Chapter 386: Flesh, Blood, Weakness (16) (1st update + 2nd update + 0.5 update of Ten Thousand Thunders) [VIP]

Most of the information that Ji Yu copied to everyone was what they already knew, and the small part that they didn't know was just a little supplement to the current situation.

However, after searching for a while, Bai Jinshu actually found some important clues.

For example, that strange pill may have existed for a long time and is an improvement on a certain drug.

The inspector from the laboratory who had examined this pill had seen another drug with similar ingredients more than ten years ago. However, that drug was a prescription drug for special diseases and was strictly prohibited from being sold to the public. Not to mention ordinary people, most doctors were not aware of the existence of this drug. Only a small number of doctors knew about the existence of this drug and who should use it.

The reason why the inspector had seen this thing was that it was brought back from the third contact site more than ten years ago. There was no relevant label on the packaging bag of the pills. After they collected the body, they tested the ingredients. Before the test results came out, the identity of the deceased carrying the pills was discovered to be a member of the Academy of Sciences action team. When they asked about the pills, the deceased's colleagues who came to take the body away casually explained that this thing was also specially used for the treatment of their front-line team members fighting against the K system.

In simple terms, this thing is a special medicine.

"That makes sense," Ming Qingrong said weakly, "The pill was probably originally a drug for mental illness, but it was later changed to this."

"What do you mean?" Zhang Lu asked while driving on the screen.

She was not very experienced in flying this kind of hovercraft, and She Mochu was the only one in the car who could read the text materials without changing his expression. In order not to suffer from motion sickness all night, everyone very rationally chose to wait for She Mochu to repeat the information to them after reading it.

A lot of comments suddenly appeared on the screen:

[Yes.]

[Yeah, why didn’t I think of this before? This thing is very similar to the medicine for depression! ]

[Not all antidepressants react this way, this sounds like fluoxetine.]

[After taking fluoxetine, you will feel very happy, but you will also suffer from insomnia and diarrhea. ]

[Insomnia and diarrhea are normal side effects. In more serious cases, hallucinations may occur. It is a bit similar, especially this hallucination.]

[I don’t quite understand, so does taking antidepressants make you happy? ]

[Let me share my personal experience. I took paroxetine for a period of time. After taking it, I was not happy, but my mood was much more stable, and it was easier to have positive emotions. But the side effect was that I felt numb. The initial symptoms were nausea, chest tightness, and a heavy burden on the brain. In the later stage, I felt weak, sleepy, dizzy, and had no energy every day. My appetite increased and I gained a lot of weight, etc.]*

[It’s not just for treating unhappiness. Fluvoxamine is mostly used to treat obsessive thoughts. There are many manifestations of depression, not just feeling unhappy.]

[Sisters in front, if the reaction to paroxetine is very serious, you can try sertraline. Sertraline has fewer side effects, but it may suppress appetite. ]*

[By the way, I want to pat you on the back. I hope you get better soon. 】

[I'm much better now, but I just want to say that this kind of antidepressant is not fun to take, it really has serious side effects. If you want to feel better, you might as well take Xiaoyao Pills, which can also treat irregular menstruation. ]

"I didn't think of it before, but now that I mention it, this drug behaves a lot like an antidepressant." On the screen, Ming Qingrong rubbed his forehead, trying to get rid of the slight fatigue after the san check. "The action team of the University of Michigan faces various kinds of creatures and various human tragedies all year round, and they have to face the scenes of human deaths from time to time. The psychological problems must be worrying."

When it comes to his major, Ming Qingrong perks up a bit and tries to recall what he has learned: "In modern armies, there should be psychologists, right?"

"Yes," Si Panxuan confirmed, "and not only in daily life, but everyone has to see a psychiatrist after coming down from the front line."

"Otherwise you can't go back." Shi Liqun added.

"Yes," Si Panxuan nodded, "After coming down from the battlefield, everyone must undergo psychological intervention before returning to normal life. Even so, many people still cannot forget everything that happened on the battlefield in a peaceful world and suffer from mental illnesses of varying degrees."

If this is the case with modern armies, then the future world's special teams to fight against anti-type creatures will definitely have psychologists as well.

"The mobile team has top hats as a cover, so they won't face the scene directly, which is a little better," Ming Qingrong tried to analyze, "but Brother Chu, you said that the people who are now recruited by the University of Michigan are all hybrids of humans and C-type creatures. They are probably not very sensitive to san checks like you, so they have probably seen too many scenes."

Psychologists are totally unable to solve their problems, and mixed-race people are not available everywhere and at any time. There are only so many of them, and things that need to be dealt with have to happen before they can adjust their mood. So in addition to normal psychological intervention, it is normal to cooperate with some drug treatment.

"There are many kinds of modern antidepressants, and different drugs have different side effects. My research direction is not related to psychiatry and psychology, so I don't remember much," Ming Qingrong recalled. "For example, fluoxetine, commonly known as Prozac, was a very common antidepressant at that time."

"After taking it, people will feel excited and energetic. It can effectively relieve depression, reduce compulsive behavior, improve bulimia nervosa, etc...." He stood up while thinking, "But the sequelae are unstable sleep, systemic symptoms, digestive system problems and nervous system problems, such as allergies, itchy skin, diarrhea, headaches, hallucinations, etc...."*

"This sounds a lot like the effect of the mysterious pill we saw earlier," Wei Ye interjected. "Didn't they say that taking this would make you happier, but the side effects were hallucinations and a drastic change in your personality."

Now that I hear this, doesn’t it sound like a perfect match for fluoxetine?

"It's still different," Ming Qingrong shook his head rigorously. "Depression is not a psychological or thinking problem. It's an organ disease. It's an illness. For normal people who don't have any disease, taking fluoxetine usually has no effect and they won't feel happy or excited."

"But there are definitely side effects. After all, this is medicine, not candy. In order to treat organ diseases, it will definitely cause abnormalities in other body systems," he added.

"I guess this special drug for the secret large-scale action team is mainly to reduce the psychological shock left by seeing the second-level and first-level contact scenes, and then mobilize their inner enthusiasm," Ming Qingrong became a little interested and speculated, "Normal psychological counseling is no longer useful for these team members who need to go to the front line to face the killer creatures all the time, and if they retire, no one can take their place, so most of them go on the field while sick. If they want to continue working, they must take drugs."

"Although this drug has these side effects, it shouldn't be too serious for a hybrid of the C-type creatures...Brother Chu?"

"Well," Bai Jinshu replied lazily, "most of the medicines are useless."

What does the side effects on human organs have to do with these creatures?

"So basically, this drug should have almost no side effects for them, but it is a special drug that can greatly improve psychological problems and enhance their ability to move," Zhang Lu concluded. "But because the side effects are more obvious, and it is made for the hybrid of the Ke family, the effect is definitely much stronger than the normal antidepressant drugs outside, so it is normal for it to be a special drug."

Not just in the future, but in the normal modern world, many very useful drugs are actually accompanied by strict dosages and serious side effects, which ordinary people cannot access under normal circumstances.

For example, some potentially addictive morphine-like painkillers are mostly used to relieve the pain of late-stage cancer patients. It is definitely impossible for you to be given addictive morphine when you undergo surgery or receive a pain pump for childbirth.

It's not surprising that the University of Michigan's action team has this kind of special medicine.

However, with this statement, the source of the drug suddenly became a leak from the University of Michigan, rather than a leak from a cult.

"They must have improved the drug," Ming Qingrong guessed. "Most antidepressants will only cause side effects for normal people, and they won't make people feel happy. The reason these drugs make patients feel happy or change is actually because their organs were in abnormal lesions before taking the drugs."

This is also the reason why he didn't think of antidepressants at first.

In simple terms, the effect of the drug is to bring the user's emotions back to a normal level, rather than to improve the patient's emotions. Patients who take the drug normally have emotions below the normal level, so after using the drug, their emotions will return to the normal level and feel that their emotions have been effectively improved.

But the emotions of normal people are already at a normal level, and taking this medicine will not change them, so the only thing you will gain is side effects.

The special feature of this drug is that it can make normal people feel happy and raise the user's emotions from normal levels.

"No wonder Ji Yu thought it was a drug at first..." Si Panxuan muttered.

Isn't one of the characteristics of drugs to stimulate the body to produce dopamine, which then makes people feel happy, leading to addiction and ultimately destroying the normal reward system?

If this drug can elevate the emotions of a normal person to the same degree, then it does qualify as a drug.

"We'll know tomorrow after asking Gu Qiang," Bai Jinshu closed the information in his hand, "Since this thing belongs to the University of Mi, it's a bit intriguing what Mr. Bo wants to do by tracking it down."

The original medicine now sounds like it's only useful against C-type hybrids. So was the revised version made by the peaceful woman and her group, or by someone else?

What is the purpose of making this drug?

The aircraft landed outside the mobile team base. Bai Jinshu threw the USB flash drive in his hand to the other members of the exploration team and went to sleep without looking back.

Ming Qingrong had the misfortune of having a sc during the day and should have rested, but since he was the only doctor here, he forced himself to stay.

"Good night, Brother Chu." Wei Ye waved his hand.

She Mochu left without looking back.

A few minutes later, he appeared in front of everyone impatiently.

"Brother Chu?" Jia Li asked curiously, "Have you made any new discoveries?"

Why are you back again?

"Shi Liqun," She Mochu, who was standing on the steps, said impatiently, "Come and open the door."

Oh, I can’t open the door of his room by myself.

Everyone looked at each other and watched She Mochu, who was probably very annoyed because he couldn't fall asleep immediately, leave with his door-opening tool.

[I wanted to sleep but found that I couldn't open the door. I'm so cute.]

[The Lord's expression seemed to indicate that he really wanted to blow up this door.]

[It’s like I forgot to bring my keys, and when I arrived at the dormitory door, I was dumbfounded and had to climb down six floors to ask the dormitory manager to borrow my keys. I was in tears. ]

【Shi Liqun = Key】

[A qualified key will run upstairs by itself. Liqun, you don't have a good eye.]

【Pointing and gesturing. 】

After letting the large biological key open the door for him, Bai Jinshu immediately lay down on the bed, without looking back, and threw these troublesome questions to his teammates without any burden.

So when he woke up the next day, he had six dark circles under his eyes.

"We thought about it for half the night and came up with three possibilities," Zhang Luda said in the morning, holding a glass of iced Americano, his face full of bitterness and grimacing. "The first possibility is that this drug was modified by the calm woman to eliminate the fear in the hearts of the believers, and they were willing to accompany them to die in the city's alarm. The woman was one of the users, and her abnormal calmness was a sequelae, which might be the numbness after taking antidepressants. Now it is leaked that they are trying to use this thing to win over believers."

"The second possibility is that they also modified the drug, but it was not them that it is now on the market," Si Panxuan continued, "There is a traitor in this sect, and the woman Pingjing is here to track down who took this thing out."

"What about the third one?" Bai Jinshu yawned.

Compared to these people with dark circles covering half of their faces, he slept well last night. One of She Mochu's good habits is to go to bed without any problems.

He sleeps when he is supposed to sleep and eats when he is supposed to eat. Until the world is destroyed, no one can disrupt his usual eating and sleeping habits.

"The third possibility is that this thing was modified by some other sects, such as the place where one's life was sacrificed." Ming Qingrong had been up for half the night, and had eaten and slept for three or four hours. He now had a splitting headache. "The peaceful woman came to spy on the enemy and wanted to find out their strength."

However, compared with the previous two speculations, this one is not very likely. After all, there were no clues related to this pill in the mysterious place where the life was lost. But the unusual calmness of the calm woman and the suicidal behavior of her sect's followers may have a lot to do with this thing.

"That's right," said the capitalist who had slept all night. "You have time to go to the village in the city and check all three items during the day."

"Ah?" Jia Li was stunned for a moment, "Then Brother Chu, aren't you coming with us?"

"I'm going to the University of Michigan," his brother Chu raised his eyelids and looked at him like a fool for a few seconds, "Do you think you can go with me?"

"Can't?" A pair of pitiful puppy eyes appeared on Shi Liqun's expressionless face.

"No," Bai Jinshu said mercilessly, "You can't get in."

The University of Michigan now only accepts mixed-race students. He, who looks like a mixed-race but is actually the human body of the god Yig, can barely be considered a member, but these teammates can forget about it.

Everyone present had a look of shattered dreams on their faces.

The driving force that kept them up for half the night to come up with so many possibilities was that they could visit the University of Michigan as soon as they could solve the problem early. Who wouldn't want to go to the University of Michigan? It's a well-known fixed investigator organization in all Cthulhu worlds. In ordinary Cthulhu worlds, this school cannot be seen in a foreign country, but now it's right in front of them, but they can't go.

My heart is broken. It's really broken.

They were like someone who had finished their summer homework the night before and was excitedly waiting for their parents to take them out to play, only to be heartbroken to find out that there would be an adults' gathering tomorrow and the children would not be allowed.

The evil patriarch, She Mochu, acted as if he didn't see their accusing eyes, and ordered others to get him breakfast with an expressionless face.

The comments were all gloating:

[Haha, look, there is a secret university here, but you can't go there. ]

[Hey, we have an awesome tour today. We're going to Miskatonic University, a fixed spawning investigator organization that exists in all Krzanite worlds. Everyone can go and check in. Guess who didn't get invited?]

[It’s you——(referring to Zhang Lu, Si Panxuan, Shi Liqun, Ming Qingrong, Wei Ye, Jia Li)]

【Go investigate the urban villages! 】

【And we will follow the Lord to visit Michigan University. 】

[Hey, you guys, the villain's smug face is revealed. 】

【Then don’t look at it. 】

[I prefer to watch it. If you dare, come and cut off my network cable. ]

…

In this harmonious atmosphere, Gu Qiang, who came to pick someone up, saw a senior with a normal expression and a group of mobile team members who looked like frost-bitten eggplants.

"What's going on?" he asked in confusion.

"Haha," Wei Ye let out two sad and sorrowful sneers, "It's just that the dream is shattered."

"Then..." Gu Qiang didn't understand, but Gu Qiang was a good man. "What's your dream? Can I help you think of a solution?"

"Really?" Ming Qingrong looked up, "We want to go to the University of Michigan."

Gu Qiang: "It can't be achieved. Sorry to bother you. Goodbye."

"Don't worry about them," his senior student got on the aircraft from the side with noble and cold manner, and said, "Let's go."

The exploration team members who were left behind: Damn it, damn it.

Why they began to envy Cthulhu hybrids.

The aircraft flew over the large advertisement in the sky. Gu Qiang was terrified that She Mochu would see him and eat him alive. Unexpectedly, She Mochu glanced at the projection in the sky and asked, "Have the other districts voted?"

"Yes, yes," Gu Qiang agreed quickly, "but the advertising space in other areas is not as good as that in zone 08."

After all, they are just the academy of sciences in zone 08. Although there are many connections between the academies of sciences in the nine regions, it is a bit outrageous to ask them to vacate an extremely valuable advertising space in the region to post such a weird recruitment notice.

Just hang up.

Bai Jinshu looked away with disinterest.

Zone 08 Science Academy is located underground in the city.

Zone 08 is a three-dimensional city with many layers above and below the ground. Bai Jinshu and his team have been active above ground these days, and this is their first time going underground.

As the elevator went down, the comments became visibly more and more excited.

【It has that flavor! 】

[Will the elevator stop at a certain floor later, and then require identity verification before continuing to go down? ]

[Two armed security guards stood outside the elevator door to verify identity.]

[Will they ask the Lord to show some of his mythical creature forms for verification? ]

【Then the Lord raised his silver-white eyes, and the gatekeeper was startled and welcomed the Snake King back to his seat.】

【What the hell is this. 】

On the screen, the elevator ran steadily downwards. I didn’t know how many floors it went down before it finally opened with a [ding] sound.

"Senior!" Gu Qiang ran out of the elevator like a happy dog, "Welcome to visit the Zone 08 Higher Education Institution!"

When Bai Jinshu walked out of the elevator, what caught his eye was the blue sky and white clouds that were no different from those in the outside world.

This floor doesn't feel like it's underground, but rather is no different from being on the ground.

"That's the environmental screen that the Academy of Sciences is researching!" Gu Qiang introduced excitedly, "Most students from high-level universities have to live here for four years. Staying underground for a long time without sunlight will cause depression, so the sky here is an environmental screen, a one-to-one replica of the environment on the ground, and there is even an artificial sun that simulates sunlight!"

Having said that, the sky does appear to be much lower than in the real world.

Gu Qiang pointed at the sun above his head, and then pointed at the surroundings: "The higher education institution in zone 08 covers an area of ​​more than 4,000 acres, but this floor is actually ours. There are more than 4,000 acres next to it for the Academy of Sciences, and the other area is the territory of the action team. The archive room you want to go to is in the middle of the school. Follow the road forward and you will see the library."

"That's the cafeteria, and over there are several teaching buildings. This is where most students rest. The entire lawn is made of real grass, no different from the lawn on the ground. When the weather is good, some people will have picnics there," Gu Qiang briefly introduced the surroundings, "That's the school lake, which is used for landscape purposes most of the time. There are... uh, a dozen people floating on the lake. Don't be afraid, senior. They are all students who have studied aquatic biology."

This period happened to be the end of the semester at the University of Michigan, and there were not many students from outside the school. According to Gu Qiang, most of them were in the library reviewing intensively.

"This is the access card to the archive room," he handed Bai Jinshu a small round piece, "Just stick it on your hand, and then use the hand with this card to push the door. The door that can be pushed open means the information can be checked. Senior, do you have anything else to ask? Do you need me to accompany you?"

Bai Jinshu looked at Gu Qiang's expectant eyes and shook his head coldly: "No, go and help them investigate."

He came here just to look up information and didn't need Gu Qiang.

"Really nothing?" Gu Qiang looked a little disappointed. "Senior, don't you want to know what races my classmates have strung together? I'll tell you which one tastes better. I also have the dormitory key of the classmate who strung together the black goat kid..."

Bai Jinshu turned around and left.

"Hey, senior! Senior!" Gu Qiang chased after him and shouted, "I still have the class roster here! If you think it's inconvenient to eat since my classmates have all graduated, I can find my juniors for you!"

Bai Jinshu's pace became faster.

【Gu Qiang, you kid. 】

[You are the one who brought the devils into the village, right?]

[After the graduation was postponed, he still thought about his classmates. He is really a good student who is loved by his classmates. 】

【Good Things】

【Classmates Love】

【《Good Student》】

[Really not forgetting the original intention, even looking for a roster for the Lord. 】

[What roster? That's a menu.]

【Ingredients list.jpg】

After shaking off Gu Qiang, Bai Jinshu walked towards the archive room.

From time to time, a few students with obvious inhuman features like him would appear on the roads of Michigan University. Just walking along this section, Bai Jinshu met several people with abnormal skin color, horns on their heads, tails behind them, and even a few with wings on their backs.

He is not the most exaggerated one among them.

Walking here is much more exciting than walking in the University of Michigan in Shemochu's original world.

He not only suspected that the professors might have sent Gu Qiang to the urban village because this boy had almost no inhuman characteristics.

The live broadcast screen was also diligently mosaiced by the housing manager all the way to the archive room.

Barrage:

【What a hearty mosaic check-in! 】

【Full screen mosaic, I feel like I am watching a lonely scene. 】

[This is the mosaic of the University of Michigan. Is the mosaic of the University of Michigan an ordinary mosaic? This is the mosaic of the University of Michigan! ]

[Okay, I'll reward you by watching the mosaics below.]

[Brother Housing Manager, your blurring makes it seem like our project is doing something shameful.]

[Other investors entered our project and thought, wow, what do you think this live broadcast room is about? ]

【Broadcast some shameful things. 】

[It is indeed really shameful. 】

[It is forbidden for people to see this, who dares to look at this. 】

…

Bai Jinshu naturally didn't know that the investors who were secretly checking in didn't see anything.

He followed Gu Qiang's directions and arrived at the archive room. Compared to the library outside which was full of students preparing for their final exams, the archive room was much quieter.

Next to the entrance gate there is a security booth that looks small, with a light blue mat on the ground. It was probably the guard post of Garshasbu before.

The light in the archive room was cold white. Not many people were here at the end of the semester, and only his footsteps echoed in the corridor.

The files in the archives room are classified according to time and type, and each room has a category. The access card that Gu Qiang had put on his hand before is used to open the doors of these rooms. The doors of those with permission can be opened, but those without permission cannot be opened.

According to the archive contents retrieved from the guide machine at the front desk, he easily found the room that recorded the information of that period of several hundred years, and reached out his hand to try to push it.

Can be pushed open.

Bai Jinshu pushed open the glass door and began to search in this room.

This information was not kept secret in the University of Michigan, and Bai Jinshu soon found what he wanted.

[In the first year of the Cataclysm, a global disaster of the K-type struck this planet. ]

The global sc that appeared in the sky is just the starting point, the real disaster will come after waking up.

After waking up, those who had experienced the san check had an extra fatal gene in their bodies. Only the seven suicide squad members in the sky who had uploaded their consciousness at the beginning escaped.

People at that time did not know that this global sanction had contaminated everyone's genes, and the first group of people who uploaded to the data world carried this fatal gene into the only pure land data world for mankind at that time.

The moment it connected to the data world, the then Michigan University discovered something was wrong. If this gene only existed in a small part in each person's body, it would not cause any impact in the short term, but once it aggregated, it would produce an extremely catastrophic reaction.

The data world, regarded by everyone as the savior, has become the first man-made evil god created by humans in the new era.

The University of Michigan and a number of official and civilian investigator organizations eliminated this man-made killer creature at a very tragic price, and also personally cut off the last hope of mankind around the world.

But this secret must never be made public. Once everyone knows that they carry a part of the K gene, the impact on society will be enormous.

The first group of people who uploaded their consciousness and the suicide squads have died. After being told the truth, the top executives quickly made a unanimous decision - to pass the buck.

Throw all the problems onto these dead people, let people think that they were the ones who stabbed the people on the earth in the back and left here with the data world alone.

Countless propaganda outlets and newspaper media worked together, coupled with the Data World Service Center that suddenly lifted off from the ground, and the boiling public opinion, within half a day, this hatred was spread to every corner of the world -

The man in heaven stabbed the man on earth in the back and left them to enter the eternal Garden of Eden.

But the people in heaven actually...

Never existed.

They have hated a group of people who never existed for hundreds of years.

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