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Chapter 3: A BusinessMan with Standards

They then reloaded their weapons, upgraded them, then loaded up on herbs. Chris then exhales as Annabelle was cleaning off her blade and sharping it. "Sheva, do you know where the mines are?" Chris asks her. Annabelle finishes cleaning her blade off

Then places it back in the sheathe. "Past the station. Not too far from here. Follow me." she answers him. "That's reassuring," Annabelle mutters at him, Chris went to follow, but a paper on the table catches his attention and he looks down at it. Annabelle stops and looks at him. "Chris?" she asks him.

He picks the paper up and reads over it, then Annabelle walks over towards him and reads over the document he found on the table.

Type 2 Plagas

As stated in earlier documentation on the subject, the original Las Plagas was discovered in an isolated area in Europe. Upon maturation in a host, the parasite quickly replaces the host's will susceptible to control by another.

It was this aspect of Las Plagas that meant one so inclined could obedient subjects who would obey directives without question. With obvious commercial application possibilities, Las Plagas quickly came under review by interested parties.

The problem with commercializing Las Plagas was the time discrepancy between initial infection and when the hosts when rendered susceptible to control.

The time between when Las Plagas is administrated to the host as an egg and the time when it fully matures and attaches itself to the central nervous system was met with negative criticism.

The maturation cycle of Las Plagas is relatively brief, but potential customers wished for more expedient results.

With this in mind, research was undertaken to improve Las Plagas. The final result of this research becoming Type 2 Plagas

Type 2 Plagas differs from its predecessor in that it is administered in its mature state, and from control.

Type 2 is administered orally, or more specifically, it is forced into the mouth of the host. It's an indelicate method, but it's also the most effective.

After oral administration, Type 2 rends the esophagus and moves first to the medulla oblongata, then to the brain proper, and finally, the spinal core. Once it has taken hold of the central nervous system, the host can be controlled.

Under a laboratory setting, we recorded complete control of a host within ten seconds of administration of Type 2.

Aside from the reduced infection time, the Type 2 Plagas appeared to share all of the characteristics of the original Las Plagas, which made it more than satiable for commercialization.

All that remains now is to accumulate field data from the Kijuju Autonomous Zone.

Listed below are the three key experiments for evaluation of Type 2:

1. Infection

Administer Type 2 samples to 10 previous infected individuals and obverse the rate at which they spread the infection. These 10 test subjects must be given enough Type 2 samples to create measurable results.