He had already tested the toxin extracted from an East District player's mind. King Fungus could neutralize it, which meant the poison used on the modified Players was probably not very high-grade, or particularly rare. Either way, King Fungus could cure it. Unlike the mutant fungus that had swept through District 014, it didn't need to reproduce inside the patient for a long time or be supplied in large quantities. One dose was enough to cure it completely.
So cultivating King Fungus to replicate the Black Rain incident could easily serve as a backup plan.
He took out the Nuwa Stone and placed it in the water storage system, then planted King Fungus on it and let it grow.
While he waited, he kept up with the news from Agor headquarters. As Agor's control over the city weakened, several surveillance drones took to the skies, and footage of some hair-raising scenes was soon circulating on the Jixin Terminal.
At last, the exceptionally powerful Spatial Evolver and the Player who had tried to assassinate Xu Huo were revealed.
From the footage, the Super Evolver could use Space Rays to freeze space, but his abilities were clearly different from Xue Lang's. He still couldn't casually reap lives with Space Rays, though he was quite skilled with spatial barriers and blades of Space Ray. Quite a few Players had died at his hands.
As for the other Player, he was a white-haired old man who had remained inside an Agor building from beginning to end. He only struck once every five minutes, but each time he did, it was a fatal blow. Players he targeted could rarely dodge through their own reflexes unless they had a life-saving item that activated automatically. It was unclear whether he was using an item or an Ability,