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"I’ to ad his head out the door, he called for Hiroshi

The Nipponese cop appeared alo wired into all local law enforcement records? And citizens’ records?"

Hiroshi looked surprised "Of course What do you need to know?"

"Citizen records first I need a suenetic scores for all Nipponese births twenty-seven and twenty-eight years ago No, wait" Justin reconsidered and changed his request to cover thirty to fifteen years ago Hiroshi put in the request without question and then had the ego organize the resulting data into a chart Justin peered at it in triuet years--higher than would be natural for a caste Then it just drops off into typical numbers"

It was true After those years, the scores abruptly returned to average levels There was one six and no sevens at all The rest ranged frohts or nines

If Hiroshi was shocked at hearing the word "caste," he didn’t show it "What else can I help you with?"

Justin thought about it carefully "Cri to any illegal bio-research"

"What are you getting at?" asked Leo as Hiroshi put in the request

"I think if so their perfect babies twenty-seven years ago, then they probably got busted and shut down," Justin explained

"No biogenetic indiscretions in fifty years," Hiroshi said athe screen "And the one on record back then was pretty sloppy" Most were Genetic manipulation at conception was a sketchy science that actually rarely yielded good results, which

"The lab could’ve operated in any of the other grants or even a plebeian city," Justin o, desperate for soinal theory "Any records of suspicious religious activities over the years?"

"I figured you’d already know that," said the man "No offense, Dr March"

"None taken Just hu nothing there either Justin was on the verge of wrapping things up when an idea occurred to him "Were there unusual cri at all out of the ordinary that made the police’s radar?"

"That’s a broad request," Hiroshi said

"Huain"

This took more time as Hiroshi made the request and then manually ski" Then he hesitated "Nothing here"

A chill went through Justin "What do you rew pensive "I rerant Huron, Sioux Falls, so-persons cases and a higher-than-usual number of deaths Most accidental, but a few homicides too None of it was in our borders, but we had a lot of federal and local investigators coh"

Justin had the scent He could barely contain hio "Twenty-five, spread out over a two-year period--but they’re one off froht years ago" When no response ca else?"

"No," said Justin, slowly shaking his head "You’ve been more than helpful Thank you"

When Leo finished up his assess no definitive answers--he, Justin, and Mae decided to catch dinner in the grant before their flight That was one perk of visiting land grants Sure, outsiders often received cold treath that, the cuisine was outstanding The three of theh Justin barely noticed the excellent food Histo find the pattern, to beat sense out of the juiven