'So, I was a corpse all along?'
The leader's hand dropped, and he gave a bitter laugh.
'Even a corpse's consciousness can be enhanced?'
A consciousness that should have faded with the death of the flesh had instead been stubbornly preserved by an enhancement.
He could still control this corpse and even think, all because of this lingering consciousness.
He had guessed correctly. His consciousness had indeed been enhanced, but it happened after he was already a corpse.
When he fell, his gas mask had come off. It was at that exact moment a surge of active electrons entered his body, preserving the consciousness that had been on the verge of fading away.
After piecing it all together, the leader felt it was a cruel twist of fate.
He had died by electronic activation, yet it was also electronic activation that had turned him into a walking corpse.
"Can't even let a man die in peace," he sighed.
'But this way, I have nothing left to worry about.'
