Changed intimacy points -> favorability
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The room turned silent. Cao Qian asked, "Is there a way to confirm whether the asles patient is really a player?"
Xing Ye shook his head, "With my current abilities, no. To use Wrongly Used Projector, I need to make direct contact with the other party. Last night, we just ran away and I didn't touch the infected monster. Even if I make contact with him now, it'll be useless if the actual player's already been replaced with the monster. We've already missed the best chance."
The little mirror suddenly started shaking in his bag like he wanted to say sothing. Xing Ye told the three, "One mont, I need to fix my makeup."
He tactfully said he needed to use the washroom. Yan Hebi's eyes shined: Little Yiyi is beautiful inside and out! anwhile, Cao Qian and Guan Ling's faces twisted strangely.
After entering the washroom, Xing Ye took the mirror out and asked, "Did you want to say sothing?"
"I do!" The beautiful young man in the mirror said, "I don't think I told you my starting abilities yet. I'll talk about Devastating Beauty later, the important one now is Truth Eye. It doesn't require any points to be used."
"Truth Eye?"
The mirror jumped excitedly, "Yes! If you show
the video of the asles patient from yesterday, I'll be able to tell whether he's a player or not. I can't tell if he's infected or not from the video, but if I see him in real life, I'm sure there will be so slight differences I can use to confirm."
Xing Ye was very surprised, "That's a good ability."
"Of course~" The mirror raised his nose proudly, "I said liking
would be worth it."
Xing Ye looked at him curiously and asked, "Before I lost my mory, was our favorability also this high? I heard Cao Qian say favorability points take the lowest of the two values. Does that an the lowest value between us is 80?"
“Of course." The mirror flicked his head, "You liked
sooo much before you lost your mory. As soon as we returned to the real world, you would rush to see my body and even help comfort my parents.
"Even in the world where we t for the first ti, you picked
over accepting any QR codes as a reward.
"You were even more like that in Puppet City! You said you would never leave
and even if sothing happened to you, you would always make sure I was safe."
Xing Ye: "..."
He didn't think the mirror was lying, but he found it a little odd to think he had been so attached to a mirror.
Could it be that... Xing Ye shook his head. Impossible, he and the mirror were just friends, good friends that relied on each other.
He took the mirror and left the bathroom. He walked up to Yan Hebi, "I have a way to check the asles patient's true identity. Can you find the security footage from the first night we arrived in this world, the ti before the asles patient turned into a monster?"
Yan Hebi did as Xing Ye asked. Xing Ye naturally opened the mirror and set it facing the computer.
They watched the first night play out on the screen. The asles patient quietly snuck out of his ward and walked around the hallway before poking his head into the nurses' station. He explored the infectious disease departnt for over half an hour before going downstairs.
To continue tracking him, they needed to check the other surveillance footage. Xing Ye didn't pursue it and turned to look in the mirror.
This was enough, they just needed to confirm his identity.
Sure enough, the mirror wrote "Yes".
"He is the last opposing fate player." Xing Ye said confidently, "He went out at night to search for clues."
Guan Ling sighed, "If only I knew his identity last night, then maybe it wouldn't have been too late."
"Don't rush to bla yourself for it. Your ability is ineffective against the parasites and it's unknown whether he could've been saved after turning into a monster. We still need to investigate." Xing Ye said.
His eyes were filled with confidence. It seed like he had a plan.
"What should we do next?" Cao Qian asked.
Xing Ye said, "There are three things we need to do. First, Cao Qian should reach out to the cancer patient and negotiate with him. Say we can treat his cancer, but only in exchange for the clues he found in the departnt head's office. Second, Guan Ling should find the departnt head and tell him he encountered a monster the last night. Your acting needs to be realistic. Demand to see the monitoring footage and see how the departnt head reacts. Third, Yan Hebi should go to the Obstetrics and Gynecology departnt and 'accidentally' encounter the player, Nurse Lin. Try and get close to her. If you can get the antibody, that would be best."
Guan Ling thought for a while, "But I spent the entire day with you guys instead of finding the departnt head imdiately. Wouldn't that make him suspicious instead?"
Xing Ye said, "It'll depend on your acting skills. You can tell the departnt head that you stayed with us to persuade us not to leak what happened."
"That's a good idea." Guan Ling nodded.
"We'll wait for Cao Qian to talk to the cancer patient and get his clues before making contact with the departnt head." Xing Ye ordered, "Yan Hebi's too."
After he assigned everyone's duties, Cao Qian sent the cancer patient a text. When they t each other earlier, they had added each other on WeChat.
When the cancer patient heard they could heal him, he imdiately said he would rush over and asked the three to wait for him.
Even if Yan Hebi had nothing to say, he could always find sothing to say. "Little Yiyi, you're so cool! You could tell whether the asles patient was a player with one glance."
Xing Ye actually had no way to be certain. The reason why he could be so sure was because of his trust in the mirror.
He naturally raised the mirror to reflect his face, giving the mirror a slight smile in praise before turning to Yan Hebi, "You just have to observe the details."
Xing Ye was currently sitting on the bed, legs crossed as he leaned back on his hands. Yan Hebi watched for a while before speaking up, "Little Yiyi, you told
to seduce that following fate player. Aren't you afraid I'll end up liking her and defecting to their team?"
Xing Ye's face chilled, "First, I asked you to scout information, not seduce. Second, if you defect, the next ti we et we'll be enemies. Either you die or I live."
Yan Hebi hurriedly said, "I won't defect, I was just joking. I wanted to see how much Little Yiyi cared about ."
Guan Ling muttered beside them, "Either you die or I live? That sentence doesn't seem to make sense..."
Sobody knocked on the door. Cao Qian was about to open it but Xing Ye stopped her, asking her to send a ssage checking whether it was really the cancer patient first. Regardless of whether he had his mory or not, Xing Ye was always very cautious. When care was necessary, he would not be negligent.
Cao Qian confird before opening the door. A very pale and skinny middle-aged man walked into the room unsteadily, clutching his chest in pain. He asked, "I heard you guys can treat ?"
Xing Ye gave Cao Qian a look. She understood and undid the gauze on her left leg, "Look at my dical record card. My left leg originally needed to be amputated but now it's fully recovered. One of our group mbers has a healing ability that can be used multiple tis. If you tell us what you found, we can heal you."
The cancer patient called Ge Kuangyi turned excited, "If you heal , I'll tell you everything I know!"
"Tell us first and then we'll heal you." Xing Ye said slowly.
Ge Kuangyi shook his head, "Then this discussion's over. What if you refuse to heal
afterward? I won't say anything."
Xing Ye gave a slight smile, "Mr. Ge, I think there's sothing you need to understand. The information you found in the departnt head's office is sothing we can find as well- we're only asking you to save ti. On the other hand, with that body of yours, it'll only be a few days before you succumb to illness.
"In my view, there are no losses for you in trading with us and it's even charitable on our side; we're wasting points and a use of the healing ability for intelligence we can get ourselves. We were kindhearted and didn't want to see you continue suffering."
Ge Kuangyi's expression turned very ugly. He stared at Xing Ye silently.
Xing Ye shook his head at Cao Qian brusquely, "Send him off."
Cao Qian faithfully followed Xing Ye's orders. Just as Ge Kuangyi was about to be thrown out, he shouted, "I'll talk, I'll talk!"
Xing Ye's lips curved as he slowly leaned back, waiting for Ge Kuangyi to tell him everything.
Ge Kuangyi saw the four all staring at him impatiently and could only speak, "I refused to cooperate with treatnt and the original cancer patient's family mbers started arguing with the departnt head. I took the chance to slip into his office and take a CD. I took the CD because he had just taken it out of the safe when we charged in and started arguing with him. He didn't have the ti to put it back and so I managed to snatch it."
"What's inside?"
Ge Kuangyi shook his head, "I got a laptop to see, but there's a password on it."
He took the CD out of his shirt, "I'll give you the CD, but you need to share what's on it with
and heal ."
Xing Ye nodded, "No wonder you were so willing to trade, it's information you can't even use. But you're right, there's definitely sothing on this disk."
Now, they needed Yan Hebi. Xing Ye passed the disk to Yan Hebi and asked him to crack it.
At the sa ti, Guan Ling received Xing Ye's signal and touched Ge Kuangyi. A few seconds later, Ge Kuangyi said excitedly, "It's not sore, it doesn't hurt anymore! I'm starving!"
His gaze couldn't help but gravitate to the takeout boxes Xing Ye had left on the desk. Xing Ye ordered a bunch of dishes and there were still a few they hadn't finished. They had tidied it up and planned to eat it later. It was already cold.
Noticing the greed on Ge Kuangyi's face, Xing Ye waved his hand. Ge Kuangyi imdiately picked up the food, inhaling it in large gulps.
On the other side, Yan Hebi wiped the sweat off his forehead and said, "Good thing my starting ability's strong and I have a quick reaction ti. The CD actually sends a notification when there's an attempt to unlock it, but I managed to cut off the internet connection in ti so it's limited to this computer. However, you won't be able to go online with this again or it'll be discovered."
Xing Ye didn't care, "It's fine, I'll just buy a new one. Did you find anything important?"
"There's stuff on here, but it's not readable." Yan Hebi shook his head.
Xing Ye walked over and saw the file was filled with garbled text, like so kind of secret code. He studied it for a while but couldn't find anything.
"We need the cipher key to translate the secret ssage. We might need to look through the departnt head's office again." Xing Ye frowned.
He glanced at Guan Ling. Guan Ling knew he wanted him to test the departnt head and left. Xing Ye was a little worried about sending him alone and decided to go through the staircase and wait in a corner of the hall near the departnt head's office with Cao Qian. They used the surveillance cara's blind spots to avoid being seen.
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