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Chapter 244: Zombie Boy
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2024-10-29 19:42:56Emmet paused and thought for a moment.
Jasper had nanobots in his blood. He had little machines flowing inside of him, altering his body according to things programmed into them by imperfect people, and the people that he hated and abused him.
He had nanobots inside of him, put into him and without the control to alter, stop, or change what they did to him, nor remove them if he so wanted without a long tedious process of having the entirety of his blood removed from his body, filtered, and then put back inside of him.
The microchip inside of him had failed massively, cooking his flesh to kill him. What if something similar happened again? What if the nanobots were programmed to kill him again? What if the nanobots malfunctioned because of the time machine and the general mechanisms of time travel?
There were so many things that could go wrong. There were so many ways that the nanobots could have hurt him.
Did Jasper even agree to this?
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