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Sometime in the Modern Era, at the Vicon Biomedical Research Institute in Europe.
Dr. Augustine, wearing a white research coat and a badge with his full name and photo, looked at the report in his hand and sat there motionless for a long time before saying to his three students, "Don't leak this news for the time being. You… you should also be very clear that this news is too shocking."
Originally, their project was to study the gene segments that cause AIDS, trying to use genetic means to repair or modify the genes that cause AIDS, in order to achieve the effect of completely immunizing against such diseases.
As a result, they accidentally found a set of genes that can instantly cause emotional dysregulation and become extremely violent!
Augustine and his students had already conducted inhumane living experiments. Multiple test results proved the authenticity of their research results.
No matter how gentle a person is, after stimulating that part of the gene, they will instantly turn into a brutal villain.
Before this, people believed that human emotions were controlled by consciousness, but now, this perception is about to be overturned!
"Teacher, I thought of a practical value for our experimental results," said the student Beria.
Augustine looked at the student with a high nose and gloomy eyes: "Tell me about it."
Beria said: "It can be used on the battlefield! It can make enemies kill each other!"
The other two students also became excited. Student Andre Lader said: "That must be a wonderful scene."
"That's a good idea," Augustine said seriously. "Beria, you go and make enough biochemical agents. Andre Lader, you go and make and buy enough gas tanks."
Finally, he said to the third student: "North, you go and plan the itinerary. We're going to the Eastern European battlefield."
"Oh, right, remember to purchase a few drones. We're going to use drones to spread the biochemical agents."
After the three students went out to work, Augustine picked up the report and glanced at it again: "The basic composition of human beings is full of madness and distortion!"
He took out a lighter, burned the document, and then quickly went downstairs and drove home.
Augustine's home is in the suburbs. It is an old house inherited from his family. There is a tall Gothic building with thick, knee-high lawns in the front yard.
There are many large trees covered with green leaves. The green leaves are brushed by the wind, making a "rustling" sound.
Augustine opened the car window, and a warm summer breeze blew on him. The knee-high green grass seemed to be blown into waves, making him feel infinitely comfortable and peaceful.
In the backyard of the old house, there are tulips and azaleas of various colors. The summer breeze blows, and these flowers sway back and forth, looking like an ocean of flowers.
Augustine took a deep breath, strode into the house, and said to his wife sitting on the sofa in the living room: "You wait and see, I am not as useless as you said. My career will change this world!"
"All your arrogance and humiliation will become pale and ridiculous!"
He looked at his motionless wife, suddenly took a deep breath, and said affectionately: "I want to thank you, my dear, you awakened the demon in me."
"Hehe, this is not a metaphor. Ever since we had that argument that day, I have felt some subtle changes in myself."
"To be honest, this feeling is pretty good. My two competitors were both taken by me for experiments. Watching them beat each other and eventually bite each other is really a pleasure."
"And that investor who was talkative and didn't have any professional ethics, haha, he died a little more happily, his neck was bitten off by his own dog."
"Hehe, I didn't expect before that being a bad person is such a pleasant thing."
Augustine looked at his wife: "You have nothing to say, right! Hehe, hahaha!"
In the laughter, he went to the kitchen and started preparing dinner for himself.
And Augustine's wife was still sitting on the sofa. She didn't speak not because she didn't want to, but because a dagger was inserted in her chest, and there were even signs of rotting on her face.
After Augustine finished dinner, he sat in the dining room not far from his wife, "chatting" with his wife while eating all of his dinner.
… …
Three days later, late at night, in the military camp of a certain brigade on the Eastern European battlefield.
The sentry noticed the flying drones and used night vision scopes to destroy the three drones.
However, after the crash, the drones suddenly emitted a lot of white mist. At first, the sentry thought it was guiding the target for bombing, but at night, this guidance was not conspicuous.
Then he thought it might be some kind of virus weapon, but these sprays were too small, and a gust of wind basically dispersed them.
Finally, the sentry found that he could not judge the enemy's intention, so he reported the situation to his superiors.
About a minute later, the company commander in charge of the alert also did not make a clear judgment, but the mist was already very close to the military camp, so they blew the alert whistle.
Just when everyone was gathering and preparing to avoid the mist, suddenly a soldier seemed to be crazy and shouted: "Let this damn war end sooner!"
Then he began to scold the parliament and the president for being incompetent, and as he scolded, he began to scold their commanders.
Soon, the military camp was in chaos.
Da da da—
I don't know who fired the first shot, but the situation instantly got out of control, and the people in the entire military camp killed each other.
They used guns, daggers, and teeth to attack soldiers of the same nationality. The scene was very chaotic and bloody.
And all of this was recorded by drones in the air.
More than half an hour later, friendly troops sent people to check, and they quickly fell into this melee.
It was not until other brigades sent tanks and armored vehicles that the chaos was suppressed.
At this time, the biochemical agent had basically been diluted in the air. It would only make people irritable and would no longer allow the soldiers who came to support to join the melee.
In the past hour or so, most of the brigade stationed here was killed or injured. Fortunately, they had limited reason after completely falling into mania. They did not blow up the armory, nor did they use tanks and artillery that required the cooperation of several people to attack their comrades.
Otherwise, it would definitely cause casualties to the surrounding civilians.
… …
Returning to the laboratory, Augustine and his three students watched their masterpiece through the drone's video.
After watching all the videos, North suddenly said: "We can put the chemical reagent into a densely populated city."
"That's a matter for the future," Augustine smiled and pulled out the USB drive. "Next, I will go to find buyers. I think someone will be very interested in this."
Immediately, he contacted his old classmate Angus Gale, who worked in the Russian scientific research department, but Angus Gale was away on a business trip. Augustine hinted that the bizarre infighting on the Eastern European battlefield not long ago was related to his recent research, and Angus Gale asked Augustine to meet in Moscow.
The two agreed to meet in Gorky Park. After meeting, one of Angus Gale's actions made Augustine feel strange. He was actually wearing a priest's uniform, and he even wore a cross on his chest.
The two sat down on a bench with not many pedestrians. Augustine then asked: "Buddy, are you planning to resign and go to the church to be a missionary?"
Angus Gale smiled slightly, still with a bit of a lisp: "This involves some confidentiality clauses and cannot be explained to you clearly."
He said: "Let's talk about your business. Although the news has not reported it, many people know about the infighting that happened on the front line."
The investigation of the incident has basically ended, but the cause and process are still very vague.
"Our research has made a major discovery," Augustine spread his hands and said, "We have always thought that genes only affect the 'physical structure' of our bodies."
"It may affect IQ and EQ, but cognition, thinking, emotions, etc. are difficult to change after they are formed."
"But in recent research, I have found genes that can change the emotions of an adult, and it is the kind of essential change. No matter how gentlemanly or ladylike they were before, they will become a violent Lunatic."
"You should know what this means."
Angus Gale looked at his old classmate for a second or two before saying: "That is to say, humans have one more way to harm their own kind?"
"Don't be so pessimistic, buddy," Augustine smiled easily. "We can use this method to deal with enemies."
"Old friend, do you remember our discussion about nuclear weapons when we were in school?" Angus Gale re-examined his friend: "At first, the Americans also planned to use it to deal with enemies."
Augustine was silent for a few seconds before asking: "That is to say, you are not going to help me seek government investment?"
"You don't even know what kind of changes are happening in this world," Angus Gale said seriously. "The human world is chaotic enough, don't add trouble to humans."
Augustine was silent for a few more seconds before saying: "You seem to have some huge discovery recently too!"
"Yes."
Angus Gale rubbed his face with both hands before saying, "Although this violates the relevant regulations, I still have to tell you that we have discovered many shocking things in Chernobyl."
"You may not know, but just ten days ago, all the unextracted oil in the world suddenly disappeared without a trace.
Since ten days ago, countries have been using their own oil reserves, but no one dares to make this news public."
Augustine seemed to suddenly realize something: "Fifteen days ago?"
"You, you know?" Angus Gale was a little surprised.
Augustine took a deep breath: "Do you believe that inner evil is contagious?"
"What?"
"I mean, inner evil, or rather, a person's evil, can be contagious to the people around them like a cold?"
Angus Gale was stunned for a few seconds before asking, "Can you... can you explain in more detail?"
"That also happened fifteen days ago," Augustine said, his hands trembling slightly.
"It was as if something suddenly woke up inside my body."
"The feeling is very strange, I am still me, but I am not like me anymore!"
"Evil thoughts filled my heart, and it became increasingly difficult for me to control my urge to commit crimes."
"The next day, I discovered that my wife and my three students were gradually becoming as evil as I was!"
"At this moment, I suddenly realized that a certain gene in my body had been suddenly activated by some accidental event."
"This gene is not only present in me, but also in my wife, my students, and you, old friend, you must also have it!"
"Because I had accomplices, I began to commit crimes without restraint.
I killed my wife, who always humiliated me.
I imprisoned two competitors who always sneered at me and a nagging investor."
"Watching their expressions of painful struggle in the last moments of their lives made me feel very happy."
"My three students have truly become my capable assistants.
They help me conduct human experiments and help me create biological agents that can plunge a field army into mutual slaughter."
"They are also enjoying the process."
Angus Gale listened quietly, as if these shocking events were just normal life experiences.
Finally, Augustine said, "At that moment, I finally understood that human evil really exists in genes.
When these genes awaken under certain conditions, evil will cover the entire person's mind."
After a few seconds of silence, Angus Gale said, "The fact that you can say this proves that there is still a trace of goodness in your heart."
He paused and then said, "Your actions are indeed very evil in the current world, but the human world may be about to undergo tremendous changes."
"Yes, I have a premonition, I have never had such a strong premonition!"
"An unknown force is about to descend upon this land, and all the evil things you have done may become the norm at that time."
He got up and said, "Therefore, I will decide whether to call the police and expose your crimes after the research in Chernobyl has clear results."
"Go back, my friend, believe me, no matter what the final result is, you won't need investors in a while."
After saying that, Angus Gale quickly left.
Augustine stared at his friend's back for a long time, as if he had suddenly understood something, and got up and quickly left.
Back in the laboratory, Augustine's three students were already waiting for news at the research institute.
When they saw their teacher returning, they stood up and asked about the results with their eyes.
"I have brought shocking news," Augustine said solemnly.
"The end of the world is coming, and we must quickly build our own kingdom!"
"Next, you will manufacture a large number of biochemical agents and spread them in a densely populated city, while I will teach you how to control those who have fallen into extreme mania."
"That's right, for the three of you, those who are affected by biochemical agents and fall into extreme rage can be controlled to a certain extent."
The three students were first surprised, but then they became very excited.
Beria asked, "Teacher, which city should we spread the biochemical agents in?"
Augustine asked back, "What are your thoughts?"
At this time, Norse, who rarely spoke but was meticulous, said, "We can consider Brasilia in South America.
It is densely populated and has poor security.
As long as we operate properly, no one will sabotage our plan."
Augustine nodded, "Then let's go with Brasilia, hurry up and prepare, we may not have much time left."
For the next half month, the four people smuggled a large number of raw materials for biological agents to Brazil, and then used academic exchanges as a cover to manufacture a large number of finished biological agents in Brasilia.
But before they could use those agents, the area outside their residence fell into madness.
The four people saw that the people on the street suddenly turned into monsters one by one.
Before they could understand what was going on, they lost their minds.
Augustine felt like he had a very long dream.
In his dream, a giant stood up on the horizon, and illusory spots of light from all over the world merged into the giant's body.
Finally, a few spots of light flew from the sky, or rather, from the universe, and all entered the giant's body.
The next second, the giant instantly collapsed, and the spots of light flew to all parts of the world again.
One of the spots of light flew to Augustine's side.
It was a viscous black liquid that kept circling around Augustine and refused to leave.
After a long, long time, these viscous liquids gradually merged with Augustine.
In pain, Augustine gained a lot of knowledge in his mind.
He knew that those black viscous liquids were the Uniqueness of the "Demon" pathway.
The reason why it found him was because he was polluted by the "Abyss."
And the reason why he was polluted by the "Abyss" was because the giant was about to awaken, and many strange forces became active.
Augustine didn't know how long he struggled in pain.
Suddenly, he woke up and found that his three students, Norse, Beria, and Andeandra, had all turned into demons with goat horns and bat wings.
They were still sleeping, but there were signs that they were about to wake up.
Augustine glanced at the biochemical agents they had prepared.
He didn't know if the gas tank had exploded by itself because it had been too long, or if someone had opened it.
In short, those agents had already leaked.
Looking at the ruins outside, the streets that looked like the end of the world, he was in a trance, and for a moment he seemed to forget who he was.
After a while, he suddenly remembered something and picked up the certificate he was wearing on his chest.
The words on it were still faintly visible, and the line for the name read: Augustine Farbauti.
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