Kaidan Game Train: A Chapter 1564: A Drop in the Bucket

Chapter 1564: Chapter 1564: A Drop in the Bucket

Chief Wu shook his head, indicating that he hadn’t seen Nie Xuan for quite so ti either.

Xu Huo, hearing this, did not say anything further and walked into the teleportation device.

This teleportation device was shaped like a door, and its usage was also quite simple, just like opening a door. However, the two sides of the door were not connected, and the situation on the opposite side could not be seen. But after being activated with energy stones, it could be precisely located based on longitude and latitude, allowing for accurate travel to the desired location.

Opening and closing the door took only a second or two. The other end of the device was connected to the Special Defense Departnt Security Zone in Lian City. Xu Huo walked out and imdiately saw Jiang Qiao waiting three ters away with two players. Upon seeing Xu Huo, Jiang Qiao visibly relaxed and said, "The situation is urgent, so I’ll skip the details and take you straight to the isolation hospital."

Xu Huo had no objections and followed him into the security zone’s helipad, boarding the helicopter.

Accompanying them were the pilot, Jiang Qiao, and three players. Apart from Jiang Qiao, the others remained characteristically silent. Glancing over them, Xu Huo asked, "Who’s currently in charge of the mutant fungus situation in Lian City?"

"It’s Director Lü and ," Jiang Qiao replied.

Director Lü was not unfamiliar, being a middle-aged woman who appeared easy-going and was relatively close to Nie Xuan. However, as soone who was promoted from behind, she had been in Jing City previously.

"Isn’t Minister Ji in Lian City?"

After the previous incident where multiple important governnt officials were killed, the forr Special Defense Departnt Minister Fan was replaced. The newly appointed Minister Ji was soone Xu Huo had t once during his psychological treatnt with Tang Guangbo, appearing much more diplomatic than Minister Fan.

Jiang Qiao paused slightly and, without giving a direct answer, said, "The Minister has other urgent matters."

Xu Huo did not inquire further.

The helicopter quickly arrived at the hospital. Upon disembarking, Jiang Qiao put on protective gear, saying, "This used to be a laboratory, but after the mutant fungus outbreak, it’s now used to accommodate patients. Anyone entering must wear protective gear and masks."

As she spoke, she asked a player beside her to bring out a set of protective gear, "This is special-grade protection gear specifically for the mutant fungus environnt."

After donning the gear, Xu Huo followed them into the hospital.

Entering from the helipad required passing through a decontamination room, which would only open the inner door after thorough decontamination. Director Lü had long been waiting, and she shook hands with Xu Huo seriously, "The Special Defense Departnt represents all the infected personnel in thanking you."

Xu Huo nodded, "I would like to see the people using the bacterial liquid first."

Director Lü made a "please" gesture, indicating for him to lead the way.

Beyond the decontamination room were three controlled rooms, the first two still used for decontamination, and the third for identity verification. The main door would open only after everyone’s identities had been verified.

Beyond the main door were not wards but two rows of observation rooms, with the isolation rooms for the infected located behind them.

Director Lü led Xu Huo into the first room.

"The first four batches of patients to arrive have all died. This is the 0th patient from the fifth batch, whose condition is quite severe. After using the antidote fungus liquid you provided to Qian Qiyun, the condition was alleviated, but overall ups and downs remain, and they are not out of danger yet."

The treatnt records from the Special Defense Departnt included the dication process for this 0th patient. The King Bacterial Liquid had indeed taken effect, allowing the King Fungus Mycelium to survive briefly after leaving the host, effectively mitigating the mutant fungi’s growth. This was why the liquid made from living King Fungus Mycelium was more effective than the previously preserved liquid by the Special Defense Departnt.

A player in the room was drawing blood from the patient.

"We have tried many thods to cultivate the antidote fungus but haven’t succeeded," Director Lü appeared visibly fatigued, her voice heavy, "The number of infected people is increasing, and if bacterial liquid is not replenished in ti, many people will die soon, especially pregnant won and young females."

The special mutant fungus targeting won capable of procreating future generations implied a sinister intention behind its release. Before the mutant fungus appeared, anyone suggesting the extermination of a race’s won to devastate an entire race would have been ridiculed as absurd and infeasible. But who could have anticipated that Country X would indeed face this issue?

Based on the mutant fungus’s growth rate and patients’ survival ti, once it spread widely, reversal would be nearly impossible. The country lacked sufficient protective gear and effective thods to completely halt the mutant fungus’s flow, rendering treatnt efforts futile. Even dical personnel entering the isolation hospital required imdiate training before comncing work, aning the Special Defense Departnt had to manage both hospital protection and daily treatnt duties.

"I know the demands of the Special Defense Departnt are challenging, but we are willing to pay any price to avert this disaster," Director Lü pleaded, looking at Xu Huo, "I want to know, can the antidote fungus save these people?"

"How many patients are infected now?" Xu Huo asked.

After a brief silence, Director Lü reported a number.

The number had at least doubled compared to the data previously given to Xu Huo. Xu Huo did not offer false hope, stating bluntly, "I’m sorry, even a third of the people can’t be saved."

"Antidote fungus has stringent environntal requirents and cannot grow extensively. The liquid I provided is from what has been accumulated over ti. Even if one vial saves one person, it’s a drop in the bucket, not to ntion a single vial is far from sufficient given the current situation."

"Is there no other way?" After a long silence, Director Lü murmured as if to herself.

Xu Huo felt helpless. The King Fungus within his body originated from Clown City. Among the countless fungi in Clown City’s underground mycelium cave, only one type or rather one strain of antidote fungus erged. If it hadn’t happened to grow on the Nüwa Stone and been discovered by Xin Lang, the King Fungus would never have reached him. Moreover, Clown City’s underground mycelium cave had been destroyed. Xu Huo had previously tried letting the King Fungus Mycelium attach directly to the Nüwa Stone, but it fell far short of what Xin Lang once described in growth and survival duration.

He speculated it was due to the growing environnt, but Clown City’s underground mycelium cave couldn’t be replicated, and he didn’t know King Fungus as well as Xin Lang did. To this day, he didn’t know how Xin Lang completely transferred the King Fungus to him, and his successive attempts only resulted in mycelium release—perhaps related to the Nüwa Stone. Yet, there was only one Nüwa Stone.

"The Special Defense Departnt studied the black liquid you left in the Ting City Security Zone, which was full of dead mycelium." A player standing behind Director Lü and Jiang Qiao suddenly spoke up.