Regarding this raid operation, Song Yu and Xiao Hei maintained a stance of adapting to circumstances as they unfolded.
They didn’t side with the NPCs, nor did they align themselves with the players.
To put it simply, they were fence-sitters; Song Yu only needed to ensure the safety of herself and Xiao Hei.
Toward these players who stubbornly refused to leave, as well as the mounting crowd of players inside and around the clinic, Doctor Zhong displayed zero outward reaction.
After spending a full night interacting and working together, Song Yu had successfully integrated herself into the internal ranks of the clinic, maintaining great relationships with everyone there.
Including Doctor Zhong, this clinic boasted a total of 7 official staff members, excluding outsourced personnel like Song Yu.
Facing hundreds of players, no matter how one looked at it, the NPC side did not hold the upper hand in terms of sheer numbers.
However, this was a technologically equipped world, after all, and the clinic possessed a great equalizer.
Namely, firearms.
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The melee weapons held by players were no match for guns and artillery.
A single face-to-face exchange meant certain death.
Yet the possibility of anomalous prodigies existing among the player faction couldn’t be ruled out entirely.
Song Yu paid these matters no mind. During the rest periods shared by her and Xiao Hei, human and dog dedicated their time to scouting out the terrain.
They combed through every sector surrounding the clinic, and Song Yu even managed to unearth 2 bottles of purified alcohol!
Purified alcohol combined with rag bandages could be utilized to manufacture disinfectant bandages—a trick Song Yu had picked up while shadowing Doctor Zhong.
As for rag bandages, their production required boiling water coupled with cotton cloth and scraps of fabric.
Without mastering the recipe for rag bandages or disinfectant bandages, generating bandages possessing health-restoration effects proved impossible.
Song Yu prepared to continue trailing alongside Doctor Zhong, striving to master the recipes for professional medical bandages and medical bullets as well.
Come to think of it, having mastered the recipe for rag bandages, Song Yu was fully equipped to start vending rag bandages to other players.
After all, a wound infection wouldn’t kill someone instantly, but draining an entire health bar to zero guaranteed immediate death!
It looked like she had stumbled upon yet another pathway to amassing vast wealth.
Furthermore, with Song Yu mastering medical skills, ordinary players wouldn’t readily harbor thoughts of assassinating her.
Killing players didn’t drop crafting recipes.
Thus, over the ensuing two days, Song Yu remained stationed entirely inside the clinic, refusing to budge anywhere else.
She not only accumulated sufficient supplies to exchange for [Eternal Companions] but also successfully mastered the recipe for professional medical bandages through stealthy observation.
The recipe for professional medical bandages proved slightly more intricate: disinfectant bandages served as the foundational base, which then had to be combined with a specialized herbal decoction, purified alcohol, and clean cotton gauze.
Doctor Zhong likely never anticipated that Song Yu possessed a talent so formidable that she could grasp the processes instantly.
Song Yu wasn’t short on cotton gauze; massive piles of it sat inside her and Xiao Hei’s backpack slots, as Song Yu habitually looted every scrap of fabric and firewood from every single house she had ever searched.
The real bottlenecks lay in the herbal decoction and the purified alcohol, both of which were exceedingly rare.
She would likely need to scour pharmacies, clinics, hospitals, or similar locations to secure them.
Or perhaps… breweries and hotels might yield results as well.
Aside from Song Yu’s successful stealth-learning, Xiao Hei’s newly acquired Three-Finger Art talent—which it had only recently unlocked—showed signs of steady progress as well.
Over the span of 3 days, operating on a 5% success rate, Xiao Hei had actually managed to accumulate a total of 3 experience points!
All of which had been experimented upon Song Yu’s own person.
Everything was tracking steadily toward a favorable trajectory.
That night, Song Yu wrapped up her shift rotation and retreated back to her room accompanied by Xiao Hei—quarters specially assigned to her by the clinic’s other staff members.
In recognition of Song Yu’s stellar performance, the clinic directly covered all her meals and lodging expenses.
Naturally, Xiao Hei’s provisions weren’t included.
She and Xiao Hei sat upon the bed, conscientiously conducting an inventory check of their recent material acquisitions.
First came the grenades: a total of 3 pieces. Following that were pistol bullets: 27 rounds, alongside 1 tear-gas canister and 7 bottles of molotov cocktails.
Next were medical supplies: 10 bottles of antibiotics, 10 rolls of professional-grade medical bandages, 1 Tier 1 medical bullet, 6 varieties of specialized disease-treatment medications, and a medical kit.
This medical kit was no ordinary storage box; regardless of how many varieties of medical supplies were packed inside, it occupied a single solitary backpack slot!
This served as the reward unlocked upon reaching a 50-point favorability rating across all clinic members, personally presented to Song Yu by Doctor Zhong herself at dinnertime!
Yet Song Yu’s expenditures were equally glaring, as every single item had been acquired by trading away food, water, and other supplies.
Presently, the mineral water remaining inside Song Yu’s spatial storage had dwindled to 67 bottles, accompanied by 1 potato, 15 standard nutrient meals, and 10 berries.
Additionally, miscellaneous utility items included matches, a hand-cranked flashlight, a barbecue grill, a mattress, and various odds and ends—including that four-door sedan missing both its keys and its gasoline.
Song Yu had stockpiled a considerable stash of mutated blood, which she planned to cash in all at once at Chen Su’s camp when the opportunity arose.
Beyond that, nothing else remained.
Pathetically meager.
Still, viewed broadly, her gains vastly outweighed her expenditures!
Should the players decide to abandon their raiding plans, Song Yu prepared to head over to Shuyuan’s domain and cash out her accumulated assets for those special items.
Wrapping up her inventory check, Song Yu transferred a portion of her food, water, and her sole medical bullet into Xiao Hei’s spatial slot.
Xiao Hei couldn’t make use of bandages, but medical bullets could be deployed simply by crunching down on them with its teeth.
In times of necessity, Xiao Hei could secure its own survival.
Having completed all preparations, Song Yu tucked herself into bed alongside Xiao Hei to catch some sleep.
Four hours later, her next shift rotation would begin, meaning she needed to squeeze every available second of rest out of her schedule.
The clinic’s labor was punishingly exhausting, requiring Song Yu to constantly assist in hauling patients and moving corpses throughout the day.
At the conclusion of every work shift, a severe starvation negative buff would materialize on Song Yu’s status panel.
Song Yu had tested it out; this signified that her fullness stat had plummeted down to a mere 10 points.
She hovered mere moments away from starving to death.
Fortunately, the clinic provided complimentary employee cafeteria meals, even though they consisted of little more than steamed buns, coarse cornmeal bread, and pickled mustard greens.
Drifting off to sleep, time elapsed swiftly as midnight approached.
On the eleventh day of the game, a system notification chimed quietly into existence.
[On the eleventh day of the game, one-third of the instance’s progression has elapsed. All zombie panel attributes will be elevated by 10%; all players are advised to respond with earnest vigilance.]
[The game administration wishes all players good luck.]
Song Yu’s eyelids twitched slightly, though she didn’t rouse from slumber.
Until the abrupt cracking of gunfire shattered the silence outside—positioned with extreme proximity, ringing out as though pressed directly against Song Yu’s ear!
She snapped her eyes wide open, hurrying swiftly over to the window to peer cautiously outside.
“!!”
The skies outside the clinic glowed with overwhelming sheets of fire, and the massive expanse of the open clearing out front appeared to have been doused with some accelerant, erupting into a roaring, blazing inferno!
Song Yu’s room was located on the third floor of the clinic, with its window backing directly toward the main entrance, affording her an unobstructed view of everything unfolding outside.
Masked players had thrown up makeshift defensive barricades, continuously hurling molotov cocktails wave after wave toward the clinic!
Given the sheer volume of molotov cocktails raining down, Song Yu could state with absolute certainty that certain players had successfully acquired the crafting recipe!
With the timing coinciding precisely with the clinic’s shift change—when patient volume hit its lowest ebb and staff presence was most relaxed—they had chosen to launch their assault right at this exact moment, completely disregarding the lives of the other players sheltered within the clinic!
One had to bear in mind that a substantial number of players inside the clinic were actually allied with their faction!
Song Yu swiftly snatched up her handgun, elevating her vigilance alongside Xiao Hei to a razor-sharp twelve out of ten.
Right at that juncture—
Bang—!!
The door to her room was violently kicked inward with a heavy, thunderous crash!