"During my time in the army, there were rumors of a project. Code name 'Heir.' They said it involved mixing human DNA with… something else. Soldiers used to joke about it being alien blood, but no one ever saw proof. It was always dismissed as drunken talk."
He pointed at the pod. "That was no rumor. It was something real going on."
Taking a deep breath, Li Han continued, "About twenty years ago, my father called me to the study and gave me a mission.
He said that there was something dangerous that could cause a catastrophe in the world and had to be stopped. He said that something similar had happened before but our grandfather had used the Li family influence to shut it down and erased the tracks.
However, those people had not given up and started again. He showed me pictures of these monsters. I am guessing those photos should be the ones my sister had stumbled upon when she was younger." Uncle Li took a deep breath and swallowed some saliva.
