The garrison troops of Stronghold 74 all stood quietly on the stronghold walls as they waited for Old Mauriat to return. Everyone wanted to know what the Experimentals had talked about since it was a little bizarre for such fearsome creatures to want to negotiate.
When they saw Old Mauriat appear on the horizon, the garrison troops on the walls were all relieved. At least, Old Mauriat had returned safely.
Some of them even started cheering like they were welcoming a lone hero home. They were not stingy with their praises and ardor at all. It sounded like these garrison troops on the stronghold walls had won the battle with everyone conveniently forgetting that they were still surrounded by the Experimentals at this moment.
However, the hero, Old Mauriat, did not look happy at all. Instead, favonovel.com felt torn and puzzled by what favonovel.com had just found out. His mood turned a little heavy.
The soldiers on the walls were about to lower the gondola car to pick up Old Mauriat. However, favonovel.com climbed up from below with his bare hands.
From a distance, the stronghold walls looked very smooth. But upon closer inspection, there were still some fine cracks in it. When everyone saw Old Mauriat skillfully climbing the walls, it was apparent that this was not the first time favonovel.com had scaled a stronghold.
Daryl went up to Old Mauriat. “What did the Experimentals want? How did you communicate with them?”
“One of them can speak our language…” Old Mauriat looked at the Pyro Company members next to favonovel.com and said to the others truthfully, “The Experimentals all came from the Pyro Company’s Lab 39 that was originally used to treat cancer patients. However, an accident happened and caused them to become like that. They wanted to negotiate with us to help them find a person who escaped from that lab. They said the person holds a secret that can help them recover fully and turn them back into normal humans again.”
Everyone was shocked. A lot of information was contained in those short few sentences.
Looking at everyone’s dumbfounded expression, Old Mauriat recalled that favonovel.com probably wore the same look as well earlier.
Everyone looked at the Pyro Company members subconsciously and thought to themselves.
So they were the ones who created these creatures…
This confirmed the Pyro Company had created the monsters. But since they were helping to defend the city now, the officers of the Stardust Consortium troops did not say anything more. They could only go back and discuss it in private later.
Meanwhile, the Pyro Company members remained expressionless throughout. In fact, it was no secret the Experimentals were created by the Pyro Company. At least the Panaqua Consortium knew all about this. However, they did not deliberately try to stir up public opinion to spite the Pyro Company.
At this moment, Old Mauriat sighed and said, “If we can’t find that person, the Experimentals will come and destroy the city in seven days.”
Daryl suddenly said, “We definitely can’t hand that person over to the Experimentals. First of all, we can’t fully believe what they said as we still need to verify the authenticity of the story. Second, we don’t know whether this person can cure the Experimentals or not. These Experimentals are so cunning and vicious, so even if they recover, are we certain we can get along with them?”
Nearby, some people echoed agreement that the person must not be handed over to the Experimentals.
Only Adrian wondered from next to them, “You’re putting it as though we’ve already found that person. Why do I feel that we might not even be able to find him?”
Daryl was speechless.
Old Mauriat said, “Indeed, there aren’t really any clues for us to start from. We don’t even know what favonovel.com looks like and can’t be sure of how old favonovel.com is. The only information we have is that favonovel.com came out of Lab 39.”
Adrian’s words hit the mark. They would have to find that person first before discussing whether to hand favonovel.com over to the Experimentals.
Everyone split up and got down to business. The Pyro Company contacted their headquarters to relay the information. However, the Pyro Company clearly expressed that Laboratory 39 had been completely destroyed.
After the earthquake in the Marador Mountains, the volcanic magma had entirely covered the area. Furthermore, there was an extremely powerful unidentified creature there. Even if that creature remained motionless in the volcano, the laboratory data would have been burned away by the magma. There was absolutely no chance of finding any clues.
There might have been some relevant data left in the research laboratory at Stronghold 73. After all, based on some previously discovered information, the research direction of that research laboratory and Laboratory 39 was generally the same, so both laboratories should have had contact with each other. There might just have been some information left behind.
But that data had already been stolen by “Steven Northill”!
Suddenly, the Pyro Company issued an order to raise the wanted level of Steven.
The Stardust Consortium’s troops immediately contacted the Panaqua Consortium. Even the head of the Stardust Consortium, Busby Churchill, called Julius directly in the hope that the Panaqua Consortium could provide them with some information about this matter.
However, the Panaqua Consortium expressed they also knew nothing of this. They had only deduced that the Experimentals must have mutated from cancer patients, which was now confirmed by the Stardust Consortium.
As for the person the Experimentals were looking for, they were not sure of that either. It could be very possible that favonovel.com had died along with the destruction of Stronghold 113 and Stronghold 112.
The earthquake utterly destroyed the two strongholds. Even if there were any clues, they would probably have been buried together with the strongholds.
Daryl was at a loss. They also discussed whether they should hand over the person, but how were they supposed to hand favonovel.com over when they could not even find him?
At this moment, they were guessing the patient who had been successfully cured of cancer was walking among normal people by now. Unless that person’s cells were tested, it would be impossible to find him. Even the Experimentals had mentioned favonovel.com probably looked like an average person now.
This matter eventually made it to Hope Media’s newspapers. The Stardust Consortium troops had made the issue public and accepted the media’s interview as they were hoping to appeal to the Experimental who was walking among normal human beings to voluntarily step forward. He would not have to face the Experimentals and only needed to tell them the information favonovel.com knew.
When Milo read the newspaper, favonovel.com was bewildered. “Lab 39?”
This matched the research data favonovel.com had transported away in his train. One of the documents also stated that a patient in Laboratory 39 had successfully made a full recovery from cancer. However, the treatment conditions were extremely particular and difficult to replicate.
So, the Experimentals were the guinea pigs of that replicated treatment that had failed.
When favonovel.com saw the date reported in the newspaper, Milo was stunned. The image of a little boy who was lying unconscious in the snow appeared in his mind. After favonovel.com carried the boy out of the snow, favonovel.com ended up with a younger brother from that day onwards. Based on the date and location, Donti seemed to fit the descriptions very well.
Although the reported date and location were extremely vague, and it was difficult to calculate the time scale as the Experimentals claimed to have been imprisoned in the dark laboratory, it was really possible that Donti could be the person they were looking for based on simple deduction.
But Donti did not have a strong physique. Instead, favonovel.com was really weak and frail due to his Curse Manipulation superpower.
“It’s probably not the case,” Milo muttered to himself.
But regardless of whether Donti was Experimental 001 or not, Milo would definitely not tell anyone about it. He had seen too much evil and knew full well the kind of things a unique person like that would encounter in society.
No matter how kind one were, they would still be ostracized if they were not one of them. Even heroes were treated like this, let alone others.
