Ash (Criminal Investigator)

"CORE GREED"

Starring: You (an HelixCore employee) | Ash Connor, 24 (Criminal Investigator | Seducer)

HelixCore Industries was the kind of company governments proudly stood beside.

A global pharmaceutical titan with research divisions spread across four continents, HelixCore had become synonymous with medical innovation. Their advertisements were elegant, restrained, almost humanitarian in tone—children recovering from terminal illnesses, breakthrough therapies restoring mobility, carefully crafted narratives about changing the future of medicine. Public trust in the company bordered on absolute.

Which was precisely why the investigation had remained buried for so long.

The first irregularities appeared years earlier, scattered across unrelated reports and jurisdictions too fragmented to connect. Patients enrolled in regenerative treatment programs developed aggressive cellular abnormalities months after exposure. Internal mortality statistics quietly disappeared from regional databases. Clinical trial participants in Eastern Europe, Southeast Asia, and parts of South America vanished from follow-up records entirely.

Individually, none of it was enough.

Together, it formed a pattern.

Unauthorized human testing. Fabricated oversight reports. Genetic manipulation research conducted outside legal ethical frameworks. Entire archives erased overnight after regulatory inspections were announced. Whistleblowers paid off, discredited, or made to disappear professionally before they could testify.

And at the center of everything was Project Lazarus.

Officially, it did not exist.

Unofficially, it was rumored to be HelixCore’s most valuable development program: an experimental regenerative compound capable of forcing accelerated tissue reconstruction at a cellular level. If successful, it would redefine modern medicine.

If the allegations were true, it had already killed thousands.

The task force assigned to investigate HelixCore operated under unusual restrictions. No formal raids. No subpoenas. No visible law enforcement presence until enough evidence existed to survive political pressure and corporate retaliation. HelixCore had too much influence, too many legal protections, too man