Chapter 554: Chapter 554: Transmitting Information

Through the floor-to-ceiling window, Tan Minglei’s surprise was evident when he heard the "beep beep" communication request from the automated vending machine. He endured the pain and walked over, pressing the ’Answer’ button.

"Who are you?" Tan Minglei’s voice was somewhat hoarse.

Ye Lin realized that this call function wouldn’t show the other party her location or name.

So she didn’t introduce herself either and instead said, "That’s not important. I can find a way to help you, but I hope you can truthfully answer a few questions for me."

Tan Minglei’s voice clearly carried suspicion: "You? Helping me?"

"Alright, there’s not much time, go ahead and ask."

Ye Lin: "You must have already bought medication from the doctor, right? What did the doctor tell you about the types of medication?"

Tan Minglei was silent for a moment: "Only one M-type medication."

Ye Lin pressed on: "The price?"

Tan Minglei: "1500 medical points each."

Ye Lin’s eyebrows twitched: "Each?"

Tan Minglei: "Yes."

Ye Lin took a deep breath: "Do you want to know the real prices of these medications?

"There are four special medications in Sales, namely C-type, M-type, O-type, and F-type. C-type can provide complete analgesia for normal pain, preventing it from worsening.

"M-type, O-type, and F-type can provide complete analgesia for special pain.

"All medications come in bottles of five tablets.

"The suggested retail price for M-type medications is 1200-1500 medical points per bottle.

"As for the other three medications, the minimum prices are 500, 100, and 200 respectively."

On the other end, Tan Minglei was silent for a long time before asking incredulously: "You’re saying O-type medication, which can completely cure special pain, is 100 medical points for five tablets?"

Ye Lin nodded: "Yes.

"But to be honest, that’s the lowest price at which Sales can acquire them. There will certainly be some profit margins during sale because it has to pass through two stages.

"There’s one more thing I must tell you truthfully:

"O-type and F-type medications have some side effects. In excessive doses, they may cause a risk of drug addiction.

"Maybe the doctor sells only M-type medications considering this."

Tan Minglei laughed somewhat self-deprecatingly: "Risk of drug addiction?

"Ha, you probably haven’t suffered from special pain.

"If you felt this kind of pain like I did, you’d know that I wouldn’t care about any side effects right now. I’d pay any price just to keep that pain at bay!

"That’s why I spent 4500 points on 3 tablets!

"You’re Sales, aren’t you?

"You’re telling me this information because you want me to share it with all the patients?"

Ye Lin didn’t answer directly: "I can assure you that what I said is true. You can try verifying it through other channels.

"I can completely accept a model of thin profits and quick turnover, as long as it’s not selling at a loss, I can accept.

"I just can’t accept my goodwill being exploited by others as a profit margin for middlemen.

"Of course, this is all I can do.

"As for how you patients can proceed and whether you can obtain medication at normal prices, it’s up to you."

Tan Minglei said silently: "Thank you."

Ye Lin ended the call.

In fact, she could have chosen to extend the call time, even sacrificing the chance to meet with other players in the next round of the game.

But she didn’t plan to do that, after all, this brief 1-minute call was already enough.

The information she gleaned from Tan Minglei confirmed her suspicions even more.

"I knew it would be like this.

"In such a game, how could there truly be a doctor who would selflessly give up their own interests to wholeheartedly help the patients?"

Ye Lin sat on the sofa and let out a long sigh.

As the game progressed, she had already extracted a considerable amount of information from Xu Yiheng’s words.

During their first meeting, Ye Lin showed her sincerity as openly as possible, and this sincerity was certain to outweigh the other Sales.

This sincerity was rewarded: Xu Yiheng clearly trusted her more and more.

And using this trust, Ye Lin also obtained valuable information from Xu Yiheng, the most valuable being the prototypes and effects of the four medications.

This was the core secret of the entire game.

This meant Xu Yiheng wasn’t a suspicious player, but rather, he extended enough trust to players who expressed kindness clearly.

Given the current situation, Xu Yiheng likely wasn’t a new player introduced in the second phase.

Perhaps he joined midway through the first phase or due to benefiting from this gameplay style in the first phase, developed a sort of path dependency.

This type of player, who favors kindness and cooperation, is rare in the Walkway and meeting one is certainly fortunate.

On the other hand, their goodwill is also more easily exploited.

...

Ye Lin again came to the floor-to-ceiling window and looked towards the VIP patient room on the other side of Zone A.

She held four different medications in her hand and placed each against the glass of the floor-to-ceiling window to show the other side.

This patient visibly hesitated, quickly moving closer to observe his own floor-to-ceiling window.

Although separated by an atrium, the distance between them was not too far, and the letters on the bottles should still be barely visible.

Then, Ye Lin gestured the prices of the four different medications.

Six, twelve, one, two.

...

Meanwhile, Qin Cheng was also focused on the doors of his diagnostics room leading to other patients.

The request came from a regular patient room, submitted by Li Haoqiang.

After waiting a while, confirming no other patients requested, Qin Cheng accepted the request.

Li Haoqiang entered somewhat flustered: "Doctor!

"I, I think I’m infected!"

Qin Cheng motioned him to sit across: "Don’t rush, sit down first. Were you selected by the system to become infected, or were you infected by another player?

"How many infected are there in the rest area now?"

Li Haoqiang said: "Currently... just me."

Qin Cheng breathed a sigh of relief: "That’s alright, don’t worry."

At this point, it was the 9th round of the game, and over an hour had already passed in the total 4-hour game.

This meant the second infected player chosen by the system was likely already here.

According to game rules, each hour a player is randomly selected as infected, but it isn’t necessarily in the first round of the hour but happens with some randomness.

The last time the infected was another regular player, who also sought out Qin Cheng immediately.

Qin Cheng chose to portion out three tablets of M-type medication and sell them at the price of 300 medical points per tablet.

Of course, this made Qin Cheng infected himself, so during the subsequent games, Qin Cheng also took three tablets of M-type medication for treatment.

Luckily, this infected person didn’t deliberately spread the infection to other patients but sought help from the doctor first, so the severe pain didn’t spread.

Now, having first met Qin Cheng in the first round of games, the regular patient Li Haoqiang was unfortunately selected by the system to become infected in the second hour.

But with the previous experience, Qin Cheng was handling it more smoothly.

He took out a bottle containing three tablets and handed it over.

"Here are M-type medications that can treat special pain, totaling three tablets, with each tablet priced at 300 medical points, totaling 900.

"When you return to your room, take one tablet each game round, and by taking it for three consecutive rounds you can ensure recovery.

"Be sure, don’t take more."