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."

"He'll live, but the

issue, only she knows."

capable of concocting any drug imaginable. Even after years spent

the full scope of their pharmacopeia as research varied by

he wakes up to see

hung in the balance. But that relief

he wakes up, he might have the IQ of a toddler.

crawled across Beck's scalp at the thought; better to keep this from

echoed again, her eyes

still, oblivious to

lips, a triumphant tone in her voice. "You

the hell did you poison him

pale, clearly anemic, yet she bore no injuries.

"I think I know. There was a drug

deemed it worthless and

"What kind of drug?"

to opium. Anyone fed this drug would

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

fix that one even bit off his own tongue

grim as she caught Queena's

inducing agitation in the subjects when

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

guest here was part

lips, as if she wanted to applaud Sarah's deduction, but

you for remembering

facility, this was a mere footnote. With countless

specifics of each?

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