Carlos’ calm statement caused a bolt of lightning to explode in the conference room, causing all the journalists present to suck in a breath of cold air.
-In the last week, we have analyzed a large number of cats and have come to the reliable conclusion that the virus in cats, which is not automatically generated in their organism, comes from human laboratories.
Everyone fell back in disbelief, you looked at me, I looked at you, there was a lot of discussion, then one of them looked and asked:
-What proof do you have that this came from a human lab?
Carlos picked up a thick report and looked at the man.
-This is the test report of all the cats, and the virus research data, which can prove that this is a nasty incident of injecting a mutated rabies virus into cats specifically, and letting it spread!!!.
They all look at each other…
-The lethal factors within this mutated rabies virus are; toxic cyanide, large amounts of anesthetics and coagulants, cyanide can normally kill a person with as little as 0, 1 grams, while large amounts of anesthetics can lead to respiratory paralysis and asphyxiation, and coagulants can lead to blood clotting, which is one of the drugs used for euthanasia, and would never be found in a cat’s body. –
All the journalists present turned white, this, this is terrible, the symptoms he said are almost exactly the same as the symptoms of those who died after being bitten by cats before….
Diego takes the report from Carlos and hands it to the journalists, who immediately gather to leaf through it.
Carlos looked at the camera, with cold eyes, as if looking into the camera and seeing the killer behind it all, and said slowly:
-This person injected the mutated rabies virus into the cats, and was able to inflict all of Salamonsa, so definitely not one or two cats were injected, but hundreds of cats, which were then released in the different villages…. I wonder, now that this is so, did he achieve the person’s goal?
Nilson and Nicolas’ fists were clenched tightly, they had been here for a few days, watching the test reports come out one by one, watching the biologists isolate the sodium cyanide and potassium cyanide from the samples taken from the cat’s saliva, from the blood, they had never thought that the cat, in reality, was also a victim….
Not only them, but also the journalists and the people in front of the TV were all shocked, who in the world would do such an inconceivable thing, this is a maneuver to provoke the disappearance of the whole Salamonsa….
Then there was a torrent of righteous indignation to unmask this man, but nothing could be done to restore the lost lives….
They were so immersed in anger and sadness that they forgot for a moment that they were now at the conference, and it took a while for one of the journalists to come to his senses and ask:
-Mr. Aguayo, we all know that the set of people who were bitten by the cat died a lot, but those who were bitten by the cat and then went on to bite someone else, those victims, did they have a lower mortality because the toxin was weakened? So, are they still saved?
Other reporters, photographers have also rushed to ask, full of anxiousness?
Without waiting for Carlos to speak, Nilson grimaced and looked at them.
-You, and those of you in front of the TV, a few minutes ago you didn’t treat Carlos as the guilty one, and now you treat him as your only hope?
Several of those present were red in the face, their eyes full of remorse, and then one of them stepped forward and said sincerely:
-Mr. Aguayo, I am sorry, you are clearly our hero of Salamonsa, and we are not able to distinguish between right and wrong, we have hurt you and we have blamed you and Mr. Nilson of Echave City, I am sorry….
Then the other journalists apologized, and Carlos raised his hand, without wasting a second in inconsequentiality, and went straight to the point:
-That’s right, the toxin continues to weaken in the first transmission, and in the second, and in the third, resulting in a lower mortality rate.
Sadly, the ones that are not high in toxin are not normal people either, they are just less aggressive than the person who wrote that about being bitten by a cat….
Everyone is still waiting for Carlos to answer whether those people were saved or not, when Carlos turns the tables on him:
-The rabies virus is no secret, it’s been documented for a long time, so everyone should know that if a dog or cat gets rabies, there’s no way to know how long it will live before it attacks. But after the virus strikes, no one survives more than 10 days, and 99% die within five days.
But what happens in Salamonsa is that people who have been bitten by cats die and the cats live well.
The journalists in the room did not react for a moment?
Carlos explained:
-This data, which is not evident in other cities, where cats are quite slaughtered, was found in Echave City, where cats were not driven to extinction due to the repeated insistence of former Lord Nilson, which we observed for a week.
This was thanks to the morning he first returned to Salamonsa, the night before Nilson and the others had captured two large cages of cats in search of Moya, giving them the resources to do their research….
Several of the reporters were from other cities and nodded in agreement. Indeed, there were no more cats in their area, and the “cat extermination team” had taken care of all the cats….
Without waiting for them to ask, Carlos gave the answer:
-So why do cats get rabies attacks and not die? The answer is that they have antibodies in their bodies.
Everyone looked at Carlos in amazement, and even though he said it clearly and understood it himself, it still seemed incredible to them and then they asked excitedly:
-So, when the cat antibodies are administered to people, do those who no longer have sanity recover?
Carlos frowned, without denying it.
-Cat antibodies take time to study, and, suitability for human use requires a lot of experimentation, so it’s hard to say right now.
He’s already ramping up the manpower to work on antibodies, and he’s not going to give up because his girl needs the same….
The leap of joy that had not yet arisen in everyone was suddenly lost again, but there was always hope, better than being flatly declared a non-starter….
Carlos’ gaze turned back to the camera, the corners of his lips curved into a shallow smile devoid of warmth.
-Why the cat has these highly toxic antibodies is something we’re still working on, but the question of why the cat isn’t dead is something the person behind this is bound to know, and he knows that sooner or later, everyone is going to find out about it too, so what is he going to do to avoid being found out that all this is believed to be?
Everyone present stood in thought for a while, and then trembled a little unanimously, their eyes full of fear, before one of them said in a trembling voice:
-He’ll find a way to kill all the antibody-bearing cats!!!!
The crowd sucked in a breath of cold air again, thinking about their previous actions, all of them, all of them became accomplices in the destruction of evidence of that person….
A hard look appeared in Carlos’ eyes and his tone was firm:
-The murderer behind the attempt to destroy the country with cats is the first one who called for the creation of the “cat extermination team”!!!!
The first person to call for the creation of a -cat extermination team-….
They all reflected on who this man was and unanimously turned their attention to Nicolas….
It was also Mr. Nicholas who had the most powerful call and was the first to announce the extermination of the city’s cats…