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“Is this a job interview?” Lois said in an icy voice

“I guess you could call it that,” Phelps said “You’ve been doing some work that my bosses are interested in”

“Who are your bosses?”

“They’re kinda shy Just think of then my paycheck”

“Did they pay you to kill Dr Logan?”

He frowned “That wasn’t in the plans, Dr Mitchell That was an accident, pure and simple”

“An accident like hijacking the lab, I suppose”

“Guess you could say that Look, Dr Mitchell, you uts, and I don’t blaet along because we’re going to be working together”

“What do you mean?”

“My bosses didn’t tellhere in the lab, but I heard it’s got so to do with jellyfish”

Lois saw no reason to hold back “That’s right We’re using a chemical found in a rare species of jellyfish to develop a vaccine for an influenza-type virus that has a lot of people worried”

“My bosses said that you’re about ready to wrap things up here”

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“That’s correct,” she said “We’re within days of synthesizing the chemical used as the basis of the vaccine You still haven’t answered ether”

“When we get to the new location, you’ll continue your research You’ll have free run of the lab except for the control rooular basis I’ll pass the reports along to my bosses Otherwise, it’s business as usual”