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    Afterforting Elizabeth, Kendrick began to recount the full story of the 8th generation virus.


    "Back then, because of the pressure from the Bradfords, your mother and I had no ce in our own country, so we had to settle abroad."


    "A friend rmended Karl Town to us."


    "Karl Town was tucked away in the suburbs, far from the chaos of the city. It was a beautiful, quiet ce with great schools and hospitals."


    "And most of the residents were Zhinorian, so it was a perfect fit for us. Your mother and I settled down here."


    "The person who introduced us was an Alerasian named Nice Eilman. He was a friend I made while studying abroad."


    "Even though he''s Alerasian, I want you to remember him, son."


    "Because he was a man who loved peace. A good man. He deserves the gratitude and respect of every Zhinorian."


    "Without him, your mother and I would never have known about the 8th generation virus, nor could we have sessfully obtained it and its data."


    "And you wouldn''t have been able to live in Karl Town for several years and grow up healthy."


    "The truth is, Karl Town was just one bigboratory. The Zhinorians living in the town were the guinea pigs."


    "The sinister organization behind it all used the town''s superior living conditions to attract Zhinorans, and then secretly injected everyone with various serums."


    "The hospital in town belonged to them. The doctors and nurses were all their people. No one ever had a chance to know the true state of their health."


    "If you sought medical care elsewhere, they would bribe the doctors outside to give you a fake report."


    "They would even drug you in the middle of the night and secretly inject you with new serums."


    "Their favorite subjects were newborns. Almost every child born in Karl Town was injected with a virus serum on the day they were born, bing one of theirb rats.


    "Their goal was to develop a super-virus that only targeted Zhinorians!"


    "They were waging biological warfare. They wanted to use a virus to control us, or to annihte us!"


    "Nice told us all of this. Before he did, we had no idea!"


    "They operated with extreme secrecy and caution! If anyone discovered something was wrong, they would be quietly ''disposed of"."


    "Nice deliberately led us to Karl Town, hoping that through us, he could stop these evil forces."


    "He loved peace and didn''t want to see a war."


    "He knew about my and your mother''s patriotism, and he knew about my family''s influential


    Bound. He believed we had the


    ability to get the virus back to our country."


    "The reason you lived in Karl Town for years without a single injection was because of his secret help."


    "His father was a famous local biologist and a key figure in the virus research, so Nice had connections in Karl Town."


    "And it was because of this connection that he was able to ess the 8th generation virus and its data samples."


    "The sample and data your mother and I obtained were stolen by him and given to us!"


    "For that, he was brutally tortured and eventually died, along with his father."


    "That''s why I said you must remember him. Though he was not our countryman, he was a hero!"


    Kendrick fell silent, his brow furrowed as if mourning his friend.


    After a long moment, Kendrick spoke again.


    "You must be wondering, if the government sent people to retrieve did we secretly


    us, whe?


    someone else to bring thieve


    back?"