The escape from the hsAC was known only to her husband. How did her sister get the news?
The atmosphere was awkward, and no one spoke.
As Hathaway looked into Elsa's eyes, she felt a strange, indescribable sensation.
Could her own sister be in league with those people from the laboratory?!
Thinking this, Hathaway's gaze turned cold. If anyone wanted to disturb the peace of her family, even her own sister, she would feel no guilt.
Exchanging a look with Nirel, the couple decided to strike first.
"Alright, my dear sister, don't waste your efforts. If I die, the Council will rush in and tear your whole family to pieces.
So, we can still talk things over now, for Mother's sake, alright?"
The Council?!
At the mention of that name, Hathaway's actions froze. At this time, the Council was a group with more power than the Federal Committee.
They called themselves the twelve disciples of the Holy Lord and controlled the entire healthcare system of the White Eagle Federation, with their influence also present in the military and politics.
Ordinary people might not know this, but she was not so ignorant. Being taken for experimentation was the Council's way of silencing them; they were both ace agents.
They specialized in doing the Council's dirty work.
Now, having escaped from death's door and broken free from them, they were still being targeted.
"Alright, what do you want?" Hathaway asked the question again.
"I want to experiment with you, regarding what you discovered, to benefit humanity."
"What does the Council want?"
Hathaway did not believe this was Elsa's own idea.
"The Council just wants me to join your research."
The voices in the room stopped here.
Wang Xiaoxin and Andrea exchanged glances, and just as they were about to leave, they found themselves floating higher and higher, their perspective turning into that of God.
Elvie and Edgar, the brother and sister who remained, also left quickly. The entire scene began to fast-forward. They saw Hathaway and Nirel's experimentation with Elsa.
What they discovered was a shuttle-shaped alien spacecraft lying in a valley. The ship was almost broken in half, and the weapon that caused the damage was unclear from the jagged edges.
However, it was precisely this gap that allowed Hathaway to enter it smoothly for experimentation.
This ship seemed to be a transport vessel, carrying a variety of goods, the most prevalent among them being "meteorites" that emitted a dark purple glow.
Even though in the eyes of alien civilizations, this might just be a precious mineral.
Besides the "meteorites," what Hathaway and the others were researching were two devices in the ship resembling hibernation pods, a large cradle-like device, and a mass of black, constantly churning flesh tissue, which was also their research subject.
It was not much different from alien creatures depicted in movies.
With the Council's involvement, their research progressed rapidly. After about two years, the entire valley was cleared and moved inside a mountain.
During this period, although Hathaway and her husband tried their best to conceal it, the young Elvie and Edgar still sensed something amiss, and their personalities shifted from innocent and cheerful to somewhat gloomy.
Andrea knew that this was when she appeared, but she also didn't know that there were such events behind the experiences she had gone through.
A massive underground base was built here. Some of the ship's technology was deciphered by the Council, and some devices were replicated in the base. Fortunately, there were no weapons, or the world would have ended before the zombie apocalypse even began.
The two devices that Hathaway and the others were researching were also not replicated, only their methods of use were figured out.
Therefore, after the alien ship wreckage was cleared, almost every day people were kidnapped and brought in for experimentation. The content of these experiments was horrific.
Most of them were for experiments on cell and tissue regeneration frequency and lifespan, and the key component in this experiment was the mass of black, churning flesh tissue taken from the alien ship.
However, the results of most experiments were tragic, producing only deformed monsters or creatures akin to those from Lovecraftian lore, with nothing normal emerging.
But Elsa, behind Hathaway and Nirel's backs, experimented on insects.
It didn't work at first, but after the addition of the marine organism, the bobbit worm, everything changed.
The monsters created were no longer uncontrollable, but became manageable, stealthy, and highly modifiable to the human body.
Excitedly, she shared this experimental result with Hathaway and Nirel, only to be met with looks of fear and despair.
What they were creating would never benefit humanity; on the contrary, it would lead to its destruction.
However, their own children were in the Council's hands. If they made any move, the consequences were unacceptable to them.
The experiments became smoother and smoother, and the experimental subjects created were able to lay eggs and reproduce like parasites within the human body, with only a single command from the host controlling these eggs and parasites.
The meteorites brought them infinite surprises.
But as the experiments neared their end, the Council had obtained the experimental data they wanted and ordered Elsa to bring back the experimental subjects.
The couple found an opportunity and tried to secretly send Elvie and Edgar away, but they were still discovered by Elsa's people, and in the end, they were all locked up in the dungeon.
They thought the matter would end there, but one day Elsa's experiment went terribly wrong. Hathaway and Nirel didn't know what happened, but judging by the things wriggling under Elsa's skin and her occasional frenzied behavior, it was clear that the experiment had indeed gone wrong.
"Elsa, did you inject the immortality tissue into yourself?!" Hathaway questioned her angrily.
The "immortality tissue" was something they had created from the blood and flesh extract from the ship, possessing strong regenerative and uncontrollable properties.
Elsa did not answer, only waved her hand forward.
Several soldiers behind her immediately took Hathaway away.
"What about the rest of them?"
"Just kill them," Elsa said, her eyes red and bloodshot.
Edgar and Elvie were met with ruthless bullets, as was Nirel.
No one knew what happened next.
They thought the memories would end here, but the scene did not change.
Sometime later, when Hathaway returned to the prison, she saw her deceased children and husband.
Everything turned black and white. Weeping profusely, she took out three large glass bottles filled with solution from her backpack and began to perform trepanation on the three deceased.
Could the former ace agents perform such delicate surgery?
Andrea and Wang Xiaoxin found something strange about this, but when Hathaway removed their brains, the nerves were still intact.
And what surprised Wang Xiaoxin and Andrea even more was that Hathaway moved through areas with guards as if walking on level ground.
What about Elsa?
No one knew.
The scene shifted, and Hathaway brought the three glass bottles to a device resembling a giant cradle.
Inside this cradle was a square chamber, divided into two sides.
The left side was already filled with all sorts of strange substances: calcium carbonate, fat, carbohydrates, and some that Wang Xiaoxin couldn't recognize.
In the scene, Hathaway placed a brain into the right chamber and a small piece of the ship's flesh tissue into it.
These two items did not fall to the bottom of the chamber and turn into mud; instead, they floated in mid-air, and a blue light scanned them as if identifying something.
A green button was pressed.
The meteorite substances in the container above slowly flowed down.
A miraculous thing happened.
The material on the left was rapidly consumed, while on the right, a human shell gradually appeared. The brain and that piece of tissue were absorbed during its creation. In the end, this body became neither human nor not human.
But when the skin was covered, Andrea was stunned.
This was Edgar as a child!!