latent syndrome.

Chapter 235 234. The Beast in the Shadow
In the last century.

In order to prepare for a nuclear war, the Liberty Alliance planned nuclear counterattack facilities in many places, and all of them have been scrapped until now.

However, in order to deal with viruses that are countless times more violent than the Black Death and smallpox in human history, they had to be reactivated.

It's not just viruses.

What to deal with is everything that is violent and the truth that is unknown.

In the plain area on the outskirts of Liberty City, there is an inconspicuous ordinary farm that raises cows and cultivates the land industrially.

But these are illusions.

Seven kilometers underground, there is an underground base that can only be reached by elevator.

Inside the headquarters of the fourth division.

Harris' personal office.

Just like the underground base of the eleventh department, there is no decoration style to speak of here, full of the roughness of the early last century, even the computer is a transistor computer about the size of a room, without the so-called keyboard and plastic case, all It's heavy metal that's hard-wearing, with retro levers and countless buttons.

Even Harris's own office is the same, with cold white paint, and the only decoration is a green plant in the corner.

The inspector from the High Command of the Countermeasure Bureau is asking Harris to report on his duties, because the big shots in the command are quite dissatisfied with Harris.

It has been a long time since he was appointed as the person in charge of Section [-], but he still hasn’t produced any results. Now that the Liberty Alliance has faced a devastating blow, he still hasn’t made any achievements, just doing some things. The most basic thing is to clean up the out-of-control ordinary infected people. Other than that, I don't even know the name of the top cadre sent by SCT.

"Lieutenant General Harris."

"I don't know."

"It's been a few months."

"It's time for even a fool to find some useful information."

"Now that SCT has gone straight to Huanglong, if this continues, those capitulators who have been bewitched by SCT's immortality will become even more eager to move, and the funds tilted toward us will be less and less."

"Humans will..."

"Defeated directly."

If the inspector had the power to dismiss Harris, he would do so without hesitation. He even had a guess as to whether Harris had been bought by... the SCT.

"Defeated?"

Harris was indifferent to the words, and made a direct decision like this. It would be too hasty for the strategy bureau to represent human beings. It is hard to say that people are more inclined to the strategy bureau or SCT. Only humans themselves can represent humans.

As far as the purest base is concerned, most people are useless people who have lost their wildness.

But of course Harris can't say that, that would be directly judged as collaborating with the enemy.

"you know……"

"Why is it easier for the human eye to detect shades in green than in other colors?"

Harris asked an unrelated question.

"Feel sorry?"

The inspector had no idea what Harris was having a seizure.

"Is such that."

"Original man, our ancestors, needed better hunting and detection of... beasts in the shadows."

"Those who don't have a high degree of recognition of green have been slaughtered and devoured by the ferocious thing in the darkness."

"Only those who have this genetic gene are enough to survive."

"Inherited to the present."

Harris looked at the potted green plants in the corner, even though they were so far apart, he could recognize the light and shadow changes and textures on them.

"What exactly are you trying to say?"

The Inspector has a premonition.

"May I know which adult appointed you?"

"As we all know, in the High Command, there are some..."

"A small contradiction."

"Because the person who witnessed the incident in the South Pacific fled with an agent from Section [-]."

"Special period, special treatment."

"I think it's necessary to know."

"It's for the victory of humanity."

Harris said righteously.

The inspector thought for a while, and indeed, as Harris said, in order for Section [-] to seriously deal with the next crisis, the inspector felt that it was necessary to use that person to suppress him.

So he said the person's name.

After hearing this, Harris sneered, and faintly saw some extremely slender nematodes wriggling in a very small arc under the skin of his mouth.

Obviously, this is the wrong answer,
"That's right, Mr. Inspector."

"Humanity will never perish."

"It's just... there is such a special situation now."

"The ferocious beast in the shadows is coming again."

"He is the darkness in people's hearts, the corruption of society."

"And the tyranny of truth."

"The genes that are not very resistant to these are almost eliminated."

"That's all."

After all, Harris unhurriedly took out the pistol from the holster on his waist, knocked on the safety, and pointed the letter of approval to the inspector's forehead.

"What do you mean by that?"

"This is mutiny!"

The inspector stood up nervously, no matter how he thought, he never expected such a situation.

"Mr. Inspector."

"In your report to me, you seriously interfered with my decision-making and affected the action plan of the entire Fourth Division, posing a huge threat to mankind."

"Your suspicion of collaborating with the enemy has been proven."

Harris spoke methodically.

"What are you talking about!"

"I didn't cooperate with the enemy at all!"

The inspector tried to open the door and asked other detectives from Section [-] for support. Harris must be crazy, or controlled by something evil.

"It's also one of those beasts of the shadows."

"Absolute power . . . leads to absolute evil."

"From the first moment I declare you collaborating with the enemy, no matter what the facts are."

"You have become the common enemy of this omniscient system."

Harris did not shoot.

The office door was blocked from the outside, and it was not known whether there was a problem with the door lock, or...someone was blocking the back.

No one can be calm when facing death.

"Do not kill me!"

"You know the consequences of doing this!"

boom!
A shot went off.

There was a bloody hole on the inspector's forehead, and red and white things splashed onto the door leaf, and he fell slowly against the door, leaving a striking red trail on the door.

After the end.

An S-level infected person from Section [-] pushed in. He was once the ace agent of Section [-] and was appointed to assist Section [-] in eradicating the threat from Liberty City.

"What you said..."

"Can I believe it?"

Agent Ace thought he could be ruthless to that extent, but he was still a little shaken when it actually happened. He didn't even know whether this violated his own beliefs. Perhaps this was the closest to the axiom of justice.

"It's not whether you can believe it."

"It's an objective fact."

"If the Countermeasure Bureau wins this war, it's okay."

"But if we fail."

"People . . . cannot stand against the beasts of the shadows."

"At least……"

"Let them see the most evil corner."

"that's……"

"True protection."

Because the smell of blood was a bit heavy, Harris turned on the ventilation system.

"What..."

"fallacy."

Agent Ace looked at the corpse on the ground and fell silent.

(End of this chapter)