Chapter 568: Chapter 568: The Only Variable

Huang Shengjie paused for a moment, then suddenly realized: "Once both players on either side of the door reach an agreement, the door will unlock.

"However, the game rules state that ’players can only open one door in the room.’

This means there’s a potential bug scenario: the doctor agrees to the request, the door is unlocked. But you deliberately open the lounge door instead.

This way, your medical points will still be awarded to the doctor, but the doctor won’t be able to meet with others."

Qian Li nodded: "Yes.

The structure of the doctor’s consultation room is unique; only patients can enter the doctor’s room, but the doctor can’t open the door to enter the patient’s room.

Other patients’ doors remain locked, so naturally, they can’t see the doctor either.

After reaching the lounge, I deliberately used verbal tactics to isolate the players not present in the lounge.

And, I intentionally emphasized the concept of ’the first three rounds of the game.’

This way, you’ll also worry that if you’re not in the lounge in the next round, you’ll surely be isolated by me too.

Moreover, considering the second round, the doctor hasn’t received the special medicine, which reduces your willingness to meet the doctor and lowers the amount of ’red envelopes’ you’re willing to give.

In short, at the beginning of the game, I used this method to stop you from meeting the doctor.

Of course, from the doctor’s perspective, he doesn’t lose out: although I didn’t meet him, the ’red envelope’ for door opening was securely received by him.

And as luck would have it, in the first game round, once I entered the lounge, I immediately recognized Zhang Yuan.

We both immediately realized this was a great opportunity.

We very tactfully used this information gap to create a scheme, where we respectively played the roles of ’opinion leader’ and ’opponent’ in the lounge.

Upon leaving, with the help of a collision, I slipped him a pill.

Such a non-machine-aided transaction act is considered a transaction violation, but it only incurs a 10% deduction upon exiting the game, which is completely acceptable to us.

And the reason for sharing the medicine was to facilitate the scheme that followed.

After returning to our rooms, I immediately called him to refine the plan’s details."

Qian Li paused slightly, before continuing: "According to the game rules, the infected will refresh randomly among players in the zone.

The infected could be one of us, or it could be someone else.

In any case, we had prepared corresponding contingency plans.

If neither of us was selected, we’d continue using the double act: one isolates and excludes the infected, while the other shows goodwill to the infected.

Further dividing you.

And if one of us became the infected, the scenario that actually happened would occur:

Zhang Yuan, being the actual infected, would take the regular medicine and hold out, pretending as if nothing happened;

While I would deliberately act as the infected, not taking medicine and enduring the regular pain, rubbing my eyes red, deliberately washing my face but leaving a little water residue...

Overall, using these methods, allowed the real infected, Zhang Yuan, to pass the special pain to you.

In the next round, we both offered 5000 medical points each to ensure meeting the doctor.

Due to the sudden infection, you were caught off guard, wanting to come to the lounge to figure out what exactly happened and to confront Zhang Yuan face-to-face, while hesitating whether or not to meet the doctor, making it hard to quickly decide and offer enough medical points.

We, having planned, could roughly estimate your psychological price, enough to secure this precious meeting opportunity."

Zhou Xiaoying frowned: "But in the next game round, I also offered 4000 medical points!

Does this mean next round, you offered more than 4000 points?

Where did you get so many points?"

Qian Li shook her head: "No, after that round, we didn’t give any more medical points.

Because in that game round, Zhang Yuan and I persuaded the doctors to join our plan.

In simple terms, we made them believe that cooperating with us would definitely drain all your visa time.

Compared to receiving red envelopes and meeting you, it was a more worry-free and lucrative option."

Zhou Xiaoying still didn’t quite understand: "But..."

Zhang Yuan added: "In the previous three game rounds, the two doctors realized two things:

First, Qian Li and I are more skilled than you, and with the scheme nearly complete, we could drain all your visa time;

Second, Qian Li and I are more generous, adhering to the agreement to allocate sufficient medical points to them.

So, the proposal we made to the doctors was: we monopolize Class O and F drugs and sell them to you. The doctors only needed to stock up and count money.

This was the most worry-free option for them."

Of course, if Qian Li and I failed, not providing enough medical points, they could choose to breach the agreement and meet you anytime.

Huang Shengjie suddenly understood.

He had tried offering 5000 medical points, but the doctor still didn’t open the door.

This wasn’t because others offered a higher price, but because the doctor had agreed to cooperate with Qian Li and Zhang Yuan, avoiding these troubles.

If the doctor chose to meet with Huang Shengjie, he might ask about the different drugs, the differences between them, or even inquire who the doctor met before. 𝐟𝗿𝐞𝚎𝚠𝐞𝚋𝕟𝐨𝚟𝐞𝕝.𝕔𝕠𝚖

Doctors may not be adept at lying and deception; if a flaw was seen through, it’d be difficult to continue fooling Huang Shengjie and might unravel the scheme involving Qian Li and Zhang Yuan.

From the doctor’s point of view, the 5000 medical points sent by Huang Shengjie would eventually be theirs, so they didn’t care at all.

Suddenly, something occurred to Huang Shengjie, and his mouth twitched slightly: "The two doctors in our Zone C are truly ’all about the money,’ huh...

No wonder earlier, when a player pointed out, they said Chen Guangming in sales had quickly opened up our Zone C’s channels.

Because our zone’s auditor and doctor never thought about resisting, it was purely an instant match...

Clearly, Zone C’s quick downfall was a result of both parties moving towards each other.

Chen Guangming persuaded the auditor on the first meeting, and the doctors quickly got convinced by both the auditor and what Qian Li and Zhang Yuan said.

Without any friction, they collectively crafted the scheme.

It wasn’t that Chen Guangming was too strong, but they encountered no resistance.

Soon, Huang Shengjie had a new question.

"But...

When did Lawyer Lin get the M-class drugs from the doctors?"

Lin Sizhi explained: "In the first game round, I met with the doctors and bought additional Class I drugs from them.

These two doctors surely aren’t players of high moral standards, but being money-driven often means adjusting their stance based on people."

Huang Shengjie was taken aback: "Is it that simple?"

Lin Sizhi nodded: "It’s that simple."