Chapter 978 - 553: Are Blue-Tier Fruits Slow-Acting Poison? (3)

She tossed a segment into her mouth, chewing with a nostalgic expression, and said, "Hmm... eat less, eat less, sister-in-law. I don’t want you to turn all silly when I return you to my brother."

"Silly..." Li Wenxi almost threw away the half orange in her hand. "This thing is a slow-acting poison!"

"Slow-acting poison? That’s a pretty fitting description." Xu Ying kept popping the slow-acting poison segments into her mouth, "However, don’t worry too much. There are plenty of genetic serums in Crystal City. My brother will definitely save one for you, so even if you turn silly, injecting the serum will fix you up. Go ahead, eat it."

"I see..."

Li Wenxi had heard about the genetic serums in Crystal City from Xu Ying before. She instantly felt relieved, looked at the half orange in her hand, and immediately stuffed the remaining half into her mouth, chewing aggressively in retaliation!

This is actually slow-acting poison!

Xu Ying had already finished the whole orange, licking her fingers contentedly: "Not bad! Ever since the time travel started, I haven’t eaten this kind of orange."

"Hmm... if I do turn silly, don’t forget to take me back..." Li Wenxi gulped down the entire orange, a bit anxious.

"That wouldn’t happen until you’re at least fifty or sixty years old, right? You wouldn’t be staying here that long; I bet my brother will come looking for you soon. If things don’t work out, we’ll go out and find him once we’re done here."

"Well... we might be fine, but those other survivors..." Li Wenxi suddenly remembered that blue-grade fruit had become very common among survivor groups, and most survivors should be eating it.

"There’s nothing we can do. To gain certain abilities, you must give up something. Besides, those people..."

Xu Ying doesn’t have any interest in other survivors: "Never mind, let’s not talk about this. I’ll show you around. There should be some more mineral spots around here, right?"

"Over that way, I feel like there might be some."

"Alright, by the way, what were you doing here fifty years ago? Tell me!"

"Hmm, nothing special, really; my brother handled the main tasks. I just..."

...

On the ground.

"You found another statue somewhere else?" Zeng Tao asked in surprise.

"I wasn’t the one who found it; this little guy discovered it." Lou Fei’Er said, petting Keke’s large tail.

"Hmm..." Keke moved her tail slightly and continued to curl up sleepily in her arms.

"Whose statue? It wouldn’t be Xu Xin’s again, would it?" Zeng Tao suddenly got excited, "Could it be there’s another Crystal City down there?"

"It wasn’t Xu Xin; it’s a statue of a... woman."

Lou Fei’Er sat on the couch, stretched out, and said, "The place is very hidden, nestled in a hardly visible mountain crevice. Once you go inside, the space is quite large, and there’s a statue in there. If it weren’t for Keke drilling in there, I wouldn’t have found it at all."

"So mysterious, there’s definitely something good in there! Didn’t you explore it?" Zeng Tao leaned in, sitting beside her, "Who is the statue’s woman? Have you seen her before?"

Both were now in Lou Fei’Er’s treehouse.

"Never seen her." Lou Fei’Er shook her head, "I haven’t explored it. I got a strange sense of trepidation there, feeling like something would go wrong if I explored alone. Besides, it’s a special time, so I picked up Keke, who was staring at the statue, and hurried back. This matter needs to be discussed with everyone, at least I need to bring back the information."

"That’s true, it wouldn’t be good if you acted on your own and went missing or got into trouble." Zeng Tao’s eyes flickered, "Hey, hey, hey, how about the two of us go check it out? The two of us should be fine, right?"

"What are you thinking!" Lou Fei’Er replied irritably, "We are still protecting the World Tree, what would it look like for us to run out?"

"Alright then..." Zeng Tao sank into the couch, "Boring."

"Where’s Jin Yue?"

"She’s helping Ma Hongwei upgrade the treehouse crossbows for the survivors, making them part of the defense forces."

"Wenxi isn’t here, do we have enough resources?" Lou Fei’Er expressed a bit of concern.

"They say there’s still plenty of iron ore where Wenxi discovered it, for now? I don’t really know; let them handle it." Zeng Tao turned over on the couch, muttering, "Xu Xin is so slow, when will he stop occupying my treehouse..."