The Strongest Brain in the Interstellar

The mental stabilizer, also known as K-type-GD3NM, is currently the oldest existing drug in the interstellar world. It is said to have existed even before the current era and is the earliest documented drug known to humanity, although its exact origins cannot be traced.

In its early days, it didn’t have such a gentle name that sounds like a harmless supportive drug. It was initially launched as a clinical drug called K-type-GD3NM by the Human Stellar Migration Bureau, also known as a human modification agent.

Originally, it was developed to help fragile humans adapt to the interstellar environment after leaving their home planet. It was extracted from radioactive uranium floating in space, with a purity a hundred times stronger than the uranium that could be artificially extracted on the home planet.

This processed radioactive uranium could transform the fragile human body and nervous system, enabling humans to adapt to the radiation-filled environment of space.

However, with gains come losses. The first-generation explorers had to pay a higher price than ordinary people. Due to the technological limitations and the extraction methods being experimental, extracting this type of radioactive uranium became an extremely dangerous job. Frontline workers typically aged in months rather than years, with most not living past the age of thirty.

Moreover, those who take the drug also suffer from the effects of the radioactive uranium. The residual uranium in the medication mostly lingers in the user’s body, tormenting them for a lifetime.

Fortunately, thanks to these pioneers, the path they paved has grown wider. In the process, humanity has mastered increasingly advanced technology and gradually established a foothold among various interstellar races.

Now, in the eighth star era, humans no longer need to worry about cosmic radiation. On average, they can live beyond five hundred years, and during the process of species evolution, they have developed a robust brain region and mental strength.

The mental stabilizer has also undergone several generations of improvements and no longer carries the dangers of the early versions. Although it still contains some radioactive uranium, the content has been meticulously extracted and adjusted to a level that the human brain region can tolerate.

Thus, with the physical quality of interstellar humans now capable of naturally accepting and absorbing a certain amount of radioactive uranium, the human body itself is no longer troubled by radioactive uranium. However, the brain region and mental strength remain relatively fragile and sensitive in this regard.

As a result, what was once regarded as a life-giving agent by countless humans, K-type-GD3NM, which was also a human modification agent, gradually faded from the realm of body modification drugs. It evolved into a medication specifically for mental adjustment, later renamed as a mental stabilizer according to the new interstellar medical codes.

Thus, the essence of the gene stabilizer is not as harmless as its name suggests. Due to the presence of radioactive uranium, its potency remains fiercely consistent over tens of thousands of years, making it difficult for the human body to adapt.

This is why Xu Jia spoke to Jiang Hui that way; taking the gene stabilizer truly is an unpleasant experience. It is said that every 1mg consumed compresses the pressure experienced by the first-generation explorers exposed to cosmic radiation for an entire year into a single moment.

This batch of mental stabilizers contains a total of 2.5mg of radioactive uranium, spread across five tubes, with each tube holding 0.5mg. Each tube is diluted thousands of times in a soothing solution.

For humans who had not yet migrated in ancient times or those newly immigrated without any enhancements, consuming this amount could be fatal. Even for the current interstellar human constitution, it would provoke a certain degree of rejection reaction, making it one of the least popular medications in the galaxy, and arguably the least popular.

However, this medication has a powerful effect on stabilizing and consolidating one’s mental state. The original body had just undergone the second mental awakening and then encountered such an unexpected incident, leaving her mental strength in a very unstable condition. Only the mental stabilizer can cure this instability.

Moreover, it is reported that all those who have not fully awakened can experience a mutation during their development. To some extent, the mental stabilizer is also a prescription drug that can activate these mutations. However, the interstellar governing authorities strictly regulate this medication, and citizens are currently prohibited from circulating it privately. All usage records must be registered.

Jiang Hui did not know any of this and only assumed that the mental stabilizer was an ordinary yet expensive medication.

She glanced at the simple instruction manual provided by the hospital. The method of taking the medication was quite straightforward: it involved swallowing them, keeping away from any radioactive substances and large magnetic resonance machines, and then waiting for the medication to take effect.

However, when Jiang Hui looked at the lower half of the instructions, she nearly read through the entire manual. It warned that taking the medication could likely trigger a certain degree of rejection reaction, and if any discomfort occurred, one should report it to the hospital system for timely treatment.

Jiang Hui: …Doesn’t that make me even more scared?

But regardless, it was still best to follow medical advice.

Following the medication instructions and the accompanying warning, she tried to turn off any high-power machines in the room before taking out a tube of the mental stabilizer and swallowing it directly.

The cyan-blue liquid dissolved instantly upon entering her mouth, dissipating like smoke, with a slight sweetness that quickly faded away.

It seemed like… there wasn’t anything particularly special happening.

Suddenly, as she sat on the sofa trying hard to recall the effects of the mental stabilizer, her body stiffened abruptly.

“Thump, thump… thump, thump… thump, thump—” That was the sound of her heart beating, the rhythmic pulsations resonating through her cardiovascular system, as if a three-dimensional echo of her heartbeat surrounded her ears.

The girl pressed her hand against her heart without realizing it, gasping for breath as if she were suffocating. The veins on her forehead and neck bulged, and with each breath, sweat poured down like raindrops.

This was just the beginning. The irregular pounding of her heart was the starting point, sending blood through the veins and extending into the surrounding nerves… Jiang Hui felt as if she were being held by an overwhelming force that could not be ignored, as if her flesh and bones were separating, and her soul was disconnecting from her nervous system.

“Thump, thump… thump, thump…” Time slowed down, and she felt increasingly unable to breathe; pain became the most subtle sensation she was experiencing.

The girl collapsed heavily onto the sofa, her gaze vacant. The empty medication tube slipped from her weak fingers and fell to the carpet, creating a muffled thud, while her palm remained pressed against her chest.

Jiang Hui thought she might have died once again for some inexplicable reason. Otherwise, why would she feel so light, as if she had neither head nor feet? Her entire awareness was diffused, with a tendency to expand even further.

She pondered aimlessly, wondering if humans believe their souls return to the universe after death for a reason. Perhaps when the soul departs from the body, it experiences this sense of drifting and dispersing.

How far would she float? Would it be when she could no longer sense her complete disappearance, or would she end up somewhere else entirely… Hmm, has she arrived?

Jiang Hui felt her feet suddenly touch the ground.