Hunter of Mysterious Creature-Chapter 470 - 82: Breeding Gu

Yuri suddenly felt that Sun Hang was right.

The toxin concentration seemed not to affect the final result of the test.

"How about we observe for a while longer?" Yuri said, "If your body shows no reaction an hour after the intradermal injection, we'll start preparing to ingest the Red Spore."

"Alright, but my mouth is a bit dry. Could you bring me a bottle of water... or maybe a Fanta?"

"As for carbonated drinks... the vending machines inside Dubhe Tower should have them, but to avoid contaminating the experiment environment, we need to sterilize and filter the container and drink multiple times... this might affect the drink's taste and texture..." Yuri said.

"Fine, fine, then plain water shouldn't be such a hassle, right?"

"That, I can provide for you immediately," Yuri said.

Purified water is already a very common experimental material, although according to laboratory regulations, experimental materials are strictly prohibited from being consumed... but all these researchers know that except for the lack of trace elements needed by the human body, this purified water fully meets drinking standards, and is even cleaner than the bottled drinking water sold outside which claims to use deep natural water from certain sources but is actually filled with tap water.

Even when Yuri was young, he had also drunk glucose solution used as experimental material—nine consecutive hours of high-intensity experiments led Yuri, who hadn't eaten for half a day, to show symptoms of hypoglycemia. If it weren't for his quick wits finding a bag of glucose solution in the experiment cabinet and drinking it, who knows if he might have fainted alone in the lab in the middle of the night.

Two bottles of unlabeled purified water quickly slid into the containment room from another passage, and the medical robot's mechanical arm directly helped Sun Hang unscrew the cap and brought the bottle opening to his lips.

"What a pampered life, even having a robot feed you water?" Sun Hang quipped. As soon as he opened his lips, the medical robot, detecting the change in facial muscle movement, brought the bottle up, accurately placing the opening on Sun Hang's lips, tilting the bottle slightly, letting the liquid flow into Sun Hang's throat.

Sun Hang didn't even need to lift his head; this feeling was like he was holding the bottle himself.

"This robot is quite good." As he spoke, the mechanical arm immediately adjusted the angle of the bottle, moving it away, "Developing it into a household robot would surely have a market."

"The... the cost of this robot... along with the supporting electronic sensing equipment and software... totals eleven billion." A researcher murmured.

"Eleven billion, huh? Never mind then," Sun Hang said.

Despite the researcher's low voice, it was captured by the microphone on Yuri's ear and transmitted to Sun Hang.

"He... he can hear my voice?" The researcher was slightly shocked, then closed his mouth under Yuri's sideways glance.

"Fifty-seven minutes," Yuri said, "three minutes to go."

Three minutes can be neither long nor short, and during this last three minutes, Sun Hang's body showed no dramatic changes. The Red Spore toxin injected into his skin seemed to have vanished without a trace, like a clay ox into the sea.

"Let's go."

Sun Hang got off the recliner, walked out of the containment room, and extended the arm injected with Red Spore toxin to pat Yuri's shoulder.

Yuri instinctively shrank his shoulder, seemingly wanting to avoid Sun Hang's touch.

"What are you afraid of?" Sun Hang asked, "Didn't they say the Red Spore toxin loses activity after one hour?"

"That's under the condition of no host... We still can't rule out the possibility of this toxin having latency, after all, it can change according to the host's characteristics..." Yuri said.

"You mean, the toxin thinks it can't kill me, so it's hiding silently in my body, trying to turn me into a so-called 'asymptomatic carrier,' then use me as a springboard to infect more people?" Sun Hang asked.

Yuri had not said anything yet, but the researchers around them immediately showed expressions of fear in their eyes, and some retreated a step or two discreetly, increasing the distance between them and Sun Hang.

"Since the Red Spore's toxin is so potent, you shouldn't last a few seconds, right... After all, you don't have my kind of constitution." After speaking, Sun Hang directly grasped Yuri's hand, their palms connecting without any barrier.

Sun Hang noticed a distinct twitch on Yuri's face, and his heart rate increased significantly.

Five seconds, ten seconds... thirty seconds passed.

Yuri showed no signs of poisoning.

"Now you should be completely convinced, this toxin is ineffective on me." Sun Hang released Yuri's hand.

"Phew... Yes, yes." Yuri exhaled a sigh of relief, his whole body relaxing at once.

He's just an ordinary person, without Sun Hang's peculiar 'toxin-resistant' constitution. If the Red Spore toxin did spread to him through Sun Hang, it would immediately alter its properties, eliminating its 'latency', reverting to the kind of deadly toxin that could kill in seconds.

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Yuri led Sun Hang to a cold storage room—compared to where Containment B423 was held, this cold storage was relatively 'warm', always maintained at a constant temperature of minus seventy-five degrees Celsius, and entering it didn't require spraying any isolation liquid, just wearing sufficiently thick cold-proof clothing.