[7/11] What to do about that? He pondered the question as he continued to watch his few remaining rats. The slow-expression rat had finally become sick. At this point it would’ve infected many other rats if it had been given the opportunity, dooming them to their own slow sick development. For now the symptoms would just seem like a common cold, nothing to worry about, nothing to complain to the doctor about. The treatment would be tea and bed rest. Until that treatment was no longer sufficient.
On the fifth day, the rat fell rapidly ill. By the end of that day, it was dead.
The final rat, the control, the one who had been infected with the blank bacteria, had never become ill at all.
Still there it stood, a survivor, uninfected. It seemed like this bacteria had truly become interesting. Without an application of his chakra, it was rendered completely inert.
With interest, Ruto tried now to utilize his chakra to influence the bacteria, and waited again to see if it would do anything.
It didn’t, though. It seemed like once the product had left Ruto’s own body to go out into the world, it was beyond his influence threshold. Anything he wanted to do to it, he’d have to make sure to do while it was still in his hands.
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