11 Few more years to live

"You heard it right. Three million were killed. Not all of them were part of the Black List. It was only that they had interacted with the victims of the Black List. Even if it was only merely for a second that they had interacted, they were killed mercilessly."

"What? But that's rubbish. One person would have interacted with thousands of people in his entire lifetime."

"That's true. Fortunately, the B.A only killed those whom they had seen interacting with the victims." Chief's face was solemn, with a hint of murder in his voice.

"Why go so far?"

"To remove all evidences against them. They did all that so that no one would know about the Black List."

Yi Meng let out a noise of displeasure. "In the first place, what kind of a mission was this Black List?"

"Black List was a mission that involved the research of certain scientists. Scientists that had disappeared from the surface of Earth. No one had any information about them. They were hiding in some secret place, researching about a drug that could possibly change the DNA of a person."

"DNA?" Yi Meng frowned, she was familiar with this term. She had read it in the book of cures she had brought.

"But shouldn't that be impossible?" Asks Yi Meng.

"If it were a hundred years before then yes. But now, after hundreds of years of research, they have finally made such a drug." Chief had a calm face, but his eyes betrayed his emotions.

"But approximately eight years ago, on October 10, 2010, something unexpected happened."The Chief paused for a second.

"On that day, an earthquake took place. It was so massive, that the scientists' research centres were shaken up. The buildings broke apart and the drug that they had made, seeped into the soil."

"What?! " Yi Meng exclaims.

"Yes, the drug went inside the soil. At first, the scientists weren't concerned as even if the DNA of the plants or small animals living there changed, they wouldn't be able to survive because of this change. Their body mechanisms wouldn't work."

"But what they didn't expect was that one organism managed to survive. Actually, we can't even call it an organism to be honest. It was as good as a fossil. Only that, through the years, it had managed to survive even as a pile of bones. It supposedly, belonged to a strange species, related to dinosaurs."

"Dinosaurs? What are they?"

"It would be suitable to ask what they were. They no longer exist. They were one of the few organisms that existed before human race's existence."

Yi Meng's eyes gleamed in interest.

"The strange organism, absorbed the drug and its DNA changed so drastically that it lost its sanity. Even though it gained a perfect physique, it's brains were lost forever. It only moved forward on instinct and killed those who obstructed it. Missiles, nuclear bombs, everything was tried but that fellow just wouldn't die. And that was when the despicable scientists because of whom this problem started, formed a plan and started the mission-Black List. And the ones who fell victim for this mission were none other than children from orphanages."

"Orphans." Yi Meng's pulse sped up. She felt a bitter taste in her mouth.

"These orphans were the perfect people for the mission. Black List was a mission in which orphans between the age of five to thirteen and with strong will power were recruited. Obviously, this couldn't be there in all orphans. So, the orphans were kidnapped from the orphanages and kept in laboratories for research."

"Each day, they were injected serums of different kinds,asked questions. At first, it was only injecting of drugs. But then, they started torturing the poor kids. They felt that by doing this, the will power or the mental strength of the kids would become strong. I can't even say how horrible the conditions of the children were. Everyday they had to undergo physical and mental torture. Most of them died from a backlash of the drug. At an age, where they should be playing, they were whipped and made to work."

"And all this so that they could get the children become as powerful as that organism." Yi Meng says monotonously. "The children couldn't do anything either. They had no one to support them. No parents or relatives. In the first place, they already had undergone many pains when they were young." Yi Meng's fist was clenched.

Chief nodded his head. "You must have realized by now."

"I was one of the children right?" Yi Meng says curling her lips.

"It's safe to say you were one of the children that made it out alive. You were the stongest. The DNA in you changed but not so much, that you couldn't be called human. You are human, but in addition you have monstrous strength, high recovery ability and great will power."

"I sense a 'but' coming along."

"But this wasn't entirely the case. Your change was a success but there was a problem. Your heart had a hole because of the drugs you had been given previously. They took care of that by giving you a heart transplant. Don't worry, the heart transplant was done willingly."

"Heart transplant? Does it mean that my heart was replaced by someone else's?" Yi Meng asks.

"Yes,yes. So, you and some others went through surgery and your organs were transplanted accordingly. By this time, the strange organism had already destroyed many towns. Later, the organism was lured by the scientists and brought to an isolated place. You and some others were made to fight with that monster. In the end, it was defeated and you all survived. All was good, except for the fact that you had a few more years to live."

"You mean that I only had few more years to live?"

"The drugs and the damage done by the monster gave you a certain disease. Time to time, you suffer from blinding headaches and choke up blood. Most of all, your organs get scrambled up. This is all because of the backlash of several drugs. Fortunately, you survived because of the new DNA in you. The others with you didn't have this problem. The strongest one aka you, had to suffer from such problems."

"The scientists fled when the government came to know. A few years ago, the government established this organisation to catch all the B.As and the scientists. The ones in this organisation were the same children were victim to the Black List. These children nurtured a strong hate in their hearts for those people and all of them volunteered to serve life long in this organisation including you. We didn't want to recruit you all, but we noticed that this worked as a therapy. Slowly, you all managed to crawl out of depression. You were trained so well, that you could face any B.A even while sleeping. Later, the kids who were willing to kill, were trained to kill. One of them was you. You are one of the top assassins in BLVO. In the future, you said you wanted to continue as an assassin. The government was hesitant but they agreed. For the past six years, we have been eliminating B.As."

"Hmm..Is that so." mutters Yi Meng.

"Fine. I'll stay here, but don't expect me to work as an assassin for sometime." She says.

The Chief nods his head. "Of course. That's right. I forgot to mention that we were the ones that assigned you to the Yi family. They only know that you work at BLVO but they are unaware of its true goal. So, it's better if you don't tell them."

"That's obvious. Tell me, is there any way for me to gain my memories?" Yi Meng asks. She hated being unable to understand what was going on.

The Chief was quiet for a while, before he answers "There is a way. Hypnotism."

"Then please, let's proceed." Yi Meng says and gets up.

The Chief escorts her to a hypnotist.

When the session was over, Yi Meng sat there in shock.

The girl - Yi Lan, had a truly horrible past. Her memories were so painful that Yi Meng almost teared up.

As each memory surfaced, it hit Yi Meng's heart in waves. Yi Meng closed her eyes and kept in mind, the best day of Yi Lan's life. The day when she was with the people she had loved the most.

Another memory surfaced, one when Yi Lan was offered a heart from someone she loved. And when that person died in her arms.

Yi Meng took in a shaky breath. 'Yi Lan, you are one of the bravest people I have ever met. How you managed to survive all these years is a mystery.'

There were hardly any people who wouldn't become mentally challenged on seeing the people whom they loved the most, die in their arms.

Right now, the heart that beat in Yi Lan's body was the heart of one of her loved ones who had meant the world for her. For who's death Yi Lan still cursed herself. For whom Yi Lan was willing to kill all those who had killed her loved one.

Such great was Yi Lan's love for that person.

Except now, Yi Lan was no longer alive. In her place, was Yi Meng.

A sad smile rose on Yi Meng's face as she decides. 'Yi Lan, rest in peace. I swear I'll take revenge on your behalf. You deserve to rest in peace with your loved ones. I'll kill all those who had touched that person. Maybe in year or two, I'll join you after killing those bastards. Only have a few more years to live after all."

Her eyes open and a killing intent stronger than Yi Lan's surfaced.

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