Chapter 219 New Features Fifty-Fifty

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Chapter 219: Chapter 219 New Features Fifty-FiftyThe night was heavy, and the electrical circuits of the Xiaohua Honghong Building were damaged and unable to provide lighting. Afraid of provoking the mutant animals, the people hiding in the office didn’t dare to use their cell phones for illumination. So everyone just sat there in the dark, staring and waiting for the game to end. "It’s almost four o’clock," Jiang Yihua whispered with some excitement. "Can you see the energy value of the poison powder?" Xu Huo suddenly asked. "No, it has to be something with life," Jiang Yihua paused, "Do you want to go back to the thirteenth floor to retrieve that pot of flower?" Xu Huo didn’t say anything, just stood up and left the room. There were no sounds from the aliens outside. He covered his mouth and nose with a torn cloth and jumped into the elevator shaft after prying the doors open. The floor on the thirteenth level was covered with a thin layer of golden powder, and the air vents were pierced through, replaced by more than a dozen twisted plant roots and stems. Nearly all the toppled potted plants around were withered. Yet the purple flower, which he had caught in a plastic bag and placed in the corner, was covered with quite a lot of poisonous powder but had not wilted. After brushing off the powder on it, he picked up the plastic bag and received a game notification just in time: [Congratulations to Player Passerby A for successfully completing the "Xiaohua Honghong Building" instance. Based on your performance in this instance, you have obtained the new trait "Fifty-Fifty," the item "Nutrient Red Pot," and six potions.] [Please note, this instance is a random instance and is not available for player rankings.] [Would you like to exit the instance?] [Yes] [No] After choosing to exit the instance, the world in front of him suddenly shifted back to the misty highway. Not far away, police tape and the red lights of police cars were visible, and there were vaguely many figures around; his phone, which he had left by the road, was still there. People gradually started returning from the instance, and the environment got noisy. As he was about to leave, someone gently tapped his shoulder from behind. The Girl in the painting came out, tilting her head, and quickly typed out a line: "Your stepdad is over there by the car." Xu Huo nodded, put his phone in his pocket, and slipped away under the cover of the mist. Once home, he drank two bottles of the Self-Healing Potion to ease the pain before taking off his clothes to check his injuries. Kicked by that alien beast, his ribs were not broken, but a large bruise was left on his chest and abdomen, which was now somewhat swollen. The Girl in the painting fetched a bag of ice for him and laid it on his chest as he lay down, saying with her phone, "You look so miserable." Xu Huo pointed to the flower in the plastic bag, "Recognize it?" The Girl in the painting shook her head, then typed, "But I’ve seen one like it, and other people’s flowers have red leaves." "What about the size?" "About the same size." "Where have you seen it?" "I don’t remember," the Girl in the painting shook her head again, "I’m asleep a lot of the time." In their daily brief conversations, Xu Huo understood that the Girl in the painting had followed many people to many places. However, her mode of movement was as a painting, often placed in the inventory or carried in the form of paper during travel, unconcerned and unremembering of events, indifferent to who she accompanied or where she went. Seeing he couldn’t get more information, he put the matter aside and said, "Get me something to eat, no snacks." The Girl in the painting went off in high spirits, and when she returned, she brought a bowl of porridge and a big bag of snacks. She gave him the white porridge and sat down beside him to eat the snacks herself. Xu Huo glanced at her, poured the remaining ice cubes into the trash bin, and only after eating did he check his rewards from this game session. "Fifty-Fifty" is an extension of the "Insider’s Perspective" trait: [Sharp insight and observation are essential for an insider, but primal intuition is also indispensable.] [Science has shown that intuition is the brain’s implicit feedback based on all acquired information. It might seem baseless to the person, but to the brain, it is a result of intricate computations.] [However, any computation can err, and intuition is no exception, so in the face of dangerous situations, "Fifty-Fifty" intuition will have a correct rate of fifty percent.] [Note: The correct rate of intuition in ordinary people is less than 20%.] Comparing the two data sets, the "Fifty-Fifty" trait seemed quite good. He also agreed with the idea that intuition is the brain’s filtered feedback to information. If "Fifty-Fifty" could achieve the high accuracy rate it claimed, this trait was more like a kind of brain evolution. It’s just that "Fifty-Fifty" also had a fifty percent error rate, and in real-life situations, making the right or wrong choice could be absolute. Flipping past the trait, he took out the "Nutrient Red Pot." This item was a flowerpot that didn’t require fertilization to provide plants with the nutrients they need for growth; it just needed occasional watering. Xu Huo took the purple flower out of the plastic bag and planted it. seaʀᴄh thё Novёlƒire.n(e)t website on Google to access chapters of novels early and in the highest quality. This flower was mixed in with other plants and was not killed by the Man-Eating Flower’s toxic powder. Although there was no record of it in the glass greenhouse, it was unlikely to have been planted by chance. Because the introduction in the game mentioned that the first mutated plant that Professor Hao cultivated did not bloom red flowers, he also thought Professor Hao might be colorblind, and the Man-Eating Flower was the namesake of the building. However, this guess might not be correct. If Professor Hao was colorblind, it would be entirely unnecessary to paint the two doors leading to the building from the glass greenhouse in different colors. Of course, just because of the two colored doors, it couldn’t be concluded that he was not colorblind. But with the addition of this purple flower, the game’s introduction seemed to have another meaning. The root of the purple flower was red, but the flower that bloomed was purple. The Girl in the painting said she had seen a similar flower with all red leaves, and he noticed while clearing the soil that the red part of the flower’s roots had been reduced from what he saw in the game, and the colors had visibly changed. This matched the naming origins of the Xiaohua Honghong Building. At least, this purple flower was a special variant plant, so despite the game labeling it as an "unknown plant," he still took the flower with him when he left. After potting the flower, he took an Evolution Potion and poured it in. Besides traits and items, the game rewards included potions like P1 Evolution Potion, Level D Healing Potion, Cleansing Potion, and several plant nutrition potions. He only took the flower with him, but the game had provided both the flowerpot and the nutrients. Just as he placed the flowerpot on the balcony, Chief Wu’s call came through, "You got away pretty fast; we specifically waited near the game session entrance to intercept you, but we missed you." "Had something to take care of and left early," Xu Huo paused and asked, "What’s up?" "I have learned about the basics of this session. Both players and non-players who came out of it need to go through psychological counseling—let’s see..." "No need," Xu Huo asked. "Actually, Tang Guangbo has pretty good abilities; you can talk to him if you have any issues," Chief Wu paused and then continued, "This time, there were two players who should have come out but didn’t. The other players are unclear about what happened, so I wanted to ask you."

Chapter 219 New Features Fifty-Fifty

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