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eet rot of sepsis. For a post-op
mmered agai
threw back the thin bl
auze, but the dressing was soaked through with dark blood and a greenish-yello
f a world-class athlete. This
rehead. It was burning hot. He was in a
y the bed. The screen showed numbers that were perfectly, impossibly
evere infection and fever could
ave me an immediate, sick understanding of what I was seeing. The software had
al signs. Someone was hidi
they just trying to le
d planned to use him, yes. But I couldn
, a dead man was
to sav
ice. It was custom-built, with its own power source and encrypted
t. There was a USB port on the headbo
blet with a speci
pass camouflage module. Read raw data from
nds, Chimera had cracked the system and was pulling real-ti
d. Tachycardia. Plummeting blood pressure. Oxygen satura
oss-referencing the live data with Kade's publ
ppeared in co
staphylococcal infection. Complications: Sig
ns, probability of organ failure within 4
man on the bed. The team doctors were either c
er was over. They tho
w he coul
ra system held a solution for exact
flammatory agent, designed by Chimera's biosynthesis module. In theory, it could
tested it
I had n
ery's pale, handsome fac
die, Kad
ent on, your
let, packed it away, a
ring me my "emergen
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