Dragon Raja 5; Chapter 321: For Your Majesty (136)

Dragon Raja 5

“We always embed a thin titanium plate in the chest of the hellhound, so that scales won’t grow on it. We call this design an ‘execution window,’ so when we want to kill a hellhound, we can use a steel spike to pierce through the execution window and stir it up, destroying its heart,” Auchinez said in a low voice.

“So this isn’t the first time you’ve seen these things. What are they? Some organization’s house-elves?”

“We first deployed these weapons in Afghanistan in 1979, codenamed ‘Hellhounds.’ They’re similar to neutron bombs; once deployed, they’re left alone on the battlefield, then cleared out in a few hours. They only attack living things, not destroying supplies. Weapons, ammunition, and vehicles can be confiscated and immediately used; they were once considered the decisive weapon on the land battlefield.” Auchinez bit into a bandage he’d taken from a GRU soldier, trying to bind his severed arm. “But there was no way; they were just too dangerous. A few strays could wipe out a nearby village, and the trainers rarely survived the first year. We couldn’t let them fall into American hands. After several major accidents, we dared not use them anymore. I never thought we’d be using them on ourselves today.”

“1979?” Su Enxi was taken aback.

Based on the intelligence provided by Zero, it is speculated that after the collapse of the Soviet Union, the core asset of that research institute, namely the giant black snake, escaped half-dead and was unexpectedly captured by Bunin.

Bunin obtained the technology to refine the Dragon King’s serum through some channel, and the person behind it may be the mastermind. This serum, capable of artificially creating low-level hybrids, was sold to high-ranking officials in the former Soviet Union, the very people who divided and seized the Soviet Union’s assets. This mysterious auction used this serum to firmly control these people and their families, extracting value from them. However, according to Auchinez, he had already been in contact with the dragon subspecies as early as 1979, and he explicitly stated that it was “we” who released the Hellhounds in Afghanistan.

He was a participant, and these people were probably all participants; each of them carried the burden of original sin.

“Are you out of your mind, woman? I just sacrificed an arm to save you!” Auchinez bared her teeth angrily, more ferocious than the dog.

“Can you be trusted? You killed your friend, took his money, bought yourself life-extending drugs, and then killed your friend’s old lover.” Su Enxi sneered, “You’re an old monster with no feelings. A young and naive girl like me is most easily deceived by an old guy. I’d better be careful.”

Auchinez’s eyes shifted. “I didn’t kill Vishnyak, I just took his money.”

“What about Sonia? wasn’t she your friend too?” Auchinez paused for a moment, then his fierce expression returned, and he stopped defending himself. “We all deserve to go to hell for our crimes, and so does Sonia!”

“You still know you’re guilty?” Su Enxi mocked.

“It’s not the kind of sin you understand. What kind of sin is murder? People are being killed every day in this world, in places you can’t see.” Auchinez sneered. “The kind of sin I’m talking about is the kind that God won’t forgive. Punishment will come sooner or later, but we can still hide before the heavenly thunder strikes.”

“What is your crime?” Su Enxi grabbed the bandage from Auchinez’s hand and began to bandage his wound. He looked exhausted, and there was no time to waste.

“Immortal life, immortal life is one of the deepest sins. Immortal life is God’s privilege, and we have stolen this privilege from God.”

“Someone like you believe in religion?”

Auchinez sneered, “The religions of the world are nothing but hypocritical rituals. How could I believe in such foolish things? But I believe in the existence of God, though he is not like the God of any known religion. I am a person who has witnessed miracles.”

“Poor thing, relying on disgusting leeches to prolong its life, it thinks it has witnessed a miracle?” Su Enxi couldn’t help but sneer. “It’s just a devil’s gift.”

Auchinez’s face darkened with anger. “What do you know? You know absolutely nothing about our great era! It was… an era in which human power triumphed over nature!”

As he spoke, a magnificent light shone in his eyes, as if that great era were still before his eyes, making him hold his breath and fill him with praise.

But he immediately realized that Su Enxi was listening intently to him. Su Enxi wasn’t interested in idle chatter; she wanted to extract more information from Auchinez.

“Woman, you have to pay for intelligence! In City 023, nothing is free. If something looks free, it’s actually the most expensive.” Auchinez smiled mysteriously.

The smile that appears on the child’s face is like that of a demon, easily frightening others.

Fortunately, Su Enxi was resilient enough that she had no reason to be afraid of the guy she had beaten into a pulp.

“This is a trap, and we’re all in the same trap. The person who set this trap hasn’t shown up yet, but it’s certainly not you or me. If we cooperate, we have a chance to survive and even fight back; if we fight against them, we’ll only die faster.”

Su Enxi pinched Auchinez’s little face and pulled it in front of her. “Don’t try to bargain with me. You’re missing an arm. If you don’t cooperate with me, you’ll become dog food.”

Auchinez stared at Su Enxi for a long time. “I always feel like you’re going to sell me out someday… Well, I don’t want this secret to be buried with me anyway. You’re a smart woman, and your brain is useful to me.”

He pondered for a moment, “Among the many research institutes in Siberia at that time, three were the most mysterious. One researched super soldiers, one researched immortality, and the most mysterious one researched theology. You can think of the first two institutes as branches of the third. Super soldiers and immortality are based on the research results of the theological institute. I participated in the research on super soldiers. The items we auction today should be products of the institute that researches immortality.”

“Super soldier? Did you create a Soviet Captain?”

“There are many versions of Captain America, but they are all incomplete, with various product defects. On the contrary, Cerberus was more complete, so it is Cerberus that has been deployed on a large scale,” Auchinez said. “We have no way of knowing the underlying technology; the real technology all comes from that theological institute. The same goes for the institute that studies immortality. of that remains.”

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