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onto business. As you are all aware, unsettling developments have disrupted the facility based in Nevada, USA. Known popularly as area 51, the work carried out there to revolutionize life as we know it has suffered a terrible calamity. On Tuesday 17 th August at 6pm local time, Nevada, a technical failure led communication to break down. We are now sure that it also caused a breach in security.”
    Around him people began to gasp and whisper. Bao took advantage of the pause, to work out mentally the time differences. Beijing was sixteen hours ahead of Nevada time, meaning that the outbreak would have been at 10am that morning to him. It was 5.30pm now so why was it only just being confirmed to them? He tried to make some allowances for the fact that, given the many time differences, it was likely that communication could be difficult at the best of times. At least they had known of the communication failure within an hour of it happening. The thought still worried him. If seven and a half hours had already passed and Xin still had somewhere around another eight hours left on her flight, what situation would she arrive to?
    He turned his attention back to the screen as the speech resumed.
    “The Nevada facility, fortunately, has a back-up security system. Although everyone within the compound was at that point presumed to be either dead or infected, the outbreak was contained. A little under three hours ago, at approximately 10.40pm local time, military forces were deployed to the facility.
    I would, at this point, like to mention that we would have liked to have handled the matter much sooner but needed, first, to understand more fully what had happened and consider the safety of civilians in the surrounding areas.”
    At this point, the quiet chatter in the room had begun to escalate and Bao was trying to figure out where the information he was being given was leading to. As he thought about it, he recalled something that brought a lump to his throat. He had seen for himself the strange news reports about attacks on civilians. He had briefly mentioned it to Xin. That had been before he had told her about the military being dispatched to the area. He had known about that shortly before it had actually happened, but had known about the attacks first. If the outbreak had been contained, how was that possible? For there to have been attacks being reported in the surrounding areas, when the outbreak was supposedly confined and the military hadn’t even arrived at the base. If the outbreak was not contained, as he now suspected, then why was the military response not aimed at the areas that were suffering attacks?
    Bao made his way through the small crowd to the front of the room. He wanted to be able to see and hear the rest of the broadcast properly and feared he wouldn’t be able to over the growing hysteria.
    “Ladies and gentlemen, I must now inform you that although armed soldiers arrived at the site and cleared the facility, there was enough evidence to suggest that a small number of staff members managed to flee the site. Given the occurrences in the surrounding area, we think it fair to presume that at least one of these survivors was infected during the incident and can now declare a state of emergency. At this moment, the number of attacks is low and we aim to keep it that way. We want to have this problem dealt with quickly. We are currently unsure of how fast this infection could spread, but have all of our best minds working overtime on this matter. We hope to have the r-nought worked out soon and a plan of action imminently. I ask that nobody panics, nobody discusses this situation with friends, family or other civilians and that all correspondence, research and files relating to the Area 51 facility and its work be destroyed.
    Rest assured that the corporation recognises your loyalty and appreciates your co-operation with this delicate matter. Good day.”
    With that, the screen went black and there was stunned