The Russian Sleep Experiment

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Part 3

To everyone's surprise the test subjects put up a
fierce fight in the process of being removed from the
chamber. One of the Russian soldiers died from
having his throat ripped out, another was gravely
injured by having his testicles ripped off and an
artery in his leg severed by one of the subject's
teeth. Another 5 of the soldiers lost their lives if you
count ones that committed suicide in the weeks
following the incident.
In the struggle one of the four living subjects had his
spleen ruptured and he bled out almost immediately.
The medical researchers attempted to sedate him
but this proved impossible. He was injected with
more than ten times the human dose of a morphine
derivative and still fought like a cornered animal,
breaking the ribs and arm of one doctor. When heart
was seen to beat for a full two minutes after he had
bled out to the point there was more air in his
vascular system than blood. Even after it stopped he
continued to scream and flail for another 3 minutes,
struggling to attack anyone in reach and just
repeating the word "MORE" over and over, weaker
and weaker, until he finally fell silent.
The surviving three test subjects were heavily
restrained and moved to a medical facility, the two
with intact vocal cords continuously begging for the
gas demanding to be kept awake...
The most injured of the three was taken to the only
surgical operating room that the facility had. In the
process of preparing the subject to have his organs
placed back within his body it was found that he
was effectively immune to the sedative they had
given him to prepare him for the surgery. He fought
furiously against his restraints when the anesthetic
gas was brought out to put him under. He managed
to tear most of the way through a 4 inch wide
leather strap on one wrist, even through the weight
of a 200 pound soldier holding that wrist as well. It
took only a little more anesthetic than normal to put
him under, and the instant his eyelids fluttered and
closed, his heart stopped. In the autopsy of the test
subject that died on the operating table it was found
that his blood had triple the normal level of oxygen.
His muscles that were still attached to his skeleton
were badly torn and he had broken 9 bones in his
struggle to not be subdued. Most of them were from
the force his own muscles had exerted on them.
The second survivor had been the first of the group
of five to start screaming. His vocal cords destroyed
he was unable to beg or object to surgery, and he
only reacted by shaking his head violently in
disapproval when the anesthetic gas was brought
near him. He shook his head yes when someone
suggested, reluctantly, they try the surgery without
anesthetic, and did not react for the entire 6 hour
procedure of replacing his abdominal organs and
attempting to cover them with what remained of his
skin. The surgeon presiding stated repeatedly that it
should be medically possible for the patient to still
be alive. One terrified nurse assisting the surgery
stated that she had seen the patients mouth curl
into a smile several times, whenever his eyes met
hers.

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