The antidote containing mycelium had already been used up. Ordinary antidotes probably wouldn't work on Alien poison; otherwise, Team Leader Wu wouldn't have been desperate enough to come looking for him.
Xu Huo had mainly returned this time to hand the King Fungus sample over to the Special Defense Department, so he said, "I collected a kind of fungus that can counteract poison, but I don't know if it can be cultivated in District 014."
Team Leader Wu was overjoyed. "Good, good! We have to try it, whether it works or not. I'll send someone to pick you up right away. You're in Ting City, right? Don't go wandering around, and don't trust anyone too easily. Nie Xuan and I are both away, and it's dangerous everywhere right now. Don't hand the stuff over to anyone lightly."
Xu Huo hung up, found Liu Jia's message, and replied that if she found Professor Han, she could come to him. He could neutralize Alien poison.
Professor Han had been injured by an Alien on the Preliminary Train. After returning, he had been isolated for treatment. No one knew exactly what had happened to him, but he was one of the earliest people to be injured by an Alien. The most likely possibility was that he had been used as an Experiment Sample. If Professor Han was lucky and the Alien poison didn't take effect too quickly, he might be able to hold on for a while.
Of course, it was also possible that the Special Affairs Bureau had already developed a treatment for Alien poison at the time, though it might only delay the effects rather than cure them. Besides, the game had only just begun, and everyone had received the lowest-grade antidotes. Gu Yu and the others had simply been lucky