"Why did this happen..." I gasped, hand mped over my mouth, my body trembling slightly.


    That child who was never born.


    "This is what happens when you mess with the gic code without understanding the


    consequences. Phoebe was born a genius, naturally immune to HIV and a host of other diseases,


    but it also meant that from the moment of her birth, her body was ipatible with the natural


    process of reproduction, like... a mule born from a donkey and a horse, sterile by nature."


    And with a child, unable to be carried or to survive healthily.


    Gic editing, it''s like Pandora''s Box, once opened, there are unforeseen consequences.


    "Don''t think this is a small issue, it''s horrifying... and the implications are vast. Behind Phoebe, this


    test subject, there must be a terrifying and sinister organization orchestrating it all."


    Finn pped the table. "From genius drafts to missing teens, from serial killings to muttion


    cases... Looking back at this gic editing case, all these seemingly unrted incidents are


    trapped in the same intricate web."


    Finn suddenly had an epiphany. Maybe he had always been quite smart. Just a littlete to the


    party.


    And Colin had figured it all out years ago, and had it all pinned up on the wall.


    I turned to look at Colin, my gaze intense. I wasn''t ming him.


    But even now, was he still unwilling to speak?


    "That''s right... The wealthy, in their quest to pass on superior genes, have been secretly dabbling in


    gic editing." Colin''s voice was hoarse as he finally spoke. "I too am gically edited, but unlike


    Phoebe, I wasn''tpletely edited. My changes were just enhancements to bolster resistance to


    hereditary diseases, intelligence, athletic ability, and to take advantage of the gic benefits of


    superior DNA."


    No sooner had Colin finished than everyone''s eyes were glued to him.


    A glint of something, perhaps excitement or greed, sparked in the eyes of the scientists.


    Human desire is terrifying. Since ancient times, emperors sought immortality, a pursuit that


    continues today, with research into eternal life and anti-aging never ceasing. But these anti-human,


    anti-natural experiments will inevitably take center stage in history, fueled by relentless human


    ambition.


    "Ethan never really loved my mother. She was just an ordinary mixed-race woman, her genes


    perfect, chosen by Brendan to be a surrogate and an egg donor, while Ethan provided the sperm."


    In other words, his so-called biological father.


    Colin let out a bitterugh. inly speaking, he was the product of surrogacy. Treated like an object,


    amodity.


    "Brendan wanted the perfect heir, so I, the gically edited child, was born in ab."


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    I began to understand why Colin was so reticent about these so-called secrets. Each secret was


    like a knife to him. As he divulged them, he was stabbing himself over and over.


    "I was observed by researchers as I grew up until I was eight, the age when, ording to the


    contract, the Langley family was supposed to take me in. But the Langley family went back on their


    word because I was naturally silent, reclusive, and the consequences of the gic modifications


    meant my brain developed abnormally slowly before the age of eight, my IQ even lower than an


    average person''s."


    "They deemed me a failure. After taking me back, they dumped me in an orphanage..." Colin took a


    deep breath, his gaze turning icy as he looked at Finn.


    "What they didn''t know was that after I turned eight, my brain started functioning beyond what


    normal people could achieve."


    Colin pointed to his temple, but his voice wasced with loathing. He seemed to see himself as a


    gically modified monster!