Stunned silence filled the whole room at Triplet’s statement. Even Shade, who normally couldn’t shut up, seemed to be at a total loss for words.
Dad was the first to snap out of the shock, shaking his head and saying, in a slightly dazed voice, “Did you say the Neo-Plague, Trip? Because I’m pretty sure that you did.”
Triplet nodded. “You heard me right. Neo-Gas is essentially a weaponized version of the Neo-Plague.”
My eyes widened. The Neo-Plague was a deadly virus that had ravaged the superhuman community nearly fourteen years ago. Around five percent of the global superhuman population had been wiped out by the Neo-Plague before a cure was discovered by Professor Dean Hernandez, a normal neogeneticist. I barely remembered it myself due to being a little girl at the time, but from wh
