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Maria nodded “He is an evil man”

“What was the real purpose of your research?” Juan asked

“He wanted us to replicate a drug,” Ocampo said “It was a se of a cyclone is embedded on its face”

Juan ih-tech meth lab “I’ve never heard of Typhoon Is that a street name for a narcotic?”

Ocaathered together, it became clear that we all are experts in the development of steroids”

Juan thought back to the guard who’d shrugged off two gunshot wounds to the chest “Are Locsin’s men users of Typhoon?”

Ocaed steroid use: rowth, hair loss and severe acne in so one e the next A Jekyll and Hyde”

“They also had some side effects I’ve never seen before,” Maria said “All of thearlic oozed out of their pores I could barely stand being next to one of them”

“The drug also seerowth Maria, tell theuard who cut himself”

A look of profound confusion crossed Maria’s face as she recalled the uards wasa crate of equip out of it He didn’t even seeash on his arm, shook his head, and wiped the blood on a towel like it was just a scratch But the cut looked so deep that I thought he’d need stitches”

“But it stopped bleeding almost instantly,” Juan said

Maria gaped at him “How did you know that?”

“Because the guy as holding the knife to Beth’s throat should have been bleeding profusely from the shots I put into him Instead, he had barely any blood on his uniform”

“You’re right,” Ocampo said “But that’s not all I saw the woundThe next day, I saw it again Except for a thin scar, it had completely healed Two days later, I couldn’t even tell that he’d been injured”

“So these guys heal in less time than it takes to talk about it?” Eddie said