He had been poisoned in the Circus City. By the time he crawled out of the tumbler, the toxin had already affected him, slowing his reactions. But after he was gravely injured and fell unconscious, the poison was suppressed once he entered the Mobile Sub-district. Though he was now coughing up poisonous fluid threaded with mycelium, that was a sign his body was recovering.
The environment in this Sub-district seemed to be perfectly suited to the growth of mutated species. Even without the Nuwa Stone, King Fungus was reproducing at an accelerated rate.
He wiped away the blood and casually put the handkerchief in the Storage Compartment, then looked toward Unpolished Jade, who had come over.
She clearly had something to say, so Xu Huo got up and walked outside.
"Since you need my help, I should share the information with you." Once they were back inside the venue item, Unpolished Jade continued, "My reason for coming here is genuine. My aunt really did die here, but she came to investigate underground ruins."
"People once lived in this Sub-district. It was already rich and prosperous before Evolution. Then, for some unknown reason, it suddenly fell. Overnight, the entire Sub-district was covered by Mutated Plants. By the time outsiders found it, the place already belonged to the plants."
"My aunt was a scholar in a related field. She came here without her family's permission, despite their objections, and died here."
"Before setting out, she told a friend roughly where she was going. From what she said to that friend, it seems she found the ruins, but after that, there was no word from her."
"She must have run into something unexpected and had no chance to send a message."
Listening to this, Yan Ping and the others felt that the place