"Mr. Henry, please look at these reports. This may have the answers to our questions." One of the white-coated researchers approached with a tablet in hand, tilting the screen toward him with barely contained excitent.
Henry looked at the screen and tried to understand, but when he saw the numbers threaded through the sentences and stacked between technical terms, he gave up and simply waited for an explanation, letting the tablet hover in front of him for a beat.
"These are the results of our research from the red powder Mr. Adyr brought us," Dr. Mara explained while she kept her eyes fixed on the data, her gaze moving line by line as if she could already see the conclusion forming.
The red powder was the residue left after Adyr completed his Rank 4 evolution. He brought it back, expecting it might be useful.
Though it was not directly from the Heart of the Blood Palace, it still carried similar factors within it, enough to make every researcher in the room treat it like a rare find.
"And what did you find?" Henry could not help being pulled in by the energy in the room, and he asked with his voice slightly raised, trying to read faces instead of numbers.
"The sample Mr. Adyr brought us is a biological residue that, after dehydration, has lost its cellular structure and now consists of iron-binding protein remnants, coagulation protein residues, electrolyte salt crystals, and organic particulates derived from cellular mbranes," Dr. Mara explained, and when she saw the confusion on Henry's face, she let out a quiet sigh. "It's dried blood turned into dust."
Henry made an 'oh' expression. "And?"
He was sure there was no way ordinary dried blood could draw this much attention from these people, so there had to be sothing else inside it.
"It carries a high amount of radiation within it," Dr. Mara said, a small smile forming as she continued.
"But it's non-ionizing radiation, not the kind used in nuclear weapons or in our mutation experints, more like radio waves, microwaves, ultraviolet, or even visible light. But it's also quite different from those, too," she added,
emphasizing the last part as if that difference was where the real value lived.
She walked between the researchers and stopped in front of a computer. Pressed a few keys, and the large screen behind her ca to life, overflowing with data and calculations, graphs updating in quick bursts as new lines of output filled the display.
"The radiation type we discovered in the sample is non-ionizing, but it is also not a photon. It does not interact with light, it does not carry heat, and its interaction with matter is so weak it is almost negligible, yet it moves far faster than anything we expected," she explained, her finger hovering near a cluster of values on the screen.
She kept speaking in terms and with a cadence Henry did not really follow. Suddenly it felt like she was lecturing the other researchers. Henry had faded into the background, left at the edge of a conversation built for people who lived inside equations.
A few more minutes passed like that while the researchers took notes on her words, so scribbling on paper pads, others recording directly into tablets, and then her gaze finally returned to Henry, her expression brightening. "This radiation type we discovered is not actually new. We have always suspected it, even if we could never prove it. It is a radiation type believed to exist in the early universe, sowhere in space, directly linked to Big Bang nucleosynthesis and the universe's expansion rate," she said, reciting a theory that had haunted their field for years.
Then she added, her eyes shining and her voice slightly shaking, "Since we believe it is interactive with, or directly connected to, Dark Matter, we decided to na it Dark Radiation."
"Dark radiation..." Henry murmured the na, but he was more interested in its effect than the label. "So you think this is the energy the Gods use to spread their Paths?"
Dr. Mara nodded. "What I think is that it is not only the energy used to transmit them but also the source of life force they need to exist," she answered, firm enough that it sounded like a conclusion rather than a guess.
Then she frowned. "But the problem is, this radiation type is not enough on its own."
They were aware that to make it useful, they needed to change the characteristic of the radiation and make it compatible with Adyr, not in theory but in a way his body would accept without resisting.
The one they discovered in the red powder seed to be fused with blood factors, as if the radiation had been stamped with a signature it could not shed. "The one we found inside the red dust Mr. Adyr brought looked like a harmful factor that was expelled from his body during his evolution. So if we try to produce the sa thing again and give it to him, his body will probably reject it again."
At this point, they discovered the types of this radiation, not just one reading but patterns that suggested categories, variations, and a structure behind what they had asured.
According to their information, the red dust was connected to the Blood Path, aning the Blood God, aning this radiation was, in a way, part of His energy, shaped by His influence in the sa way blood is shaped by the body that carries it.
"So if we want to make it suitable for Mr. Adyr, we need to find a way to change its characteristic, or we must find a direct source of Dark Radiation that carries the balance characteristic within it," Dr. Mara concluded.
The laboratory suddenly heated up again, everyone murmuring to each other, exchanging ideas, and those murmurs quickly swelled into chaotic talk, voices stacking over one another in a rising tide.
And then, through the overlapping voices, one voice rose above the others and forced the room into silence.
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