After Fred gave the instruction, someone soon entered and took Rhea away. She looked at Lily tauntingly as she left.
‘So childish!’ Fred scoffed. ‘Does she think she’s indispensable? Indeed, I need talents, but I’m not that desperate. Although R20 sounds interesting, that woman isn’t our only option.
‘Also, we wanted to research mind control several times but failed. How would we know if she succeeded?’
Fred looked at Lily sitting there meditatively. He wondered if she had accepted her fate or was planning something.
Whatever it was, his men had searched her to ensure she would not have anything—not even the smallest tool—on her. He had also stopped giving her medicine to maintain her body's purity for the experiment's sake.
After some thought, he got up and entered the elevator, pressing the button for B1.
Reaching basement level one, he exited the elevator and took a winding path to the stairwell. He then went downstairs.
Two floors down, he reached an ample space divided into several rooms where people conducted experiments intensively. Besides the clinking of utensils and the beeping of computers, as they analyzed data, there was no sound of anyone talking.
Fred had secretly built this concealed place over the years. He had planned ahead since he knew setting up an inconspicuous laboratory was challenging. Not even the queen knew about its existence.
Now, he could safely conduct the final phase of the R10 experiment here. He would obtain his ultimate success when it worked.
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