Chapter 907



Now that things had come to this, there was no longer any point in keeping anything from him.

Justin was silent for a while before replying, “I can confirm that the mysterious organization is at Buckingham Palace.”

Nora nodded.

She had already informed Morris of this.

She had heard about it from Xander. It could be said that the two children had inadvertently solved a mystery with a long history. However, she had not been in contact with Justin during this period at all. Therefore, Justin had derived this entirely on his own.

From the looks of it, King had a great deal of power. At least, he had more sources of information than Morris.

He asked, “Is the Queen connected with this?”

“No,” Justin replied confidently.

The corners of Nora’s lips curved upward, and a seemingly amused look entered her eyes.

“Oh? Do you trust her that much?”

Justin quickly replied, “No, it’s not that. She’s simple-minded, and she’s not that cunning. If the mysterious organization was hers, she would have brought it up long ago.”

Nora: “…”

The man did have a strong survival instinct. She couldn’t make fun of him even if she wanted to. How uninteresting…

However, she asked, “If it wasn’t authorized by the Queen, who else could it be? For such a large organization to stay hidden in Buckingham Palace, who else can pull it off besides her? Besides, Barbarian is on her side.”

Cherry and Princess Lucy were very good friends. As such, Nora was obligated to rescue the Queen from the fire, but she hadn’t planned to do so at the time precisely because her impression of the Queen had plummeted after learning that the mysterious organization was in Buckingham Palace.

It was through the talk between the Queen and her aide that he later vaguely intuited that the Queen had nothing to do with the affair. Coupled with the fact that he had witnessed the Queen’s love for her daughter, that was the reason he had saved her.

There was still a long time before the Calf Wellington was ready, so Justin sat down next to Nora and filled her in on the Queen’s situation.

“During this recent period of time, I have found out the situation of the mysterious organization from the inside. Those thousand children selected by the mysterious organization had gone through extraordinarily inhumane tortures in their childhood. The five who finally survived are very resentful of the mysterious organization.

“The five are Trueman Yale, Caleb Gray, Listener, Spacey and Barbarian.

In Trueman’s case, he has no choice. As a young teacher, the mysterious organization is his home. In Caleb’s case, he has a relatively good relationship with Trueman because Trueman has saved him several times. That is why he works for the mysterious organization.

But for the other three, it can be said that they have irreconcilable differences with the mysterious organization.

The pianist who died some time ago was Listener. After undergoing genetic modifications, she became extremely perceptive to sounds, but this characteristic was of no particular use to the mysterious organization. In addition, she was obsessed with the arts. Whether genuine or just an act, she had no substantial impact on the mysterious organization. After Trueman took over, he spared her life. Unfortunately, Listener eventually died from the reaction caused by the lack of the V16…”

At that point, Nora interrupted him and asked, “They were all injected with the genetic serum at the same time, so why did Listener die two months before the rest?”

Justin explained, “This also puzzled me. After sending someone to investigate, I discovered that Listener was older than the rest of the children.”

Nora was shocked.

Justin said, “The thousand children the mysterious organization experimented on ranged from newborns to ten-year-olds. Of the five who survived, the other four are of similar age, as they were all then about two or three years old. Children too young cannot withstand the effects of the genetic serum; while those too old find the transformation too painful to endure and their bodies cannot adapt to the effects either. Listener was already ten years old at the time. She was also the only one who survived among the ten-year-olds. If we go by their ages, Trueman, Caleb and the others are now about twenty-eight or twenty-nine, but Listener was already thirty-six.”

Nora nodded, a contemplative look on her face.

Caleb had given her a crash course on the abilities of the five survivors, but it wasn’t as detailed as Justin’s research results.

Justin continued. “As for Spacey, he’s a hack, he comes and goes like a ghost. He’s also very smart and has remained hidden all this time, so the mysterious organization can’t find him or do anything with him.”

Hearing this, Nora thought of the late Liam, and her eyes darkened a little. Her slender fingers tapped the armrest of the couch and her expression became somewhat contemplative.

Catching sight of him, Justin asked, “What’s wrong?”

“Oh,” Nora’s fingers paused and she said, “It’s nothing. Go on.”

Like King, no one had dared speak to her in a commanding tone. However, the girl in front of him didn’t make Justin feel aggrieved in the least. He merely flashed her an affectionate smile and continued.

“The last one is Barbarian. His genetic modifications are arguably the most useful. After escaping from the lab back then, he passed out on the way and was picked up by the Queen. Later, the Queen discovered that he was a martial arts prodigy, so she trained and groomed him until he became the Queen’s closest Royal Guard. With the Queen protecting him, the mysterious organization dare not do anything to him, for fear of alerting her to his existence. I learned that this is also why Barbarian is very loyal to the Queen.”

Nora asked, “Does the Queen know his identity?”

Justin shook his head. “Who knows…”

Did Justin mean that the Queen was unaware of Barbarian’s identity, or did he mean that even he didn’t know whether or not the Queen knew? The meaning behind the two clearly differed completely.

However, Nora understood Justin’s pithy response. She laughed and commented, “Then the Queen isn’t as simple as you say she is, is she?”.

Despite not knowing the man on the inside, she wasn’t afraid to use him. The Queen had guts.

Besides, even Justin couldn’t tell if she knew Barbarian’s identity or not. That alone proved her cunning.

Justin smiled and said, “A woman who can circumvent overlapping power struggles to end up sitting on the throne would never be that simple. In any case, I know the extent of her capabilities. Besides, her age doesn’t match. The mysterious organization was founded in your mother’s time, but the queen is only thirty years old.”

Nora nodded. “In that case, apart from the Queen, who else is capable of maintaining such a large organization – or rather, a laboratory – in the basements of Buckingham Palace?”

The very idea struck one with fear.

Underneath the palace in which one had lived for numerous years was a secret, inhumane laboratory conducting biological experiments.

Justin smiled and replied, “I thought of someone.”

“Who?”

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