The night sky was gloomy, and the cruise ship slowly sailed on the endless sea, emitting a hazy light.
In a luxurious suite on the high deck of the cruise ship, Gu Jun sat at his desk, frowning as he looked at the small medicine box on the table. It had been more than half a day since he received this box of medicine as the mission reward, and his doubts continued to grow.
It was a small square paper box, no different from the packaging of ordinary cold medicine, but the words printed on it were not in Chinese or English, and he could not recognize the language at all.
There was only one row of medicine in the box. It was wrapped in aluminum foil, and there were only five round white capsules.
There was no manual, and the words were printed on the aluminum foil.
"I think I remember it …" Gu Jun thought at first, "Is it the language of the words on the sharp rock? Or is it some other language in the world? "
But now, he had searched the internet for an entire night and compared more than a dozen mainstream languages and hundreds of other languages in the world. He even checked those rare minor languages, but none of them were similar. It was as if this language was not a product of human thought.
Gu Jun vaguely felt that this was not the language of Earth, but humans had thousands of languages, and he could not tell if this feeling was right or wrong.
But, brainstem tumor-targeting drugs? There were not many pharmaceutical companies on Earth that had this kind of pharmaceutical ability, only a few pharmaceutical giants.
If this medicine was produced on Earth, the words on the box should be in English, German, or French …
In addition to this mysterious text, there was a similar pattern on the upper right corner of both sides of the box. It was the size of a logo, and it should be the trademark. This pattern looked like the side of a marine creature.
It had a whale-like body, and the dorsal and caudal fins were sharp and serrated, while the pectoral and pelvic fins were strangely shaped.
Like the words, he could not find out what kind of creature it was, but the more he looked at it, the more he felt that there was an indescribable madness in this pattern …
After thinking for a long time, Gu Jun felt a dull pain in his head. When he looked at the clock again, he found that it was almost midnight.
Previously, the system said that once midnight passed, the mission list would be refreshed.
He watched the second hand of the clock ticking away. When it was past midnight, he immediately opened the mission list to take a look. Sure enough, it was already refreshed.
[NORMAL Mission: Use an intravenous infusion needle to puncture a tourniquet with a rubber tube 1000 times. Practice your injection technique. Mission Reward: 1 box of human brainstem tumor-targeting drugs, which can extend the host's lifespan by five days.
Difficult Mission: Successfully treat 100 pediatric patients today. Mission Reward: 1 pair of Carlop dissecting scissors
Abyssal Mission: Dissect a zombie within a week. Mission reward: Unknown]
"It refreshes at midnight every day. Are you forcing me to stay up all night? My liver won't work anymore …"
Gu Jun muttered to himself as he looked at the list. The Abyssal Mission was still the same. It seemed that although the list was refreshed every day, the Abyssal Mission would not be a new one every time.
There were no conditions to complete the Difficult Mission on the cruise ship, and the Normal Mission was still very simple. All one needed was a scalp needle and a rubber tourniquet.
Immediately, Gu Jun called the cruise service counter and requested for the two items. The reason was that he wanted to practice acupuncture. Now that he was also a distinguished guest, this small request was naturally not a problem. Very soon, a waiter brought the items over. He was given a small box of both items.
Since the items were in his hands, Gu Jun accepted the Normal Mission and immediately began to practice at the desk.
The rubber tourniquet was the most common type of yellow hollow rubber belt. When a needle pierced it, it would feel like a blood vessel had been pierced. Therefore, the tourniquet was the first step for nurses to learn how to give injections. Gu Jun had not received systematic nursing training, but he had given injections to experimental animals many times, so he was no stranger to intravenous injections.
He took the scalp needle and carefully inserted the tourniquet at a 30-40 degree angle over and over again. He had tried it before, and random punctures were not considered a "success".
After more than two hours, the "1000/1000" number of times was achieved. He had already torn a bunch of tourniquets, and his right arm was sore and limp. He had overused his hands at night.
At this time, Gu Jun heard a ding in his mind again.
"Normal Mission – Mission Completed!"
"Your Hands of Dexterity proficiency has increased. The current level is at the first tier (1500/5000 proficiency)."
"Mission reward has been issued: 1 box of human brainstem tumor-targeting drug. The drug can extend the host's life by five days."
Once again, Gu Jun felt a weight in his pocket. He took it out and looked. It was another box of medicine. Comparing the two boxes, only the words printed on the box were different. Those should be numbers, batch number, production date, and other information.
If he was a linguist, he might be able to find some clues, but he could only find some medical clues.
"It looks like temozolomide." Gu Jun took out two rows of ten white capsules from the two boxes and looked at them repeatedly.
Temozolomide was the first-line drug for brainstem tumors, but there were many types of brainstem tumors. Temozolomide treated glioblastoma multiforme and anaplastic astrocytoma. Unfortunately, he was suffering from medulloblastoma, and there were no targeted drugs on the market.
The composition of these capsules was unknown, but it was obvious that they were chemical drugs, small-molecule drugs. In theory, oral use could pass through the blood-brain barrier and have an effect on tumors. It seemed to be fine.
The question was, was this really a 'human brainstem tumor-targeting drug'?
The more Gu Jun thought about it, the more uneasy he became. He looked at the quiet sea outside the balcony, but it was as if he was looking at raging waves. Those indescribable hallucinations were constantly tumbling on the surface of the sea. He saw a monster. The monster was struggling to break free from the prison of the abyss. It needed food, it needed fresh life …
"What if I am food? What if these drugs are a trap set by the monster? What if death is not the worst and most terrible thing? "
This thought made Gu Jun's head throb. He stood up, looked at the sea, and clenched the pills in his hand.
The demon will trick you with the thing you want the most.
That sharp rock at the bottom of the sea, this mysterious power … Was the research of his parents related to this?
Gu Jun paced a few steps. Although the Hands of Dexterity was really effective, it did not mean that this box of medicine was the same. Even if he did not have long to live, he thought that he needed to be calm before he understood the situation. Irrational decisions often led to endless disaster.
This cautiousness towards the unknown had overshadowed the excitement of regaining his life.
Moreover, as a medical student, he could not directly test the medicine on his own body …
That's it!
Gu Jun found a way to see if these two boxes of medicine were really effective.
He had to hurry. He only had 59 days left to live. It was like going through another damn countdown to the college entrance examination.
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