"Ready, James?" Abraham asks me.
— Do I look like a person who is ready for the fact that his body will now be exposed to radiation? - I answered the question with a question.
"He's ready," Victoria translated.
- Um... okay, - said the scientist and pressed the button that closes my capsule, - I'm injecting a serum, - several needles dug into my body and began to inject a bluish liquid into me.
It feels like a bunch of mosquitoes have dug into my flesh at once, but they can't suck anything out.
"I'm turning on the emitter," Stark's voice was heard outside, who is also present here.
I closed my eyes, because I don't want to go blind for a while. A moment later, a light hit my eyelids. So far, I haven't felt anything from him. I just looked at the progress scale of the second limit, which, as always, I saw even with my eyes closed. No visible changes. As it was a little more than half, it remained so. But this is for now, because the emitter has just been turned on.
— I'm increasing the power of the Vita-rays — - the sounds were a little muffled, but I heard this phrase — - Ten percent… Fifteen... twenty…
At this point, the skin began to burn a little, and the filling progress slowly, but moved forward. I knew it. Vita-rays are much better than ordinary radioactive radiation. Only it would not have helped me in any way, since I could not use them on myself at that time and only recently it became available.
"Thirty... thirty-five… Forty…
The scale began to grow even faster. The heat began to increase.
"Sixty... sixty-five... seventy…
Is it just me, or have I seriously started to shrink a little? It feels like my whole body is shrinking. From this, something began to crack in my entire body. Painful, but bearable. It seems that there is a compaction, and, consequently, the hardness and strength of my body increases. I hope that I will not become a dwarf from this…
"Eighty percent!" Howard shouted. Apparently he wanted me to make at least one sound, because Steve was already screaming at sixty like a cut.
- Everything is fine! We continue! - my voice was heard and the power of the Vita-rays increased again.
Soon I felt that I had stopped shrinking. But the changes did not end there — now my body began to increase, then decrease again. Increase again, decrease again. And so on. But in the end, the dynamics went in the direction of increase. It seems that my regeneration allowed this.
- One hundred percent!
It's strange, but apart from a little pain from changes in my body, I didn't feel anything, although judging by that scream outside, the emitter is already working at maximum. But it's still not enough for me! The progress of the second limit is only at seventy percent.
- One hundred and ten percent! there was already a note of panic in his voice.
Many would be surprised that the percentages went even higher, but there is nothing surprising here — the second generator just started working. Yes, we took into account the previous problem, so we put five more of these. And what? Are there any resources? There is. Why not create it if there are plenty of materials. Only after the second generator is turned on, the experiment will not be stopped, since we risk getting an explosion.
"One hundred and fifty!"
Some time later, the changes in my body stopped. It seems that the effect of the serum has begun to stop. Only the skin was now covered with something sticky — this is the only thing that I noticed so far. I'll check the rest when the experiment is over. Every time the progress of the scale passed the five percent mark, it slowed down, and when the intensity of the rays increased, it increased again.
- Three hundred!
Wow! Unconsciously, my claws came out of my hands, which began to crumble and come out again, recovering. This was already very painful, but, clenching my teeth to a creak, I endured. I don't want to lose consciousness again when I reach the second limit. And I will achieve it!
- Four hundred!
The progress was already filled almost to the maximum, but the scale began to slow down and even an increase in the power of the rays could not do anything about it. Yeah, I think that if I myself went to this, it would take me a hundred years, and maybe more.
"Five hundred!" Stark seemed to have lost his voice, so this time it was Arskane who said it.
- We continue! - my growl came out somehow too loud.
"I-got it!" - only by his tone it was possible to understand that he was horrified that someone was still alive after such a thing and even managed to remain conscious.
"Explosive regeneration!", I realized. If it wasn't for her, the maximum that my body could withstand is two hundred percent of the power of the Vita rays.
Soon everything stopped, but when I opened my eyes, I realized that nothing was over yet, because I was in some unknown place. There was a field covered with grass everywhere. Lifting my head up, I saw a dark void in which there was no end or edge to be seen. Then I decided to look around.
The field itself seemed to be endless, because no matter how hard I looked, I didn't even see any landmark. Here it was time to start panicking, since I didn't know how I got here and why. And what kind of place is this anyway? The questions just piled up, but suddenly my eyes were able to see something in the distance.
Some kind of building. Hoping to find answers there, I went there. That's when I noticed myself. Am I naked? Well, let's say, although it would be better if I were at least wearing underpants.
I was surprised, because I really was wearing this item of clothing now. That's how hop... is. What if…
- Hmm, it worked... - I said thoughtfully, when my theory worked and I was now wearing my usual clothes.
That is, you just need to think and it will appear. I'm either in heaven or... in my mind. The first option is because my brain could not withstand such a strain, and the second just follows from the fact that I could. And I hope that the second option is correct, since this will mean that my brain has finally developed sufficiently and is ready to use Telepathy.
And if this ability has become fully available to me, then entering my own consciousness is no longer impossible for me. But you still need control. I can safely stay at home, because we can assume that this is my house, but you can't just get to other people's homes, because you need a key.
If we consider telepathy as a piece of material for this key, then increasing control, it will line up in the form necessary to open the door. Each person has his own door, to which you need your own key. Of course, this is all subjective and you can just break down that door by force. Then the consciousness and what is stored inside may suffer, as was the case with Vincent.
Although this is all subjective, but the example itself should be clear. And while I was thinking about it, I was already able to reach that very building. So this is how I imagine my storage of memories in the subconscious…