Moritz once harbored hope.
But his knowledge negated it all.
Throughout his long academic career, knowledge armed his brain, but it also made him clearly aware of the unchangeable sorrow in humanity's very bones.
Modern life is destroying the sacred connections between humans. Under the factory production model, people become alienated and mutually suspicious. Companies, employees, street paupers—different classes, and even within the same class—people are constantly fighting each other, persecuting each other, trapping themselves in a cold prison where they are enemies with everyone.
This is a war of every person against every person.
Under such a war, all that was once sacred to humanity was shattered.
It was this realization that sparked Moritz's conjecture about humanity's 'maturity'.
He wanted to salvage all of it.
Human emotions should be sacred, and people should return to unity, friendliness, and beauty.
And when he saw the 'primordial compound' twist two people into a writhing mass of tentacles, he fanatically declared that he had found humanity's future.
Fusion, humanity can only achieve 'maturity' and become 'true humans' by moving towards fusion.
Geniuses are always lonely.
Humanity always harbors fear and hesitation towards further progress; the tragedies of Galileo and Copernicus are clear evidence, and Moritz understood this deeply.
So he submitted a so-called 'organic biological weapon' plan and secured the development rights for the primordial solution.
In reality, he scoffed at the words 'weapon' and 'war'.
These were merely the sins of childish humans harming themselves; Moritz didn't take the so-called biological weapon research seriously at all.
This brought him much criticism within Biotechnica.
His colleagues mocked the slow progress of his experiments and the uselessness of his products, but they never imagined that Moritz was harboring a determination to completely break down the barriers between humans, developing the fusion properties of the primordial solution.
Humanity, humanity will surely become one.
Through countless days and nights, Moritz, in this dark, sunless basement, watched the twisted victims corroded by the solution, his eyes filled with fanaticism.
He ultimately went to extremes.
He began to massively capture test subjects in Night City.
This reckless action was discovered, eventually leading to the armed Mercenaries who were now attacking his laboratory.
But that no longer mattered.
Although there were still some flaws, Moritz had completed most of the work.
Future 'humans' will surely remember this night, because today is the day humanity finally comes of age.
All barriers will be broken.
Humanity will become one.
Watching the Worm of Man writhing and roaring amidst the shattered glass below, Moritz's eyes were filled with an unyielding fanaticism... Knowledge changes destiny.
People with more knowledge commit crimes more effectively than ordinary people.
V used to feel this deeply because of Berry, and now seeing this
Worm of Man, composed of humans, crawling out of hell before her, that sentence would probably be etched in her mind for the rest of her life.
If she even had a rest of her life to live.
All three, including V, were so awestruck by the hellish scene before them that they forgot to resist, standing frozen as if paused.
As the massive Worm of Man drew closer, its viscous, slimy wriggling sound growing deafening, Berry's shout came through the comms channel.
"...V! Don't just stand there! V, shoot! Otherwise, you'll die!"
Berry had been roaring in the comms channel for who knows how long, her voice hoarse, even tinged with a sob. Only then did V suddenly snap awake, like a drowning person finally breaking the surface, taking a deep gulp of air.
While she was frozen, she had even forgotten the instinct to breathe.
With Berry's shouts, mixed with electromagnetic static, in her ear, V finally came to her senses.
She suddenly realized that the giant worm was almost upon them, its massive head towering like a wall before the three of them.
In her haste, her actions were quicker than words. V punched Jessica and Moer on either side, snapping them awake.
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