9

Alex hurriedly returned to Starbase. His main concern was his spirit enhancers; Rama and Sergei. These spirit enhancers were as rare as finding a needle in a haystack. Roughly only one in every ten thousand survivors were spirit enhancers. These spirit enhancers will become the key to human survival.

Alex quickly rushed to the medical bay. Both of them were currently laid down on the bed recuperating...

"How are they doc?"

"When they reached here, they were on their dying breath, especially Rama, he was infected by a very vicious poison, it's a miracle he could survive the hours' journey, but as per your order, I have injected them the trial serum from the pill you gave... now their condition is quite stable... it's a miracle cure."

Hearing the news Alex felt much more relaxed...

"That's great to hear, how long would it take for them to be fully healed?"

"We are still monitoring the condition, but it should be safe to say that Sergei should be fully healed in a day or two, but for Rama.. the serum is currently fighting the poison, if things go well he would at least need a week."

Alex was glad to hear such news... He personally checked on their condition... surprisingly Sergei was already awake...

"Mr. Sergei, great news.. the doc said you can be fully healed in a few days.."

Sergei looked at Doctor Rachel and stared back at Alex then said...

"Can you please tell the doctor that you have promised me liquor and cigarettes every day..."

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"Mr. Sergei... you better listen to the doc... if your health does not improve, you might not be able to smoke and drink for the rest of your life.."

The doctor took Alex to the research lab and showed him the division's experiments and results.

First, the doctor showed Alex her research on the shiny pills from the amulet of the sun. The shiny pill was extracted and diluted into many samples to analyze and test its potency.

"As I said before, this is a miraculous pill. I was hesitating about giving it to the patient before because we weren't able to analyze half of the substance, it doesn't exist within our periodic table. The other half filled with a high amount of Riboflavin, Acubin, Ascorbic-Acid, Apigenin, Baicalein, Benzoic-acid, Chlorogenic-acid, Citric-acid, Ferulic-acid, Oleanolic-acid, Salicylic-acid, and Ursolic-acid. These are compounds normally found in plants, fruits, vegetables, milk or any other substance that are well known to give positive effects to human bodies."

"The result we got from treating Sergei is amazing. His bones were crushed, but within hours we can see how the bones regenerate and start connecting with each other. As for Rama, his flesh wounds closed up within hours as well, but the snake toxin is very unique. It will take time to neutralize. This also gives us an idea to try on the world's known viruses; Ebola, SARS, H1N1, Avian flu and many others. The result is remarkable, it could easily destroy the known viruses in seconds."

"I believe we have found the medical 'Panacea'. Its a name came from a Greek mythology goddess of universal remedy. A name we scientists used for the myth of a miraculous cure. This substance is meant to cure all disease, it is worthy of its name."

"We did a simple procedure to measure its concentration... we tried to dilute it and finally find the most optimum results without losing its potency. The one pill you gave was able to be diluted into 5 serumsWe wasted one for research, and two for Sergei and Rama. These are the last two, you can use it orally but for faster effect, an injection to the blood is always the best way."

Alex took the two serum, another life-saving item. The amulet of the sun would provide one shiny pill every two weeks. That meant Alex could have 10 healing serum every month...

"What about the spirit stone research?"

"About the spirit stones, other than the research Mr. Randal's team of scientist took last month, there's really nothing new... its a dead end... We all agreed that this spirit stone is a biogenetic form of pure energy. The science is hundreds of years out of our reach."

"But combining its research with our experiments on the mutated beasts and human bodies which died from the disease, we managed to find much more of an understanding of the mutation. We managed to find and identify the virus. We took the liberty of naming it the Doomsday Virus or the D-Virus. This virus mainly causes an alteration in human DNA sequences and modifies its gene function. There were many cases found and many studies of DNA sequence alteration. But this virus adapts with a speed a least a thousand times faster."

"Surprisingly, we found a large amount of the D-Virus genes within the mutated beast bodies... The bodies became the virus' vessels. This would basically mean that just by consuming the beast, it could fasten human mutation."

Alex already knew of this information... this was the reason he went to the monkey forest in the first place.

Later that day, the convoy from Ubud already returned to the starbase.Alex ordered the supply division to butcher the monkeys and snake meat. Each monkey could give around 200-300 portions of one-kilogram boneless meat. That's a total of 130.000 portions of mutated monkey meat. The 3 snakes gave 3000 portions, and the mother snake gave 2000 portions. Alex ordered the steel workshop to create and can all this meat.

130.000 portions of high-level first stage beast meat.

3000 portions of low-level second stage beast meat.

2000 portions of high-level second stage beast meat.

The mutated beast meat is not the same as a spirit stone. A person needs to consume a few portions to show any effect and as each person have different body metabolism, each would increase in strength differently. Alex divided the meat to each soldier.

25.000 regular soldiers each got 2 canned high-level first stage meat.

7500 city guards each got 5 canned high-level first stage meat.

3000 elite soldiers each got 10 canned high-level first stage meat.

500 special soldiers each got 5 canned low-level and 2 canned high-level second stage meat.

With these distributions, most elite soldiers would turn to middle stage Mortal Realms and the special soldiers would turn into high stage mortal realms. The whole star army upgraded into another level. At the current stage of mutation, these armies would have a big advantage against any zombies or mutated beasts. This way Alex felt much easier letting these soldiers go on an expedition to the islands west and east of Bali. The war preparations were completed, time to set up the war councils.

Alex returned to his family, seeing his blind daughter, Alex wished to try to give Tiffany one of the healing serum... but Tiffany already took one whole shiny pill... Alex was worried about other side effects. He decided to wait until he got more result from the research department.

Thinking about the spirit stones and the meats collected, Alex felt much lighthearted. All the fighting made him very tired, tonight he turned off all the worries in the world and take a rest surrounded by his family.

Not knowing... Inside Alex's warehouse, the three yellow eggs were spreading some sort of scent that would bring disaster to the base.