Xu Huo immediately replied, "I just used up the Antidote. It'll take at least two hours to make more. Is it urgent? How many do you need?"
The other person, who had stayed in Dimension Below the whole time, replied, "At least five. I need them now."
Along with the message came a notification for an item trade. Xu Huo tapped to accept it and received a box specially designed to transport toxic substances or contaminants. A label on it read, "Handle with Care."
Without opening the box, he put it straight into the Storage Compartment, then returned to his room. He cut off some live fungal strands, added them to the Antidote he had bought from the game, and made a dose of Potion to send through Dimension Below.
"See if it works."
About five minutes later, Cong Yu replied, "It works, thank you. Are you really out of extras? I can trade for another dose of Antidote under the same terms as before."
Sensing how urgently he needed it, Xu Huo had no choice but to turn all the fungal strands he had just harvested into Potion and give them to him.
"That's all I can make. We'll stick to the terms you just offered. I'm also looking for a place where Antidote Fungus can be cultivated on a large scale. Does your sub-district have any environment where fungi grow abundantly? Any kind will do."
Cong Yu took a while to reply this time. "Fungi with antidotal properties are incompatible with poisonous fungi. Usually, neither kind can be cultivated successfully."
Xu Huo remembered Cong Yu saying on the train that poisonous fungi and infectious organisms were everywhere in his hometown. Everyone there was infected, and people like him had even evolved the ability to coexist with them to