The Killing Begins

  "Sss... The video is clear, starting rec."

  Dr. Anna aimed the camera at herself, taking a deep breath. She wao speak to the camera about her schedule in an official tone, but speaking these words to aionless leoo awkward.

  After a moment of preparation, she rexed her tone:

  "It is October 7th, 220 Gactic Era, 7:56 in the m. I am Assistant Dr. Anna—no, I am no longer an assistant."

  "I am located ier regions, at the Abyss Humanitarian Relief anization ier P-205... The situation is being increasingly dire. The greenhouse and syic protein systems are severely damaged, most medical equipment has beeroyed, and the ied we are sheltering need geabilizers, steroid medications, aors, all of which are ruined—I truly don't know if the people I sent out steal them back."

  "Twin Queens... The pressure is immehe security squad is heavily damaged, and the Abyss Humanitarian strength is at an all-time low. No one sleep peacefully. As the ag leader, only the diary time in the early m bring me peace."

  "Besides living supplies, steel, titanium, and aluminum are insuffit. The on reserves are even worse. Luckily, the uranium fuel rods for the reactor are still suffit... Now, the only choice left for me is clear."

  She picked up the professor's tablet, operating it while speaking:

  "While s through the professor's legacy, I obtained a unicator with the Frost-Pted Republic."

  "The professor... she was too stubborn. She could have sought help from the Frost-Pted Republic at any time, but she preferred to die rather than collude with them. It must be Snow's failure that influenced her."

  "She is still stu the shadows of the past... still beautiful, i, and kind as she was when she was young."

  Anna murmured, then suddenly shifted her tone:

  "But how such a person be a leader?"

  "For the tinuation of humanity ier regions, now, we must seek help from the Frost-Pted Republic."

  Her expression rexed slightly:

  "Law III has already respoo me. They are preparing to gather personnel and supplies. They should arrive by 9 a.m. today."

  "Although Abyss is a humanitarian anization, how we carry out humanitarian work when we 't even fill our stomachs?"

  "The times have ged... Professor, my teacher, I am no lohe girl who holds illusions about humanity."

  She subsciously brushed her half-ask, the etal devoid of ay, whice had a fine appearand soft texture.

  "For the humanitarian relief of Abyss, I lost half my faordly lost her body ah. The professor paid with her life and youth... Meanwhile, the dignitaries of the Frost-Pted Republijoy artificial sunlight, relying on our research to paint false dreams for the masses!"

  Her chest heaved violently, her pupils filled with red and bck, showing rare emotional instability:

  "I've had enough!"

  "What Corruption Virus, what rescue for the ied, what tinuation of humanity—what experiments haven't we done? But all the results were sold cheaply to the Frost-Pted Republic by you, Professor! You remained immersed in Snow's act, stantly refleg on yourself..."

  She took a deep breath, looking up at the ceiling, whispering softly:

  "So, you died, Professor."

  "It's time to wake up, be realistic. Humans have seveions and six desires, wanting a better life—that is the tinuation of humanity."

  "Abyss ot fall, so we must tio ge. Even if our inal iion and purpose have been corrupted, as long as Abyss does not fall, there will always be hope."

  "It has been 78 hours sihe professor was murdered—Nordly has escaped life-threatening danger but is still far from rec to her peak dition. She ot hold the fort, and security issues remain unresolved. Therefore, I have activated the sed yer of the factory, and soon, new Camity Armament will be online and put into practical use."

  "Still not enough... manpower and those children, it is still not enough."

  Her tone became mitated:

  "There must be someoo i your mantle, and there must be a leader to guide people to survive ier regions and tinue our research."

  Anna put down her arms, closed her eyes, and after a moment, she faced the camera, her gaze clear, without a trace of red and bck.

  She calmly said:

  "From now on, I am the new professor of Abyss."

  g g g!

  Before her words had even fihere was a violent knog on the door outside.

  "Dr. Anna! Dr. Anna? Are you awake? Wake up!"

  The side sounded very anxious:

  "Nurse Nordly's dition is not good, the force is interfering with normal arteries—she needs Zunisidine."

  "Nordly?!"

  Anna quickly got up and opehe door, rushing all the way to the emergen.

  Passing through the disiion room, as soon as the ICU door opened, Anna saw the floor spttered with bck blood. Her face sank as she asked the lead female doctor:

  "How is the situation?"

  "Not optimistic."

  The lead doctor said worriedly:

  "Nurse Nordly's injury is mainly due to bleeding, so we po use a ventional method—to create a force bridge ahe warrior use their own force to repair the injury. This is the most reliable and effective method without aioion."

  "Then why did this happen?"

  Anna g Nordly on the bed, her face covered by an anti-bacterial suit, with her chest cavity exposed.

  As the lead doctor said, the doctors had ected a nano-tube from the 'Qi Sea' an that gees force directly to the cardiovascur system, allowing the force to flow through the body to maximize the warrior's self-healing ability.

  But now, Nordly's heart was visibly decayed, with bck rot spreading across half her lung, the air filled with the stench of decay.

  "This seems to be the corrosion ability associated with Shadow, could it be Zonia..."

  Anna's heart sank, but she quickly shook her head.

  —It was iable that Camity Armament sold would end up in enemy hands. No arms pany stops selling ons just because an employee was shot by one.

  "Equip her with prosthetiordly is an Alpha-level warrior, use military-grade heart and lungs, repce everything."

  The warrior's physical resilience is strong, as long as the 'Qi Sea' sac-like an remains, their potential won't be damaged. After watg for a while, Anna decided to abandon preserving the inal ans.

  However, the lead doiled bitterly:

  "...We don't have any."

  "How is that possible? We are a medical anization!" Anna was surprised.

  "We checked the iory... there's not even a civilian-grade prosthetic left."

  The lead doctor said with difficulty:

  "Actually, the best treatment is using Zunisidihis special drug quickly repair a force practitioner's body, maximizing the purification ability of the force an, preventing further iion... but this drug has also been stolen."

  "Zunisidine..."

  Anna paused.

  This substance only be produced by the four major nations.

  She remembered that all of Abyss's Zunisidine ecifically instructed by the professor and brought by Law III agents of the Frost-Pted Republiow, it's too te to request it again.

  Law III agents had already set out. They wouldn't go back to retrieve a special drug, and using the metro tunnel ones at a high cost.

  "Keep her alive for now." Anna said helplessly, "Is there any way?"

  "The only thing we do now is tinuously repce her blood, dialyze her blood again and again, use advanced dialysis maes, and kill the pollutants in the blood with ionizing radiation."

  The lead doctor said:

  "But the effect is poor, as the pollution iraordinary beings generally only be overe by themselves. Moreover, dialysis and ionizing radiation are highly damaging to the blood. As an Alpha-level warrior, she e most fifteen dialysis sessions."

  "Proceed with dialysis."

  No matter what, Nordly 't die here... at least not now.

  Anna turo leave, her gaze wandering.

  Nordly was not just a bat asset; more importantly, as one of the founders of the Abyss Humanitarian Relief, she had always had high faith and held great prestige among the young doctors.

  She couldn't die easily. The professor was already dead... If she died, it would be difficult to maintain the humanitarian banner of the Abyss Humanitarian Relief.

  Without Nordly to stabilize those who had high hopes and faith in humanitarian work, they would soon leave in disappoi.

  After all, if not for faith, how could they endure such harsh enviros, leave the fortable four nations, and willingly duct experiments on living people?

  Pure manpower and ercial tracts couldn't maintain Abyss's scale, with manpower expenses alone costing at least 730,000 Derbies a month!

  Without these, Anna's pnned

  transformation was destio fail.

  "A ercialized Abyss, an industrialized Abyss, is the Abyss I want."

  Anna's face darkened. Alone, she headed for the tral elevator.

  The people of Law III would arrive soon; she o make preparations in advance.

  FAL