This Text Adventure Game is Absolutely Toxic Chapter 551

Chapter 551 Minefield Disco

 The "Mirage Season Guide" kindly provided by the Deng Shen, Mu You turned around and made it public to the group.

 Everyone was relieved when they saw such a detailed mechanism. As the same saying goes, the unknown is the scariest thing. No matter how complex and dangerous the rules are, once they are revealed, the threat level will plummet.

“In other words, the abandoned city scenes we see now are all real, but they are in other locations?” asked the emperor.

"Yes." Mu You replied: "So I suggest that we set off immediately to find the real abandoned city. As long as we can find and light the soul-inducing lamp, even if we fail to open up wasteland this time, we can teleport over at any time next time. No need to go through the bottom of the lake anymore.”

"good."

"no problem…"

No one had any objections and simply assigned some tasks in the group.

 Then we waited for a while in the game. After their respective characters woke up, they dispersed according to the original plan and searched for clues about the ancient city in several directions.

 What Mu You didn't expect was that he, the guide provider, would be the last to wake up among the people.

 According to the Djinn God, it takes 2-8 hours to wake up normally after falling asleep in the mirage.

During this period, if you take nightmare powder, you can wake up at any time after being attacked, but if you sleep less than the minimum two hours, you will fall asleep again soon after waking up.

Comparing the two powders, the Nightmare Powder is obviously better because it has the chance to wake up early, while the Dream Powder is safe and safe, but it can only sleep until it wakes up naturally. It is not as lucky, and it takes seven or eight hours to sleep at a time. When I wake up, one third of the day is gone.

For example, Mu You was unlucky this time. After sleeping for a full seven and a half hours, the character finally woke up. By this time, the other people who were still alive had been exploring outside for a long time.

But there are advantages. Before he woke up, someone had already explored the land suspected of being an ancient city.

"In the southwest, it feels like a man-made flat road..." the message was from Jiuyou.

 When others saw the news, they immediately adjusted their exploration direction and started heading southwest.

“Hey, I seem to have passed through a wetland! Wait for me to explore...” Bluebeard suddenly left a message.

 “Haha, found it, insect eggs! They haven't hatched yet!”

“Awesome, it really lights up the surroundings! I can finally see the real scene!” Bluebeard looked very excited.

 “Tell me, what does the real scene look like?” Someone was curious.

“It's a wasteland, like a swamp…with many crooked-neck trees…”

“Wait a moment, the light ball is gone, wait until I take someone to touch a few more eggs and then we'll see…”

 The news about Bluebeard ended abruptly.

It took more than ten minutes before he bubbled up again.

 “Holy shit! It seems like we have broken into a bug nest, there are so many beetles chasing us...”

 “These beetles are having fun, hundreds of them acting together...”

 “It's over, my men are all dead…”

 “What about you?” Someone is concerned.

“I managed to escape by relying on my divine skin, but these things are still chasing me. When my divine skin's time is up, I will definitely die...”

Bluebeard seemed to have foreseen his own death fate, and simply said boldly: "Brothers, I guess I have to take a step first, but we can't throw away the more than 20 eggs that we finally touched, so I threw them together. The snail sculpture is down. If anyone comes here later, you can look for it nearby..."

After Bluebeard finished speaking, he managed to escape for a few more minutes, then was covered by the swarm of insects and completely returned to the west.

 Others were interested in picking them up, but unfortunately their schedules were too spread out and they had already gone a long way. Going to another direction just for a few eggs was really not worth the gain. If they had this time, they might be able to find the wetland if they continued walking.

 So no one took any action, which gave Mu You an advantage.

At this time, Mu You's character had just woken up and immediately rushed in the direction of Blue Beard.

  【…You have come to a place that looks like a wetland, with thick mud and numerous puddles on the ground...】

  【You activated 'Existence', and your sense of existence became extremely thin...】

  【…You fumbled for a snail stone sculpture, searched around, and soon found some soft and slippery spheres under the stone sculpture...】

  【You obtained 'Dream-Breaking Insect Eggs'*24…】

It was much smoother than expected. Not long after I arrived, I happened to bump into the place where Bluebeard died and directly collected the inheritance.

Mu You immediately crushed an insect egg and gave it a try.

　　　【You kill an insect egg, the life in the egg dies, and the remaining liquid flows out, condensing into a luminous fluorescent ball in your hand, illuminating the space within several meters around it. 】

　　【You are now in a wet mudland, surrounded by desolation, with no trace of green in sight, only a few crooked-neck trees growing a few meters away...】

　　【You suddenly heard a sharp hissing sound behind you. When you turned around, you saw two beetles more than one meter tall appearing behind you. Their mouthparts opened and closed, revealing sharp teeth and tongues covered with barbs...】

　　【One of the beetles neighed and flew towards you, while the other beetle faced away, opened its mouth and let out a high-pitched neigh...】

　　【You avoided the attack of the beetle and hurriedly started to run away...】

　　【At the same time, one of the insect eggs in your hand just hatched, and a sharp-toothed beetle emerged from the egg and rushed towards your face...】

  【You were bitten by a beetle, poisoned, and your health dropped sharply...】

 “Look back.”

　　【As time goes by, you took out the eggs that were about to hatch in advance and threw them behind you...】

This thing can only produce useful things in its egg form. Once it hatches into an adult, it is useless. However, the hatching time cannot be seen from the outside. Holding it in your hand for a long time is like holding a time bomb.

More importantly, this thing called for friends as soon as it appeared, and soon it attracted a large group of people. It's no wonder that Bluebeard and others were killed just now.

 Fortunately, Muyou's situation is pretty good at the moment. The beetles started escaping before they could gather in a swarm. It should be no problem to escape.

  【…You left the wet area, and the dense beetles behind you gave up the pursuit...】

　　…You have entered a wide flat road. As far as you can see, there are no obstacles, and there are obvious traces of human construction...]

Not long after leaving the wetland, Mu You successfully arrived at the place Jiuyou mentioned.

At this moment, other people have gone deep into this area. Judging from their feedback, this is indeed the abandoned ancient city they saw in their previous visions.

 Furthermore, since entering here, the star levels of the surrounding monsters have increased sharply, and some people have encountered monsters with five or six stars or more in a row.

 At the beginning, some people had the idea of ​​​​picking up the leaks, hoping to encounter some "sleepwalking" high-star monsters and kill them without any damage when the opponent was unable to resist.

Unfortunately, after wandering around for a while, everyone quickly discovered that high-star creatures are very smart. It is almost impossible to fall asleep without eating dream powder. They either wake up as soon as they are beaten, or are protected by a petrified layer and cannot be attacked at all.

 After a few hours, not a single real free prostitution occurred. Instead, the land reclamation team suffered heavy casualties.

 “I'm dead, come on!” Twelve hours after opening up the wasteland, Jiuyou suddenly posted in the group.

“Jiuyou is gone too? So now only the emperor and the ghost captain are left?”

"Seems to be…"

"It's so tragic. There are more than 900 people who started to participate in the operation, all of them are elites..." "We are opening up wasteland, and we just happened to encounter a natural disaster. It's good to be able to last for so long..."

Everyone was smiling bitterly. Before they came, they were full of confidence. They thought they were serious and could survive for a week or two. No one expected that the situation on the other side was so bad. The group was almost wiped out on the first day.

"Emperor, Ghost Captain, it's up to you..." someone encouraged.

As soon as he finished speaking, the emperor also sent a message: "Well...it seems that I have stopped here..."

 “Ah, this…”

Everyone was speechless. Who has such a clever mouth? As soon as he finished speaking, another one hung up. This time, Mu You was left alone.

 “Come on, boss…”

 “Hold on…”

 “It's up to you...”

 Everyone then turned their encouragement to Mu You.

 Mu You said he was under a lot of pressure. One of the reasons why he has lived longer than others is that he has taken advantage of being left behind. The road ahead has basically been explored by everyone for several rounds, so it is relatively safe for him to continue.

 Second, he relied on the vampire's recovery and reduced presence to greatly improve his ability to survive.

But even so, he couldn't guarantee anything. It was indeed too dangerous to open up wasteland in this kind of unfamiliar territory.

Next, Muyou controlled the character to carefully explore the abandoned city, and fell asleep again due to excessive mirage. This time Muyou decisively took the nightmare powder, and was woken up by a monster three hours later. , continue to explore.

 In this intermittent land reclamation, the next day has arrived in the blink of an eye.

 It wasn't until the early morning of the next day that a prompt finally came from the game.

  【Under the fluorescent light, you see a scene of pavilions and pavilions in front of you, which makes you feel extremely familiar. It is almost the same as the scene you saw when you first came here...】

Mu You's eyes lit up. It was at the very beginning when he saw the soul-inducing lantern. After walking a few steps, he encountered the floating soul lantern. At this moment, he finally saw the original mirage scene, indicating that the soul-inducing lantern was most likely nearby.

  【You strangled a new beetle egg to death and used the fluorescence of the light ball to search for it nearby...】

【Not long after, you suddenly see a familiar green lamp looming near the puddle not far ahead, it is the soul-inducing lamp! 】

　　【You are about to rush forward, but suddenly you realize that white bones can be seen everywhere on the ground around you. Judging from the shape of the bones, these bones are very similar to the size of humans...】

"oh?"

Mu You raised his eyebrows, could they be the bones of the ancestors of the Fool?

 If so, why do so many fools die near the soul-inducing lamp? There's a big problem here...

　　【You carefully inspected the bones along the way, but unfortunately these bones had been dead for many years, and you couldn't see anything abnormal for a while...】

　　【You came to the soul-inducing lamp, did you light the soul lamp? 】

"yes."

　　【You light up the soul lamp. When you die nearby in the future, you can choose to be resurrected under the soul lamp. If there are multiple soul lamps nearby, you can choose to be resurrected at any soul lamp. Soul-inducing lamps within a certain range can teleport to each other (you need to stand still under the soul-inducing lamp for more than ten minutes)]

 After lighting the second soul lamp, the attached teleportation function is enabled. Even if he dies and returns to the exit, he can transfer here again at any time.

As soon as you light up the soul-inducing lamp, you see two characters in the Astral language carved on the bluestone below the soul lamp, which have become blurred under the erosion of time. 】

　　【You identify it carefully, and only then do you realize that these two words are actually: "Run quickly"! 】

 【You suddenly feel the ground shaking slightly...】

　　【You look behind you alertly, and you see something moving quickly in the mist ahead...】

You throw a dream-breaking light ball forward. Under the fluorescent light, you finally see things in the distance clearly. 】

　　【It was a crab that was tens of meters tall, with red scales all over its body. Its back was connected to a three-story wooden building, and it was actually carrying a building while moving...】

　　【After the red crab appeared, the original pavilions and pavilions not far away suddenly stood up one after another, turning into giant crabs carrying pavilions and pavilions on their backs...】

　　【Many crabs are waving their pincers, coming at you from all directions, and will soon surround you...】

Muyou hurriedly clicked on the text of 'crab'.

　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　cast。 It usually resides on the body of the mirage tapir and helps it clean impurities and stray organisms from its body surface to ensure that the mirage tapir sleeps better. Mirage crabs act collectively and possess high intelligence. They are good at disguising themselves as buildings, treasures, etc., luring intelligent creatures to approach, and then encircling and killing them...]

Mu You looked at him with a strange expression.

 After reading this explanation, he immediately understood why there were so many corpses of the Fool's ancestors around him, including this soul-inducing lamp. They were all traps.

It is very likely that these crabs accidentally discovered the function of the soul-inducing lamp, so they specially moved the soul lamp here, relying on the soul-inducing lamp to continuously attract the ancestors of the Fools, and then devour them as food.

The reason why Mu You was surprised at this time was not just because of the threat posed by these crabs, but because the description specifically mentioned that this kind of crabs usually live on the bodies of mirage tapirs, and their job is to clean the body surface of mirage tapirs. .

So since you can see mirage crabs here, doesn't it mean that mirage tapirs are here...

Mu You immediately guessed a shocking possibility: Could it be that after their group came here, the land they walked on for a day and a night was just a part of the mirage tapir's body?

They have been clearing the wasteland for a long time, but they are just wandering on the backs of mirage tapirs the whole time?

Mu You had no time to think about it, as a series of prompts quickly popped up in the game.

　　【The mirage crab closest to you has eight squirming legs and is walking sideways towards you...】

　　【You hurriedly summoned the God's Skin to resist, and the sharp pincers passed over your body, immediately cutting a terrifying wound on the God's Skin, directly exposing your true body...】

　　【The pincers fell and passed over a monster stone statue not far away. The indestructible stone statue along the way was easily decapitated by the sharp blade of the pincers...】

 【Seeing that your companions failed to kill you immediately, the other mirage crabs immediately screamed and started to kill you together...】

Mu You's eyelids jumped when he saw it. The pliers of this thing were too powerful. He always thought that the stone statue that was created when he had a sweet dream was invincible, but he didn't expect that it could be easily cut off by these pliers.

  【You activated existence, which quickly reduced the sense of existence. Unfortunately, the crabs around you are still targeting you with murderous intent...]

The star rating of these crabs is obviously quite high, and his 'existence' is only one level, so it is ineffective against these things.

By now, Mu You also knew that he would definitely not be able to run away this time, so he simply controlled the character to turn around, rushed towards the first crab that attacked him, and fired a Wind Burial Cannon before he died.

  【You aimed the wind burial cannon at the joints of the mirage crab's forelimbs...】

A crab is a creature whose whole body is covered with carapace, and its defense is really strong. However, in order to maintain flexibility, the crab's joints are very slender and cannot cover the armor. Instead, it becomes its biggest weakness. If you accidentally break a leg or foot, There are countless crabs.

 At this time, Mu You specifically targeted the opponent's weaknesses.

　　【The energy in your body was instantly drained, and countless dense wind blades were inspired, condensing into a dazzling light group...】

　　【The extremely compressed wind energy passes through, tearing apart everything in its path...】

　　【You only heard a miserable howl from the mirage crab in front of you. Its raised forelimbs were broken from the roots, and its huge pincers fell next to you. Do you want to collect it? 】

"yes!"

Mu You had been waiting for this moment. He hurriedly clicked OK and then used his hand speed to extract the loot before being killed by the angry crab.

 (End of this chapter)

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