In the evening, Adams found it indeed difficult to fall asleep. He had to rely on two sleeping pills to nod off, and even then, his mind was filled with dreams, all kinds of bizarre dreams.
The next day, he woke up around five, looking out through the glass window at the outside until seven, when the restaurant delivered breakfast. His wife comforted him, telling him not to worry, that since they hadn't received any notification of the experiment being canceled, it meant the experiment would proceed as scheduled. But Adams still did not believe it.
He hurriedly ate some breakfast, then sat in the ward waiting. He was very anxious, always fearing that what he had tightly grasped would slip away; the psychological shadow from the last time was just too great.
Every time a nurse came by, he would ask, "My experimental treatment hasn't been canceled today, right?"
The nurse would find his question very strange; could it be that he didn't want the experimental treatment and was still hesitating, hoping it would be canceled?
For his question, the nurse could only answer, "No notification has been received yet."
"If you receive a notification, you must tell me." Adams instructed the nurse, intending for her to inform him of any changes promptly to spare him from the torment of anxious waiting.
But after being asked multiple times, the nurse naturally started to overthink: Is he not fully accepting of the experimental treatment yet and hoping for a cancellation while hesitating? If there was a passive reason for cancellation, would he welcome it?
By ten o'clock, Adams couldn't hold back any longer and called the nurse station again, asking, "Has my experimental treatment been canceled?"
The nurse was very surprised, "No notification has been received. Are you now backing out of participating in the experiment and wanting to cancel it? You can cancel it at any moment before the experimental treatment. If you confirm you need to cancel, I can notify the doctor on the institute's side."
Adams immediately explained, "No, no, no, I mean I'm worried about the cancellation, which is why I keep asking you."
His wife sitting beside him couldn't take it anymore and told him, "You just need to wait quietly. Disturbing the nurse like this frequently is easily misunderstood by them, which might not be good for your treatment. Even I start to think you're still hesitating and hoping for a cancellation of the experiment."
"No, that's not what I mean. I'm just worried, so I need to confirm once in a while that my experimental treatment hasn't been canceled." Adams endeavored to justify himself.
"Alright, can you calm down a bit? Since you got up in the morning, you've made thirty-seven calls and gone to the bathroom thirty times. You've been doing just these two things from getting up until now..." Adams' wife said.
Some people tend to secrete diuretic hormones when they're nervous, causing more frequent urination, leading them to go to the bathroom frequently.
Adams also didn't know why he became like this; he couldn't control himself, really couldn't control himself. If he didn't make calls, he would feel restless, and if he didn't empty his bladder in the bathroom, it would get painfully full.
Amidst the torment, he finally heard footsteps, many footsteps; two nurses walked in.
"Mr. Adams, we're about to start the K treatment. Please lie down."
"Really?" Adams got excited again. He thought he could walk; there was no need to lie down.
In fact, the K treatment was to be done right in this ward, but he was entirely unaware of this. Whether it was the doctor or the nurse who told him about the details of the K treatment, he didn't listen at all, especially when Yang Ping spoke to him. He had already detailed the K treatment, but Adams had no mind for listening, his only thought at that time was to sign quickly. It seemed as though if he didn't sign quickly, Yang Ping would take away those documents and never give him the chance to sign them.
As for those technical details, he didn't need to know at all. However, these few days, he had supplemented them in his mind with a lot of sci-fi details: a luxurious and sci-fi-filled mechanical bed, numerous robotic arms, green liquid, and a security team to prevent him from going berserk after turning into a superhuman.
"Please cooperate and lie down." The nurse instructed him again.
He was reluctant to lie down, but he dared not defy the nurse, so he obediently lay down, thinking, could they be moving him onto a transport vehicle and then pushing him towards that magical laboratory?
Morris had introduced Yang Ping's laboratory to him, saying it was very sci-fi, with many miraculous achievements coming out from it. What kind of place was it really?
Yang Ping came in with doctors, over ten in white gowns gathering around the bed, with many doctors surrounding them on the outside. At the International Medical Center, privacy protection is typically very strict, but this was an experimental treatment; fundamentally an experiment. So when he signed the informed consent, he was already told that many doctors would be around to observe. Some are research personnel involved in the experiment, others purely spectating to experience the experiment process firsthand.
Adams had never seen such an ensemble before. In the United Kingdom, he had been hospitalized, but he had never seen such a grand and massive cohort of doctors. However, Adams at this moment didn't feel pressured; instead, he felt an unprecedented sense of security.
Yang Ping asked a few simple questions, confirmed no other issues, and instructed the nurse to prepare for the K treatment.
Adams was dumbstruck, how could it be done right there in the ward? Wasn't there a super sci-fi laboratory? Before he could react, a nurse pushed in a trolley with a small box on it. She took out a biological preparation from inside, conducted three checks and seven verifications to confirm everything was in order, then hung the biological preparation on the infusion stand, administering it into his blood vessels through the infusion apparatus.
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