Chapter 685: Extra 36

Inside a heavily guarded underground laboratory somewhere on Earth.
Anthony stood with his arms crossed.
"How's the research and development progress on that project?"
A glance at Anthony's schedule would reveal this.
Recently, this bigwig has been visiting Gaia Base's top-secret laboratory more often than he visits his wife at home.
It far exceeds the number of times he inspects the "Wildfire" base.
However, for those in the know, this is not surprising at all.
After all, stepping through this door requiring triple verification—fingerprint, iris, and genetic scans—
always reveals "stimulating results" that are enough to utterly shatter the worldview of modern scientists and overturn traditional ethical understanding.
Every inch of air here is filled with a mixture of taboo and madness.
Su Yun, dressed in a sterile isolation suit, stared at the experimental subject inside the glass and replied calmly.
"This is all thanks to the massive amount of live clinical data provided by your 'Wildfire' team.
The project has made groundbreaking progress."
This is the "Super Soldier" project, a top-secret operation within the entire Gaia base, kept strictly confidential.
Countless resources are being poured in.
To nourish this evil flower blooming amidst mountains of corpses and seas of blood.
If anyone were to investigate, the project would always be presented to the public as a humanitarian endeavor: "Cell Regeneration and Neurofeedback Technology Breakthrough."
But if you were to ruthlessly peel back this deceptive academic facade,
and confront its bloody core reality,
this is fundamentally a human modification experiment, brazenly pushing the boundaries of international law and human ethics, using hundreds of disabled special forces soldiers as living samples!
"I occasionally receive a few encrypted briefings."
Anthony looked at the powerful bodies undergoing testing behind the glass wall and couldn't help but exclaim in genuine amazement.
"Team Leader Su, you've accomplished a feat worthy of being recorded in human history!
You've perfectly reattached new artificial bodies to soldiers who lost limbs or even half their bodies during high-risk counter-terrorism missions.
You've even rekindled their hope of returning to the battlefield.
This is simply a modern-day miracle of creation!"
"A miracle? You flatter me too much."
Su Yun's expression remained unchanged.
"That's because these ordinary soldiers, with their indomitable willpower, endured the excruciating rejection period.
Besides, what we gave them wasn't a warm, real flesh and blood body.
It's just a series of precision machines composed of high-strength polymer materials and micro-motors."
Cybernetic modification.
A non-artificial object purely constructed of metal, gears, hydraulics, and alloys.
Cold.
Hard.
Without a trace of human warmth.
But even this cold, devoid of warmth, this seemingly insignificant act of grace,
was enough to make those veterans, abandoned by the times and awaiting death in wheelchairs, weep with gratitude and offer their utmost loyalty! They would gladly die for it!
"However, the hard constraints involved seem to be far greater than I imagined."
Anthony frowned slightly, pointing out a flaw.
“I've read the report. If these robots aren't injected with the special inhibitor you developed on time,
their bodily activity and neural connections won't be maintained, and they might even suffer brain death on the spot!
This limitation could be fatal for soldiers charging into battle.”
Su Yun stopped operating his tablet, turned around, and smiled at Anthony.
“No, that's not a flaw at all.
It's a genetic lock I deliberately implanted into their DNA when writing the underlying code.”
Anthony froze, his eyes nearly popping out of their sockets.
"Intentional?"
"That's right. Think about it carefully.
Although our plan isn't fully complete yet,
even as a half-finished product, the terrifying destructive power these test subjects have displayed in the testing grounds has already completely overwhelmed conventional special forces!
Their killing efficiency is even more terrifying and brutal than the latest military-grade androids developed by military enterprises!
If I don't leave any security backdoors for one-click control on their near-invincible bodies,
what do you plan to do if they rebel one day?!
At that time, who can guarantee that those monsters who have gained supernatural powers will forever be loyal to... our Fang Huan?"
The implication of these words was obvious.
Anthony, being a shrewd person, naturally understood immediately.
This meant that
the research team led by Su Yun was technically capable and had the resources to do so!
He wanted to create perfect "super soldiers"—soldiers who could maintain peak combat power indefinitely, requiring no further drug intervention, simply by being charged!
But for absolute control, he deliberately made the finished product defective!
He essentially put leashes on these monsters!