Chapter 52

biggest military we can get.”

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All told, sixty new subjects had been added to Monica’s collection.

Unfortunately, not a single one of them had responded to the first treatment

in the way she’d hoped, nor had the man she’d tested earlier that day.

“Worthless! Every one of them. They have all the same markers. Why

isn’t it taking?” she mused aloud, not expecting a response.

“I think I’ve identified the problem,” Jared replied from the adjacent

workstation. He had dark circles under his eyes from working through the

night, but his passion was stronger than ever. Probably trying to make up for

giving away all their secrets, if Monica had to guess.

“What is it?”

“We missed one sequence in our splicing. The nanites are still looking for

one telekinetic marker in order to activate. We need to strip out that

remaining reference, and then it should work.”

There were thousands of lines of genetic code programming within the