Chapter 569: Chapter 569: Sharing Medication

Huang Shengjie was still a bit confused: "But, didn’t Qian Li and Zhang Yuan reach an agreement with the doctor to isolate the doctor from the other patients?

"The doctor no longer sees us.

"So if you, Lawyer Lin, want to see the doctor again, isn’t that also..."

Lin Sizhi shook his head: "If I want to see the doctor, I can still do so at any time.

"I mentioned before, those whose motives are money-driven often also tailor their actions according to people.

"The doctor on the right doesn’t believe that Qian Li and Zhang Yuan can deceive me into giving them medical points, so he naturally wants to maintain cooperation with me to earn extra profits.

"Moreover, due to the different division of labor between Qian Li and Zhang Yuan, the initial main profits were with Qian Li and the doctor on the left.

"It’s only in the later stages, which is about now, when you all can’t bear it any longer and try Zhang Yuan’s type F drugs, that the doctor on the right can start to gain significant profits.

"That’s one of the reasons he chose to continue collaborating with me."

Zhang Yuan looked at Lin Sizhi with a peculiar expression, saying with emotion: "Speaking of it sounds simple, but actually implementing it is a different matter."

To achieve this, the premise within a game round is to make the doctor believe, through words and behavior, that you are strong enough and will never fall into other players’ traps.

And in every subsequent meeting, maintain that image.

Lin Sizhi undoubtedly has such ability, but other players may not be able to adopt this strategy.

Huang Shengjie’s doubts have all been answered, and he naturally followed this line of reasoning.

"So... according to your original plan, after we three become addicted to drugs, you will significantly raise the prices of both types of drugs, thus draining all our medical points.

"Afterward, force us to incur debt, exchanging medical points at a ratio of 2:1 or even 4:1.

"These profits will be distributed among all players in the entire interest chain until the game ends."

Zhang Yuan and Qian Li didn’t speak, but their attitude was one of tacit consent.

Their plan was indeed like this, only due to luck, a variable appeared.

That variable being Lin Sizhi happened to be assigned to another VIP room.

Everyone fell silent.

Huang Shengjie felt a bit of a headache: "I see...

"You veteran players have such deep strategies, this game is really too unfair to new players."

Zhou Xiaoying’s expression was clearly a bit angry too.

Qian Li spread her hands: "I’m sorry, but... welcome to the Walkway."

The three players who were calculated indeed had nothing to say, in a life-and-death game like this, it’s all about deceit and abilities, using morality to criticize other players is meaningless.

They can only blame themselves for not being smart enough.

...

This round of the game is about to end.

Lin Sizhi looked at Qian Li and Zhang Yuan: "You both must also have type M drugs in your possession.

"Let’s each take out a bottle and give it to these three."

Qian Li was stunned: "What? We have to give too?"

Lin Sizhi nodded: "Having caused them such misery, we should give some compensation."

Zhang Yuan furrowed his brows: "Would it be because you don’t have enough type M drugs in your possession?"

Lin Sizhi smiled: "You guess."

Zhang Yuan silently sighed and took out an unopened bottle of type M drugs from his pocket.

Qian Li and Lin Sizhi each took out a bottle as well.

Zhou Xiaoying still wanted to go to the trading machine, but Lin Sizhi motioned for her to sit back down.

"Just take it directly, don’t go through the trading machine to avoid cross-contamination."

Qian Li and Zhang Yuan passed the type M drugs in their hands to Zhou Xiaoying and Du Peng, their faces full of reluctance, but in the end, they acquiesced.

Lin Sizhi handed his type M drug to Huang Shengjie then stood up: "From the next round of the game onward, we can start doing more meaningful things."

...

Back in his room, Huang Shengjie quickly tore open the plastic seal of the type M drug, took out a pill and placed it in his hand.

He knew that he was still an infected person and would next endure two types of pain.

First was the special agony within the game’s rules, and following the special agony was the withdrawal pain caused by the side effects of type O drugs.

According to Lin Sizhi, there was only one method now:

Use type M drugs to alleviate the agony, as for the withdrawal pain, abstain from using any drugs and just tough it out.

Because, although type M drugs aren’t perfect drugs, and their side effects and addictiveness are relatively small, they still aren’t without.

Soon, the agony reappeared, and Huang Shengjie hurriedly swallowed the pill in his hand.

He originally considered if he couldn’t fully relieve the pain, he might need to take another pill, but quickly, the pain completely vanished.

Having experienced type O drugs, the feeling of relief from type M drugs isn’t nearly as wonderful, always feeling it’s lacking something.

However, perhaps this is also a reflection of it being safer.

Huang Shengjie let out a breath and tightened the cap of the medicine bottle.

Clearly, according to the game’s rules, although different types of drugs are similar in composition, they are still regarded as different drugs, one type’s pain relief effect fading does not cause other drugs’ pain relief effects to reduce. 𝕗𝚛𝚎𝚎𝐰𝗲𝗯𝗻𝚘𝚟𝚎𝗹.𝕔𝐨𝕞

"Is this the Imitator’s mercy?

"No, not right, this seems to also be a trap...

"If Lawyer Lin hadn’t appeared, and what I took this time wasn’t type M drugs, but type F drugs?

"Then it would be dual drug addiction..."

Thinking of this possibility, Huang Shengjie felt terrified once more.

If he really chose to trust Zhang Yuan, purchase and consume type F drugs, then perhaps the initial effect might be very good, but after several game rounds, it’s highly likely the drug effect would fade and drug addiction would occur.

It could even be that both type O and type F become addictive.

At that time, he would be at the mercy of others, and god-like powers wouldn’t be able to save him.

Fortunately, although Lin Sizhi appeared a bit late, it wasn’t too late.

...

Soon, round 17 of the game started, the door opened.

That withdrawal pain like ants crawling all over his body reappeared and was even more intense than before, lasting a long time without fading.

Huang Shengjie could only hold on, slowly moving into the lounge, casually finding a folding chair to sit on.

Zhou Xiaoying asked with concern: "How are you, are you okay?"

Huang Shengjie nodded: "I’m fine, actually, I feel much better."

Zhou Xiaoying was skeptical, but what Huang Shengjie said was indeed the truth.

Although his physical condition was worse, mentally he felt much better.

Before, Huang Shengjie didn’t know how to break the deadlock, seemingly having several paths to choose from, but in reality, none of them could be traversed, this kind of anguish and despair was far worse than physical pain.

And now, Lin Sizhi has already informed him that the only correct solution is merely to endure the pain, which for Huang Shengjie became a bearable task.

But clearly, Zhou Xiaoying made a different choice than him.

She didn’t endure the pain, and this certainly wasn’t because the effect of drug addiction faded.

Huang Shengjie asked worriedly: "Did you take type O drugs again?"