Bab 57: Chapter 57 : (So cold!)
Below 0 degrees, ice forms, but what happens if someone is living at -50 degrees? Perhaps he would be hunted by hyperthermia and frostbite.
The Kepler body could survive the lowest or highest temperature, but for how many days? That's what Dr. Heather wanted to know.
So she put Augustya into a freezing box; being an experiment rat, Augustya had no power to decline. The purpose of this goal was to know how many days he could survive without damaging his vital organs. Hence, he was completely naked except for wearing underpants, or it would not be Pg 13.
The freezing box temperature was -70°C; it didn't have any warm insulation in the room. The lighting in the room was so bright that it was as if he were living under a luminous object. There were cameras installed everywhere, so she could watch the show with cold soup. The room was painted green and had an earthy and minty smell.
Moreover, she forced him to wear an EEG (electroencephalography) headset on his head so she could monitor his brain waves. She also installed a neural chip in his neck, closer to the brain stem, to examine his neural activities and get results easily. Besides, the neural chip was temporary with no side effects on his body; it could record homeostasis like blood pressure, heart rate, and other biological stuff.
For the past few hours, Augustya had been chilling inside the freezing box. The only thing he despised was that he was naked in front of an old, horny lady.
Suddenly, a loudspeaker echoed into his room. "What do you want now? Aren't you happy to see me naked and reading this fairytale book?" Augustya grumbled as he couldn't comprehend this dumb boy story.
This is a story about a dumb young man who was trying to find fear in his mind. He passed through every obstacle with sheer will and that dumb brain of his. At last, he married a beautiful princess after surviving three days in a haunted castle.
According to Agustya, the ending was a little tragic. "My god, this is so horrible. At the end of the day, he learnt the art of fear through his wife's stupid tricks. Unbelievable!"
Heather's lips twitched as she heard boy nonsense. She realised that the boy didn't have much E.Q. Moving aside, she asked him, "How about we test your reasoning and memory ability now?"
Augustya nodded his head, as he was bored of reading this book. It would be a good exercise for his brain.
The next moment, a TV screen was sliding down into his room. It was a touch-screen TV that had eye, facial, hand, and leg movement sensors.
"This game is easy. All you have to do is answer before the car hits the wall."
"Does zero have value?" The first question appeared in front of the TV screen. It was a true or false question.
Augustya nodded his head as if he were spitting. The answer was right, even though the car crashed into the wall.
"How? " Augustya said in a frustrated voice.
"This can't be possible. Zero doesn't have any value. It's just a natural number with no value. Stupid machine!"
The next question appeared in front of the TV screen: "Which star lights the day?"
Augustya was quite satisfied with this question and answered rapidly. "Sun!"
He had spent an hour solving this quiz and puzzle, and the majority of the time he got the right answers. Furthermore, the concept of the game was simple yet terrifying; they just had to answer before the car hit the wall.
A day had already passed when Augustya started feeling numbness in his legs, and his cheeks and ears had started to freeze.
The lights were turned off because it was time to sleep. Sleeping on the cold floor made his back ache. Nonetheless, he didn't have any choice.
"Wahhhhh!" Augustya woke up from a baby crying sound which made his day unpleasant for sure.
"Stop this sound. My ear is bleeding to hear this." He shouted, enraged with Heather's tactics.
After doing his morning routine, he noticed his feet reddened. Moreover, he started feeling sluggish and drowsy, as if the cold was doing its job well.
Little did Augustya know that every hour, 2 degrees dropped in the freezing room. It was now -85°C.
An average humanoid would collapse at this temperature, but Augustya was still grasping common sense and alertness mode.
But this had to be changed as the sound of the baby crying echoed into his ears again.
It was continuously playing which made him a little annoyed. He really detest the sound of vicious creatures. A pure torture!
This was a test of endurance and survival.
His frontal cortex was already giving up as he sat down on the chair with a blank expression.
"Did you like the sound of melodious torture?" Heather asked as she seemed to be enjoying his agony.
"You are really a masochist. "Augustya said it, not sure how he learnt such a word.
"You didn't seem innocent."
Despite having good endurance, he could still feel numbness and coldness in his bones. His nose was sneezing every few minutes.
"Fuck! So cold. Are you trying to make me an ice-bar?" As a thin layer of calmness and rationale is removed, Augustya begins to show agitation at the coldest temperature.
Fortunately, his parasite started coating his black, gooey body. It seemed like a thin layer of black leather cloth covered him from head to toe.
"Interesting." He glanced at the left hand and the hole, which was getting bigger.
Augustya put on a grim expression on his face and looked around everywhere.
Meanwhile, on the other side of the freezing wall, Heather collects a good amount of data about Kepler. She was quite satisfied with the result.
"This is really remarkable. His gelatinous skin worked as insulation for his body to warm him to the coldest temperature. Not that he is not showing any abnormal condition or hyperthermia except irritation."
In simple words, Augustya's gooey-body worked as fur to keep warm in the cold weather.
"His cerebral cortex is quite developed for his age, as is his vision. I can't comprehend how the hell he could change his iris colour."
"Furthermore, there is no data on this, as other Keplers are not qualified to do that." Heather said, feeling puzzled.
"Perhaps his parasite is interlinked with the central nervous system and peripheral nerves." Sparrow exclaimed as he standing beside her.
"Maybe! " She said it in a low voice as checked the date of his neural link.
"Everything seems fine!"
She glanced at the monitor and watched Augustya making ruckus.
There was a new image coming from his EGG, as it was showing right anterior temporal highlighting.
"Sh*t. This boy doesn't know how to control himself." Heather cursed and showed an aversion.
"Do you think I don't expect that?" Heather said on the microphone as he watched the boy remove the lightbulb for no reason.
He glanced at the camera and smashed it, then showed his middle finger.
"I am hungry!" He complained and rolled his eyes. The next moment, he smashed the lightbulb in anger.
Heather sighed and tapped the button for emergency control. Smoke and smog covered everything in the freezing room. At least he didn't have to listen to the shrill sounds of a baby crying.
"I guess this is the end of this experiment."
"It seems like that." Heather replied in a melancholy voice. She stretched her arms after sitting on a chair for 2 days.
"Let's prepare another obstacle for him."
On the other hand, Augustya had already gone into slumber.
"Sleep well, little boy." Dr.Heather muttered under her breath and put a gentle smile on her face.
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Roo77 "I hate this cold weather." Augustya said, shivered.
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