Chapter 61: New Trial Begins

“Gene Potion Research: Gene Control Ability users have their own insights into gene changes. They can often make their prepared fast-acting Gene Potions have longer durations and more significant effects.”

“Level: Level 1”

“All crafted Gene Potions have their effects and duration increased by 10%.”

“Gene Potions you can currently craft: None”

Reading this, Xiao Fen remembered that he had also found a Potion Crafting scroll in the London Trial World before. At that time, he didn’t remember to learn it. Later, he fought Jack fiercely, and then later, he was so hungry he was dizzy.

He didn’t know if the keys in the small leather bag that had not been opened, along with those miscellaneous potions, had been recovered by the World Tree during settlement, or if they had been transferred to his Warehouse as previously stated.

Both Gene Potion Crafting and Filth Life creation were theoretically good skills. The problem was, they were not practical in this Trial World.

Gene Potion Crafting required enough crafting scrolls. Different Gene Potions needed different crafting scrolls. Without crafting scrolls, even if he activated the skill, it was meaningless.

However, these restrictions were not big problems for Xiao Fen now. He did not need to show a different side of himself in this trial, just like all Level 0 Trialists, and just like before in School.

Not standing out, not falling behind, and then surviving until the end was enough.

The only thing that made Xiao Fen feel strange was that originally, the advanced bloodline erosion from Garm and the Stitched Monster had made him a Trialist. This was also default with the World Tree. But later, whether upgrading or allocating Skill Points, the World Tree seemed to have no interest in the bloodline on his body and made no display.

It seemed that in the World Tree’s view, there was no advanced bloodline on Xiao Fen at all.

If an advanced bloodline could be ignored so easily, how could it be called an advanced bloodline?

And now, the World Tree had not mentioned any impact of the advanced bloodline on himself. All this made Xiao Fen feel somewhat confused.

This confusion could not be answered now, so Xiao Fen quickly set it aside and began to look at the Trial World he was in again.

At this time, a military-green backpack was placed beside Xiao Fen. He had seen it in the computer. It was a beginner package for all new Trialists to help them adapt to this Trial World as soon as possible.

Xiao Fen checked the beginner equipment provided by the World Tree, which included a military dagger, one tube of Healing Potion, two Constitution Gene Potions, and outer clothing, as well as a pair of high-waisted leather boots.

He neatly changed all his clothes and put them into the military backpack. After checking himself again and confirming there were no problems, Xiao Fen pushed open the rusty iron door beside him and walked out.

What appeared before Xiao Fen this time was an unusually wide yet very long concrete passage.

Dim and unclear lights trembled in different corners of the passage. Occasionally, some lights emitted a hissing sound, as if they were about to go out. After a while, they slowly returned to normal.

Several fat rats ran recklessly past Xiao Fen’s feet. He could clearly see that one rat had a human finger in its mouth.

At the cracks in the concrete pipes, moisture continuously condensed and slowly dripped down.

If just one seam made this sound, it wouldn’t be scary. The problem was that these tiny cracks were everywhere in the passage. The sounds from the cracks converged, and the dripping sound made people think it was raining heavily here.

Below the concrete pipe, the water droplets dripping from above had gathered into a small stream, which looked very clear.

However, in this clear stream, the terrible human corpses and unrottened internal organs were enough to kill the desire of any thirsty person to drink water.

Xiao Fen looked in the opposite direction. Thanks to his Sharp Vision, he could roughly estimate how wide this pipe was.

About 30 meters wide, allowing four cars to drive side by side.

This meant that the underground pipe Xiao Fen was in was not the main pipe but a branch pipe. It was unclear where it specifically led.

Xiao Fen looked down at the direction of the water flow in the pipe and determined the direction of his next action.

He looked back at where he had just stayed, did not linger, and walked towards another part of the passage against the direction of the water flow.

Higher ground meant closer to the ground.

Since this trial task required moving from one shelter to another, leaving this current passage to reach the ground was the primary condition for completing the task.

This was a boring walking process. For more than ten minutes, except for the sound of constantly dripping water and the sound of rats occasionally running past Xiao Fen’s feet, there was no other sound in the passage.

The surrounding scenery did not change much either. Every 20 meters or so, there were closed or open iron doors on both sides of the passage. Inside the open iron doors, human bodies in military uniforms could be seen.

As for the corpses fallen on the carriageway, they had all become bloated from soaking in the stream. Their deathly pale faces looked particularly creepy under the dim yellow light. Besides this, there was nothing abnormal.

This was very different from the London Trial World Xiao Fen had visited before. Back then, Xiao Fen did not have such a long boring time. However, considering that the London Trial World had already started for a while, the World Tree would not separately leave adaptation time for Xiao Fen.

This long walk was a torture for many people, but not for Xiao Fen.

He carefully observed everything around him and continuously observed the distribution degree of cracks above the concrete pipes. Of course, the number and body size of the rats running past him were also key points of Xiao Fen’s attention.

After moving forward for 5 minutes more, Xiao Fen walked to a fork road leading to four different directions. He stood at this intersection and observed in two directions for a while, finally finding a fork path with fewer cracks and smaller rats.

After walking for a period of time in the new passage, the surrounding air had become less humid. Above the concrete channel, the cracks had become so few that it took tens of meters to see one. As for rats, they seemed to have disappeared here.

Xiao Fen took a long breath. He did not continue forward but turned his head to look at the closed iron doors around him. These iron doors were very different from those he had seen before. Almost all iron doors were tightly closed, and one could not see what was inside at all.

Xiao Fen chose an iron door, walked over, and tried to push it. Obviously, this was meaningless. He then tried to knock on the door. To his surprise, this time the knocking quickly got a response. A strange, sharp scratching sound that made the scalp tingle sounded behind the door.

Xiao Fen puckered his lips, walked to another iron door. However, this time he got the same return. The scratching sound sounded after he knocked. And unlike the previous iron door, this time the scratching sound seemed to be a composite sound made by four hands scratching at the door.

The scratching sound soon caused a chain reaction. Behind all the iron doors in this passage, annoying scratching sounds appeared simultaneously. These sounds converged into a terrible noise, as if a Demon might rush out from behind the iron doors at any time.

Xiao Fen was not surprised by such a response. He turned his head and looked around. Two corpses that had already turned into white bones on the ground nearby attracted his attention.