Africa, Uganda.

A place called Nogoma, a few months ago a deserted wasteland, has now been built with a modern atmosphere.

This camp is not much different from the one at the foot of the Alps, it was built by Aredes at a cost of nearly two billion dollars, but at this time, the highest-ranking person in this camp is not the heir to the French White Rose family.

Intergula walks through the camp's sci-fi underground space, which is the real essence of the camp compared to the sparse buildings on the ground. Walter, the old butler, followed quietly behind the eldest lady, without saying a word.

The master and servant walked through the passageway that was empty enough to make people palpitate, and the miserable white lights were set up every five meters, creating a horror movie atmosphere. At the end of the passage was an alloy door, and Integu stretched out his hand, and the weak-looking Qianqian Jade Palm easily pushed open the door a finger thick, and the noisy sound coming from the crack in the door made the eldest lady frown slightly.

"You're here!" Silas Victoria, who has long since resigned from the Metropolitan Police Special Forces, and now serves as Intergula's personal bodyguard, is waiting inside, a large two-storey hall that looks like a small arena, with a circular enclosure on the upper level filled with various detection devices and automated weapons, and rooms arranged like observation decks around the five-meter-deep arena in the middle, each with thick bulletproof glass to ensure a wide view.

"Are you ready?"

"It's all set! The last check was done just three minutes ago. Silas replied. Looking around, the rooms were filled with instruments and researchers in white coats, all skin tones, the only thing they had in common was that their faces were filled with a sickly flush, as if they were in extreme excitement at all times.

"Let's get started! This will be the last experiment conducted by the Seventy-Fourth Institute, and at the end of the day, all members involved in the study will be sent away, where the Fourth Pillar will take over. ”

As she spoke, Intergula walked over to Silas, holding her hands on the alloy railing and looking down at the arena below, as she did.

As Silas raised his hand, the researchers in the room quickly became busy, and soon, a shrill alarm sounded in the hall, and a circle of red lights around the second floor lit up one after another, and then went out one by one.

When all the red lights went out, the iron bars surrounding the arena on the lower level quickly rose, and monster-like figures walked out of the dark rooms and converged into the arena.

Then, a syringe was grabbed by a robotic hand and suspended in the air, and a deep male researcher's voice came from the loudspeaker set up in the arena: "Listen, you shit! There is a potion here that can cure you of your strange diseases, and only the final victor will have hope of survival! ”

These strange shapes, which look like monsters, are all the surviving subjects in the camp so far, and the test subjects come from many sources, most of them are death row prisoners from various African countries, some are rebels or members of private armed forces captured by the mercenaries of the Snake Eater, and of course, some of them are innocent passers-by.

Driven by the desire to survive, a bloody storm soon set off in the arena. After more than a month of strengthening and transformation, these test subjects may not possess as much destructive power as the one that Arides saw at the beginning, but when put outside, they can become humanoid weapons that can be easily changed. And now, these monsters transformed by humans are fighting to the death in such a arena with an area of less than two hundred square meters.

At the same time, the various detectors set up in the arena and around the upper corridor faithfully collected all kinds of data and transmitted them to the instruments in those rooms, and as the fighting in the arena became more and more bloody, the researchers in those rooms became more and more excited, as if in their eyes, the experimental subjects who were bleeding and dying were not humans, but just mice for pure research.

After more than two hours, the roaring and wailing in the arena finally disappeared completely, and only the last test subject survived in the arena, which originally numbered dozens of people. Despite this, the subject appeared to be in poor condition, half of his head had been completely hammered in, his two thick arms had been completely twisted and broken, his entire chest had become undulating hills, and even his entire left foot had been shattered, leaving only bloody bones to support his body.

Around him lay corpses, blood smeared the floor and walls of the arena, stumps and severed arms, and brains that had been beaten to the ground.

Any normal person, when they see this scene, will probably be tempted to vomit the contents of their stomach, and then have nightmares for weeks in a row.

The last remaining subject let out a heavy wheezing sound, and raised its head, staring at the syringe hanging in the air. Realizing that the subject's eyes were not covered in murder and brutality, Intergula asked, somewhat surprised, "Can these subjects remain sane?" ”

A man who looked like a leader in the same white lab coat as the researchers walked over and gave Intergula and Silas a chest touch, "Yes, after our research, we have finally found a way to keep these subjects sane during the strengthening process. I am Shunzo Watanabe, the head of this institute, and I greet you on behalf of all the researchers, Your Excellency the First Apostle, and you, Your Excellency Silas, the Executor. ”

Only then did Intergula notice that there was a hint of Asian features on the other party's face, but it was not obvious: "You have strengthened yourself too?" ”

"It was just a small attempt, and it worked well!" Shunzo Watanabe shrugged his shoulders indifferently.

At this point, the subject standing in the arena seemed to think that the demons who had used his body for research wanted to break their promise, so he let out a roar and struggled to walk towards the walls of the arena, apparently trying to use his strength to climb to the upper floor.

"What are you going to do with this?" Intergula turned her head to look at the miserable subject.

Watanabe Shunzo looked at it: "Ah, it's really him!" I had long thought that the ultimate winner would be this guy! It seems that my theory is not wrong! ”

"Tell me."

Kim Jin-hyun, a South Korean, is a freelance photographer. More than a month ago, in order to film the warlord melee in Uganda, he accidentally ran near the camp and was arrested by the guards. I personally transformed him. Watanabe has no guilt for what he did, "I had his wife and son found in South Korea, and after the reinforcement every day, I would let him watch his family on a monitor for a while. I once submitted a paper to His Excellency the Sixth Apostle, detailing the conjecture of keeping the subject sane through the continuous stimulation of various emotions during the reinforcement process, of which family affection is the most effective means in my opinion. ”

"Looks good!"

Shunzo Watanabe smiled and said, "You're right! As you can see, under the constant stimulation of family affection, this subject not only has the highest degree of reinforcement every day, but also has the least proportion of mutations, which undoubtedly confirms my suspicions. ”

Although she had known for a long time that the research institutes set up by the Devouring Serpent around the world were not charities, Silas still didn't expect these researchers to be so cold-blooded, and she said with a cold face: "So what are you going to do with him now?" According to what you just said, this guy is the winner in the end. ”

"Of course. I'll give him that syringe because that's what we're going to do next. After Watanabe finished speaking, he nodded to a researcher not far away, and soon, the mechanical arm holding the syringe slowly fell, placing the syringe in front of the experimental subject Kim Jin-hyun.

Jin Zhenxian, who looked as if he was going to die at any time, grabbed the syringe, bit open the injection port with his teeth, and inserted it into his abdomen without hesitation, and the syringe automatically injected the medicine inside into his body.

Suddenly, Kim Jin-hyun threw away the syringe in his hand, knelt on the ground, raised his head and roared at Watanabe Shunzo, who was looking at him, and said in a hoarse voice: "Liar, bastard!" You lied to me! You demons! You weren't prepared to let me live in the first place! ”

"What's in there?" Intergula asked curiously.

"A highly concentrated nutrient solution! You should know that the fortified cells are very sensitive to all kinds of energy, and after a fierce battle, the cell's need for nutrients will reach a peak, in which case, once it is provided with sufficient nutrients, the cells will break through the limit and automatically enter the process of division and mutation. In other words, this is the active reinforcement of the human body, not the passive reinforcement that relies on external stimuli. ”

Intergula asked with a strange face, "So, what are the consequences?" ”

"Success, or failure! If his consciousness can persist, the active reinforcement of the cells will not get out of control, and eventually his body will change towards further evolution. And if it fails......"

"Without self-awareness, or the bondage of the soul, the actively strengthened cells will become cancerous cells, devour the nutrients in his body without restraint, and eventually become a soulless monster, right?"

Shunzo Watanabe smiled and nodded, "You're right, Lord Intergula. ”

Seeing Kim Jin-hyun in the arena constantly hitting the thick alloy wall with his head, and even continuing to harm himself, attacking the wall with the bone of his left foot, Intergula shook his head and said to Silas who was standing aside, "There's no need anymore!" Active reinforcement under breaking through the limits has proven to be meaningless at the 33rd Research Institute! Silas, give him a decent death! ”

"Gladly!" After Silas Viktoria finished speaking, he supported himself with one hand and jumped directly over the guardrail into the arena.

"What are you doing here, Lord Intergula? Please bring Lord Silas up at once, every test subject who survives the enhancement is very dangerous! Lord Silas may well be injured or even killed! "Shunzo Watanabe doesn't want an executor to die here, that would make him a bad impression on the professor, and even affect his promotion within the Devouring Serpent. He subconsciously prepared for the researchers to use the automatic weapons set up around him to attack the surviving test subject and bring Silas back.

Intergula raised her hand to signal Shunzo Watanabe not to be nervous: "Look good, that's why she's the executor, and you can only be in charge of one research institute." ”

Following Intercula's gaze, Watanabe Shunzo saw Silas Victoria easily jump from the five-meter-high upper corridor and stand firmly on the ground covered in blood, although her face showed an expression of disgust from the corpses around her and various stumps and severed arms, but she did not flinch, just stood there, facing Kim Jin-hyun who was on the verge of madness.

"Come on, let me free you!"

"Liar! Bastard! Demon! You deceive me! I'm going to kill you! Kill you! Anger, pain, mania, all kinds of emotions and feelings made Kim Jin-hyun incarnate into a crazy monster at this time, coupled with the continuous mutation of the cells in his body under the stimulation of the nutrient solution, the man's voice gradually blurred, and finally turned into a crazy, beast-like roar.

The thick and strong body rushed towards Silas like a fierce beast, and in Kim Jin-hyun's eyes, reason had completely disappeared, leaving only a blood-red pupil.

"Danger, get out of the way!" Watanabe Shunzo, who was watching from the upper verandah, couldn't help but shout, he had seen this scene dozens of times, and few of the instruments used to test the strength of the test subjects could be intact under such an impact, Watanabe Shunzo knew very well that the power contained in such an impact had already exceeded the upper limit of human theory, and could even reach the lethality of a rhinoceros or elephant when sprinting with all its might.

But what happened next made Watanabe Shunzo close his mouth for a long time, and even had an inexplicable sense of fear from the depths of his heart.

Silas didn't flinch, she didn't choose to dodge, she simply stood there, and then, as soon as the subject was about to touch herself, she raised her leg, kneeled, and then whipped her leg reflexively.

Jin Zhenxian's body of more than 300 catties was kicked out so easily, and even squirted out a mouthful of internal organ fragments halfway, and there was no life directly after landing.

Without the need for an instrument to examine it, Watanabe Shunzo also knew that the test subject he was most satisfied with was dead, and even the internal organs in his body were broken into pieces, which was an effect that would never be possible with pure strength.

Intergula glanced at Watanabe Shunzo coldly, then turned to Walter and said, "Walter, you assist Mr. Watanabe, pack and sort out the research materials here as soon as possible, and in two hours, two hind helicopters will land in the camp, and all the researchers will leave together with the materials and transfer to the 41st Research Institute." ”

"Yes, Miss!"

Soon after, Silas returned to the upper corridor through another passage: "Why is it suddenly going to be transferred?" Is it because of yesterday's incident? ”

"The Americans are also aware of the value of those rings, which are being looted everywhere at US military bases around the world. According to intelligence, a US special forces will search the area with the help of Ugandan government forces the day after tomorrow, and we cannot expose it yet. What's more, the research on human enhancement has already yielded very good results, and the next research direction will not focus on this point anymore, and it is useless to keep these people! You should have backed up all the research materials here these days, right? ”

"Of course! A separate data server on your car! ”

That night, the Ugandan government received information that two Hind helicopters had exploded and crashed near the border, and according to the subsequent on-site investigation, the scale of the explosion was very large, and there was hardly much wreckage left of the two helicopters, the only thing that was certain was that at least thirty people were on board the helicopter at the time of the outbreak!