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nodded. “Come, oocne. Up stair*. I would not do this for anyone, but since you’re a friend o/Sherrie’a, I’ll make an exception. ” W« went into his attic and microscopes, test tubes, boiler* and everything wens in there. “I uaedt* work for the Ge*m#a forte, but I retired and came to Amexicaaifew year* ago. Now I do my own Utile experiment#.” He took the aBme and poured a little on a elide. Alter a lot of Mmnunnun’s and Ohhhh's keUnally took the alide oat.
“8o, what is it?”
“I don't know! How do you expect me to find out in just a second! Now hush and let me think.”
Oh weU. 1 needed to find Out what thia aUme wae, and I had all day so I eat down and watted. He took out an andent, thick book, and tagan leafing through it. He stopped at a page, and began reading. After a while he stopped reading, dosed the book, and looked up at me.
"The slime which you have brought me is malacatoaea. It is supposedly very rare, and I don’t know how it got here. There is only one place that it occurs naturally. It is in Asia in a cave which runs deep into the earth. The fungus or malacatosea does not reproduce there because it is so odd, but if in the right climate malaratoeea can reproduce very quickly. The fongus once on you cannot be gotten rid of, and it eats away at you or anything for that matter. The only thing that can kill it is a highly flammable add in the form of gas. Also, as you probably already know malacatoees glows and pulsates. Now, where did you find this?
“You’ll never believe me. I found it in the old subway. There’s tons of it.”
“Well, we’ve got one big problem on our hands. You know that we will have to get rid Of the Aingua before it spreads. I can get four gas trucks with a capacity of about a ton pa- trade in four days. That wifi take care of the flingus. Now you win have to tell the: police about (he fongus, and get them to evacuate the h*lf of ttedty which is on the subway. New you go tell the po-. lice now because I’ve got work to do.”
"Thanks a lot, Mr. Kovac! You can, keep my bottle of mala-or whatever it is.”
I went to the station to teD Benny. "Benny, you've got to listen. There’s some kind of slime in the old subway-”
“You stole my keys!”
“I know I did, Benny, but-”
“I don’t care! You stole my keys! I could have you booked for that Mike!”
I was starting to get mad. “Damnit, Benny! Now you listen to me! There’s some kind of slime down there that eats people up, and if we don’t blow it up it’a gonna take over my dty! We’ve gotta blow lt up! Oh, Benny, I’m sorry. What was it, a' hard day at work? Timmy bring home bad grades? I heard about you losing that guy. I’m really sorry, but look, there’s some slime down there that we’ve got to get rid of. Could you help me out? I’ve already talked to some chemist that Sherrie knows, and he’s getting the stuff to kill it. All we have to do is evacuate the North Side of the dty. Will you help me?”
“Yeah, 111 help you, but it’s not because you said you’re sorry. It’s be
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