features body enhancement at the Dominator level, whereas 101 possesses High-Ranking Witch level teleportation abilities. They have become accustomed to war and unimpededly broke into the chaotic Xisong City, but facing their own past still required them to muster courage.
"Everything here is the same as it was in the past." 102 walked into the corridor of the laboratory.
The Black Fire Laboratory in Xisong City specializes in the Synthetic Witch Project, which succeeded in producing outstanding Witches like 101 and 102.
For them, it meant returning to this human nightmare after an absence of five years.
Many bloodstains littered the corridor they were now in, with security personnel and defense robots having been slain all around.
The emergency alarm bell was ringing loudly, except there was no longer anyone alive to respond.
"We’re a step too late; this laboratory was attacked before we got here, just like the other research facilities." 101 reported via the communication channel.
"Secure the scene, and recover any useful resources to the best of your abilities." Pan Ruiyi, the battle commander, replied from hundreds of kilometers away.
Pan Ruiyi himself was busy clearing out the Black Fire Army troops that were stubbornly resisting. Many units were still organized, resisting in a kind of maniac state, fighting until the very last soldier.
"Yes." 101 accepted the order meticulously.
They passed through the entrance corridor with immense fear and came upon a vast training field.
There was a large amount of training equipment piled on the circular track, seemingly intended for retreat but not evacuated.
began to cry at the sight of this place.
"This is where we trained to kill." 102 said fearfully.
All Children of Phantom Light were trained here; 102 was often required to kill, and to do it precisely to minimize damage to the target’s internal organs, making these remains suitable for resale.
embraced 102, feeling even more frightened than her sister, but she had to bravely walk through this place, directly confronting their shared past.
They walked into the production workshop, where 101 found it to be narrower than she had imagined.
The deep pits on both sides had been emptied; she remembered they used to be filled with bloody water, with thousands of children from failed experiments floating inside.
About every half a month, the dead infants would fill a pit, and when it was nearly overflowing, the contents would be flushed out.
They looked up at the conveyor belt high above; back then, they were all seated on the conveyor belt and pushed out, 100, 101, 102, 103, 104...
Further back there was a place referred to as the "Livestock Farm" by the Black Fire Innovation experimental staff, with one side housing women, and the other side housing men.
They were all captured from different places, their common trait being that they have each once given birth to a Witch. The scientists of Black Fire Innovation believed that their genetic material could more easily create Witches.
Because only their genetic information was needed and not their survival, most of these people were killed after an average stay of 7 days.
and 102’s execution targets also included these civilians; they were forced to first develop a basic affection for these men and women before killing them, in order to weaken their sense of morality.
In actuality, they were the sisters with the best training results and had become professional killing machines.
Walking across the blood-soaked rusted floor, 101 and 102 looked around at the meat hooks, torture devices, and cremation furnaces.
The last time they used them seemed to have been just yesterday.
Moving through this harrowing workshop and after another kilometer or so, 101 and 102 reached the real "manufacturing workshop."
Here there were huge biological synthesis furnaces where Black Fire Innovation’s scientists hoped to establish a completely controllable synthetic army, creating Children of Phantom Light and 4th generation Synthetic Humans all for this purpose.
In these massive bioreactors, technicians directly cultivated flesh and assembled life using premium genetic material extracted from the "Livestock Farm"; they produced Witches like assembling robots.
Through genetic engineering re-coding, the cell growth and division rate of the Children of Phantom Light far surpassed that of normal levels, allowing Black Fire Innovation to create a Witch infant in just 3 months, reaching battle-ready proportions in 4 years, and maturing to a high likelihood of achieving High-Ranking levels in 6 years.
They grew like leeks, vigorous and unending.
The rapidly produced Children of Phantom Light had been active in the battlefields over the years, bringing victory in war, or dying suddenly—this technology still possessed considerable instability and uncertainty.
Some had practical Magic Power, usable in industrial production, scientific research, or military applications.
Some Children of Phantom Light who had poor Magic Power would quickly have their brains excised once reaching a certain age, crafting suitable Witch brain computing units, connecting to full electrodes, data cables, and microchips, serving the needs of Black Fire Innovation, unable to think, in constant pain until they rotted away. The remaining husks were then made into toy-like objects.
"The number of furnaces has increased; they keep on creating Children of Phantom Light, creating, creating..." 101 murmured.
When 101 and 102 left the laboratory to join the army, there was only one biological synthesis furnace; now there are 25.
According to Nestor Corporation calculations, Black Fire Innovation had produced about 2700 Children of Phantom Light by the time of its dissolution.
With the collapse of Black Fire Innovation, they were scattered around the world, with some being killed in conflicts.
In any case, they will die in a few years upon hitting the 10-year lifespan limit and fade away without a trace.
"They’ve all been destroyed, the people who came before us must have taken some of the children..." 101 embraced 102 and walked away quickly, her heart also filled with sorrow.
Black Fire Innovation has fallen, but the wicked technology it developed will continue to spread.