Compared to Hydra, Leviathan is somewhat easier to find.
The 'Red House' that is used to train Black Widows belongs to the Leviathan Organization. The current leaders are Vasili Dassayev and Viktor Uvarov.
After the split of the Holy Shield Brotherhood, they parted ways with others and came to this vast icy wasteland to establish a secret organization named after the mythical beast.
Leviathan.
Choosing Fur Bear as a location has a significant advantage: abundant personnel.
The people here generally have good physical qualities. Whether men or women, the ruggedness seems imprinted on their souls.
Vasili and Viktor are not foolish. Hydra is thriving now, and the SSR is not far behind. With these two powers clashing, one is bound to get hurt in the end.
If Leviathan were to intervene in the world's conflicts now, the situation would instead become a tripartite confrontation. It's better to let SSR and Hydra determine a victor, and then Leviathan can emerge to deal with the weakened duo.
Thus, its current strategy is to amass strength — whether personnel, materials, or money.
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In the comics, Natasha mentioned that the Red House is somewhere in Siberia, but Su Ming doesn't know the exact location.
However, this is not an issue.
The Red House is an underground base. Besides the hundreds of trainees there, it also houses many scientists, logistical personnel, and even stationed troops.
With so many people, there is definitely a need for supplies.
Whether it's food, training bullets, grenades, or the chemical materials needed by the scientists, they need to be replenished regularly.
Some things can be stockpiled, like towels and washbasins, which can be replenished once a year.
Su Ming also considered this issue, but there's one thing that can't be stored in large quantities — test subjects.
Test subjects are used for practicing shooting, combat, and dissection.
A Special Agent trainee would consume several test subjects daily. After all, Leviathan trains assassins and killers, requiring extensive practice for trainees to master these aspects.
At least Deathstroke hasn't heard of anyone becoming a top assassin just by reading books.
However, if too many test subjects are stored, keeping them alive and lively before class would waste food and pose a safety risk.
Therefore, the supply cycle of materials to the Red House won't be too long, so Su Ming can wait.
It's only February; trying to transport various supplies into Siberia by car or ox cart? Don't even think about it, the snow on the ground can reach a typical man's elbow.
The only reliable transport in early spring to Siberia is the Trans-Siberian Railway, built in 1891.
It is said that riding the luxury train 'Golden Eagle' from the Fur Bear Capital to Vladivostok takes seven days, and passengers often can't even walk after disembarking.
Now, due to the confidential nature of the agency, the supplies sent to the Red House should be transported by a special train, which may not be on the transport department's timetable, or it might be a dedicated line.
What Su Ming needs is this timetable, memorizing all the train schedules to Siberia, and then staking out along the railway line.
If any train appears that is not on this timetable, he will hop on to check it out.
If there are food, chemical supplies, brainwashing equipment, dresses, and cosmetics on a certain train, then that's probably the one he should hitch a ride on.
In the era without satellites, only clumsy methods could be relied upon. Luckily, Su Ming has read "Railway Guerrilla," so jumping onto a speeding train is like mounting a galloping horse...
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In a certain part of Siberia, a place as guarded as a prison, where snow covers the barbed wire and watchtowers.
Soldiers with indifferent expressions continued to patrol around the barbed wire, with military dogs following silently.
In the center of the barbed wire, there is a small house, looking like an ordinary radar station, perhaps housing a few communication soldiers and a furnace.
In reality, more of the structure lies underground, with all the inner walls painted red.
At this moment, in a large classroom deep underground, teachers are giving a lesson to a group of young women, and the lesson involves watching a movie.
The instructor pauses the movie occasionally to explain how, under the current conditions, one might silently kill a target at the moment of their joy.
Some young women become too shy to watch, which is when a robust, adult Female Warrior would walk over, beat the young woman, and then hold her head, forcing her eyelids open to make her watch.
This would still lower the girl's rating. If the rating falls below level 5, she becomes worthless, destined to be killed by the other girls and used as 'nutrient' to foster the growth of other blooms.
In the end, the victor in the movie is a woman.
"Click."
The instructor turned on the classroom lights and switched off the projector. She was an expressionless old woman, gaunt like a Skeleton, but with unusually bright eyes.
A nondescript ornament dangled from her collar, symbolizing Capricorn.
"Ladies, did you enjoy the movie?"
This wasn't really a question, as the answer had been predetermined. It was just part of the protocol.
She asked if she looked good, and the girls had to answer that she did. The surrounding Leviathan warriors ensured everyone answered the instructor seriously.
"Looks ~ good ~"
The girls numbly answered her.
The instructor laughed like a witch: "Very good, now tell me, what did you learn from the movie? Dotti, you go first."
A blonde girl stood up, her gaze slightly confused, but she still spoke the answer: "Teeth are a very useful weapon."
However, the old woman instructor shook her head dissatisfied and yelled at her: "Too shallow, your understanding is too shallow, go out and get 30 lashes!"
In fact, Dotti did not need to roll out herself, as two strong Leviathan female warriors naturally grasped her hair and dragged her out. Soon, the sound of screams resonated through the hallway.
"Screaming too loudly, hit again! Knock her out for me!"
The instructor roared as she chased out the door to issue the new order.
She unfastened the discipline buckle and spat on the floor, returning to the classroom.
"Dotti's answer disappointed me. The next person should think seriously; I want the essence of the whole matter, not the surface."
The girls were even more confounded. Was there really any profound meaning in the movie?
"Anya, you're Dotti's best friend, you answer." The instructor directly named.
"I learned that controlling people's minds, indoctrinating pain can bring pleasure." Another girl with braided hair stood up to reply.
"...Although not complete, I recognize this answer. You can receive an extra piece of bread today, sit down!"
The other girls silently breathed a sigh of relief, at least now there was a direction for answers, and they needn't die today.
"Student Romanoff, stand up and supplement Anya's speech."
The instructor named another younger red-haired girl, she and other girls were late a grade compared to Dotti and Anya and were just listening in today.
In any case, some girls were punished to miss dinner, while some received rewards, but at least today, they could be locked in their beds to sleep.
Rather than being thrown into the snow to feed wolves, or directly into the incinerator...
The instructor controlled the fates of all students like a goddess, arranging them at her whim. She signaled someone to tidy up the projector, playing with the whip in her hands.
"Today's lesson is over; you're going now to slaughter beasts with Teacher Sharapova. Those in the pen are enemies of our people, no, hogs!"
"Yes, teacher." The young girls answered standing at attention.
"The hogs will have their bindings removed and will be told that killing you can gain them freedom. Each of you must solve ten pigs barehanded... I don't care whether you live or die, but tomorrow I will check in class, those who do not finish the assignment will be executed, understood?"
"Understood, teacher."
"Very well, now class dismissed!"
The warriors led the girls away, but the instructor, after watching everyone leave, ordered the guards outside to drag Dotti back.
"Dotti, you're about to graduate, today is your final test."
Dotti, beaten nearly to death, lay on the ground, the floor seemed to have a taste of rust.
She didn't know what her task was, whether it was to assassinate some big shot, or to sleep with some high-ranking official to steal intelligence?
"Dotti Underwood... awaiting orders." She gasped in reply, the wounds nearly incapacitating her thoughts.
"Very good, your task is to kill your roommate Anya tonight." The instructor calmly replied, using the whip to grind her nails: "No weapons, just with your bare hands."
"What?! Anya is my best friend!"
"Of course, I certainly know that. But she also received orders to kill you tonight. You regard her as a friend and don't wish to kill her, but does she... not wish to kill you?" The instructor revealed a sinister smile: "You must know, you're very weak now, if you don't strike first, you'll be the one dying..."
Dotti fell into silence, but the instructor showed no hints of soft-heartedness.
"Drag her back to the room, have the guards watch their door, tomorrow only one can walk out alive, otherwise they die together."
The instructor swung her hand, as if brushing off dust, letting the guards drag Dotti away.
Anya received no task.
Only because the instructor chose Dotti as the seed player, because she was more beautiful than Anya.
The reason was indeed this shallow, Dotti's previous answer was actually correct, the instructor beat her just to injure her, to make her lose security, falling into delusions of persecution.
This place is the Red House, where Leviathan trains top female special agents.
Appearance is a woman's important weapon, and the Leech Potion is born to maintain this weapon; even the instructor is unqualified to be vaccinated with that serum, just watching herself age.
Her heart was filled with envy toward the young girls, thus torturing them in various ways, but this was the graduation ceremony of the Red House, as directed by superiors, not her invention.
First kill your best friend, then a brawl among all graduates, only one person can survive, followed by sterilization surgery, injecting the precious Leech Potion.
That person is 'Black Widow' for this session, the most venomous and ruthless among the Gu Insects.