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Ever since Elmyra saw him and Aerith coming down from the attic together this morning, there was always something wrong with the way Amina looked at Shen Ye.
There is scrutiny, appreciation, solemnity, and a hint of nostalgia...
It was hard for Shen Ye to imagine that so many emotions could appear in a pair of eyes at the same time.
"How did you sleep last night?" While eating breakfast, Elmyra looked at Aerith who was eating with her head down.
"It's okay..." Aerith didn't dare to look up at her mother. She didn't blame her, she was just shy.
"Oh!" Elmyra nodded and turned to look at Shen Ye: "What about you?"
"I'm the same as her, Ms. Elmyra." Shen Ye said.
"In that case, you should sleep in the same room from now on." Elmyra said, "It's troublesome to run up and down, isn't it?"
Hearing this, Shen Ye and Aerith looked at each other, and then surprise appeared in their eyes.
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On the disc, inside Shinra Corporation.
Hojo came to the office early as usual.
However, as soon as he opened the door of his office, he saw a woman in a red dress sitting on his office chair.
"Scarlet." Hojo narrowed his eyes behind his round-frame glasses and called out the name of the woman in the red dress in a cold tone.
Although they both worked for Shinra Corporation, the scientific department he was in had never had any intersection with Scarlet's weapons development department. Now Scarlet had entered his office without any notice. Besides being surprised, he was also a little angry, and his eyes, as gloomy as a venomous snake, exuded a dangerous look.
"Don't be angry, Mr. Hojo, I didn't move anything in the office." Scarlet heard Hojo's dissatisfaction and explained.
Upon hearing this, Hojo took a look at the documents in the office. As a scientific researcher, he had an amazing memory and indeed found no signs that any of the documents had been looked through.
After calming down a little, Hojo walked to the desk, looked at Scarlet, and said, "Even so, you shouldn't enter my office without permission."
"Privately? No, no, no, I'm not doing it privately." Scarlet smiled and shook her head, then put a document on the table.
"I have the authorization from the president," Scarlet said.
"The president's authorization? What authorization?" Hojo was a little confused. He picked up the document and read it quickly.
After a long while, Hojo put down the document and asked in confusion: "Why does the president suddenly want to study this?"
The document he was reading contained an order from the president of Shinra Corporation asking Scarlet to jointly develop a new combat weapon with him.
This so-called new combat weapon is completely different from the combat weapons currently being researched by Shinra Company. It is neither a biological weapon made through human experiments like Hojo is in charge of, nor a mechanical combat weapon like Scarlet is in charge of.
Instead, it is a new type of humanoid combat weapon that is mainly based on the human body, supplemented by machinery, and ultimately controlled by chips.
"Maybe he is a little dissatisfied with the current strength of the company's special forces. You know, our company once had several 1st special forces, but now there is none left." Scarlet said with a smile.
But when he heard her words, Hojo's eyes became even colder, because all the special forces of the company were produced by him.
Some of the strongest 1st Special Forces soldiers died, some went missing, and some even defected from the company.
So Scarlet's words undoubtedly meant that his research was not successful.
"The company needs absolutely loyal special forces, so the president issued an order to set up a joint research department." Scarlet continued: "I think you have no objection, right?"
Of course, the information she told Hojo was not complete. The so-called statement that the president was dissatisfied with the current strength of Shinra's special forces did not exist. With Shinra Company's current control over the planet, it didn't matter whether there were 1ST special forces or not.
But no one would complain about having little power in their hands, so after Scarlet proposed to implant the latest chip developed by the weapons department into the human body to create special forces who can be absolutely loyal, the president of Shinra immediately drafted a document and let Scarlet take the lead in conducting joint research and development with the scientific department.
"Of course I have no objection, but I don't like people telling me what to do." After listening to Scarlet's words, Hojo took a deep breath. Although he was a scientific madman obsessed with the research and development of biological weapons, it did not mean that he had no idea of controlling power.
"I understand." Scarlet nodded. "Although the president's orders are based on me, I also know that the most important thing about humanoid weapons is the body that carries the chip, so I will unconditionally support you in the direction of research and the allocation of resources, and I will not interfere."
"That's good enough." Hojo licked his lips, he was very satisfied.
"But..." Scarlet said again.
"But what?" Hojo asked with a frown.
"However, although I will not interfere with your research, I need all the data reports and samples. After all, I still have to report the research progress to the president. Well, you don't want to waste your time on this, do you?" Scarlet crossed her hands, supporting her chin, a smile flashed in her beautiful eyes.
"That's no problem."Hojo had no objection to Scarlet's desire to study the data. Besides, he didn't like wasting time reporting research progress to his superiors. Now that Scarlet took the initiative to undertake this task, he absolutely could not refuse.
"Then it's settled." Scarlet stood up and said, "I'm leaving first. If you have any more questions, you can send someone to find me."
"Okay! I won't send you off!" Hojo said coldly.
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After returning to her office, Scarlet sighed.
After parting with Shen Ye last night, she began her own plan to control Shinra.
Of course, Shinra Corporation is a behemoth, and it is almost impossible for her to succeed with her own strength.
She must have an army in her hands that can fight against Shinra.
But how can she create an army under the nose of Shinra?
After thinking carefully for half the night, she came up with a solution, which was the content of the file she had just shown Hojo.
Create a group of special forces that can be controlled by chips.
As the head of the weapons department, she could easily leave a backdoor in the implanted chip. Once the time was right, she could control those special forces through the backdoor.
Of course, in addition to this, another thing is that she needs a lot of human experiment data on Jenova, and the issue of age has always bothered her.
She knew that there had been an experiment in which an elderly person was injected with Jenova cells and then soaked in Mako fluid. He actually recovered to his youthful state in a short period of time. Although the experimental subject soon died from being unable to withstand the impact, she was still excited.
That's why she told Hojo that she needed all the research data, including experimental samples.
She was prepared to experiment on herself as long as conditions permitted.
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