Gene from the 13th Department of Bright City

4pm

The hot temperature has basically left the city in a state of calm. Only the knocking sounds from the north continue to come. Nowadays, the flow of people in the north has picked up, and the overall economy in the city has improved.

It's just that you can smell a pungent smell in many areas near the north. The smell is disgusting. In the sky above the north, you can see some smoke shrouding the Black Mountains in broad daylight, and this smoke usually appears in the sky. At night it drifts into the city with the breeze.

Among them, the upper level is the most serious. Harmful particles scattered in the air have been detected in many upper-level districts. Although Congress has promised to solve this problem as soon as possible, many people in the upper level cannot sit still and have already filed a complaint with Congress. Demand that Congress comprehensively overhaul the mines beneath the Black Mountains and stop discharging pollutants to the upper levels.

But such voices soon disappeared, because most of the upper-level companies had shares in these mines, not only the people of the company, but also the family members.

"Our store has the best service and the most delicious dishes, and the prices are not too expensive. Gentlemen, if you are hosting a banquet, we have a membership system. If you join the membership, you can get discounts."

"Go somewhere else."

Two people from the company who wanted to order food at the door turned and walked away. The boss smiled helplessly. This was a newly opened store on the upper floor of Hillman Grain Industry. The business was very hot at the beginning, but Business has been getting worse and worse recently, and we have been losing money continuously.

Very few people would go into Hillman Grain's store to dine. The boss was a little anxious because it was already past 4 o'clock and there were not even 10 people who had placed orders, and two of them canceled their orders.

In the first half of the year, when the Hillman family announced its entry into the grain industry, it had already launched 78 offline stores simultaneously. It created a very hot market value from the beginning, and the stock price has even stopped rising. Business was very good, but after Congress and the eight major associations introduced various policies to help mutants find employment, Hillman Grain Industry began to decline.

The boss also knows that many people in the city have labeled Hillman Grain as being rich and unkind, and most other grain companies have joined in providing free food to the mutant workers involved in Angus construction work. , two meals a day, and they are regular meals, and they do not fool people with cheap liquid food.

Hillman Grain Industry alone did not directly participate in such charity activities. There was a certain resistance to the Hillman family in the city. In addition, grain wholesalers could only give priority to supplying food to those who participated in providing free food. For this planned company, the number of customers fell by nearly half in just ten days.

This was something that many Hillman Grain bosses had not expected. They all urged the senior management to participate in this plan as soon as possible. However, the senior management said that action was already underway and was still under review. Many offline store owners They all thought that this might be a sanction from the Food Association.

But there was nothing that could be done. After all, the Hillman family entered the food industry arrogantly and quickly took away a large amount of the market with capital. Such sanctions were inevitable.

Now the entire Hillman Grain industry is suffering. The supply chain of the channel is often interrupted. Some stores lack food raw materials and can only find some small suppliers on their own. However, the price is higher for small quantities. Many stores The profit has shrunk a lot in just ten days.

"How long do you think it will last!"

"How long do you think you can last?"

Ran Zhi looked at Eddie. Eddie's expression was gloomy at this time. He looked at a mutant with his hands and feet fixed in front of him. His eyes were already covered. This was a mutant who had just obtained the rating of A3 and close to S. Level mutants.

Eddie asked a mutant in his family to dress up as a member of Section 5, and easily arrested the mutant. He had a criminal record, but was not found by Section 5. Eddie had already saved these criminal records. When he came down, in front of the evidence, the mutant didn't put up any resistance and grabbed him directly.

Eddie has exposed the mutant's criminal record through his people. Now the business department should be tracking the mutant, but he will not appear in the city again.

Some other high-level mutants are also being captured. Eddie needs a lot of experiments. The first-generation drug that can slowly promote mutants to go berserk has stopped being transported in the water flow, and the effect is far from reaching the level of love. Eddie's expectation was that Eddie had stopped adding the drug to the water when Section 2 began the secret investigation.

In addition, a large number of mutants have now gone to the north. None of the water plants in the north belongs to the Hillman family. This is what Eddie is most annoyed about right now.

The second phase of the experiment has already been tested with low-level mutants. This second-generation drug can make low-level mutants go berserk in just a few minutes.

Ran Zhi looked at the mutant who was still in a coma inside. This mutant had killed people in the chaotic era in the past, but at that time, the evidence was long gone. Ran Zhi just didn't expect that Eddie would start from the past. Investing money into low-level crime records so much evidence of crime.

Ran Zhi looked at the mutant who was about to be injected with drugs. He was captured without any resistance. This is enough to show that the current strength of Xingke is very powerful. No matter how strong the mutants are, they cannot compete with Xingke. senior executives to make comparisons.

Coupled with the current isolated situation of the Hillman family, if we do not rely on unstable bombs such as mutants to open up the situation, subsequent plans will be difficult to implement.

The plan was postponed. Ran Zhi regretted a little and used the flag of Alatan Ulla in advance. But in fact, if Ran Zhi did not let them attack the experimental base, the interior would eventually collapse. The leaders responded so actively. There is only one reason, which is to reduce the opponent's strength through this offensive plan.

The result was naturally very successful, so the remaining leaders joined forces after returning and directly wiped out other forces.

Ran Zhi has already begun to think about the next plan. It is obvious that the current urban layout has caused huge changes in the current plan. Ran Zhi's social experiment failed, and it was a complete failure.

The enraged Executive Branch did not conduct a large-scale sweep of the barrier area. The best choice was obviously to sweep, but the Executive Branch did not take such action, which surprised Ran Zhi.

Just one point of failure will lead to the failure of the entire plan. The rumors about the Angus family have not actually had any substantial impact on the Angus family. Instead, there have been a lot of negative remarks about the Hillman family. Ran Zhi didn't know what was going on, but after Prometheus' precise big data search, it was certain that it was the work of someone within the business department.

Now the Hillman family's reputation and industry have suffered an unprecedented impact, and the situation will become increasingly unfavorable to the Hillman family as time goes by.

Ran Zhi can probably imagine that this guy hidden behind the scenes of the Business Department is really good at sizing up the situation. He easily connected the cities through a line at this extremely difficult time, but such a person is not in the Business Department. Among the higher-ups, Ran Zhi thought it might be Jean, because Jean had disappeared for quite some time recently.

But thinking about Jean's way of doing things in the past, it doesn't look like it was done by Jean. At this time, a researcher walked into the laboratory in front of him. The laboratory was made of a special liquid alloy and could withstand 100 With tons of impact, no matter how strong this mutant is, he can't break it here.

"Hurry up Dr. Fit."

Eddie reminded, Fite swallowed and looked at the mutant who had started to move in front of him.

"Where am I? What happened?"

The mutant struggled.

"Please don't move, otherwise the machine in the collar around your neck will destroy your brainstem in an instant."

As Eddie said, the mutant's violent movements stopped. Looking at the slightly trembling doctor in front of him, Eddie said with a smile.

"Doctor Fit, please hurry up, otherwise I will ask your wife to come over."

Fitt held up the injection machine in his hand and placed it on the mutant's neck. His hands were still trembling. Fitt has now withdrawn from the brain control technology research team because of the results of the new drug. , in exchange for a more relaxed drug research job, but I didn't expect that it would be like this now.

"Don't blame me, I'm sorry!"

Fitt held up the injection machine in his hand and plunged it in. The mutant in front of him struggled a few times. Fitt immediately turned around and started running. At this time, the furious roar of the mutant came from behind. Fitt looked at the light and shadow panel. At the value above, the mutant's body temperature began to become abnormal, and it soared to 40 degrees in less than a few minutes. He should be in abnormal pain now.

At this time, there was a burst of clicking sounds, and the restraint rings holding the A-level mutant were broken one by one. The room was immediately impacted by the overflowing black telekinesis and became pitted. The mutant was hammering furiously. against the wall.

Eddie's eyes widened, he smiled and nodded.

"Successful."

However, the next second, Eddie immediately shouted.

"Prometheus."

There was a loud boom, followed by a violent roar, and the liquid metal wall was instantly scorched black. What happened in front of him was beyond everyone's imagination. In an instant, the mutant who broke through the barrier rushed into the room where a researcher was. , a large number of researchers stared at the mutants in front of them in stunned silence. The next second, a tragic scream came from the communicator. Eddie swallowed and looked at everything on the screen. This is a precision laboratory on the 21st floor underground. .

Feit kept running, with a world of flesh and blood behind him. There were shouts everywhere, and sirens sounded throughout the underground facility base. Feit quickly walked to the elevator and opened the elevator with his ID card. However, Feite was dumbfounded the next second. This only place was blocked. Only the metal walls could be seen inside the elevator, while the screams behind him continued.

Fit ran in panic. However, in this underground research base of only 400 square meters, there was no way to the top. Fit only wanted to survive at this moment. He jumped into a cell research room and quickly hid. Entering a closet, there were people who had the same idea as him, and soon most of them were huddled in the closet.

Roaring sounds resounded throughout the research base, and a large number of rooms were smashed open by the violent mutant. He was frantically destroying everything he saw.

Eddie looked at everything in front of him quietly. There was no other way. This research base, the deepest underground, had to be abandoned. The research bases were all linear and spherical branches underground, connected by pipes one by one, because some research laboratories Here, Eddie is studying viruses and bacteria. If these things are spread to the ground, they will cause huge harm. Eddie will use this biochemical virus weapon only when he has no choice but to do so.

The mutant was still venting, Eddie thought quietly for a while and then said.

"Release poisonous gas."

Ran Zhi glanced at Eddie, and in less than a minute, Eddie planned to decisively eliminate this mutant.

The closed space in front of them was no longer shapeless, but at this moment some poisonous gas spurted out from the pipes in some corners. Within a few seconds, some researchers opened their eyes wide and vomited blood and fell to the ground. Violent spasms.

The mutant roared even louder, and he was smashing everything around him crazily. However, the next moment, Eddie's eyes widened, and the harmful substances that approached the mutant seemed to be swallowed directly. While bursts of burning and smoking appeared, the mutant continued to destroy.

In the test of low-level mutants, the maximum impact force of those low-level mutants would not exceed 30 tons, so Eddie built such an experimental room, but it was obvious that the wall was burned through by high temperature. And it was in an instant.

Seeing that the underground research base that had been built with so much effort was still being destroyed by this mutant, the amount of poisonous gas released had bottomed out, but this mutant still had not fallen down.

All this seemed incredible to Eddie. Gradually, most of the poisonous gas floating in the air disappeared along with the rising smoke. The mutant fell to the ground, looking extremely painful, and the black particles were still there. It spreads over a large area, destroying everything in its path.

The passages connecting other experimental bases. If any problem occurs in any experimental base, the elevator passage will be filled with high-density light and shadow materials directly turned into metal in an instant, and no one can get out.

"It's really a wrong step and a wrong step."

As Ran Zhi said, Eddie looked at a light and shadow screen. A large number of researchers hiding in some research rooms had died in the poison gas, and the most important thing was that the mutant who caused all this was not dead yet. , he was just lying on the ground, still struggling, and did not die immediately, and the base had been destroyed out of shape.

Every researcher here was trained by Hillman Pharmaceuticals, which spent a lot of money. Eddie just wanted to keep the laboratory, but now it seems impossible. This mutant stood up again and is still going on. It kept violently impacting the laboratory, with no intention of stopping.

Watching those research results continue to be destroyed, some research results are only half of them and have not been uploaded to the database. There are almost no intact places on the entire 21st floor underground. Although the loss of more than 50 researchers underground is a bit disappointing. It is hard to accept, but the Hillman family has a large reserve of researchers. It is no problem to fill this vacancy. The key lies in those research results.

Eddie was already anxious, and Prometheus was still calculating. However, no one knew when this violent, high-level mutant would stop and die. He watched the things in the research devices being destroyed one by one. Knocked to the ground, Eddie couldn't sit still and stood up.

"Don't think too much at this time. Once the losses start, it will be difficult to stop them. It's better to let nature take its course. If you send people in hastily, you may lose more. We don't have to do anything now and continue to impress." I think it’s best to go down.”

Ran Zhi stood up. Eddie's arms were a little stiff. He couldn't bear it anymore. Everything in the research base was desperate. Those drugs and cell research products that were exposed to the dirty air would soon lose their effectiveness, and The data studied mostly exist only in these research objects.

Eddie calmed down a little, but he was still watching everything on the light and shadow screen. Prometheus had already summoned some researchers. Eddie walked quickly. Ran Zhi did not follow him. He had never been in a large number of people. of researchers.

Soon Eddie came to a room. A group of researchers were looking at the numbers on the light and shadow panel. The damage to the underground research base continued to expand. This mutant had been violent for more than 10 minutes. At a low level, Among the mutants, this violent phenomenon did not last more than 5 minutes.

"Please collect as much data as possible."

Eddie said, and the researchers got busy. Looking at everything on the light and shadow screen, Eddie became more and more anxious. The research base in that research base was all about genetic drugs that make mutants go berserk. There are 192 types in total. Currently, The only ones that are successful are first-generation drugs that have minimal effects after being released in large quantities.

This drug is useless to some mutants and cannot effectively stimulate the alienated genes of mutants. Originally, according to Prometheus's calculations, this large-scale release would result in at least 100 cases of mutants going berserk in a month. However, the fact is that in the ten months since it was launched, there have been less than 50 incidents of mutant rampages in the city.

This number was too low to leverage something. Although chaos did occur in the city, Eddie looked at the string of values ​​being calculated on the light and shadow screen. He began to doubt the reliability of AI over the years. The plan is indeed being carried out according to the calculation data of AI, and the plan is indeed very accurate and can be implemented steadily and effectively, but there are always problems with the plan due to the error within 1%.

Time passed by, and finally the mutant who had completely destroyed the underground research base fell to the ground. His body began to turn into a black stone and began to shatter and disappear.

Eddie glanced at the time and saw that he died at 43 minutes and 51 seconds. This value far exceeded the number of low-level mutants.

click

With a sound, Eddie watched a researcher holding a breathing mask, lying on the ground and vomiting violently.

"It's incredible that there is still this guy alive."

Eddie sneered and looked at the doctor named Fit. He was very lucky. The metal cabinet next to him had been smashed by mutants, and several people next to him were directly crushed into pulp. , at this time Feite screamed in horror, and kept slapping the flesh and blood all over his body, as if his spirit had collapsed.

Eddie laughed the next second. Today's research may be worth it. Although the losses were heavy, the violent transformation of high-level mutants had such powerful power, which was beyond Eddie's imagination.

"You can send someone down, Prometheus."

Fit curled up on the ground, trembling as he looked at everything in front of him. His mind was awake at the moment, but the terrifying things around him stimulated every nerve of Fit. There was still vomit on the corner of his mouth, and he was mentally exhausted. Already on the verge of reaching its limit.

The drug that Fite injected into the mutant just now did not belong to this laboratory, but was obtained from Barber. At several researcher banquets over the years, Barber gave this tube of medicine to him.

Recalling what Barbour said when he came to the place where he and Gu Lin lived a few years ago, he could escape. Feite immediately thought of how to escape. Barbour and the others had used such a potion a long time ago. is being studied, but the Hillman family doesn’t know.

This potion is very powerful, and there is only one reason why they cannot escape. As researchers, they have no power at all. The people guarding them are all mutants of the Hillman family. As long as they take them If this drug is injected into those mutated people, these underground facilities will turn into a sea of ​​blood in an instant, and they can escape.

Barber had come to Fite many times, secretly negotiating some matters with Fite. In the end, Fite compromised. Barbour gave him the formula of a new drug, which allowed Fite to leave the research on brain control technology. group, because the place was becoming increasingly unsettling.

In the end, Fitt came to the research team with the formula of the new drug. The initial research was not smooth, and Fitt could not come up with a genetic medicine that could make mutants go berserk. But before the experiment began, Barber He gave this medicine to himself and told Fitt that it was only a mild type. There might be a slight reaction, but it would allow Fitt to pass this experiment.

Fitt had no choice but to believe Barbour. Now Fitt completely understood that Barbour also experimented on his own. This experiment was considered a success, but the next step is that the Hillman family will definitely ask them to develop this product themselves. I planted a potion, but now I can’t find the research data.

Sure enough, with the sound of footsteps, in less than a few minutes, Feit was carried away by the Hillman family. Feit didn't know how to deal with his current mood. The only thing he knew clearly was to wait. What is your own.

Fitt was taken directly into the upward elevator, and soon arrived at the 5th underground floor. After entering a room, Fitt saw Eddie sitting in front of him, looking at him with a smile.

"You are really excellent Doctor Fit. Congratulations, you are the best among all the researchers below. Of course, I also hope that you can research the medicine you just injected into the mutant as soon as possible."

"It cannot be studied in a short period of time, and the experimental data will be destroyed."

Eddie nodded.

"Of course, how long do you think it will take you?"

Feite thought for a while and then said.

"At least two years."

Eddie laughed.

"I just had an experimental mentality before. There are many complicated steps from genetic cultivation to synthesis of pharmaceuticals. I couldn't do it in a short time, alone."

Eddie nodded.

"Then whoever you think is suitable can choose a team from the researchers to be led by you."

"Can I take a week off?"

Eddie nodded.

"Of course, our Hillman family is very welcoming to excellent doctors. As long as you can help me complete it, you and your wife can change your appearance and go to the ground, but you will need to undergo a minor operation."

Eddie pointed to his head, and Feit nodded in understanding. In an instant, a plan was formed in Feit's mind. He had to cooperate with Barber and his group to really develop this potion, and then Reporting Barber and his friends before they cause an accident is the only way out.

"Can you promise me something, Mr. Eddie?"

"Just ask."

Fit looked at Eddie seriously and said.

"I want to take my wife out of here with me. After we actually develop this potion, you must fulfill your promise. I don't want to continue researching it anymore."

Eddie thought for a while and then nodded with a smile.

"Of course, I agree to your terms and take Dr. Fitt for a good cleaning."

Eddie said, and Fitt was taken down by the mutants. Eddie looked at Fitt, who was stumbling, and felt that the strong aura exuded by the man just now was very similar to the aura he was most familiar with, the aura of a criminal.

"Keep an eye on this man Prometheus, and no matter what he does, report it to me."

"I understand, Mr. Eddie."

Eddie looked at the black flames behind him.

"Stop all plans first, and you can rest peacefully for a while."

Eddie has thought it through very clearly. They have been too aggressive in recent years. The Hillman family's approach must now slow down. Eddie still understands the principle of retreat in order to advance.

"Just let me spend some leisurely days."

An impression flashed through Eddie's mind. When Alpha rushed into his mansion that night, he looked like a wild beast. His unusually powerful power had made Eddie feel a little flustered recently.