Accompanied by excruciating pain, Scorpion seemed to see his arms flying apart into countless pieces. Intense pain came from every part of his body, leaving his mind dazed for an instant.
Was he going to die? Was this what death felt like?
He had been injured before, and they had all been gunshot wounds. People like them could not possibly have gone without injuries. Yet even so, when death truly arrived, he still felt an intangible fear.
It was the instinctive fear of death born from life itself, the final stubbornness embedded in the bones of every living creature.
Scorpion seemed to feel himself suffocating. Pain, suffocation, and even many things he had experienced in the past seemed to surface in his mind... For some reason, a smile appeared on his face.
"The subject's brain activity is fluctuating intensely..."
"Heart rate is extremely high... It has already exceeded 140..."
"Adrenaline secretion has surged..."
"Various bodily functions are fluctuating..."
"Partial data has been brought under control. Prepare emergency measures..."
The simulation pod had already been opened. Several leading military medical experts stood ready around it, surrounded by students on standby to assist with the rescue effort. The main reason was that these experts were all over sixty.
They could not handle physical labor for long.
At least seven or eight emergency devices had been prepared around Scorpion, while farther away were all kinds of ICU equipment, as well as even more advanced artificial devices capable of temporarily replacing the functions of three human organs.
However, with current technology, the instruments they had created could at most artificially replace three human organs at once to sustain his life. Once more than three organs failed, the chain reaction of organ failure would immediately cause the body's physiological limits to collapse. Even the