"What happened? Why did you suddenly look like you'd seen a ghost?"
Tony stopped, looking surprised.
He remembered how Leon had looked in the woods yesterday. "Ah, I get it. That World Consciousness came again?"
Leon froze for a few seconds.
When he came back to himself, he nodded with an odd expression. "What it meant was complicated, but roughly speaking, the SS Reagent won't do. It wants the infectious evolutionary drug from before."
"What? Is its brain broken, saying something like that? Well, I guess it doesn't have a brain." Tony exclaimed.
He found it strange. "So why not use the SS Serum?"
"Because the SS Serum is too stable. It no longer has the potential for further evolution!"
Leon was utterly speechless. "It wants something relatively stable, but still capable of evolving, or rather, continuing to mutate."
Tony put his hands on his hips. "What an interesting idea. It wants to keep evolving forever? That sounds a lot like the things Obadiah used to suggest to me."
"He gave you complicated suggestions too? Like colorful black?"
"More or less, so I always ignored him and did things my own way."
"Case solved. No wonder he wanted to kill you."
"Maybe, but there was no way I was going to make a rifle that could provide heating, cooling, and navigation just because he said so."
"...What a strange idea. As expected, clients all over the world are weird."
Leon returned to the lab bench. "Still, thanks to the experience of developing the SS Serum, making a new type of S-virus now will be easy."
He had no intention of refusing the World Consciousness's request.
After all, if something went wrong again in the future, the World Consciousness would have to come looking for him again.
And if it came