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

issue, only she knows."

of concocting any

the full scope of their pharmacopeia

wait until he wakes up to

the balance. But that

might have the IQ of a toddler. We'll

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

echoed again, her eyes

lay still, oblivious

voice. "You can't kill me.

gaze sharpened. "What the hell did you poison

anemic, yet she bore

on Sarah, her hand going to her temple. "I think I know. There was a drug developed at the

worthless and

"What kind of drug?"

human blood to create a substance akin to opium. Anyone fed this drug would quickly becaddicted,

times stronger than that of ordinary marijuana. In past trials, subjects

that one even bit off his

as she caught Queena's smug, knowing

the subjects

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

our guest here was part of that research

to applaud Sarah's deduction, but

Sarah, I should praise you for remembering such a

facility, this was a mere footnote. With

specifics of each?

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