Alien Relic Hunter

Chapter 139 Drug Hypnosis
"Speaking of the human form, my first reaction was the mimic fungus we encountered on the road." Ke Lan continued, "But then I denied this idea, let's not say that the place where we encountered that fungus was far away from Levi. There are tens of thousands of kilometers in the tank, and if what they encounter in the mine is really this kind of thing, there will be no survivors at all."

It took about 10 minutes to clean and disinfect the entire confinement room. During this process, the survivor was only curious about Ke Lan, and did not show any signs of panic or madness. But whenever Ke Lan When raising his arms or stepping his legs slightly, his breathing would become rapid, and his whole body would subconsciously make resistance-like body movements.

"It's time to prepare for hypnosis." Ke Lan dragged a 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 cry did not appear, and the survivors still stared at Ke Lan curiously, and even met Ke Lan's eyes for several seconds... But nothing happened.

"Has his heartbeat and blood pressure increased, and the degree of muscle tension?" Ke Lan whispered into the earphones - a monitoring bracelet was installed on the survivor, and he could check his condition at any time through the control panel outside the confinement room. body condition.

"Heartbeat and blood pressure have not changed, but just when you took off the cardboard box, his breathing stopped for a moment, and now it has returned to normal."

"Yes." Ke Lan replied 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 human?
Even if there is a problem with his mental state, he should still retain a little bit of 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" "camouflaged" to trigger his stress response... But in fact, the human face is not the correct source of stress.

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 source of stress is only human limbs?

A human body without a head, that is... a headless corpse?Did this survivor become like this because he was frightened when he saw the headless corpse of his teammate?
However, if the stressor is a headless corpse, he shouldn't have such a violent reaction when he sees a normal living person with a head.

Could it be that some hallucination was 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 while. Scared to death.

"Ivan, you can start... If you can, try not to stimulate him with too much force." Ke Lan took off the protective clothing stuffed with cardboard and cotton wool, 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 has fully reacted.

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

Soon, a large mirror of equal height was pushed over, and with the assistance of four mechanical arms, the mirror was put into the room, facing the single bed in the corner.

The survivor is alert to anything new in the house, and when he sees the mirror, his first reaction is to jump out of bed.

Then, he saw his reflection in the mirror.

The stress reaction did not attack, he took two steps forward and tried to lift his arm.

The image in the mirror raised a corresponding arm.

Ke Lan suddenly realized that he had seen a similar scene before... If I remember correctly, it should be in the recording clips of scientists conducting mirror images experiments on chimpanzees in the old era.

"Judging from the expression this guy showed, he should know that he is in the mirror." The old dog crossed his arms and said, staring 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 suffered any organic damage...Huh?"

At this moment, the face of the survivor looking in the mirror suddenly showed a painful and desperate expression. He grabbed his hair with his hands, leaned forward, opened his mouth slightly, and a dry voice came out of his throat : "No...don't...I don't want...impossible...this is impossible..."

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

"Quickly, take the mirror away 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 overwhelmed by strong stimulation twice in a row?" Ke Lan glanced at Ivan who was preparing props, and asked.

"Now is the best time to let him recall those memory fragments hidden in the 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?"

After 5 minutes, the survivor was fixed on a comfortable reclining chair, all body joints except the right wrist were completely locked by restraint belts, and his right hand was stuffed into a pen holding a pen. Inside the rigid glove of the pose, a ballpoint pen is firmly lodged between his thumb and forefinger.

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

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

In that half-awakened trance state, many memories sealed up by the brain's self-protection mechanism will emerge again, and even things that the hypnotized person thought he had forgotten will reappear one by one... …

"Increase drug infusion rate to 75% within fifteen seconds... Dim room lights... Play 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 bumping and friction between the hard-soled military boots and the ground.

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

"Blood pressure rises, heart rate rises... It is detected that adrenaline has started to secrete a lot..." Ivan stared at the monitoring device, and muttered to himself, "Increase the dose of the drug again, and change it to 90% within five seconds." %, pushing in five units of phentolamine..."

Phentolamine is a drug used to treat vasospasm and toxic shock. It is a kind of α-receptor blocker. It can bind to α-adrenergic receptors to inhibit adrenaline.

"The drug supply has been increased to 110%, the breathing mask is activated for oxygen supply, and ten units of muscle relaxants are injected..."

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(End of this chapter)