The Secret, the BOSS Was Actually Me!!!

Outside the medical room.

Susan had her head lowered, idly playing with a bullet as she stared into space.

"Team leader."

Brian pushed the door open, saw Susan, and greeted her in a gentle voice.

But Susan seemed lost in thought and was startled.

After she came back to herself, her face flushed as she glared at Brian. "Why are you talking so loud?"

Brian: Meow meow meow?

As a man who had seen countless rides, he naturally knew that trying to reason with a woman in some inexplicable state was a very stupid thing to do.

Because at a time like this, their brains would be in a Schrödinger's emotional state.

No matter how you opened your mouth, you were wrong.

The correct approach was to hit the other party with something ruthless.

So Brian gave Susan a standard ninety-degree bow, Japanese style. "Team leader, thank you for everything you've done for me!"

Susan was completely thrown by Brian.

Flustered, she hurriedly helped Brian up. "I told you I'd look after you guys. There's no need for this."

"But I've let you down, team leader. The truth is, I joined NW Department with a purpose, and I was forced into it." Brian's face was full of guilt and unease.

Susan sighed. "I already found out just now. Come on, the orientation training has probably already started. I'll train you separately."

Susan really was very familiar with Ace Base.

Brian suspected that Ace Base, which on the surface had only been built a few years ago, referred to the buildings above, and that they were merely a cover.

The real Ace Base was here, 121 meters underground.

And this place had probably been established a long time ago!

With doubts in his mind, Brian followed Susan to a private single room.

Susan looked at the place with some nostalgia. "This is the room I lived in when I was undergoing special training. I stayed here for eight years, and only joined the protection team afterward. After I returned to Los Angeles, they gave this room back to me."

Brian pretended to be puzzled. "Team leader, wasn't Ace Base only built in the last few years?"

Susan shook her head. "This place was established in 1975."

She did not go into detail. After gesturing for Brian to sit, she tapped her head and thought for a long time before finally figuring out how to give Brian his orientation training. "Brian, you should know about the Blood Moon phenomenon that happens once every thirty years, right?"

Brian was excited.

He could finally learn this damned secret!

He nodded hard. "Yes, and I've seen it with my own eyes. It was amazing. It didn't feel like the infrared coloring caused by light refraction that those astronomers talk about."

"I don't understand what refraction or infrared rays you're talking about." Susan was clearly a poor student, and said bluntly, "In any case, your feeling was right. The red moon phenomenon first appeared on the day World War II ended. After that, many different kinds of people appeared in the world."

Brian thought of his cheat, and of the dark-red substance inside him that was hidden somewhere unknown.

He licked his lips. "What kind of different people?"

A trace of disgust flashed through Susan's eyes. "A bunch of very perverted people. Some of them are very strong, some are very fast, some have powerful hearing, some can see very far. When I was training before, I even saw a..."

She paused, then pointed at Brian. "A reproductive organ specimen about as tall as you."

Brian:

If you don't know how to give examples, then don't!

The key point was, with shoes on, he was already one meter ninety!

A dick that long!

Did the owner of that dick usually wrap it around his waist?

"Hard to believe, right?"

Susan sighed.

"I couldn't believe it the first time I saw it either, but that's the effect brought by the Blood Moon.

Its moonlight can merge into the bodies of certain extremely perverted and evil people, becoming a kind of gift we can't understand, driving their bodies to mutate in the direction those chosen ones desire most deep down."

Extremely perverted and evil people...

Brian felt a little numb.

He had already confirmed that the changes in his body were not some cheat at all, but a mutation brought by the Blood Moon.

The problem was, Brian considered himself kind to others and not one to stir up trouble. Even when he took part-time jobs, he only earned some hard-earned money. Although he did kill people and set fires, his methods were always clean and efficient, and he never did anything torturous.

Such a good man.

And he had actually received the Blood Moon's favor too.

This was simply the greatest insult to his noble character!

Unwilling to give up, he asked, "Team leader, are you saying that everyone who receives the Blood Moon's gift is a pervert?"

Susan shook her head. "Not all of them are perverts."

Hearing that, Brian let out a breath of relief.

That was good.

"Mental patients also have a fairly high chance of receiving a gift."

Brian:

Then never mind.

Susan lit a slim cigarette and waited for Brian to digest these secrets.

After she finished smoking, she continued, "At the very beginning, the governments of various countries hadn't realized the seriousness of the problem yet. It wasn't until the number of all kinds of cases sharply increased, and most of those cases were extremely brutal, that everyone realized something was wrong.

In short, after a large amount of capture and research, the various countries have basically figured out the characteristics of these Aberrants."

"What characteristics?"

At the words capture and research, goose bumps practically jumped up all over Brian's body.

Susan shrugged.

"There are many.

In the earliest-stage Aberrants, the hormones in their bodies undergo major changes, and their physical appearance and living habits may also change drastically. For example, their bodies become very strong, they develop pica, they like dark and damp places, they like soaking in water, they grow much taller, and so on.

But that isn't why they're called Aberrants.

The real reason is that their already twisted minds become even more twisted.

The darkness buried deepest in their hearts is continuously magnified, making them unable to suppress their impulses and driving them to do the things they most want to do.

The more they do, the stronger the abilities they gain become.

And the faster their reason disappears.

Most Aberrants lose their self-awareness within one or two years of encountering the Blood Moon's gift, completely becoming beasts of desire."

Hearing about elevated hormone levels, Brian couldn't help thinking of how his uncle had suddenly made him undergo a physical exam last time!

So the other party had known about this long ago.

Brian's hatred toward his uncle Billy +1.

Susan was probably parched from talking. She took a bottle of water from under the bed, downed it in one go, and only then continued, "But the most accurate testing method is still that every Aberrant has a special red radiation hidden inside their body."

"According to current research, the more perverted and evil an Aberrant is, the denser the red inside their body.

Later, scientists invented the Aberration Ray Detector based on this trait.

The yellow rays it emits can react with the red radiation inside an Aberrant.

For example, a low-concentration Aberrant will show orange rays under the instrument.

A medium-concentration one will show reddish-orange rays.

A high-concentration one will show red rays.

The accuracy rate is very high!

At least so far, no mistakes have been found."

When Brian heard this, fear washed over him.

Damn it.

Good thing black and yellow mixed into earthy yellow.

He hadn't been exposed!

Otherwise, he didn't even dare imagine what he would have gone through.

Brian's hatred toward his uncle Billy +1 again!

He asked tentatively, "Team leader, are there only these three types?"

Susan nodded firmly.

"Those are the only three levels that have been discovered so far.

There have long been international tests on Aberrants who've experienced a second round of Blood Moon radiation.

The ones among them with the strongest concentration are the high-concentration individuals.

No stronger Aberrants have been found yet.

I don't think it's very likely for any to appear, either.

Because as time passes, human willpower weakens along with the body's aging and decline.

After experiencing a second round of Blood Moon radiation, most of them are already quite old.

It's very hard for them to stay rational long enough to survive until the third Blood Moon radiation."

Brian:

The red radiation inside my body is so red it's almost black.

What level does that count as?

Damn it.

So the boss is actually me!