Central Hall, core screen, in front of Bai Liu's small TV.

Wang Shun looked at the core promotion position where Bai Liu's small TV was and couldn't help but sigh - people are really different. This guy can climb so fast now that he is facing league players like Miao Feichi and his son. It's only the first day in the game, and Bai Liu has climbed to the core promotion screen.

The number of likes supporting Bai Liu came up mainly from the confrontation between Bai Liu and Miao Feichi, father and son, in the middle of the episode. The audience on Miao Feichi and Miao Gaojiang's side were cheering and celebrating for having killed Bai Liu.

The Rotten Food Guild also bought a promotional ad at this node. With the support of various factors, and the fact that many big-name players did not broadcast live, Miao Feichi's audience went crazy and liked and collected his ads, almost making Miao Feichi the king of promotions.

But soon, Miao Feichi fell from the brink of becoming the king's promotion position - because Bai Liu was not dead. Not only was he not dead, he also took the opportunity to infiltrate Miao Feichi's team.

Miao Feichi's fans and the scavenger guild that bought the promotional ads were dumbfounded - the situation they had worked so hard to preserve was completely ruined by Bai Liu.

The audience flocked to Bai Liu's small TV like crazy. Even those who were hostile and unhappy with Bai Liu were also flocking out, and it was impossible to stop them - most of them understood what had happened and stayed in front of Bai Liu's small TV and refused to leave.

The extremely increasing number of viewers and the rising data in various aspects quickly put Bai Liu into the core promotion position. Not only Bai Liu, but even Mu Ke’s small TV benefited from this wave of Miao Feichi dividends. He was successfully promoted from the multi-person area to the central screen.

The audience had doubts and confusion, but also had reasonable discussions. Bai Liu was able to survive Miao Feichi's hands once, and successfully killed Zhang Kui, the backup player of the King's Guild last time. No one thought that this newcomer was simple anymore. But the main argument was still - he was awesome, but he was too arrogant, and he had hit a wall.

"It's useless even if he sneaks in. Bai Liu's control skills are good enough to control Zhang Kui, but his F-panel control of Miao Gaojiang and Miao Feichi, which have S-level skills, is not enough. Most likely, it won't work."

Moreover, Miao Gaojiang is very vigilant. I heard from the people in the Scavenger Guild that Miao Gaojiang has watched Bai Liu’s videos hundreds of times and has come up with many conclusions about Bai Liu’s control over others. One of them is that Bai Liu’s control skills are limited and must be done through some medium and with the permission of both parties. So as long as they don’t accept anything from Bai Liu, they should be fine…”

"...But Bai Liu's trick of changing the sky to the sky was very beautiful. He actually fooled Miao Gao with several layers of cover. Tsk, this new guy is a bit of a beehive coal. He has so many tricks. What will he do in real life?"

"After all, Miao Gaojiang and the other two like to play control in the King's team. They even succeeded in counter-killing in the doubles match. I think it is unlikely that they will be controlled by Bai Liu."

"Looking at this situation, Bai Liu is going to use a rush tactic this time, using all means to get clues about the director's affairs first, and then complete the clearance."

"But wouldn't it be more appropriate to bring Mu Sicheng with us when playing the rush tactic?! Are these two crazy? They seem to have taken the wrong medicine, each leading their own rookie. I haven't seen Mu Shen leading rookies in 800 years. Fortunately, he only leads a couple..."

"Don't look down on them. The two newcomers that Mu Sicheng brought are both very good. One fights monsters, and the other kills monsters. They are also a couple and have good coordination. They look like good seedlings for the doubles competition. I think if they are trained well, they will grow up to be as good as Miao Gaojiang and the others."

"The new recruit that Bai Liu is bringing in now is not bad, but he lacks personal skills. He can be trained in the direction of latent intelligence. Isn't the king in the King's Guild in this direction? As long as the person is trained, he will become a database, which is really useful."

"Hey, these newcomers look really good! I can't find newcomers with such potential. This year, I only saw a Mu Sicheng and chased him through three dungeons without saying a word. He ran so fast that I couldn't even breathe. Now I look at these newcomers and I want to take advantage of them and bring them to my own guild!"

"Roll, roll, roll, you have a nice idea. I also want it. Do I agree?"

"It was really good, but it's a pity, I think I'm still going to die. Miao Feizhi's Straw Pig, bah, Upper Pig, eh, that's not right, damn, I was really led away by Bai Liu, that knife has a very high attack, I remember the basic attack is 3147, it almost took me away from the game before, Bai Liu couldn't handle a pure newcomer..."

"Well, if Bai Liu gets into the league, his crappy panel can be upgraded a bit, and he can really kill everyone if he uses it well."

"...I kind of want to recruit this guy. His skill is also very interesting. Can he copy the skills of the players he has controlled? But the endurance is a bit too short. I don't know if it's because of Bai Liu's physical strength or the limitation of his skills. He used Mu Sicheng's skills to fight Miao Feichi for a few minutes and it was over..."

Wang Shun looked at the audience and players who gathered in front of Bai Liu's small TV to comment with a little surprise.

Ordinary spectators also looked at these players in amazement, but did not dare to speak loudly. They all discussed quietly in the back row, because many of these players standing in front of Bai Liu's small TV were familiar faces in last year's league, and some were high-level players in the top ten guilds.

With these players around, ordinary players didn't dare to speak casually, just like when Mu Sicheng was trying to calm the situation on Bai Liu's small TV.

Miao Feichi's provocative promotion not only attracted ordinary spectators, but also attracted league players at the same level as Miao Feichi. They still had some idea of ​​what Miao Feichi was going to do. After Miao Feichi suffered the first defeat at the hands of Bai Liu, this attention naturally shifted to Bai Liu - in other words, Bai Liu has now attracted the attention of a large number of league players.

Wang Shun looked up at Bai Liu on the small TV and let out a long sigh - Bai Liu, this outstanding single player, has already begun to attract the attention of major guild teams in this intense cheering season?

To be honest, if the King's Guild had not made an enemy of Bai Liu from the beginning, Wang Shun would have also taken a fancy to Bai Liu, but unfortunately now - he sighed again.

However, when Wang Shun heard that Mu Sicheng had also started to train two newcomers, he had a very strange feeling in his heart - Bai Liu was also training newcomers, and Mu Sicheng was also training newcomers. The newcomers plus Bai Liu and Mu Sicheng made the number exactly five people participating in the league. It felt like Bai Liu was preparing to enter the league and was training newcomers...

But soon Wang Shun shook his head in amusement and put this incredible idea behind him - the league was less than two months away, how could this group of pure newcomers who had just entered the game possibly participate in the competition.

Bai Liu must be crazy to bring a few complete newcomers to the competition.

However, it seems that these newcomers will be recruited and trained by major guilds. I don’t know in which team I will see these new faces next year. Wang Shun thought a little nervously.

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In-game.

Mu Ke pushed the bed back to its original position, pressing it against the body of the monster patient in the corner. A very strange plant smell was emanating from the patient. Within just a few minutes after Bai Liu and the others left, this patient had been emitting a strong smell of rotting fungi, which was hot and dense. The smell was so strong that Mu Ke had to cover his nose.

The vegetative patient who was chopped to death by Miao Feichi leaned in the corner with his head down. The shadow cast by him under the dim light made people feel very uneasy. He was even a little taller than when he was chopped to death by Miao Feichi, and his hands and feet were incredibly slender, like some thin and long metal rods. Mu Ke roughly estimated that if this vegetative patient stood up, he would have to tilt his head to walk normally in this ward.

This vegetative patient was only rated A. He suffered several full-strength attacks from Miao Feichi, who had an S-level armor. There was no way he was still alive.

Mu Ke quickly withdrew his gaze from the patient. After all, looking at him for too long would make people very uncomfortable. Staring at this monster that looked like a human yet not human for a long time would trigger his uncanny valley effect. His mental state had just recovered not long ago, so he didn't want to do anything that would pollute his mind.

There were books everywhere in the ward, but fortunately they were not damaged. They were just stuck to the floor because the room was very humid. Fortunately, this did not hinder Mu Ke from reading. He carefully picked up the books one by one and put them in order. He propped up the fallen bookshelf and put the books back in the order he had seen them before. Then, under the light, he used a pen to locate his sight and began to read quickly.

The books here were just as Bai Liu had guessed before, with all kinds of notes. It was very likely because this was the ICU and there was more than one patient admitted. The notes were in different handwritings. Mu Ke read very fast. He only read the pages marked with notes. He turned the pages very quickly, and his eyes moved quickly, his gaze only staying on each page for one or two seconds, almost the same as the [Quantum Mechanics Reading Method] on the Internet.

After an unknown amount of time, Mu Ke's eyes were bloodshot. He let out a long breath and sat on the bed, muttering to himself dizzily, "I've finished my first reading."

After reading so many notes, Mu Ke can basically confirm that this [Life-Prolonging Recipe] is as its name suggests - it is a Chinese medicine recipe that can cure all kinds of diseases according to the description in the notes, but because it has not undergone any experiments, it can be regarded as a folk remedy.

這些絕症病人飽受病魔的折磨，看過很多醫院和醫生，嘗試過各類的治療方法，在嘗試過所有治療方法都不管用之後，被醫生和醫院通知可以放棄治療回家多吃點好的，換言之就是回家等死之後，病人們都絕望了。

但這些病人不願意放棄，有些有錢有勢的病人就自己建了這麽一個不倫不類的私人醫院，因為這些病人并不相信醫生的診斷，甚至對說他們無藥可醫的醫生滿懷怨恨，所以這個醫院裏只有護士沒有醫生，而是這些嘗試自救的病人自己來充當醫生。

而他們當中的确有很多人在長久的各種治療中閱讀了很多醫學類別的數據，的确是擁有了一定的醫學常識，可以說是久病成醫，也可以說是疾病發展到了後期醫生說救不了他們，這些病人就開始自己看書自救的結果。

總的來說，他們比起醫生來說，更相信自己，或者說和自己有同樣疾病的人。

【皇天不負有心人】——木柯看到書頁上的筆記中激動地寫道，終于，在他們日日夜夜絕望的祈禱之下，這裏面有一個神秘的病人不知道從什麽地方找出了一個中藥偏方，這個偏方在幾個病人身上實施驗證之後，證實對緩解他們的疾病症狀是很有效的，這讓這些走投無路的病人激動不已，并且這個偏方被他們稱為【續命良方】。

不過這個藥方因為各種原因【謎不外傳】，【不可直接相傳】，【直接告知，流傳之外會招致災禍】，所以不能直接告訴新入院的病人藥方是什麽。

——但他們也不是絕對不傳這個【續命良方】。

新舊病人之間【傳遞藥方】的方式相當隐晦且警惕，第一就是新病人的确是要病入膏肓，病得馬上就要死了，并且有錢資助兒童了【做了善事】之後，才被舊病人允許能住進這所醫院，而且不光是這些，還要新病人能經受住耐性考驗才行——這些人在每一個病房裏準備好一個大書櫃，如果入住的病人可以看完書，就能找到藏在這堆書字裏行間的【續命良方】。

木柯覺得這件事宛如是一個什麽暗號式的傳遞——就好像他們很害怕這個偏方流傳出去給自己招來災禍，所以要嚴格地篩選知道這個藥方的人一定和他們保持同一個陣營——這讓木柯想起了那些有錢人的涉及一些灰色地帶的地下俱樂部也是這樣的嚴格的審查和森嚴的【會員】制度。

木柯靠着筆記描述和快速閱讀拼湊起了一個大致的【續命良方】，但他找到了這個續命良方絕大多數的藥物，不過這個方子還差最重要的一味藥引，木柯翻找了書上的所有筆記，大多的記錄都只是含糊其辭地提這個藥引【是一對一的】，也就是每個病人的藥引是不一樣的，專一性很高，并且【取得不易】。

但這味藥引子具體是什麽，卻沒有任何筆記提及，木柯神色凝重下來。

夜已經很深了，不知道什麽時候天邊就會開始泛白，這讓木柯有些着急了——這個藥引子很明顯就是這個【續命良方】當中最重要的東西，為什麽會沒有一頁書上有相關的描述？而且這些病人看到【藥引子】這一頁的相關描述，怎麽可能一點筆記都不做？這麽昏暗的燈光下，如果不做一點痕跡來定位這個地方，病人要察看第二次是很不方面的事情，木柯連折痕都一頁一頁地查找過了，也沒有發現。

“不應該啊……”木柯喃喃自語着，“等等！”

——如果完全沒有一點折痕和筆記，還有一種可能性，如果一頁上的東西對病人來說太過重要，比起折痕和筆記，為了反複查看，病人更有可能的做法是——偷偷撕掉藏起來。

雖然這裏是不允許破壞圖書的，但這是對他們這些玩家，也就是【新病人】的規則，對這些怪物病人，也就是老病人未必有這個規則——因為這些作為傳遞【續命良方】道具的書籍已經沒有用了。

但這裏的病床和櫃子木柯都已經搜過了，他所有有可能會出現紙張書頁的地方都查找過了，就連廁所都沒有放過。

所以如果這些書頁沒撕了下來，唯一有可能在的地方，并且木柯沒有找過的地方就是……

木柯緩緩地轉移視線，看向那具已經腐爛的怪物屍體的病服口袋上，他的視線從植物病人委頓低垂的頭顱，移到了這個病人在短短幾個小時之內幹癟得像是枯萎的茄子一樣的面皮。

木柯緩慢地吞了一口唾沫。

他深吸一口氣，蹑手蹑腳地走向了這個倒在牆角的病人，病人枯癟的皮膚下像是有什麽細長的蟲子鑽動，在病人青紫色的臉上鼓出一道道纖長流動的線痕，這道線痕最終沒入了病人的瞳孔，這個病人空洞許久的瞳孔漸漸收縮，它已經生長出屍斑的嘴唇微微張了一下，嘴裏的唾液瑩潤可見，這具屍體的尖牙上滴落下黏液，滴落在它垂落在身側的食指上。

病人的手指突然動了一下。

但這些動作都極其輕微，在牆角昏暗的角落裏發生，這病房的能見度極低，靠近這裏的木柯并沒有察覺這具已經死去多時的屍體有不對勁的地方，因為這具屍體一直都沒有任何異常，他只是覺得病房中那股腐爛植物的味道越來越濃，就像是有什麽東西在瘋狂生長着。

“好濃的蘑菇味道啊……”木柯抽動着鼻子，他嫌棄地揮了揮手，這蘑菇味道讓他莫名想起了在兒童福利院那幾個殘疾孩子身上聞到的蘑菇味道。

木柯蹲下來，他忍着直面死屍的不适和恐懼把手探入了病人的病服口袋裏，他的确摸到了一疊紙張，但比摸到一疊紙更讓木柯毛骨悚然的事情是——

——他的手探入的口袋裏，手下能感受到一下一下的搏動，并且這搏動在木柯伸手進入口袋之後越來越快。

病人還有心跳。

這個植物病人，還沒死。

木柯就像是被人摁着頭進入了冰桶裏，從頭頂一直冷到了背心，這個怪物被苗飛齒這種等級的玩家全開的程度下雙刀穿腦而過居然都還沒死，到底是什麽等級的怪物……不想深思這代表着什麽，木柯在短短幾秒鐘之內飛快深呼吸，他強行讓自己冷靜下來。

這個病人明明已經沒有呼吸了，木柯在白柳他們一走就立馬确認過這一點的，一個生物有心跳卻沒有呼吸，那到底是什麽東西在他的心裏跳……

木柯來不及想太多了，他飛快地拿到了紙張之後就抽回了手。

信息，只要他拿到了足夠的信息傳遞給了白柳，就算他死在這個詭異病人怪物的手裏，他還有百分之五十的生命值小木柯活着……

要相信白柳可以完成任務帶着小木柯通關！

木柯給自己洗腦了兩三遍之後，深吸一口氣低頭抖開紙張一目十行地看了起來：

“血靈芝，需要血緣純正的童子童女之血液澆灌的一種靈芝，也為傳聞中可【生死人，肉白骨】的靈藥菌菇太歲的變異種類，又稱其為【血太歲】或【邪太歲】……”

“《本草綱目》中記載此藥長久食用，可輕身不老，延年神仙……《神農本草經》記載此藥可補益精氣，治胸中結……”

“【投資人】可自行挑選血緣純真之孩童，取其鮮血澆灌菌床，日夜枕于稚子之血菌床上，菌床宜潮，避光，誠心求病愈，便可得一專屬入藥引血靈芝，菌絲入體，此靈芝不死則本體不死，延年長壽，孩童之血愈純，入體靈芝愈越強，孩童之血不純，則菌體不純……”

【系統提示：恭喜玩家木柯完成主線任務——尋找（續命良方）】

【系統提示：恭喜玩家木柯觸發新主線任務——利用醫院內的菌床培育專屬于自己的血靈芝，用于續命】

“操！”木柯忍不住爆了髒話，“這他媽什麽狗東西！”

在木柯閱讀的期間，病人幹癟面容下的紅色的線性蠕動的速度突然變快，這些鮮紅的“線痕”宛如蠕動的菌絲從病人的心髒往四肢百骸彌漫，很快連手背上都出現了血線般的痕跡。

很快這些毛細血管般的，正在搏動的鮮紅色細線就彌漫到了植物病人的全身，把病人蒼白青紫的皮膚鼓起來，這個病人幾乎在木柯眨眼之間就變成了一具全身都是蠕動“血管”的細長屍體。

全身上下這個病人只有眼珠子是黑白的，其他地方的皮膚全紅，全是這些密密麻麻的血管樣還在不停蠕動的管道，好似肌肉外翻，而這些血線也存在于病床和病人之間的地面，甚至像是藤蔓般蔓延到了整個病房周圍，最終這些蠕動的“血管”導向了那張病床。

These red "blood vessels" grew thicker and stronger, pulsating vigorously, as if transporting blood to the bed. The entire ward was shrouded in a very strange dark red light and shadow.

Something seemed to be sprouting under the straw on the hospital bed. It rustled out from the rotten straw. It was a cluster of bright red mushrooms. These mushrooms kept growing and growing, and finally became the size of a millstone, with a head and a tail, like an undeveloped embryo.

This pile of fungi was jumping rhythmically like a heart, emitting a very strange pinkish fluorescent light above the bed. There was no disgusting bloody smell at all, but instead it gave people a very comfortable smell of blood - a kind of food aroma.