Sun Hang quickly found the cover Yang Qi had mentioned. After lifting it, he found a dark-red button hidden inside.
After he pressed the button, all the restraint straps—or rather, the safety belts—around Miki Fukada instantly came undone. Two mechanical arms carrying rubber tubes detached from the inner wall of the metal cylinder, and the needles at their ends pierced the injection ports reserved on both sleeves of her anti-G suit.
The tubes were transparent. Bright-red blood flowed through one of them, while the other drew the pale-yellow Deep Dive Life Support Medium out of Miki Fukada's body.
The two needles had been inserted into her artery and vein respectively. To protect her blood vessels and internal organs, more than sixty percent of Miki Fukada's blood had previously been drawn out and stored in blood bags within the cylinder wall's inner compartment.
Before she could emerge from the metal cylinder, the most important step was to transfuse that blood back into her body while drawing out all the life support medium that had replaced it.
The Deep Dive Life Support Medium inside the cylinder was also flowing out through a filter port at the bottom. Curious, Sun Hang dipped a fingertip into it and brought it to his nose—its scent resembled heavily diluted blood, carrying a faint smell of blood mixed with the distinctive odor of chemical agents.
Sun Hang rubbed his thumb and forefinger together. The life support medium was quickly absorbed by his skin, and the sticky sensation on his fingertips vanished along with it.
The life support medium in Miki Fukada's body was soon completely drained. Amid a violent fit of coughing, she expelled the remaining medium from her respiratory tract as well.
Just as Miki Fukada, now able to speak again, was about to open her