Players, Please Board the Train
Chapter 541

The Canyon

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(To be revised) Xu Huo had given Jin Dong, Fish Ball, and the two children, Snowy and Ice Cream, the same Antidote. It wasn't specially formulated; it was just a C-grade Potion he'd bought for emergencies.

All three had eaten unprocessed food from the cleanup zone and lost their voices. They showed different symptoms on their skin, but after losing their reason, they could all regain their senses with a C-grade Antidote. Jin Dong in particular had been delirious for nearly a year, yet he too had recovered in a very short time.

This suggested they most likely hadn't mutated into Aliens. Instead, they had been repeatedly poisoned in the unusual environment.

Jin Dong had fallen into confusion again shortly after entering the high-temperature zone. The Aliens beneath the fissure also lost their reason soon after reaching the surface. This suggested that high temperatures might worsen the symptoms of poisoning.

And Numbers One and Two, who had each received two injections of blood from Fish Ball and Ice Cream, were still fine. This proved that directly injecting a small amount of Alien blood was no different from eating one: neither provided the conditions for infection.

As for Master Tu and the other man, the holographic glasses had marked them as infected the instant their wounds were made. That was different from the wounds Yi Mao and the others had received from Aliens. Xu Huo's dagger had been sterilized, so there had been no chance of infection. That left only two possible reasons why they had been identified as Aliens.

"One possibility is that the air itself is the source of infection. They were infected as soon as it touched their wounds, but the symptoms haven't appeared yet."

Xu Huo gave each of them a bottle of Self-Healing Agent.

"If we

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