After returning to the room, Huang Shengjie sat down on the sofa, opened the seal of the medicine bottle, took out a pill, placed it in his hand, and waited silently.

But after waiting for more than ten seconds, he didn’t feel anything unusual.

Just as Huang Shengjie began to relax, suddenly, a wave of pain came!

Huang Shengjie felt as if his entire body was instantly pricked by needles, his ears buzzing, and his mind went blank.

Instinctively, he bent over and curled up.

Fortunately, Huang Shengjie quickly reacted and hurriedly put the pill he had prepared in his hand into his mouth and swallowed it.

Immediately, a peculiar sensation flowed through his body, and most of the previous pain vanished, leaving him completely relieved.

There was still a noticeable sensation of stabbing and burning pain, but it was entirely within tolerable limits.

"Does it work so fast?"

Huang Shengjie was momentarily dazed, even more grateful that he had decisively bought medicine from the lounge in the last round of the game.

Strictly speaking, this time was not very painful, far from the experience in the Community.

Even without taking medicine, he could probably endure for 1 minute without any major problems.

Huang Shengjie began to seriously consider his current situation.

"No wonder every corner of this room is padded; it must be to prevent players from injuring themselves due to pain...

"In terms of pain level, this is surely ’regular pain,’ which means I have not become an ’Infected.’

"After all, there was the severe pain in the Community for reference, making it easy to judge.

"But if a player who hasn’t experienced pain in the Community might misjudge?

"It shouldn’t happen this time, but according to the game’s rules, if regular pain doesn’t receive complete relief from medication, every round of the game will worsen and eventually become ’special pain.’

"In the first couple of times turning into ’special pain,’ it’s probably going to be extremely severe. Players who haven’t gone through pain in the Community might find it hard to feel a distinct difference and may lead to misjudgment.

"So for me, having gone through the pain in the Community, it’s actually a blessing in disguise, gaining extra information?

"What a black comedy.

"There’s still one pill left in the bottle. There shouldn’t be much issue in the next round of the game either.

"After that, I still need to find opportunities to acquire more drugs, whether from the doctors or the vending machines in the lounge. Even if it’s just regular painkillers, they’re still quite useful.

"As long as I don’t get unlucky enough to be selected as an ’Infected,’ everything should be fine."

The next round of the game is about to begin. Huang Shengjie got up and approached the doctor’s ’clinic,’ instinctively wanting to press the ’apply’ button.

But after thinking about it, he withdrew his hand.

This is because in the last round of the game, the words spoken by Qian Li had already reached a consensus among some players in the lounge.

Players who meet the doctor in the first two rounds are likely to be ostracized.

If the doctor really agrees to meet with Huang Shengjie, then he wouldn’t be able to appear in the lounge this round.

By the third round, when he enters the lounge, he might already have become one of the ostracized players.

According to the game rules, the doctor currently only holds regular medicines, exactly the same as those Huang Shengjie bought from the lounge vending machine.

Special drugs are with Sales, and to deliver them to the doctor requires two rounds: Sales → Auditor, Auditor → Doctor.

So, at the earliest, it would be the third round to see the doctor to possibly obtain special drugs.

But giving up an opportunity to meet the doctor seems like quite a loss.

Huang Shengjie thought about it and symbolically offered 200 medical points, hoping to try his luck.

No response was received.

Instead, Huang Shengjie felt inexplicably relieved, so he just pushed the door and entered the lounge.

...

Meanwhile, Ye Lin had just experienced pain as well.

However, compared to Huang Shengjie, her situation was much more optimistic because she had special medicines in hand.

Auditor Shen Qingyun suggested she take either C-type or M-type drugs, so after returning to her room, Ye Lin bought another bottle of M-type drug and unsealed it.

Then, she placed one C-type pill and one M-type pill in each of her hands.

As the pain struck, she first took the C-type pill.

The drug took effect extremely quickly, almost instantly suppressing all of her pain, not even feeling any slight prickling pain.

"This painkiller’s effectiveness is better than I expected.

"Moreover, Shen Qingyun said the effectiveness of the M-type drugs should be even stronger than the C-type ones.

"So, C-type drugs should be sufficient to suppress regular pain, whereas M-type drugs can suppress special pain?

"As long as I have these two types of drugs, I won’t suffer in this game.

"Being a Sales means I can purchase any drug at any time, won’t face shortages due to supply chain issues, which is one of the advantages of having a special status?"

Ye Lin suddenly felt a very certain sense of security, according to the game’s mechanism, she indeed no longer faced any risk of death, next she only needs to focus on earning back the visa time.

She walked to the floor-to-ceiling window, from here she could see the rooms of the two Auditors, two doctors, and two VIP patients through the atrium.

In the VIP patient room in Area B, a player was rolling painfully on the ground, looking very distressed.

On the coffee table before this player, there was an opened white bottle, seemingly he had already taken medicine, but it hadn’t been very effective.

Soon, the tormented man tipped the white bottle upside down with trembling hands and mimicked the action of throwing pills into his mouth.

But clearly, even this provided only slight relief, he was still curled up on the sofa in pain.

"He got the drug, but it should only be regular drugs.

"Because, under the most streamlined conditions, it takes 3 rounds of the game for special drugs to reach the patient.

"Having taken it twice but failing to completely relieve pain, it seems he most likely faced ’special pain.’

"Have the Infected appeared so early?

"Although, this isn’t necessarily a bad thing. After enduring severe pain, players will be more inclined to buy medicine.

"Moreover, he is the VIP patient in Area B, I can lock onto his location, which might be useful information for players in Area B."

Considering this, Ye Lin first sent a request to the doctor’s clinic where Shen Qingyun was.

According to the game’s rules, in this round, Shen Qingyun will most likely meet with a patient, yet Ye Lin still sent her request, leaving the choice to meet with the other party.

But there was no response.

This is also normal, so Ye Lin turned to send a request to the other Auditor, the Auditor in Area B.

Very soon, the other party agreed to the request, Ye Lin prepared some medicines and pushed the door to enter.

The Auditor this time was a male player, who appeared very young, only in his early twenties, and looked quite handsome. 𝒇𝙧𝙚𝓮𝙬𝙚𝓫𝒏𝓸𝓿𝓮𝒍.𝓬𝙤𝓶

He had sharp eyebrows and bright eyes, a prominent nose, among all the players Ye Lin had seen, he was one with quite outstanding looks.

This made Ye Lin subconsciously glance at the name tag on his chest.

[Community 8 - Xu Yiheng.]