Chapter 1568: I Don't Really Understand Your Way of Thinking
But the third injection still didn't work well. The fungal liquid medicine often showed good results right after injection, but as time passed, the condition would relapse again.
"Have there been any new variants of the mutated fungus?" Xu Huo turned to look at the medical staff beside him.
The other person was stunned for a moment before realizing he was being asked, and immediately said, "No... Actually, we don't have a deep understanding of the mutated fungus. Perhaps there are individual differences."
Outside, Jiang Qiao also noticed something was wrong. The previous Patient Zero's treatment hadn't been as recurrent as Lu Yin's. One injection had shown significant improvement, and it had remained stable until now. Lu Yin had already received three consecutive injections—how could this happen?
As if thinking of something, her expression changed, and she looked at the medical staff beside her, her eyes filled with disbelief.
Besides the instruments, there was a metal insulated cabinet next to the hospital bed. During Xu Huo's treatment, the medical staff had opened the cabinet several times to store blood, skin flakes, and hair collected from Lu Yin. Inside, there was also a knife box, its contents unknown, but there were several small holes on the back.
The medicine used for Lu Yin was already Xu Huo's last stock. To make new fungal liquid medicine, he would have to bleed himself on the spot...
So he ignored the medical staff's speculation and told them to take out the box from the insulated cabinet.
"That's where the antidote is stored. It will lose its effectiveness if taken out of the cabinet..." The medical staff wanted to say something, but when they met Xu Huo's eyes, they only heard him say "Get it" before their mind went blank uncontrollably, and they turned around.
But the mental control could only go that far. The next second, the medical staff snapped out of it and rushed toward the door without looking back. At the same time, a low-frequency vibration sounded inside the isolation ward, not only interfering with Xu Huo's mental power but also causing him dizziness and nausea.
Xu Huo steadied himself by the bed, feeling the familiar warmth in his nose again. At the same time, the protective suit on him tore like a cheap disposable product.
As his nose bled, the medical staff had already closed the ward door. The wall panels at the four corners of the originally sealed room suddenly shifted, and holes exposed below sprayed out large amounts of white smoke.
Thick white fog filled the field of vision, making the entire room a vast expanse of whiteness. These white fumes should be hypnotic agents. As the concentration increased, even the suffering Lu Yin fell into a deep sleep.
The medicine wasn't the problem, but the vibration frequency targeting the brain in the room made Xu Huo extremely annoyed. He had been seriously injured during the fight with Dou Shengnan and hadn't recovered at all. The Special Defense Department had probably created this special room specifically to deal with his mental evolution. For those who had undergone brain super evolution, the interference device's effects might be even more effective than actual props.
He looked up at the window. Jiang Qiao on the other side had already been restrained. The player wearing the medical staff badge tore off the name on their chest, picked up the microphone nearby, and said, "Xu Huo, please cooperate. This is for the lives of tens of thousands of people."
Xu Huo leaned against the hospital bed, not bothering to pick up the gas mask, and just stood there talking to the people outside.
"It's not strange to want to take good things for yourself, especially when holding power makes it more convenient. But putting a high-sounding hat on it is completely unnecessary."
"I only have one question: whose order is this?"
"Everyone you see here, including Team Leader Jiang, represents the government." The other party, like the player who had followed Team Leader Lu before, stated these words flatly, without the excitement of about to capture Xu Huo or the displeasure of being mocked. "I know this behavior isn't right, but for those struggling on the edge of life and death, we have no choice."
"Whether you're unwilling to hand over the detox fungus or really can't produce that much, we have to verify it ourselves."
"Don't worry, the room only contains a strong hypnotic agent. Later, we'll inject an interrogation agent for questioning. We won't do anything to harm you during this time. The country will always remember the contributions you've made and will compensate you afterward. Please don't resist."
After he finished speaking, he waited for Xu Huo's response.
But Xu Huo didn't say anything. Instead, he turned and walked to the insulated cabinet, took out the prop box with his spatial power, and opened it.
Inside was a small glass bottle containing some fresh human tissue, but the surface was covered with a layer of grayish things. Those things floated in the bottle like dust, stuck to the bottle walls, and overflowed through the open bottle mouth.
"Doing this shouldn't just be to get a few truthful words out of me." Xu Huo didn't doubt the government's capabilities. After the super prop incident, they had smoothly transitioned and cultivated a large number of players at an unimaginable speed, restoring order. Capable people and geniuses were certainly not lacking. After the last high-risk instance, the large amount of dead fungal filaments he had left behind had already exposed a fact—that the King Fungus, which couldn't survive long in any environment, including inside the human body, could continuously reproduce inside him.
The government didn't want a direct conflict with him, so they started with pleas, then negotiations. When that failed, they wanted to obtain something truly effective from him, not just a few bottles of fungal liquid medicine.
Of course, the government couldn't know about the existence of the Nuwa Stone. What they wanted might be his blood, or the mother plant of the King Fungus.
Why could the King Fungus survive only in him? Either he was very special, or he possessed the source of this fungus—these were the breakthroughs the government wanted, not his statement that he couldn't supply that much fungal liquid medicine.
The government side had never underestimated Xu Huo, so they had prepared twenty B-level players and used the strongest props and instruments the Special Defense Department had obtained from the game.
But these things were based on the premise that Xu Huo couldn't leave 014. Therefore, the hypnotic agent was used first, and the mutated fungus and Lu Yin were just means to buy time.
The people outside didn't answer. Xu Huo closed the prop, took a sealed box, put it inside, and stored it in his luggage compartment. Then he returned to the hospital bed, put a protective mask on Lu Yin, and checked her condition.
After being isolated from the hypnotic agent, Lu Yin quickly woke up from the pain, but her expression visibly improved after a moment.
"My chest doesn't hurt anymore." She looked at Xu Huo. "Can I survive?"
"Barring any accidents, you should live to be seventy or eighty," Xu Huo said.
Lu Yin showed a smile. "Thank you."
Xu Huo nodded, then walked out of the isolation ward and stood among those B-level players.
The "goalkeeper" immediately isolated everyone's attacks. He looked at the player disguised as medical staff. "I don't really understand your way of thinking. You don't try to find a solution, or you can't think of one, so you come to make things difficult for your own people. Didn't you consider the consequences?"