Kaidan Game Train: Abide Rule or Die!
Chapter 974 Give a Choice

Chapter 974: Chapter 974 Give a Choice

The first time, at the jewelry store, he omitted the part about the Evolution Potion and fabricated a false message to deceive him into going to the R1 Laboratory. The second time, at the government hall, he concealed the fact that the Evolution Potion was flawed—of course, he told lies about the vaccine in both instances. Luo Changren’s contribution to the influence of the SE virus event that continues to this day can be credited to the lack of information.

Up until now, all the information that could be involved in the "Encrypted Information" instance had been completed. What followed was the task of dealing with the virus spread in Base City.

Without Gao Xiaoyan’s password, he couldn’t open this transmission tower.

"Do you know how to operate this transmission tower?" Xu Huo asked Luo Changren.

Luo Changren hesitated before nodding, "Do you have an Antitoxin?"

"This transmission tower is so large, how many Antitoxin would be enough?" Xu Huo looked up.

"To cover the entire city to delay the onset of the virus, at least ten..." Luo Changren said, "Although I wasn’t involved in the development of the SE virus, it did kill a lot of players at the beginning. It is at least a Rank-A virus, even if there is a corresponding Antitoxin, there won’t be enough for so many people, and... such Antitoxin, are you willing to part with it?"

Xu Huo did not answer the question, but instead, Shangguan Xi, who was next to him, took the conversation, "You’re wasting time, Brother Xu is asking because he will certainly not be stingy with a few Potions!"

He then turned to Xu Huo, "Brother Xu, are a few Potions enough? Such a big tower, and with so many people to save, you might need to use them by the barrel, right?"

"Besides, can this old man really be trusted? He just tried to deceive us by loading the SE virus into Bird Tower."

"Even if we believed that the virus is an Antitoxin, it wouldn’t be possible to place it in Bird Tower without the password." Xu Huo glanced at Luo Changren, "Just powerless fury."

Luo Changren couldn’t manage to get rid of him several times, and with his life hanging in Xu Huo’s hands, Luo Changren’s carefully preserved Potions for many years almost turned into the SE virus. It’d be strange if he could bear it.

"Well, that’s true..." Shangguan Xi looked Luo Changren up and down and rolled her eyes before saying, "No wonder he is so utterly compromised by others."

Seeing that Gao Xiaoyan was getting ready to come over, Xu Huo asked Luo Changren, "Regarding Doctor Zhang, do you have anything else to say?"

Luo Changren wrote down another address for him, "This is Doctor Zhang’s real hiding spot. He indeed has a secret room with a lot of information about Dr. Wu, but I think those things may not be helpful. Dr. Wu is just a legend, and it’s hard to say if such a person exists."

Xu Huo took the address. Instead of responding to his ’well-intentioned’ persuasion, he said, "After leaving W37 Base Station, you’d best not go looking for Doctor Zhang."

Luo Changren looked at him and listened as he continued, "What do you think Doctor Zhang is like? Do you think he is someone who not only helped you achieve a subpar Evolution but also kindly told you about the side effects, and even gave you a Healing Potion, a rare kind person?"

Xu Huo looked at him and smiled slightly, but his gaze was cold, "Players could buy countless excellent Evolution Potions through the game platform. There’s no need to specially develop one for a specific type of individual, let alone develop an Evolution Potion with major flaws, which itself is meaningless."

"If you are going to argue that this kind of Evolution Potion is to avoid the common side effects of the game’s Evolution Potions, then look at yourself now... Is the Healing Potion even effective after being administered?"

Even before Luo Changren resigned himself to provoke Xu Huo into killing him, he had seen through life and death. The resentment he held from those years spent in W18 had already dissipated, and he no longer reacted as agitated as before. Instead, he calmly accepted the reality.

"Can we go in?" Gao Xiaoyan had already arrived at the Bird Tower’s entrance. "To avoid any misunderstandings, we’ve put away all our props."

Xu Huo looked toward Shangguan Xi, who went to open the door and blocked the Lou family from entering. "Be sensible and wait outside."

Gao Xiaoyan nodded, and as told, a member of the Lou family stood on the doorstep’s stairs.

Upon entering, Gao Xiaoyan first made sure that Gao Zhen’s body was undisturbed before saying, "You control this area with your psychic power, don’t you? The interference device was destroyed by you."

Xu Huo nodded and glanced at the tray covered with velvet that she held in her hands.

Gao Xiaoyan lifted the velvet cover to reveal a white chessboard-like object, fifty centimeters square, with three small human figurines and three small building models scattered on it, set upon equally sized and spaced squares.

"This prop is called the City Sandbox, and depending on the strength of the user’s abilities, it can move the corresponding people or buildings within a city, with a maximum of three."

"Is it a Rank A Prop?" Xu Huo raised his eyebrows slightly.

Gao Xiaoyan understood what he meant. "It’s indeed a Rank A Prop. However, it can only be used by a player who has undergone a psychic type Super Evolution. The models on it cannot be moved by hand alone; it’s more of an auxiliary prop. This was originally prepared for Ren Man... Your psychic evolution strength far exceeds that of other Evolvers of the same rank. Sooner or later, you’ll be able to use this prop without being at a loss."

"Additionally, for helping Ren Man successfully evolve, I can fulfill the promise of two Rank-B props, but you must first remove the traps you’ve laid in the Spiritual World."

"As for the Mayor, you’ve already met him. If there are any other demands, you can bring them up now."

Xu Huo didn’t rush to take the props but instead picked up the blue potion. "This is an antitoxin brought back from the outer district by Luo Changren; it can’t completely cure the SE primitive virus but can slow down the development of the virus. At least before you retrieve a large quantity of antitoxins, not too many people will die."

Luo Changren, Shangguan Xi, and others glanced at him simultaneously, but they didn’t make it too obvious.

While Gao Xiaoyan, Ren Man, and even Lou Jia outside, their gazes were fixed on the potion, especially Ren Man. When Gao Xiaoyan had mentioned the traps in the Spiritual World and the prop exchange, he still had an expression of ’preferring death to compromise,’ but now he couldn’t help but say, "Sister Xiao Yan..."

Gao Xiaoyan was tempted yet restrained, just as she had been contradictory when she killed the living sample during the day and then released the sample’s body.

"Sister Xiao Yan?" Ren Man looked at her in surprise, seemingly not understanding her silence.

"Mayor Gao is quite a character; she wanted to deal with too many people before she died and used her death to leave a sympathy card for the government hall. One person taking on all the sin, leaving behind a Base City desperately in need of a savior, and then you come to the rescue. This way, you would naturally succeed and secure the position of Mayor," Xu Huo shook the potion in his hand and then stopped, his gaze fixed on Gao Xiaoyan. "How about it? Take this antitoxin out now, and you’ll be the savior of Base W37 City."

Gao Xiaoyan glanced subconsciously at the large screen in the distance before saying, "A single potion can’t save that many people."

"This potion is different," Xu Huo shook his head. "It comes from the hands of those who developed the Gene Optimization Evolver. It not only can slow the virus but also can weaken the hereditary potential of the virus."

"The SE virus doesn’t destroy genes at all, let alone pass such genes on to the next generation!" Gao Xiaoyan glared at him fiercely. "What exactly are you trying to do!"