Kill them in Cyberman!

Albert said jokingly.

"It's very likely. Then I'll help you destroy it."

Lucy deliberately put on a serious expression and was about to pick up the box and leave.

"Hey, just kidding!"

Seeing Albert's frustrated look, Lucie, whose little plot had succeeded, felt a little secretly delighted.

At this moment, Albert's terminal suddenly rang.

"Master, please check the news, something terrible has happened!"

As soon as the call was connected, S's excited voice came out like an explosion.

Albert and Lucie were both stunned.

Connect to the news with the terminal...

Lucy's face suddenly turned cold, "It's just what I said."

Albert was watching the report on the terminal with great interest.

"At noon today, the internationally influential Shinomiya Group announced that in order to celebrate the birthday of Shinomiya Kaguya, the current heir of the Shinomiya family, the Shinomiya Group will hold a grand fireworks show and parade in Tokyo in the middle of this month. Citizens of Tokyo can attend and watch for free."

"At the same time, this station has important news. The Shinomiya Group has specially invited Albert Hermes, the president of Hermes Technology, with whom it had previously had a tense relationship, to attend the celebration. This may be a turning point in the relationship between the two world-class giants. Let us..."

"Master, have you seen the news?"

"That crazy woman Kaguya Shinomiya is definitely trying to harm you, so you'd better be careful."

S's words were filled with concern and fatigue. It seemed that she was overworked from working overtime recently.

"Well, I've seen the news. Let the public relations department respond to it."

"Are you going to refuse or..."

"No, I accept Kaguya Shinomiya's invitation..."

After handing the matter over to S, Albert found that Lucy was looking at him strangely.

"What's wrong? Is it strange that I would make such a decision?"

"Normally, you should refuse. After all, that woman is not a simple person. You shouldn't get too close to her right now."

Lucy sat back on the lab table, pushed the box in front of Albert, and pointed at it.

"But obviously, she has guessed your answer."

"No, I don't think she guessed."

"Ok?"

Albert took the box, twisted the lock on it to unlock it, and the box slowly opened in front of the two of them.

There was nothing else, just a thin piece of paper lying quietly in the groove in the center.

The corners of the paper have black and red Japanese decorations, and the blank area in the middle has only three words written in ink.

yes or “woof”

"Because she never thought of giving me the power to refuse."

Albert smiled faintly and pushed the paper towards Lucy.

"She's humiliating you."

Lucy frowned. She felt uncomfortable with Kaguya Shinomiya's attitude towards Albert.

Faced with a statement that would make any normal person angry, Albert did not show any emotion. He even smiled and sat next to Lucie, gently lifted her hair, and whispered in her ear.

"Don't think so. This is a unique way of communication between us."

"Hehe, when did your relationship become so close?"

Lucy slapped Albert away. Judging from human emotions, she was very clear that she was jealous.

But Lucy did not suppress these emotions, because she just wanted Albert to know: "I am jealous, come and comfort me!"

"It's okay. Although I have only met Shinomiya Kaguya once, I am sure that she is a very interesting person."

"So have you decided to find her to be your new love, or are you going to run over and be her...dog?"

"I haven't considered the second possibility, and..."

Albert gently turned Lucie's head towards him, and she did not resist.

The two looked at each other, and Lucy saw the faint smile on Albert's face, and immediately felt that nothing good was going to happen.

"And what?"

"You and Joel are going with me."

"What about S? She should..."

However, in recent times, Lucy felt that she and S were getting along pretty well, and coupled with her inexplicable close relationship with Albert, the two could be considered best friends.

"If S also goes, who will take care of the company's affairs?"

Seeing Albert's rogue expression, Lucy couldn't help feeling sad for the secretary, but also a little happy. After all, she still wanted to go traveling with her close partner.

"You are such a scumbag."

"Um, really?"

Looking at each other so close, both of them were already familiar with hailing a car.

"Woo~"

(The next chapter is a reverse chronological supplement to this transition period)

No. 44 Genetic Technology + Prosthetic Technology

After solving the mess left by Colen, the development of Hermes Technology is booming, which means that everyone can no longer be as leisurely as before.

Lucy was appointed by Albert as the exclusive foreign aid of the intelligence department, and her status was equal to that of the current leader Oren. At first, the fat man was a little reluctant, but after discovering that Lucy's arrival not only did not compete with him for power but also greatly improved the efficiency and capabilities of the intelligence department, this guy calmed down.

Naturally, Joel could no longer do odd jobs, so Albert arranged a professional job for her to assist the security forces in dealing with those powerful and lawless mercenary groups. After all, due to the hunting of degraded orcs, people from all walks of life flocked to Newland, adding a lot of security pressure to the city.

As for S, he was working hard among the piles of documents.

Finally, there was only one person left. In order to find something to do for Anya, the youngest member of the mansion, everyone decided to send her to an elementary school in Newland City.

Although the parties concerned have reservations about this, at least everyone has something to do now, which is good news. (Albert: slacking off)

Although he was just slacking off, Albert naturally would not stay in the mansion like his predecessor, but came to Institute Zero at Helen's invitation.

The research on degraded orcs is going on in full swing outside, and Hermes Technologies, as a giant in biotechnology, naturally has no reason to miss it.

"Dr. Helen, any progress?"

In the laboratory, Albert, dressed in casual clothes, opened the door and walked in.

"Is that you, President? It's great that you can come."

As soon as Helen saw Albert coming, she immediately stopped what she was doing and ran to him with shining eyes.

He took out some kind of scanning device from somewhere.

"Can I check it for you?"

Albert felt helpless when he saw the other party's fanatical look, but who could blame him as a man who cared about his subordinates?

"random."

With Albert's approval, Helen couldn't wait to use the instrument to scan his entire body.

"Adolescent male individual, vital signs normal."

"How on earth did you manage to make that nuclear bomb disappear?"

After carefully examining the report on the instrument for a while, Helen finally couldn't help but ask.

"Your body doesn't show any reaction to the existence of any supernatural powers. This is really incredible."

It turns out that the instrument in her hand is used to examine people with special abilities (psychics).

"Superpowers? How much do you know about this thing?"

Seeing that the other party brought it up, Albert also became interested.

"Well, I don't know much. Although it's no secret among the upper echelons that people with special abilities do exist, they are too rare in this world, and most of them are secretive. It's difficult for me to find a suitable experimental sample."

Helen pressed her forehead, looking quite helpless.

"Even this instrument was made by me with reference to the data of my predecessors. Theoretically, it can check whether a person is a mutant or not."

"Is it so difficult to find a mutant with the power of Hermes Technology?"

Albert thought of the Shinomiya Group's experiments on superpowers. The other party had already started to create artificial superpowers, but our professional biological company was still in the theoretical stage.

"In fact, the former president Nietzsche, your father, was quite averse to this matter, so he did not give me much support in this regard."

"But when I hired some people to look for the traces of the superpowers, there was a lot of resistance."

Helen told Albert the whole story.

"Resistance, someone is stopping you?"

"If my feeling is correct, every time I try my best to find a person with superpowers with a high probability, that person will mysteriously disappear, as if he or she has evaporated from the face of the earth, and there is absolutely no clue left."

"Interesting, it seems someone is indeed behind this, is it my father?"

"Probably not. If President Nietzsche wanted to stop me, he wouldn't use such means."

"So you are temporarily giving up your research on superpowers?"

"That's right. After all, there are too few experimental subjects and practical activities cannot be carried out. I can only devote my energy to other projects first."

At this point, Helen suddenly remembered something, and the middle-aged woman excitedly shook the pair of "basketballs" in front of her chest.

"President Albert, you should come and see the results of my experiment. I'm sure you will be satisfied this time."

Having said that, she led the way herself and went with Albert to the depths of the laboratory.

A burly figure was floating in the culture tank in the laboratory.

Helen pointed at the contents of the culture tank excitedly and said, "President Albert, the research on those degraded orcs is going quite smoothly. I used the gene editing technology I showed you before to disassemble the genes of these creatures and then merge them with the genes of normal humans. After thousands of failures, I created the prototype experiment you see in front of you."

"Only a few thousand failures? Looks like we're lucky."

"But is it really okay to use that unstable 'zombie virus'?"

Albert felt unreal as he looked at the tall monster in the culture tank that looked like a tyrant in the movie.

"President, science always requires the courage to try. I have used all the available insurance. It is very safe. Besides, the guy in front of you is not a complete body."

"What are you going to do?"

"I plan to try to install some experimental special prostheses on this guy to further improve his combat capabilities while retaining his quality. I also plan to try the electronic biochemical technology to create your personal guards. Although I can't achieve the level of Miss Lucy, if my idea can be realized, then this guy will definitely be a qualified mass-produced high-performance biological weapon."

Helen became more and more excited as she spoke, just like the mad scientists in the movies. "By the way, we can also try those exoskeletons that are in the experimental stage..."

"That being said, is this guy enough for you to torment me like this?"

"You absolutely don't have to worry about this, dear Mr. President. Although the production process of the first one may take a lot of resources and time, now I have found the formula and tricks. If I want to mass-produce these things next time, I only need to pay a small training fee."

"how much is it?"

"A prototype test subject is about half a million."

Albert nodded. In the cyber age of inflation, this amount of money was a drop in the bucket for a giant company. After all, the mental damages Albert paid to Lucy were as high as 10 million.

"Ding ~"

Albert's terminal rang. It was Lucy.

Chapter 45: Trip to Tokyo

When you look down at the world from a thousand meters above the ground, you will always have some special feelings.

For example, the fear of heights that is engraved in human DNA. It is because of human's instinctive fear of death that we feel how dangerous the situation we are in is.

But Albert did not have this fear. As a high-dimensional creature in a conceptual sense, the concept of death did not exist for Species Zero.