Fatal Strike: Paladins Mercenary Road

Chapter 414 Internal Conflicts
The eagle saw a green valley in the shape of an irregular triangle with an area of about 15 square kilometers.

There are hundreds of reindeer in the valley, dozens of outstanding moose, and even more artificially raised Angus cattle and hundreds of sheep.

When the first rays of sunlight in the morning shone on the earth, dogs barked in the valley...

A dozen sheepdogs suddenly appeared from nowhere and began to drive the animals away and start a collective migration.

The crows followed the direction of the animals' migration and soon discovered that the vanguard made an S-shaped turn from a valley passage in the northeast and moved to another larger U-shaped valley.

There is a huge opening to the north of the valley, and the cold winter wind can easily enter here and gather the cold air to create terrible low temperatures.

However, in the summer, as the temperature rises and the snow melts, large tracts of full-fledged grass and trees grow wildly here, providing sufficient food for these animals.

Shanying didn't expect that the people in the mountains were implementing a sustainable development strategy...

During the day, the animals go to the larger valleys outside to graze, and at night they return to the inner valleys to rest. When winter comes, the inner valleys are blocked by the surrounding mountains to block the cold, so as long as there is enough grass, the animals can survive the winter.

Those smart-looking sheepdogs took over the role of cowboys!
The people responsible for controlling them only need to prepare enough food for them on time and let them go to work every day according to their behavioral habits, thus completing an extremely harmonious ecological grazing.

Of course, sheepdogs can't solve complicated problems, but seeing how these people keep a large number of wild reindeer in captivity, they probably don't care about the loss of one or two animals...

In Alaska, the benefits of saving manpower are far more valuable than one or two animals!
If it is just for grazing, mountain eagles actually appreciate this practice. At least they maximize the role of canines.

But those giant wolves made Shanying realize that these people would not be satisfied with just better grazing, or even just transforming and controlling the animals...

Because if the experimental subjects are just animals, even protected wild animals...

With Victor's senator background, he could probably take care of the company as long as it wasn't located in New York or Washington. There was no need for it to come to Alaska, a remote place with extreme weather.

The cost of setting up a lab here is horrible!

Shanying figured out the general structure of the valley. Before it got fully light, he climbed up the mountain from the side of the valley, found a huge rock about 200 meters away from the valley, and then set up a camouflaged skylight in the shadow under the rock, and then set up a military observation telescope.

He is not here to start a war with the people inside, but to conduct reconnaissance!

The people in the valley did not keep the mountain eagle waiting too long. When the sun dispelled the thick fog in the valley, signs of human activities finally appeared in the valley.

Shanying did not see where they came out from, but this indirectly confirmed some of his guesses, that is, there was a huge cavity inside the mountain under his feet, and the laboratory should be set up inside the mountain.

Dozens of four-wheeled motorcycles, dragging many iron cages, appeared on an open space inside the valley.

Shanying followed the direction of their movement and saw a training ground in the southwest of the valley, which was on the flat ground diagonally below him.

The four-wheeled motorcycles pulled dozens of cages with wheels to the side of the training ground, and then a team of people wearing protective clothing and holding long-handled electric batons appeared around the training ground.

Then dozens of soldiers in training uniforms trotted to the front of the cages...

These soldiers were obviously divided into echelons. Some of them released a dozen wolf cubs from several cages first, and then the rest took their own animals from other cages.

Those are not just wolves, there are also brown bears, leopards, tigers, cougars, lynxes...

These soldiers or animal trainers held a device like a walkie-talkie in their hands, and led the seemingly obedient animals to the four sides of the training ground to start daily training.

It is hard to tell from the young wolf eagles, but these obviously adult animals all have one thing in common: the muscles on their chests and shoulders are abnormally developed...

The exaggerated muscle size and lines of one of the Siberian tigers even made Mountain Eagle feel a little unreal.

Shanying had seen adult Siberian tigers in the zoo and even took photos with them while sitting next to the cage, but the Siberian tigers he saw now were two sizes larger than the ones he had seen in the zoo.

The exaggerated muscles on its shoulders, combined with the characteristics of the cat's body structure, make the bulges on its shoulders appear particularly exaggerated when it walks, like some kind of monster that is particularly powerful.

That thing should be a monster that only exists in mythology, but it appeared in Alaska. What's even more outrageous is that such a monster has actually been tamed.

Facing the trainer's commands and gestures, the Siberian tiger would lie down or sit like a hound. If it showed any impatience or resistance, it would be stabbed with electric batons instantly, and the punishing nerve pain would make it feel unbearable in an instant...

Why is the police dog controller owned by Shanying called a 'police dog controller' instead of an animal controller when it is obviously very high-end?

Because what the Master Chief needs is a combat partner who will absolutely obey orders, and those wild animals are not qualified to meet this requirement.

Because you can't completely control their behavior, the instincts in their genes will make them uncontrollable at certain critical moments.

Of course, it is not impossible to have a strong animal companion, but it requires generations of hybridization, screening, improvement, and training...

Currently, many dog breeds that appear useless and are actually useless are the result of this practice.

Of course, those very strong dog breeds, such as the Pit Bull Terrier, are also the product of this practice.

It is estimated that in the future people will be able to modify genes to produce a certain number of animals for screening, and then improve their training.

However, the current practice is still to follow the process of seed selection and hybridization, screening out excellent genes through generation after generation, and then finalizing them.

Including the giant wolves encountered before and those in the valley now, they are still in the stage of genetic modification and domestication.

And Shanying had a particularly obvious feeling that those people did not want to eliminate the wildness of those animals, but instead focused on obedience.

Just think about the giant wolf we met before, and you will know that this group of people is not on the same path as the police dog partner of Mountain Eagle, or it is not completely the same...

And it seems that they haven't found a way to suppress the side effects of genetic modification yet...

While the mountain eagle was observing and filming carefully, a brown bear in training suddenly went crazy and attacked the trainer who was only about 5 meters away from it. The huge size of the brown bear allowed it to rush to the trainer in two steps, and its large paws pressed the unfortunate trainer to the ground, pressed one palm on the trainer's chest, and grabbed his arm with its sharp mouth and tore it hard...

The mountain eagle clearly saw that the moment the trainer was pinned down, his chest was visibly deformed, and the subsequent tearing by the brown bear was completely unnecessary...

But the huge pain caused by the controller that swept through his body made him completely crazy...

The guards around seemed to have gotten used to this situation. This time they did not rush forward with electric batons. Instead, someone took out a double-barreled shotgun and fired two shots at the brown bear.

The huge power of the slug is fatal to the brown bear...

After being shot, the mad brown bear straightened up and roared madly, then slapped the body and head of the trainer in front of him who had not yet stood up with its front paws.

The enormous force made the trainer's head look like a bursting water balloon. Large amounts of blood plasma and brain matter splashed radially in all directions, causing the surrounding security personnel to exclaim in surprise.

At the same time, Mountain Eagle observed that the skin on the brown bear's shoulders was severely torn, revealing the bright red tendons inside.

This is the consequence of randomly modifying genes!

In genetic science, there is a technology called CRISPR/Cas9...

This technology allows genetic scientists to modify the genes of plants and animals, but there is a great deal of uncertainty...

All gene editing-related technologies currently mastered by humans will have more or less off-target effects.

That is, when trying to modify a gene, it will randomly affect a gene that you don't want to modify with a certain probability.

At this time, the sexual characteristics, health and even life of animals and plants will be affected.

Even if you accurately locate a gene and modify it, you will still have to face unpredictable consequences.

For example, the brown bear that was obviously oversized had huge muscles, but too little fat, and because the muscles grew larger in a short period of time, the skin became thinner and could not completely cover those muscles...

Just like some drug-taking fitness fanatics, they build up big muscles in a short period of time, but due to lack of adaptability, they will suffer severe muscle tears when they rashly challenge heavy weights.

This brown bear's situation is clearly much more serious than those drug-taking fitness fanatics!

The sudden death of the brown bear and the trainer caused a commotion among both the people and animals on the training ground.

Those guys who were training the little wolves were still relatively calm, but those who were in charge of training the 'monsters' were a little overwhelmed.

A mountain lion trainer took the lead in the strike. He put his mountain lion in a cage and then protested against the guards around him...

The mountain eagle not only has eyes in the sky, but the golden cicada can also give it "super hearing"...

A trainer with a pot-cut haircut rushed to the guard and shouted, "I've had enough of this damn place. I want to get out of here..."

A guard who was obviously the leader stepped forward and said, "When you signed the contract, you clearly stated that you were willing to obey any orders from the company..."

The pot-cut guy yelled, "I'd rather take up a gun and fight on the battlefield than play the fire ring game with you guys!

Those scientists are crazy, they created these monsters and then let us be the monsters' fathers.

How many guys have had their heads bitten off from last year to this year?
I'm not fucking playing anymore, I'm leaving this damn place!"

The guard leader shook his head and said, "NO, the Executor is not only a company, but also a military organization. If you want to leave, you need to go through complicated procedures, and the most important thing is to have sufficient reasons.

You receive high annual salaries, and your families enjoy benefits and social status that they should not have.

Fear of death cannot be an excuse, because from the day you sign the contract, your life no longer belongs to you.

You actually know this better than I do!
You should also be very clear about the consequences of betrayal!"

After hearing this, the pot-cut guy shouted angrily: "This is not our job. We are fucking soldiers, not circus animal trainers..."

The guard leader spread his hands and said, "If you consider yourself a soldier, you might want to consider joining the Super Soldier Program. Then you can get rid of these stinking beasts."

When the pot-covered man heard this, he seemed to be stimulated and shouted loudly: "NO, I don't want to become a freak like that...

Those aren't super soldiers at all, they're just freaks, freaks, freaks..."

The guard leader spread his hands and said, "Look, we finally agree on something."

The guard leader glanced at the beasts locked in cages and said in a low voice, “I got some news that all these things have been eliminated.

The big boss above is most satisfied with the 'Fenrir Project'. You should hurry up and destroy those scary things, and then you can go to the Fenrir project team to receive the fourth-generation transformed wolf cubs.

You have actually seen that those little wolves are very obedient. As long as you complete the full set of training programs, you can take them away from this damn place to carry out the mission.

This is a secret. I took a big risk to disclose it to you. After we go back, each of you must buy me a glass of wine..."

The pot-covered man calmed down at this time and said in a depressed mood: "Four years, I have been in this damn place for four years...

What do those people want?
There's so much gold to be mined in that damn cave, and all they want is a bunch of crazy freaks and a pack of obedient big dogs..."

(End of this chapter)