All Chapters of He Saved Her Feet, I Saved the World: Chapter 11 - Chapter 12

I couldn't identify what the object was, but Nathan's expression changed. He crouched and carefully picked it up with his tactical gloves, his expression growing increasingly grim. "The parasitic core from Project Chimera…" he muttered. "I thought this thing had been destroyed a long time ago."Back at Eden's command center, a heavy silence settled over the room.Nathan explained that the parasitic core was a product of a secret bioweapons program called Project Chimera, which had been developed before the apocalypse.Once implanted in a host's central nervous system, the core could forcibly unlock the host's latent potential. However, it came with a terrible side effect—it distorted the host's memories and amplified their negative emotions without limit.I froze, then remembered Derek's almost obsessive paranoia five years ago.So the tiny core had been eating away at his mind all along, turning him into a monster he could no longer control. The satisfaction I'd felt at the