A fire door flew open inside Lin Ke’s chest.
The pre-tightly packed fuel packet exploded into his main blood-vessel loop like fifty pounds of kerosene thrown onto white-hot hard coal.
The living agony was instant and overwhelming. Lin Ke’s lungs seized as his lung tissue flash-steamed. The air escaping his throat sounded like a high-pressure brass relief valve screeching open. His blood, already sluggish from fasting, boiled into hot, frothing foam that surged through his vena cava like liquid fire.
Along every limb, his Vitreous Glass Spirit veins (Bing-Mai) screamed under the total heat slope. Unlike traditional elastic vessels that expand to cushion a heat surge, his rigid quartz dust waveguides couldn’t yield by a single hair-fraction. The sudden jump of over one hundred and sixty degrees sent sharp, sound pinging through his skeleton—micro-fissures firing like tiny glass needles driven into the surrounding muscle tissue.
Stage One of the Live Merge: Crimson Yang adhesion.
There was no time to acclimate. The test model data had been merciless. Pause for even three clock cycles would cause positive heat runaway, exploding his heart nerve web from within.
He had to hot-patch the flow while the engine was running at full throttle.
Lin Ke didn’t fight the agony. He leaned into it.
