092 THE ALIEN HEART
"What did they say?" Dorin asked, her voice sharp.
"They told
Dan already left the facility," Zairgid replied, pulling up a holo-screen. "They even showed
this video."
"Let
see." Lander leaned closer, analyzing the feed.
The footage showed Dan walking casually out of the GenSyn building, waving at the gate sensors.
Lander frowned. "The video grain is too perfect. No compression noise, no shadow lag…" He zood in and froze a fra. "This isn't real. It's AI-generated."
Zairgid's face went pale. "What? Then—then they took him?"
He clenched his fists. "For what reason?"
After leaving GenSyn Industries, Zairgid couldn't shake the feeling that sothing was wrong. Dan had told him once: "If anything happens, find Dorin. Get the SIA involved."
Dorin and Lander were shocked when Zairgid told them Dan was being held captive in GenSyn Industries. Although there wasn't much indication or proof that Dan was actually in danger, they decided to be extra careful.
The Order of the Cockerel still had a hit contract on Dan, which ant they couldn't leave any clue to chance.
So, together they ca back to confront GenSyn Industries.
Dorin stared at the towering GenSyn building, its glass walls gleaming like a cold mirror. "What the hell are they doing in there?" she muttered.
Zairgid hesitated before answering. "They're… experinting with human and alien fusions… among other things."
Dorin's eyes widened. "That's sick."
"It's not just sick," Lander said grimly. "It's wrong on every level. But lrose law doesn't forbid it. No one talks about it, but half the elites fund this kind of research behind closed doors."
Zairgid swallowed hard. "Then what do we do? How do we get Dan out?"
Lander thought for a mont. "First, we need access to their internal network. Every major industry here runs on isolated intranets with no external connections. If I can slip a transmitter inside, I can trace their internal systems and locate where they're keeping him."
"Let
do it," Zairgid volunteered imdiately.
"But you just went in," Dorin reminded him. "Won't that look suspicious?"
He smirked. "I've got a reason to go back. I can claim I'm disputing the video—they'll have to show
proof."
Dorin frowned. "But it's dangerous?"
Lander didn't answer, his silence saying enough.
Zairgid straightened his jacket. "Don't worry. I'm the heir of Aukuoma Industries. I'll inform my father before I go in—GenSyn won't dare try anything reckless."
He turned toward the gleaming corporate tower. "Besides," he said quietly, "if Dan's still alive in there, I'm not leaving him behind."
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A violent surge of ta-particles coursed through Dan's veins, burning and twisting like liquid lightning. It felt almost like the ti he grafted ta skills—except this ti the energy was deeper, heavier.
It wasn't just rewriting his abilities.
It was rewriting him.
"I can feel it… they're changing my DNA," Dan gasped, his voice swallowed by the fluid.
His limbs floated uselessly in the thick liquid, his muscles weak and unresponsive. "Damn it… I can't even move," he muttered in his mind.
Then he rembered the IV drip they administered to him. They dosed him with so kind of sedatives.
But his hearing—his hearing was razor-sharp.
Through the distorted hum of the machines, he caught fragnts of conversation outside the tank.
"Father, we've tried this procedure on dozens of subjects already," Dr. Stacy said. "Why do you think it'll work on him?"
"It's his blood," answered an older voice—calm, commanding. "His blood is a natural fusion of human and Annunakin essence. I've never seen anything like it. That ans his body is receptive to a transmutation."
When Dan ca to GenSyn to purchase Strength elixir, they took his blood sample imdiately for comparison. Dr. Kaiser knew that Dan had fusion alien blood.
That was a godsend for the doctor. They've been experinting on hundreds of subjects trying to fuse their blood with alien DNA with no avail.
Now they've got a fusion blood sent to them on a platter.
"How did a high school student get tainted with alien blood in the first place and survives?" Dr. Stacy asked bewildered.
There was a pause before the man continued, almost reverently. "My dear, he is god's gift to us. Only his transford heart can save you, my dear."
Dan's thoughts reeled. "Save her? What the hell are they doing to ? And did they say use my bloody Heart? I disagree."
"Father, this is too risky," Stacy protested. "Even if it's to cure my blood mutation—"
"We've co too far to stop now," Kaiser Qiltera cut in. "If the world learns about our experints here and about the humans, we've… disposed of—we're finished."
Stacy's voice cracked. "I didn't an to—"
Dan could hear it in her trembling tone.
"It's not my fault, it was exposure to alien DNA caused my heart to mutate, causing madness that followed. The killings. I didn't an to kill any of them…the scientists and the subjects
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