The Most Powerful Brain in the Interstellar Space

Chapter 26 Mental Stabilizers (Part 2)
The mental stabilizer, also known as the K-type GD3NM drug, is the oldest existing drug in interstellar space. It is said to have existed before the Common Era and is the earliest known drug with historical records, but whose exact origin cannot be traced.

In its early days, it didn't actually have such a mild, seemingly harmless auxiliary drug name. Instead, it was a clinical drug called K-GD3NM, also known as a human modification agent, launched by the Human Star Shift Project.

It was initially developed to help vulnerable humans adapt to the interstellar environment after leaving their home planet. It extracts radioactive uranium drifting in space with a precision that is hundreds of times more accurate than uranium that can be artificially extracted from the home planet.

This processed radioactive uranium material can modify the human body and nervous system, allowing humans to adapt to the radiation-filled environment of space.

However, every gain comes with a loss, and the first generation of explorers inevitably paid a greater price than ordinary people. Because technology was not up to par, extraction methods relied entirely on trial and error, making the extraction of this type of radioactive uranium material an extremely dangerous job. Frontline workers basically worked months instead of years, and most did not live past the age of thirty.

Those who take the medication will also suffer from the torment caused by this radioactive uranium substance. Most of the uranium residue in the drug will remain in the user's body, causing them lifelong suffering.

Thanks to these pioneers, the paths they opened up became wider and wider. In the process, humanity also mastered more and more advanced technologies, and gradually gained a place among the various interstellar races.

Now, as humanity has continued into the eighth star era, it is no longer bothered by cosmic radiation and can generally live to be over five hundred years old. Furthermore, in the process of species evolution, it has developed a powerful brain and mental strength.

Mental stabilizers have undergone several generations of improvement and are no longer as dangerous as the earlier generations. Although they still contain radioactive uranium, the content has been extracted layer by layer and precisely adjusted to a level acceptable to the human brain.

Therefore, given that interstellar humans are now able to naturally accept and absorb a certain amount of radioactive uranium, except that their brain and mental strength are somewhat more fragile and sensitive in this regard, their physical bodies are no longer affected by radioactive uranium.

Therefore, K-GD3NM, which was once regarded by countless humans as a life-saving agent, gradually withdrew from the stage of human modification drugs and gradually became a drug specifically for mental adjustment. Later, according to the new interstellar medical code, it was renamed mental stabilizer.

Therefore, gene stabilizers are not as harmless as their name suggests. Because of the radioactive uranium they contain, their potency has remained consistently potent for tens of thousands of years, making them extremely difficult for the human body to adapt to.

That's why Xu Jia told Jiang Hui that way back then—because taking gene stabilizers is truly unpleasant. It's said that every 1mg taken can provide the same level of stress experienced by the original explorers during a year of exposure to cosmic radiation.

This row of mental stabilizers contains a total of 2.5mg of radioactive uranium material, in five tubes, with each tube containing 0.5mg. Each tube is diluted with a solution of uranium thousands of times.

If ancient humans who had not yet immigrated or had just immigrated and had not undergone enhancement were to ingest this amount, it would be enough to kill them. Even with the current physical constitution of interstellar humans, it would trigger a certain degree of rejection reaction, making it one of the most unpopular drugs in interstellar space, at one time without exception.

However, this medicine is extremely effective in stabilizing and consolidating one's mental state. According to the original owner's records, she had just undergone her second mental awakening and then suffered such an accident, leaving her mental strength in a very unstable state. Only a mental stabilizer could cure this instability.

Furthermore, it is understood that all those who have not fully awakened have experienced mutations and awakenings during their development. Mental stabilizers are, to some extent, prescription drugs that can activate mutations and awakenings; however, the interstellar government strictly controls this drug and currently prohibits its private circulation and use by citizens, and all usage records must be registered.

Jiang Hui was unaware of all this, assuming that the mental stabilizer was an ordinary but expensive medicine.

She glanced at the simple instruction manual provided by the hospital. The method of administration was straightforward: swallow, keep away from radioactive materials and large MRI machines, and then wait for the medication to be digested. However, Jiang Hui's gaze fell on the lower half of the instructions, almost half of which read. It warned that there was a possibility of some degree of rejection reaction after taking the medication, and that any discomfort should be reported to the hospital immediately for timely treatment.

Jiang Hui: ...Doesn't this make you even more scared?

But no matter where you are, it's always best to follow your doctor's advice.

She first followed the medical warning attached to the instructions, turned off the high-powered machines in the room as much as possible, and then took out a tube of mental stabilizer and swallowed it directly.

The fluorescent blue liquid melted instantly upon entering the mouth, dissipating quickly like smoke, leaving a slightly sweet taste that soon vanished as well.

It seems... I don't have any particular feeling.

Suddenly, the girl sitting on the sofa, trying to recall the mental stabilizer, froze.

"Thump...thump...thump—" This is the sound of a heart beating, connected to the circulatory system, and it seems as if a three-dimensional echo of the heartbeat surrounds the ears.

The girl pressed her hand to her heart, gasping for air as if she were suffocating. Veins bulged on her forehead and neck, and sweat poured down with every breath.

This was just the beginning. The abnormal twitching of the heart was the starting point. From the heart, the blood vessels and veins that supply the body to all parts of the body, and the linkage extended to the peripheral nerves... Jiang Hui felt as if his whole body was being held up by some kind of strong force that could not be ignored, as if his flesh and bones were separated, and his soul was separated from his nerve center.

"Puff... puff..." Time seemed to slow down, and she felt increasingly unable to breathe. Pain became the most inconspicuous sensation that was happening to her.

The girl collapsed heavily onto the sofa, her eyes glazed over. The empty vial slipped from her limp fingers and fell onto the carpet with a muffled thud, her palm still pressed against her chest.

Jiang Hui felt like she had probably died again inexplicably. Otherwise, why would she feel like she was floating, as if she had neither a head nor feet, and her consciousness and senses were spreading out, with a tendency to expand even further?

She thought somewhat aimlessly, so there's a reason why humans believe their souls return to the heavens after death. Perhaps when the soul leaves the body, it will always feel like a wandering, scattered entity.

How long will she drift away? Will it be until she can no longer feel herself completely disappearing, or will she go to some other place of rest... Hmm, it seems like she has?

Jiang Hui felt her feet suddenly touch the ground.

P.S.: This is pseudoscience, pure fabrication. Kids, don't believe it!
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