Emergence 3.0
A Novel – In One Page Per Day
Monday, February 25th, 2019
Chapter Four: Truth
Jim expended incredible efforts at the habits and practices of
concealment. He risked everything if he was discovered.
Jim had to
be careful with how the genetic properties, and psychic qualities he was
engineering into the human race manifested themselves in the population.
If the
Continuum were to discover these, even if he was able to hide his role in
engineering them, planet Earth and the Human race would be doomed.
In order to
conceal his work he also had to be on the lookout for spies from the Observer
Corps, for any manifestation of the machinations of the Continuum interfering
in his work.
He
introduced subtle changes into the genetic profile of the human being.
There were
moments when he used the transmission of a virus to affect widespread mutation,
and at other times he was more precise, changing the genetic profile in
targeted ways, family by family. He then monitored the families he was
experimenting on for generations following them, normalizing the changes he
introduced before spreading those changes outward.
It was the
most intricate of all puzzles.
He pieced it
together under extreme duress.
All the
things he was aiming for had to be kept in a state of constant tension, with
multiple trajectories kept isolated from one another until they were ready to
be blended with other parts of his study.
He was busy,
and everything he did had to be guarded, kept secret, the systems that he put
in place to protect them were themselves artificial and unnatural. They were so
extensive that he ran the risk of being exposed, simply by virtue of the fact
that he was taking measures to protect his work.
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