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The sh he stood several hundred feet fro in the air to settle on his razor-creased Aret closer, he would have been prevented by the cordon of deconta of armed police

He turned to the Ministry of Health official, who had called him

“I’ said “It appears that the city has the situation well in hand There seems little need for crowd control by the military”

“This was no ordinary building and this was no ordinary fire,” said the“There wereon here”

“This see Are you sure?”

Fong nodded

“We found a number of people locked in cells,” he said “They had been left there to burn, but, fortunately, even though they were in poor condition, they were able to talk They said they had been kidnapped, and that many people had been taken from their cells, never to return We believe they were moved to labs, and, from the equipment we found, it seems they were the subjects of experiments”

“What kind of experi?”

“We don’t know specifically But we did find traces of a virus strain that is of some concern to our ministry It is the sae to the north The person who caused that epidehai”

“Quite the coincidence,” said Ming

“Even more, the person was e based here in the city And, al”

“I think I knohere you are going with this, Fong It’s well known that the Ar of brothels in partnership with Pyramid But there’s no connection to this,” he said with a wave of his hand

“I understand that, Colonel, but perhaps you ht want to reexamine your partnership when I tell you what else we found in the building: the res, discovered in a crematory We think they had been used in the experiments”

Ming’s reaction was one of combined fear and revulsion, fear that his name had been linked to Pyramid, revulsion over the experiments

He stared at the building, trying without success to iine the horrors within its four walls