Chapter 92: Love Welfare Institute (1/2)
The plant patient’s pale eyes darted around in the eye sockets. He wobbled to his feet, his hands shaking as he approached the blood ganoderma lucidum on the hospital bed.
Mu Ke warily backed away from the bed and this patient. He slowly retreated until his back reached the door.
There was the sound of the high heels of the patrolling nurses in the corridor. Once Mu Ke went out, he would be caught by these night patrol nurses and forcibly brought back in. Patients weren’t allowed to leave the ward at night because it was a hospital rule that monsters would roam the hospital at night and harm the patients.
Moreover, a commotion in the ICU ward at night might be discussed by the nurses tomorrow during the day. If this was known to Miao Feichi’s team then the situation Bai Liu worked so hard to create previously would be useless.
Mu Ke slowly shifted his eyes to the patient opposite him and the blood ganoderma lucidum on the hospital bed. It was reasonable to say that he wasn’t completely at a dead end. The monsters here had weaknesses and the weaknesses were quite obvious. Based on the information Mu Ke received, it was written that the blood ganoderma lucidum was in the body of the patient. If the blood ganoderma lucidum wasn’t destroyed then the patient wouldn’t die. If the blood ganoderma lucidum was destroyed then the patient would die.
However, the blood ganoderma lucidum wasn’t only the weakness of the plant patient. It also added a bonus buff!
[The Love Welfare Institute Monster Book has refreshed—Plant Patient (2/3)]
[Monster Name: Plant Patient (blood ganoderma lucidum activated version)]
[Features: 500 movement speed, needs a lot of water for growth, likes humid environments.]
[Weaknesses: ??? (Unexplored)]
[Attack mode: blood sucking, liquid (due to the blood ganoderma lucidum bonus, it has upgraded from an A to S-grade skill), poisonous fog pollution (due to the blood ganoderma lucidum bonus, it has upgraded from an A to S-grade skill).]
[The monster ‘plant patient’ has received the ‘blood ganoderma lucidum’ as an auxiliary bonus to replenish the blood energy. The monster’s comprehensive evaluation is upgraded from A-grade to S-grade. Players below B-grade will be killed with one hit.]
Mu Ke only had a C+ panel and was going to rush past to destroy the blood ganoderma lucidum. Then he saw the comprehensive evaluation and looked at the paper in his hand. He thought about how he hadn’t passed the information to Bai Liu yet. He had to grit his teeth and step back.
The opposite patient still seemed to be in the recovery period. He was standing by the bed and eating the blood ganoderma lucidum, the corners of his mouth full of blood. He didn’t come to Mu Ke but Mu Ke knew this was only temporary. Once the monster had eaten enough of the blood ganoderma lucidum to recover, he would definitely be in danger.
There were some items in the game that couldn’t be put in the backpack, such as these notes and books. However, there was so much information that there was no way for Mu Ke to use the keyboard to deliver it.
Yet if he passed it on in a more straightforward manner, it would surely fall out when he was dead. If Miao Feichi came over to the ICU the next day and saw the contact equipment, opening it, Bai Liu’s identity would instantly be revealed.
What to do? Mu Ke anxiously bit his fingernails. How could he pass on this information?!
Mu Ke’s eyes fell on the bookcase and then to the torn page in his hand. His eyes gradually calmed down. Bai Liu was currently in his room and he remembered the arrangement of every book in his bookcase. This was enough.
Bai Liu’s panel suddenly rang. He still had Mu Ke’s personal panel loaded and now it suddenly rang. He hadn’t controlled it so it meant Mu Ke was controlling it. Bai Liu had been leaning against the door and faked sleeping while waiting for Mu Ke’s news. The moment the sound came, Bai Liu immediately opened eyes that contained no sleepiness. He clicked on the system backpack and the keyboard.
‘Y, F5.’ Bai Liu stared intently at the keyboard. Soon, four new keycaps were removed from the keyboard. ‘X, 45.’ Then it was ‘Z, 678.’ Finally, the last one was ‘enter.’
This meant that the information input was completed and the task operation could be started.
Bai Liu narrowed his eyes. XYZ, this was a three dimensional axis. In addition, the shape F was very much like—Bai Liu’s gaze instantly moved to the bookcase in the room and he slightly raised an eye.
Mu Ke, this guy’s memory was actually strong to this point?
Bai Liu quickly understood what Mu Ke wanted to express but he was still surprised that this person’s memory was so good. F represented the number of shelves on the bookcase, X represented the number of books on the bookcase and Z represented the page number in the book.
After reading the bookcase, Mu Ke actually remembered the placement, shelf number and page number of all the books in the bookcase in his ward. Finally, he could think of using this axis form to pass a message to Bai Liu.
If it was someone else, even if they could find the information in the ICU, they wouldn’t be able to pass the information on with the keyboard only. Remembering the location of specific information on the bookcase and using the coordinate axis that corresponded to it wasn’t something that ordinary people could do. No wonder why Mu Ke’s father tried his best to save Mu Ke. Such a talented genius would create infinite value even if he lived for only one more year.
Bai Liu started to look through the books. After finding the corresponding page number, Bai Liu didn’t fold it or make notes to mark the page. These methods were too cumbersome. Bai Liu didn’t hesitate to tear off the page designated by Mu Ke. In order to confuse people, he also shamelessly tore off a few more unrelated pages.
The hospital might explicitly forbid the destruction of books but now it was night and he couldn’t be caught. In addition, this was Mu Ke’s room so he tore out the pages without any psychological burden.
After tearing them out, Bai Liu took off another ‘enter’ keycap to indicate he had completed the execution. Soon, Mu Ke sent a new string of coordinates. Bai Liu quickly found it and tore out the page. The communication speed and execution was very fast. Less than five minutes later, Mu Ke took off the ‘end’ keycap. This represented the end of the information transmission.
Bai Liu glanced at the information on these pages and he soon frowned. “If the ganoderma lucidum isn’t destroyed, the body won’t die…” If it was what he understood… Bai Liu’s eyes narrowed. There was something wrong on Mu Ke’s side. The patient wasn’t dead at all.
Bai Liu’s eyes swept over the panel. On Mu Ke’s stable panel attributes, the mental value started to decline at a rapid speed and a small line of red words was next to it.
[System warning: Player Mu Ke is suffering from the plant patient’s poisonous fog pollution. This S-grade attack will wipe out the mental value in one and a half minutes! Asking player Mu Ke to quickly leave the range of the monster’s poisonous fog pollution attack!]
Mu Ke crouched down under Bai Liu’s hospital bed, covering his mouth in an attempt to hold back the urge to cough in this fog.
The monster patient on the other hospital bed sniffed, his arms and legs holding the iron bars on both sides of the bed like a spider. His body arched up and his head lowered, exposing his sharp teeth. He chewed on the blood ganoderma lucidum on the bed with a huge mouth. The blood ganoderma lucidum that was as big as a millstone was soon eaten by the patient’s jagged teeth.
The patient’s abdomen was bulging like a spider’s belly. He saw the mycelium that had been eaten by the patient squirming in the stomach, like mycelium wrapped in a translucent blood membrane. As he chewed on the blood ganoderma lucidum, the patient’s body sprayed a red fog that was visible to the naked eye.
The fog soon spread throughout the entire ward, turning the ward a strange, pale pink color. Mu Ke was forced to inhale the fog as he breathed under the bed. His mind soon became groggy and his mental value dropped at an abnormal speed.
Mu Ke originally struggled to buy a bottle of mental bleach but once he passed on the information, his main identity line with only 6 health had no more value. It didn’t matter if he died. If he was dead, he could completely give Bai Liu the status of ‘Mu Ke’ so there was no need to waste points to save himself.
His pupils dilated and his breathing was slightly rapid as he curled up in an insecure manner under the bed where Bai Liu had lain.
Yes, Bai Liu had calmly given up his main identity line as well. The useless main identity line could be abandoned. This was what Bai Liu had said and Mu Ke could do it as well. Mu Ke closed his eyes and kept hypnotizing himself, even though his hand holding the pages trembled slightly.
His mental value kept declining as the monster finished eating the blood ganoderma lucidum and looked up, belching like he was content. Then he climbed down from the hospital bed and started sniffing around to find him. Mu Ke covered his mouth and trembled due to fear.
Tears quickly filled Mu Ke’s eyes. He gasped hard as he dug out three keycaps on the keyboard, passing on the last message to Bai Liu.
[Delete], [M], [E].