“Kind of a strange place to tell jokes, don’t ya think?”
Dr. Wall quietly advised Shelly to erase everything from the simulator as he stalled Johnny, who was now walking back to check on them. She quickly cleaned up the data she had entered, grabbed her folders, and met up with Dr. Wall as they rushed past the tech and into the hallway.
*****
Shelly and Dr. Wall had moved to the latter’s office and had Dr. Henry Shoo on the line. She painstakingly relayed the formula Hans had recited to her earlier. She hung up while he did in Salt Lake City what she had done a short time ago in her hospital. Seconds passed like hours. The phone finally rang.
“Hello?”
“It’s Shoo.”
“Have you run it?” “Running it now.”
“What are you using as the cancer cell type?” she asked.
“Well since my mother died of pancreatic cancer, that’s what I’m keying on,” he said. “Here goes. Hang on the line.
“I don’t believe it,” she heard Dr. Shoo exclaim. He picked up the phone.
“It was neutralized, wasn’t it?” she asked. “Y-yes,” he said softly.
“Run breast.”
“Yes, let’s run breast.” He reset the simulator. “My God, it’s a war.”
“What do you mean?”
“The formula,” he said. “It binds to the cancer cells and attacks. It’s like a war zone, but it is neutralizing them. It’s … it’s astounding.”
Shelly giggled like a schoolgirl and looked over at a smiling Dr.
Wall, who had been listening on her speaker phone.
“Dr. Shoo, Dr. Wall here. What makes that war even more amazing is that you own the tanks. If we can get this formula into one of your nano units, we could kill the cancer cells entirely. Is that possible? Can you load your units to do that?”