Chapter 113 Marine Hot Spring Comprehensive Sanatorium (Part 9)
Despite being covered by a whole piece of cloth, Mingzhao was still able to see what was on the cart through his clear vision.
[Deep-sea mother worm nutrients].
This is the very medicine that patients drink every day!
Unlike the previous fervent applications, the patients showed no reaction to the deep-sea worm nutrients on the trolley.
They faced directly at the entrance to the deep-sea mother worm's cave, as if what was inside held a greater attraction for them.
After all the patients went inside, Maomao and Keke slowly pushed their strollers away.
What happened in the cave cannot be seen through [Clear Vision].
Two hours passed before the patients emerged from the cave one by one.
The fervor on each patient's face faded, replaced by a satisfied and happy expression.
Mingzhao then left.
She used her Lingbo Weibu (a martial arts technique) to return to the courtyard at top speed.
I had prepared myself to wait in the back of the courtyard until dawn, but to my surprise, Maomao still hadn't returned.
Does she go out for this long every night? Mingzhao had never noticed before.
She quickly opened the door, went back to her room, and lay down on the bed.
Almost another hour passed before Mingzhao heard Mao Mao quietly open the courtyard gate and her room door.
Mingzhao finally found a chance to sleep, even though it would be dawn in two hours.
The next morning, Mingzhao struggled to get out of bed.
She hadn't slept well for several nights and was feeling rather listless.
However, Maomao, who goes out every night, was completely unaffected and came to call her for breakfast with great energy.
Mingzhao and Maomao arrived at the restaurant entrance and looked at the notice board.
Daily Quest: Kill the Deep Sea Queen.
The task was so simple and straightforward, making no attempt to conceal its stance.
Mingzhao realized that he might have been wrong all along.
This daily task wasn't malicious; rather, it clearly explained the order in which she should complete it from the beginning.
She was simply misled by the employee handbook.
Completing the mission is certainly dangerous, but if they do nothing, they might be left here forever once the daily mission ends.
After sitting down at a table with Maomao again, Mingzhao noticed a barely perceptible look of disgust on Maomao's face as she passed by the patients taking their medicine.
But the nutrients they drink from the deep-sea mother worm are precisely what she brought back from the cave.
Having decided to complete the daily tasks, Mingzhao no longer avoided these issues.
She asked Mao Mao directly.
"Teacher, what exactly are they drinking?"
Mao Mao glanced at her, seemingly surprised that she would ask such a question.
After thinking for a moment, he said, "It's medicine, medicine that targets their symptoms. You've seen the pollution they've been exposed to, haven't you? Ordinary medicine can only treat different symptoms, but it can't affect the pollution itself. That medicine is specifically for the symptoms of pollution."
Mingzhao noticed the word: "pollution".
"Teacher, what exactly contaminated them, and why did they become like this?"
She just said that this medicine is for the symptoms of pollution.
However, it didn't mention that this medicine was used to cure the symptoms of pollution.
These patients drank deep-sea worm nutrients three times a day, but the pollution on their bodies did not improve at all; on the contrary, it became more and more serious.
Mingzhao reasonably suspects that this miracle drug, which is deeply trusted by patients, may very well be the source of contamination.
To her surprise, Mao Mao gave a different answer.
"The pollution comes from the ocean; it is the ocean that has made them this way."
"Maritime civilization has developed too rapidly, and technological advancements have led to many lingering problems. Many races have been permanently wiped out due to pollution. The original purpose of establishing this sanatorium was to help those patients affected by pollution."
The information conveyed in that sentence was too much for Mingzhao to process immediately.
Seeing her blank expression, Mao Mao sighed.
"But as you've seen, once pollution appears, it can't be eliminated. The miracle drug can only alleviate the approach of the final moment."
"It's a kind of comfort therapy, too."
"You may not be able to accept all of this, but it's the only way."
This was the first time Mingzhao had heard Mao Mao say so much.
Her tone was so sincere that Mingzhao was unsure whether to believe her.
The employee handbook says not to believe what patients say, because patients are just praising miracle drugs and encouraging others to try them.
But they never said, "Don't believe what the supervising caregivers say."
Can we really believe what someone says so casually?
Mingzhao felt like her mind was a complete mess.
If all of this is indeed caused by pollution, then what role do the deep-sea mother worm cave and the deep-sea mother worm nutrients play in it?
She had to see the truth for herself.
In the afternoon, Mingzhao sped up the pace of caring for the patients.
All the work was completed by 3 o'clock.
Then she put on the invisibility cloak again and headed to the cave from the previous day, following the route she remembered.
As soon as he arrived at the cave entrance, Mingzhao felt an immense attraction.
She seemed to hear an extremely pleasant melody echoing in her mind, inviting her to enter the cave and explore its secrets.
However, when you try to pinpoint the source of the sound, it disappears.
Mingzhao has encountered this situation many times.
When I first entered the game, I would hear whispers whenever my sanity level was around 20.
When she tried to listen carefully to what was being said, she couldn't hear it anymore.
Could the Deep Sea Mother Worm be a similar monster that lowers sanity?
Mingzhao opened the panel and confirmed this.
Her sanity was dropping rapidly, measured in seconds.
Fortunately, Mingzhao was not entirely unprepared.
She took out a bottle of high-grade sobering potion that Lu Chanyi had given her and drank it down.
[Advanced Clarity Potion: Instantly restores 20 sanity points, then restores 1 sanity point per second for one hour thereafter.]
This sobering potion is the fastest way to restore sanity, and Mingzhao only has two bottles in total.
But now is not the time to be stingy with medicine.
After drinking the medicine, Mingzhao instantly felt her mind clear.
The beautiful music also disappeared.
The cave entrance, which originally looked beautiful and well-designed, has been turned into an ordinary rock cave.
Mingzhao took the staff in his hand and went inside.
The cave was damp and filled with a cloyingly sweet smell that was nauseating.
Upon entering, one is greeted by the enormous body of the mother insect, which occupies one-third of the cave's volume.
It looks like a silkworm moth larva magnified tens of thousands of times, but its surface is covered with a thick, dark gray carapace.
Its head is very small, almost negligible compared to its huge belly.
Its body has dozens of pairs of short limbs that move slowly, indicating that it has almost no ability to move.
What disgusted Mingzhao the most was its lower body.
It clung to the top of the cave, constantly wriggling and secreting something.
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