Although the bullet hadn't penetrated the bone thanks to the exoskeleton, the impact caused a wound with tissue trauma and muscle contusion. He felt his right arm suddenly grow heavy and numb, a result of impaired mobility caused by the partial destruction of superficial nerve fibers.
'Crap, I forgot that in the real world my body still still tendons that can be crushed,' Lohan thought, a grimace of pain crossing his masked face.
Seeing their target wounded, the three remaining guards advanced with renewed confidence, believing they had finally found the "monster's" limit.
"HE'S BEEN SHOT! FINISH HIM OFF!"
Oscar, seeing the "demon" get hit, felt a spark of hope, but the bad trip pulled him back.
Lohan's wounds, in Oscar's hallucinogenic vision, didn't bleed red; they exuded a faint neon-blue smoke that floated through the hole lightly like an aura of death.
