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Chapter 42 The Global Experiment
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At that time, Earth’s critically scarce resources, such as oil and rare earth elements, were steadily running
out.
Global temperatures kept climbing, sea levels rose, and usable land shrank year after year.
Island communities faced mounting threats to their survival.
Driven by greed and the fight to survive, humanity descended into World War Three.
Even nations that had long upheld peace were forced to take up arms.
Two major powers with formidable military strength joined forces, alongside several longstanding allied nations. Together, they crushed the warmongering factions that had ignited the conflict.
Seeing the tide turn, the United Union invoked old peace accords and demanded an immediate ceasefire.
The victorious nations, having claimed territory and asserted their strength, chose not to annihilate their enemies.
Earth was already scarred and barren from widespread nuclear strikes. If the fighting dragged on, no side would have habitable land left once victory arrived.
The war had been devastating. Radiation and chemical weapons left catastrophic damage in their wake.
When the guns fell silent, there was no flourishing rebirth of civilization. Instead, waves of illness swept across the globe.
Mental health crises hit hardest. Even civilians who had never fought on any battlefield developed severe post-traumatic stress disorder.
People wandered through life numb and hopeless. Suicides surged every single day.
To pull humanity back toward normalcy, scientists launched the Global Salvation Initiative.
Elite researchers and medical experts from every corner of the world collaborated and reached a historic breakthrough.
They created the Mind Converter-a piece of technology designed to erase terrifying, negative memories and unlock gentle, peaceful recollections buried deep within people’s subconscious minds.
The device drastically cut global mortality rates.
Later, the treatment advanced even further.
Invasive brain surgery was no longer required. Using nanotechnology, scientists could temporarily suppress portions of the brain’s memory processing, much like administering a vaccine.
It allowed survivors to face the future with optimism once more.
In Lyra’s memory, this was the largest global human experiment ever conducted
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According to Hophrin Federation records and their leading theory, the catastrophic detonation originated inside one of the Global Salvation Initiative’s research facilities.
Lyra could not wrap her head around it. How could a medical research site exploding trigger destruction on such an unimaginable scale?
The region where Earth once stood was now overrun by psychic monsters. No one could uncover the full truth anymore.
Lyra drew a deep breath and kept reading.
The following pages documented Hophrin’s own history: its evolutionary timeline and endless wars.
The earliest ancestors of Hophrin’s inhabitants had not resembled modern humans. Just like all life on Earth, their form was shaped by natural evolution.
No biological link existed between life from the two star systems, yet an eerie parallel emerged.
Through countless generations, Hophrin’s native species slowly evolved into human-shaped beings.
Throughout this era, all manner of alien predators lurked on the fringes of Hophrin territory.
The inhabitants learned to adapt, turning the enemies’ own strengths against them.
They built civilizations, advanced technology, and refined genetic engineering.
Over time, scientists engineered the Sentinel gene, bred for combat.
To stabilize and heal the damage war inflicted on Sentinels’ minds and those around them, the far more advanced Guide gene was developed.
But the genetic science remained imperfect. Sentinels possessed overwhelming power; without a Guide to anchor them, like fierce hunting hounds without a leash, they risked destroying everyone nearby, including themselves.
Guides held rare, vital status, yet their bodies were fragile. They sustained injury far more easily than ordinary people.
It seemed to follow the cosmic law of balance. Every great advantage came paired with critical weaknesses.
Hophrin citizens who carried neither gene, retaining their original physiology, were often nicknamed atavistic new humans.
The label was not permanent. Hophrin scientists continued studying genetic coding, and experimental medications gave some ordinary people a chance to awaken as either a Sentinel or Guide.
The textbooks never stated it outright, but Lyra had slowly pieced together the truth from her ume here
An unspoken hierarchy governed society.
ecious Guides looked down on low-ranking Sentinels. Strong, physically capable Sentinels dismissed
ry humans as useless.
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Ordinary citizens, in turn, took their frustration and unfair treatment out on contaminated Sentinels locked away.
It was as if pushing down those trapped at the bottom lifted their own status, proving they were not the most pitiful group of all.
This explained, in part, why regular staff at Black Spire grew careless, even dismissive toward imprisoned contaminated Sentinels.
Lyra rubbed her strained eyes and continued scanning the pages.
She was desperate to find descriptions of the psychic monsters occupying Earth.
Unfortunately, the archives contained outdated volumes with no ipdated entries.
All she could read were accounts of hostile alien species surrounding Hophrin space.
Knock, knock.
The dorm supervisor in charge of residence cleanliness and order tapped on the reading archive door.
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Lyra stood quickly and nodded to the dorm supervisor. She returned the books to their shelves and left quietly.
On the walk back to her room, she glanced out the window.
Night had fallen.
Beneath the streetlights, fully armed guards stood watch, while patrol units crisscrossed the compound in steady shifts.
All of them labored silently to keep everyone safe.
Filled with quiet admiration, Lyra returned to her room and fell asleep peacefully.
The next morning, after breakfast, she reported to her new work station. She acted like an errand girl, rushing around to assist other staff with trivial chores.
As she worked, she listened to veteran coworkers chatting.
They said that another full inspection would be carried out today. Any Sentinel whose contamination reading hovered near the threshold would be transferred away.
Fresh Sentinel detainees were also due to arrive.
People grumbled that the cells still held plenty of inmates, and adding more new arrivals would pile extra work onto everyone.
Machinery roared loudly across the work zone, so they spoke without lowering their voices.
Lyra caught every word clearly.
When lunch rolled around, Lyra headed for the cafeteria.
Jessa worked here now. She had already filled a tray heaped with food and saved it for Lyra.
Compared to their previous shared meal, far fewer coworkers lingered near Jessa’s table.
Lyra wondered if her loss of rank was to blame.
Still, Jessa seemed unbothered, urging Lyra warmly to eat her fill.
No longer required to deliver meals and collect trays for the Sentinels, Lyra could take her time.
Once they finished eating, the two had leisure to stroll and digest.
That was when Lyra watched tall, broad-shouldered Sentinels being marched toward the cell blocks by guards, their wrists and ankles bound.
Some roared furiously and hurled insults. Others looked ashen, as if being led to an execution ground
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