The girl plunged her bare, unarmored hand directly into the ruined chest cavity of the dead monster. She dug deep into the decaying flesh, searching through the vital organs with a grim, practiced determination. A few seconds later, she pulled her hand free.Clutched in her bloody fingers was a small, glowing object.Sara magnified the image, zooming the camera lens in as far as the digital resolution would allow without pixelating the feed. The object was roughly the size of a large marble. It pulsed with a sickly, luminescent purple light, resembling a crystalline gemstone that beat with a faint, internal rhythm."Biological harvesting," Sara breathed, her scientific mind racing to comprehend the impossible image. "The mutated variants are generating concentrated biological cores. They are forming internal energy matrices within their own anatomy.""Like a pearl inside an oyster," Riccardo noted, fascinated by the glowing object.The girl wiped the thick blood off the purple capsule