However, according to the confessions of several individuals, most of them were also invited with generous compensation to participate in the research. More than half were foreigners, and they received lucrative offers to partake in certain parts of the HST project development. Each base only worked on a segment of the project, some on genetic modification, others on clinical testing. The bases were unaware of each other's existence. Nonetheless, their actions constituted a crime, as Ye Shikai personally witnessed the people used as experimental subjects—such acts are indeed grave offenses.
If they were threatened with their lives by armed guards to continue the experiments, Ye Shikai might somewhat understand. But if it was just for money, it makes them no different from Boss Xing and others—they are all criminals.
