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Chapter 208
Facing the gun, the young brown-haired woman froze, raised her hands subconsciously, and glanced at the baby on the bed.

Li Sheng asked calmly, "What's your name?"

"Caroline Birkin."

The brown-haired woman answered quietly, glancing at the door from the corner of her eye. There was no sign of a break-in, and the anti-theft chain was securely fastened to the bolt.

"Profession."

“Researcher in the drug development department of Pioneer Pharmaceuticals.”

Caroline carefully observed Li Sheng's expression and said softly, "You, you are not from the company?"

"I never said I was. Explain why you were here with a baby."

The information integration glasses showed that the other party was not lying. Li Sheng casually waved the gun, asked Caroline to sit on the chair, and opened the women's bag thrown on the bed.

In Caroline's bag were several stacks of US dollar cash, a high-quality fake passport, bank cards, driver's license, three disposable push-button cell phones, a self-defense pistol, and some baby supplies.

The disposable mobile phone had been recharged in advance and could be used to access the Internet directly, so Li Sheng quickly searched for information.

Pioneer Corporation is a pharmaceutical company that has emerged in the past two decades. Its apparent business scope includes the development of drugs, vaccines, health products, and medical devices.

At first glance, this may not seem like a problem, but in addition to opening branches in several major countries,
The rest of the branches are all located in the most dangerous, turbulent, and even war-torn countries, which seems particularly suspicious.

Caroline said quickly: “Pioneer Pharmaceuticals is essentially a monopoly company, and the monopoly project is super power.

Since the 1950s, frequent nuclear tests around the world have caused a large amount of radioactive dust to enter the ecological cycle. Since then, genetically mutated super-powered people have begun to appear.

Infinite strength, enhanced senses, mind control, space jump.
People with super powers are divided into four levels from weak to strong, and no matter what level they are, they are destined to not live beyond the age of thirty-five - their frequent metabolism shortens their lifespan.

Pioneer Corporation uses the pharmaceutical industry as a cover to conceal their real mission: to develop and sell gene stabilizing drugs and to recruit and control a number of people with special abilities.

Then use these superpowers to sign contracts with the Ministry of Defense to do dirty work such as assassinations and subversion of the regime.”

According to Caroline's description, Pioneer Pharmaceuticals is a superpower version of the Umbrella Corporation, with connections everywhere and a group of death warriors.

As for this baby
"The company has always wanted to create a level 5 mutant, which is above level 4, so it launched the Ikaros Project two years ago."

Caroline said bitterly: "In vitro fertilization is done artificially, and the embryos are exposed to trace amounts of radiation and soaked in genetic mutagens at the early embryo stage.

Then transplanted into the uterus of a surrogate mother.

Babies born in this way are likely to be born with congenital deformities and unable to survive, but there is a small chance that they will be born with super powers. "

This kind of evil company is not uncommon. What concerns Li Sheng is another point: "Where did you find so many surrogate mothers?"

Baby Angelica’s number has reached 7094, and the overall project scale is likely to reach more than people.

Caroline said with difficulty: "One is to hire local women in war-torn areas. The second is to control surrogacy agencies in the United States. The third is to lure illegal immigrants at the US-Mexico border."

"Whether foreigners or locals, we should treat them all the same, right?"

Li Sheng grinned and laughed. Over the past few decades, the number of legal and illegal immigrants in the United States has reached millions every year, but the total population has not increased much. Where have so many new people gone?

On the U.S.-Mexico border, the United States has used its traditional skills to build a large number of public and private immigrant detention facilities, which are rife with human rights violations such as sexual violence, long-term imprisonment, and abuse.

In 2020, an illegal immigrant detention facility was exposed for arbitrarily removing the wombs of some female illegal immigrants for the purpose of "eugenics."

The official immigration management agency of the United States cooperates with the public to hand over detained illegal immigrant children to "guarantors" in the society, which in fact becomes an accomplice in human trafficking and modern slavery.

In Alabama, a 12-year-old immigrant girl was forced to work overnight in an auto parts stamping shop, a 12-year-old immigrant boy in Florida was assigned to cover the roof, and a 12-year-old boy in Michigan worked hours a day, six days a week on a chicken farm.

In the Victorian era in Britain, child laborers drilled chimneys and polished shoes, and in modern America, child laborers screwed in screws and covered roofs. In this scripted world, Li Sheng had no doubt that this so-called pioneer company would spend money to hire, lure, or even kidnap illegal immigrants for surrogacy in order to expand the scale of the experiment.

Anyway, these people died silently and the mainstream media didn't care.

Caroline's face showed a painful expression, "In the Ikaros project, a large number of babies were born with deformities and could not survive.

Those who are lucky enough to survive will be destroyed directly after being detected to have no superpowers or their superpowers do not meet the standards.

I joined Pioneer Pharmaceuticals with the belief of curing diseases and saving lives, but after witnessing all this, I couldn't deceive my conscience.

One, even if I can only save one."

Li Sheng raised his eyebrows and asked, "Are you saying that you stole a test subject from an institution with strict security and full of superpowers?"

Caroline's hiding state clearly shows that she is not on a business trip.

“I couldn’t do it on my own, but she could.”

Caroline picked up the baby from the bed and kissed the baby on the forehead.

The little baby giggled, with blue light emanating from its eyes. A moving shadow of a baby slowly emerged where she had been lying.

"She is born with super powers and can create illusions."

Before she finished her words, Caroline grabbed the baby's arm, pointed it suddenly at Li Sheng, then stepped forward and tried to snatch the silenced pistol from Li Sheng's hand.

Click.

The pistol remained motionless in Li Sheng's hand. He lowered his head and looked at Caroline, who was in shock, and asked in confusion, "What are you doing?"

"You, how are you okay?!"

Caroline couldn't believe it, the shock of the hallucination of baby Angelica was enough to knock down several adults and make them faint.

"When you are fine, eat Lyo Plum. I eat Lyo Plum often, so I am fine."

Li Sheng curled his lips. He had mastered the temporary skill of Death Curse Flood a long time ago. In order to increase his resistance to illusions, he would occasionally take a bath in the black water produced by the Death Curse Flood.

He took out a bag of Lychee Plums from the three-dimensional warehouse, casually put it into his mouth, and said calmly: "Don't worry, I'm here to help you."

[Mission Objective: Escort Angelica alive to the Angel City on the border]

[Task Reward 1: 1000 Experience Points]

[Task Reward 2: 1400 Game Coins]

[Task Reward 3: Randomly take away the highest quality item or skill in the enemy player's backpack]

[Task Reward 4: Perfect Quality Universal Item Upgrade Stunner*1, which can upgrade a good item to perfect quality]

[Task time limit: 48 hours]

[Penalty for mission failure: The next mission will be converted into a penalty mission]

【Mission briefing has been sent】

[This mission is a one-on-one deathmatch. Another player has also descended into this world. His goal is to prevent you from completing the mission.]

[Achieving the mission goal or killing the hostile player will be considered completing the mission]

(End of this chapter)