Fatal Strike: Mercenary Road of Gunfire Ranger
Chapter 227 The Same Origin Super Soldiers Project

Chapter 227: Chapter 227 The Same Origin Super Soldiers Project

Snowden was taken aback for a moment, shook his head and said: "No one can manage to read through hundreds of thousands of documents, I only briefly browsed through the thousands of files I handed to journalists on Hong Kong Island, the other ones I really don’t know well.

When I downloaded the files at the time, I didn’t expect there to be so much horrific content in them.

If it wasn’t for your reminder, I never would have thought to dig out the issues of those few companies from among these files.

But if you really want to know something, you could use the search tool I created to look it up.

I believe you won’t use these files for bad things!"

Mountain Eagle had indeed never thought about using these files because in Snowden’s hands, they were a major weapon, but in the hands of others, they were a path to certain death!

Still, with a secret treasure trove in front of them, anyone would be curious...

Mountain Eagle devoured a slice of pizza and pointed at Snowden’s computer, saying: "I also found a ’Super Soldier’ project in Bolonicov’s secret warehouse, and he even had a sample of a black man’s corpse and a piece of video evidence...

I’ve seen this kind of thing a lot in movies, but this is the first time I’m seeing it in reality, and two cases have popped up in one day...

Are there many projects like this ’Super Soldier’ one around the world?"

Mountain Eagle might have touched upon a field that interested Snowden. After taking a sip of his drink, he tapped a few keystrokes on the computer with one hand...

A dense array of file pop-ups quickly appeared on the computer screen...

Snowden watched as Mountain Eagle rubbed his eyes with an adverse look, quickly organizing these files into a folder to make it easier for Mountain Eagle to filter through the content.

Mountain Eagle’s English was great, but business English is really not the same thing as professional English, and those documents contained too much obscure jargon, making it quite a struggle for him.

After persisting for a short while, Mountain Eagle gave up...

Lacking the fierce determination from his university days, asking him to tackle those obscure English reports, quotations, and various references became somewhat daunting.

Without professional translation into ’human language’, even if you can read the text, many meanings might elude you.

For the first time in years, Mountain Eagle felt his own level of education was insufficient. Reluctantly, he pushed the phone towards Snowden and said: "Even if these things were released, how many people could understand them?

If American English textbooks are all like this, it’s no wonder there are so many illiterates and dyslexics.

Looking at this makes me feel ’sick’ myself!"

Snowden wasn’t mocking Mountain Eagle, instead, he nodded understandingly and said: "It’s quite normal..."

While speaking, he swiftly entered several strings of code on the computer, and then the number of files instantly reduced by a large margin...

Seeing Mountain Eagle still disinterested, Snowden picked up a slice of pizza, opened a file, and while eating started to say: "People who dream of science fiction always wonder if super soldiers really exist?

But some things, when watched in movies versus reality, are completely different experiences.

This is the ’Agles Project’, a human experimentation project under the Ministry of Justice, which I had heard of before, but didn’t expect to find among these documents..."

Mountain Eagle curiously flipped through the content and said with some surprise: "The United States Department of Justice actually allows pharmaceutical companies to conduct drug trials in federal prisons?"

Snowden didn’t seem surprised at all, he nodded and said: "Not just the Ministry of Justice, almost all law-enforcement departments in America have similar projects.

However, most of them are arguing for budgets through these projects, with only a rare few being serious.

The main goal of the Achilles Project was to develop combination drugs to enhance people’s speed, stamina, muscle, and physical strength...

It was originally intended to enhance the combat capability of the FBI’s hostage rescue team, but it was shelved by the Ministry of Justice because the side effects were too severe.

Later, these drugs were modified and used in bodybuilding, but eventually, they were classified as illegal drugs due to side effects."

As he said this, Mountain Eagle looked at the photos of those inmates who appeared as strong as oxen, and the comparison photos showing their bodies had shrunk by nearly a third after their death; he said in disbelief: "What kind of crap project is this?"

After finishing, Mountain Eagle closed the file and opened another one...

"Ultimate Soldier?"

Seeing such a cheesy name, Mountain Eagle couldn’t help but take a look, and then burst into laughter...

The United States Army was hoodwinked by a professor from an island country into investing 15 million US dollars into the ’Ultimate Soldier’ project, even sending a squad of soldiers to work with the island nation professor.

In the end, the soldiers were taken to the island country, to a place claimed to be Ninja Valley, and after a year of hard training, other than the nearby villages gaining a few mixed-race children, the soldiers trained by the supposed ninja master became champions of hide and seek, yet the ’Ultimate Soldier’ was nowhere to be seen.

But that island nation professor used these test subjects to complete his biological research papers, earning himself a considerable award, and then joined a well-known research institute, becoming its chief researcher.

There were still quite a few similar projects...

Then Mountain Eagle suddenly felt that these foreigners could sometimes be unreasonably shady...

These people, aside from a few obvious idiots, are all eating up the budget with various unreliable projects.

The emergence of the investigation report means that their actions haven’t gone unnoticed, but the sealed reports indicate that even if they were discovered, no one could do anything to them, and in the end, everything was swept under the rug.

However, aside from these ’jokes’, there were some that were a bit more interesting...

Upon opening a file named ’Tracker’, Mountain Eagle gave it a glance and immediately became intrigued.

’Tracker’ was a top-secret project of the United States Department of Defense, with nearly 20 billion US dollars invested to research how to enhance the combat capabilities of soldiers.

This money was dispersed across several laboratories and a gene company, which then provided the United States Department of Defense with numerous soldier enhancement programs continuously over 15 years.

Using a combination of drugs, viruses, and gene therapy, they developed multiple systemic enhancement programs and conducted human trials with top-notch recruits from within Delta, eventually forming the ’Tracker’ unit.

But these Trackers didn’t just pop pills and become Superman; instead, after a series of modifications, they continually pushed beyond their physical and psychological limits. With medication to mitigate some side effects, they managed to retain certain enhancements in both body and intelligence.

It’s somewhat akin to athletes using performance-enhancing drugs, except they’re able to retain a portion of the benefits provided by the drugs for the long term.

This was way better than Bolonicov’s lab experiments!

You see, the difference between individuals could just be that tiny bit...

Undergoing the same training, of the same height and weight, donned in the same gear, the Trackers were just a tad faster, just that bit stronger, which in modern combat could mean the difference between life and death.

But forging a sharp blade has its costs; as the saying goes, what’s too rigid is easily broken. The Trackers were formidable, but their cellular lifespan was compromised.

The worst part was that they often suffered from psychological flaws, making them exceptionally dangerous.

They were a team designated for high-risk missions, directed by the National Security Council (NSC), which specifically assists the White House.

This ’Tracker’ project is still active, with new soldiers selected from Delta Force every year to replenish their ranks - theoretically, there should be no investigative reports about them.

But as Mountain Eagle read on, he discovered that some were using the squad for private enterprise errands. Most intriguing to Mountain Eagle was that the company responsible for the Tracker project had lost a precious genetic sample five years ago - a corpse...

Then the company concealed the truth about the lost sample. While deploying Trackers to chase after the missing sample, they launched large-scale human genetic sampling operations in Africa and even hired several African Wizards to conduct horrifying human experiments on Africans.

Coincidentally, the lost genetic sample was the black corpse from Bolonicov’s secret warehouse.

Thinking about the deeds of this company, Mountain Eagle decisively pulled out his phone and dialed Sergei...

Once the phone connected, Mountain Eagle blurted out without waiting for Sergei to speak, "Sergei, be careful, that corpse in the warehouse is trouble..."

Sergei, dealing with an envoy from the president’s office at that moment, was in a bind...

Hearing Mountain Eagle’s warning, Sergei said, "I’ve sent Anton to handle the corpse, he should be almost at the forensic building by now.

I’ll call him and tell him to secure the corpse..."

Mountain Eagle advised, "Forget the corpse, tell Anton to keep it in storage and get as far as possible from it. That corpse is from a gene company and it’s problematic."

"Ah?"

Sergei, a bit worried, replied, "Sergei saw the video; he said the corpse is of great research value, so he arranged for his mentor to join him in dissecting the corpse..."

Mountain Eagle wasn’t sure how much trouble there would be and couldn’t divulge the secrets he saw from Snowden to persuade others, so after thinking a bit, he said, "Tell him to be careful, that corpse is probably very precious, many companies want it."

Knowing that Mountain Eagle wouldn’t call him without reason, Sergei quickly acknowledged and hung up to contact Anton.

Mountain Eagle wasn’t in the mood to continue looking through these ’secrets’ now...

Actually, they weren’t that interesting!

These secrets were rife with ’abuse of power’, ’embezzlement’, ’collusion between officials and business’, and ’fraud’, reading too much could give one the false impression that ’there are no good people in this world’.

Projects like the Tracker were merely satisfying Mountain Eagle’s curiosity...

He was obviously interested in self-improvement but had absolutely no interest in becoming an experiment subject.

Veterans like Blood Fox and Butcher had a clearer understanding...

At first, they were also curious, but upon realizing that so-called Trackers weren’t turning into Superman, they lost interest.

As Butcher put it, since bullets still mean death, all the money spent on research wasn’t as useful as the bullet-proof vest provided by the boss...

Sycophancy’s hardest to fend off when coming from a down-to-earth person!

Flattered and refreshed by the praise, just as Mountain Eagle was about to commend Butcher for his emotional intelligence, a crisp gunshot suddenly rang out from outside...

Instinctively, Mountain Eagle pushed Snowden down behind the sofa and donned his tactical glasses to activate Golden Cicada, then signalled to Butcher, who had already picked up his weapon and was sticking close to the wall heading toward the door...

"FUCK, what the hell is this situation?"

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