The Carnivis Mountains were located at high altitude, perpetually covered in snow.
Below the mountains lay a desolate expanse; across the plains stood a lone six-story laboratory building.
Inside the top-floor lab, various medical instruments were arrayed, with an extended experiment table at the center, on which a man lay. He was male, with closed eyes, and his age was undetermined.
He was hooked up to all sorts of tubes, with electrode pads attached to his chest, hands, and forehead, their leads connected to an ECG monitor and an electroshock machine.
Standing on each side of the experiment table were a man and a woman, one measuring, the other recording.
"Blood pressure."
"Systolic 90, diastolic 60."
"Body temperature."
"32."
"Pulse."
"70."
"Breathing."
"34."
At this moment, an alarm sounded from a nearby machine.
"Beep!"
"Beep!"
"Beep!"
One beep after another, short and rapid.
Suddenly, the ECG and brainwave monitors began to fluctuate violently.
