***** Vol.4 Chap.30 Revelation from a news flash *****

On an idle morning, JB did not have any tasks for the day, so she was flipping through different websites to occupy herself. She was drawn to CNN somehow and navigated to the website. Another bulletin on the attack in South Africa caught her eye.

“Breaking news. This is Joseph Berterop reporting. I am a CNN correspondent in Qetidghe in South Africa.

Today, we have found out that another village in the western side of Qetidghe was under attack. Unlike previous times, the pattern was unusual.

The day began peacefully. A band of tribesmen came to trade with the villagers as they had done before for centuries. An eye witness said in the middle of the day, a horn was blown. Then all tribesmen took a red pill from their pocket and swallowed it.

Within minutes, the tribesmen took whatever was available around them as weapons and attacked the villagers in the most salvage way. Many were beaten, some were slaughtered, and some were maimed.

After about twenty minutes or so, the tribesmen seemed to calm down. Then, in unison, they took a blue pill. Instantly, they became calm. They packed up their wares and headed home, leaving the villagers gaping in disbelief.

The aftermath of this bizarre event was truly horrible and unbelievable. An eye witness told us that there were exactly twenty-three tribesmen that came. None of them were hurt, and they all departed as if nothing had happened.

What a tragedy! What an atrocity! Many of the villagers were left grieving for the loss of their loved ones. Stay tuned. This is Joseph Berterop reporting live from Qetidghe in South Africa.

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JB sat in her chair, shocked. Something did not seem right. She racked her brain, trying to put her finger on what was bothering her. But whatever it was, it was elusive. After a while, she gave up and went on surfing the web for other things.

Twenty-three!

JB literally fell out of her chair! She just finished processing a bunch of files earlier this week. What was the sample size? She thought there were twenty-three people! She rushed back to the computer and called up those datasets. Yes, each dataset came from twenty-three males. What a coincidence!

She was not sure if there was any significance or relevance to this revelation. But something inside her just did not sit right. She vaguely remembered Johan mentioning something about manufacturing the enzymes in a pill format. Perhaps the company was supplying the band with the blue pills. Yes! That was what happened.

Then…. Then…. Who supplied the red pill?

Who even had the technology to manufacture the red pill? Her thoughts were getting more and more troubling and unsettled. She started to bite her finger nails, something she had not done for a long time.

No way. I can accept that we supplied them with the blue pills. This was the goal of this company. We were here to rid humanity of aggression.

It had to be someone else, perhaps another company, our nemesis supplying the red pills. We would never do such despicable and unspeakable things.

But it seemed the villagers knew what they were doing. They took the red pills at the same time. Then they knew to take the blue pills at the same time. The size and the shape of the pills are the same. Whoever manufactured the blue pills must be the same one who manufactured the red pills!

Kaboom!

An explosion set off in her mind. She was paralyzed by this conclusion.

Her conscience was beginning to speak a little louder. What if the real goal of the company was to manufacture the red pill?

BOOM! BOOM!

No way. You cannot think that way. JB scolded herself. No, no, no. I am not working for such a despicable project. I will never work for such a despicable company.

Just then she heard footsteps. Quickly she switched her screen to display her program and pretended to be working on her program.