The Anomaly of the Mutants

In the heart of Raccoon City, beneath the Willow Tree that blotted out the sky, humans dressed in all manner of clothing filed out from the trunk one after another. Expressionless, they walked through long corridors and passed through layer after layer of sealed doors, arriving directly at the laboratory on the twenty-third underground level.

After several rounds of mutual devouring, the mutants captured from all over the world had been reduced to the final three.

They were still wild and untamable, still driven by animal instinct. The only difference was that these mutants had grown stronger.

As more and more humans appeared in the rooms holding the mutants, the mutants began attacking on instinct. This was not an afternoon dessert, but the main course before maturity. At first, the mutants devoured anything they could get their hands on, turning the room into a complete mess. Gradually, as more and more humans appeared before them, the mutants began to calm down.

The assembly-line buffet gave these mutants more to think about. Intelligence was never fixed; when you became aware of something, do not doubt it—that was the birth of intelligence.

Chen Changsheng keenly caught the glimmer of intelligence flashing through one mutant's eyes. That was transformation... The competition had only just begun, yet a winner seemed to have already emerged.

With just a glance at the number on that mutant's cage, Chen Changsheng immediately understood. So it was the mutant that had devoured Kro's flesh and blood.

As expected of creations personally made by the Celestials, the Deviants and the Eternals truly had some connection.

Through his conversations with Phastos, an Eternal scholar, as well as the steady stream of information gathered from around the world, Chen Changsheng had roughly inferred the relationship between the Deviants and the Eternals.

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