Seeing that Rachel wasn't going to answer any more questions, Verlin didn't bother asking and went to his room to get the polar bear blood for research. The research he was doing actually didn't take too long. He had underestimated his capabilities. The tasks he thought would take days were shortened to minutes. With his microscopic vision, he could lock down on the differences in genetic samples while spotting similarities.
He returned to the lab with the polar bear samples. Verlin looked around the room and realized most things in there were useless. He didn't need the microscope because he had his microscopic vision, His brain was faster than any computer the planet had to offer. The only thing with some remote use were the elements on the periodic table. Maybe he really didn't need a lab. A table would have worked the same.
Verlin shook his head and opened the conrtainers holding the blood, He used his microscopic vision and noticed the differences. The rampaging polar bear genes seemed more unstable than the other polar bear. He quickly noticed the genes of the polar bear had been tempered with. Someone must have tried altering its DNA. If the polar bear went on any longer, it would lead to gene degradation, causing his genes and body to collapse. Whoever tempered with the polar bear genes were trying to force an unnatural gene mutation, and it was a failed expirement.
Verlin closed the containers and pushed them aside. He wasn't gonna try to track down who caused it, mainly because gene mutation of this scale would always end in failure, and even if they succeeded, the lifespan would be shortened to a couple of days. Verlin was about to leave the lab when he heard something heading towards the house at about 700km/h. He used his X ray vision and looked up through the house and saw an airplane falling down.
It was still about 4 km in the air, but it would land in less than 21 seconds, Verlin could see the passengers on the plane crying, the pilots trying to regain control of the aircraft to no avail. There was no sign of hijacking, but it would be too much of a coincidence for the plane to crash right above his head. Verlin thought about all this in less than a millisecond, walked through the front door of the house, and flew up to the plane and caught it. He let it fall another kilometer before holding it place, although his force field can wrap around the whole plane, it can't yet precisely wrap every individual inside it. So he has to slowly cancel out the force it built up while falling.
Verlin looked around and found the airport where the airplane was supposed to land about 20 km into City A. He flew there and dropped the airplane, and flew back at the mansion. All this happened in about 20 seconds. When Verlin arrived at the house, Rachel was already outside.
She looked at him and said, " What happened? "
Verlin had a slight frown on his face and said, "I don't know, how about you tell me?"
Seeing that Verlin wasn't happy, she said, " I really don't know. I just got out here."
Verlin took a second to analyze the situation. Only the military of the West Federation should know of his existence. But there was no reason for the West Federation to attack him. Not only would it do no harm to him, but it would also put Rachel in danger. Although the reasoning made no sense, there is no way this was an accident. The timing was too good. They must have known he was in the house. Only they would know where he was because of the phone.
Verlin stared down at Rachel on the ground and said, " An airplane almost crashed on the house."
Rachel looked up at the sky and said, "You're joking, right?"
" I'm not. Your satellite keeping watch should have caught it on camera."
As soon as Verlin finished talking, Rachel got a call from someone. Rachel picked up the call, and on the other end was General Smith. Normally, Verlin wouldn't eavesdrop, but he didn't care much right now. At first, General Smith just asked if she was alright. After a dozen seconds of back and forth between them, he asked her to come back to the headquarters and also to bring Verlin along.
Rachel looked at Verlin, and before she could say anything, he said, "Let's go."
Verlin grabbed Rachel and carried her princess style and flew towards the headquarters, and arrived in less than 20 seconds. Verlin could hear Rachel's heartbeat rise, but she kept a straight face and said, " Follow me."
After going through some twist, they entered a dimly lit room filled with tens of people on a computer desk. Even after Verlin and Rachel entered, no one turned their heads. They seemed to focused on their work. The headed towards the front of the room and standing there was General Smith. He turned towards Rachel and Verlin and said, " Greetings Verlin, although I would have liked to chat with you at much better circumstances. It seems that would have to wait for another time."
Seeing Verlin nodding his head, he turned towards the large screen and said, " The airplane that departed from City Z late a night yesterday and was set to land in City A this evening, but when it arrived in the proximity of City A, it's trajectory was changed."
The large screen showed the plane changing course and heading towards the outskirts of City A. General Smith continued and said, " This change seemed to have been done remotely, meaning whoever did this took control of the aircraft and pointed it towards your direction. The main problem we are facing right now is that from what we know, this type of technology should have been discovered recently as we do not have this capability ourselves. Although we are still trying to locate the people who did this, chances are we won't be able to find them."
Verlin tried to listen to General Smith's heartbeat for any trace of anxiousness, but his heartbeat was calm and steady. Verlin took into account that General Smith was still a leader of the army, so he would have trained to be able to lie without so much as an accelerated heartbeat. Verlin shook his head. If he had awakened his electromagnetic spectrum vision, things would have been much easier. He would have been able to trace the source directly.
Seeing Verlin shaking his head, General Smith continued and said, " Although we haven't been able to locate the source of the misdirection, I would like to thank you for saving the lives of not only the passengers on that flight but also Rachel."
"No problem, just tell me how exactly they were able to know my location."
"That we do not know as well, but if we're were to take a guess, it would be because of the phone we gave you." General Smith pulled out a new phone and continued, " This phone has all the data transfered from your old phone into it, but with no tracker or any additional devices. Just a regular phone."
Verlin took the phone and said, "Much appreciated. Also, you might want to check the security on your data. If these people attacked me, they must know about my identity. "
General Smith went silent for a second and said, "We shall keep that in mind, but I do hope that this incident doesn't sour our friendship."
Verlin raised an eyebrow. Although they weren't enemies, he wouldn't go as far as saying they were friends. Verlin shook his head and said, " Dont worry, it's not that big of a deal. No one got hurt." He looked at Rachel and said, " You gonna go back home now?"
Rachel shook her head and said, " I'll stay here a little longer. You can head back without me."
Verlin wasted little time. He left the base and flew into the sky and into space. It was already almost nighttime, so he decided to relax above the planet. He entered space a few hundred kilometers above the planet and let the planet capture him in orbit. He didn't fall towards the planet but rotated around it at a relatively slow speed of mach 30.
It had been 2 weeks since Verlin arrived on the planet, Nothing much had happened since the airplane incident. The military still hasn't found the traces of the culprit. Although the culprit hasn't attacked him again, they must have had information from his phone, including his contacts, so he has been keeping a close eye on Chloe throughout the past 17 days. Although he felt bad for breaching her privacy, it's much better to be safe.
Another thing that Verlin noticed was that the stronger he got, the faster his strength increased, to the point that he is currently twice as strong as he was when he had landed, in speed, strength and durability along with his other abilities. Even he doesn't know how strong he was when he arrived on the planet, less so now. He had even awakened his electromagnetic spectrum vision.
Verlin had tried to find traces from the plane but couldn't find any leads. So, his daily life has just consisted of going around the city with a mask stopping crimes or helping with fires and even catching people falling off buildings.
He had even accumulated a reputation for himself,the news outlet calling him the masked blur. Although he was still more like an urban legend since most people didn't believe it, as more and more witnesses sprouted out, more people started believing in his existence. Especially after the airplane incident, although they didn't capture his figure, there were footage of the airplane being dropped at the airport at an impossible speed, not to mention the footage in the airplane.
Verlin at this time was in Chloe's house watching some news channel. Verlin and Chloe listened to the reporter talking to some pope, saying, " This incident is the biggest proof we are going to get. All this is the work of God. Such miracles only occur once in a lifetime. Only those who have received the guidance of the Lord can be blessed with a second chance of life in the face of death." The pope went on and on, only to bring out a book he wanted to sell on how to receive blessings and the favor of the God.
Verlin shook his head, and Chloe didn't seem to be buying it either. She said, " Do you think it was an Enhanced human? I mean, the footage is quite clear, There is no sign of it being edited."
"Im not too sure about that, I mean, it could fly as well as lift the plane. It might have just been a good edit. You've spent the past week trying to find some link to enhanced humans. I'll tell you right now, you won't find it on the news."
Chloe's eyes seemed to light when he said this and stood up, saying, " You're right. If we want to figure it out, we're gonna have to find it ourselves."
Verlin raised his eyebrows and said, "We?"
Chloe nodded her head and said, "Yes we, aren't you curious to find another Enhanced human?"
Verlin was silent, If it was an Enhanced human that lifted a plane like that, he would be curious. But that was him. "Sure, we can investigate, but we can do that tomorrow. It's already late at night. In fact, I gotta go home."
Chloe looked outside to see it was already night she turned to Verlin and said, " Alright then, we shall investigate tomorrow."
Verlin walked to the window and said, "Goodnight, say goodbye to your mom for me."
Verlin flew out the window and was about to head home. He heard someone scream, Verlin was a little suprised because although he had only been stopping criminal activity for about 2 weeks, the crime rate had dropped to almost nothing, The city didn't have much crime to begin with. When he looked at the direction of the scream, he saw 4 people standing in an isolated alley. The problem was that none of them seemed to be in trouble. They were all just standing there, and only one of them was shouting for help.
Verlin could tell they were trying to get his attention, Verlin put on his mask, and shortly after appeared in the alley. Verlin took some time to analyze them. They were all wearing masks that looked like helmets and tight suits. Verlin could tell there were 2 men and 2 women in their bunch. When they saw Verlin, they didn't speak and immediately attacked him. Verlin was a bit surprised to see one of the women took the lead and ran more than 10 times faster than the others and appeared in front of him with some sort of injection in her hand. Verlin grabbed her arm and seized the injection away, and threw her towards the others. But she regained her sense of balance mid-air and landed on the ground with a flip.
Verlin no longer wasted anytime and rushed the 4 of them, intending to knock them out. It was obvious one of them was an enhanced human, so he went after her first, but to his suprise when he was about to hit her, she dodged his attack, although Verlin wasn't going too fast even Rachel wouldn't be able to react to this level of speed. Verlin moved back and took another look at the 4 of them with his microscopic vision. And he couldn't help but pause at what he saw. All of them were enhanced humans.
And it wasn't like a Rachel or Chloe type of enhanced human. Their body density was more than 20 times that of a human. This was leagues above Chloe and Rachel. While Verlin was thinking, all 4 of them attacked him at the same time, one had a fire ability, another with wind, and the last one didn't use any ability.
Verlin stood in a spot and let their attacks hit him. After the smoke cleared, they saw their attacks didn't work, and Verlin could hear a voice from their earpiece telling them to retreat. Verlin wasn't going to let them escape as he attacked the one with super speed. This time, he went at a speed she couldn't react to, and this time, he hit her with a punch and sent her flying through a concrete wall. Verlin went for the one with a fire ability but kept his eye on the others. Verlin tried to hit him on the side of his head, but Verlins arm went right through his body. Verlin saw the fire dude elementalize and turn into pure fire. He noticed some movement and saw the other woman that hadn't used an ability, teleported to the other woman he knocked into the wall, and both of them disappeared.
Verlin wasn't too concerned as he had already memorized their heartbeat and DNA. Verlin tried to attack the other dude with a wind ability and encountered the same problem. Verlin could think of ways to stop them, but didn't know if it would kill them or not.The teleporting woman appeared again and took away the fire dude. Verlin decided to stop attacking and wait. When she teleported back here again, he appeared right in front of her and grabbed her by the throat, Verlin had never spoken when he wore the mask, but he had to make an exception, he changed his voice to sound neither male nor female and said, " Who are you and what do you want?"
The woman didn't reply as she teleported away from his hand and picked up the last dude and left. Verlin flew directly to the sky and tried to find their heartbeat. He listened to everything in City A but couldn't find the sound he was looking for.
He flew even higher into the sky and started flying around the entire western Federation but still couldn't find anything. Verlin figured that they must be in some sort of soundproof room. He didn't dare imagine that she could teleport over a thousand kilometers of distance multiple times.
Verlin looked at the injection he took from one of the women. It was a transparent substance, but the needle on it was much denser than steel. They probably thought he was an enhanced human and were trying to kidnap him. Although Verlin couldn't find their location, he knew that they weren't after Verlin but were after the masked blur.
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