"Super Soldier?"
Everyone present except Arthur and Morgan froze in surprise, their eyes all turning toward the equally bewildered Mark.
"That's right." Carrie folded her arms across her chest and slowly walked over to Mark, who was still completely dumbfounded, continuing to explain to everyone:
"When I learned that those tall soldiers were actually humans who had undergone genetic screening and Enhancement Surgery, it gave me an idea.
Could we use the same method to have the Upper Class on the Lighthouse undergo Enhancement Surgery as well, thereby increasing their chances of surviving trips to the surface?
Just when I had hit a dead end and found myself trapped in a predicament, the Hunters unexpectedly delivered Mark's clone to me, along with a whole pile of experimental subjects—Bai Yuekui and the others!
After analyzing and comparing them, I discovered that the physical data of those experimental subjects differed very little from the data of Captain Mark and his clone. They belonged to the same kind of 'human'... or perhaps the same race.
That gave me a bold hypothesis: the apocalypse we were facing might not have been a simple accident. It was very likely a tragedy deliberately engineered by humans."
"Deliberately engineered?!"
After Carrie finished speaking, even Arthur could no longer maintain his calm smile. The others, including Morgan, were all plunged into shock.
"Yes." Carrie continued explaining:
"I also studied and analyzed the 'military medicine' brought back from Collection Point T-69. It included the Gene Breakthrough Potion, an enhancer that could increase physical capabilities for a short time, and so on.
However, according to the computer's calculations, if these potions were injected into an ordinary person's body...
The best outcome would be death. The worst... would be transformation into an Extinction Beast-like existence. That's why I concluded that the