Kaidan Game Train: Abide Rule or Die!
Chapter 196: Stellar Pharmaceutical Research Group

Chapter 196: Chapter 196: Stellar Pharmaceutical Research Group

Brother Tie grabbed Wei Bin, "Why didn’t you say something earlier!"

"I didn’t have a chance to say anything before you all started celebrating like crazy," Wei Bin said innocently. "Besides, would you have not eaten it if I’d told you?"

"Let’s consider it emergency rations then, in case there’s no food in the next ten floors. These mushrooms might hold us over for a while."

"But mushrooms grow by absorbing nutrients from corpses!" Brother Tie said with a look of disgust. "Can we really eat them?!"

Wei Bin pried his hand off, "I’m telling you now, it’s up to you whether you eat them or not."

The floor fell silent for a few seconds before Kang Hong threw away his mushroom, "I think I could just drink water."

Some people gave up the mushrooms they were holding, but others actively picked some up.

"Let’s look around first," Xu Huo said to Jiang Yihua and the others.

The mushrooms, including the white filaments, were not aggressive. The newly broken filaments were very sticky, but they would fall off on their own after about ten minutes. The fallen filaments would slowly melt into the "nutrient jelly" and be transformed into nutrients for other mushrooms.

"If these mushrooms can’t kill, then how did those below... come about?" Jiang Yihua thought of a possibility and couldn’t help but retch.

"There’s something below." Da Zhi, who was squatting nearby cleaning mushrooms, suddenly turned around and shouted.

Xu Huo hurried over and saw that he had cut open the jelly and taken out a notebook.

The body next to the notebook had been dissolved. Other than the notebook, there was also a pen and some white fabric scraps floating nearby.

"Quick, see what it says," Jiang Yihua urged.

Xu Huo opened the notebook, the first few pages were blurred, but it seemed to contain a segment of research notes:

"... Clown City’s underground world is forbidden to humans but paradise to fungi. According to scientists who have traveled here one after another, this underground world has naturally produced up to three hundred seventy-one different types of fungi, and those are just the ones currently supported by data."

"However, so far, not a single scientist has found the fungi responsible for creating this underground world—the underground world must have been created by fungi because nutrient transport channels more complex than beehives and more varied than ant nests have been found in the rock crevices."

"Nature’s evolution is amazing."

"I speculate that this underground world was first occupied by a mutated fungus that, over a long period of time, transformed the environment into one suitable for the survival of fungi, which then spawned an uncountably vast array of different fungi."

"While most are ordinary fungi, their growth cycles are longer than those of similar fungi and are of greater research value. Moreover, there’s an extremely rare mycelium that can defend against sharp weapons."

"Unfortunately, our research team has made multiple trips into the underground world without locating the growth site for this type of fungus."

"... So far, humans have explored less than a kilometer into this underground world. I believe fungi like the one that produces defense-capable mycelium are plentiful."

"As long as Xiaohua Honghong Research Base receives funding from Stellar Medical Group, we can purchase enough equipment to delve into the underground world. We could unearth new species never seen at any wormhole points, rewriting the history of evolutionary plants!"

This was not the first time Xu Huo had come across the name of the Stellar Medical Group. Back in Fenbei Town, the company’s name appeared frequently in Master Niese’s investigative data, and from Master Niese’s hostile attitude toward the company, it seemed he suspected that his son and daughter-in-law’s deaths were related to this company.

Now, the company’s name had surfaced again in the notebook.

Picking up the pen next to him, he twirled it and saw a "Hao" character carved on one side.

"This couldn’t be the Professor Hao mentioned in the game introduction, could it?" Jiang Yihua said, "Wasn’t he going to attract investments? How could he die here?"

"Maybe it was a struggle for interests," said the tall woman. "It’s likely they were fighting over business."

Xu Huo glanced at her and continued to flip through the notebook, finding no written content in the back, but a dried-up purple petal was tucked into the last page.

"I saw this kind of flower just now on the thirteenth floor," Jiang Yihua said. "It was in a glass room next to the Buzzing Flowers, a very small one, hidden beneath the other flowers."

"That glass room was full of purple flowers," Xu Huo said.

"I’m not mistaken, it’s a completely different flower," Jiang Yihua recalled, "The energy values of the others were about twenty or so, but it had only a bit."

Xu Huo silently pocketed the petal and said indifferently, "Perhaps it wasn’t cultivated well."

Jiang Yihua nodded.

"What have you found?" Gu Yu came over at this time and pointed behind him, "We found some research personnel over there that hadn’t completely decomposed. The staff of Xiaohua Honghong Building might mostly be here."

"I wonder what exactly Professor Hao discovered."

The greatest secret of evolution, for the players, the temptation was too great.

The ultimate secret of evolution... Xu Huo intuitively felt it was related to the Perfect Evolution Potion, but given Stellar Medical Group’s murderous cover-up practices, even if they had mastered the method to produce the S-Version Drug, they probably wouldn’t share it with all the players of the game.

Considering the release of the Aliens and the existence of breeding zones, Dimensional Rift was deliberately causing world divergence in the game, imperfection in evolution, always relying on potions, that was the players’ weakness, and an effective method to control the players.

He passed the notebook to Gu Yu, who then took it over to look at together with Dai Wenqian and a few others.

After a while, Xu Huo checked the time and felt it was about right, so he went to the elevator and pulled back the cell phone that hung down into the depths of the elevator shaft.

Besides one elevator making some faint noises, the other three were very quiet.

Xu Huo chose the one with Brother Tie’s hairpins, signaling to Jiang Yihua and Da Zhi to support him.

"I’m going up for a moment. After I enter the elevator shaft, you close the door behind me."

The two looked at him with surprise, but seeing that he had no hesitation as he forced the door open, they hurried forward to help.

As soon as the elevator door opened, a few Man-Eating Flowers lunged at him, and Xu Huo brandished his sword to cut them down, drawing them into the elevator shaft with the strings, and struck at the dangling rootstocks of the Man-Eating Flower with a stroke of his sword!

The Man-Eating Flowers occupying the floor of the elevator shaft trembled violently. The burst open flower pot immediately ejected more than a dozen Man-Eating Flowers, which in the narrow elevator shaft, like balls attached to ropes, bounced from side to side and surged towards the person above!

"Hurry up and close the door!" Da Zhi, blocking a Man-Eating Flower, shouted to Kang Hong and others nearby.

However, Kang Hong, startled, kept retreating, while the tall woman and Gu Yu, not far away, rushed over immediately. As they closed the elevator doors together, one said, "Aren’t you worried about Xu Huo?"

That’s when, at Jiang Yihua’s urging, Da Zhi threw out a card, and a nimble Black Panther leapt out, carrying the two of them through the narrow elevator door and inside!