A searing pain, like a red-hot iron spike, stabbed viciously into the back of Ling Chen’s head and pierced his entire skull.
His vision blurred. A buzzing filled his ears, as if countless wasps had made their home inside his brain. He sucked in a sharp breath, but what flooded his lungs was not the temperature-controlled pure oxygen of the laboratory. It was a fetid stench mixed with rust, dust, and something... rotten.
