Volume 5: Bottomless Sinkhole Chapter 239 Concentrated Dream Date Preparation
"I don't know." Ke Lan raised his fist and hit the opponent's face hard. Then, he gave the patient a fierce knee strike in the lower abdomen. The body of patient No. 0302 suddenly bent like a shrimp.
"Could it be that he has developed drug resistance? That shouldn't be the case... This sedative has only been on the market for less than half a year, and we haven't used it on him many times..." the hospital director said, "Uh... this... this friend, do you need to use an electric shock device to calm the patient down?"
"No need." Ke Lan hit Patient No. 0302 on the back with an elbow, and threw him down on the sponge mattress again.
"This is really strange... Although this patient would attack medical staff before, he would calm down after being injected with sedatives. Why is his reaction so strong this time?" The dean came closer with some confusion, but when he saw Patient 0302's body twitched, he got scared and hid away.
"It's probably because of the instinct to survive," Ke Lan said. "In desperate situations, many people can burst out with strength far beyond their normal abilities. Isn't this a very common thing?"
"That's true..." The dean nodded thoughtfully, "But... when we injected him with the sedative before, the security guards pressed him to the ground in almost the same way. Why didn't he resist strongly at that time?"
"How would I know that?" Ke Lan turned around and glanced at the dean. "By the way, as a hospital, you should have 'Dream Dates' here, right?"
"Meng Zao? That's contraband, how could I have it here!"
"Really?"
"Really not!"
Ke Lan was too lazy to argue with him. She simply held down patient No. 0302 with one hand, took out her cell phone from her pocket with the other hand, and transferred another 50,000 credit points to the dean's account.
"Oh... I remember now. When I cleaned the warehouse last time, there seemed to be a concentrated preparation left that I hadn't used up yet. Look at my memory, I almost forgot about it. I immediately asked someone to send it over!"
"Bring a few more at once, I know you have them." Ke Lan said - a special hospital like this that specializes in accommodating mentally ill patients must have these strictly controlled psychiatric drugs in stock, not to mention other things. Even if some of these drugs with serious side effects have been officially banned, they have already locked the patients in iron cages. This ban issued out of humanitarian spirit is naturally not binding on this hospital.
Soon, four concentrated bottles of Mengzao preparation were brought over by a pharmacist. The pharmacist looked at the dean, Ke Lan and Patient No. 0302 who was pressed on the mattress by Ke Lan with some surprise. Just as he was about to say something, he was stopped by the dean with a stern look.
"Okay, give me the stuff. You have nothing to do here. Go back to work. By the way, keep your mouth shut. I think you should know clearly what you can say and what you cannot say." The dean took the box containing the Mengzao preparation from the pharmacist and said in a deep voice.
"I know, Dean." The pharmacist nodded hurriedly. He didn't dare to stay for even a second. He lowered his head, turned around and quickly left the ward.
When the dean turned his head and looked at Ke Lan, his expression changed again: "This is what you wanted. Do you think four are enough?"
He smiled obsequiously, and the crow's feet at the corners of his eyes were so thick that they could almost pinch a fly to death.
"Almost. I would have told you if it wasn't enough." Ke Lan opened the box, took out three of the potions and stuffed them into his pocket, then unscrewed the cap of the last one.
After special treatment, this concentrated Mengzao preparation is highly volatile and does not require ignition or any catalyst. Just insert the sponge filter at one end into the user's nasal cavity, and it won't take long for the drug to be absorbed by the mucous membrane of the user's respiratory organs.
Ke Lan wrapped his right arm around the head of Patient No. 0302, holding his jaw firmly with five fingers, and with his other hand he grabbed the medicine tube and inserted it into the patient's nostrils.
At the beginning, Patient No. 0302 showed an extremely strong resistance reaction, but as the drug gradually took effect, his face began to show an intoxicated expression, and the muscles throughout his body began to relax. He just lay quietly on the mattress, no longer moving.
"Alas... this thing is better than ordinary sedatives, but the side effects are too great, and there is no need for it, so we basically don't use Mengzao preparations in routine treatment procedures..." Seeing that Patient No. 0302 finally calmed down, the dean also let out a long sigh of relief.
"Is it mainly because this thing is expensive? " Ke Lan glanced at the empty glass tube and threw it aside.
The retail price of a standard dose of industrial mass-produced sedatives, even the more high-end ones, is about 30 to 40 credit points. If purchased in bulk, it will be cheaper. However, it is difficult to carry out large-scale artificial cultivation of dream dates on the Ark. The main production method still relies on human labor to search and collect in the wasteland. In addition, this thing has been included in the list of contraband, and the price has risen all the way...
According to Ivan, a standard dose of concentrated dream date preparation can be sold for about one or two thousand credit points on the black market, and it is not certain that you can buy it even if you have money.
In addition to the effects of conventional sedatives, the most important is to allow the user to produce hallucinations that are almost real... Moreover, the content of these hallucinations is basically formed by the user's subconscious thinking activities. If some hints and inductions are added, it can completely achieve an almost hypnotic effect.
In a blink of an eye, Patient 0302 had fallen into a state of half-sleep and half-wakefulness. He murmured some meaningless words, and his hands and feet would twitch slightly from time to time...
"Tsk... What on earth did this guy dream about? Is it that scary?" Looking at the slightly twitching limbs of Patient 0302, Ke Lan couldn't help but frown - when the drug dosage reaches a certain concentration, the active ingredients in the dream dates can block the motor function of the human brain. In short, it makes people lose control of their bodies. But even in this case, the limbs of Patient 0302 are still twitching, which means that he is struggling desperately in the hallucination at this moment... It's just that these commands released by the brain cannot be completely transmitted, and when they are reflected in the body, they become slight twitches like now.
