Using degenerated people for experiments sounded immoral and horrifying. Yet, as Dr. Deng had deliberately avoided mentioning, the broader setting of the game world did provide certain conditions that could help people cross ethical boundaries in medical experimentation.
It wasn't that Xu Huo truly believed normal people and degenerated people could successfully reproduce. Rather, the Potion Dr. Deng had given him offered a glimmer of hope. If Stellar Pharmaceutical or one of Dr. Deng's friends had developed a Potion to treat Black Thorn Disease, could that mean the people of District 010 were no longer restricted when it came to reproduction?
The CK12 Safe Zone had already disappeared. Although the area the old man had marked out differed somewhat from the one Fan Yunhong had given him, it wasn't far off. Part of it overlapped with their previous route, but to make sure he hadn't missed anything, Xu Huo still turned back and searched again for CK12 and some nearby Safe Zones.
The result was still nothing. CK12, the last Safe Zone in the area to disappear, was no different from the others. It had been completely buried beneath the yellow sand.
With nothing to show for it, Xu Huo turned north.
The Great Leaf Mountain Ying Hai had mentioned lay outside the country CK12 was in, in a small country to the north. It had always been a barren, mountainous desert. After District 010 began to desertify, conditions there hadn't improved much, but the mountain ranges held back the sandstorms and kept the area from becoming a sea of sand.
Because information was so scarce, Ying Hai and the others only knew that there had once been a Safe Zone near Great Leaf Mountain. They had no idea where it was, or whether it still existed, so Xu Huo