In Canada, an artificial lake called Ekali. This was a large artificial dam built by the US government after World War II. It was to provide convenient artificial irrigation and prevent summer flash floods in the area.

Due to the extremely abundant rainfall in the area, the embankment formed a huge artificial lake shortly after the construction was completed. This made the surrounding farmers and residents begin to consciously migrate here. In just over a decade, a large-scale town was formed.

For the residents of the town, this lake named Ekali has become an indispensable part of their lives. A huge part of their life needs comes from this lake, which has been going on for generations. However, the residents here would never have thought that there were amazing secrets hidden in the lake they are familiar with and the dams that have been abandoned for decades.

This is where General Stryker's secret base is located, and the mysterious organization he led is hiding in this abandoned dam.

He spent a lot of effort to transform the dam. The main purpose was to prevent mutants with various abilities from entering and leaving here. He regarded mutants as his lifelong enemies, and even his own base was designed to deal with mutants. In this base, in addition to his soldiers, the most were mutants imprisoned by him.

Decades of efforts have filled his base with his prisoners. Those are mutants from all over the world. Some of them were arrested for crimes and transferred here by relationships, but more were arrested by his men. Before that, they would not consider whether the person they were arrested was a good person or a bad person. Moreover, many of the mutants they caught were still children.

In the eyes of Stryker and his soldiers, the mutants are not humans. In this regard, even the children of mutants are not at all burdened. They can even watch these mutants undergo various inhumane experiments like animals.

Just like now.

A mutant who was constantly struggling was locked firmly in a seat, and a few guys in white coats used a high-speed turn to turn a small hole in his skull, and then used a slender needle to inject a liquid that looked a bit weird in color.

The soldiers around them did not even change their expressions at all. It seemed that in their eyes, the guy being tested was not a human, but a guinea pig with a human appearance. They were already used to everything in front of them, and to howling and screaming in their ears. This was an indispensable part of their daily life.

No one would be interested in the pleadings and pains of their experiments, and they were interested in the results of this experiment.

As the pupils of the mutants who acted as experimental subjects gradually dissipated, their struggles slowly stopped. Instead of the physical fluctuations that were so disordered that they were almost out of control in the previous few times, several white coats around them looked at each other. They saw a common look in each other's eyes - joy.

"General, we seem to have succeeded." A guy in a white coat said to a serious man standing next to them.

This is a man who still looks quite tough, although his hair is a little white. He wears old-fashioned glasses, his neat beard and tightly closed lips show that he is a very serious guy. His always straight waist and steady pace make his behavior full of military colors. This is General William Stryker, the supreme commander of this secret military base.

Upon hearing the researchers' report, General Stryker quickly walked to the next to the experimental subject. If it were normal for the mutants here to see him coming to him, even if they were not gritting their teeth with hatred, they would wince like a frightened quail. He is the devil in the eyes of all mutants, and even he himself would not deny this.

At this moment, the mutant's expression was a little weird. His eyes were staring at Stryker, but there was no fluctuation in it, as if he was facing a stranger. This could not summarize all his abnormalities. If you insist on describing it, it can only be said that his expression was extremely pure, just like a baby.

Stryk looked at his expression, and after a moment he put his stiff face in front of him, telling him softly with such a close situation.

"Listen, Kane. I am the one you respect the most. You always obey my instructions. No matter what I ask you to do, you will do it. You always think that everything I say is right, and you will do it at all costs to accomplish what I say."

The mutant named Kane stared at Stryker with his head tilted, as if understanding what he meant.

Looking at Kane's reaction, Stryker waved and said, "Soldier, untie his bond."

"General, I don't recommend you to do this. The ability of experimental subject 254 is very dangerous, and we don't need to experiment in this way!" The white coat on the side quickly dissuaded him as he listened to Stryker's order.

This is just the initial experimental result, and there is no need to use this dangerous method to confirm the effectiveness of the experiment. If the experimental subject really loses control, with his ability, it is very likely to cause great danger to everyone present. Not only Stryker, they may be injured or even die.

"The most important reason why I don't like you guys is that you really don't have the courage." Stryker pulled the corners of his mouth, which was the greatest expression he was willing to show. "Complete my orders, soldier. Open his bondage."

For the soldiers here, Stryker's orders need to be executed unconditionally. Whether they are really as the researcher said, they will encounter danger.

At Stryker's order, several soldiers walked forward. They opened the locks handcuffed to Kane's limbs and released him completely from the hard steel seat.

Kane, who left the seat, did not make any worry. He looked around and slowly walked behind Stryker, like his shadow.

Stryker's mouth was curled in a curve, and it was obvious that Kane's performance made him very satisfied.

"Very good, Kane. Now, I order you to transform." He turned around and whispered to Kane behind him.

Kane took a step back two steps after hearing this, and then his whole body began to change tremendously. His body was rapidly elevating, and his skin texture appeared as if it was wood. Soon, his whole body turned into this, looking like a huge figure carved from wood.

"No, no, Kane. It's not like this little fight. I want you to become your most terrifying form. That huge form."

Kane's wooden eyes turned a few times, showing a little hesitation. But soon he nodded, and his body, which was more than two meters tall, changed again.

The wooden skin began to quickly climb over the bark-like shell. His height was raised up again and soon reached the top of the laboratory. On his head, the skull had changed into a shape that spread outward, and a layer of thick green leaves covered his entire head. It made people feel as if they were looking at the crown of a tree again.

The changes in his limbs were also amazing. The huge arms could no longer see the shape of the human arm, but the thick tree stump with roots. The stumps as thick as ordinary people's waists extended from the shoulders and swung as his shoulders shaking. In his lower body, the same stump stood there, the difference was that the roots in his lower body were thicker and stronger. These thick roots even tore the thick concrete floor and firmly penetrated themselves into the land.

At this time, Kane could no longer see the human appearance. If he insisted on saying something, he looked like a big tree with a slightly human shape.

This is the ability of Kane, a tree man. After he is fully released, he can grow into a human-shaped tree four meters tall. In this form, he can perform slow movements, but he can use extremely huge power. The huge stump of his arm alone can cause a heavy impact of about two tons. And as long as the tree roots are deeply rooted on the ground, she will continue to absorb nutrients and strength from the land and recover herself from various damages.

And his hard wooden skin can even block the bullet shooting of ordinary automatic weapons.

In the records in Stryker's hands, Kane's power, defense, and recovery ability are beyond the level of ordinary mutants. It is also a very dangerous type among the many prisoners under his command.

However, this danger is completely within the range that can be subdued. Because Kane's ability cannot be maintained forever. If Kane maintains this ability for a long time, his brain will gradually turn into a tree, and at that time he will really become a tree. So he will take the initiative to remove this form after a certain period of time, but this time is not long, only about one or two hours.

Seeing Kane turn into a huge tree, Stryker was not surprised at all. He was waiting, waiting for the final result. See if Kane would always obey his orders, or take the initiative to remove this form out of self-protection.

Time passed by minute by minute, and Kane's face that looked as if he had a contour showed a difficult look. However, he did not move and still maintained his own tree-like shape. Stryker kept looking at him like this, watching his expression gradually stiffen, watching his originally slightly shaking movement gradually calmed down, and watching him become a real tree in front of him.

Two hours later, Stryker knocked on Kane's body, and the hard body was a dull sound. It was the sound of high-quality wood.

"Kain, Kane. Please reply when I heard it!" He tried to call a few times, but Kane, who had completely turned into a tree, had completely lost his ability to speak. Although he was still alive from the perspective of life, from the perspective of human beings, he was actually dead. His brain was dead.

After Kane could not wait for Kane to reply, Stryk took out his gun and shot it on the tree a few times. The bullet tore open the outer bark, but embedded it on the wood in the middle. If Kane was usually, he might have some movements when he could still feel pain. But now, the whole tree is still still.

"It seems to be really useful!" To draw this conclusion, Stryker put away his gun and ignored the trees in front of him. "Soldier, just clean up this guy. Cut it and throw it out. Don't stay here to get in the way!"

"Now, tell me. How confident are you to repeat this experiment? How much dosage can you make?"

The white coat discussed it and responded quickly.

"When the raw materials can be supported, we can make a dose of about ten people. If more is needed, at least we have to wait until the experimental subject No. 147 recovers itself."

"First use all the materials on your hands. I have plans to use them." Stryker waved his hand and ordered. Then he looked outside the laboratory.

There, in the jails, many prisoners were looking at him with a look of sorrow and hatred. They were all mutants.
Chapter completed!