Chapter 3

"Dr. Harrow?" Zane sensed something was off.

"Mr. Cook." Julian's voice trembled as he pointed at the screen, as he'd just seen something that shattered his entire worldview. "The machine's vital signs detector... it's overloaded."

"What?"

"It shows that there are countless heartbeats in there. Countless."

Julian suddenly looked up at me, his eyes wide with horror, like he was staring at a monster. "There were too many, beating way too fast. It fried the core processor."

With a soft crackle, the ultrasound machine's screen flickered twice before going completely black, a thin wisp of smoke curling up from it.