Sudden Situation, Threat of Death

Led by the staff, Son Gohan walked into the gravity room.

He looked around at the environment inside. The entire laboratory was spherical, basically almost the same as the interior of the spaceship Son Goku had ridden in the original work.

A large number of cables connected the huge cylinder in the center to the top. Beneath it was a square control console divided into sections with buttons, along with three display screens.

The staff member who had led him in earlier had said this was Bulma's experimental site for the gravity generator, and that central cylinder was the target of this experiment.

Because it was an experimental machine, the highest gravity multiplier it could currently reach was capped at twenty-five times. Any higher, and malfunctions might occur.

But for Son Gohan to test it now, it was just right. If any problems came up, they could be corrected as quickly as possible.

After the staff taught Son Gohan how to use the control console, they left the laboratory and went outside.

In the large control room outside, there was also a set of controls. This was a backup sub-console in case the console inside went out of control.

On the control console's buttons, Son Gohan quickly set the gravity multiplier according to what he had just been taught: fifteen times!

Light flickered across the console, then quickly traveled through the cables to the entire dome. Streams of colorful data immediately flowed throughout the room.

Buzz—

The next moment, Son Gohan first felt a faint current arise. He roughly guessed that this was friction and collision between the external magnetic field and his biological magnetic field.

Sure enough, a strong sense of gravity immediately pressed down on his body.

Raising his hand, Son Gohan tried swinging his fist and found that it was indeed around fifteen times gravity.

As for the few experiment staff outside, they were all a little dumbfounded when they saw the gravity displayed on the monitors.

They had thought this newcomer might try three or four times gravity. After all, though he looked young, that body of muscle certainly was not fake.

Moreover, their laboratory had previously invited several famous martial artists to come and try it. The strongest one had only barely been able to move under five times gravity.

But the young man before them could actually punch, kick, and move quickly in an environment of fifteen times gravity. It simply refreshed their understanding.

Still not enough!

Son Gohan frowned slightly. A fifteen-times gravity field only gave him a slight feeling and could not truly place a load on him.

He walked to the control console. After thinking for a moment, he directly adjusted the gravity multiplier to twenty-five times in one go.

In any case, with his combat power of 15,500, he could fully withstand twenty-five times gravity. If it really did not work, he could activate Kaioken.

Buzz—!

Under the watch of the three experiment staff, whose jaws nearly dropped, Son Gohan abruptly felt a force of gravity much stronger than before.

The muscles all over his body felt as if someone was constantly dragging him downward, and even moving a little required far more strength than before.

"Now this is a little interesting!"

A satisfied smile appeared on Son Gohan's face. He took off his upper garment and tossed it aside, revealing a lean, powerfully muscled upper body.

Ha!

He struck out with a punch. The powerful sense of burden coming from his arm and shoulder was like taking a huge gulp of water when thirsty, and Son Gohan became absorbed in it.

Once he was absorbed, he lost track of the passage of time.

Late at night two days later, when only one experiment staff member remained outside, snoring away, Son Gohan was still continuously training inside.

By this point, he had already completely adapted to the twenty-five-times gravity environment and could carry out normal training and combat.

After adopting the physical data Son Gohan provided, Bulma's staff also said the real Gravity Machine would be completed in three days and installed onto the aircraft.

But while neither side noticed, a faint spark suddenly appeared on the control tower in the room. Then the 25G gravity number on the display screen suddenly blurred and tore apart for a moment, but it quickly returned to normal.

On the control console outside, however, the 25G number suddenly changed to 26G. But right now, no one could see it.

Son Gohan, who was training, suddenly felt something strange. Originally, his body should have been somewhat adapted to twenty-five times gravity, but a sense of burden had suddenly appeared again.

However, Son Gohan did not pay it any mind. Perhaps it was simply because the gravity generator had not been fully corrected yet, so the gravity would occasionally fluctuate.

But after roughly half an hour, Son Gohan finally sensed that something was wrong, because his body was now experiencing the same feeling as when he had first tried twenty-five times gravity.

He immediately turned his head to look at the nearby gravity multiplier display. After finding that the number on it still showed 25G, he continued his training in confusion.

At this moment, the multiplier on the outside control console had already quietly reached 30G.

Fifteen minutes later, only then did Son Gohan truly realize something was wrong. He suddenly thought of the scene in the original work where Son Goku's gravity generator suddenly malfunctioned, jumping straight from 50G to 100G and nearly causing a huge disaster.

Son Gohan would not hesitate. He immediately got up and wanted to leave the laboratory, but the instant he exerted force, his knees went weak and he collapsed to the floor.

On the display screen outside, the number on the gravity monitor had already climbed to 35G.

Sometimes, one should not underestimate an extra 5G of gravity. One had to know that gravity was no joke, because the human body had a limit to the amount of gravity it could adapt to.

Forget 1G—even a sudden increase of 0.1G could potentially cause problems with a person's internal organs, blood supply pressure, and the like, making them explode on the spot from blood pressure!

If it were any ordinary time, he could have rushed out by using all the strength in his body, but now, he did not have much stamina left.

Son Gohan gritted his teeth. Earlier, because he felt that a gravity level capped at twenty-five times would not cause any accidents, he had left the capsule containing the Senzu Beans outside.

"Damn it!"

He looked at the corner several meters away. His removed clothes and pants were there. Because he was cautious, he had still chosen to put two Senzu Beans in the side pocket of his pants.

As long as he could get the Senzu Beans and take them, he could escape this laboratory!

But the only danger now was whether he could get that Senzu Bean and break away as quickly as possible under the ever-increasing pressure.

Son Gohan knew that every second now was incredibly precious. He used the last of his strength to leap forward.

A jump that could have carried him who knew how many meters in the outside world moved him less than a single meter in this room.

At that moment, the multiplier on the monitor outside had already reached 36G.

Son Gohan gritted his teeth hard and slapped both hands forward. Behind him, his toes curled, pushing his body as he kept crawling ahead. He felt his organs churning in unbearable pain.

Two meters, one and a half meters, one meter, half a meter.

When he reached the half-meter mark, Son Gohan's entire body was already covered in sweat. Under the gravity that had reached 38G outside, the skin on his hands and feet had been scraped raw, and large amounts of blood seeped out, staining a huge patch of the floor red.

At this point, Son Gohan truly felt the pressure of death, because if this kept up, even with a Saiyan's physique, his organs would burst apart and he would die.

"I'm not... going to... let my first time... end like this!"

Gritting his teeth, Son Gohan painfully dragged himself forward another stretch. Forcing himself to endure the searing pain all over his body, he reached toward the pocket of his pants.

Beep.

At that moment, the gravity multiplier had already reached 39G.