A man died, his death caused by a neck breaking technique administered by him. Another man came up from behind him, and reflexes made him turn the man behind him and impale him in the abdomen. One more, just one more man, and he could be free from this life of killing, alas it was short lived when a gunshot was heard and a through-and-through hit his back and exited his chest.

Liuxang woke up with a start, his head throbbing, and clutching his chest as he gasped for air. It was so real, so vivid that he felt it. He relaxed as he remembered that person wasn't him. It never was, but that man he had been was real, was alive, and now dead, his life taken away by a bullet to the heart. Genetic memory was a either a gift or a curse to him, depending on the dreams or visions, true it helped him with his studies, his knowledge and his fighting skills, but there were disadvantages, he would wake up sweating, feeling pain that would immediately vanish. It had scared him a few times to dream of killing, being killed, and hurting all over, but they vanish like the distant memories they are. It was probably from a man he had touched, a dead man whose body he found in an isolated house. Others weren't able to look at memories of the dead by touching, but he had the blood of a shaman that boosted his ability into seeing the last moments of dead people. He sighed and went back to sleep praying for no more dreams.

Fiona stayed in her quarters. Her eyes were red and puffy, her nose was like Rudolph's, bright red and shiny, and she had used up a box of tissues in one night. How could she not? Liuxang sent his own brother to probably to what might be his death, and his brother was also her boyfriend. She wondered if Liuxang did care about him, about her, or the people he involved. There was always an ulterior motive whenever he did things, he could anticipate things too much. Fiona's stomach grumbled.

"99 bottles of beer on the wall! 99 bottles of beer! You take one down, pass it around! 98 bottles of beer on the wall," Kay or now Fay, sang as Luna drove and sang with her too. Ralos was playing the guitar in accompaniment.

"I wonder how our patient could sleep throughout our singing," Luna remarked since she was singing off-key. She was a horrible singer and not to mention tone deaf.

"What do you expect?" Ralos replied with a grunt.

"Liuxang told me he likes to play the drums," Kay added.

"Great! Ralos, we should make a band."

"No, you're horrible at singing."

"I meant Kay should be singing, she has the voice of an angel."

He tried to change the subject. "Quoting Hinder, aren't we?"

"I mean it Ralos it besides it was lips not voice, we should make her be the lead vocals, you should to, you have a great tenor voice." Luna pouted as she swerved to prevent collision with a tree.

Ralos eyed his twin sister suspiciously. "Is this another one of your schemes?"

"Yep." Luna grinned.

"I think it's great if we have a band!" Kay said.

"Two against one Ralos, sorry, you're out-voted."

Ralos sighed. Fine, he thought, anything for Kay. Then again, he hoped that man sleeping at the back would agree not to make a band with these two girls. Liuxang did say he would wake up, there was just an object inside him that could severely damage his organs and that was extremely important to him, intentionally put inside by Liuxang. It was to hide something, out of necessity and now, it could be taken out of him, to fulfill his goal.

Franziska and Miles could only look at Shi Long and Qilin in disbelief. Evolved humans? That was surely poppycock, but human experimentation was believable. It would be too advanced for a man to evolve, yet in a span of two thousand civilized years that was already considered rapid evolution. Averagely, it would take a million years, even more, but two thousand? Impossible and unheard of, yet here were two people who knew the truth. Two people who they trust.

"Then if the Heilongs were into human experimentation, why doesn't the public know?" Miles demanded.

Shi Long sighed as he put on his glasses, which had been safely kept in his pocket, probably put there by Liuxang, so that Miles couldn't read his expression. "What do you know about politics, pretty boy?" Shi Long asked as his voice hardened. "What would the public do? This piece of information could cause unrest when it is released to the public."

"Like how?" Miles bit back.

"Simple, the Pailongs would be embroiled into this, due to the traditional cultures here in Zhengfa, they could still be fickle enough to think the Pailongs are part of the scheme! Thereby the public would try and could eradicate the Pailongs and let the Heilongs ran amok, which would just be what they wanted."

Miles grumbled, but he couldn't argue.

"Then what about the smuggling ring?" Franziska asked.

"What you just closed down was the financial sector for them, and a decoy for the real thing."

"The real thing?" Franziska and Miles asked in chorus.

"They plan to start something the Japs and the Germans tried but failed to do, but this time with more means."

Franziska felt a sudden chill in her spine. Could it be? "Shi Long, the only thing the Japanese and the Germans had in common in the past was –"

"World domination," Miles finished the sentence as he grew pale.

It all made sense to them as realization dawned to them. Superhuman abilities could give Zhengfan soldiers an edge in the battlefield, inhuman strength and speed would be a key factor in their victory. And with people like that in the hands of the Heilongs the whole world would be at their mercy.

"But it's a good thing I know what the Heilongs want first," Qilin said with a smug dark smile.

"What is it?" Shi Long asked.

"They would want to first take over Zhengfa."