the black web filled his head with flashing images , running too quickly to make sense , like video played at high speed : julie mao in her shower , the black threads surrounding her , her body twisted into a nightmare ; bodies scattered across the floor of a radiation chamber ; the zombielike infected staggering off the trams in eros , vomiting brown bile on everyone around them , even a drop of the goo a death sentence ; video captures of the horror show eros had become ; a torso stripped to a rib cage and one arm dragging itself through the protomolecule landscape on some unknowable mission .