Alien Relic Hunter

"Speaking of the human form, my first reaction was the mimetic fungus we encountered on the road." Ke Lan continued, "But then I rejected this idea, not to mention that the place where we encountered that fungus was not far away from Levi. The tank is tens of thousands of kilometers long. If what they encountered in the mine was really this kind of thing, there would be no survivors at all."

It took almost twenty minutes to clean and disinfect the entire confinement room. During this process, the survivor was just curious about Ke Lan and did not show any signs of fear or madness. But whenever Ke Lan When he raises his arms or moves his legs slightly, his breathing will become rapid, and his whole body will subconsciously make resisting body movements.

"We're ready for hypnosis." Ke Lan dragged the bag full of garbage to the door. At this moment, he suddenly took off the cardboard box covering his head and turned his head.

The imaginary shout did not appear. The survivor still stared at Ke Lan curiously, and even looked into Ke Lan's eyes for several seconds... However, nothing happened.

"Have his heartbeat and blood pressure increased, and what is the level of muscle tension?" Ke Lan whispered into the earphones - a monitoring bracelet was installed on the survivor, and his health status could be checked at any time through the control panel outside the confinement room. body condition.

"There is no change in heartbeat and blood pressure, but when you took off the carton, his breathing paused for a moment, and now it has returned to normal."

"Yeah." Ke Lan responded casually, and then walked out of the confinement room.

Could it be that he guessed wrong... The other party clearly saw his face, but he was not afraid... Could it be that the source of stress is not a human being?

Even if there is a problem with his mental state, he should still retain some normal logical thinking. After seeing his face, he should be able to guess that the "thing that doesn't look like a human at all" in front of him is actually made of a human. "disguised" to trigger his stress response... But in fact, the human face is not the correct stress source.

Humans are stressors, but human faces are not stressors…

A bold guess gradually emerged in Ke Lan's mind: Could it be that the real stress source is only human limbs?

A human body without a head is...a headless corpse? Did this survivor become like this because he was frightened to death after seeing the headless corpse of his teammate?

However, if the stress source is a headless corpse, he should not have such a violent reaction when seeing a normal living person with a head.

Could it be some kind of hallucination affecting him? As a result, he could only see the human body and turn a blind eye to the head. Ke Lan thought about it for a moment and realized that this possibility was quite high. Even a normal person would probably react if he saw a group of headless bodies walking around. Scared half to death.

"Ivan, you can start... If you can, try not to use too strong methods to stimulate him." Ke Lan took off the protective clothing stuffed with cardboard and cotton wool, raised his head and said to Ivan.

"Okay, but your behavior just now gave me an inspiration. Before hypnosis, I also want to do an experiment." Ivan said, "Mr. Manstein, can someone find a big mirror?"

"Okay...are you going to let him look directly at himself in the mirror?" Seeing this, Manstein had fully reacted.

"Yes, I want to confirm whether he still retains his knowledge of himself." Ivan nodded.

Soon, a large mirror of the same height was pushed over. With the assistance of four mechanical arms, the mirror was placed into the room, facing the single bed in the corner.

The survivor was alert to anything new that appeared in the house. When he saw the mirror, his first reaction was to jump out of bed.

Then, he saw his reflection in the mirror.

There was no stress reaction, so he took two steps forward and tried to lift his arm.

The image in the mirror also raised its corresponding arm.

Ke Lan suddenly realized that he had seen a similar scene before... If he remembered correctly, it should be in the recorded footage of scientists in the old era conducting mirror experiments on chimpanzees.

"Judging from the expression on this guy's face, he should know that he is the one in the mirror." Old Dog crossed his arms and stared at the one-way observation window.

Ivan nodded and said: "Self-awareness should exist. After all, he is just mentally disturbed and his brain has not been organically damaged... Huh?"

At this moment, a painful and desperate expression suddenly appeared on the face of the survivor who was looking in the mirror. He pulled his hair with his hands, leaned forward, opened his mouth slightly, and a dry voice came from his throat. : "No... don't... I don't want... it's impossible... this is impossible..."

Soon, the pain turned into mania, and he began to tear his hair out hysterically, even his scalp was torn off, and dripping blood slid down his cheeks——

"Quickly, take away the mirror and inject a sedative." Ke Lan said quickly, while Manstein ran directly to the operating table, grabbed the control lever himself, and used the robotic arm to take the mirror out of the confinement room. out.

"Are you still going to hypnotize him? Will he be unable to recover after being strongly stimulated twice in a row?" Ke Lan glanced at Ivan who was preparing the props and asked.

"Now is the best time to allow him to recall those memory fragments hidden in his subconscious as much as possible... Although it is a very painful thing for me, we have no choice... By the way, Man Mr. Stein, is he left-handed or right-handed?”

Five minutes later, the survivor was fixed on a comfortable reclining chair. All body joints except the wrist of his right hand were restrained and completely locked, and his right hand was stuffed into a pen-holding device. Inside the hard glove, a ballpoint pen was firmly stuck between his thumb and index finger.

Indwelling needles were embedded in his left and right arms. Four large bottles of medicinal solution prepared by Ivan were hung high on the infusion poles behind the chair. Under the influence of gravity, the clear liquid was slowly injected into his veins. among.

Drug hypnosis is simpler and more crude than suggestion hypnosis, but it is also easier for people to fall into a deep hypnotic state.

In that trance state, where the brain seems to be awake but not awake, many memories that have been sealed away due to the brain's self-protection mechanism will resurface. Even things that the hypnotized person thought they had forgotten will reappear one by one... …

"Increase the drug injection rate, reaching 75% within fifteen seconds... dim the room lights... play the audio clip..."

The lights in the confinement room gradually dimmed, and then the sound of water dripping began to appear, which was also mixed with the slight sound of the collision and friction between hard-soled military boots and the ground.

Ivan gently turned the volume adjustment button, and the sound of water drops and footsteps gradually amplified, and even began to produce the echo unique to the cave environment.

"The blood pressure increased, the heart rate increased...it was detected that adrenaline began to be secreted in large quantities..." Ivan stared at the monitoring instrument closely and murmured to himself, "Increase the dose of the drug again and increase it to 90 within five seconds. %, push in five units of phentolamine..."

Phentolamine is a drug used to treat vasospasm and toxic shock. It is a type of alpha-receptor blocker. It can bind to alpha-adrenoceptors, thereby inhibiting epinephrine.

"The drug supply is increased to 110%, a breathing mask is used to supply oxygen, and ten units of muscle relaxant are injected..."

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