Susan rolled her eyes and said, "Fine, I knew I couldn’t keep it from you. Let’s talk while I shower."
After the shower and mopping the floor,
Susan wiped her damp hair and sat on the boss’s chair, legs crossed, pulling out a cigarette and lighting it. Then she said somewhat wistfully, "Brian, we need to have children sooner. My father is always pressing me about it. He says if we wait too long, it will be too late."
Brian had already discussed this matter with Dean before.
His eyes narrowed a bit, "Does it have to do with changes in your body?"
"I only recently learned about it.
Don’t you find something strange?
Although my mother was just an ordinary enhancer, she had already reached First Rank Life before giving birth to me.
My father was already at Second Rank Life at that time. They had a hard time having me, but me, being the progeny of two exceptional people, was nothing more than an ordinary enhancer before I met you."
Brian shook his head, "That’s normal, isn’t it? Children of two PhDs might still end up underwhelming. Other group leaders, no less privileged than you, aren’t First Rank life enhancers either. It doesn’t really prove anything."
Susan shook her head, "It’s not like that. Pedigree is pedigree, genes are genes. They don’t have a Second Rank Life father or mother. Brian, there’s something I have to tell you. It’s what my mother just revealed to me.
Second Rank Life is different from First Rank Life.
The genetic material of Second Rank Life is highly active, is very aggressive, and any fertilized eggs that manage to be conceived surely won’t have inferior innate genes.
We are born strong and can become First Rank Life upon reaching adulthood.
Even if our potential is somewhat lacking, breaking through to First Rank Life is a natural process, without any risk of genetic collapse.
There are examples of this.
I should have been like that.
But when I was very young, my father performed a surgery on me, which resulted in only exceptional dynamic vision, nerve reaction speed, and a superb shooting talent during my development period, rather than being remarkably extraordinary.
And that was the case even though I never lacked Enhancement Reagent.
Actually, before I met you, I had taken more Enhancement Reagents than some people drink water.
But my strength only began to improve slowly a while ago.
I thought it was due to my own accumulation.
Not until after I broke through to First Rank Life did I feel something unusual, and then my father told me the secret within my body."
Brian remembered something.
He had once quarreled with Dean, mockingly bringing up the incident at Forest Park, where they first encountered the Mutant Beast and nearly got killed. Dean retorted that even if he died, Susan would be fine.
It must be related to this secret.
Susan’s ears twitched, making sure no one was eavesdropping outside before flicking off the ash from her cigarette and saying reluctantly,
"I’ve told you before.
My father is actually NW Combat Department’s first Third Level employee, one of the earliest organizational enhancers, until he resigned due to some issues.
Then he started deep sea hunting with many partners.
That’s what the Combat Department is responsible for.
Hunting various rare Sea Beasts is also research material no less significant than Mutant Beasts or Mutants, and they are found in great numbers with lower discovery difficulty.
So my father’s yields have always been good.
Until one time, he nearly died in an attack, and from that encounter, he obtained two Mutated Sea Beast hearts.
He didn’t know what kind of creature it was, somewhat turtle-like but different.
At that time, my father was severely injured.
His heart was destroyed by the beast.
To survive, he had to tear open his body, remove his shattered heart, and then replace it with a larger Mutant Beast heart. After that, my father was taken back to Los Angeles by his guys for recovery.
I was very young then, and I don’t have much memory of it.
In fact, my father was in a coma for more than a year, only to reawaken due to the resilience of Second Rank Life, the endless energy support from our family, and genetic compatibility.
The situation was very dangerous.
If my father hadn’t made it a practice to kill all his enemies, he might have been retaliated against a long time ago.
Anyway, he gained a lot from that.
After researching the remaining heart, he found it had great potential and that its genes were compatible with ours. So after some experimentation, he gave me that processed heart and used his blood to create a serum to prevent rejection of the heart.
I was very young at the time, so the fusion would be slow, and my body would gradually adapt to the heart, making the process safer.
As a result, the nutrition from my body and the Enhancement Reagents I took were almost entirely absorbed by the heart, using them to slowly transform my genetic makeup.
Ideally, according to my father’s calculations,
I should have had two more years before completely integrating that heart, naturally evolving into First Rank Life, but then I met you..."
"So, you and your father, are both really Beastification Transformed People?"
Brian exclaimed, surprised.
No wonder Dean could spew hot air, like having a furnace in his body, and even fly!
He wasn’t just any ordinary enhancer after all!
"Yes, I have just found out as well.
He wasn’t planning on telling me, to spare me any psychological burden.
But my father got agitated about something recently and urged me to have children with you sooner, even instructing me to have at least two. Otherwise, the temperature inside my body would become very high and could mean that your genetic material would be killed by my body heat once it entered my system."