Chapter 30
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arasie allowed a fleeting smile just at the same time that Nusmen, forty miles south, looked up and beamed from ear to ear.
Only moments ago, Nusmen had been in handcuffs in the back of a dark van with two heavily armed, tough-looking men. Suddenly he was in a glass-sided office looking into one of the most fantastic labs he had ever seen. Machines blinked and hummed. White-coated lab techs worked at benches and scurried around the huge space.
The labs allowed him a moment of happiness before he remembered the two police types were still standing outside his glass room.
As he peered into his idea of heaven, a group of rapidly moving people stormed into his vision. A man of average height, brown hair with gray at the temples, dressed in casual clothes, walking at a fast cl
