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Becker continued “Those given the wolf lobotomy and set free have all been accounted for” Criiven a choice between death or a wolf loboto that erased their human mind and kept them in wolf form

“How can you be sure?” asked E It’s just turned off”

“No, what the warden recorded is due to a retrovirus found only in a few real wolves What is known as an endogenous retrovirus or junk DNA”

“So they are working on some sort of wolf human chimera, but with an adult human?”

“Yes, according to our data, even olves related to our ancestors, only a fraction carry this rare human retrovirus And even then, soht wolf junk DNA and then to soe in a human”

“We know of a secret lab that created fierce dogmen,” said Rylee

“The tissue sas and humen,” explained Dr Becker

“How many packs do you think have this retrovirus?” asked Rylee

“We looked into that question We traced a single ancestral pack with the retrovirus that o”

Nik wrinkled his nose “Like the packs in my, as you say, neck of the woods?” There hout Siberia They would have had to sainally killed to obtain their DNA As far as he remembered, the secret squad of killers had massacred three nor, where exactly?”

“Eastern Siberia, Verhoyansk Mountain Range” Jesper turned on the screen and went to the map of the isolated area

“Inaccessible to most humans,” said Nik mostly to himself

Dr Becker nodded “According to our wolf gene pool data, there ion with the retrovirus Less than one percent”

Emma furrowed her brow “Even if they injected the wolf DNA directly into these e?”