Killer Chromosomes by Warren Murphy & Richard Sapir

Author:Warren Murphy & Richard Sapir [Murphy, Warren & Sapir, Richard]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Adventure
ISBN: 9781558173552
Publisher: Pinnacle
Published: 1978-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

In the attic apartment of Mrs. Tumulty’s house, Chiun slapped at Remo’s hand. Night was falling and, for the past three nights, Chiun had prepared the room.

“Don’t pick at your wounds,” Chiun said.

“That means not picking anywhere. I’m cut up bad.”

“A scratch. It hurts because you heal. Death has no pain, but living does.”

Chiun slapped the hand again.

“I’m scratching an itch.”

“Disgusting,” said Chiun. “Shameful.”

Remo knew Chiun was not talking about scratching at wounds. Since he could formulate ideas and correctly interpret sounds and words, for seven hours now, Remo had heard Chiun over and over again tell him how disgraceful it was for someone representing Sinanju to get himself cut up this way.

As Chiun explained it, he didn’t know why he was going to so much trouble to nurse Remo back to health.

“So that you can go out and embarrass me again? Do you know you almost allowed yourself to be killed? Do you know that? We have not lost a Master in 875 years. Do you not care what you do to my reputation?”

Remo had tried to protest that he had met something new but Chiun would hear none of it.

“You would get yourself killed? That is what you would do to me. And why? I will tell you why…”

“But, Little Father,” Remo had protested.

“Quiet,” Chiun had said. “You would do this against me because of my easy-going nature. I willingly gave up the centrifuge I was going to bring home to Sinanju as a part of a white man’s magic display. Because I gave this up and was willing to do it, you sensed you could be killed against me. Who would care? Let the sweet, generous, loving, decent, fool Chiun go down in history as one who had lost a pupil.”

“But…”

“I have been too generous. I have been too decent. I have been too giving. This is what I get in return. Carelessness with what I have made. Yes and why? Why? Because I am so generous. I am what you call a pushover. Yes, a pushover. Easy Chiun. Sweet Chiun. Agreeable Chiun. Come, world, take advantage of one who is too nice.”

With that Chiun slapped a scratching hand and was silent. Remo knew Chiun became angry only after Remo could talk and reason. He remembered loving, soothing words in that dreamlike state while he was being treated by herbs and perhaps the most skilled hands available to kill or cure.

What most Western doctors did not know, and what Sinanju did, was that it was not so much a wound that killed, but the suddenness of it, or the fact there were many wounds. The human body was self-repairing. A single disease or injury to a single organ could be contained or eliminated by the body if the body had enough time to react.

A knife going into the brain kills. Yet, if it took a year to enter the human brain, the brain would form around it, accept it, try to reject it or do any one of many things to adjust to the assault.

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