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.

issue, only she knows."

was a haven for geniuses, capable of

full scope of their pharmacopeia as research varied by

he wakes up

in the balance. But that relief was short-lived as Sarah added,

If he wakes up, he might have the IQ of a toddler. We'll see more once he regains

scalp at the thought; better to

laugh echoed again, her eyes lingering on

lay still, oblivious to her

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

"What the hell did you poison

pale, clearly anemic, yet she bore no injuries. How could she

her hand going to her temple. "I think I know.

it worthless and abandoned

"What kind of drug?"

substance akin to opium. Anyone fed this

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

one even bit off his own tongue in

grew grim as she caught Queena's smug,

inducing agitation in the subjects when deprived.

project was

our guest here was part of that

if she wanted to applaud Sarah's deduction, but her hands

you for remembering such a trivial

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

specifics of each?

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