Chapter 261: Statistics, NEXUS’ Hidden Information

Michael got inside the Porsche, before he began driving away from the KTV.

The manager, Michael did not bother with him, at least for now. But anyway, he had already asked Adrian to deal with him.

As for the issue regarding the traffic, Adrian had already dealt with it when Michael was still within the KTV. Onyx had already previously informed Adrian about the situation, and with a few calls, everything was solved.

The issue about running red light was not much of a problem to deal with, as long as nothing really happened. So, just paying a fine was not much of a problem, and the problem was completely sorted. That was especially considering that it was an emergency situation.

As for how Adrian would deal with the manager of the KTV, that was completely up to him. He did not really care.

Instead, Michael contacted Vincent, the bio human that was in charge cleaning up scenes. He was extremely skilled at erasing evidence, especially for big incidences, like the previous one when Michael saved Marion.

The previous day, Michael had killed a total of five people. Vincent was left to deal with them, which was something that he was able to easily do within a short span of time.

Despite Vincent being focused on cleaning up and erasing evidences, that did not imply that he did not have combat abilities. He was a bio human after all.

With the advantage that bio humans had, it was not much of a problem for him to be able to deal with Brian. Additionally, Vincent had an ADLA, which was a safety measure by Michael, ensuring that he would not be harmed by bullets.

With the skills that he possessed, together with the coordination of Onyx, it would not be a problem for him to be able to find Brian’s location and deal with him.

So, Michael decided not to focus on that, and instead, he headed back towards the villa. At the moment, he was thinking about the information from Onyx regarding the mutants and the mutation project by the government.

He was not impatient enough to read it while in the car. Instead, he thought, it would be much better if he could read everything after he got back to the villa.

So, Michael held back his curiosity, waiting until he got back to the villa. And the moment that he arrived, he realized that at the moment, Marion and Susan were busy in the living room, watching a show.

It seemed to be a concert of a famous star, who Michael could not recognize. He did not bother to watch with them, as he headed straight to his bedroom. As for the ladies, they were so engrossed with the show that they did not react much despite knowing that Michael had returned.

Inside his room, Michael had the smartwatch transform into a laptop. And after that, he began going through the information that Onyx had found.

This time, he did not go through just the summary, instead, he went through the detailed information, wanting to understand everything clearly.

And with his reading speed, it was much of a problem for him to be able to read the document, despite it being quite big.

It took him almost 4 hours, before he finally managed to finish reading the document. And at around 2 hours into reading, Marion had come to knock on his door, but Michael told her that he was busy for now, so, she left.

It was already night time, and by now, Adrian should have already returned. So, the issue of the two ladies having a meal was kind of sorted out already.

As for himself, when he felt hungry, he ate the high calorie energy bar that he had bought before, replenishing his energy.

After finishing reading the document, Michael closed his eyes, processing the information. With everything about him being enhanced with the evolution serum, and maybe the magical ability of the system, Michael’s ability to be able to digest the information was incredible.

Additionally, his memory was also enhanced. So, despite having read for over 4 hours, he could remember much of the content that he had read.

According to the information that he had found, it turned out that after the meteor struck, and the scientists were sent there, several other nations also got involved.

So, basically, this was not just a matter involving this nation, instead, it was the top powers within this world that were involved.

And as expected, the best scientists were sent over. At first, they varied, with different scientists focusing on different fields.

But the moment that the issue of the material of the meteor being able to induce mutation was revealed, only the scientists that dealt with genetics were mainly involved.

Of course, it was impossible not to involve the other experts of different fields, but they did not hold the highest position in this matter.

The research has been ongoing for over 10 years now, and to be exact, it was 10 years, 6 months, and 12 days since the project officially began.

In summary, the information that was contained within that entire document was as follows:

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Impact Event Designation: Origin Source-01

Research Duration: 10 Years, 6 Months, 12 Days

The meteor remains fully secured at the primary extraction facility. Continuous refinement of extraterrestrial genetic material has enabled progressive serum stabilization and controlled mutation trials.

Total serum doses produced to date: 4,218 units.

Production breakdown is as follows:

Grade E: 1,540 doses

Grade D: 1,012 doses

Grade C: 768 doses

Grade B: 588 doses

Grade A: 310 doses

Confirmed fatality rates by grade:

Grade E: 78%

Grade D: 72%

Grade C: 63%

Grade B: 52%

Grade A: 42%

Total confirmed fatalities: 2,701 subjects.

Total confirmed surviving mutants: 1,517 individuals.

Active Grade A survivors: 180 individuals.

Grade B survivors: 282 individuals.

Grade C survivors: 284 individuals.

Grade D survivors: 283 individuals.

Grade E survivors: 488 individuals.

Mutation stability index shows gradual improvement over the final three years of research. Grade A remains the highest successfully replicated classification.

Long-term evolutionary trajectory remains undetermined.

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Just from the information contained within this part of the document, Michael was able to say that there was already quite a number of mutants available in this world.

It was just that, they had been hidden. Additionally, considering the entire population of the world, this number was negligible.

And since the mutants were not making any big movements, it was inevitable that they would mostly not be in the spotlight. That is unless they begin making big moves, or acting like superheroes.

But just looking at the fatalities, which already exceeded 2,000, with only half of the fatalities being the survivors, one could already see how risky it was to take the serum.

It was no wonder that only those that were trusted were given the chance. Additionally, despite being given the chance, they had to be willing, and sign a document that indicated that they were willing, and were responsible for their own lives and death.

Of course, this was not something that concerned Michael the most. Instead, it was another issue involving NEXUS.

If it was before Kate joined this organization, Michael would not have bothered with them. After all, the two of them never had any involvements with each other, and might not even cross each other in the future.

But with Kate joining this organization, it changed everything. So, Michael had to focus on this as well.

According to the information, the majority of the members of this organization had all undergone serum injection. And only those that could successfully awaken an ability would join the organization.

This piece of information was not included in the previous information that was obtained by Onyx, considering that this part of the information was erased totally from the other database.

In fact, they had never mentioned anything about mutants in the basic information about NEXUS. This was enough to show just how careful the government was about the issue concerning the mutants.

And this was to be expected. After all, if the existence of mutants was revealed to the public, one could already imagine how chaotic the situation would be. Some riots might occur, with people believing that they should also be given the chance to awaken abilities and so on.

Simply put, the situation would become extremely chaotic. And that was something that the governments all over the world did not want. That was why they kept all this under wraps, and they did not allow the mutants to act freely.

Anyway, for NEXUS, after someone awakened an ability, they would be given a responsibility depending on the ability that they had awakened.

And according to the data that was collected by the research facility that was in charge of the mutation research, it was clear that the ability that someone awakened was kind of linked to their personality or behavior.

It was just that, this was just a theory, and had not yet been proved. But most of the time, in one way or the other, there was a connection between the ability that those who awakened them had, with their own personalities and behavior.

Regardless, according to the data, all the members of NEXUS were mutants. Previously, when this organization was established, of course, the members were not mutants at that time.

After all, Nexus was established 32 years ago. But the issue of the mutants has only been around for about 10 years.

Anyway, this organization had the habit of maintaining a maximum of 50 members, and a minimum of 30.

Still, there was something else that Michael had noticed. And that was something related to fatalities among the members of the organization.

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