Death Warriors

In the blink of an eye, the Xia Kingdom's traditional New Year arrived.

After a month of renovations, the entire factory area took on a brand-new look, now bearing the new sign: "Titan Environmental Co., Ltd."

A three-meter-high concrete wall tightly enclosed the entire facility, topped with twenty centimeters of high-voltage electric fencing. At regular intervals, the wall featured buttresses that provided excellent structural stability.

Inside the grounds, lush green lawns and decorative shrubs and trees could be seen everywhere.

The exterior walls of the factory buildings were all painted a milky white, giving the entire site an exceptionally clean and modern appearance.

These buildings were not only reinforced and refurbished, but cleanrooms (or dust-free rooms) were also newly constructed at every entrance to remove bacteria, dust, and harmful air particles from anyone entering. Although the cleanrooms did not yet meet international standards, with the capital injection from Sman Group—a primary shell company in the Eagle Country—they would soon purchase more professional and advanced equipment for further upgrades.

Beyond these renovated buildings, the foundation and basement for a high-rise structure had been completed in the center of the site. Due to Tang Shizhe's specific requirements, this building would feature three basement levels, driving construction costs up to over 150 million.

Thanks to modern construction technology, Tang Shizhe only needed to wait another month for the five-story main structure to be completed.

By the time it was finished, Tang Shizhe would likely have already started school.

To move into the building as early as possible, Tang Shizhe instructed the renovation company to begin interior work on each floor as soon as it was built; money was no object!

While Tang Shizhe's base of operations was being renewed, the Splitters also began publishing biology-related papers in scientific journals around the world, all under Tang Shizhe's name.

This was to pave the way for Sman Group's venture capital. When the time was right, he would have Sman Group invest and funnel the money back into the country.

At the same time, a secret experiment began in the building's basement.

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Inside the basement Splitter Chamber:

Tang Shizhe, Tang Yi, and the others stood around a "surgical table" made by pushing two desks together.

A Splitter lay silently on the table. Tang Yi, dressed in a white surgical gown, held a sharp scalpel and continuously sliced at the skin of the Splitter's fingers. Soon, the skin on the Splitter's hands was peeled away bit by bit.

By now, the Splitter's hands were a bloody mess, with large amounts of blood seeping from the muscle. Tang Er stood by, calmly spraying the area with a hemostatic spray.

On the other side, Tang San injected a special latex purchased online into a plaster hand mold. Once the scalding latex cooled, a thin "glove" identical to human skin was ready.

Tang San carefully fitted this latex "glove," which would replace the original skin, onto the Splitter's hands. He then wrapped them carefully with gauze, layer by layer, to help the Splitter's hands fuse with the latex skin as quickly as possible.

Thanks to the superior cellular control granted by alien genes, the Splitter would not experience any rejection of this new "skin."

After finishing the hands, Tang Yi and the others treated the Splitter's feet using the same procedure.

It might look like Tang Shizhe was abusing the Splitter, but in reality, because Splitters lack a sense of pain, they felt no discomfort whatsoever.

After Tang Yi and Tang Er ground down the grooves in the Splitter's teeth and removed all body hair, including the hair on his head, the next step was surgery on the Splitter's face.

Seeing this, Tang Shizhe decided he had seen enough, as the following steps would be even bloodier.

After Tang Shizhe left, Tang Yi and Tang Er exchanged glances and shrugged helplessly. Lacking negative emotions like fear or disgust, they were far better suited to handle such carnage than Tang Shizhe.

Following the same procedure as the hands and feet, Tang Yi and Tang Er carefully treated the skin on the Splitter's face. The entire process was deathly quiet; there were no screams, only the firm, steady gaze of the Splitter lying on the bed.

"Final step, prepare to install the mask." Tang Yi slowly pressed a pitch-black alloy mask onto the Splitter's face!

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"From this day forward, you have only one name: codename Death One," Tang Yi said in a deep voice to the Splitter on the table.

This name was, of course, given by Tang Shizhe. They represented a brand-new unit within Tang Shizhe's ant-colony-like organizational structure: the "Soldier Ant"!

Tang Shizhe referred to these new units as "Death Soldiers." Their existence was solely to eliminate any and all threats to Tang Shizhe, regardless of where those threats originated—whether they were in the open or in the shadows.

Since Splitters could be devoid of pain and fear, and their memories could be adjusted at will, they were the perfect machines.

This Splitter was the first of the Death Soldier Project. From birth, all irrelevant memories had been excised. He possessed no human emotions and no personal thoughts; he held only common sense and necessary knowledge.

Ever since Tang Shizhe gained the ability to control the memories shared by new Splitters, the newly created ones no longer possessed any of his private memories.

Not long after Death One was born, the skin on his hands was removed and replaced with the new latex material. Once the flesh beneath healed, his hands would fuse into a single unit with the replacement material.

The removal of all his body hair (including shaving his head completely) was a procedure designed to prevent leaving any DNA evidence at crime scenes.

As for the Death Soldier's face, the red-hot metal mask was pressed directly onto it. Because he was a Splitter with enhanced physical functions, his regenerative abilities were far superior to those of an ordinary human.

Wounds that would cause infections in normal people were no issue for him; within three days, the mask would be fused to his flesh.

The combat suit Tang Shizhe prepared for these Death Soldiers, who would execute black-ops missions, was also quite unique.

He applied strong adhesive to a one-piece swimsuit, attached alloy plates to areas that wouldn't hinder movement, then brushed on another layer of adhesive and pulled a final, outer one-piece suit over it.

A simple combat suit capable of shielding the Death Soldier from certain attacks was complete!