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A heavily guarded, secretive military base is situated here, with soldiers patrolling back and forth, each leading a military dog and armed with live ammunition, and watch posts and surveillance equipment scattered all around.

Meanwhile, it’s only a half-hour drive from the Beautiful Country’s military forces stationed in Siam; the army can arrive even quicker on the ground, and air force support is even faster.

This is the location of the CIA’s Jieke Affairs Bureau, officially named the Jieke Group Intelligence Research and Report Office, directly accountable to the CIA. The resources and manpower invested here are on the same scale as those initially directed towards Al-Qaeda, attracting only the most elite forces to this bureau.

In the office, a man with thick, flaxen hair and sharp, insightful eyes is working; he is none other than the bureau’s director, Moritz.

Rubbing his temples, Moritz sighed and said, “The C5 field team failed, huh?”

Standing in front of Moritz was a man in his fifties, with a prominent, hawk-like nose.

“Smith and his team botched it, they’ve been out of contact for 4 hours and 20 minutes, most likely they are dead.”

Mahat Butler’s expression was somber, as he was the person in charge of the field team, and the operation to capture Su Jie at the movie theater was directed by him.

Unfortunately, as soon as the four elite agents entered the theater, they vanished without a trace, never to relay any more intelligence.

Mahat Butler, who had been in this line of work for many years, knew all too well what this implied.

“According to our intelligence, there were no Jieke Security guards with the target at the time, just a woman; now that the mission has failed, we suspect that the strange woman seen with Su Jie is a Super Soldier.”

Mahat spoke with a mix of pain and sorrow in his eyes.

Smith had been his old friend for many years, and it was unimaginable that he had met such a fate.

The loss of four such elite agents was substantial, as cultivating such experienced agents was extremely difficult.

“Mahat, we should have been prepared for this, after all, we are dealing with an unimaginably crazy and terrifying organization. If capturing them had been so easy, there’d have been no need to establish our bureau,” Moritz said, twirling his pen and shaking his head with a bitter smile.

Just as Mahat was about to say something, the office door was suddenly knocked on, and an assistant rushed in.

“Director, the lab is requesting your presence.”

Moritz looked away and asked, “Is there a discovery?”

“Yes, Professor Rori Sanchez has made a new discovery.”

“Alright, I’ll head over now.”

Moritz stood up and said to Mahat, “Come with me, let’s see what the lab has discovered. Let’s hope they bring us some good news today to comfort the souls of Smith and the others, as they ascend to heaven.”

Together, they left the office and arrived at a large-scale laboratory.

The facility was fully equipped with an array of high-end instruments, and the researchers were elites from major medical and life sciences research centers.

Within the Jieke Affairs Bureau, to better study Super Soldiers, collaborations with major pharmaceutical companies were specifically established.

Asder Pharmaceutical was the leading sponsor of this research and development project.

Generally, such military-industrial projects in other countries are led by governments and military forces.

However, in the Beautiful Country, where capital reigns supreme, even defense weaponry is often outsourced to military-industrial complexes for production and R&D, becoming defense contractors that are virtually extensions of the state.

Pharmaceuticals are similarly highly lucrative, and Jieke Company, which rose to prominence with Tianyuan Hair Growth Liquid, now captivated the interest of major pharmaceutical groups with the existence of Super Soldiers, all eager to partake in the profits.

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Inside, Moritz saw several soldiers training.

Some were lifting heavy barbells with one arm, managing with a single arm to lift weights so heavy that others couldn’t manage with both.

Others were undergoing speed tests; even with a 30-kg weight, they ran faster than Bolt.

Others were undergoing firearms testing; blindfolded, they used their heightened senses to hit a swinging bell by identifying its position by sound.

These soldiers were Super Soldiers who had ingested Strengthening Pills.

Around them, researchers in white coats were documenting various parameters and occasionally let out exclamations of amazement, clearly shocked by the physical capabilities of the soldiers.

In the battlefield, the Beautiful Country also captured some Strengthening Pills.

Now, they were having their own soldiers take them to test the effects of these pills.

Moritz did not stay long, continuing onward to find the head of the Super Soldier research project, Professor Rori Sanchez, the chief scientist from Asder Pharmaceutical and a Nobel Prize winner in Medicine.

“Director Moritz.”

Professor Rori stood up and shook hands with Moritz.

“Professor Rori, how is your research coming along?”

Moritz directly inquired about Jieke Company’s Super Soldiers, which had always been something the Beautiful Country wanted to thoroughly investigate.

“Please follow me.”

Professor Rori led Moritz deeper into the laboratory while explaining, “We dissected the Super Soldier corpses and Strengthening Pills you sent us. Through dissection, the Super Soldiers’ physiques remain within the range of normal humans, but after taking the Strengthening Pill, they exhibit some truly miraculous changes.

This medicine, the Strengthening Pill, we have analyzed its pharmacology multiple times, yet certain ingredients remain elusive, and we do not know exactly how to synthesize it.”

“Is that all?”

Moritz frowned. In the last battle with Jieke Company, they had also killed some Super Soldiers, collected their bodies, and Strengthening Pills—all used in covert research, aiming to decipher the secrets of the Super Soldiers.

If the Beautiful Country possessed the Strengthening Pill, they could train these inhuman soldiers en masse. Coupled with their global leadership in advanced weapons technology, their combat power would surge to a new level.

“I am sorry, we also want to solve the Strengthening Pill, but we haven’t made much more progress yet.”

Professor Rori shook his head; he did not know that the essence of Strengthening Pill was actually Blood Slaughter Pill, made using something called Blood Marrow Crystal; it was impossible that he could detect and replicate it.

“However, we have discovered new secrets about the Super Soldiers, Director Moritz, and it is you who told me that Super Soldiers are divided into First-class, second-class, and third-class. Thanks to Mahat capturing a First-class Super Soldier, we have found crucial secrets in him.”

Professor Rori’s voice was excited as he arrived at a laboratory protected by bulletproof glass.

Inside the lab, a man lay motionless, typically Asian in appearance.

Upon seeing the man, Mahat’s brows furrowed: “Did you kill him? This First-class Super Soldier named Ruan Qianguang was not easy to capture.”

A week ago, Mahat had organized a secret operation.

Using intelligence, they dispatched elite field agents to capture a Jieke Security First-class Super Soldier named Ruan Qianguang who had left the military camp to visit his home.

He went home because his mother was seriously ill—a piece of information intercepted by the CIA.

The Chan Country’s Mande Region was Jieke Security’s territory, so the CIA was extremely cautious. Even with full preparations, the fact that Ruan had visited home without his Heavy Armor or having taken his Strengthening Pill still resulted in two dead elite agents.

Ruan demonstrated such physical strength and combat capabilities that, even without taking Strengthening Pills, he was comparable to an ordinary third-class Super Soldier.

Eventually, only after using a tranquilizer dose sufficient to sedate a tiger and electric shocks were they able to capture him alive.

Professor Rori shook his head, saying: “Such precious material, how could we possibly kill him? He’s just under sedation. This guy keeps struggling when awake, and you agents failed to persuade him to cooperate with us. Now we’ve only done some blood extraction and lab tests, but when we did a more detailed physical examination, we made new discoveries.”

He took out a stack of X-ray chest films, enhanced CTs, and MRI scans among other medical data and images from the table.

Pointing at one of the X-ray images, Professor Rori said, “Director Moritz, Team Leader Mahat, please look here, this is our new discovery, at the position of the heart, there is a foreign object in his heart.

We suspect it is a living parasite that absorbs nutrients from the body’s blood. Typically dormant, during combat it nourishes its host by providing energy and nutrients necessary for explosive physical activity.

This is why, even without ingesting Strengthening Pills, he possesses such terrifying physical prowess.”

“A parasite?”

Moritz stared at a white spot the size of a marble in the X-ray image, faintly oval in structure with shadow contours on both sides that indeed resembled insect limbs.

“Yes, a parasite, an unprecedented type of parasite capable of enhancing human bodies.”

Rori’s eyes gleamed with excitement behind his glasses; in human knowledge, parasites are generally harmful.

But today, a First-class Super Soldier cultivated by Jieke Company has demonstrated with a practical example that parasites could also be beneficial, aiding in human physical enhancement.

“So this is Jieke Company’s secret! No wonder they breed so many Poison Insects in the Mande Region, probably for such biological insect studies.”

Mahat pondered thoughtfully, linking many of Jieke Company’s strange behaviors to a much more logical explanation now.

“Director Moritz, I wish to request more First-class Super Soldier material, and to operate on this Super Soldier to extract the parasite. Only then can we better proceed with our research, perhaps unlocking Jieke Company’s true secrets.”

As soon as Rori spoke, Moritz hadn’t replied when Mahat’s brow furrowed.

“Professor Rori, do you think these First-class Super Soldiers are as common as cabbages? That you can just pluck them from the ground? You know how robust his physique is, and he’s from the Mande Region; once our men are exposed, they will be attacked by large forces.”

Mahat was furious, especially since he had just lost four elite agents.

“I’ll permit the operation, but you must ensure Ruan Qianguang’s life as much as possible. This material, we only have one sample at the moment. Regarding other living Super Soldiers, the CIA also faces difficulties and can’t provide more for the time being.”

Moritz spoke, aware that Rori represented the interests of domestic pharmaceutical groups.

With such a discovery, even if he wanted to stop the operation, it was impossible; domestic forces would press him.

“Then, Director Moritz and Team Leader Mahat, please observe here. We’ll commence the surgery now, and we will ensure Ruan Qianguang’s safety to our fullest capability.”

Rori had been waiting for this response; clapping his hands, a large group of doctors immediately entered the bulletproof glass lab to conduct the surgery to remove the parasite.

Rori himself also put on surgical gloves and a mask, holding a scalpel to personally lead the operation.

To prevent any accidents, armed soldiers were also called nearby to stand guard and ensure the operation proceeded safely.