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.
These terminally ill patients have been tortured by the disease, visited many hospitals and doctors, and tried various treatments. After trying all the treatments and none of them worked, they were notified by the doctors and hospitals that they could give up treatment and go home to eat more good food. In other words, they went home and waited to die. The patients were desperate.
But these patients were unwilling to give up. Some of the wealthy and powerful patients built this weird private hospital by themselves. This was because these patients did not believe in the doctors' diagnoses and were even full of resentment towards the doctors who told them that they were incurable. Therefore, there were only nurses but no doctors in this hospital. Instead, these patients who were trying to save themselves acted as doctors.
Many of them have indeed read a lot of medical data during their long-term treatments and have acquired a certain amount of medical knowledge. It can be said that they become doctors through long-term illness, or it can be said that when the disease develops to the late stage and the doctors say they cannot save them, these patients start reading books to save themselves.
In general, they trust themselves or people with the same disease as themselves more than doctors.
[God will not let down those who work hard] - Mu Ke saw the notes on the pages written excitedly, finally, after their desperate prayers day and night, a mysterious patient here found a Chinese medicine prescription from somewhere, and after being tested on several patients, it was confirmed that this prescription was very effective in relieving their symptoms. This made these desperate patients very excited, and they called this prescription [a life-saving prescription].
However, due to various reasons, this prescription cannot be told to outsiders, cannot be passed on directly, and will bring disaster if it is told directly, so the prescription cannot be directly told to new patients.
——But they are not absolutely unwilling to pass on this [life-saving recipe].
The way of [transferring prescriptions] between new and old patients is quite obscure and cautious. First, the new patient must be really terminally ill and about to die, and have money to sponsor children [do good deeds], before being allowed to stay in this hospital by the old patients. And not only that, the new patient must be able to withstand the test of patience - these people prepare a large bookcase in each ward, and if the patient can finish reading the books, he will be able to find the [life-saving prescription] hidden between the lines of these books.
Mu Ke felt that this was a secret message - it was as if they were afraid that this secret recipe would be spread and bring disaster to themselves, so they had to strictly screen those who knew the recipe to be in the same camp as them - this reminded Mu Ke of those wealthy underground clubs involved in some gray areas, which also had such strict censorship and a strict membership system.
Mu Ke pieced together a rough "life-saving recipe" through notes and quick reading. He found most of the ingredients, but it was still missing the most important ingredient. Mu Ke looked through all the notes in the book, and most of the records only vaguely mentioned that this ingredient was "one-to-one," meaning that each patient had a different ingredient, was highly specific, and was "not easy to obtain."
But there was no note about what this medicinal ingredient was, and Mu Ke looked solemn.
It was already very late at night, and no one knew when the sky would begin to turn white. This made Mu Ke a little anxious. This medicine lead was obviously the most important thing in this [life-saving recipe]. Why was there no relevant description on a page of the book? And how could these patients not take any notes when they saw the relevant description on the [medicine lead] page? In such dim light, if there was no trace to locate this place, it would be very inconvenient for the patients to check it a second time. Mu Ke even searched for the folds page by page, but did not find any.
"This shouldn't happen..." Mu Ke muttered to himself, "Wait!"
- If there are no creases or notes at all, there is another possibility. If the content on a page is too important to the patient, the patient is more likely to secretly tear it off and hide it in order to check it again and again than to leave any creases or notes.
Although destroying books is not allowed here, this is the rule for these players, the [new patients]. This rule may not apply to these monster patients, the old patients - because these books that serve as props for delivering [life-saving remedies] are no longer useful.
But Mu Ke had already searched the beds and cabinets here. He had searched all the places where papers or pages might appear, even the toilet.
So if the pages weren't torn off, the only place they could be, and where Mu Ke hadn't looked, was...
Mu Ke slowly shifted his gaze to the pocket of the hospital gown of the rotten monster corpse. His eyes moved from the drooping head of the vegetative patient to the patient's face, which had become as dry and shriveled as a withered eggplant in just a few hours.
Mu Ke swallowed slowly.
He took a deep breath and tiptoed towards the patient lying in the corner. It seemed as if some long and thin worms were crawling under the patient's withered skin, and long and flowing lines bulged out on the patient's purple face. The lines finally sank into the patient's pupils. The patient's pupils, which had been empty for a long time, gradually shrank. Its lips, which had already grown corpse spots, opened slightly, and saliva was visible in its mouth. Mucus dripped from the corpse's fangs and onto its index finger hanging at its side.
The patient's fingers moved suddenly.
But these movements were extremely slight and took place in a dim corner of the wall. The visibility in the ward was extremely low, and Mu Ke, who was close to here, did not notice anything wrong with the corpse that had been dead for a long time, because there had never been anything abnormal about the corpse. He just felt that the smell of rotting plants in the ward was getting stronger and stronger, as if something was growing wildly.
"Such a strong smell of mushrooms..." Mu Ke twitched his nose and waved his hand in disgust. The mushroom smell reminded him of the mushroom smell he smelled on the disabled children in the children's welfare home.
Mu Ke squatted down. He endured the discomfort and fear of facing a dead body and reached into the pocket of the patient's hospital gown. He did touch a stack of papers, but what made Mu Ke more horrified was——
——When he put his hand into his pocket, he could feel the pulsation, and the pulsation became faster and faster after Mu Ke put his hand into his pocket.
The patient still has a heartbeat.
This vegetative patient is not dead yet.
Mu Ke felt like someone was pushing his head into an ice bucket, and he felt cold all the way down to his vest. This monster was pierced through the head by two swords from a player of Miao Feichi's level at full power, but it didn't die. What level of monster is it... Not wanting to think about what this meant, Mu Ke took a few quick deep breaths within a few seconds and forced himself to calm down.
This patient was clearly not breathing. Mu Ke had confirmed this as soon as Bai Liu and the others left. A living being has a heartbeat but no breathing. So what on earth is beating in his heart...
Mu Ke didn't have time to think too much. He quickly took the paper and pulled his hand back.
Information, as long as he got enough information and passed it to Bai Liu, even if he died at the hands of this weird patient monster, he still had 50% of his health left...
You have to believe that Bai Liu can complete the task and bring Xiao Mu Ke through the game!
After Mu Ke brainwashed himself two or three times, he took a deep breath, lowered his head, opened the paper and read it quickly:
"Blood Ganoderma is a type of Ganoderma that needs the blood of pure boys and girls to nourish it. It is also a variant of the magical mushroom Tai Sui, which is said to be able to bring the dead back to life and turn bones into flesh. It is also called Blood Tai Sui or Evil Tai Sui..."
"The Compendium of Materia Medica records that long-term consumption of this medicine can make one light and immortal... The Shennong Materia Medica records that this medicine can replenish essence and qi and treat chest congestion..."
"[Investors] can select children with pure blood, use their blood to irrigate the fungus bed, and then sleep on the blood fungus bed of the child day and night. The fungus bed should be moist and away from light. If you sincerely pray for recovery, you will get a special blood-inducing Ganoderma lucidum that can be used as medicine. If the mycelium enters the body, the body will not die, and the life span will be prolonged. The purer the child's blood, the stronger the Ganoderma lucidum will be. If the child's blood is not pure, the fungus will be impure..."
[System prompt: Congratulations to player Mu Ke for completing the main mission - Finding (Life-saving Recipe)]
[System prompt: Congratulations to player Mu Ke for triggering a new main quest - using the fungus bed in the hospital to cultivate his own blood ganoderma to prolong his life]
"Fuck!" Mu Ke couldn't help but swear, "What the fuck is this shit!"
While Mu Ke was reading, the red linear marks on the patient's gaunt face suddenly moved faster. These bright red "lines" spread from the patient's heart to his limbs like wriggling hyphae, and soon even blood-like marks appeared on the back of his hands.
Soon, these capillary-like, pulsating bright red threads spread throughout the vegetative patient's body, swelling up his pale, purple skin. In the blink of an eye, the patient turned into a long, thin corpse covered with wriggling "blood vessels".
The only black and white parts of this patient's body were his eyeballs. The rest of his skin was completely red, covered with these densely packed blood vessels that were constantly wriggling, like muscle eversion. These blood lines also existed on the ground between the bed and the patient, and even spread like vines around the entire ward. Ultimately, these wriggling "blood vessels" led to the bed.
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.
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