“Dr. Markus refused. No matter the amount of money, he didn’t want someone like New World Genetics to have the ichor.” “Did he say why?” “Not really, but I got the impression what he read on the wall in the tomb scared him.” “And what did it read?” Harrington said. “A lot of stuff that at the time didn’t make much sense. It referred to the ichor as the Blood of Anubis and referenced a lot of religious rhetoric. Later on, we realized the writing wasn’t rhetoric, it was an instruction manual.”
