Chapter 537: The Deformed Ecology
The woman froze for a moment, white powder falling from her scalp.
"Clown City won't accept you, that should be obvious, otherwise you wouldn't have fled here to live underground," Xu Huo said coolly, as if he felt no sympathy for their suffering or situation.
"If you were only being hunted by those warriors on the surface, you wouldn't prefer to be treated like livestock and hide down here. There must be another reason, right?"
"The water and food in the cleanup area can make people mute and get infected. There may also be special elements in the air that gradually rob infected people of their sanity."
"You've been able to hide underground for more than a decade and raise children safely, so it looks like you discovered a pattern. What's wrong on the surface? Is it the soil, or extreme heat?"
Jin Dong's case was very strange. Of course the oddness wasn't just that he suddenly lost his mind without being injured, but this particular climate deserved suspicion.
There were countless things that could cause such an effect, and Xu Huo was not an expert in this field, nor did he really want to chase down an answer. Still, if the key to the cleanup area's deformed ecology lay in the warriors who were supposed to clear that area, then his hypothesis about clearing the dungeon would be incorrect. Whether Mutants or warriors, they could basically be put in the same category.
If he couldn't find clues in people for now, other places might offer a breakthrough.
The woman kneeling on the ground did not react. Xu Huo turned and left without a word. Only then did she hurry forward to stop him, frantically pulling a pen from the hole in the wall and scribbling on paper.