Chapter 76: Luke's 'Experiment'
The girl Kate followed behind Indira and Kevin and entered the elevator to the woods with them.
As the elevator went down, Kevin looked at her back carefully and was relieved after making sure that she did not move because of what he thought.
It seems that Kate has taken medicine and lost the ability to hear other people's thoughts from a distance.
After entering the [Woods] institution, although Kevin knew what was going on, he still cooperated and walked quickly to Indira and whispered:
"What's the situation with this girl?"
"Her ability is very special and can help us a lot."
Indira explained to Kevin in a low voice and told Kevin some information about Kate.
Kevin frowned slightly, looked back at Kate who was quite restless, and asked Indira again:
"Are you sure she can help? She looks like a child."
"The superhumans here are just children in terms of age, and we don't need her to do research, just let her delete some unnecessary memories."
"Delete memories? Whose?"
"Who else? Of course, it's Professor Brink's most proud student now, Luke Riordan."
Indira said as a matter of course.
Luke Riordan.
That is, in "V Generation", the superpower "Golden Boy" who flew into the sky and exploded at the end of the first episode, turning himself into fireworks.
Kevin met this "Golden Boy" once, and at the instruction of Professor Brink, Kevin also told Luke some things about the Seven, and the two had a good relationship.
It can be seen that Professor Brink really wants Golden Boy Luke to become a member of the Seven.
But the problem is that the current Golden Boy Luke is not as powerful as in the original book.
Professor Brink also saw this, so he asked the Forest Agency to help him do something.
That is to inject the blood of Luke's brother Sam into Luke's body.
As a biological brother, Sam's blood can enhance Luke's ability, just like a low-profile version of Compound No. 5 without side effects.
Brink wants to use this method to personally train a superhero who is not inferior to Homelander before he retires.
This is his idea, and he did not hide it from Kevin.
Or he discovered Maeve and the locomotive to achieve this goal.
As for the deep sea...
He originally joined the Seven just to make the team more diverse as an 'environmentalist', and never thought that the deep sea could become so powerful one day.
Even now, he has not thought about it.
Golden Boy Luke is Brink's perfect work in the future.
But now there is a small problem, that is, Luke cares too much about his brother Sam and is unwilling to strengthen himself by transfusing his brother's blood.
This has delayed Professor Brink's plan.
And now Kate's arrival can finally allow the plan to continue.
"Oh, you are finally here."
In an experimental room in the woods, Brink and Cardoza have been waiting for a long time.
Professor Brink, with a white beard and a kind face, greeted several people with a smile, and then set his eyes on Kate:
"This is Miss Dunlap."
"Yes... My name is Kate, hello... Professor."
Kate answered weakly.
Kate, who has been locked up at home for many years and has just regained her freedom, is still somewhat socially anxious.
When talking to Professor Brink, she was still hiding behind Indira.
Brinker didn't care. He smiled and comforted Kate:
"Don't be nervous. We didn't ask you to do anything too difficult. I heard that your ability can make people do whatever they want?"
"Yes... yes."
"Very good, then someone will come in later. What you need to do is very simple, just let him fall asleep. Can you do it?"
Brinker's voice was gentle, trying not to put pressure on Kate.
Kate looked up at Brinker, and then at Indira.
After receiving Indira's encouraging eyes, she nodded slowly:
"I think... there should be no problem."
"Very good."
Brinker nodded with satisfaction and then left the room.
Kate didn't know what was going on, and looked around uneasily.
Kevin was still looking at her.
Seeing Kevin's eyes looking at her, Kate hid her whole body behind Indira.
Kevin withdrew his gaze from her and turned to ask Indira:
"Is this what you want to tell me?"
"No, it's something else. I wanted to tell you after this."
Before Professor Brink came back, Indira smiled and said to Kevin:
"We plan to arrange a consulting position for you in the school, so that it will be more convenient for you to come to [Forest] in the future."
Kevin is a member of the Seven-Man Team. If he doesn't have a suitable reason, he will easily attract attention if he keeps coming to Godokin University.
Indira gave Kevin a consultant position, which could save a lot of trouble.
However, although Godokin University is an extension of the "Forest" institution on the surface, most of the teachers there don't know the existence of "Forest". Indira wants to give Kevin a consultant position, so he needs to discuss it with the teachers and students of the school.
So until now, Indira didn't tell Kevin about this.
Indira and Kevin's communication did not last long. On the other side, Professor Brink had brought the "beggar version of Thunderbolt" Luke to the forest.
Luke seemed to be here for the first time and had no idea where this place was.
He asked Professor Brink curiously:
"Professor, where is this...?"
"A place where you can continue to become stronger."
Professor Brink took Luke into the laboratory and patted Luke on the shoulder.
Then, from an angle that Luke couldn't see, he winked at Kate.
Kate was still a little at a loss. Indira patted Kate on the back and whispered:
"Go, let him sleep, and don't let him remember what happened here."
"... Yeah."
Kate took off her gloves and walked towards Luke.
Luke, who didn't know what happened, looked at Kate with strange eyes.
"Professor, she is..."
Luke was about to ask who Kate was and why she was here.
But Kate's hand was already on his shoulder:
"I'm sorry, but... go to sleep."
"What...!?"
Out of trust in the professor, Luke felt that the professor would not harm him, and was completely unprepared and was easily hypnotized by Kate.
He fainted on the ground with a stunned look, and did not resist at all.
The current Kate is different from the Kate before the plot of "V Generation" began.
At the beginning of the plot, Kate would have red eyes and a headache when she used her ability a little bit, and she felt as if she was going to die of a cerebral hemorrhage at any time.
After all, Kate at that time had been taking medicine to suppress her ability for three years.
Three years had already weakened Kate's ability.
Now, Kate had just taken the medicine for a short time. Although she could no longer hear other people's inner thoughts, her hypnotic ability had not weakened much.
Luke was not in a complete state. He had not yet received Sam's blood, so he was just an ordinary superhuman. He could not resist Kate's hypnosis at all.
Seeing Luke faint on the ground, Kate turned around and looked at Indira.
"Great job, Kate. You stay here first. Dr. Cardoza, please bring Sam here."
Indira praised first, then turned to Cardoza and said.
Unlike the golden boy Luke, Professor Brink did not want Luke's body to be affected by anesthetics, fearing that it would affect Luke's potential, so he looked for Kate to hypnotize Luke.
Sam was not so gentle.
His mental state was not very stable, and he needed to take sedatives frequently. Moreover, he was considered an experimental subject of the [Forest]. Brink would not be very kind to the experimental subject.
Sam had already been injected with tranquilizers and anesthetics, with a dose more than ten times higher than that of ordinary people, enough to make a powerful superhuman like Sam sleep for a few days.
Cardoza and his men dragged the bed with Sam tied to it over, and then had Luke put on another bed.
Finally, he started his work, transferring Sam's blood to Luke's body.
The work over there had already begun, and Kevin and Kate stayed there on standby.
Kate didn't know what she was doing, nor did she know what Indira was doing.
She only chose to listen to Indira's words because Indira pulled her out of that small room and let her regain her freedom.
So now looking at all this in front of her, Kate was very confused.
She felt like she was doing something bad.
Indira was indeed an expert in psychology. From Kate's expression, Indira could tell what Kate was thinking at the moment.
She stood beside Kate and comforted her softly:
"Don't worry, we are not doing anything bad, we are just making him stronger."
"...Stronger?"
"Yes, Luke's future achievements will definitely not stop there, so he needs a little help from us. We are helping them, not harming them, so don't worry."
Yingdila said, and took the initiative to reach out and hold Kate's hand.
She knew that doing so would allow Kate to know her true feelings, and only in this way could Kate truly believe her.
Sure enough, after contacting Kate, Kate's nervous expression suddenly relaxed a lot, and she smiled happily and said:
"You are telling the truth."
"What I said was originally true."
Yingdila smiled, looked at Kevin on the side, and said to Kate:
"By the way, don't you like the Seven? The person next to you is Shen Hai, a member of the Seven. You can chat with him or ask him for an autograph."
Kevin was speechless:
"You just leave the job of looking after the children to me?"
"Don't the children here get along well with you? I think you have a talent for this, Kevin."
"..."
If I beat them to their knees and beg for mercy, then it can be considered harmonious, then it is indeed very harmonious.
Kevin complained in his heart, but did not undermine Indira. Instead, he turned to Kate and asked:
"Do you want my autograph, kid?"
"Yes! But... it would be even better if I could get Maeve and Starlight's autographs."
Perhaps realizing that everyone had no ill will towards her, Kate gradually relaxed and was no longer as nervous as at the beginning. She smiled and said to Kevin.
Kevin also joked with her:
"Okay, so you're not my fan, but no problem, as long as you perform well, I can get their autographs for you."
Maeve is Kevin's colleague, and Xingguang is Kevin's girlfriend.
It's not difficult for Kevin to ask these two people for autographs.