PATIENT ZERO -The lone survivor
She swallowed hard, looking into the shadows.
"Sometimes, the code doesn't integrate smoothly, but the body doesn't reject it either. It’s like installing highly advanced software onto a broken hard drive. The mutations become chaotic. Uncontrolled cell growth. Unregulated bone generation. The brain’s frontal lobe, which controls logic and empathy, is usually the first thing to degrade under the stress. They lose their humanity, Baraka. They become driven entirely by the reptilian brain—hunger, territoriality, and rage."
Baraka looked at his metallic arm again. A cold spike of terror drove itself into his chest. "Could that happen to me? If I push the adaptations too far? If I run out of foo