07. eyes of night.

"7 kids, you say?"

Seeing Raiden's reaction, seemed to make her thoughts come true.

The organization she was after turned out to be difficult to track down by any security forces. Even normal people or certain people don't know at all.

"I'll explain briefly to you. As for the mission that we will do later. The project uses a chip as a control center. The chip is code-named CTX-4180. The chip is inserted into the human body with the condition that it must be under 20 years old so that it can adjust the body's system the same as normal body organs. The control process is almost the same as the nano-suit. Even though it only relies on form. The chip actually has a program that is able to balance the system of the gekko."

Raiden was silent while listening to the explanation very carefully.

"This project is able to make a person able to use survival skills and combat power that are on par with trained soldiers. However, as a side effect, the user will experience slowness of the body's system so that it interferes with the heart and brain systems, over time ... the body's system slowly decreases. Up to 2 days , the user will die. For this reason, the brainwashing program is the only temporary solution for the chip to be mastered and fully controlled."

"That's terrible. Even if it was me.. hearing their system.. it sounds like a terrifying torture." he complained.

For Raiden, hearing that alone feels like a reminder of his past memories which were very deadly. It was hard to believe that he had heard of anyone trying to do something like that again.

Apart from that, Laura suddenly showed her wound to Raiden.

"You see this wound. This is I got when I was kidnapped and experimented on by the Fallen dryas when I was 16 years old. They implanted that chips.. a bomb chips, brainwashed me, and made me a living weapon."

"living weapon you say?" he surprised.

"Yes. Because of that chip, I lived as a living weapon and killed many people without mercy in order to carry out their terrorist acts. For 5 years I lived it without remembering anything. Only my sniper has always accompanied me."

"I see.."

"But the supermarket hostage incident, they made a big mistake by placing me as the attacker hostage. Until one day, a little girl boldly approached me."

Laura turned to Lily..

"Thanks to Lily's courage, it allowed me to reach my human side and be able to rebel against them. When they were about to kill me. Of course it wasn't easy, because they were also preparing to shoot or blow me up. But a miracle happened. Someone attacked them without being noticed, until they managed to seize the control device chip that one of them had been hiding."

"Someone? "

"That's right. He looks like an old man who wears an eye patch over his right eye. But his physical abilities and fighting power are very strong. He's like a highly trained soldier. I don't know what happened to me after that. But what I do know, I was in a medical room. Lily was still fast asleep beside me. Then after that, the nurse came up to me, she gave me a letter which she said was from the person who had brought me. it said, Stay alive. She needs you as a family. Since then, I decided to adopt her, and also gave her the name Lily. What's more, it also makes me indebted to him, for giving me a second chance to live a normal life."

Hearing that, silence could not be avoided. Raiden felt that what Laura said was indeed the Snake he knew. He also felt the same way that Laura experienced.

"Raiden. I'm sorry I spoke to you like this."

Raiden suddenly shook his head as if he didn't mind it.

"It's fine. You don't need to apologize. If you want to return the favor to Snake, then I'm go with you. Tell me about the mission you accepted this time."

Laura seemed unable to believe what she heard. But she now had no doubt that her decision this time was the right one. She smiled and explained to Raiden.

"Alright then. I'll tell you about this mission. My mission is to take you to take part in eliminating the Fallen dryas terrorists. Their location is known to be in a port and also in an apartment building around Spain. One of my intel said that Snake is headed to one of the locations I mentioned. There are 4 Missions this time. Tracing the whereabouts of snakes, exterminating Fallen dryas, securing the 7 child project, as well.."

Suddenly she felt dizzy when she tried to explain. She calmed down for a moment...

"Freeing people tied to the 7 child project into normal people again."

Raiden listened to the explanation very carefully..