Chapter 464: Evolution Rate 30%
The door opened, bringing with it a strong smell of blood. The two walked back to their seats one after the other, cleaned up with some cleaning agent, and lay down, as if they had only gone out for a stroll.
In the darkness, Dr. Deng reached out and grabbed Xu Huo. "Let me squeeze in with you."
Xu Huo kicked him out with one foot.
After a night passed, the train's lights came back on.
The quietly moving train looked no different from yesterday, the only change being a few fine cracks on the windows.
The players in the car glanced over the cracks briefly, then looked toward Xu Huo in twos and threes.
Xu Huo hadn't slept all night, but his mental state was still good. He ordered breakfast for Dr. Deng. "Rest during the day."
After saying that, he got up and went to the transition car, where he saw the situation in the rear car through the doors and windows.
Surprisingly, there were still three players sitting inside.
His gaze lingered on them for a moment before Xu Huo entered the restroom.
This time, his luck was truly bad. The cannibal players in the rear car were nothing compared to this.
The players in the first-class car were likely together. Two of them had nearly cleared out an entire car of players, showing considerable strength.
Using the lights as leverage could only buy time. If they cleared out the rear car, the lights would no longer be a threat to these people.
Standing for a few seconds, Xu Huo opened his personal panel.
This instance had rewarded him with a "Frequent Movement" trait, a speed-enhancing trait that allowed rapid and frequent position changes within a space.
The three items were "Stranger Face to Face," "Mismatched Capture," and "Damage Discount."
"Stranger Face to Face" was a forced-forgetting item with a time limit of only three minutes. It could be used on a single target, but only once.
For example, if used on a player attacking you, they would immediately lose their target, like face blindness, for a maximum of three minutes. If the target was recognized earlier, the effect would end prematurely.
This item could only be used once a day and was best employed in crowded situations.
"Mismatched Capture" had a similar effect. In crowded situations, if the user did something—like launching an attack or something else—it would cause the target to capture the wrong target.
After all, passerby A and passerby B both had the same face; under unfamiliar circumstances, they were about the same.
"Damage Discount," as the name implied, could reduce damage taken by twenty percent.
All were support items, not directly increasing combat power.
Hesitating briefly, Xu Huo took out the P1S evolution agent he had obtained from the Deep Blue Laboratory and injected it into his arm.
Before this, he had doubts about this agent and had planned to buy equipment in District 011 for composition analysis. However, given the current special circumstances, after starting perfect evolution, he had some resistance to toxins, so he decided to inject the agent first.
Last time, he had seen the S version agent in the chaos. Its color was only slightly lighter than the P0 version, hard to distinguish without careful inspection. This agent had the same color as the previous one, and coincidentally, it was exactly P1, which was what he needed.
"Bang! Bang!" His heartbeat suddenly intensified, and Xu Huo felt dizzy. He propped himself up with one hand on the wall, seeing his reflection in the mirror double.
Several shadows overlapped and separated, each with a different expression, and when they merged, they looked nothing like him.
His vision suddenly went dark, like an unstable light. In the flickering, a child's figure appeared in his reflection, facing away from him.
An unknown force urged him to reach out and grab her, but the child ran away without looking back, her thin legs and oversized hospital gown creating a strong visual impact.
"Bang!" Xu Huo slammed his fists against the wall to steady himself. When he opened his eyes again, the illusions and double images were gone, and his heartbeat gradually slowed.
[Congratulations, player Passerby A. Your evolution rate has reached 30%.]
He was slightly surprised when he received the game notification. The S version agent promoted evolution rate without regard to quantity; a single dose could increase it by 10%. Compared to the evolution agents provided by the game, which required multiple doses, this was far superior in both effect and digestion time.
A scientist who could surpass the massive game organization to develop such an agent, and nearly perfect at that, raised another doubt: Was this agent really that perfect?
The child's back he had just seen was definitely not his imagination; it likely came from the agent. Either something else had been added to the agent, or there was a trait or item effect on it.
The little girl in the hospital gown matched the speculation from the two pages of information he had seen from Miao Yu, which suggested that Professor Wu should have a daughter. The two coincided perfectly.
Placing agents in different locations and tampering with them served both as guidance and as hints.
Professor Wu must have a purpose in opposing the game government this way. The illusions seen after injecting the agent were likely related to that purpose, perhaps even pointing to clues for the next instance.
"Are you okay?" Dr. Deng knocked on the door from outside.
"I'll be out in a moment." Xu Huo put away the syringe and opened the door. After his evolution rate increased, his five senses had strengthened again, with noticeably enhanced range and intensity in hearing and sight.
For example, he could clearly hear the changes in Dr. Deng's heartbeat as he stood before him.
The door was open, and Dr. Deng saw the fist marks hammered into the wall. His expression shifted slightly before he said, "You used the evolution agent? You got it?"
Dr. Deng wasn't stupid. After speaking so plainly in the Deep Blue Laboratory, it was normal for him to be suspicious.
"Instance reward." Xu Huo didn't bother to completely dispel his suspicions. A little suspicion was good; it would prevent him from running off when they reached District 011.
The two returned to the car. The other seven players were sitting in their seats, drinking tea, eating, and chatting as they had yesterday. Only the little girl named Weiwei looked a bit weak.
Xu Huo thought for a moment, walked over, and asked, "Do you need help? I have some painkillers here."
Weiwei was holding her stomach and was skeptical of his kindness. "Uncle, are your pills any good?"
"You can try them." Xu Huo handed her a handful of candy. "Works every time. Kids have to eat this when they're sick."
Weiwei couldn't laugh. She said expressionlessly, "Uncle, is it fun treating people like fools?"
"It's fun." Xu Huo smiled. "You can try it sometime too."
Weiwei reached out to take it, but Xu Huo put the candy away. "If you don't want it, forget it."
Weiwei pouted. "I want it."
"I don't want to give it anymore." Xu Huo turned around and asked the flight attendant to bring her a large cake.
Weiwei stabbed the cake randomly with a knife. The woman next to her stopped her. "Weiwei, don't dirty the table."
(Chapter End)