Chapter 488: Athena Returns
Doctor Claire was with all the experts and doctors watching the chance since last night. As Eleven’s figures seemed to show she was responding well, all the experts were extremely excited and felt there was hope at formulating the antidote.
They could clearly feel Mo Ye getting all flustered and how he was losing patience with the formulation of the antidote. If Mo Ye flew into a rage, everybody save Meng Lianling would not be spared.
Since Eleven – who was being sacrificed – was none of their concerns, they were more concerned about themselves and how Big Boss Mo would scapegoat them. Under these circumstances, everybody would opt to sacrifice Eleven rather than themselves.
They all hoped that there was a shot at formulating the antidote, save Doctor Claire who was glum amidst the euphoria.
All the parameters showed a good response, and he also heaved a sigh of relief. After midnight, her vitals were violently fluctuating. Even the viral parameters that they were typically extremely confident about were sometimes high and sometimes low. It seemed as though her blood had diluted them all. All the experts were extremely positive about his development as this meant that the viruses were starting to combine with the blood.
Claire, however, had many years of clinical experience with viruses sensed that something was amiss. As the viruses in Eleven’s body were extremely unstable and potent, it was as though she had consciously concentrated the viruses in a particular location.
He did not like this feeling.
To them and Eleven, this was an especially unbearable night. It was even more so as Eleven as she struggled at the brink of death whilst back-facing them and almost went berserk the whole night.
As the viruses ravaged her, they also ingeniously fused with her cells and changed her constitution.
As Claire’s computer did not display these figures, he could infer from Eleven’s responses and roars that something was extremely amiss. He smelt crises amidst the euphoria.
When Eleven was in immense pain, she would typically attack the glass walls and door in a bid to escape. She, out of the norm this night, curled herself up. A camera was reinstalled at the glass door to conveniently monitor Eleven’s status. While Claire could not see her face, he could only see her curled-up back that trembled as her hair wildly moved. She was, at times, as silent as a statue. Until dawn just broke…
A loud bang jolted the sleepy experts awake.
As they watched over Eleven the whole night, everybody was extremely euphoric and excited throughout the night and were somewhat tired in the morning. As they were about to doze off, a sudden bang jolted them awake.
Claire was the first to look at the screen, and he was shocked at what he saw – the entire glass wall was broken, and Eleven stood amidst the broken glass looking down whilst her long hair covered her face. She remained as still as a statue.
Her fists were covered in blood that dripped to form what seemed like bloody flowers on the ground.
It was alluring in a different way!
This scene left them stunned and shocked.
All the experts who were somewhat dazed were agape. The glass house cost millions of USD to build, and was tougher than diamonds to the point demolition charges would not destroy it. To think that a person’s mere fists had destroyed it.
How could they not be agape? Once Claire came to his senses, he immediately called Mo Ye to head up to the mountain.
He activated all the hidden traps in the dungeon and all preparations for contact.
Claire, who was vastly experienced and saw much more, was profusely sweating. His fingers were trembling and he could not completely clench his fists.
He suddenly realized that they were not formulating an antidote, but creating a living… abomination!
An absolute abomination!
No mortal man could smash this glass door, and there was only one possible explanation – she was no longer a typical human. Claire suddenly turned to look at the screen connected to the devices.
He was in for the shock of his life.
The viruses in Eleven’s body had completely fused themselves into her cells and triggered mutations. Her parameters were no longer like those of humans, and Claire’s face turned pale…
Eleven walked out of the glass house extremely slowly, as though it were a slow-motion scene in a movie. She looked like a living statue that slowly strided out. As they lost the instruments embedded into the glass house, the monitors went dark and Claire was unable to remotely assess Eleven’s condition.
“Claire, what’s with her?”
“How could this be…”
“Why did she manage to break the glass?”
“This is impossible…”
…
As the voices of shock rang and fell, nobody could believe what they saw.
Eleven suddenly grunted and collapsed. As she knelt on the floor and clutched her hand, she suddenly shrieked and punched the glass mirror extremely hard.
Glass fragments flew.
Everybody was in shock as they clearly saw how she broke the same material again.
Claire gasped.
“She… has mutated,” Claire slowly said. Eleven suddenly looked up, and her face, that was hidden behind her hair, was so utterly collapsed her cheekbones protruded out while her eyes caved in.
Those once beautiful eyes were now filled with an insatiable bloodlust.
Even though several security-coded doors stood between them, they could clearly feel the murderous intent emanating from her. That murderous intent as intense as though Athena, the Goddess of War, was coldly looking at them
She suddenly curled into a cold smile and the screens went dark. Nobody else could see Eleven, and the experts were aghast. Some of them unbelievably ran towards the instruments and tried to salvage them.
Claire’s face turned pale and emanated a deathly pallor.
“Run, run, run…” He waved his hands wildly whilst everybody else was in shock. They followed his gestures and ran towards the surface.
All the experts were unable to pack anything and could run upwards. Claire quickly enabled the secret lock to the dungeon in hope he could stop her in her tracks. He had no idea how much she had mutated.
In this dark world, countless scientists studied DNA and cells in the hope of creating the perfect human through genetic and cellular manipulation. To put it more accurately – they wanted to create a God of War even more perfect than killer robots.
Countless had failed.
Could he have unwittingly created the first… abomination?