Chapter 23 William
William Stryker is a very traditional American soldier. He always has a stern face, cold eyes, solemn and taciturn, and abides by military discipline and dogma. His figure has gone as he grows out of shape as he is of no harm to his tough temperament.
This old man with a little white temple is the person in charge of the X Weapons Project.
The X Weapons Project originated in the Cold War. In order to win the competition with Mao Bears, the federal government at that time spent a lot of money, and one wild military plan after another was proposed, and the X Weapons Project was born.
The mutant race can be divided into several levels according to ability.
The first is the Delta level. The mutant at this level has weak supernatural powers and normal appearance, accounting for 50% of the total number of people.
The second is the Beta level. This level of mutants has powerful superpowers, but cannot be controlled well. They have normal appearance and account for 10% of the total number of people.
Then there is the Gama level. This level of mutants has powerful superpowers, but looks weird, which usually causes obstacles to normal life.
Alpha-level mutants have an ordinary appearance and powerful abilities that can control superpowers as they please. The most valuable thing in the X weapon plan is them.
As for the last Omega-level mutant, he can control huge matter and energy, and has extremely terrible potential. He is no less powerful than a weapon of mass destruction and is difficult to control.
The main direction of the x plan is to analyze the principles of mutant superpowers, copy the beta-level and above superpowers to ordinary soldiers, and create super warriors with special abilities.
The X weapon plan looks bright, but it encountered great resistance during the experiment.
The first is moral factors. The X weapon program will inevitably damage the lives and property safety of some mutants, and once exposed, it may have an unavoidable impact on the reputation of the federal government.
Strykli, who had a bright future at the time, opposed the public and formulated the ultimate confidentiality measures to gamble on his personal future. He finally convinced the senior management of the Pentagon to pass the X Weapon Plan.
To this day, the program has indeed produced some "products", such as Wolverine, which injects Eidman metal into the bones, Deadpool, which has obtained self-healing ability, and even female clone X-23, which is bred based on Wolverine cells.
However, these so-called products are really worth mentioning compared to the huge resources invested by the X Weapons program and the huge risks they bear.
If the X weapon cannot deliver enough results to convince the upper class of Washington within one year, then the plan will be ruthlessly shot, and William Stryker himself will be thrown into the cold palace and retired with the title of general in his back.
This is absolutely unacceptable.
Thinking of this, Stryker's hand holding the razor shook, and the blade wrapped in foam and cut the wrinkled old skin, causing a blood mark.
This is a bathroom at an underground base, dilapidated and cold, and most of the facilities were built during the Cold War twenty or thirty years ago.
Because there is no output, the financial support issued to the X Weapons Program has become increasingly bleak.
This American soldier, who was like an aging lion, looked at his no longer upright spine in the mirror, sighed silently and continued to clean up his remaining beard.
After a while, he walked out of the bathroom and walked towards the office under the guards.
"General, this is the X weapon evaluation report for this issue."
A thin scientific researcher in a white coat stood up and handed a stack of files to Stryker's hand. His voice was unconscious. "With the help of the stem cell artificial organ cultivation technology of the meme company, we can now copy some of the Beta-level mutant genes with combat value into normal soldiers, and can ensure that the postoperative rejection reaction is within the tolerance range."
Meme companies are in the balanced interests and will provide a certain share of artificial organs to the US military every month for their use.
The X Weapons Plan is at least half a secret and enjoys certain priority.
In order to make a breakthrough, William Stryker applied to call some artificial organs as an auxiliary to the X Weapons program.
"Oh? That means the surgery is basically safe?" William raised his eyebrows, flipped through the photos above, and murmured to himself: "This is good news. What about the alpha-level genetic modification surgery? Is there hope?"
The researchers stammered their lips and hesitated for a moment before gritting their teeth and saying: "According to clinical trials, alpha-level variant genetic modification will have a success rate of about 10%, and it cannot guarantee a strong rejection reaction after surgery."
"Is the success rate of 10%? It's already high enough." William Stryker said expressionlessly: "What are you waiting for? Why don't you start doing it?"
The researchers replied hoarsely: "General, the share of the previous batch of artificial organs has been exhausted. If there were no new artificial organs as buffers, the experimenter might die due to violent rejection reactions."
"There is no gain without sacrifice." William Stryker said with a very cold look on his face, without any emotion: "When they joined the X Weapons Project, they had signed the relevant agreement, right?"
"General!" the scientific researcher shouted: "For the experimenter, this is a gambling with only 10% survival rate, and no one is willing to accept it."
"Have I said I would go through their consent?" William said coldly: "Once I stepped into this base, every hair and every blood of theirs belong to the state, along with their will and souls."
Not only are the smugglers caught on the US-Mexico border, the death row prisoners who are unattended in prison, but also some mutants who have been secretly kidnapped.
These people formed a huge library of experimental materials and used their lives to build up the road to victory of the X weapon plan.
Hearing William's words, the researcher's face suddenly turned pale, his feet were as if they had rooted, and he did not move.
Stryk looked at him and sneered, "Why, your conscience has been discovered? Do you need it? I remind you that the earliest mutant human experiment was led by you alone. You are like me, your hands are covered in blood, so what good people are you pretending to be?"
The researchers finally failed to resist Stryker's gaze, lowered their proud head and retreated silently.
It was not until Stryker left that the researchers fell down on the office chair like a puppet whose soul had been pulled away, staring at the light bulbs in the ceiling.
In a vague manner, he seemed to hear the screams in the underground cell again, and the shrill sounds were getting louder and closer.
Click.
The office door is open.
Li Ang, wearing a white coat, walked in like a leisurely stroll in the courtyard, followed by the Brotherhood and the X-Men, and a large group of mutants who had just been rescued from the underground cell.
"Hello, do you know where General William Stryker is?"
Chapter completed!