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buried alive; mistaken for dead due to the absence of a noticeable heartbeat and its very low pulse. This was during the period of coma in which the transformation process into a vampire takes place.” he stated.
     
    “Then they must have some other means of circulating blood around their body because this pulse that I see here, I am sure cannot do for his whole body,” Mabel reinstated.
     
    “Well I’ll be damned. That had to be it” Lenzo exclaimed.
     
    In answering the puzzled questioning look on Mabel’s face, he now went on to explain.
     
    “The other mode known to man other than a circulatory system solely powered by the heart was fasciculation. Circulation in this system is carried out by contraction of skeletal muscles especially those of the limbs rather than the heart itself,” he said.
     
    They quickly added up the facts. It was the pulsating of the arms which they had noticed earlier in the Alpha male that served the purpose which had for long left many without a clue. Just then, Lenzo’s phone rang. He picked it up and the voice of the man he left in command of the team at Altraco Construction greeted him. He relayed to him their discovery at the cave. It seemed the vampires had left.
     
    “ Trace the bastards with the dogs then, said Lenzo.
     
    “I’m sorry, we tried that already Sir but beyond the stream, the dogs seem to have lost trail of their scent.”
     
    “ Oh …..alright then….fuck it. You can return to the workers and stay with them. I will be back soon to see things for myself.”
    With that Lenzo ended the call.
     
    It was some hours past noon. They stopped and decided to go for lunch. Lenzo was surprised to find that his colleagues had excused themselves for a break without him noticing. As they both left the lab, they locked up and went into a restaurant that served Chinese. They settled down and waited for the waiter so as to place their orders. A tiny voice from behind Mabel whic h was certainly that of a waitress they both knew greeted Dr. Lenzo but that was just before she spotted Lenzo’s heavily bandaged left arm. She was shocked. Lenzo explained briefly stated how he had been involved in an accident earlier in the day. She expressed her sympathy before going on to greet Dr. Mabel. She then went on to take their orders. They settled to their meal and for most of the meal remained silent, only the clatter of fork and knifes against the earthen plate disrupted the silence in their corner. Mabel finished with his meal before Lenzo. He was surprised because Lenzo was usually hurried with his meals and always finished ahead of him. He realized early enough before he blurted that out that his friend was now disadvantaged, having only one useful hand presently to use. For a moment sadness returned to his face as he came to the reality of what his friend had to live with now.
     
    “ I hope he doesn’t lose him arm,” Mabel though to himself.
                 
    He however shoved these thoughts down and brought up what he wanted to talk to Lenzo about. He told him of how he had earlier alerted the state security agency before their arrival as he had instructed.
     
    “They should be here soon. There is however something I wanted to talk to you about. There is this serum that we at the Research Institute have been working on. It has gone on for long without producing much of the desired result but in the past one year, a couple of things have been falling into place as regards to this research. This serum now serves its purpose, regenerating dead cells and has been tested with success on small mammals; we are however yet to test it on larger mammals.”
     
    “That’s good to know…by the way, whose project is this anyways?” Lenzo answered.
     
    “The state, though its classified information,” Mabel hushed.
     
     
     
     
    They soon left the restaurant for the lab. They were expecting a team of other professionals in the field, most of who they had worked