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."

examination on lan. "He'll live,

issue, only she knows."

for geniuses, capable of concocting any drug

scope of their pharmacopeia

have to wait until he wakes up

Beck, knowing lan's life hung in the balance. But that relief was short-lived as Sarah added, "His brain has

up, he might have the IQ of a toddler. We'll see

tingle of dread crawled across Beck's scalp at the thought; better

echoed again, her eyes lingering on

the man lay still,

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

"What the hell did

yet she bore no injuries.

to her temple. "I think I know. There

worthless

"What kind of drug?"

akin to

that of ordinary marijuana. In past trials, subjects would becso desperate

blood fix that one even bit off

grim as she caught Queena's smug,

own blood, inducing agitation in the subjects when deprived. The

project was halted because,

here was part of

she wanted to applaud Sarah's deduction, but her

should praise you

a mere footnote. With countless drugs being developed, who could

specifics of each?

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