Enforcer Manual
Chapter 186: Genes Create the Future_1

Chapter 186: Chapter 186: Genes Create the Future_1

Early in the morning, the Minister of Internal Affairs sat in his home office, with a video playing on his computer screen.

The content of the video made him hold his breath involuntarily. He clenched his fists, failing to suppress his excitement.

The video featured a bio lab with blaring alarms where a fully armed security team, guided by researchers, stormed an entrance leading deeper into the lab.

Any viewer would mistake this video for a newly filmed horror movie.

They would undoubtedly praise the meticulous production of the lab setting: with petri dishes, research tools akin to torture devices, human specimens, and dismembered limbs.

Through the angles of surveillance cameras and security personnel, these details were revealed in detail.

Cloud Biological Pharmaceutical.

Text on one of the computer screens in the video indicated the location of the incident.

Like many horror movie scenarios, the head of the security team made a fatal decision. He divided his squad into three groups, each advancing deeper into the lab through different areas in a pincer move.

Soon, one of the smaller teams met their first target.

A researcher clad in a blood-soaked white lab coat wobbled, his back facing them.

The security personnel pointed their guns at him without considering his position as a staff member.

Upon hearing the noise behind him, the researcher shakily turned around. His eyes were bloodshot, and with a strange mutation, his arms lengthened to the ground. His fingers became long sharp blades, his torso was ripped open, with internal organs missing, leaving only gut-like substances wriggling disgustingly.

A biohazard virus?

The Minister of Internal Affairs furrowed his brows as the content of the video mirrored speculations about genetic research in many movies.

A viral outbreak caused by a research accident leading to over 80% of the world’s population turning into zombies, this trope after being used for over a hundred years, still had many followers.

However, the biohazard he hoped to see was not on this scale.

The security personnel in the video immediately opened fire. Under the barrage, the mutated researcher was torn to pieces by the bullets. This scene made the Minister of Internal Affairs sitting in front of the screen widen his eyes. He sat upright, holding his breath involuntarily.

Because only when the security personnel started firing, he got a brief look at the condition inside the lab. Growing on the ceiling of the lab was a layer resembling flesh. Startled by the gunshots, the flesh on the ceiling above the security personnel sprouted countless tendrils.

These tendril-like strings of flesh ensnared the security personnel. Amid screams of horror, they were directly dragged into the layer of flesh, merging into one with it.

The fates of the other two security teams were similar. The deeper they ventured into the lab, the more items were covered by the flesh. When the team leader’s squad reached the deepest part of the lab, nearly all experimental facilities had become a part of the flesh. The creature it spawned was no longer tendrils, but distorted human figures.

The distorted figures changed at a visible speed, and when this transformation was completed, even the security team leader took a few steps back in horror.

Because what appeared before him were the members of the other two ambushed teams.

The slain members of the teams pointed their guns at the security team leader.

The video descended into darkness at this point. Apparently, the camera on the security team leader had been cut off. After a momentary scene change, the screen moved to the first floor of the bio lab where the person in charge of the lab was anxiously waiting.

Soon after, footsteps emanated from down below in the lab.

What appeared before him were the seemingly intact security personnel.

However, soon, the elated expression on the person in charge’s face froze. He distinctly saw something climbing up behind the security personnel.

The growth speed of the flesh was swift, and it soon enveloped the entire upper layer of the lab.

The tendrils sprouting from the ceilings hoisted up the person in charge just like they did the previous security personnel.

"What... What are you?"

The person in charge did not struggle, but questioned the security team leader instead.

At that moment, the face and attire of the security team leader underwent another change. In less than a few seconds, another "person in charge" stood before him.

"Isn’t that the question I should be asking you, doctor?"

The "person in charge" looked up and watched as the other was pulled into the flesh on the ceiling until the latter ceased struggling and completely disappeared without a trace.

The video ended here.

The excitement in the Minister of Internal Affairs refused to subside for a long time because what he had just watched was not a special effects movie. Instead, it was a real surveillance tape from a lab at Cloud Biological Pharmaceutical provided by the Barrosa Group.

And CTEA-32 originated from the very same lab.

A bio-weapon more potent than CTEA-32 and retaining consciousness after genetic modification, the tape proved that CTEA-32 was not the end but a milestone.

The Barrosa Group undoubtedly held the key to this new era.

Investment in genetic research needed to be ramped up, and a closer partnership with the Barrosa Group maintained.

The Minister almost immediately made a decision. He wanted to put this on the agenda today. As for Princess Lieyang... what could a little girl understand?

What was created in that lab was a weapon far more powerful than Lieyang herself.

Old age weaponry being replaced by new era ones was a fate no weapon could escape.

Just then, he noticed another email that had popped up in his inbox. The name of the sender changed his mood from excited to panicked.

Eric.

This nosy Law Enforcer had died in the desert over a week ago. He had watched with his own eyes how the helicopter’s rotary machine gun had turned him into a pile of flesh.

Even for a cyborg or a person with prosthesis modifications, being mutilated to such a state meant total destruction.

The Minister trembled as he opened the email. It was a long message questioning him about why he would team up with the Barrosa Group to ambush Eric, followed by his speculations based on the contents of the video and the recent influx of CTEA-32 into the Twelfth Nation.

The endless blocks of text and attached video in the email made him break out in cold sweat.

Why would someone supposedly dead send him an email out of the blue?

The only rational explanation was that Eric had begun suspecting him at the time and had purposely backed up a recording of the video to pass it to someone he trusted.

"What’s your objective?"

"I believe we should meet."