The night sky was heavy, and the cruise ship was slowly driving on the boundless sea, emitting a hazy light.
In a luxury suite on the upper deck of the cruise ship, Gu Jun sat at the desk, frowned as he looked at the small medicine box on the table. It has been more than half a day since he got the box of medicine as a mission reward, but his doubts are constantly increasing.
It was a small square box, just like the packaging of ordinary cold medicine, but the text printed on it was neither Chinese nor English, and he couldn't make out what language it was at all.
The only row of medicines in the medicine box is packaged in aluminum foil, and there are only 5 round white capsules.
There are no instructions, and that's written on the aluminum foil.
"I seem to have some impression..." Gu Junchu thought at the beginning, "Is it the written language on that pinnacle rock? Or which language in the world?"
But now, he has searched the Internet all night, compared more than a dozen mainstream languages in the world with hundreds of other languages, and even checked those rare minor languages, none of them, not even a similar one, as if this Language is not a product of the human mind.
Gu Jun has a vague feeling that this is not the language of the earth, but human beings have thousands of languages, and he can't tell whether this feeling is right or wrong.
But brainstem tumor-targeted drugs? There are not many pharmaceutical companies with such pharmaceutical capabilities on the planet, and there are only a few pharmaceutical giants.
If this is a medicine from Earth, the text on the box should be in English, German, or French...
In addition to this mysterious text, there is a same pattern on the upper right corner of the front of both sides of the box, the size of the LOGO, it should be the trademark. This pattern looks like the profile of a sea creature:
It has a whale-like body, its dorsal and caudal fins are sharp and jagged, but its pectoral and pelvic fins have weird limb shapes.
Just like the text, he couldn't find out what kind of creature it was, but the more he looked at it, the more he felt that the pattern revealed an indescribable frenzy...
After thinking about it for an unknown amount of time, his head ached a little. When Gu Jun looked at the clock again, he found that it was almost midnight.
Previously, the system said that the task list would be refreshed after midnight every day.
He watched the second hand of the clock move, and when it passed zero, he immediately opened the task list to check, and sure enough, it had been refreshed.
[Common task: Prick a rubber tube tourniquet with an intravenous infusion needle 1000 times successfully to practice your injection skills. Task reward: 1 box of human brainstem tumor targeting drug, the drug effect can prolong the life of the host by five days
Difficult task: successfully treat 100 pediatric patients today. Task reward: 1 pair of Kalop brand anatomical scissors
Abyss Mission: Complete the dissection of 1 ghoul within a week. Task Reward: Unknown]
"Refresh at zero o'clock every day, is this forcing me to stay up late, my liver can't move..."
Gu Jun looked at it inwardly, the abyss mission is still this one. It seems that although the list is refreshed every day, the abyss level will not be a new mission every time.
Difficult tasks cannot be achieved on a cruise ship; ordinary tasks are still very simple, just need a scalp needle and a rubber tube tourniquet.
At that moment, Gu Jun called the cruise ship service desk and asked for these two things, the reason was to practice acupuncture. Now that he is also a distinguished guest, there is no problem with this little request. Soon, a waiter brought the things over, and they gave a small box full of both.
After getting the things, Gu Jun accepted the ordinary task, and then started to practice at the desk.
The rubber tube tourniquet is the most common yellow hollow rubber belt. When it is pierced with a needle, it will have the texture of puncturing blood vessels. Therefore, wearing a tourniquet is the first step for nurses to learn how to give an injection. Gu Jun has no systematic nursing training, but he has injected many experimental animals and is no stranger to intravenous injection.
He took a scalp needle and carefully pricked the tourniquet at 30-40 degrees over and over again. Tried it before, messing around is not considered a "success".
After more than two hours, "1000/1000" times were reached. He already had a bunch of tourniquets pierced, his right arm was sore and limp, and he suffered from overuse of hands at night.
At this time, Gu Jun heard another ding-dong sound in his mind.
"Normal mission - mission accomplished!"
"Your calm hand proficiency has increased, and the current level is the first level (1500/5000 proficiency)"
"The task reward has been issued: 1 box of human brainstem tumor targeting drug, the drug effect can prolong the life of the host by five days"
Once again, Gu Jun felt his pocket sink, and he reached out to take a look, another box of medicine. Comparing the two boxes, there are only a few places where the text on the box is printed differently, which should be numbers, batches, production dates and other information.
If he is a linguist, he may be able to see some clues. He can only see some medical clues.
"It looks a lot like temozolomide." Gu Jun took out two boxes of ten white capsules in two rows and flipped through them repeatedly.
Temozolomide is the first-line targeted drug for brainstem tumors, but there are also many types of brainstem tumors. Temozolomide treats glioblastoma multiforme and anaplastic astrocytoma. Unfortunately, he suffered from medulloblastoma, and there is no targeted drug on the market...
The ingredients of these capsules are not known, but obviously they are chemical drugs, small molecule drugs, theoretically oral administration can pass through the blood-brain barrier, and then have an effect on tumors. Looks fine.
The question is, is this really a "human brainstem tumor targeting drug"
The more Gu Jun thought about it, the more uneasy he became. He looked at the peaceful sea outside the balcony, but he seemed to see a stormy sea, and those indescribable delirium hallucinations kept churning on the sea. He saw a monster, that monster was breaking free from the cage of the abyss, it needed food, it needed fresh lives...
"What if I am the food? What if these medicines are a trap set by monsters? What if death is not the worst thing to fear?"
This thought made Gu Jun's heart throb. He stood up, looked at the sea, and clenched the pill in his hand.
Demons will trick you with what you want most.
That piece of seabed pinnacle rock, this mysterious force... Does the research of my parents back then have anything to do with it
Gu Jun took a few steps. Although the calm hand is really effective, it doesn't mean that this box of medicine is also. Even though his life is not long, before figuring out the situation, he thinks that he needs to calm down in everything, because irrational decisions often lead to endless disasters.
This kind of cautiousness towards the unknown has overshadowed the previous excitement of regaining vitality.
Besides, as a medical dog, he can't do the thing of directly testing medicine with himself...
Have!
Gu Jun thought of a way to see if the two boxes of medicine are really effective.
Hurry up, he only has 59 days left to live, it's like going through the damn countdown to the college entrance examination again.