REVENGEANCE - PART 2 (Patreon)

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Note: This story is intended for mature audiences (18+) and all characters depicted are 18 years of age or older.

Part 2: The Scientist's Revenge

It has been four years since the shocking research plans related to human life of scientist Hale Hill were announced. Although he has not really harmed anyone, Hale's research plans make all residents more afraid of him than the notorious murderers. The young policeman who made the biggest contribution to the discovery and arrest of Hale Hill in the past, Harrison Ning, has now become the captain of the Investigation Team of H City Police Department.

Harrison has been married for about half a year. His wife is an extremely beautiful woman with smooth white skin and long flowing red hair. She is one of the people who were saved by Harrison Ning when he was on a dangerous mission before. Harrison is known as an upright policeman, loved by everyone. Having the position many people dream of and getting a beautiful wife, Harrison's life can be said to be complete.

Since the arrest of scientist hale Hill, Harrison has performed many more dangerous missions, but if asked which case makes Harrison feel the most nervous and wary, without thinking, he will still answer that it is the “skinsuit” case of Hale Hill. Harrison's heart swelled with an invisible fear as he reread the plan for that year's experiment plans line by line. Many times, he tried to force himself to forget that, but he couldn't.

One day like any other, after finishing work at the Police Department, Harrison returned to his cozy home. Harrison is not in the habit of watching TV as soon as he gets home, but he also doesn't know why, intuition tells him to do it today. Harrison's wife, Haniya Bell, has not yet returned home. Harrison does not worry about that, because sometimes, his lovely wife works overtime at the company.

Not knowing what to watch, Harrison turned on the TV to stay there without changing the channel. He stowed his coat on the hanger and returned to the sofa in front of the TV screen. At this point, Harrison realized that the channel he watched was broadcasting an emergency news. Prison No. 8, located in B City, has just experienced a terrible fire. A quarter of the prisoners in Prison No. 8 died in that fire. Most of them have been stabilized by prison guards, relocated and gathered in the nearby vacant land. But, most dangerously, a few prisoners took advantage of this opportunity to escape.

In Harrison's heart, an unpleasant premonition arose. He was deeply impressed with Prison No. 8, because it was the place where the mad scientist Hale Hill was being held. He once handed over Hale Hill to the prison guards at Prison No. 8. After listening to the TV report, Harrison pondered without knowing which group of prisoners Hale was in. The question in Harrison's mind did not last too long, a phone call from the Police Department answered his question.

“Captain of Investigative Team, Harrison Ning, if you can hear me clearly, please answer!”

“Yes, here I am, Chief Inspector!”

“About three hours ago, Prison No. 8 experienced a major fire. Currently, television stations are constantly reporting on this.”

“Yes, I'm watching the news on TV too.”

“Fortunately, among the criminals who escaped, there were only a few that our H City Police Department had arrested. Most of them were arrested by the local police. But… the most unfortunate thing… the crazy man Hale Hill is also among the escapees and so far, we have not been able to determine his location. As the unit directly arresting him, we have the greatest responsibility to send him back to prison. Go back to the Police Department immediately!”

Harrison was shocked to hear the news that had just been conveyed by the Chief Inspector. His hunch was right, the thing Harrison didn't want to hear the most happened! “If one day I'm free, I'll tell you what it's like to lose the closest person in your life!” – Hale's old words suddenly echoed in Harrison's mind. That year, he did not pay too much attention to this statement, because Harrison believed that Hale and his crazy experiments would never exist again.

A cold sweat rolled lightly over Harrison's cheek. He suddenly thought of his beautiful wife. Harrison was originally an orphan raised by the CSW orphanage, so he did not know who his biological parents were. The closest person to Harrison at this time is only his wife, Haniya. Just when he was about to pick up the mobile phone to dial Haniya's number, he heard a voice outside the door: “Darling, I'm back! I bought some delicious beef on the way back, let's eat Beef Ragu today.”

Harrison breathed a sigh of relief. He was glad that his wife was safe. However, not being able to relax for too long, a loud scream made Harrison tense: “Ah! Who are you?! You…” Harrison used the fastest speed to rush to the door. As soon as he opened the door, the first sight that caught his eyes was the image of his beautiful wife falling to the ground. Next to her was a tall man wearing a dirty prison suit. His hair and beard almost covered his face, but his sharp eyes made Harrison immediately realize who this man was.

“Damned! Hale Hill! What have you done to my wife?!”

Hale's gaze was fixed on his feet, more precisely, he was looking at the person who had collapsed at his feet. Hearing Harrison's angry voice, Hale slowly raised his face, his mouth with a cruel smile: “Hello, my talented policeman, it's been a long time since I've seen you!”

Harrison gritted his teeth, he repeated his earlier question: “What have you done to my wife?!” Hale smoothed his long hair to the side to reveal his sharp, lifeless eyes: “It's okay, she's not dead yet! I just let her sleep for a while!”

Seeing that his wife was still breathing, Harrison relaxed, but his voice still did not soften a bit: “Are you going to take revenge? I am just carrying out my duties and responsibilities properly. It's your crazy experiments that are causing the problem. Not to mention, you also really intend to kidnap a living people to perform your experiments. If we hadn't shown up in time, you would have killed her!”

Hale suddenly laughed: “Haha! So what? If I could turn back time, I would still do it! The white rats for my experiment should feel honored by that!” Harrison said angrily: “You look down on people's lives just because of your crazy experiments?!”

Hale stopped laughing, his facial muscles turned indignant: “Crazy experiments?! What do you know?! That's a great study, it can bring the dead back to life! Do you understand?! This experiment is everything to me! It can revive my respectable mother! But all my efforts were ruined by you bastard!”

Harrison continued: “Reviving the dead? It's just a myth! Are you sure your mother will actually be resurrected? The only thing you can do is restore your mother's form and her previous memories. But then what? Who really lived her life? Would you entrust your mother's life to a machine and artificial intelligence? Or would you hire a living person to wear a ‘skinsuit’ in the form of your mother and transplant his mother's old memories to that person? In either case, are you sure the one who really survived is your mother?!”

Hale was silent for a moment, thinking. Feeling that his words had an impact on Hale, Harrison continued to reinforce his thesis: “Do you know why the government is afraid of experimenting with your ’skinsuit'? They don't care about resurrecting the dead. What they care about is the formidable consequence of turning someone into a ‘skinsuit’. For example, a civil servant is transformed into a ‘skinsuit’ by someone. Then he would impersonate that man and blend in with the government apparatus of a country that spies. From there, there will be a lot of terrible consequences! As a scientist serving our country, you must be concerned about this, right?!”

Hale stopped thinking, he sneered again: “You guys are really full of intrigue. Such cruel people would criticize a scientist who wants to revive his loved one? What you said made me think of something very interesting! I also want to know, whether or not a person after receiving the appearance and memories of other will still be himself.”

After saying that, Hale pulled out a syringe, which contained some kind of turquoise solution. A policeman's premonition made Harrison feel something terrible was about to happen to him!

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