Half a month later, just as undercurrents stirred among the world's major powers, especially the Permanent Five, as they probed one another for intelligence about a mysterious nuclear explosion in an uninhabited mountain region near the Caspian Sea, Agence France-Presse broke the first bombshell.
A secret alliance between Britain, America, and the Soviet Union to research biochemical weapons toward the end of World War II, a biochemical agent leak that killed over ten thousand people, genetic fusion that turned an entire mysterious canyon into a living hell-the revelations kept coming.
Soon afterward, the German Press Agency, Lianhe Zaobao, and other media outlets began releasing their own revelations, bringing a multinational private military company called Black Lake into the public eye.
Extensive documents and evidence showed that the company had exploited the upheaval in Eastern Europe and the instability in various countries over the following years to seize control of this secret biochemical weapons testing ground through bribery and other means.
And the mysterious nuclear explosion two weeks earlier was connected to this mysterious military contractor.
This time, the FBI displayed a rare decisiveness, raiding Black Lake's Los Angeles headquarters and its secret laboratory in Nevada in one fell swoop.
While the world reeled at the illegal human experiments exposed by the FBI, a flash of white light appeared in an unremarkable little apartment somewhere in Almaty, and a man and a woman vanished from that world.
"So this is Portland?" Dahlia pulled the curtains open a crack and cautiously looked outside. The setting sun bathed her face in a rosy glow, as though she had applied rouge.
There really was no additional reward this time. Nick closed his eyes and searched his mind for a moment, but received no further information. Although he had been prepared for this, it