Area O.It was a research center mainly used to test the limits of organs. Before the world came to know about heart and liver transplants, the elites were already enjoying these services in this secret base.Ryan used the same key he had taken from Josephine to enter the base.Currently, a special type of hybridization of corn was being tested on rats and monkeys. Eating these corn would bring out the necessary emotion out of the animals. They fed two contrasting types of corn to the rats. One became extremely aggressive, but the other extremely passive and didn’t fight back even though its own life was in danger.The scientists were diligently experimenting, and today, they were moving on to the human trials. And they had already gathered men and women of all age groups and tied them up to their beds in the laboratories. They were sedated so that they wouldn’t be able to speak.“We’ll start with giving different types of corn to everyone,” the head scientist said.“Yes, sir,” a voic
It only took the pureblood vampires a fraction of a second to attack from either side to gain the advantage over Ryan while the clone distracted him. And their tactic worked. Ryan’s back was completely exposed now, and a pureblood vampire thrust his hand, aiming to pierce through Ryan’s bag and rip his heart out. “Got you!” Silver lightning burst out of Ryan’s body, creating a devastating explosion that destroyed half of the base instantly. The clone before him was surprisingly still alive, though he began to malfunction and behave weirdly, such as rolling his eyes and waving his arms without any sense. However, the pureblood vampires were just fine. They had compressed the lightning energy that came at them in their palms. Sealing the energy was one of their powers, after all. They could have swallowed it and gotten stronger if it was a simple form of lightning, but now, they couldn’t seal it for long, so they threw it back to Ryan. The compressed energy expanded fast, but Ryan li
Ryan, as promised, freed all the children in the base. Some of them were even brought from another state and country, so he ordered Rodnie to get them to their homes.Seeing hundreds of children coming out of a building would usually attract attention, but the building they came out of was not in the main street. Moreover, Rodnie used his own school buses to take the children away. So, things went smoothly, and nobody noticed anything abnormal.After the children left, Rodnie asked Ryan, “Are you going to destroy the base?”“I intend to.”“They have robotic drill machines and construction tools, so they can build a base much faster compared to humans.”“Still, destroying is easier than building.”“You’re right. Uh, what about Benjamin?”“Things are progressing on that side as well.”“Mm,” Rodnie could see that Ryan didn’t want to talk about it. “I hope he’ll return safely. If there’s nothing else, I’ll be off.”After Rodnie left, Ryan looked across the street. The young girl Leisha Ma
Louis came to meet Rodnie who was busy sending the kidnapped children back to their home.“I didn’t expect the Gray Ghost of all people to come to me,” Rodnie looked a little anxious because he knew the real identity of Louis. “I’m really busy right now, but what do you want? It’s not my blood, or is it?” He went out of his way to offer him a drink.“I won’t take much of your time. I just came to ask if you have any updates regarding Benjamin’s situation,” Louis didn’t refuse the wine. “If I can give something to Rebecca, she’ll feel better.”“I understand your concern, but I’m afraid I don’t know any better than you do,” Rodnie briefly watched the video on his desktop where it showed the kids getting kidnapped using vans with blacked-out windows. “Damn, these dates they kidnap on are all around festival times. Just what sort of crazy things do they do to these poor children? It’s all for their organs, right?”“No. It’s mainly for the blood,” Louis spoke, startling Rodnie.“Blood?”“W
Bella thought a lot about it.“I can’t decide what’s right or wrong for her, but if she has the vampiric powers, she might be able to do something. She has fighting experience from when she practiced wrestling when she was young, but that won’t be enough to fight the vampires she will come across when she goes out to get Benjamin back. Forget about standing in the presence of purebloods, it will take her a year or two just to be able to defend herself from my attacks.“I don’t see much benefit from turning her. She will definitely put herself in even more danger by going out to look for Benjamin, but that gives her a chance to do something.”In the end, she couldn’t decide by herself and went to Rebecca’s room. Selena was giving her books to read so she could pass some time, but Rebecca didn’t seem interested.“Mother-in-law, can you give us a moment?” Bella asked.Selena came to Bella and asked in a low voice, “She’s in a bad mood, so don’t do anything funny.”“Got it.”After Selena
As Ryan was exploring Area O, or what was left of it, he found some interesting things. There were some experimented people locked in cells, and none of them looked like humans anymore. Their bodies had either swollen or mutated. And they acted aggressively when Ryan entered their vision.After roaming around, Ryan realized one thing. The most researched organ in this center was the brain. He watched the footage of extracting blood, adrenaline, and some byproducts of hormone rush from the terrorized victims, and these samples being used for doing all kinds of research.“They are using every body part for something.” Seeing the research videos curdled his blood.Ryan patiently waited for a while, but no force came to fight him.“Strange. They build these bases using the taxes of the people, so it’s not easy for them to build them back once I destroy them. Seeing how no one else is coming, they probably already gave up on this base and must be waiting for me at another base.”After he c
Four green orcs boldly approached the borders of the moonless kingdom, carrying bags of all kinds of red gemstones on their backs.“Is it true that those who get killed by the vampires can be raised from their graves as undeads afterward?” Dahlia asked. She was inside the skin of an orc with a mole on the nose. Despite covering herself in a perfect camouflage, she couldn’t help but be tense because she lacked experience compared to the other three in similar orc-suits.“There’s no need to worry as long as you don’t meet awakened vampires,” Shadow replied. He was in the skin of an arc with hair coming out of the ears. The only region where skin grew for green orcs were the ears, and the green orcs with the most hair in their ears were treated with great respect. Shadow briefly glanced at Dahlia and said, “I think what we need to worry the most about is that your chest is protruding a bit out through the skin covering. Maybe, you should have wrapped them in a cloth or something?”Dahlia
Orcs weren’t as good as goblins when it came to watching in darkness, but compared to humans, they were far better.When working in the mines, a green orc wouldn’t even dare to raise their head in a red orc’s presence, yet Rye was now looking straight at this red orc without even blinking.Naturally, the red orc’s blood boiled like never before.“How dare a mere trash like you look at me when I’m eating!” he howled in orc language, hid the rest of the dumpling in his underwear and ran at her.Rye and others couldn’t even understand what he was saying, but his body language made it obvious that he didn’t mean any good.Fighting a red orc would do them no good, so Mina told them to run, and they did.The red orc chased them, but to his surprise, he couldn’t catch up to them. “These rat bastards…” in the end, he gave up because he wasn’t allowed to run too far from his master’s home.Rye and others eventually stopped, and they ended up right in front of a cemetery. There were a few vampi