Chapter 975: Continuing
The room settled into a quiet rhythm as each of them took their seats. The soft hum of the consoles was the only sound for a few moments until Jessica broke the silence.
"The candidates are getting anxious," she said, glancing at the three of them in front of her. "They expected the next phase of the experiment to start right away. But it’s been two days without a follow up. So some of them are starting to get nervous."
Adrien, who sat with one leg crossed over the other, didn’t even look up from his screen.
"Just tell them we need more time for them to recover. Their bodies need rest before the next phase begins. That’s a fact, not a delay." His voice was calm but firm. The tone of someone who had given this kind of answer many times before.
Jessica nodded in understanding. "Alright. I’ll tell them."
Billy now had finished reviewing his set of reports and leaned back and turned toward Erend.
"So, what do you make of this?" he asked, gesturing toward the data in front of Erend’s screen. The same data that they were also reading.
Erend didn’t answer right away. He stared at the lines of text and readings as if trying to pull the truth from between the numbers. Finally, he leaned back in his chair and spoke, his voice lower and more deliberate now.
"I still think someone’s been tinkering with Marcus," he said. "There’s no way those compatibility with Magic are natural."
Billy frowned. "So you’re saying this really wasn’t an accident, like he was just so talented?"
"I don’t think it was that," Erend said. "I also don’t think it’s designed to trigger under normal conditions. Whoever did this they knew the Magic inside his body wouldn’t activate until Marcus came into contact with real Magic. Like now. In this project."
The weight of his words dropped over the room like a thick fog.