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

Li Sheng asked calmly: "Your name."

"Caroline Birkin."

The brown-haired woman replied quietly, glancing at the door from the corner of her eye. There were no signs of intrusion on the door, and the anti-theft chain was properly hung on the door bolt.

"Profession."

"Researcher in the drug research and development department of Pioneer Pharmaceuticals."

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

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

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

In Caroline's bag, there were several wads of cash and U.S. bills, high-imitation fake passports, bank cards, driver's licenses, three push-button disposable cell phones, a self-defense pistol, and some baby products.

The disposable mobile phone has been charged in advance and can go online directly. Li Sheng can quickly search for information.

Pioneer 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.

Nothing seems wrong at first glance, but in addition to opening branches in several major countries, Pioneer

The remaining branches are all located in the most dangerous, turbulent, and even war-torn countries, making them particularly suspicious.

Caroline quickly said: "Pioneer Pharmaceuticals is essentially a monopoly, and monopoly projects are superpowers.

Since the 1950s, frequent nuclear tests around the world have caused large amounts of radioactive dust to enter the ecological cycle. Since then, genetically mutated superpowers have begun to appear.

Infinite strength, enhanced senses, mind control, and space jumping.

People with super powers are divided into four levels from weak to strong. No matter what level they are, they are destined to live less than thirty-five years - frequent metabolism shortens their lifespan.

Pioneer uses the pharmaceutical industry as a guise to cover up their true mission: to develop and sell gene-stabilizing drugs, and to recruit and control some people with superpowers.

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

According to Caroline's description, Pioneer Medicine is a super-powered version of the "Umbrella Company", with hands and eyes that can reach the sky, and it has raised a group of dead soldiers.

As for this baby

"The company has always wanted to create level five superpowers above level four, so it launched Project Icarus two years ago."

Caroline said bitterly: "In vitro fertilization is completed manually. In the early embryonic stage, it is irradiated with trace amounts of radiation and soaked in genetic mutagens.

Then transplanted into the uterus of the surrogate mother.

Babies born in this way will probably be born with deformities and cannot survive, and there is a small chance that they will be born with super powers. "

This kind of evil corporate setting is not unusual. What worries Li Sheng is another point, "Where did you find so many surrogates?"

Baby Angelica's number has reached 7094, and the overall project scale is likely to reach more than 10,000 people.

Caroline said harshly: "The first is to spend money 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 on the US-Mexico border."

“Whether it’s a foreigner or a local, we’re all treated equally, right?”

Li Sheng grinned and laughed. In the past few decades, the number of legal and illegal immigrants in the United States has been in the millions every year, but the total population has not grown much. Where has this new population gone?

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

In 2020, it was revealed that an illegal immigration detention facility randomly removed the uteruses of some female illegal immigrants for the purpose of "prenatal and postnatal care."

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

In Alabama, a 12-year-old immigrant girl was forced to work all night in a car parts stamping shop. In Florida, a 12-year-old immigrant boy was assigned to build a roof. In Michigan, a 13-year-old boy worked 12 hours a day on a chicken farm. Work six days a week.

In the Victorian era in England, child workers worked in chimneys to polish leather shoes, and in modern America, child workers hammer screws to build roofs. It can be said that they are of the same origin.

In this script world, Li Sheng has no doubt that in order to expand the scale of the experiment, this so-called pioneer company will spend money to hire, deceive and even kidnap illegal immigrants for surrogacy.

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

An expression of pain and struggle appeared on Caroline's face, "In the Icarus 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 it is detected that they do not have superpower talents or their superpowers are not up to standard.

I joined Pioneer Pharmaceuticals with the belief of treating diseases and saving lives. After witnessing all this, I could not lie to my conscience.

One, even if I can only save one. "

Li Sheng raised his eyebrows and asked, "Are you saying that you directly stole an experimental subject in a tightly secured institution full of superpowers?"

Caroline's hiding state is obviously not a business trip.

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

Caroline picked up the baby on the bed and kissed the latter's forehead.

The baby giggled, with a little blue light in her eyes, and a moving baby shadow slowly emerged where she was lying.

"She is a natural superpower who can create illusions."

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

Click.

The pistol did not move in Li Sheng's hand. He lowered his head and looked at Caroline with a stunned face, wondering: "What are you doing?"

"You, how are you okay?!"

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

"Eat lychee plums when you are fine. I often eat lychee plums, so I'm fine."

Li Sheng curled his lips. He had mastered the temporary skill of the Death Curse Torrent a long time ago. In order to improve his resistance to illusions, he occasionally took a bath with the black water produced by the Death Curse Torrent.

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

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

[Mission reward 1: 1000 experience points]

[Mission reward 2: 1400 game coins]

[Mission reward 3: Randomly take away the highest quality item or skill in the backpack of the hostile player]

[Mission reward 4: Perfect quality universal item upgrade electric shock device * 1, which can upgrade a fine item to perfect quality]

[Mission time limit: 48 hours]

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

[Mission briefing has been sent]

[This mission is a one-on-one deathmatch, and 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 is considered to be completing the mission]