Sarah arrived swiftly, drawing blood samples with a frown creasing her forehead.

Beck's heart skipped a beat, his lips pressed tightly together. "Doc, he's gonna be okay, right?"

Sarah turned to the others in the room. "Who gave him the injection?"

Without hesitation, Beck had his men bring Queena in. With lan still unconscious, he dared not lay a finger on her, choosing instead

to keep her detained.

The local police station, where Rachel worked, was clamoring for Queena's return, insisting that a murder suspect should not be

taken away so lightly.

Beck simply brushed off the policewoman's demands and had Queena brought to the hospital.

At first glance, Sarah's pupils shrank.

"Doc, is there something off about her identity?"

"Everyone from the research base is brilliant, even by their standards," Sarah replied.

Beck's demeanor darkened. "What the hell is wrong with lan, then?"

Queena, under guard, let out a sly chuckle, her lips curling into a smirk.

Her expression was one of arrogance and contempt.

"So, Dr. Sarah, you are still alive and remember a nobody like me."

her examination on lan. "He'll live, but the drug this woman fed him is problematic. The

issue, only she knows."

facility was a haven for geniuses, capable of concocting any drug imaginable.

full scope of their pharmacopeia as research varied

have to wait until he wakes up to

the balance. But that relief was

he might have the IQ of a toddler. We'll see more once he

crawled across Beck's scalp at the thought;

echoed again, her eyes lingering

still,

lips, a triumphant tone in her voice. "You can't kill me. Without me,

hell did you poison

was pale, clearly anemic, yet she bore no

going to her temple. "I think I

it worthless and abandoned

"What kind of drug?"

akin to opium.

of ordinary marijuana.

one even bit off his own

grew grim as she caught Queena's smug, knowing

inducing agitation in the subjects when deprived. The subjects would then

provider of the blood. This blood alchemy project was halted because, with so many other drugs under study,

guest here was part of

to applaud Sarah's deduction, but her hands were

Sarah, I should praise you for remembering such

vast expanse of the research facility, this was a mere footnote. With countless drugs

specifics of each?

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