The Semi-Human Heart and The Third Wave Failure

She seemed interested in it, so I described my little conversation with the man-bull.

"I tried to make peace with them, but he responded that they weren't willing to be slaves anymore, so I think that he used to a farm animal."

"But it could also be the other way you know? He used to be human when his DNA was mixed with a beast he lost a part of his intelligence, and that's the why of the problems to express himself, the slavery part can be just the influence of his new partners and the confusion of the change he went through."

"That's why I said that I wouldn't bet on it, it's because about he talked about himself being a slave and not about his partners… Also, they are under the Alpha's orders so they should also be beast in their core."

I don't know why but I wanted to push my view on them. The old-woman seemed deep in thought as she pondered about what I said.

"That's not a strong argument, and there is no proof that things are really like that. "

"I never said it was a strong argument…"

'Actually, it is~.'

We all looked at Dante.

'The call of an Alpha is strong~, even Cai-Cai as strong as she is~, was slightly affected and felt the call of an Alpha from another species~. The NDR semi-humans were humans before, so they didn't have troubles and didn't even felt the Alpha's call~.'

Cai-Cai is strong?... I'll have to ask him about it later.

Well ignoring that point, now we know an essential difference between them… If we have a semi-human in Green Shelter and he used to be a human they will not be affected by the presence of an Alpha.

"How do you know that they didn't respond? We don't know what happened with them…"

'To answer that we have to go into the next topic~.'

Dr. Harting Raised a brow, he understood that Dante was able to see in his memory.

"About the third wave?"

'Yup~, in the beginning, it was a simple two parts plan~, but when I noticed that there was a little NDR's team that was planning to recover Cecily during the chaos~ it changed a little. I wanted to just make the third wave wander around while Pinky prepared the trap, but since this group was there, I decided to add them to the plan. After making the leaders go in the wrong directions for a while I guided them towards this NDR squad, they were too strong and managed to get away the third wave just killed two goons before the withdrawal~. Pinky had the trap ready after that, so he took care of the rest~… before the thing got too bad for the third wave they ran away with heavy loses~…'

There were so many questions about this on everyone mind… how did he misguide them, how he knows about the infiltration from the NDR… who is Pinky??

Dr. Rehn and Dr. Harting seemed to be thinking and figured out that it was the white lab rat that Johanna mentioned after the rescue.

The only one that was thinking something different was the old woman… and she was the first to also talk about it.

"What does this have to do with the semi-humans?"

'In the NDR squad, there were four semi-humans, three of them reptile and one mammal, the mammal wasn't affected at all by the Alpha.'

"But they are under those people control why would they respond?"

'It's something instinctive. If you have a trained male dog and a female dog in heat passes next to him… will he ignore her? Of course not, those are his instinct… unless you castrate them which I think should be a law to prevent the uncontrolled proliferation of dogs in Green Shelter…'

"Dante no politics."

He opened his eyes his ears went down a little acting cute.

'Ok~. But you should add this to the list and talk about it~, that's the idea, the Alpha's call is something instinctive not controlled that way.'

Dr. Harting talked once again.

"We will just leave it for now, we are going to recover semi-human's bodies and figure out more after that. A recovery team should have taken care of it already. Dante, after the meeting I will need to for you to tell Blake about the location of the trap that Pinky did to see if there is something to recover."

'Sure~.'

"Next topic, security, hunting team restructuration and what are we going to do about the current threats."

It was completely unexpected that he didn't ask more details about Dante, Pinky and what happened to the third wave, but it was clear that he wanted to keep Dante and Pinky out of the spotlight.

Some people didn't agree to continue the discussion but after Dr. Harting talked there was nothing they could do. The bald men that came with Mr. D'Aurora was particularly suspicious, I was pretty sure that he imagined how it would be to have such a strong pet. People that seek for power is always dangerous.

Blake finally got on his feet again.

"We should strike the NDR while they are down!!"

I rolled my eyes, and I could see that Leon doing the same.

"Ten of them were able to fend off the third wave, and we know that they have more semi-humans, it's true that the strike Dante' did was a massive loss for them, but we shouldn't underestimate them."

Leon also added

"If we strike in a large scale fight our losses are going to be big, because they will be ready, there is no way for us to take them by surprise."

"I know that I want a little team to go make a strike to important people and then leave. Now we know that Cecily was important enough to send people for her so the other member in a similar rank should be a good target."

Initially, I thought he was out of control and wanted revenge for what happened to Ines, but he indeed thought this out. Agreeing with him this was a good idea we have to be sure that the NDR doesn't strike in a combined attack like what they wanted to do this time…

"That doesn't sound that bad…"

"Let's stop with that for now, we need to talk about security and the restructuration first."

We all nodded, if we have to prepare a mission to kill someone there was no need for it to be now, we just need the final go from Dr. Harting.

"About the security, I think I'm correct to assume that Dante' has a way to fend of creature from coming to close to Green Shelter?"

Dante looked at me, and I nodded.

'Yes~, I can do that…'

"In that case, I would like to ask you to stay in Green Shelter while we do expansion so we could work more safely."

'Sure~. I can do that as long it doesn't get in the way of my naps.'

Some people were angry at his words, Dr. Harting looked at me a little worried.

"He can do that even sleeping don't worry."

"Great in that case we can start, the sooner, the better. Mr. Panetti, you can go with Samuel Johnson and start with the expansion plans right now."

Most people were reluctant to believe what I said and thought that I wasn't serious, but their thoughts weren't important to me, and Dr. Harting once again supported my word by giving orders to the others.

Giorgio made a little bow to us and left the room with the middle-aged man that was with the Green Shelter people.

The old woman and Dr. Rehn also excused themselves and left.

There were fewer people around. And the conversation continued.

"Now with the arrival of people from the Aurora Clinic, and the people that abandoned the NDR, we have more people on the hunting teams, before Blake was the only leader and he just communicated directly with the hunting teams leader that also changed constantly, we need to change that."

We all nodded.

"First of all Blake will stay as the leader of the hunting teams, and Leon and Milo will work as subleaders."

This was when Milo raided his hand.

"Excuse me sir, but I think that Spencer is better for the position."

"Spencer is out of the command chain, so there is no point in giving him a leading position. The third subleader position is vacant until we know Frederick's condition, he should be the third leader, but if he is unable to continue, we will look for someone else to take the position."

Milo and Blake were confused by this, Leon was there when we made the deal, so this was no surprise for him. Dr. Harting explained briefly some of the details of the agreement we made before I arrived. It was a surprise for me that they accepted it quickly.

"So he and his friend will join teams as he sees fit?"

"Yes, but don't worry I have to earn my share, so I will be there most of the time anyway, and help in any way I can."

They continued discussing some details about the new distribution and candidates to take the third leadership position, for now, they also gave Mr. D'Aurora and the bald man a temporary job in Green Shelter. The definitive place was to be discussed at the next general meeting.