God's Imitator

On the large screen in the Audience Resting Room, one can see partial images from the Pharmacy Room.

The main area of the Pharmacy Room is connected by conveyor belt-linked pharmaceutical equipment, and the equipment in the various rooms differs from one another.

There are coin-operated operation tables in the Pharmacy Room, all located in the upper right corner of the room, which is a blind spot for all the audience.

However, there are transparent glass partitions between the two Pharmacy Rooms, as the rules state: when a player in the previous Pharmacy Room inserts a coin into the operation table, the audience cannot see it, but the player in the next Pharmacy Room can clearly see whether the coin is real or fake.

This is virtually the same as the crime numbers, a state of ’cyclical supervision’.

In the first Pharmacy Room, Zeng Yiming (the manager) approached the operation table and performed a simple operation, momentarily, everyone heard the clear ’ding’ sound, like a coin being inserted into a vending machine.

This Pharmacy Room immediately became brightly lit, all lighting effects were activated, and the equipment in the room started to operate.

At the very left end of the conveyor belt are several large boxes stacked up, which should be filled with pharmaceutical raw materials.

The main part of the equipment is a solution pool about half a meter square, filled with deep green bubbling special liquid.

Zeng Yiming approached the pharmaceutical raw materials, took a deep breath, then reached into the large box with both hands and scooped up a large handful of round tablets.

During the process, some tablets slipped through the gaps between his fingers, but overall the quantity was still considerable.

There were no other containers in this Pharmacy Room, and according to the game rules, players must use their hands to soak these raw materials, forbidding any form of trickery and deception.

Zeng Yiming took a deep breath, held the pharmaceuticals, approached the solution pool, and gritted his teeth before plunging his hands into the solution, soaking all of the raw materials.

"Sss—Sss—Sss—"

Every faint sound in the game field would be transmitted to the audience’s ears through the large screen, and everyone could clearly hear the piercing sound of the chemical reaction between the solution and the tablets.

Zeng Yiming’s body immediately started to tremble due to the severe pain, yet more tablets slipped from between his fingers, but he still tried hard to endure, remaining motionless.

This solution pool has no bottom, so it is impossible to throw the pharmaceuticals in first and scoop them out later.

The Sinners must hold the pharmaceutical raw materials with their hands, and the time their hands are soaked in the solution equals the time the raw materials are soaked in the solution.

Above the equipment is a progress bar with a 30-second countdown, meaning only 30 seconds of accumulated soaking ensures reaching the strongest drug efficacy.

If soaking time is insufficient, it leads to inadequate drug efficacy, a defect that cannot be remedied.

Because subsequent stages cannot further enhance the drug’s efficacy, it would only affect other properties of the drug.

By then, the produced drugs would not be M-class, O-class, or F-class, only I-class or C-class.

Soon, the first 30 seconds ended.

Zeng Yiming tremblingly took his hands out of the solution, during which some tablets still fell into the solution, though he eventually piled most on the nearby conveyor belt.

Immediately, Zeng Yiming quickly returned next to the box, again scooping up a pile of tablets with both hands, executing the same operation.

Each round of the game and each Pharmacy Room has a fixed production time of 2 minutes, during which some overhead movements inevitably waste time, so Zeng Yiming ultimately soaked three piles of tablets in the solution.

As most of the lighting effects in the Pharmacy Room went out, Zeng Yiming realized that this production stage had finally ended; he exhaled deeply, rushed to the nearby sink to wash off the toxic residue left on his hands.

Although according to the game rules, the negative effects of these toxic solutions would be cleared upon leaving the game, accumulating toxins for too long could still cause player death in the game, so caution is better.

The conveyor belt started to operate, transferring the solution-enhanced efficacy tablets to the second Pharmacy Room.

Liang Guicheng (Fruit Farmer) also completed inserting a coin, making the second Pharmacy Room equally bright and machines start operating.

Unlike other Pharmacy Rooms, this room requires players to spend visa time to purchase cleansing agent.

Liang Guicheng must have paid visa time while inserting the coin; the wash pool was soon filled with a clear, slightly viscous cleaning solution.

He tried touching the tablets still stained with toxic solution, his fingers retracting like shocked by electricity.

Yet quickly, Liang Guicheng still joined hands, scooping up a handful of tablets, then soaked both hands and tablets into the cleansing solution.

Liang Guicheng’s operation was similar to Zeng Yiming (the manager), both holding tablets and soaking them in solutions, but the solutions themselves differed.

Similarly, after 30 seconds of soaking, it indicates that the toxic solution on these tablets was cleaned off to the greatest extent, removing the tablets’ addictive nature and side effects.

If cleaning is insufficient, they would likely become O-class or F-class.

Liang Guicheng placed this batch of tablets on the conveyor belt and went to grab new tablets.

In this way, he pretty much cleaned all the tablets, leaving only a few pieces.

This is inevitable loss in the entire process.

Subsequently, the third and fourth Pharmacy Rooms were activated in sequence.

These tablets would not be sent to the third Pharmacy Room for ’temperature control’, but instead, be directly sent to the fourth Pharmacy Room for ’processing’.

In the third Pharmacy Room, He Qing doesn’t need to directly contact the tablets; after inserting a coin, he only needs to choose between ’cold’ and ’heat’ options.

He Qing chose ’cold’.

The entire Pharmacy Room suddenly seemed like the cold air in a cold storage was turned on, the room was completely sealed, a large amount of white mist was sprayed out, clearly visible frost rapidly condensed on the Pharmacy Room’s glass.

He Qing was wearing a long-sleeved leather jacket, perhaps that was why he chose ’cold’ instead of ’heat’.

Even so, he still shivered violently throughout his body, quickly found a spot to hug himself, curled up in the corner of the room.

White cold air kept being sprayed, He Qing continued to huddle in the corner shivering.

However, there’s a ’stop’ button at the mechanism, pressing it would stop the release of cold air in the room, though correspondingly, the available processing time in the fourth Pharmacy Room would reduce.

He Qing a few times seemed couldn’t bear it any longer, wanted to get up, but ultimately crouched back down.

Whether he was frozen stiff, or exhausted, or changed his mind, it was unknown.

In any case, after 2 minutes, the progress bar in the Pharmacy Room ran out, indicating the maximum value had been achieved.

The cold air in the entire room automatically dispersed, He Qing still curled up in the corner motionless, only through subtle tremors were we able to confirm he seemed generally intact.

Tablets were transferred via the conveyor belt to the fourth Pharmacy Room for ’processing’.