Chapter 768



Howard was very alarmed. In his opinion, the person he had intercepted was probably the strongest of the seven.

Although he didn’t like his sister-in-law very much, for Justin’s sake, he couldn’t let them hurt her either.

Was that guy approaching Nora to take her hostage and force everyone to retreat?

What bad luck!

I knew it, women were trouble, why did he have to come?

As soon as the thought formed, he took a step forward to get ahead of her. But his leg had just come when he saw the man approaching Nora.

At some point, he already had a dagger in his hand. He plunged it into Nora’s neck.

“Don’t move! Or I’ll…”

But before he could say ‘matare’ Nora had suddenly reached out suddenly, grabbed his wrist and exerted some force.

Crack!

The dagger in the man’s hand fell to the ground, and his wrist emitted a crack.

Howard had just hit the man, but even all the pain he had suffered a moment ago could not compare to the sharp pain he was feeling at that moment. The pain made him feel weak, and he fell to his knees in front of Nora.

For all the world, Nora seemed to be simply holding his wrist lightly. With her eyes slightly raised, she asked slowly under her breath, “You’re getting down on your knees to beg me for mercy? That’s not very appropriate, is it?”.

The whole place was silent.

Even the bully had fallen dazed with pain. He looked at Nora in amazement. Where the hell had that delicate woman gotten all that physical strength?

On the other side, Howard stared at them dumbfounded. He swallowed saliva and looked at his men. “… So, was she really the one who? defeated all those men just now?”.

His men, who only knew how to perform fancy moves, lined up in a row and then silently stepped back in unison so that they were all one step further away from Nora. Then they nodded together.

Howard: “…”

By the time the situation here was resolved, Justin had also finished dealing with Jude. At that point, Morris and Brenda also came running up from the other two entrances.

By then, Nora had already let go of the last man’s hand. The man’s wrist was falling limply, his bones obviously broken.

Seeing the men slumped on the ground next to Nora, Brenda ran to her at once and sent the man with the limp wrist flying with a kick. She glared angrily at Howard and asked, “What is wrong with you, how could you let him pounce on Nora, what if he scared her?”

He grabbed Nora’s hand and said, “Don’t be afraid, Nora! I’m here.”

Howard: “…”

His lips twitched. He wanted to explain himself, but before he could say anything, Nora shot him a look, scaring Howard so much that he shut up immediately.

Nora didn’t want Brenda to know how strong he was. After all, she found Brenda’s protectiveness of her very comforting.

Howard, who seemed to be in a huge dilemma, shouldered the ‘blame’ and said, “It was …. it was my mistake!”.

Brenda: “?”

She and Howard had always been fighting with each other – why was she suddenly giving in this time?

However, she didn’t want to think too much about those issues at the moment. After holding Nora’s hand, she looked at Justin and complained, “Justin, why didn’t you stop it?”

Justin: “…”

“It’s okay, it’s okay.” Nora stroked Brenda’s hand to comfort her. After calming her sister-in-law, her gaze swept over those present. Howard’s men immediately straightened their backs and shuddered in unison.

Nora’s gaze then swept over those present. The rest reacted immediately and moved to arrest everyone on the ground and escorted them out.

After tying them all up, Brenda said, “Nora, we have found their R&D base. I’ll take you there now.” I’ll take you there now.”

Nora nodded.

To be honest, she had always wanted to see how those genetic enhancement solutions were made with unknown chemical compounds. But when she entered the lab with Brenda, she found it was all very simple and crude.

This was not an R&D base at all.

“What’s going on?”

Brenda turned to the side and held Jude.

After Jude had been detained, she had known right away that he had no escape. He immediately explained, “We don’t really have a base or anything like that. These genetic enhancement solutions are just diluted versions of the genetic serum.”

Nora: “…”

All: “…”

After having invested so much time and effort, was the truth really that simple?

And here they thought they had caught a den of thieves making genetic serum!

“Where did you get the genetic serum?” asked Morris, his voice low and serious.

An honest and dutiful Jude explained, “I bought it. We have an overseas sales channel where we can buy pure genetic sera. Diluted serums don’t cause too much damage to ordinary people’s bodies.”

“They only have two years left to live, and yet you say the serums don’t cause too much damage to the body?”

Morris frowned.

Jude said cautiously, “The gene serum can only be used on children. Adults can’t handle it at all, they’ll explode and die immediately. But once it’s diluted, their genes can still be enhanced a little…. Besides, there are statistics showing that some people have survived beyond two years…”

“What happened after the two years?”

“… They lived half a month longer.”

Brenda scoffed, “You’re pretty smart, aren’t you? Using the genetic serum on yourself while giving others the genetic enhancement solution instead. You’re doing nothing but hurting people.”

“No, no!” Jude was very honest. “How am I going to be worthy of using the genetic serum? I’m also using the diluted genetic enhancement. I… I need money, my son has a terminal illness, but the medical fees cost over a hundred thousand dollars. Only if I used the genetic enhancement solution on myself would I have been able to convince others that I have become stronger, and only then could I sell the genetic enhancement… I had no other choice…”

His words stunned everyone present. They all looked at him in disbelief.

Even Nora and Justin exchanged a glance.

They had initially thought that Jude was probably one of the five children who had survived the experiments back then, but little did they expect that he actually wasn’t….

No wonder he was so quiet.

However, Jude’s prowess in the martial arts? He had kept Justin busy for three minutes all by himself!

Currently, there were huge gaps in the skills of the country’s martial artists.

Aside from Irvin and Quinn, the strongest were Big Brother and Big Sister. The other disciples did not have bodies suitable for martial arts. Moreover, in these modern times, no one put that much effort into practicing martial arts anymore.

As a result, apart from a few high-level martial artists, the rest were rather mediocre.

This was also the reason why Big Brother and Big Sister were so popular in the circle, as well as why their statuses were unopposed.

Because there were very few in America who could stand even ten moves with Justin!

The diluted genetic enhancement solution alone could improve a person’s physical constitution so much. In that case, how strong would the people who had been injected with genetic serum and whose genes had actually been enhanced be?

Nora and Justin suddenly felt that even they would be no match for their opponents if they met them.

Their hearts sank.

It was also at that instant, in the face of absolute power, that Nora finally realized how terrifying the gene serum was.

No wonder even her mother was cornered and chose to die then.

Her expression darkened. When she thought about how those five people were after the V16 that Xander needed, she suddenly felt quite terrified, scared and lost.

The V15 gene serum was already very potent. If they were injected with V16, wouldn’t they all become super-humans?

While she was thinking, at some point, Howard had already crept up on her. Earlier he had been overbearing and arrogant with her and had also reprimanded her as and when he wanted to, but now he was very cautious with her.

He asked softly, “Um, Nora…. You must be from the Quinn School of Martial Arts, right?”

The Irvin School of Martial Arts wasn’t trying to win by physical strength. It was as if Justin hadn’t subdued Jude with a single move.

Only the Quinn School of Martial Arts used such overt, over-the-top moves.

Nora admitted as much with a grunt.

As soon as she did, Howard spoke again. “So, you’re Linda, from the Quinn School of Martial Arts, have you met Big Sister before?”.

The martial arts-obsessed teen scratched her head. “I… I want to ask Big Sister to be my teacher! Do you know where she is, what she likes, how can I please her?”

Nora looked at the young man’s pious attitude and sighed quietly. “I don’t need to be pleased.”

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