Chapter 469: Regret: 'Reproductive Isolation' Sealed (1/3)

Only a few seconds.

The gunfire ceased.

The scene was in utter disarray, the air reeking of burnt, "grilled meat" smell, and around the convoy lay numerous unrecognizable corpses and chunks of flesh.

Originally the oddities that had surrounded the convoy, but now they were almost wiped out by the intelligence personnel.

Most of the oddities had skin, bones, and organs that were hard, impervious to 9mm, 5.56, even. 50 caliber bullets, yet they could not ignore the high-energy beam of temperatures exceeding a hundred million degrees.

Even the storm, whose physical strength was second only to Homelander and Queen Maeve, was torn apart by the high-energy beam "illuminating" it, and before death, it muttered incomprehensible German.

Two rounds of volley fire.

The intelligence personnel, who looked like bodyguards, simply used a portable laser micro-submachine gun and, with ease, accomplished an act that 2006 humanity dared not even imagine.

At this moment, the only ones still bound by Luo Jia's Spiritual Energy, having lost control of their bodies, were Homelander, and Queen Maeve, who had never been affected by Luo Jia's Spiritual Energy from start to finish.

"How...", Sensing she was being pardoned or forgiven, Queen Maeve glanced left and right, then lifted her head to stare at Luo Jia and questioned:

"Do you look down on me, have no interest in killing me, or am I not considered trash in your eyes? Huh?"

"Look down on you?" Luo Jia shook his head slightly, ignoring the Homelander straining desperately, veins bulging at his temples and neck, yet helplessly bound by Spiritual Energy, he turned to Queen Maeve and explained:

"No, I have never had any thought of looking down on you; on the contrary, I think you are a most respectable lady…

At least, among all the opposite-sex individuals I have known, few have matched your physical strength; some merely… have fallen into decadence, but no matter what, you are definitely not trash to me."

Luo Jia ought to be eloquent, yet when facing the opposite sex he invariably appears "tongue-tied", mainly because he has indeed had little contact with the opposite sex.

As for his reason for not killing Queen Maeve, it is simple: by reading her thoughts and memories with Spiritual Energy, Luo Jia can confirm she is a candidate worthy of assimilation.

After he finished speaking, this young OriginalBody immediately shifted his gaze, fixing it on the immobile Homelander, while also stepping closer slowly, extending his right hand's index finger and thumb, and gently pinching the other's skull.

Then Luo Jia bent his knees, bowed his waist, and leapt upward with great force…

"Boom—!"

Accompanied by his feet pressing depressions into the road, Luo Jia, just as Leon forcibly took Captain Marvel, likewise forcibly took Homelander.

"..."

Watching Luo Jia and Homelander turn into two dots and finally vanish completely, Queen Maeve said nothing.

As Luo Jia assessed, Queen Maeve, amidst the myriad oddities, though decadent, still held to her original heart and could not be considered utterly trash.

Furthermore, this "queen" whose physique and combat skills were among the pinnacle of 2006 Earth, her decadence stems from that arrogant, overbearing, even perverse Homelander.

Vought International arranged for her to become an on-screen couple with him, but his lack of security and excessive desire for control, craving affection, kept Queen Maeve in a state of constant anxiety and fear.

Otherwise, when Homelander suffers immensely and attempts to struggle, she will sneer.

Now, with the offspring of the Lord of Humanity's OriginalBody, we can finally rescue her, and indeed all those oppressed and coerced.

As for Luo Jia's failure?

I don't know why, but Queen Maeve firmly believes Luo Jia can utterly crush Homelander, yet how could she miss such a spectacle?

Thus Queen Maeve likewise bent her knees and leapt, using her super strength and jump, attempting to catch up with Luo Jia, who had already vanished from sight.

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The intelligence personnel remaining at the scene then began silently cleaning up and summoned technicians to come collect the remains.

At this moment, the video {Video 1} filmed by the intelligence personnel's holographic glasses finished playing.

After the holographic screen on the wooden desk once again fell into darkness, text began to display 'Playing {Video 2}'.

The scene shifted.

The screen began to show Luo Jia's 'first-person perspective', with a series of text on the right indicating that {Video 2} came from the button camera on Luo Jia's collar and chest.

At this moment.

Luo Jia, whose right hand pinched Homelander's skull, had already leapt 'flying' more than ten kilometers away from the convoy, then used Spiritual Energy to sustain flight, selected a spot in an absolute no-man's-land desert, and made a smooth landing.

Immediately afterward, Luo Jia 'gently picked up and gently put down' by releasing his right hand's index finger and thumb, so Homelander could lie limp on the ground, but because the effect of the Spiritual Energy binding still persisted, Homelander remained utterly immobile.

Luo Jia, meanwhile, lowered his gaze at Homelander, as if seeing through his past in an instant, and spoke slowly: "Buddy, I understand your suffering, you in your youth…

"No, even if you were in your youth, as long as you held to your original heart, there would still be a chance for redemption, but the environment and Vought have turned you into what you are now, which is truly a regrettable situation."

"Merely, regret is regret, yet it cannot compensate for your crimes nor the innocent humans you have slain; I can release your bonds, simply break your neck by physical means, or I can directly use brute force to breach your vaunted steel-reinforced bones."

"But I am not like my other brothers, who, when dealing with those who have become culpable due to environment, become excessively violent and cruel."

Saying this, Luo Jia waved his hand, causing Homelander's eyes to roll white; his facial expression, initially struggling and angry, gradually turned peaceful and joyful, until finally the…

"Peaceful."

The whole process took only two or three seconds.

But for Homelander, in his mind he underwent a 'rebirth' in an infantile state, had loving adoptive parents, made friends at school, and encountered his first love.

Upon reaching adulthood, he further used his own superpowers to begin rescuing people in peril.

While being revered by tens of thousands, he also faced criticism from media and government, yet thanks to his adoptive parents' education, friends' persuasion, and the support of his first love behind him, he never forgot his original heart.

Thus, as he lived in his mind the intensely yearned-for, unattainable dream life, Homelander completely lost vitality, his pupils dilated, and bodily functions ceased entirely.

As Luo Jia had previously said, he would not be overly violent or cruel.

Homelander is indeed hateful, but if he had not been raised from childhood as a lab rat by Vought International, and instead truly resembled the fabricated backstory, being cared for by a kind, loving couple, he might have become a genuine 'superhero'.

After all, Luo Jia's soul-reading of Homelander revealed that when he first appeared in public view and first undertook a hostage-rescue mission, his innermost desire was to save the hostages and not to kill any terrorist.

Yet when Homelander first faced such a situation, he had essentially no combat experience.

Furthermore, those terrorists who insisted they had done no wrong, shouting 'We just want to do what's right!', hurled abuse at the already mentally unstable Homelander, causing him to 'misfire' and kill a female terrorist who hurled the fiercest insults and possessed a rap‑talent ethnicity.

Thus, once there was a first time, there followed countless more.

The slaughter stimulated Homelander's brutality, and combined with Vought International's overt and covert guidance, he completely devolved into a 'giant infant'.

(The clip of Homelander rescuing hostages is from *The Boys: Herogasm*).

"Boom~!"

Just as Luo Jia finished calling the technicians, he heard a commotion from behind.

She turned sideways and twisted her head, and Loga saw Queen Mei Fu, who had leapt an unknown number of times to arrive here.

Staring at the already dead Zuguo, Queen Mei Fu looked around the area, which bore no signs of battle, and couldn't help but ask in confusion, "How… did you manage that?"

Moreover, if one listened closely to the tone of the question, one could even detect a slight tremor.

After all, the Zuguo filled her with deep fear, and inevitably, that fear, unconsciously, shifted onto Loga, who could easily kill the Zuguo.

Upon hearing that.

Loga ignored the other's emotions and replied, "In terms that you and your world can easily understand, the most fitting would be 'magic', haha.

And…

Loga said, looking up at a large transport ship shedding its Optical Camouflage, and continued, "There's nothing to fear; as long as you stay true to yourself, you can enjoy the new order and a new life."

At that point, the holographic screen's image once again fell into darkness, displaying the caption "All video data has been fully played."

Seeing this.

Sui Bian waved his left hand, dispersing all the holographic screens on the solid wood desk, then reclined in his office chair, looking up at the ceiling and falling into thought.

In fact, Sui Bian, who knew of the Zuguo's fate, also felt regret; indeed, there was a chance to become a true hero.

The Zuguo, in reality, was a product that Wote International artificially cultivated using the most suitable egg and the "most powerful" sperm.

Theoretically, it has parents.

But according to the data collected and compiled by Bai Hou, the Zuguo's mother died in childbirth, and its father was officially labeled "killed/sacrificed."

However, the Zuguo's biological father was the first‑generation superstar created by Wote International, Soldier Boy, who injected the adult body with the original formula of Compound Five, successfully pushing his limits and gaining the same immunity to nuclear and hydrogen bombs.

The North American government and public believed Soldier Boy had long been dead, but the truth is that in Earth‑06's 1984, he was sold by Wote International and subjected to extreme experiments by the former Soviet Union and Russia.

Currently, Soldier Boy has been reclaimed by the Gothis authorities, who used nanotechnology to erase his memories, and after gathering sufficient body data, have kept him in continuous cryogenic storage.

Putting those aside.

Sui Bian's focus of thought lies in how to employ Compound Five.

According to the research report uploaded by the BoKen couple and Zigler, it is certain that although Umbrella removed adult injections, which carry an immediate death risk, the randomness cannot be altered.

After all, each individual has slight differences.

Moreover, setting aside the 24‑hour version, both the original formula and the conventional version of Compound Five permanently rewrite the injector's genetic factors, i. e., their genes.

Some injectors—no, most injectors—will experience "reproductive isolation," meaning they cannot bear children with ordinary humans.

As for Umbrella's OriginalBody and Astate, although they are also products of genetic engineering, it should be understood that these giants' genes originate from Sui Bian.

He is human, that is indisputable; in other words, he, OriginalBody, and Astate could, if they wished, naturally bear children with human women.

But…

Due to various restrictions, and because Sui Bian and his sons have not focused on this, no so‑called first case has emerged to date.

Furthermore, in the primary universe, human soldiers married to Marans or Otiños can, using increasingly mature nanotechnology and bio‑tech inherited from the Administrator civilization, perform artificial insemination, then transfer the fertilized egg back into the mother's womb, producing mixed‑blood offspring with superior physical qualities and Spiritual Energy potential.

Moreover, mixed‑blood children, when engaging in "traditional behavior" with humans, Marans, or Otiños, can also naturally bear offspring.

However, the Elite race, like the Earth's lizards, are oviparous, highly intelligent beings; if they forcibly use nanotechnology for artificial insemination with mammalian humans, the result would be a bizarre "monster."

Therefore, UEG law explicitly prohibits hospitals and medical institutions on Earth and its colonies from undertaking such forced breeding.

As for the Iron Blood clan, frankly, they are also mammalian, highly intelligent beings, so they fall outside the law's strict prohibition.

But why, among interspecies couples, do humans paired with Marans or Otiños account for 95%?

The root lies in…

Aesthetics.

It can't be helped; the Veylin are "cosmic elves," while the Iron Blood are "gutsy," "ugly" hulks, both male and female.

Anyway, since UEG law does not strictly forbid humans from marrying Iron Blood, it takes great courage, especially for human males with Iron Blood females, and netizens would certainly hail that human male as a "warrior."

After all, without power armor, even auxiliary troops who have undergone modification surgery would not dare claim superiority over the battle‑hardened Iron Blood warriors, let alone the fact that Iron Blood females are far stronger than the males…

Although in appearance they seem more delicate than the males, with "curvy" physiques, the fact remains: Iron Blood females surpass the males.

That is the origin of the "warrior" title.

She continued to wrestle with it for a moment.

Sui Bian straightened his posture slightly and instructed Bai Hou, "Notify the Hive and Luna Base, as well as Earth Biopharma of Universe Zero Two, to begin mass‑producing the stable version of the 24‑hour Compound Five.

Then distribute them sequentially to intelligence officers and regulatory agents across star sectors and universes, so that frontline combatants confronting anomalous phenomena and biological threats can further increase their survival odds.

At the same time, seal the formulas for the original Compound Five and its conventional version, prohibiting any use in modification surgery to avoid "contaminating" human genetic information."

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