Sequence?
086, 097...
That meant there were at least ninety-seven Transcendents who had undergone the [Adam Project]'s modifications, just like the two monsters before him! Perhaps even more!
What a terrifying number!
He had thought his father, Yue Changlong, was a one-of-a-kind miracle, the [Adam Project]'s only success. But now, he realized he had been wrong. Dead wrong!
The enemy had long since mastered the technology to mass-produce "monsters"!
But what shattered him even more was that offhand remark from the blond girl, Anna.
[Skull and Bones], the terrifying organization that had all but wiped out the [Night Watchers] and left his father burdened with a blood debt...
Was merely... a servant of these two monsters?
How many secrets did this world hold?
Yue Xiaofei felt as though an invisible hand had seized his heart. Even breathing became difficult.
"Heeheehee... the [Black Emperor]'s offspring."
The girl named Anna sat on the burly Basaka's shoulder. Her green eyes studied Yue Xiaofei inside the ambulance with keen interest, a teasing smile curling her lips.
"I thought you'd be someone extraordinary!"
"Who knew you'd just be an ordinary mortal? How boring."
"Basaka, don't you think it's a waste to send both of us after such a weak target?"
Her voice was clear as a silver bell, yet carried a lofty, appraising air, as though a god were inspecting an insignificant ant.
The burly man named Basaka spoke in a deep, muffled voice that sounded like two boulders grinding together.
"Anna, don't underestimate him. Orders are orders. That man's blood flows through this boy's veins. The higher-ups take him seriously."
"Seriously?"
Anna curled her lips and sprang lightly from Basaka's shoulder, landing barefoot on the cold asphalt. Her long black Gothic dress swayed in the wind.
"What is there to take seriously about a