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Neither one of them laughed. They exchanged a brief look of concern and returned their gaze to mine. This time Amy spoke, “Just look at the flash drive. Send us a message through email or text when you do.” John added, “Pay attention to any news coming out of China right now.” I was thoughtful for a moment and asked, “Is this about that bird flu outbreak?” There had been a flurry of news stories from China a month or so ago but just as quickly as the media had started discussing it, they’d abruptly stopped. The big news at the moment was the unusually cold winter with record setting subzero temperatures, wind chills and above average snow fall. Prior to the insanely cold winter, the news stories close to Christmas time had revolved around a possible bird flu outbreak somewhere in a very remote region of northern China. Christmas had come and gone with nothing new being reported and eventually the story lost its hold to another celebrity’s drug addiction. It was John’s turn to laugh. “This is no bird flu,” he replied sarcastically. To continue reading Extinction Level, Event Book One: The Turn, pick it up on Amazon: Amazon.com Amazon.ca Add Extinction Level Event Book One: The Turn to Goodreads 47 | P a g e