Chapter 2810: Story 2811: The Monster Inside Adam

Adam’s scream echoed through the collapsing laboratory.

His skin split along his neck and arms. Golden light poured from the cracks, but beneath it something black and enormous twisted like a living serpent.

“Stay away from me!” Adam shouted, stumbling backward.

Ryan stepped toward him. “Adam! Fight it!”

Adam looked up. His eyes were no longer human. One glowed gold; the other had become completely black.

“You still don’t understand, brother,” he whispered. “I was never the second subject.”

A deep mechanical voice interrupted him.

“SUBJECT TWO TRANSFORMATION: COMPLETE.”

The floor cracked.

A thick black tail burst from Adam’s back, smashing laboratory equipment. His body expanded, bones shifting beneath his torn clothes. Golden veins spread across his face like burning roots.

Zara raised her rifle.

“Ryan, move! That thing isn’t your brother anymore!”

“Don’t shoot!” Ryan shouted.

Adam suddenly disappeared into a cloud of black smoke.

A second later, he appeared behind Hamza and grabbed him by the throat.

“Where is Father?” Adam growled.

Hamza struggled. “I don’t know!”

Adam tightened his grip.

Ryan raised his hand. The golden symbol on his chest illuminated, and a powerful force pushed Adam across the laboratory. He crashed into the wall, releasing Hamza.

Adam slowly stood up.

“You always get everything,” he said bitterly. “Father gave you the power. Mother gave you her love. And now even the monster wants you!”

Ryan shook his head. “I never asked for any of this.”

The creature’s golden core suddenly pulsed.

Every face trapped inside it began screaming.

Ryan’s mother appeared again.

“Ryan, listen to me!” she cried. “Your brother is not the enemy!”

Ryan froze.

“Then what is he?”

His mother’s face distorted as black veins covered her cheeks.

“He is the lock.”

The laboratory lights went out.

A gigantic metallic door appeared behind the creature. Seven circular symbols were engraved across its surface. Six were dark. The seventh glowed faintly.

Hamza stared at it in horror.

“That door wasn’t here before.”

Meher’s voice crackled through the emergency radio.

“Ryan! Whatever happens, don’t activate the seventh lock!”

Ryan grabbed the radio. “Why?”

“Because it isn’t protecting something inside the door. It’s keeping something outside from entering our world!”

A deafening roar shook the facility.

Adam began laughing.

“You hear that, Ryan? It has finally found us.”

The golden core split open, revealing a tiny human hand reaching outward.

Then a voice emerged from behind the metallic door.

“FIRSTBORN… OPEN THE WAY.”

Ryan felt the symbol on his chest burning again.

His father’s voice returned through the speakers.

“Ryan, forgive me. I should have told you the truth.”

A final explosion ripped through the ceiling.

As dust filled the chamber, Adam looked directly at Ryan and whispered:

“Brother, when that door opens, you’ll wish I had killed you first.”