, and hadn't even said the first word.
Tony, who had originally slowed down, suddenly lunged forward and, in Luca's stunned gaze, pulled him into a hug.
This sudden hug made Luca freeze in place, somewhat at a loss.
Fortunately, Tony's hug didn't last too long; he quickly released him again, looked at Luca's somewhat dazed expression, and then smiled.
"You little rascal! How dare you jump directly out of the plane!"
Hearing Tony's words, Luca was still somewhat at a loss.
Actually, when he jumped out of the plane to compress it with the [Dehydration Gun] at that time, what he was thinking was,
"Tony won't think I'm trying to escape on my own, will he?"
That's why he said then for Tony not to move and to trust him.
But he didn't expect that Tony was actually worried about the danger of him jumping out of the plane.
For a moment, Luca, who had a belly full of words, didn't know how to speak, and could only stammer some dry excuses.
"Why are you making such a fuss? Don't you often jump down from the sky and have your mecha catch you?
Erha Mecha was still outside then, what could happen to me!"
Hearing this, Tony somewhat angrily wanted to ruffle Luca's hair, but seeing his bird's nest-like hairstyle, which was clearly messed up from descending from the sky, he slowly stopped his movement.
He just placed his raised hand on Luca's shoulder, patted it twice lightly, and then spoke again with a hint of emotion.
"If... you died, I would consider that my responsibility..."