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“Tell , Dr Wu,” he said

“We are ress,” Wu said with cheerful optimism

Although the lower part of Wen Lo’s face smiled, his eyes didn’t mirror the same pleasant expression

“Please show ress, Dr Wu”

“I’d be glad to, sir”

Wu led Wen Lo and his personal bodyguard through two sets of airtight chalass door Responding to a gesture frouard pressed an electrical switch that unlocked the door Wu, Wen Lo, and the bodyguard stepped into a cellblock Steel doors, solid except for ss, enclosed a dozen cells

As they walked between the cells, Dr Wu said, “The ated, four to a cell We maintain full occupancy at all times”

A few ins and called out to Wu and his guests to help them Wen Lo, his face devoid of pity, turned to Wu

“What is the source of these lab rats?” he asked

Dr Wu was rewarded handsoe aparttze and to keep his wife and his mistress clothed in the latest fashions, but he had convinced hih his work required that he suppress his humanity under a thin veneer of medical noninvolvement, the coldness of Wen Lo’s question stunned him He was, after all, still a physician

“As medical professionals, we prefer to call them subjects,” he said

“Very well, Dr Wu, I’m sure these subjects appreciate your professionalism But you haven’t answered my question”

“My apologies, sir,” Wu said “This lab is surrounded by tee slums, and it’s easy to lure the subjects in with proood physical shape People in the slu, and the police never follow up”

Wen Lo said, “Show me the next phase I have seen prisons before”

Wu escorted the two men out of the cellblock to a black-walled roo area for a lass were a number of full-sized beds, each occupied and enclosed in a transparent cylinder