"I heard that after leaving Arasaka, you spent some time as a highly respected guest of Biotechnica. What's that about?"
"Also, compound number four—do you know what that is exactly?"
Having finished answering the relic questions, Anders hadn't even had time to relax before Mitsuhide asked again, this time about Biotechnica, leaving him speechless.
How does this guy know everything?
This time, however, Anders wasn't as nervous as before.
In fact, when he heard the name Biotechnica, Mitsuhide could sense that Anders was trying to suppress a laugh.
"Biotechnica? compound number four? You really have dug up everything."
Anders smiled and shook his head, easily recounting his time after slipping away from Arasaka and arriving at Biotechnica.
If the relic information was somewhat confidential, talking about Biotechnica felt as casual as telling a tall tale.
When he first slipped out of Arasaka Corporation, Anders initially accepted Biotechnica's invitation.
Since they offered a high price, Anders was happy to go.
However, when he saw the so-called "Organic Bio-Weapon" project they wanted him to oversee, he quickly shook his head after a brief overview.
In a secret laboratory deep within an abandoned mine shaft, he was greeted by Moritz, a stubborn scientist with messy gray hair and a face full of wrinkles that screamed displeasure—a molecular biologist who was supposedly somewhat famous.
The man probably thought Anders was there to steal his credit, so when Anders arrived, he just stood there with a sour face for a few minutes before leaving without saying a word to Anders.
After all, according to Anders' understanding, the "Organic Bio-Weapon" project was entirely the creation of this stubborn old man.
The story was that Biotechnica had somehow acquired a green inorganic liquid. This substance seemed capable of combining with cells inside an organism, releasing enormous energy to catalyze biological mutation.
Naturally, in the initial stages, whether the test subject was a sheep, a cow, or a human, the result was always a puddle of wildly wriggling tentacles, which was sickening to behold.
Yet, Moritz fantastically believed this substance could be used for bio-weapons because he noticed the mutated tentacles' incredibly strong regenerative abilities and aggressiveness.
Therefore, under his leadership, a project aimed at stabilizing and controlling the mutation began.
The green solution they eventually obtained through experimentation, which had a relatively controllable level of mutation, was compound number four.
The most mature result of this controllable solution catalysis was a group of green giants, over two meters tall and completely hairless.
This thing was called "Hecatoncheires" within the project, a name it earned because this creation could differentiate dozens of tentacles from its body to attack enemies.
These monsters retained human intelligence while possessing high combat power; wielding their tentacles, they could almost single-handedly defeat a squad of soldiers.
Although it sounded like a success, the reality was quite different.
Biotechnica's upper management was very disappointed that Moritz had only produced this kind of thing. Although these "Hecatoncheires" played a crucial role in suppressing street riots due to their super high regenerative capabilities and tentacle attacks, they had too many flaws.
Firstly, the cost was too high.
Even though compound number four was an inferior version of the green primordial fluid, it was still highly corrosive to living organisms; a person injecting it rashly would only explode and turn into a puddle of tentacles.
Therefore, Moritz had no choice but to dilute compound number four again, obtaining a green solution with extremely minute content. He administered timed injections to the test subjects, allowing them to gradually adapt to the green solution, in preparation for the final baptism of compound number four and their "evolution" into Hecatoncheires.
But even this wasn't enough.
Humans, or rather, living organisms, had an extremely poor acceptance of this mysterious solution; out of hundreds of test subjects, perhaps only one Hecatoncheires would successfully be produced.
Such a vast disparity between investment and return made the upper management disappointed with Moritz's biological weapon plan.
It was at this time that Anders, who had defected to them, became their hope to salvage this failed plan.
They hoped to use Anders's neural network technology to adjust the direction of the plan.
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