Chapter 1638: Chapter 1638: Midsummer Night’s River of Stars Presents a Gift to You
But that person didn’t really manage to fish anything out, because the next second, he vanished from the river, and those glows were not the glowing fungi as in the dream, but rather a gel-like liquid, dissolving slowly in the water, looking from afar like strands of fluorescence drifting underwater.
Although some details differed from the dream, the river remained unchanged, and the scene before his eyes barely fit the description of the "River of Stars."
Walking along the river, he soon saw that eerie green pond, with a large luminous object at its center, roughly ten meters underwater.
The rippling water obstructed his view, making it hard to see what’s beneath from the shore, so Xu Huo entered the water, diving deep to get a clear view of what the glowing object was.
It was a transparent cylinder about a meter in diameter and around three meters tall, resembling a glass container, standing suspended in the water. It held a kind of semi-transparent liquid, with three cracks on the cylinder. This gel-like liquid seeped out and, instead of dispersing immediately, drifted with the current, forming the mass of glows gathered at the pond’s center.
Some of the liquid had leaked out, but what remained was still substantial. Considering the liquid that flowed out could save the people of Zone 013, this large canister seemed to be antitoxin, able to save many lives if taken out.
Yet, as Xu Huo attempted to move the potion out, a crisp collision sound from the cylinder’s center made him stop. Using a prop to illuminate inside, he realized there was a small hole at the center of the cylinder, and in that specially isolated spot was a green potion he was very familiar with.
Xu Huo paused for a moment, circled around the cylinder, and although he found no markings or knowledge of its grade, it undoubtedly seemed to be the Perfect Potion.
He tried again to move the canister out, but found it could only sway slightly underwater without being lifted, and with the slightest exertion, the cracks on the canister seemed to widen. Something that couldn’t be moved at all was as fragile as real glass in this aspect.
Unable to lift it to the surface, it seemed to be a prop.
After gently sealing two of the three cracks on the canister with tape, Xu Huo used a rubber prop to carefully attach it to the remaining gap, intending to collect the potion inside first. However, to his surprise, the moment the rubber prop touched it, several new cracks appeared around the seam, although not completely breaking, they made the whole canister appear even more precarious.
With no choice, he retracted the prop and sealed this gap with tape as well.
Now, only two paths lay open for him: abandon the Perfect Potion, leaving this canister here to save more lives, or break the canister, let the potion spill, and take the Perfect Potion.
The Perfect Potion belonged to Dr. Wu, so the potion inside this canister might also be Dr. Wu’s research, capable of neutralizing all fungal toxins in people of Zone 013 at once, holding immeasurable value. For Zone 014, which had exhausted all means to save patients infected by fungi, wasn’t this precisely the kind of thing they sought?
Though substitutes had already been found, as long as they could take these potions out, Zone 014 might forever be free from fungal toxins, and it was also the sole method to save Zone 013.
Upon arriving, Xu Huo had already observed that the environment around this river and Zone 013 were similar, with numerous types of fungi growing, but the closer to the riverbank, the less toxic the fungi became, and even some with antitoxin effects grew on the riverbed. It was undoubtedly the leaked potion that changed the entire river’s environment.
If taken out, with the right method, it might change the environment of an entire island.
Rather than people painstakingly searching for the "Midsummer Night’s River of Stars," taking this "River of Stars" out would truly save the people of Zone 013.
Even an entire city or island of people.
Xu Huo extracted a little potion with a syringe, sending it back to the Special Defense Department for them to conduct experiments quickly.
This potion was exceedingly effective for Zone 013 people, and optimistically, it might affect everyone positively, but given Zone 013 had a different environment, survivors had developed some adaptability to fungal parasitism, which might not be the case for other zones.
Additionally, the potion stayed here without dissipating or drying up, perhaps due to the special nature of the container storing it, but given its fragility, he didn’t dare touch it with a prop too much, so after extracting a few syringes, he began searching for similar container props, even if only to carry a portion out.
As for the few syringes he retrieved later, he gave them to Cong Yu of Tan-skinned City.
Previously prompt in replying, Cong Yu remained unresponsive. Xu Huo asked on the reward platform and Beneath the Dimension, including Bai Kou, Xin Rong, and the Special Defense Department, with the most reliable answer being that it was a container bottle developed by the game to specifically handle potions not easy to store. However, such a container couldn’t guarantee storage efficacy after being damaged, and once a potion touched air, it started to have a shelf life, with no possibility of remaining intact after years of leakage.
Speaking of when the "Midsummer Night’s River of Stars" instance began, it had been at least three or four years since the earliest sighting of the "River of Stars," so much time passed, and there was still so much potion left in this container?
Xu Huo closed his personal panel, once again evaluating the canister before him.
The top of the canister was slightly emptied, but it didn’t take up a fifth of the total volume, and even before this, potions were continuously leaking out.
Xu Huo stepped back a little, "Could the intercepted time allow for the material to regenerate?"
As if in response to his words, a faint force emanated from within the container, enveloping him entirely like the sensation when crossing the barrier before, compelling him to close his eyes, but when he reopened them, the canister floating in the pond had returned to its original form.
Still three cracks, no more, no less, and even the tape that should have been attached was gone... Xu Huo couldn’t tell if time had reversed or if all that had happened was an illusion, but the gap and the Perfect Potion that should have existed in the canister’s center had all vanished!
Now before him was a complete container!
Before he could think further, a game notification rang:
[Congratulations Player Passerby A, for making noble choices in this instance, proving once again that humanity is the pinnacle of creation, thus earning high recognition from the game and, besides the S-rank completion reward, also receiving the game’s special gift.]
[Additionally, Midsummer Night’s River of Stars presents you with a special gift, would you like to open it now?]