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As steve read aloud, rebecca saw david glance between his watch and the door several times She didn&039;t think it had been ten minutes, but it had to be close John and Karen weren&039;t back yet

&039;" where each is designed to ic, as combined index projective techniques with interval precision&039;"

It was rather dry reading, apparently a facility report on the analysis of some kind of IQ test It had obviously been written by a scientist, was, in fact, the kind of boring double talk that a lot of researchers tended to fall into when trying to explain anything more complicated than a chair Still, it hat had come up when Steve had asked for information on "blue series" Since the room had yielded little else, Rebecca forced herself to pay attention, fighting off - nine - the nagging, quiet fear that had settled over her during the fruitless search Soh job of it She&039;d found books, staplers, pens and pencils, a ton of rubber bands and paper clips, but not a single piece of paper riting on it, not a scrap of information to ith Steve&039;s co at all on the T-Virus Whoever had taken over the facility had apparently wiped out everything they ht&039;ve been able to use

Except for a shitload of dull psycho-babble, which so far hasn&039;t even mentioned the word blue How are we supposed to accohtened considerably

"Here we go" " &039;The red series, when looked at on a standardized scale, is the ence quotient of 80 The green series&039;" He broke off, frowning "The screen just went blank"

Rebecca looked up froh as David walked over to join Steve "Syste, tapping at keys "More like a program freeze I don&039;t think - hello, what&039;s this?" "Rebecca," David said quietly,for her to come look She closed a drawer full of blank, unlabeled file folders anddown to read as on the monitor The man who makes it doesn&039;t need it The man who buys it doesn&039;t want it The man who uses it doesn&039;t know it "It&039;s a riddle," David said "Either of you know the answer?"

Before either of them could respond, Karen and John walked back into the roo their weapons Karen held a sheet of torn paper in one hand "Locked up tight," John said "Halfa dozen offices, no s at all and only one other external door, north end" Karen nodded "There were file cabinets in most of the rooms, but they were empty, except I found this in one of the drawers, stuck in a crack Itcleaned out"

She handed the piece of paper to David He

scanned a few lines, his dark gaze taking on a sudden intensity He turned back to Karen "This is all there was?"Karen nodded "Yeah But it&039;s enough, don&039;t you think?"

David held up the torn sheet and started to read it out loud

" &039;The teams continue to work independently, but have shown a marked improvement since the modification of aural synapses" " &039;In Scenario Then more than one Trisquad is present, the second teae when the first (A) concludes (when target ceases to et continues to provide stimuli and A has discontinued the attack (lack of ae If within range, additional patrols will be drawn to the attack and will engage in succession" " &039;At this tied to expand sensory ability to trigger desired behavior; the visual stimuli of Scenarios Four and Seven continue to be unpro- ductive, although we&039;ll be infecting a new group of units to results by the end of the week It is our recommendation that we continue to further develop aural capabilities before considering heat-detection implantation&039;" "That&039;s where it&039;s torn off," David said, looking up Karen nodded "It explains a lot, though Why the tea; the tea It wasn&039;t until you and Steve took theroupthe implications of the report for more than just the obvious; Umbrella&039;s continued experimentation on humans From what she&039;d seen in Raccoon, the T-Virus took seven or eight days to fully a to pieces within a etting data in a week? Or for that matter, implanta-tion and sensory modification with the hosts they already have? There shouldn&039;t be ti, way beyond learning new behavior

She bit her lip nervously, suddenly wondering what the researchers at Caliban Cove ht have done with the virus If they&039;d found a way to speed up the infective, perhaps tampered with the virion&039;s fusion membrane, made it more cohesive

or so it to replicate exponentially we could be look-ing at a strain that works in hours, not days

It was a nasty thought, and one that she didn&039;t want to consider until she had o on Besides, it wouldn&039;t make a difference in their current situation; the Trisquads were just as deadly either way

"The sign on the north door says we&039;re in block C, whatever thatto the cohed "No, but take a look I asked for inforive us a report on these IQ tests, coded by color, then this I can&039;t get anything else" John peered at the screen, , " man who makes it doesn&039;t need it, buys it, doesn&039;t want it, uses it, doesn&039;t know it"

Karen, who had been rereading the Trisquad mate- rial, looked up with sudden sharp interest "Wait, I know that one It&039;s a casket"

Somehow, Rebecca wasn&039;t surprised that Karen knew the riddle; the woathered around as Steve quickly typed in "casket" The screen reested Steve&039;s fingers flew across the keys As soon as he hit "enter," the riddle disappeared, replaced by: BIDE SERIES ACTIVATED

Then followed:

TESTS FOUR (BLOCK A), SEVEN (BLOCK D), AND NINE (BLOCK B)/ BLUE TO ACCESS DATA (BLOCK E)

"Blue to Ae," Karen said quickly "That&039;s it - the e received related to the blue series, then said, &039;enter answer for key&039; The ansas &039;coffin&039;" " and the test numbers are the key," David said "There are three e, then &039;blue to access&039; The lines must be the answers to the tests, the letters and numbers reverse, tiht, it&039;s all about so we&039;re supposed to find"

Rebecca felt a rush of exciterabbed a pen off the desk and turned over the scrap of the Trisquad report The infore actuallysolid now

David drew five boxes in two lines, the sa the southernmost box with the letter C After a pause, he tentatively labeled the others, starting at the top left with A and going right to left,that this is right side up," he said, "and that we need to coer, a zig-zag between the buildings" "And assu the Trisquads don&039;t have a problem with that," John said softly Rebecca felt her excitement dwindle, could see the same mixed emotions in the suddenly so down at the boxes She&039;d known that they were going to have to leave eventu- ally, but had so it off until it was in front of them It was in front of the

They stood at the north door in a dark and stuffy hallway, tightening bootlaces, adjusting belts, putting fresh clips into their Berettas When David was ready, he turned to John and nodded