This should end the weaving together of the two conversations, with both Lola and Jacob learning what Fumiaki was really up to. Didn’t want this to go on for too long. It leads to wordy pages. 🙂 Important pages, but a bit wordy…
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Lola: The hidden strain is a retrovirus. It could lurk asymptomatic for decades. When it resurges, the victims will...
Zoey: ...melt like taffy. Because it is Fumiaki's pupae virus. And only India has the chrysalis pods everyone will need to survive.
Jacob: Everyone? You mean the whole planet!
Zoey: Yep. The quarantine area was too small for the airborne strain. And it was right next to the channel tunnel.
Lola: The virus is almost certainly in Europe by now. We've failed.
Jacob: Fumiaki tried to kill the entire human race, and India plans to profit off it? And you're okay with this?
Zoey: Hell, no. I'm just a journalist, a refugee, and a bait for you.
Zoey: ...melt like taffy. Because it is Fumiaki's pupae virus. And only India has the chrysalis pods everyone will need to survive.
Jacob: Everyone? You mean the whole planet!
Zoey: Yep. The quarantine area was too small for the airborne strain. And it was right next to the channel tunnel.
Lola: The virus is almost certainly in Europe by now. We've failed.
Jacob: Fumiaki tried to kill the entire human race, and India plans to profit off it? And you're okay with this?
Zoey: Hell, no. I'm just a journalist, a refugee, and a bait for you.
No problem with wordy pages on my side.
But bad news for humankind…
So, does the current psychopathic head of the Genocide Project decide to nuke Europe “for the lulz” with the excuse that he is stopping the spread of the pupae virus? It seems he is just one excuse away from genocide for the hell of it.
Quick! Release the ‘spin a cocoon’ virus!
Hang on. If Lola is just now reading the lab data, how does Zoey know the details? Did she leave a spy cam on the motor chair to watch through her neuro-glasses?
Sounds like ‘invasion of the pod snatchers’ is brewing.
Is Roger relaxed or passed out?
This was my wordy page. 😉
Zoey knows the details because she’s working with the Indian government. Not willingly, perhaps…
Well, well, looks like we got a Class 3 Forced Genetic Augmentation gig going on here…
Alright, seal the planet and prepare bioshpere cleansing operations.
No one gets out ALIVE.
So, the Indian government had a spy in Faux-miaki’s lab?
Ooh, lemme guess…was it the chameleon guy?
Look on the bright side, at least there’s a treatment! Worst case scenario, everybody dies! Also, Fukami’s son could probably make more of the tubes, but then again, I wouldn’t trust anything that a computer brain in a jar creates.
I read a series in which we’re all dead by 2070. And we take most of the biosphere down with us.
“we’re all dead by 2070”
Well, unless you were born after 1970…we pretty much will all be dead by then, eh?
And according to the Al Goregast’s doomsdays predictions, being a bit younger will just prolong the agony
Since the retrovirus will be lurking in peoples’ genomes for a few years, don’t they have time to make another virus to modify their genomes again and kill the pupae virus?
Yes, EveryZig, that’s right. It’s why I wanted to show Lola’s reaction to this news. Before long we’ll see how she’ll deal with the pupae virus. But remember, Guayaquil killed about 10% of the human race, mostly elderly and infants…so it’s not without cost.
At this moment, however, we’ll be sticking with Jacob and seeing how he handles his trip to India.