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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

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ery's pale, handsome fac

die, Kad

ent on, your

let, packed it away, a

ring me my "emergen