Infinity, progressing from Arasaka

The language used is also more direct; they'll call NUSA a little bastard and say that its predecessor, USA, was even more unclean, and so on.

Zeta, Contau, and other neutral parties are trying to smooth things over, while the European Bank is spouting empty rhetoric about peace, offering all possible assistance except for help in the friendly misunderstanding negotiations between Arasaka and military technology...

Anyway, the verbal battles and mutual exposing of each other's dirty secrets were quite entertaining.

Vera even saw a report from a spokesperson for Arasaka's side: "Recently, a military technology team secretly infiltrated the ruins of some ancient Tuban-speaking tribes in Central Africa. We don't know what they're looking for, but it's very similar to the study tour route of one of our supervisors. Could they have stolen something?"

The tone and word choice were extremely sarcastic.

But it was just a matter of venting.

Vera knew very well that the matter would inevitably be overshadowed by other new hot topics and fizzle out.

Unless Arasaka directly confronts military technology.

Turn the page.

Just as Vera was engrossed in reading, a 'beep beep' sounded, indicating a new email.

She glanced at it; it bore the mark of being an expedited shipment from the Tokyo Arasaka Biotechnology Department.

The biological laboratory and security forces for the Solar Staircase project have been completed and are ready to conduct research at any time.

Her mission progress has now turned from a question mark to an exclamation mark.

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Chapter 063 Oh my god, Saburo Arasaka has become younger! (4.5K)

More than a week later.

The biological laboratory for the Solar Staircase project is located in the Arasaka Industrial Park, Tokyo, within the factory area under the Department of Biotechnology.

Bang!

"Roar--"

Heavy hammering sounds, accompanied by chilling, inhuman roars, echoed faintly from the depths of the laboratory.

"Okay, inject the inhibitors and anesthetics, 'lose weight,' remove the excess muscle and bone growth. Be careful to destroy it."

Outside the fully enclosed experimental chamber's observation window, there were examination instruments such as a blood pressure monitor, heart rate monitor, brain neuron wave detector, and BIS machine. Vera, carrying a data panel, stood up from the central control console and said, "Take her into custody."

"Yes, supervisor."

Beside him, a staff member from the Arasaka Laboratory, dressed in a gray-white full-body protective suit and wearing a laboratory information mask, bowed and nodded.

They were Saburo Arasaka's assistants assigned to Vera.

Whether they are trustworthy or not, whether they have informants or not, is none of Vera's concern; she can simply order them around as she pleases.

Rather, it's more accurate to say that she is indeed trained by the Tokyo headquarters. She is obedient but not arrogant, and has extremely strong execution ability. At least she is very easy to use.

Da da.

Through the cold protective glass, Vera walked to the observation window and looked at the figure inside whose limbs, torso, and head were firmly fixed by thick metal arms.

It was a monster the size of a giant.

It is humanoid with eerie gray-brown skin and a height of over 8.7 feet.

His whole body was bulging with muscles, his muscle groups were highly swollen, and the fibers were wriggling like granulation tissue. There was bone hyperplasia, and under his exaggeratedly broad shoulders were fists as big as casseroles. Segments of bone pierced through the flesh and blood, protruding from the acromion, scapula, spine, ribs and other parts, with blood vessels bulging.

Finally, there was that enormous, deformed head—bald, with distorted features and a neck as thick as a person's.

Tyrant, no, to be precise, a progenitor infected with the progenitor virus.

The infected, who were half-successful and half-failed, are like the last two heirs to the throne in the West African Dubaia Empire before its demise in the Resident Evil world.

He was the unfortunate military technician whose throat was ripped open by the first 'zombie' in the cyberpunk world.

After a week of continuous experimentation by Vera, the progenitor virus was injected in increased doses and adjusted, eventually swelling into its current form.

Because he was not a professional combatant in his lifetime, the degree of cybernetics on his body was relatively low, and his skeleton was still his original skeleton. At the beginning of the experiment, Vera was fortunate enough to witness a very exciting scene.

A cybernetic human, not heavily modified, but still half-flesh and half-iron.

The progenitor virus invaded the remaining half of its body. As the flesh and blood received the new progenitor virus from Vera, they swelled and proliferated. The cyber implants and the body itself experienced severe rejection and were squeezed out.

For example, after the synthetic lung is removed, its self-healing lung is like a huge lesion tumor. When dissected, it still has lung structures such as alveoli. It is indeed a virus based on DNA. In the eyes of the progenitor virus, the DNA of this military science agent is still human. No matter how deeply it is modified, it is still human.

So, following the lessons learned from Dr. Umbrella Marcus and Dr. William, Vera combined them with reality, sometimes suppressing and sometimes increasing the injection, adjusting as needed, and constantly extracting the incidental variants and byproducts of the progenitor virus from the experimental subject she named 'Tyrant Zero'.

Standing on the shoulders of giants, and with Umbrella's countless successes and failures paving the way, Vera didn't hesitate much. With ample funding and the backing of numerous high-tech experimental devices provided by Arasaka, she quickly made some progress.

The small piece of the pie she painted for Sanlang, the 'sweetness' that he could taste, has entered the final stage of safety testing.

At this moment, a buzzing sound followed by a puffing sound.

Once the thickest syringe, about the size of an adult's thumb, was forcefully inserted into its carotid artery, spine, heart, and groin artery by the robotic arm, the lab AI began to 'slim down' the giant according to Vera's commands.

As the robotic arm, equipped with cutters, drills, and flesh-slicing razors, began to work, the horrific sound of flesh being torn apart echoed throughout.

Blood splattered, bones were chopped and tendons were broken. Before long, the giant had finished slimming down. The swollen muscles and proliferating bone fragments were removed, and even the abnormal bones inside his body were extracted.

Then, the self-destructing neural control chip implanted in its brain issues the command: go to sleep.

Layers of robotic arms and restraints envelop it, while the disinfection and cleaning system operates.

"Thanks to military technology, I have been given my Lisa."

With a soft smile, Vera silently withdrew her gaze.

Umbrella's bloodstained legacy...

Although she knew she wasn't much better than Oswell E. Spencer.

But Spencer was able to use George Trevor, the engineer who had dutifully designed the Arklay Mansion, as the initial living subject for his research on the Progenitor Virus without any psychological burden, and then used his underage daughter, Lisa Trevor, to conduct various biochemical experiments for more than a decade, causing the Trevor family to be destroyed.

Vera felt inferior; you were truly a beast.

Turn around.

Ta-ta…

After leaving the experimental subject storage room, Vera strolled leisurely through the vast laboratory towards her own private lab.

Along the way, numerous surveillance cameras, scanners, and automated turrets silently testified to the high level of security in the area.

After nodding to the guards at a key point in the laboratory passageway, Vera passed through the access control.

Click, the door opened.

The sensor lights automatically turn on when the visitor's biometric information is detected.

Vera walked to the workbench, inserted the data board in her hand into the special slot, pulled over an office chair and sat down. Looking at the data summary on the charts, she briefly sorted out her thoughts, and then snapped her fingers.

Boom!

The area around Vera's workbench was made up of large, cold, and smooth reinforced polarized glass panels.

Inside, there is a highly automated, futuristic laboratory-grade culture chamber and chemical synthesis equipment, including a cleaner, sieve, pulverizer, mixer, extractor, distiller, reaction vessel, spray dryer, vacuum dryer, chromatograph, photometer... It has almost everything needed for pharmaceutical manufacturing, supported by a dedicated supercomputer.

Holographic screens displaying various indices were projected onto the central workbench by the dome imaging system.

Vera stared at the data panel screen in front of her.

In just over a week, various mutant strains and related experimental byproducts extracted from 'Tyrant Zero' were collected here in different forms, including liquids, powders, solids, and semi-solid ointments. In short, they were all in the optimal form to preserve their characteristics.

According to calculations in her mind, when the purified, obscure, semi-transparent substance, just obtained from 'Tyrant Zero,' was transferred to Vera's private laboratory, she pressed the synthesis switch, and the beeping sound of the keyboard never stopped.

The synthesis has begun.

Based on the results of Umbrella's extensive clinical trials and the relatively rigorous data calculated by Vera, the instrument began to work. Byproduct extracts and related elements were dissolved at a specific temperature, and then filtered, sterilized, weighed, and mixed according to the steps...

Finally, the liquid is diluted and combined with glucose.

Brainpower pills and the enhanced version of Regenerate.

Relying on the ancestral virus's ability to activate cell vitality, by-products with this characteristic are cultivated in a one-way manner. This reduces the upper limit of the virus's enhanced efficacy while greatly reducing side effects. It has the effect of activating dead cells to rejuvenate users, inhibiting brain aging, treating Alzheimer's disease, and significantly improving thinking and logical abilities.

At Umbrella, this drug is undoubtedly the pinnacle of its medical products, and also a high-end, exorbitantly priced drug.

But for Saburo Arasaka, no price is too high; what he wants is a new drug that has no drug resistance, can slow down aging, and prolong life.

"The parameters seem a bit off... The risk is too high, let's adjust them again."

Vera compared the parameters of the chromatograph and photometer, closed her eyes slightly, pondered for a moment, and, just to be safe, continued to make adjustments.

once.

twice.

three times.

finally--

"Hoo..." Vera paused her real-time micro-management, focusing on the parameters that were basically consistent with the calculations in her mind and the predictions of the AI ​​simulation experiment. She let out a soft exclamation, checked the time, June 18, 2075, 22/15, and wrote, "Name it, R-618 Newborn Agent."

Lab-assisted AI: [Already included.]

Vera pressed the dedicated communication button on the workbench, "Pass the word, recruit volunteers, R-618 neonatal agent, clinical trials can begin."

beep.

Then, she changed the channel and said, "Commander Shintaro, I have good news to tell Lord Saburo."

...

Another half month has passed, and July has arrived.

In the Arasaka family compound, Vera, who was returning to the palace for the second time, stood in front of Shintaro Takayama.

"Are you sure?" he asked, while his finger kept sliding across the data panel.

As he quickly browsed through the document, the look of surprise in Takayama Shintaro's eyes grew stronger. The document contained the latest progress of the Solar Staircase project, as well as a mass-producible achievement: R-618 Newborn Agent.

There are also clinical trial results, including real-life images of disabled volunteers recruited from the outskirts and slums of Tokyo being injected with the R-618 neonatal drug, with the most detailed observations on the older men.

Vera's meaning is self-evident.

Want to give Sanlang a shot?

"Commander Shintaro, this medicine isn't an oral medication that takes effect immediately upon ingestion. It's a special medicine for Lord Saburo, so it must be highly targeted and used only by one person. I need to prepare it specifically based on Lord Saburo's individual condition..."