Chapter 190: The New Generation Stabilizer

Whether it was Xiaoliu or Xiaoliuzi, neither of them knew Feng Mo.

Although he had seen many mutated animals and plants, Feng Mo was still a bit nervous and wanted to ask a question first, but the words circled on the tip of his tongue and just wouldn't come out.

Then, he couldn't say it anymore.

It was actually a person, walking out from the tangled vines—no, it was more like being pushed out.

Its build was even shorter and smaller than Laoqi's, its skin was an eerie green, and its facial features were twisted... if one didn't look at it as a person, it didn't matter if it was ugly or beautiful.

However, if it really wasn't a person, Feng Mo felt that Xiaoliu should be a goblin from foreign novels, and the name seemed to be called a goblin.

"This is Xiaoliu; from now on, he will protect the Steel Factory with you all."

Liu Mu introduced him very seriously, "You don't need to be afraid of him; just treat him like a potted flower or a tree and plant him here."

Feng Mo widened his eyes, and even the burn scars on his face were stretched in shock, "He, he, he is shaking, shaking my hand?"

However, the Xiaoliu that came out not only took the initiative to shake his hand but also spoke, "Little brother, do you understand meeting etiquette? You don't really think I'm just some flower or grass that doesn't understand anything, do you?"

It was just that a flower bud suddenly popping out of the top of his head while he was talking was a bit funny.

"H-hello, I, I am Feng, Feng Mo," Feng Mo felt life was so fantastical, as if he had walked into some novel he used to be obsessed with.

"Alright, you've met now," Liu Mu thought for a moment and said, "Regarding Xiaoliu's affairs, don't tell anyone else; if they ask, just say it's a Mutated Plant."

"Then, then watering?" Feng Mo thought that since it was a plant, it should have some needs, "Fertilizing?"

"You don't need to worry about that. I'll take root in the open space outside in a while. It's just that if it's too cold, I won't come out often," Xiaoliu's expression was no different from a human's, it was just that the flower bud on his head tried several times but couldn't fully open its petals, "It's too cold; it's not friendly at all to flowers."

"Avoid the underground pipes," Liu Mu knew from the system's analysis of the Great Master Flower that this was also a plant that feared the cold.

It was no wonder it grew under the Scrap Station; the temperature in the Southeast Three Provinces was not low to begin with, and Haicheng was coastal, with the lowest annual temperature being over ten degrees.

The Great Master Flower might be fine staying in a cold climate for a few days, but if it were cold for a long time, it probably wouldn't survive.

"Okay, Master, can I stay under the Boiler Room?"

Xiaoliu pointed in a direction, which was exactly where the steel smelting furnace was located.

Although they weren't smelting steel for the time being, there were still two furnaces there maintaining a burn with minimal coal consumption, and the temperature was much higher than in other places.

"Go ahead."

With the system monitoring, plus the fact that Xu Xiaofeng could perceive his condition, he wouldn't do anything to damage the factory.

And he was even less likely to run away. How to put it? Unlike Xu Xiaofeng and Niu Boyi, Xiaoliu didn't even qualify to be a system-protected creature; he simply didn't have his own independent thoughts and consciousness.

Regarding this point, Liu Mu didn't explicitly tell Feng Mo, but she still made preparations, "When the temperature is too low, Xiaoliu might hibernate and won't be able to discover if the factory is attacked in time. I will have him grow a vine in the Air Raid Shelter where you live; you should prepare a flowerpot, and don't let others be suspicious."

Feng Mo, not understanding but feeling it was impressive, immediately agreed and believed that Xiaoliu was a secret weapon Liu Mu had placed in the factory, and that not too many people should know about Xiaoliu's background.

Heihuo woke up from a terrifying nightmare. That kind of waking up wasn't just a simple startle and opening of eyes; it was more like being suddenly dragged back to his own world from another world, and there was a sense of discomfort at being able to see people when he clearly thought he was finished.

"Brother Black Fire is awake!"

The first person to discover it shared the good news with the others, and then a chaotic sound of footsteps could be heard.

People came over, circled around him, and questions smashed into his brain like old bricks. He wanted to answer, but he felt so irritable that he wanted to roar.

"Quiet, everyone!"

Finally, a female voice suppressed the noise pounding against his brain, and then he saw that familiar and spirited face, "Don't move. This is a sequela of inhaling an excessive amount of hallucinogen. Drink some hot water and lie down for a while, and you'll be fine."

Feng Mo had already brought a kettle and fed it to Heihuo, "Brother Fire, come, drink some, it's okay now."

Heihuo, who couldn't quite remember what had happened, drank the water, closed his eyes, and fell asleep again.

After Liu Mu said that this was a normal phenomenon, everyone finally felt relieved.

After patrolling the inside and outside of the Steel Factory and confirming the list of personnel coming to change shifts with the Barrier, Liu Mu rode Niu Boyi and left.

There were still many things waiting for her to handle at home and at the Barrier, so she couldn't stay here for too long.

At the fork in the road on the way back, she met the Sea Soul Squad that had driven over to provide support and brought them home together.

Knowing that the Steel Factory had been attacked by a herd of beasts and that Liu Mu had already rushed over to kill them, the members of Sea Soul Team One felt quite ashamed.

If they had known, they might as well have stayed at the Barrier; if this matter got back, the brother units would laugh themselves to death.

Liu Mu didn't have these concerns; on the way home, she stopped by to check on Xing Tianyang's Laboratory.

Also because of the Extreme Cold, they had closed the heavy doors of the mountain they had excavated, leaving only a small tunnel at the foot of the mountain for transporting supplies in and out.

After chatting with Xing Tianyang for a while and learning that the research on the Zombie Virus had made some progress, she asked about the Mutation research.

Seeming to have known her personality for a long time, Xing Tianyang took out a pale blue potion, "This is also a Stabilizer extracted from the Beast Crystal of a mutated beast. It's more stable than the one I gave you last time, and after the third concentration, the effect is also better. For an ordinary person to undergo Mutation, just this one is enough to stabilize them, but the biggest problem remains that it cannot provide the energy consumption for the Mutation."

Having stated both the pros and cons, Xing Tianyang looked at Liu Mu, seemingly waiting for her evaluation.

"How many are there?" Liu Mu opened the bottle cap and sniffed it, "It's still an injection; can you make an oral one? It's not easy to inject when mutating."

"The oral liquid doesn't work well; I've tried it. In the same situation, oral administration requires at least three doses," Xing Tianyang didn't approve of Liu Mu's idea. Although there were indeed difficulties with injections during Mutation, "The raw materials are too scarce. If we could obtain a stable supply of Beast Crystals, then oral administration would be no problem."

"That's the problem," Liu Mu placed a small plastic bag on the table, "I killed hundreds today, and guess what? There were less than eighty crystals cut out. Why don't you wait a bit longer? When the mutated animals and plants in the wild get a bit stronger, maybe there will be crystals."

Regarding this, Xing Tianyang couldn't say anything. He couldn't get this stuff at all; most of the two jars on his laboratory shelf were given by Liu Mu, and the smaller half was sent by Liu Mu's dog.

Thinking of Niu Boyi, a smile couldn't help but appear on Xing Tianyang's serious face, "The potions are all in the box; you take them away. I'm going to give Niu Boyi a check-up."

"Check-up is fine, but can you not smile like that? You look like a bad uncle." Liu Mu wasn't too worried about Xing Tianyang reaching out his devil's claws toward Niu Boyi now; one had to know that the Gouzi of today was no longer the Gouzi that would be easily fooled.

Moreover, an ordinary human like Xing Tianyang was no different from a weakling in front of it.

Doctor Xing, who preferred seeing the dog to seeing people, still didn't manage to leave and was grabbed by the arm by Liu Mu, "What's the rush? There's still something I haven't said. Look at this, a sample I risked half my life to bring back, a giant octopus hundreds of meters tall. Take it quickly."

Xing Tianyang was skeptical about Liu Mu's words. Even though he was already very knowledgeable about animal and plant Mutation, he still asked, "You're exaggerating, aren't you? Do you have specific data?"

"You doubt me?" Liu Mu couldn't stand this at all, so she immediately used the Regional Network to send a five-minute-long video to his computer.