Yes, it was Raina.
After a meticulous interrogation by Luca, he had already gained a general understanding of her background.
As an experimental researcher under HYDRA, the only reason she had gone to the Orange Group to pose as a secretary was to follow Clairvoyant's arrangements, looking for an opportunity to steal Luca's research results.
However, even her superior, Clairvoyant, had nearly been killed as a scapegoat because he had planted spies under Strucker.
At the moment, no one in the SHIELD branch of HYDRA really cared about Raina anymore.
In fact, Raina wasn't an absolute loyalist to HYDRA; her sole purpose for getting involved with them was to obtain superpowers and become an 'Angel.'
Uh, right.
In Raina's mind, superpowers were a gift from heaven, and her lifelong pursuit was to receive this divine blessing for herself.
Unfortunately, in the original story, she was quite unlucky; the superpower she eventually gained turned her into an ugly porcupine woman, nearly shattering her will.
Presently, Raina was still in the early stages of chasing superpowers. Previously within HYDRA, she was mainly responsible for the 'Centipede Warriors' project, which involved merging Extremis with the human body.
This happened to be somewhat similar to Dr. List's research topic, so Luca simply decided to keep her in Sokovia. She would handle the company's operations there while assisting Dr. List with research on superpower development.
Almost forgot, Dr. List is actually quite an interesting person himself.
Much like Raina, he joined HYDRA just to have enough resources to complete his research projects.
In fact, long before Luca arrived in Sokovia, he had already vaguely sensed that Baron Strucker was being controlled by someone.
But he didn't care who he worked for; as long as there were enough resources, he could ignore everything else happening in the outside World.
The reason he had been so sycophantic toward Luca at the airport was simply to gain more R&D support from Luca, the superior who could control Baron Strucker.
Now, naturally, he would continue his previous research alongside Raina.
'The research directions of these two might actually overlap with some aspects of Yuri Technology later on.'
It was precisely for this reason that Luca chose not to kill these two decent talents directly.
Currently, Luca didn't plan to delve too deeply into biological research. A person's energy is limited, after all. If he could gather enough for a '5/5' in some biotech World to enter and learn directly in the future, Luca naturally wouldn't refuse.
But for now, his own learning focus in the real World would remain on electronic and mechanical engineering.
For biology, medicine, the human body, and genetics, having Shirley, Baymax, and the two under Dr. List was perfectly sufficient for now.
"After I leave, don't rush into experiments on the Maximoff twins. Human experimentation isn't urgent. I might give you some materials for reference later. Report the experiment progress to me at any time, and don't be too aggressive."
At the Sokovia airport, Luca, who was preparing to depart, gave these instructions to List and Raina.
These mad scientists, especially those in biology, are always itching for human trials.
If they accidentally caused a major disaster and something went wrong in Sokovia, Luca would have nowhere to go to cry about it.
As for Baron Zemo's side, the previously agreed cooperation had begun to move forward step by step.
Policy support and public opinion guidance—in short, this group of Sokovian locals had gradually shown their sincerity.
However, in their eyes, the cooperation with Luca was still in a secret stage and was not suitable to be exposed to HYDRA at the moment.
So, since Luca's last conversation with Baron Zemo, the two had not had any public contact.
As for Baron Strucker, he had already been replaced by a new robot created by Luca. Although his physical body was still under control, he was also being held in secret, so Luca naturally didn't need to explain anything more to him.
'After I get back, I still need to get the blueprints for the Folding Base done first. Otherwise, who knows when the synthesis of the Yuri Base Vehicle can even begin.'
In fact, among all the'synthetic consumables' for the [Yuri Base Vehicle], only this one was relatively troublesome.
Others, like production lines, robotic arms, and signal towers, were things that could be built at any time.
Even the Bio-chemical Power Furnace, which looked quite intimidating, based on Luca's exploration of his golden finger, he estimated that some waste-to-energy or microbial power generation equipment would probably pass the golden finger's judgment.
Regardless of the power generation efficiency, as long as the specifications were sufficient, the golden finger's synthesis judgment never cared about that.
The only trouble was the 'Folding Industrial Base.' Let alone a ready-made reference, most people wouldn't even think about researching such a bizarre thing.
Luca could only design it from scratch and then give the blueprints to the people in Sokovia to try and build it.
'But this is fine too. Building such a large-scale transformable device can be considered technical reserves for the transformable skeleton needed to synthesize a spaceship.'
Luca hadn't forgotten that he still had a cornerstone for heading toward the sea of stars.
After arranging everything here, Luca set off once again to return to New York.
However, this time back in New York, Luca didn't plan to just develop quietly and honestly. This time, he was prepared to make a few small moves.
Inside the Orange Family Villa.
Luca was currently sitting in front of the computer, browsing through data obtained from within HYDRA.
In fact, it was that Centipede Project Raina was involved in that gave Luca a reminder; he had almost forgotten there was such a good opportunity for the Orange Group to intervene in the political World.
Looking at these detailed data and photos, not only Luca himself, but the artificial intelligence Hakimi was also helping him filter and analyze this information.
"I didn't expect that even Hammer Industries would have a hand in this? That woman really is someone who can't stay still."
"What is this? An Iron Man Villains Alliance?"
"But what does Hammer Industries have right now? Are they just relying on those half-dead connections?"
In the eyes of HYDRA today, Hammer Industries could at most be considered a somewhat useful peripheral partner, naturally not held in high regard by the leaders of HYDRA.
However, Luca hadn't expected that Justine Hammer would actually get involved with Vanguard Technology.
That's right, the data Luca was currently reviewing belonged to another peripheral company that cooperated with HYDRA.
Namely, the villainous company from Iron Man 3 that developed Extremis.
AIM (Vanguard Technology).