Astartes / Spartan-II

Astartes / Spartan-II

With every hundred men, a city could be taken;

with every thousand men, a world could be conquered;

with every ten thousand men, an entire civilization could be defeated.

This was the most direct statement of the Astartes' combat power.

In his past life, Sui Bian initially struggled to tell the difference between the Marines of StarCraft and the Astartes of Warhammer 40,000.

Yet after stepping across the threshold through Dawn of War: Soulstorm and Dawn of War II, guided further by a certain Colonel UP host on Bilibili, he truly stepped into the Warhammer 40,000 fandom.

Sui Bian's progression had reached the point where he could even take commissions for painting miniature figurines.

When Birkin told him that the G-Virus was nearing completion, the super soldiers he wanted to create based on the traits of the G-Virus were 'angels' akin to the Astartes.

Angels to guard humanity.

Yet what made Sui Bian feel uncertain was that the key to establishing the Astartes lay in the 'Gene-Seed', and this fundamental foundation of the Astartes originated from the Primarchs.

Moreover, the Gene-Seed possessed somewhat of a 'magical' component, seeing as it was the product of a bargain between the Emperor and The Four Ruinous Powers.

Therefore, the idea of providing Gene-Seed concepts to Birkin and Rebecca was purely a gamble; perhaps the products of the G-Virus really did possess similar glands.

If all else failed, the system store and its draws should surely be able to exchange for similar super soldier technology.

One must know that the UNSC utilizing the MA5B possessed another famously renowned super soldier force from the realms of science fiction and gaming—

The Spartan-IIs.

Since the system store could exchange for the MA5B, Sui Bian had a high probability of rolling the manufacturing technology for the Spartan-IIs, but the exchange points would undoubtedly be an astronomical figure.

He needed to save up some moolah.

However, whether it was the Astartes or the Spartan-IIs, before these super soldiers transitioned from adolescence into true soldiers, they required several years of cultivation and training.

There was no rushing it.

He would let Birkin and Rebecca repeatedly experiment with his clones first; the current core task remained extracting serum from his blood.

Although the serum's effects were inferior to the Astartes and Spartan-IIs, the transformation process took an extremely short amount of time, making this the easiest objective to accomplish at present.

Back to the matter at hand.

Once Sui Bian finished explaining the concept of the Gene-Seed, both Birkin and Rebecca fell into a silence.

Yet only seconds later, Birkin's eyes suddenly lit up. He stood up as if he had suddenly grasped a certain inspiration, and said excitedly to Sui Bian:

"Mr. Sui! This idea of yours is not unfeasible! But it will require utilizing your clones to conduct massive amounts of experiments. There's no time to lose! Quick! Draw blood!"

With that, ignoring Sui Bian and Rebecca's reactions, Birkin strode rapidly toward the outside of the conference room.

Seeing Birkin leave the conference room a step ahead, the four Zeta operatives responsible for monitoring Birkin followed closely behind him, making the originally modest conference room appear somewhat empty.

In truth, without the pressure coming from Spencer, coupled with his increasingly familiar personal relationship with Sui Bian, Birkin no longer acted as timidly in front of Sui Bian as he had two months ago.

Already accustomed to Birkin's blazing-hot personality, Sui Bian merely glanced at the open automatic metal door, then turned his head to look at Rebecca, who remained in a slight state of shock, and reminded her with a faint smile:

"Let's go, Lieutenant Chambers. Once you all acquire my blood sample, I'll arrange for someone to show you around the entire Hive.

Right, there are plenty of empty dormitories on the second floor. When the time comes, you can move directly into the Hive to work, and assist Dr. Birkin in extracting the serum from my blood as soon as possible."

"This... alright, Mr. Sui." Rebecca nodded and said.

Next.

Sui Bian and Rebecca left the conference room and headed toward the laboratory not far away.

Subsequently, operated personally by Birkin, blood was drawn from Sui Bian as he sat in the chair, contributing 700 milliliters of blood samples and tissue samples to the Hive.

Obtaining Sui Bian's blood sample, Birkin immediately directed the researchers to divide the blood samples into two batches.

One batch of blood and tissue samples was used for matters related to cloning; Birkin had the researchers immediately set to work preparing the clones. The other batch was immediately processed with cold storage, waiting to begin the work of serum extraction tomorrow.

After instructing the researchers, Birkin himself returned first to his exclusive laboratory to complete the finishing work on the G-Virus as soon as possible.

Primarily, the Gene-Seed concept provided by Sui Bian made this genius eagerly anxious to conduct experiments, filled with a driving momentum of "playing God".

As for Rebecca, having witnessed Sui Bian donate his blood, she was taken by a researcher who had no experimental schedule for the day to familiarize herself with the third and fourth floors of the Hive.

Having acquainted herself with the Hive, Rebecca left the Hive to head to her rental apartment in Raccoon City to pack her luggage, preparing to move into the Hive tonight.

Rebecca felt that the responsibility on her shoulders was heavy and time could not be wasted; she wanted to begin the serum extraction work tonight.

The primary reason she chose to join the police force after graduating from university was the hope of doing something for this world through concrete actions.

Yet through what she saw and heard today, she discovered that the ways to contribute to the world weren't just being a police officer maintaining law and order with real blades and guns; one could also create more valuable things through the knowledge and mindset within her mind.

While the two geniuses Rebecca and Birkin were busy, Sui Bian was not idle either; he headed to the High-Tech Weapons R&D Center of the Hive.

He conversed with the busy Wang Zhaofeng, sharing his thought of preparing to form a super soldier unit, and hoped this Chinese-American doctor could conceptualize the Power Armor exclusive to super soldiers in advance.

Moreover, Sui Bian also stated that he had already acquired supreme authority within the company, so there was no need to worry regarding R&D funding.

After finishing explaining the concept of the Power Armor, Sui Bian also handed the blueprints of the Neuralyzer to Wang Zhaofeng, hoping mass production could be completed as soon as possible.

After roughly reviewing the blueprints in the workshop, Wang Zhaofeng stated that although this product was also epoch-making technology, the Hive still possessed the capability to crack and mass-produce it.

Furthermore, this time Wang Zhaofeng was very self-conscious, and from start to finish did not inquire about the origin of these blueprints.

As for the sole current Neuralyzer, it was in the hands of the Lieutenant.

The company's forces located in Europe still needed a thorough cleansing, so the Lieutenant and Omicron required the Neuralyzer more than the Hive did.

Having handled this matter, Sui Bian wasted no time in heading to the tier-three prison sector.

The Alpha team led by Hunk and the technical personnel had arrived in Raccoon City two hours earlier than them, and that Plague Doctor had been transferred from Paris to a prison cell within the Hive.

It was time to talk with the Plague Doctor about whether to provide him with an exclusive laboratory.