Death Soldiers

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

After a month of renovations, the entire factory complex had taken on a new look, and a new sign had been put up: "Titan Environmental Co., Ltd."

Three-meter-high concrete walls enclosed the entire complex, topped with twenty-centimeter-high electrified fences. Bastions had also been built at regular intervals along the walls, helping to reinforce them.

Green lawns and ornamental shrubs and trees could be seen throughout the complex.

The factory buildings' exterior walls had all been painted a creamy white, making the entire complex look exceptionally clean and modern.

The factory buildings had not only been reinforced and renovated, but clean rooms—also known as dust-free rooms—had been added at the entrance to each one. They were designed to remove bacteria, dust, and harmful substances from the air around anyone entering. Although the clean rooms did not yet meet international standards, Sman Group, a first-tier shell company in Eagle Country, would be investing in them, allowing the company to purchase more professional, advanced equipment for further upgrades.

In addition to the renovated factory buildings, the foundation and basement of a high-rise had been completed in the center of the complex. At Tang Shizhe's special request, the building would have three underground floors, raising construction costs to over 150 million yuan.

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

By then, Tang Shizhe would probably have started school.

To move into the building as early as possible, Tang Shizhe had the renovation company start work on each floor as soon as it was built. Money was no object!

While Tang Shizhe's headquarters was getting a complete makeover, the Splitters had also begun publishing papers on biology in scientific journals around the world, all under Tang Shizhe's name.

This would pave the way for venture capital investment from Sman Group. When the time was right, he could have Sman Group invest, bringing money into the country.

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

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In the building's underground Splitter Chamber

Tang Shizhe, Tang Yi, and the others stood around a "surgical table" made by joining two office desks together, pointing things out as they talked.

A Splitter lay motionless on the table. Tang Yi, dressed in a white surgical gown, held a sharp scalpel and repeatedly cut at the skin on the Splitter's fingers. Before long, the skin on his hands had been peeled away bit by bit.

By then, the Splitter's hands were a bloody mess, and blood seeped from his muscles in great quantities. Beside him, Tang Er calmly sprayed on some wound sealant.

Nearby, Tang San injected special latex bought online into a plaster hand mold. Once the scalding latex cooled, a thin "glove" shaped like a human hand was ready.

Tang San carefully slipped the latex "glove," which would replace the Splitter's original skin, over his hands. Then he carefully wrapped them in layer upon layer of gauze to help the Splitter's hands fuse with the latex skin as quickly as possible.

Thanks to the Alien Gene's ability to give them precise control over their own cells, the Splitters would not reject this new "skin."

After finishing the Splitter's hands, Tang Yi and the others used the same procedure on his feet.

It might have looked as though Tang Shizhe was abusing the Splitter, but Splitters felt no pain, so they experienced no discomfort.

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

Tang Shizhe had no intention of watching any further. The next steps would be even bloodier.

After Tang Shizhe left, Tang Yi and Tang Er exchanged a glance and shrugged helplessly. They felt no fear or disgust, so they were better able to handle such bloody scenes than Tang Shizhe.

Just as they had with his hands and feet, Tang Yi and Tang Er carefully worked on the skin of the Splitter's face. The whole process was silent. There were no screams, only the determined gaze of the Splitter lying on the table.

"Final step. Prepare to install the mask." Tang Yi slowly pressed a black alloy mask against the Splitter's face!

"From this day on, you will have only one name: the codename Death One," Tang Yi said gravely to the Splitter lying on the operating table.

Tang Shizhe had come up with the name. They represented a new unit in the ant-colony-like structure of his organization: the "soldier ant"!

Tang Shizhe called this new unit "Death Soldiers." Their sole purpose was to eliminate every threat to him, no matter where it came from or whether it was out in the open or hidden in the shadows.

Since Splitters could feel no pain or fear, and their memories could be adjusted at will, they made the perfect machines.

This Splitter was the first member of the Death Soldier Project. All irrelevant memories had been cut away from him from birth; he had no human emotions and no thoughts of his own, only common sense and some necessary knowledge.

Ever since Tang Shizhe gained the ability to control which memories newly created Splitters shared, the new Splitters had stopped inheriting some of his private memories.

Not long after Death One was born, the skin on his hands had been removed and replaced with a new latex material. Once the flesh on his hands grew back, his hands would fuse with the replacement material.

All the hair on his body had been removed, including the hair on his head, to prevent him from leaving any behind at a crime scene.

The Death Soldiers' faces were fitted with metal masks heated until red-hot. Since they were Splitters whose physical abilities had been enhanced by Tang Shizhe, their recovery was far beyond that of ordinary people.

Wounds that would infect a normal person were no problem for him. In three days, the mask would grow together with his face.

Tang Shizhe had prepared special combat suits for these Death Soldiers, who would carry out black-ops missions.

A one-piece swimsuit was coated with powerful adhesive, and alloy plates were stuck onto areas where they would not restrict movement. Then another layer of adhesive was applied, and a second one-piece swimsuit was pulled over the top.

That completed a simple combat suit capable of protecting a Death Soldier from some attacks!