Chapter 5 - The Lead Physician Discovers A Terrifying Medical Anomaly
Inside Trauma Room Three, Dr. Elena Rostova stared at Nathan’s incoming lab results with mounting disbelief.
“His blood chemistry is completely saturated with an unknown synthetic compound,” Elena muttered to the nurse beside her.
“Could it be a bad batch of embalming fluid, Doctor?” the nurse asked, adjusting the intravenous drip line.
“Embalming fluid destroys cellular structures; this compound is actively preserving them at near-zero metabolic rates.”
Elena pulled up Nathan’s official hospital admission file from three nights ago when he was first declared dead.
She scrolled down to the timeline of his cardiac arrest and subsequent emergency room declaration.
“That’s strange,” Elena whispered, tapping the glass screen of her tablet with a slender finger.
“What is it, Doctor?”
“There is an eleven-minute gap between the time his heart stopped and the time death was officially pronounced.”
The nurse frowned, looking over Elena’s shoulder at the glowing digital timestamp logs.
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“Eleven minutes of missing medical telemetry? That violates every protocol in the state health code.”
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