American Horror Story, Starting from Falls Town

Chapter 460 Stepfather
Roy's sudden entry into the battlefield instantly changed the course of the war.

When Leviathan's Axe is thrown, it's like a cannonball; if it hits a person, it can turn them into a bloody mess.

Adrian has confirmed that all the Black Mountain mercenaries are dead, so Roy doesn't need to hold back and can attack freely.

Miss Jay also stepped in; with Adrian's buff, her strength, stamina, and reaction speed all exceeded human limits, allowing her to help Roy recover some damage.

As for Adrian, this healing angel has no damaging abilities; he can only buff others or heal them.

The three of them worked together and quickly cleared out the surrounding Black Mountain mercenaries.

At this moment, the vanguard, the remaining Marines, and the FEAR troops came out.

"Mr. Roy Black?"

Mil White looked at Roy with some uncertainty. He had never met Roy before, only seen a picture of him.

"It's me. Are all your people here?"

"Yes, Mr. Black, all the survivors are here."

Mill White was filled with grief; many of the dead were his comrades-in-arms who had fought alongside him through thick and thin.

Roy could understand how the other person felt, but now was not the time to be sentimental.

“Listen, the Amacham Experiment Park is not something ordinary people can interfere with. You should leave now and I will handle the rest.”

Mill White hesitated. After all, Roy wasn't his superior, and he didn't know whether he should obey Roy's orders.

At this moment, the scout suddenly spoke.

"I already know the truth."

These words surprised everyone, especially Mill White.

It's truly baffling that the scouts knew the truth so quickly after only a few minutes of absence.

However, Roy had heard Elise talk about the Vanguard before and knew that she wasn't the kind of person who would talk nonsense, but Roy was still very curious.

Where did you find out?

Although the vanguard was wearing a mask, he still gave off a sense of dejection.

After a long silence, the vanguard finally spoke.

"This is top secret intelligence, and I can only tell General Hammer."

Roy frowned slightly.

"Soldier, I need to know this intelligence. It might be related to how I handle the Amacham Experimental Park issue next!"

Upon hearing this, the vanguard sighed.

"Okay, I'll talk to you about this separately."

The scout and Roy went to a small room in the dormitory building and began to reveal what they knew.

This guy is usually a very quiet person and rarely speaks, but today he became unusually talkative for some reason. Perhaps he had been suppressing his feelings for too long and had developed a desire to confide in others.

Roy also learned a lot of little-known things about Amacham Technologies from this guy.

“My mother, Alma, is a product of Amacham Technologies’ Origins Project, a life form created through artificially edited genes. Part of her genes came from the project’s principal investigator, Harlan Wade, and the other part came from an unknown organism. Harlan Wade can also be considered my biological father.”

Wow! That first sentence alone seems to contain a lot of information!

Roy knew Harlan Wade; he was the chief scientist at Amarchaum and possessed the world's most advanced genetic engineering technology.

But judging from what the vanguard said, Harlan Wade seems to be both his grandfather and his father. Is the scientific community really this chaotic?

The scout noticed Roy's strange expression.

"Harlan Wade believes that superior genes can produce better offspring. In reality, he had no contact with my mother; everything was done through artificial insemination."

That's quite strange! After all, artificial insemination is also a form of consanguineous marriage, which can easily result in offspring with genetic defects.

"Isn't Harlan Wade worried about having a child with a genetic defect?"

The scout sighed.

"That man was very confident in his genetic engineering skills, and he believed in an old saying that only close relatives can produce true geniuses (guess his ethnicity in a second)."

There does seem to be such a saying. Some people believe that only inbreeding can produce true geniuses, and many people cite Einstein as an example.

Einstein was born from inbreeding, but no one cared about his older siblings, who either died young or had intellectual disabilities. Only Einstein was blessed with the talent to become a great physicist.

People who put forward this view are simply treating living people as data, trying to prove something with such a minuscule probability.

What about those children who fail? Are they considered trash?

Roy's eyes widened in disgust. He guessed that if the child born didn't satisfy Harlan Wade, the latter would definitely kill the child without hesitation.

This is a typical example of someone who loses their humanity while pursuing academic research; it's very common in biology and law.

"My brother Paxton Fairtay and I were born under these circumstances. But Harlan Wade was still not satisfied; he wanted to create an even more powerful life form, a god among men! Coincidentally, Harlan Wade obtained some special genetic material, which he used to further modify his mother, making her the mother and giving birth to a true artificial god!"

This caused my mother great pain. Although she didn't talk much, I could feel her inner turmoil, so I always wanted to rescue her from this hell. Much of the information Ms. Elise had was provided by me, and in return, she promised to do everything she could to save my mother, Alma.

Roy's expression turned strange; he hadn't expected that the vanguard was the cause of everything.

But what's even more outrageous is that if the sniper's mother is the girl in the red dress who appeared before, then wouldn't she want Roy to be the sniper and Paxton Fairtay's stepfather?

Although these two are not very old, they have undergone genetic modification and are growing very fast. They now look like middle-aged people, and their appearance is much older than Roy's.

"Why has the Amacham Experimental Park become like this?"

“I don’t know about that. I haven’t seen my mother in the past year, and I don’t know what happened inside the experimental park. But I’m sure that Harlan Wade must have done something to my mother again. Just now, I saw the spirit of my brother Paxton Fairtay in this dormitory building.”

Upon hearing this, Roy was very surprised.

"Wait! Are you sure it's Paxton Fairtay's spirit, and not a hallucination?"

“I can’t be wrong! I talked to him a lot, and it’s definitely Paxton himself. From him, I learned that something terrible happened to my mother, and Harlan Wade was killed.”

Roy's brain began to race.

Paxton Felty's presence at the Amacham Experimentation Site suggests that the succubus is likely also there.

Could this incident be related to the King of Lust?
The question is, where does the power of the Famine Rider come from?

Roy felt there were still many mysteries, it was a complete mess.

"Soldier, so who launched the nuclear missile?" This should be the question the federal government is most concerned about.

The soldier didn't hide the truth; he just gave a wry smile.

"The plan to launch the nuclear missile was devised by Paxton, and my mother helped a bit. They seemed to want to continue Harlan Wade's experiment and create a god on earth."

In a sense, Harlan Wade's physical body is dead, but his will still lives on in Alma's body.

However, this also made Roy understand why the vanguard had hesitated so much just now.

"I think I understand the situation now. Vanguard, you should evacuate with the others."

"No, I must stop Mother and Felty! It is my duty!"

Roy frowned as he looked at the vanguard. The opponent's strength was already superhuman among ordinary people, but in the battles that might come next, he might not even be considered cannon fodder.

"If you stay here, who will take the intelligence back?"

The scout hesitated for a moment, then quickly came up with an idea.

"Why don't we just let Miss Jay take the information back with her?"

As an agent of the Naval Intelligence Agency, Miss Jay is indeed qualified to take on this intelligence. Coincidentally, Roy also wants to persuade her to stay away from the troublesome Amacham Experiment Park.

"Okay, call her in, explain the situation, and then let them leave."

Miss Jay quickly learned the secret of the nuclear launch and then that Roy wanted her to evacuate as well.

Knowing she couldn't be of much help, Miss Jay handed over her military terminal to Roy.

"Roy's military terminal has a map and key to the Amacham Experimental Park. With it, you can freely enter and exit all buildings in the experimental park and open most electronic devices. I will now tell you how to use it and the password."

Even without this thing, Roy could enter the building at will; at worst, he would just kick down the door.

However, being able to turn on electronic devices is also good; it might come in handy in certain situations.

Miss Jay had just taught Roy how to use the Navy Intelligence Agency's special military terminal when she heard Adrian's voice from outside.

"Roy, another enemy has appeared!"

Roy rushed out of the dormitory building and saw a large group of withered people, looking like starving ghosts, with orange light emanating from their bodies, surrounding the dormitory area.

Where did all these people come from?

The scout answered Roy's question.

"They're clones! This experimental park also has a cloning production line. It's likely that the clones on that production line are being controlled by the mother or Paxton!"

Even the Vanguard and Paxton could easily control dozens of clones to fight, so Alma, who was even more powerful than her two sons, could naturally control even more clones.

Roy estimated that there were at least two or three hundred clones on the scene.

"Major Mill White, evacuate immediately!"

Without further hesitation, Mil White immediately led the remaining Marines and FEAR towards the beach, where there were quite a few clones, but not as many as in the dormitory area.

With the power of the Famine Rider, these clones have amazing physical resistance, and the weapons of the Marines and FEAR are simply no match for them.

Fortunately, with Roy providing cover, the Marines and FEAR successfully boarded the troop transport ship and began to turn around.

Miss Jay, standing on the deck, gazed at Roy with eyes full of reluctance.

At that moment, things suddenly started to change for the soldiers on the troop transport ship.

First, a soldier's head exploded like a watermelon, and then more and more soldiers were either torn in half or twisted into pretzel shapes by an invisible force.

In an instant, blood splattered all over the deck of the troop transport ship, more gruesome than a slaughterhouse.

"No!"

Roy noticed the situation on the troop transport ship and instantly used his teleportation ability to move onto the deck. He then entered the form of a ten-winged angel, unleashing his protective aura to shield Miss Jay.

Adrian looked at Roy in surprise, because he had seen Roy's angel form just three months ago. At that time, Roy was an eight-winged angel, but now he had become a ten-winged angel and had mastered some kind of teleportation ability.

"Adrian!"

Roy could sense a powerful spiritual force enveloping the troop transport ship. In just a few seconds, half of the people on the deck died, clearly indicating that Alma did not want these soldiers to leave the Amacham experimental park.

This spiritual force didn't seem to want to kill Roy, but it showed no mercy to the others.

Roy's protective aura seemed to be faltering.

On one hand, there was the attack of clones, and on the other hand, the people around them were dying one by one.

Adrian, of course, wouldn't stand idly by and watch so many people die in front of him. He immediately transformed the guitar in his hand into a harp and began to play an ancient melody.

Music is considered the most primitive form of language. Even before humans had any written language, they used simple musical instruments to produce sounds to express their feelings and thoughts.

Adrian is now playing the oldest music, the earliest music ever created by humankind, a hymn praising God.

Roy felt the music was very familiar, as if it played when the gates of heaven opened and Michael or Gabriel descended.

As Adrian's music played, the surrounding clones stopped in their tracks, and each of them was covered by a white protective shield, as if that powerful mental force had temporarily subsided.

But suddenly, Miss Jay in Roy's arms turned her head 180 degrees, her eyes rolled back, and she looked up at him.

Do you care about her a lot?

Roy was taken aback, because the voice was clearly not Miss Jay's; it was very mature and alluring.

"Alma?"

"You know my name? Oh, it must be my child who told you."

Although Alma's real voice sounds very charming and sexy, and you can imagine how beautiful she is just by listening to her voice, her way of speaking sounds somewhat childish.

Come to think of it, this woman has lived in this experimental park since birth and has never seen the outside world.

"You seem to care a lot about this woman. You're mine, you can't care about other women!"

Alma stared domineeringly at Roy, and then Roy felt Miss Jay's body in his arms begin to twist.

"Hmph! I won't let you succeed!"

(You can watch the live video of Alma's interrogation before FEAR's extreme panic on Bilibili.)

(End of this chapter)