District X's Underground Base.
At this moment, General Trik had lost his original composure. The chaos he had once thought he could easily suppress had spread through one accident after another, reaching a level that could no longer be ignored—one that had become a grave threat.
Those Mutated Creatures kept rising from the ashes after every suppression and purge. In just a few short hours, he had poured in massive amounts of troops and weapons, yet failed to contain the spread of the mutations. The troops he sent in had instead become fuel for those flames.
The only thing he could do now was completely destroy this important laboratory before the situation spiraled entirely out of control.
However, the general's plans were disrupted once again, because the soldiers around him—including himself—had begun undergoing the exact same mutations as those inside the base.
The general could feel his consciousness and rationality constantly weakening and sinking. Somewhere in the darkness, a voice seemed to be calling, guiding, and commanding him to go somewhere.
The general struggled to restrain himself, but he did not know how much longer he could remain lucid. Helplessly, he was crowded forward by the soldiers around him. The soldiers who had turned into monsters seemed to be growing accustomed to the new strength and forms within their bodies. Their movements went from slow to fast, evolving at an astonishing rate. From above, they looked like a pack of running apes, each stride carrying them more than a dozen meters.
Their destination was the same.
The general recognized it. It was where the monster had appeared, and where the ruins of the Osborn Industries building stood. Because of the monster's appearance, that patch of land, worth its weight in gold, had suffered unimaginable losses. A powerful desire called to