Chapter 540: The Twisted Clown City
Xu Huo used the same type of antidote for Jin Dong and the two children, Fish Ball and Ice Cream. It wasn't specially formulated, just a C-grade potion he had purchased for emergencies.
All three of them had eaten untreated food from the cleanup area and had lost their voices. The symptoms that appeared on their bodies were different, but after losing their sanity, they could all regain consciousness with a C-grade antidote. This was especially true for Jin Dong; he had been delirious for nearly a year, yet he could also regain clarity in a very short time.
This indicated they most likely were not mutating into Mutants, but were instead being repeatedly poisoned in a special environment.
Jin Dong fell into confusion again shortly after entering the high-temperature zone. Mutants emerging from the crack below would also lose their sanity within a short time. This suggested that a high-temperature environment might exacerbate poisoning symptoms.
As for Subject One and Subject Two, who had been injected with the blood of Fish Ball and Ice Cream twice, they still showed no issues. This proved that directly injecting a small amount of Mutant blood, just like them consuming Mutants, did not constitute an infection vector.
As for Master Tu and the other person, they were judged as infected by the Holographic Glasses the instant their wounds were made. This was different from the wounds Yi Mao and the others received from Mutants. Xu Huo's dagger had been sterilized, so there was no infection vector. Therefore, there were only two possible reasons they were judged as Mutants.
"One possibility is that the source of infection is the air itself. Contact with a wound leads to rapid infection, but the infection symptoms haven't appeared yet."
Xu Huo gave each of them a bottle of healing potion.
"If we stay in these high-temperature conditions continuously, we might mutate too," Master Tu sighed heavily, his face pale.