At noon, when Liam Sterling and Ronan Kendrick entered Rhys Chase's office, he still hadn't woken up.
Ronan Kendrick could tell from the color of his face that he had entered a devolution period. Successfully gene-edited humans were divided into two types. The first was a 100% success, with no defects, as flawless as a robot; every ten years, they could even undergo a self-evolutionary upgrade. The other type was a "passable" specimen. Although considered a success, their various stats and metrics only met the minimum passing score. After the age of thirty-five, this type of edited human would experience a one-month devolution period every year. Rhys Chase was forty-five, so he had been devolving for ten years. If his stats were at a 95 when he was thirty-five, they were now only at a 70.
