The illnesses afflicting each Player were, comparatively speaking, all rather troublesome.
The method Bai Ye Jisi proposed—using illnesses to counterbalance one another—might not completely cure the condition, but it was still far better than their current situation.
Before long, aside from Bai Ye Jisi, who had already barely brought his own illness under control using this method, everyone else had found an illness that was compatible with their own condition.
Of course, a perfect match was impossible. It could only be considered relatively compatible.
To prevent a repeat of what had happened to Brian Yin, they split into pairs afterward so they could look out for each other.
—It might waste some time, but it was safer.
Naturally, Bai Zhi paired up with Ling Xiaoyi.
Although Ling Xiaoyi had mentally prepared herself when she first saw the medical records, when she and Bai Zhi actually entered the ward and saw the Patient infected with [Limb Disappearance Syndrome], her heart still seemed to skip a beat.
...The other party could no longer be called human at all.
Nearly the entire lower half of her body had vanished, and half of her upper body was gone as well. Like someone born with grotesque deformities, her hands had disappeared too. Her whole body looked like nothing more than a bare head attached to a shriveled lump of flesh.
Her head was bald, and the place where her mouth should have been was smooth and flat... or rather, she had no mouth at all. One of her ears was missing as well.
Her eyes were still intact, but her pupils were filled with nothing but lifeless grayness.
Under the effects of the illness, this Patient had lost most of her organs and limbs... yet she was still alive, as though she had been born