"In that case, keep monitoring him."
Dr. Genus picked up a test tube and completed the final step of the adjustments as he gave the order.
"If he gets through the traps in the surface base, send out the combat units to drive him away."
"Yes, sir!"
To ensure its safety, the real House of Evolution base had been built entirely underground.
The eight-story building on the surface contained not a single piece of proper research equipment. Every floor was filled with traps and mechanisms of all kinds.
If enemies managed to get through by sheer luck, special units incorporating biological genes would be waiting for them next. It was practically foolproof!
Dr. Genus was highly confident in his research results, so even when he heard that someone with psychic powers who could fly had come to investigate, he paid it no mind.
He had always firmly believed that his research was the correct path for human evolution!
Dr. Genus had once learned through underground channels that the Hero Association offered monster cells that were still active for purchase, though their supply was extremely limited.
Supposedly, this was because living specimens were difficult to obtain. After all, when heroes fought monsters, all they wanted was to smash their opponents to pieces. Aside from the rare Wolf-level Monster who surrendered, it was difficult to find a living monster among the piles of corpses.
Dr. Genus's actual age was over seventy, making him a genuine septuagenarian.
Yet he currently looked only twenty-something, and every aspect of his body's functions was at the peak of human capability.
This was because he had developed a cell-rejuvenating drug tailored to his own genes-in other words, a technological version of a youth-restoring elixir.
This advanced technology, which sounded like something out of a fantasy, was merely