"This..."
The middle-aged reporter never expected that Andre would dare to confront so many media outlets.
Obviously, this reporter didn't know that Andre was actually giving him face by not getting angry. After all, Andre was a veteran who had participated in countless wars.
"General, do you mean that..."
"Shut up." Andre didn't wait for the middle-aged reporter to continue to refute, he raised his hand and pointed at the reporter, interrupting:
"Just now you said it was against God's will, so let's talk about this now.
In the video played before, Mr. Smith once said personally that since God makes his children special, then there is a reason for their existence.
Even when this Little Smith was born, he was destined to become the 'Sparta' who protects mankind.
If God really exists, then is the Smith family given this mission? Let their children become Super Soldier and fight to protect mankind?
And the facts are there, who fought with the giant beast a few days ago? Wasn't it these Sparta driving Giant Mecha?
Let's talk about it a bit further back, who foiled the invasion of Reaper Civilization?
Isn't it also this group of 'Children?
If it weren't for this group of children, would you still have the opportunity to tell me here that what we Umbrella did was against morality, law, and conscience?
Huh?!"
"Um..."
Hearing Andre's angry retort, the middle-aged reporter finally had nothing to say, and finally sat down with his face flushed in shame.
At the same time, online comments changed from the original polarization to one supporting Spartan Force.
Indeed, as Andre said.
Without this group of Sparta and Super Soldier, humanity would have ceased to exist more than ten years ago. How would there be any chance for them to continue to troll people on the Internet?
As for the reporters and representatives at the venue, because of Andre's insulting remarks, they no longer dared to ask questions at will.
Because no matter what Umbrella did was right or not, the result is here. Without Sparta, there would be no human beings today.
"Ahem." Andre coughed lightly, first breaking the uncomfortable quiet atmosphere, and then Vision glanced at everyone and said quietly:
"So do you guys have any questions?"
"..."
"..."
"General." At this time, a younger male reporter raised his right hand and asked:
"What I want to ask is, now... now, Umbrella, are you still secretly recruiting children in their early teens, training and transforming them into Sparta?"
"Yes." Andre did not deny it, but quickly explained:
"But 'Children is no longer in his early teens. At the end of last year, our company's biotechnology once again made a breakthrough.
Young people aged 17 or 18 can become Super Soldier by injecting corresponding drugs in a short period of time and undergoing transformation surgery when they turn 18 or 19.
However, these new generation Super Soldiers are weaker than the early Spartas, and their unit code name has also been changed from Sparta to 'Astartes'.
More importantly, the conditions for recruiting Astartes have been significantly reduced, and the genetic requirements are no longer extremely strict."
"General..." After hearing this, the male reporter asked again:
"Then does this mean that Umbrella can recruit these Super Soldier code-named Astartes on a large scale?"
"Yes, and according to our company's arrangements, the original plan was to announce the existence of Super Soldier at the beginning of next year when the first batch of Astartes officially formed the army, thereby achieving the goal of large-scale recruitment.
But the attack by the giant beast forced us to announce this plan in advance."
As he said that, Andre looked at the cameramen directly in front, with a rare smile and said:
"As I told you before, Astartes's requirements are not demanding, so Umbrella welcomes young people who want to become Super Soldier at any time."
Inside the office cabin of the Infinity.
The screen of the computer was still live broadcast of Andre being interviewed, and the veteran and reporters and representatives from all parties no longer had tit-for-tat confrontations like before.
And the discussion content in the comment area...
"I'll go! According to the old general, is it possible for ordinary people to become Super Soldier?"
"If you meet the recruitment requirements of Astartes, it should be possible in theory."
"Does it have to be a young man of seventeen or eighteen years old?"
"Is there any hope for a twenty-five-year-old social worker like me?"
From the initial differences in ideas, the two parties have now started discussing with each other about joining Astartes.
Men all hope that they can be "different", otherwise they will not be the second best, dreaming that they can save the world and become Super Hero.
So faced with the temptation of being able to become Astartes, it is naturally irresistible.
Although from time to time someone will say that the giant beast may be an original species on the earth, or it may be the truth about the zombie incident, the messenger of hell appearing in Egypt, etc.
But after all, there are still very few people, and Serena and a group of Artificial Intelligence must have locked the positions of these people.
Although Umbrella agents and USS cannot Memory Modification all humans, a few people are more than enough.
Just as William expected, once a more explosive truth is revealed, it can instantly attract the attention of most people.
What's more, this time Umbrella not only threw out one, but also announced the recruitment process of Spartan-II and the news of Astartes's open recruitment.
It took a while for ordinary people to react.
The recruitment and training process of Spartan-I is one of Umbrella's top secrets and will never be made public at any time.
In addition, those clones who replaced 'Children in the first phase died a few years ago due to various genetic defects. In theory, John, Karl and Mylon are "dead people".
This is really a pity for 'Children from the first issue, as well as 'Children's parents.
But with the first phase of Sparta as a buffer, it was enough for Umbrella to have six years to cultivate and train the second phase. Otherwise, if the earth and mankind were not destroyed, the death toll of 50 million would have to be multiplied by ten.
As for William who was watching the live broadcast, he shook his head and said with a smile, "I don't know if the old man improvised or if Serena helped him prepare the lines."
Later, when he saw that the incident had been almost resolved, he closed the web page of the live broadcast room and stopped paying attention to the press conference.
He stood up and left the office cabin, and slowly came to the sky corridor on this floor.
William leaned against the railing in the corridor, looking at the crew members and engineers walking on the lower level, as well as the Marine Corps members who were on duty.
Looking at the open scene, I can finally relax my body and mind. I shouldn't encounter any major events in the short term...