Ch 1. A Mad Scientist

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In a room decorated with white tools and furniture everywhere, there was a powerful odor of chemicals and manure. Huge transparent cylindric tanks with human limbs littered around the room, like an exhibition. In the middle of the room was a small clearing, where 7 cyborgs in human skin disrupted the white. A man unbothered by the smells and sights danced around the humans, shouting in delight.

"He he he, ha ha ha! I've done it, I've done it!" The man had a head full of white hair streaked with silver cackled as he eyed the line of "humans" that were lined up before him with agitation. He wore a white lab coat that was stained with blood. His face looked of a 20-year-old but somehow, his movements and aura gave off a wave of madness and he didn't seem to have that livelihood of a young person. He would have been a devilishly handsome man if it weren't for his terrible insanity.

"Now, if only the mutants were that successful..." The man murmured to himself in resignation. He tried all sorts of techniques and ways to create mutants, but none had succeeded so far. His father would be so disappointed.

Suddenly, another young man, his eyes lifeless and dull, knocked on the entrance of the lab and entered. On his white lab coat, a number one was printed on.

"Captain, something urgent happened." He spoke robotically.

"Can't you see I'm doing something here Yi?" The captain spun around, annoyed that his moment of celebration had been interrupted.

"I am sorry Captain. A miracle happened. One of the failed mutants woke up."

---------In Country E------

In a spacious and luxurious room, a young man who had "14" on his lab coat and looked identical to Yi was reporting something to a group of high-class men and women that were sitting at a huge conference table.

"He did it? He did it!" A fat elderly man with a head full of silver hair, who was seated at the front of the table, exclaimed in relief and joy. While he wore the most luxurious suit out of the entire group and his belongings reeked of extreme wealth, all of his companions shot him looks of disdain.

"Count yourself lucky this time," a tall, charismatic woman dressed seductively in red said in disappointment, her voice laced with contempt.

"Dingxian, don't be so disappointed. Are you an idiot? You shouldn't be surprised. With that monster kid of his, he has his position secured. Let him be happy for a bit." Another man, this time cool and also full of seductive charm, spoke with a mocking smile. His mannerisms seemed like a man who treated bars and love hotels as his home.

"You're the idiot, idiot!" The woman in question retorted. She really wanted to smash that ugly face into a pulp whenever she saw him.

A tall man wearing a black metallic mask that covered the top half of his face said in a low but commanding voice, "Enough, let's discuss how we're splitting the items." He seemed to be the leader of the group. One of his hands fiddled with a projected screen, tapping at the pictures of the success; his thin lips curved barely into a smile.

Dingxian pouted, her face looked as if someone had bullied her. "That's easy, Country A is getting the mutant and all of the countries each get one success while we keep the rest. We'll tell them about the difference in numbers and let them fight it out. The man that created almost all of the war strategies of battles that Country A had won, the reason why Country A remains to be the strongest Country in the world... I can't wait to see him suffer a painful death. Right, Yueyue?"

"... You didn't look at my analyses, did you?" came a soft but sharp voice. Yueyue was a petite woman with long, curly hair and glasses. She seemed very ordinary, but she was the second most important person in the group. She was in charge of thinking and decision making, along with the leader, while Dingxian and Lixintian were the action takers.

"No no no, of course not. I would never do anything like that, my dear Yueyue."

"Sure. But we shouldn't only tell the countries about the number of these things the others are getting. It'll seem too open and suspicious. We should make them think that Country A has gotten so strong as to force us to give them extra items and to shut our mouths." Yueyue spoke monotonously.

"But Yueyue, you didn't write-.... cough... cough..." Dingxian stopped talking.

"Hey," Lixintian suddenly interrupted, "What are you guys talking about??''

Dingxian sat up straight again and replied gleefully, "Obviously you wouldn't understand. You're so stupid!"

Bam!

The young man slammed the table furiously, "Yo! Chen Dingxian! Who you calling stupid? You wanna fight?!" He could not remain calm at her provocation. Especially how she defamed him in front of that fat, worthless trash.

"Yo! What's with that disrespectful tone? I do wanna fight!" Dingxian raised her fist in defiance.

Yueyue just stared at the two lovebirds in silence. This must be youth, she thought. She then quickly glanced down at the projection in front of her before giving the masked man a signal.

The masked man shot them a glare that instantly turned both into meek rabbits. He sat silently for a moment before saying in a quiet voice, "Any objections to the plan?"

"No," the 3 mysterious people replied in unison; subconsciously ignoring the rich man, the "most important person in the country E" or so he calls himself; as the man's beady eyes flickered with hate and despise, although there was a fawning smile glued on his face.