Chapter 21: The Wager
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Updated : May 15th, 2026
In a sense, Huxley Zimmerman's guess was right. Holden Duffus had indeed used a method that had nothing to do with conventional medicine.
The reason cyanide killed was simple and brutal. It blocked the blood from binding with oxygen, starving every cell and causing internal suffocation. From exposure to death, it only took two to three minutes.
In other words, under normal circumstances, Gunner Ferdinando should have been dead for sure.
The only reason he still clung to a sliver of life was because,...
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