Dave patted his shoulder as he rolled his eyes at him. "Oh, give it a rest already. You got so much money basically for nothing, and you’re complaining about just searching for something?"
Just as Roger was about to respond, Lisa nodded and spoke instead. "Dave is right, I bought myself some new clothes. Do you know how hard it is for a girl to wear the same clothes every year?"
"You guys..." Roger felt like he was the only one standing up to the tyrant.
"Sneaky bastard, don’t think that I don’t know you spent that money already." A grin formed on Dave’s face, and just as he was about to say where, Roger put his hand over his mouth.
Lisa glanced innocently at the older adults and asked in confusion. "On what?"
"You’re too young to understand," Roger replied with an awkward smile, but his face stiffened when Lisa spoke.
"Oh, are you talking about the fact that you went to the hookers last night?" Lisa put a finger to her lips, as she tried to hold in her laughter.
"How?" Roger glanced at the two in shock.
Then Dave patted his shoulder again and gazed at him with pity. "Everybody knows, everybody..."
"Nooo!" Roger shouted at the sky as his reputation was forever ruined.
••••
The next morning, as soon as Robert entered the lab, he was greeted with a surprise.
A man was strapped to an operating table with tight, heavy metal cuffs around his limbs, and a mask on his face.
Robert almost had a heart attack as the man was looking straight at him. "What in the world?"
"You like the new lab rat?" The sound startled Robert; when he looked back, he saw Lucas, who he didn’t know when had appeared behind his back.
Robert wanted to nod because this would speed up his research, but he couldn’t start experimenting on the innocent again.
Lucas felt the mix of emotions emitted from him and understood that he needed a boost. He went to the wendigo and took off his mask.
"Once I get out, I will eat you all!" The wendigo’s fangs appeared, and he screamed and tried to break out.
While Robert took a step back unconsciously, Lucas turned his back to the wendigo without caring whether he really broke out. "He’s a wendigo, even other shapeshifters will loathe this kind of monster."
Robert gazed at the wendigo thoughtfully; he had heard the legends around them. This made his worries ease up. "I can work with that, this is better than just a dead body."
Lucas nodded and glanced at the wendigo; a smile appeared on his face, one that made the wendigo instantly silent. "Good, use him to the fullest, once you’re done, then my experiment will begin as well."
"What experiment?" Robert glanced at him in confusion; he highly doubted that a high schooler knew much about his domain.
Lucas turned toward him, and his fangs slowly came out. "To see what will happen when I bite him."
"You will kill him!" Robert was outraged; his precious lab rat would die.
"You know nothing about our world, you’re merely a visitor." Lucas’s eyes flashed red, then glanced back at the wendigo.
An ordinary Alpha would just hurt the shapeshifter if he bit him, but there are Alphas who have something special about their spark.
He wasn’t an ordinary Alpha either; in fact, he was the very pinnacle of the pyramid. So this made Lucas wonder what would happen when he bit another already transformed shapeshifter.
Robert wanted to argue that it was better to let him do the experiments, but Lucas’s demeanor made him wisely shut up.
Lucas’s red eyes disappeared, and he looked back at Robert. "Don’t worry, you’ll still have time with him. Did you check the blood that I gave you?"
At the mention of the blood, excitement flashed into Robert’s eyes. "Yes! It’s amazing, and impossible at the same time! I tested it myself, just a few drops of blood and a cut was healed."
"I mean a deeper study on it." He already knew its effects since it was his own blood; on top of that, he used blood sacrifice that he got from Jennifer the Darach.
This way, the blood could have a healing effect for some time. The only problem was that, even though he evolved the ability, it didn’t cure diseases.
Robert’s face showed a little embarrassment. "I tried, but the blood looked like it was alive and had its own lock mechanism."
This news didn’t disappoint Lucas that much; in fact, this was one of his objectives. If someone like the Dread Doctors got a hold of his blood, then they would find nothing.
Of course, even if they used his blood for whatever experiment, the blood sacrifice ability allowed him to control his blood in ways even he hadn’t discovered yet.