NEXUS doesn’t conduct experiments to understand what these creatures are. It conducts them to discover what they can be used for. Inside secret laboratories, researchers study their regeneration, responses to pain, ability to adapt, and effects on the human body. Every specimen is given a number, every reaction goes into a report, and every death is treated as just another result. But the most disturbing part is Project NEXUS-9. For the past six months, the scientists have stopped studying how t