"Lieutenant!!!!!"
Lieutenant Rock: "What the f***!!"
The door to the lieutenant's office was blasted, and a huge muscular man with a bald head ca running at full throttle.
Instructor Mark: "Lieutenant, you need to read this ASAP!!"
Lieutenant Rock: "Calm down, instructor!!"
Instructor Mark: "You need to read this now."
Handing over Alan's report on the poison to the lieutenant, who was utterly confused by how his instructor was behaving.
Lieutenant Rock: "Ok, ok, give it to and calm down; take a breath, instructor."
Instructor Mark took a deep breath as he inhaled and exhaled, trying to calm himself down, yet the more he thought about what happened, the more his nerves acted up.
As The lieutenant read the report, He beca even more confused.
Lieutenant Rock: "What is this exactly? Is this the result of your recent experint on so kind of poison or what?"
Instructor Mark: "No, no, phew… this is a report about a poison that was written in one of my tasks by the seed number 33 today."
Lieutenant Rock: "Hoho, so this kid has an aptitude for alchemy, but you have to know that I can't force him to change his departnt, and if he wanted to stay in the program, this is his choice."
Instructor Mark: "This is not what I'm talking about here, lieutenant.
The kid was bright from the mont I saw him. He is logical, and his thodology is impeccable.
In layman's terms, he's a genius."
Lieutenant Rock: "Tell sothing I don't know. The kid's potential is through the roof."
Instructor Mark: "That's not why I'm here; after I saw his aptitude, I wanted to see how he deals with failure, so I included him in his first class in a task I use on the seeds.
It is fairly advanced, especially for soone who just walked through the door.
I gave them a specin that was infected with a poison, and they have to diagnose it and make a cure or an antidote."
Lieutenant Rock: "That is too much for a first class."
Instructor Mark: "Yes, but I wasn't sure that he would fail, so I intervened by choosing an impossible poison to inject in his lab rat."
Lieutenant Rock: "You really wanted him to fail, didn't you?"
Instructor Mark: "Yes, I did, but that is not the point.
Glup…..
Do you rember the multiple cases that were found in the northern district of the federation recently?
Lieutenant Rock: "The Northern district….
You don't an the unidentified disease that is spreading around.
Of course I rember; I gave you the assignnt to study it one month ago.
Every single branch in the Northern District is panicking about it.
The only thing that they found is that it makes the victim lose vitality gradually until death. No matter how many counterasures they applied, nothing worked.
It is a very dangerous situation up north. The higher-ups are watching like hawks on this matter."
Instructor Mark: "Exactly, I was also going nowhere on my research on these cases. The only thing I could do was what others did.
Which is the extraction of contaminated fluid after the victim dies. The fluids hold the cause of the disease."
Lieutenant Rock: "You are playing on my patience right now. What does this have to do with number 33?"
Instructor Mark: "I told you that I wanted to make it impossible for him to succeed, so…."
Lieutenant Rock: "You f****** didn't."
Instructor Mark: "No, I did; I injected the specin with a fluid taken from a dead victim of the sa disease."
Lieutenant Rock: "Are you f****** out of your mind? What if it's spread!!!"
Instructor Mark: "Do not worry, we have confird that it only spreads via fluid intake or droplets, and I make sure that the seeds learn to follow the guidelines when dealing with every single poison.
From the normal one to the most dangerous.
Lieutenant Rock: "Still, what you did is very inappropriate; you will be receiving a punishnt."
Instructor Mark: "I DON'T CARE ABOUT THE PUNISHNT NOW PLEASE FOCUS WITH HERE FOR A SECOND"
Lieutenant Rock was shocked by the sudden outburst; screaming at your imdiate superior is punishable, let alone screaming at the head of a black site.
What shocked him even more is that it is coming from the most docile instructor he had.
Instructor Mark: "I'm sorry, but please focus with , okay?
So I injected the specin and delivered it to number 33 to watch him fail. My intent is to focus on his mindset as to how he will deal with the failure.
He was impeccable in following a procedure. He did the right test and the right examination. Following protocol to the letter.
After that I was distracted by reviewing the work of other seeds."
Lieutenant Rock: "Continue."
Instructor Mark: "When I rembered him after I finished grading each task of the other seeds.
I turn around and take a look at him; that's when I saw he was accessing his terminal during my class.
Lieutenant Rock: "Don't tell that you f****** blasted my door just because he cheated."
Instructor Mark: "As I thought also, but when I asked him, he said that he had finished his task and he was trying to find the na of the poison in our database, but he did not have the sufficient clearance."
Lieutenant Rock: "Cheesy excuse, I guess, and then"
Instructor Mark: "I reviewed his work. The report that you are holding was written by him.
He did the sa thing I did when I started examining subjects under the influence of this poison.
He looked for a viral cause, then he focused on parasites, and he also tested for fungi.
He ca to the sa conclusion I did: nothing of the previous is the cause of the poison."
Lieutenant Rock: "It seems to that he have done almost the sa job as you, which I can only say it's beyond excellent for a teenager"
Instructor Mark: "I also agree, but he asked for a few resources and ingredients to further investigate.
One of them is the rarely used vasovata agar. Which is almost a special environnt for a specific type of fungi.
We do not use it very much; it's almost forgotten.
So when he asked, I brought him everything he needed.
As I was reviewing his work he presented this culture. Take a look."
Instructor Mark put the culture that had the grown fungi on the lieutenant's table.
A strange light shifted in the lieutenant's eye as a silver crystal aura locked on the culture.
Lieutenant Rock: "This is…"
Instructor Mark: "I was shocked to my core when I first saw it too. He managed to grow a special type of fungi from the infected specin.
In simple terms, he identified the cause."
Lieutenant Rock: "F***, we need to inform our northern branches imdiately; they are in a dire situation right now."
Instructor Mark: "I have not finished. Read the report again and let continue."
The lieutenant read the report as if it were the holy book, trying not to miss a single letter or even a comma.
Lieutenant Rock: "Wait, he proposed an antidote!!!"
Instructor Mark: "He did not propose it; he made it.
Please take a look at this ratatang that has been infected with the poison; this is his specin."
The unstable aura around The shocked lieutenant enveloped the infected ratatang.
His expressions alternated between shock and disbelief as he felt that the vitality loss had been stopped.
Lieutenant Rock: "It works!!!!!"
Instructor Mark: "Exactly, number 33 managed to identify the poison that I couldn't, or many of my colleagues and other sites and other branches in the organization failed to do so.
Of course the organization wasn't focused on this matter, but that does not an his achievents are not monuntal."
Lieutenant Rock was silent as he read the report again and again and again.
Disbelief was the only thing that could be felt right now.
With one thought in his mind How could a 16-year-old do this?
Instructor Mark: "Can you search your database for the term (Silent Death Dew)?"
Lieutenant Rock: "The na of the poison?"
As he followed instructor Mark's request, he tried to look through the database.
What surprised both of them is that there were no matches.
Instructor Mark: "I also found nothing in the database, which disturbed , so I searched in the ancient archive. But guess what I found: I don't have the f****** right clearance for the information.
Lieutenant Rock's eyes widened in surprise.
Lieutenant Rock: "Let try."
As he operated his terminal He found a copy of an ancient docunt that had information on the na of the poison.
As the two of them read through the ancient docunt copy, both of their expressions went pale.
Instructor Mark Had a grave look on his face.
Instructor Mark: "You need to notify the higher-ups and the North and branches imdiately.
If the information is correct, then many in the northern district of the federation have been infected.
We had only confird 37 cases in which all the victims died.
This poison isn't natural; we are under attack."
Lieutenant Rock: "The kid stopped a pandemic in the making."
On the inside He was having an emotional turmoil as he could not believe what the result would be for such a disease to spread and left without proper counterasures for months.
There was no discrimination as the weak and the strong will fall.
It had the potential to destroy the human race foundation.
Lieutenant Rock: "I will report to the higher-ups imdiately; you should issue an order in my na and try to get as much as possible of the ingredients necessary to make the antidote."
Instructor Mark: "What about the kid?"
Lieutenant Rock: "Leave him in the dark about all of this; we will deal with him later."
Lieutenant Rock disappeared from the room as he turned into a flash running at a high speed.
anwhile, instructor Mark went to the communication center.
Which was the only place that mbers of the Black side could communicate with the outside world.
With that restriction of only one day a month to use.
The clear thing was that this matter was of utmost importance, as the instructor needed to break this restriction.
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