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“You weren’t in on the last phase of the research,” Mitchell said, “so you don’t kno far we have gone”
“I are that you had integrated the antiviral molecule into microbes in an attempt to speed up the synthesis process,” Lee said
“We decided that was too slow,” Mitchell said “So we incorporated the toxin’s curative protein in fast-growing saltwater algae”
Lee’s expression of dishter
She picked up a cylinder and said, “This is wonderful”
Seeing the puzzled expressions on the faces of the three men, she explained
“Algae grow at an incredible speed,” she said “Once we get these cultures to the production facilities, they can extract enough vaccine for hundreds of people in a short time We can do the same for thousands, then hundreds of thousands within a few days”
She handed the cylinder to Austin, who held it gingerly as if he expected to feel soical emanations He carefully placed it back in the cooler and closed the lid, then turned to Dixon
“This has to get to China as soon as possible,” he said
The captain picked the cooler off the deck
“It’s on its way,” he said
Tenthe cooler lifted off the deck and headed toward its rendezvous with a fast jet waiting at Pohnpei Airport Within hours of landing in China, its cargo would be distributed to vaccine-production facilities that Lee had set up during her time on Bonefish Key
Austin stood on the deck, watching the helicopter shrink to a speck Lee had volunteered to escort the vaccine back to China Austin was sad to see her go, but the evil s to overshadow his thoughts of Song’s lovely face
THE GIANT RUSSIAN SUBMARINE led the way into Pohnpei’s harbor like a proud leviathan Next was Chang’s freighter, now manned by a Navy crew that had taken over after a destroyer had chased her down Without orders fro, his crew had surrendered to the no-nonsense Navy SEALs without a shot
Phelps had co Austin and Zavala a tour of the deceptively decrepit-looking vessel, showing theine room, and the state-of-the-art cora used to communicate with his other two triplets