"No, this place wasn’t dangerous at all," Lucian explained. "Mystveil Forest used to be a common place for hiking and camping, even and my father used to camp here."
"But now that I think about it, there was a ti when certain areas of the forest were temporarily off-limits. They said it was due to a wildfire, but I don’t think that was the case." Lucian paused before guessing, "Maybe that was when they built this place."
deia was amazed by how sharp his mory was. She could barely rember what she had done a few months ago, let alone recall details like that.
"Then, the person who built this place must have been insanely rich to the point of shutting down an entire section of the forest," deia said with a soft laugh. "What a sha. They probably thought they could use this bunker to survive the apocalypse, but in the end, they couldn’t even get in because of all the monsters."
She started wandering around the bunker, looking for anything interesting. The place was surprisingly large, with half of it functioning as a laboratory, while the other half contained sleeping quarters, a gym, and even a lounge area.
As she walked further in, she suddenly stopped, startled. Three doors at the end of the hall were glowing from the inside.
"Lucian! Lucian, co here!"
She approached cautiously, noting that the walls in this section were made of thicker steel compared to the rest of the bunker. The only way to see inside was through small windows embedded in the doors.
"What’s wrong?" Lucian hurried toward her, stumbling slightly due to his fever. He thought deia was in danger, but he found the strange rooms instead.
"dicine," she murmured. "Every corner of this room is filled with dicine, and there’s even more!"
Each of the three rooms seed to store different supplies. The first room was packed with dicine, while the one next to it was stocked with food supplies. But the last room had no small window, so deia wasn’t sure what was inside.
"It’s locked." deia jiggled the doorknob a few tis, but it wouldn’t budge.
Lucian stepped forward and examined the door. "I think I can open it."
Before deia could even warn him not to use his ability, the door unlocked on its own. Lucian smiled. "A little magic won’t hurt . I promise."
"Just the doors." deia warned him. "You can only use it to open the doors, no more than that."
Lucian nodded, but deia wasn’t convinced he’d actually listen.
She pushed the door open, and a blast of cold air hit her face. Unlike the rest of the bunker, this room didn’t sll like rust or decay. It was freezing, sterile—designed to last, not just for fifteen years, but maybe for decades.
deia stepped inside first, her eyes scanning the shelves. The room was bigger than she expected, about 4 by 15 ters, with another door leading to a smaller chamber.
"What is this place?" She reached for the door, surprised to find it unlocked. "So kind of advanced dicine or sothing?"
"I don’t think this has anything to do with dicine." Lucian picked up a thick booklet from a nearby table, flipping through the pages. Most of it was filled with complicated dical terms, but there were so simplified explanations too, enough for a regular person to understand.
His expression darkened. "These are... viruses."
deia frowned. "Viruses?"
Each one was labeled in different colors, but the ones marked in red stood out the most—probably the most dangerous.
"What the hell is wrong with people?" deia muttered, shaking her head. "Out of all the things they could’ve saved ... Why viruses?"
"Sotis, what seems bad isn’t entirely bad," Lucian said. "These viruses could be used for research, maybe even vaccines. It takes centuries to study them, so of course, scientists wouldn’t just throw them away."
deia crossed her arms. "Yeah, but bad things don’t always turn into sothing good."
Not everyone would look at a virus and think, Let’s find a cure. So would see an opportunity—a way to weaponize it, to create biological warfare against mutants.
It sounded like a good solution, right? But not all mutants were monsters. Hell, even humans had mutated at this point.
A weapon designed to save humanity could just as easily be the thing that wiped it out.
deia sighed harshly. Scientists. She had always hated them.
She had t plenty of their kind in hell.
Most of them had used unethical thods like Orlon, all in the na of their so-called research. The rest had turned their creations into deadly weapons.
Their motto? For the greatest good, we must sacrifice sothing.
To save millions of lives, they had no problem sacrificing thousands. To them, it was all just numbers. They had never considered that each of their "test subjects" had a soul.
Sotis, deia found it laughable.
How could a creature from hell understand morality better than humans?
"I think you’re right." Lucian frowned as he flipped through the report. "They didn’t store these viruses to make vaccines. They were trying to erase genetic mutations in humans."
"How?"
"By killing them." Lucian turned the report toward her. "See this? They called it the Anti-Mutant Serum. If it’s injected into a mutant, the mutation disappears, but so do their lives."
deia’s jaw tightened. "And what kind of test subjects did they use for this so-called cure? Other humans?"
Lucian’s silence was enough of an answer.
deia muttered, "At least these people are already dead."
But deia found sothing intriguing in that information. Before the radiation hit the planet, shouldn’t their first concern have been that the radiation would kill people rather than turn them into mutants?
Yet, whoever was behind this seed to know exactly what would happen, specifically, that those exposed to the radiation would mutate and develop dangerous abilities.
Did this person co from the future or sothing? Did they have another system?
Because, honestly, their system seed way more useful than hers... which acted like a complete nuisance half the ti.
[Host! The system has helped you enough!]
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