Chapter 376: Code
The tension in the laboratory finally settled as the scientists scrambled to process what had just happened.
One of them, a middle-aged woman with glasses slipping down her nose, broke the uneasy silence, saying in a trembling voice, "I think we should call Dr. Kapoor."
Another scientist snapped his head around, "And tell her what? That Subject G woke up because you two morons weren’t watching him?"
"Don’t pin this on us!" the oldest scientist shot back. "We were doing everything by the book. We have protocols—"
"Protocols don’t account for this," he sharply interrupted. "She’ll have our heads if she finds out we lost control."
"Then what do you suggest?"
"I... Ugh..."
The room fell into a tense silence.
As they knew, Dr. Kapoor was solely responsible for this experiment. Just the slightest mistake, like the time one of the workers almost spilled water by the pods, made her extremely upset.
The last thing one of them wanted was to make their boss angry. Thankfully for them, it was late at night, and they were the only ones in the building.
"Let’s just calm down," the female scientist said, her voice trying to sound reassuring but failing to hide her anxiety. "First, let’s figure out how this happened. Then we can fix it. We won’t have to tell Dr. Kapoor anything if we’re quick enough."