Next, they passed by the "Pharmaceutical Zone," where the air was filled with the pungent scent of a mixture of chemicals and herbs. What was being sold here wasn't the ordinary street drugs, but higher-end items with specific purposes.
A man wearing gold-rimmed glasses, who looked like a chemistry professor, stood in front of a professional storage box filled with rows of labeled glass bottles.
He whispered to a buyer who seemed like a mercenary, "Military-grade modafinil, keeps you at peak focus for 72 hours, a hundred US dollars each, much stronger than those generics you can buy online from pharmacies."
On the shelves, there was also DMT (dimethyltryptamine) extract, capable of inducing intense near-death experiences, priced at five hundred US dollars per dose.
