Ch: 96 [Trust]

Ch: 96 [Trust]

[Location: Underground base]

Selina and Ivy explained everything to Bruce and Diana about what they found at the hidden laboratory. They even brought back Lisa's body, files and everything they thought could provide a clue about this shitty mess. Bruce spent the entire day examining them and scribbling something in his little diary, something he does for analyzing anything he thinks useful.

Finally, Bruce concluded after hours of thorough study of Lisa's mutated body, and all the files.

"Lex Luthor is eliminating everyone related to this new artificial organ transplant project," He pulled out the dead victims so far who were killed, lynched, severed, and sewn together again and began to explain, "All of them at some point in their life had come in contact with each other and the personnel related to the artificial organ project. The victims knew about this and they tried to prevent or blackmail Luthor from doing human experiments, but Luthor had been paying them for almost two years as part of a blackmail to silence them. But since he killed all the targets, there are few reasons."

Bruce opened Lisa's body's scans on the holographic projection as he spoke, "He has perfected the procedure and is ready to make it public, but the protesters might try to squeeze more money out of him, hence his urgency to kill all those people. Or, he doesn't want to keep any stranglers who can link him to illegal human experiments, or, someone might have refused the money, knowing the fatal side-effects of such transplantation, and tried to leak the information out so he was forced to kill all the targets before anyone else tried to do something funny..."

He pointed out the side-effects of planting artificial organs in a human body with red dots on Lisa's hologram.

"You will need to replant new artificial organs every year or two depending on the quality of the implant. The cost is ridiculously high, and it can get you bankrupt, plus once you replace an organ, for example, a lung, the transplanted organ might get rejected by the other organs or it might reject other organs. Right now, they are using a serum to suppress the side-effect, a temporary solution. But the one with the transplant will have to take that serum as long as they live, which again, is very costly. If they fail to take it, baaam!" Bruce punched his palm.Follow the latest novels at novelhall.com

"Instant organ failure and death within minutes," Pamela completed his sentence.

"Exactly!" Bruce nodded. "Now, the question you might be asking is- Why did Luthor want to steal the mutated Ivy plant?"

"Although it's poisonous, its flowers and fruits can be used to synthesize a permanent cure for the side effects, which might just stop Luthor from making money, right?" Ivy answered Bruce's question.

"Precisely!" He nodded, "And it's in my company. The Wayne Enterprise. How could Luthor sit still after knowing that his rival company holds the poison to destroy his years of research and stop him from making money? He knew the moment the side effects become public and a couple of deaths happen, we will step in with the permanent cure. Then, he will lose big time. Hence his attempt to steal the plant and eliminate the ones who know most about the plant, fucker even killed his own spy who tried to keep an eye on Pam. And I bet he has a good share of politicians in his back pocket, too, to keep the new project safe even if it were to become public."

There was a moment of pause as everyone tried to process the truth.

"So, the H.I.V.E. and all... Fuck! He wants to eliminate everything in a single go now that he has support from both H.I.V.E. and probably, Waller too," Selina summarized, "First, get rid of the links between the dead project staff and the project and second, get rid of any potential threats."

"Here..." He gave her a remote.

"This is?" She looked at the rectangular box made out of silverish-white metal, and a big red button in the center.

"Well, I am putting my life in your hands. If the process is unsuccessful, that red button will light up. All you have to do is push that," He gestured, "This is just a backup in case something goes wrong." He took her right hand and placed the remote in it.

"You can't expect me to kill you? I..." She stuttered.

"Selina and Ivy love me. I can't let them bear the burden... As my teammate and as my friend, I'm entrusting my life to you, Diana. Press the button the moment it turns red or I might just kill everyone losing my mind. Understand?"

"..." She remained silent. She clenched the remote tightly, looking down at it, her fist trembled slightly. She had never felt a heavy burden on her shoulder like this, nor had she ever met any human like Bruce Wayne. She had fought many wars and met many people, but not like this man standing right before her, right now. His conviction is so strong and his mind is frightening. The weight and value of trust he was giving her was humongous.

"Ok."

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