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Budapest Orchid District: 37 of total population confirmed dead

Miami Orchid District: 34 of total population confirmed dead

A countdown clock in the corner read: 1:45:08

Less than two hours to the near extinction of the hue in human evolution

After the Euthanasia Protocol, there would be two groups of hu There would be two separate subspecies of humans for the first time in thousands of years Paul knew that state would end soon, just as it had before: with a single subspecies And it wouldn’t be the less-evolved

The survivors would have the world to theenetically inferior cleared away

CHAPTER 81

You’re listening to the BBC, the voice of huue

This is a special news bulletin

A cure, ladies and gentlemen

Leaders fro America, the UK, Germany, Australia, and France, have announced that they have finally found a cure for the Atlantis Plague

The announcements couldn’t have come at a better time The BBC has acquired classified reports and received eyewitness accounts froh as forty percent in some Orchid Districts

The announcements were issued in terse statements, and the heads of state have denied all requests for interviews, leaving experts and pundits to wonder about this ly be ht

Directors of several Orchid Districts, speaking on the condition of anony Orchid production plants were already set up to , and that it will be handed out within hours

This has been a BBC special news bulletin

CHAPTER 82

Kate was in the deco the suit She turned quickly, glancing at her partner He was also suited up

“The drones only identified one survivor”

One survivor Incredible Too… convenient “Copy,” Kate said

She turned Dorian was there He wasn’t wearing a suit “You two go I’ll e the ship”

Kate tried to read his expression Her partner strapped the rest of his field gear on

Dorian fled the room just as the last of the air was sucked out

Two floating chariots issued from the walls, and she and her partner each mounted one and flew out of the lander

The scene was breathtaking: a prehistoric settlement surrounded by stone monuments, like an outdoor amphitheater centered around a vast stone hearth that sent a blazing inferno toward the sky

Several hu the Neanderthal to the communal fire, but they released him and backed away as the chariots approached

Her partner grabbed the Neanderthal, injected him with a sedative, and threw him across his chariot They turned and raced back to the ship

“I don’t trust him,” her partner said on a private channel

I don’t either, Kate thought But she held her tongue If Dorian had betrayed them, set this up, it was partly her fault She had done the research he needed

Dorian watched the glistening water of the Mediterranean fly by below He was half-awake, exhausted from lack of sleep