After a long wait.
Standing at the entrance, Vincent finally saw Cheadle push open the operating room door. Dio followed behind her, holding a sealed box.
The sealed box bore an extremely conspicuous [Biohazard] label.
Vincent's reptilian eyes shifted discreetly toward the sealed box.
He knew perfectly well what was inside: the [Lung] removed from Isori, who lay in the hospital bed, already completely consumed by a spike!
And his mission this time had another objective that no one knew about: recovering those three mysterious spikes before the Minbo Republic's government could get its hands on them.
This concerned not only Beyond's trust in him, but also the position he had yearned for for decades!
At that thought, he immediately stepped forward and asked:
"How did it go, Miss Cheadle? Has the treatment been completed?"
Cheadle did not respond. She simply turned to look at Dio behind her, signaling for him to explain.
After all, whenever she opened her mouth now, all that came out were strange "ooh, ah, goo-goo, ga-ga" noises that made people struggle not to laugh.
Dio stepped forward and said:
"All we can say is that the first course of treatment has concluded successfully, Mr. Vincent."
According to the plan, this treatment would last two days and involve three rounds of surgery.
This was not because Cheadle, who was paid by the day, was deliberately dragging out the treatment, but because her [Cultivation Dish] could only grow one organ at a time.
Until the organ in the cultivation chamber was removed, she could not begin growing a second one.
Depending on the organ's complexity, cultivation could take anywhere from a minimum of three hours to as long as three full days.
The [Lung] from earlier, for instance, had taken Cheadle a full twelve hours to grow,