They Wanted Her Gone, Now They Kneel by Evelyn Marlowe novel Chapter 101

Chapter 101 The Reckoning

Then John stood up.

“I think you should go ahead and demonstrate it-to teach a few blind fools a lesson.”

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He glanced at Calvin deliberately. He already knew Scarlett had something impressive in store-but even he hadn’t expected this much. Her earlier explanation had already swayed several cancer researchers. All they needed now was proof. And now he was giving her the perfect platform-while irritating an old rival for fun.

As expected, Calvin’s face turned black. He still couldn’t admit he had misjudged her. All he could do was pray that Scarlett would mess up on her own.

But Scarlett had practiced the protocol endlessly to achieve perfection. Her hands moved with the confidence of muscle memory. There was no mistake to find-only wave after wave of astonishment from the room.

“She actually knows what she’s doing!”

“This is incredible!”

“I’d call those hands divine!”

The Joyner family stared in disbelief, their faces darkening by the second. Connor, who’d been expecting Scarlett to fail, was completely stunned. It was his first time watching her work in a lab. Her slender, pale fingers moved with precise, practiced control. Sunlight spilled through the floor-to-ceiling windows, dust motes catching gold in the air. That warm light wrapped around her, making her eyes gleam with breathtaking brilliance. There was something magnetic about her-drawing attention, commanding stillness. His heart began to race uncontrollably, admiration and something deeper shining in his eyes. For the first time, he realized just how far out of his league she truly was. And for once, he wouldn’t have to worry about her being “presentable.” Clutching his chest, he took several deep breaths to calm himself.

At that moment, Scarlett used a pipette to introduce the viral solution into the third Petri dish. The clear liquid inside began to shimmer with fine silver-blue bubbles. A researcher rushed over to peer at it up close.

“That’s an optical reaction from the virus envelope binding to the cancer cell surface receptors!”

The room’s monitoring screen exploded with data.

Calvin jumped to his feet, his chair screeching across the floor. Under the high-powered microscope, pig- gene-marked cancer cells were being surrounded by antibodies from the patient’s serum-visible to the naked eye.

“Look at that!” someone narrated. “The a-Gal sugar chains on the cell membranes are lighting up like beacons. Swarms of IgG antibodies are attacking from all sides, and C3b protein deposition is flaring red and gold under the fluorescent stain.”

“Check the live imaging on the left-it’s even more dramatic!”

“The tumor on the nude mouse is shrinking by 0.3 millimeters per minute!”

“The cancerous tissue is collapsing at the edges-those honeycomb patterns are the result of complement storm-induced vascular blockages.”

Professor Reeves frowned. “Is this your show, or are you going to let Scully speak?”

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The others backed down.

Scarlett finally continued. “The key to converting cold tumors into hot ones…”

She slid her fingers across the touchscreen, revealing an updated map of immune cell activity. The CD8 + T- cell curve spiked like a rocket.

“…isn’t making the immune system see the tumor-it’s making the tumor wear a foreign skin.”

She picked up the virus sample bottle and tilted it gently under the overhead light. The suspended gene vectors glittered in fine golden strands.

“These pig-gene-modified viruses turn cancer cells into neon targets inside the body.”

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