Year 19, October 15.
After a storm, about 63 kilometers southeast of Banton Island lay the famous World War II battlefield, the Battle of the Sibuyan Sea.
The Japanese battleship Musashi had sunk in these waters.
Sibuyan Island lay north of the Sibuyan Sea. It was a medium-sized island with an area of 445 square kilometers.
The island was also one of the Fernando family's core territories.
Sibuyan Island, San Fernando Town.
More than eight months ago, this small town of just over twenty thousand people had been a quiet place devoted to traditional agriculture.
It wasn't until Zhang Jueming arrived with his people and established Lab 606, which was directly affiliated with Homo sapiens Company, that things began to change.
After more than half a year of tedious research, Zhang Jueming's team had undergone a clear transformation, going from scrambling to find their feet to working with practiced ease.
Zhang Jueming had started out as a research grunt and had spent years working in genetic modification. He had achieved quite a few results, but in the end, they hadn't been his own.
He was almost thirty-five, his parents were getting old, and his modest income was nowhere near enough to make him rich. Even buying a house in his hometown of Jinyang seemed difficult.
After much deliberation, he had quit his previous job. By a twist of fate, he'd then been talked into going to Luzon.
At first, he thought he'd been conned. It wasn't until he'd settled into the job that he realized he'd made the right choice.
As a researcher at Homo sapiens Company, he received better benefits than employees at the same level. The company had also given him a house in San Fernando Town, so Zhang Jueming, who was unmarried, had no complaints.
Lab 606