This Text Adventure Game is Absolutely Toxic

“So the key lies in this insect shell.”

 As the cost of replacing the energy of an entire biological body, this insect shell will not be useless at all.

Muyou tried to click on the entry of ‘insect slough’.

 Unfortunately, no specific instructions appeared, only an ambiguous reminder popped up: an unknown item, which may cause some kind of change in your body after eating it. Then ask him if he wants to eat it?

 “Eat it directly?”

Mu You didn’t expect this thing to be used in such a simple and crude way, so he hesitated and chose ‘yes’.

You put the insect shell into your mouth, and the insect shell melts into your mouth, turning into a strange air flow, pouring into your body, and disappearing without a trace after some modifications to your body. 】

 【Your maximum energy value has been reduced by 1 point (can be restored by taking a large amount of divine crystals)】

　　　　???”

Mu You was shocked when he saw the first line. He didn't expect that this thing had side effects and reduced his energy limit!

The upper limit of energy is a very precious thing, equivalent to the 'blue bar' under the divine system. Basically all divine spells and divine props consume energy, and the value is far less exaggerated than magic. It is directly linked to the intelligence value. How much intelligence is there? , how much energy is there.

Mu You is now fused with four divine bones. After the attribute value has increased sharply many times, the upper limit of energy is only 297 points. Every point is important.

 This made him subconsciously want to look back.

 But then he noticed the words in parentheses at the end: It is not a permanent reduction, it can be restored. Then he breathed a sigh of relief. It would be good if it could be restored.

Moreover, something that is so difficult to obtain is certainly not completely useless.

　　Two harvest prompts will pop up immediately after.

  【You have gained 1 restricted attribute point, which can be added to other attributes except intelligence. 】

  【You gain 0.1% resistance to the divine system. 】

This is the first time Mu You has seen this entry for restricted attribute points. The description is not much different from the free attribute points. They both choose an attribute to increase the value. The only difference is that this attribute point excludes intelligence alone. You can choose between strength, agility, and constitution.

 You must know that intelligence value is directly linked to energy, and energy is the embodiment of the divine reserve in a person's body.

Combined with the previous deduction of the energy limit, the purpose of this reward is clear: it is to reduce the divine stock in his body and convert it into direct physical strength.

As for the second reward, resistance to the divine system, it was also an unfamiliar term, but Mu You understood it at a glance. Resistance to the entire divine system, isn't this the characteristic of savages?

  Savages are born with more than 90% of the divine resistance. In addition, they are rough-skinned and thick-skinned, and their defense power is amazing, so they can withstand the God-Slaying attack with their physical bodies.

In other words, these three physical changes after eating the insect slough are actually transforming his physique in the direction of becoming a savage.

 It's just that there is no divine energy in the body of the savage, but the energy loss caused by this insect slough can be restored.

In other words, if he continues to take a large amount of this insect slough, while his physical strength is close to that of a savage, he does not need to abandon the divine system like a savage. He only needs to pay some price and can still use the divine power as usual.

　　What is the concept of the combination of the abnormal physique of a savage and the powerful power of divinity?

 At least in the history that Mu You currently understands, no one has achieved this kind of integration.

 Mu You breathed out, having fully realized the value of this insect slough.

 The next step is to determine the ‘cost’ of restoring energy.

Mu You glanced at the panel.

 Power: 99

 Agility: 198

 Intelligence: 297

Physique: 61

 Limited attribute points: 1

  Real life: 3836/3836

Energy value: 11/296 (-1)

Sure enough, the energy value column, which should have been the upper limit of 297, became 296, with a red mark of '-1' at the back, which represented the upper limit temporarily deducted by the insect slough.

Mu You took out a bag of divine crystals in real life and threw them into his mouth one by one like eating jelly beans.

This thing is actually a pure energy body, it will be digested directly in the mouth, and you will not feel full no matter how much you eat.

 After eating ten of them in a row, there was no movement on the panel.

Mu You was not too surprised and continued to eat.

However, after eating a hundred pills in a row, the panel still remained unchanged.

Mu You couldn't help frowning, but he didn't say anything and continued to eat beans.

 Next, two hundred...

 Three hundred…

 Five hundred…

 The panel remains indifferent.

Mu You's eyelids started to twitch. Could it be that it would take tens of thousands of divinity to make up for this mere upper limit?

 There is no other way, I have already scattered 500 grains into it. Even if this is really a bottomless pit, I can only continue to invest at this time.

 Fortunately, when Muyou took 1,000 pills, the panel finally changed.

 The upper limit of energy jumped back to 297, and the following (-1) also disappeared quietly.

Mu You breathed a sigh of relief. The 1,000 divinity **** restored a little of the energy limit. This price was still within his acceptable range.

 Next, Mu You hurriedly went to hunt a few nearby creatures and got six or seven insect sloughs. He drank them one after another and experimented to find out the rules.

These insect sloughs vary in size and quality. Not every insect slough can directly reduce his energy by 1 point. The specific value depends on the intensity of hunting creatures. The more powerful the creature, the higher the quality of the insect sloughs generated. The higher, the better the effect after taking it.

These six or seven insect sloughs combined just allowed Mu You to lower his energy limit by two points. The current energy value is: 295 (-2).

However, Mu You also discovered that not every time the upper limit of energy is lowered, he can be given attribute and resistance bonuses. This time when the upper limit was reduced to 296, no further rewards were given until 295.

In other words, for every 1 point of energy, attribute rewards will only be given when it is reduced for the first time. After that, even if the upper limit is restored with divinity and deducted again with insect slough, rewards will not be repeated.

This directly frustrated Muyouka’s plan to remove the bug: it is impossible to use divine crystals to infinitely exchange attributes and resistances.

 His current energy limit is only 297 points, which means that he can only obtain a maximum of 297 additional attribute points and 29.7% divine system resistance.

 “Is it less than 30%…”

Mu You breathed out, nearly one-third of the resistance to divine magic was naturally far inferior to that of a savage, but in a battle with the divine system, it was enough to change the situation of many battles.

“Each point of upper limit recovery requires 1,000 crystals, 297 points, which is close to 300,000 points of divinity…”

 This number is absolutely astronomical for ordinary players, but it is not a big deal for Mu You.

His current divinity balance is more than 200,000, not to mention that in this battle in the City of Order, he killed seven gods in a row, all of whom were gods with 11 stars or above. Just the divinity condensed from them , as many as 1.2 million.

 This part belongs to Mu You's private loot and does not need to be shared with others.

At the same time, as the biggest contributor to this battle, he was also able to receive a considerable divinity dividend from the distribution of all spoils, which amounted to a few hundred thousand. Together with his own assets, the divinity stock finally exceeded two Millions is not a big problem.

This number is enough to guide him to the Ten Stars to become a god, and at the same time, he still has about 700,000 left.

 Put 300,000 out of this to improve attributes and resistance, which is definitely not a loss.

Of course, in order to avoid repeated investment, it is best to take a large amount of insect slough at one time, directly reducing the energy to zero, and then eating it in one go to fully restore the divine nature.

 So Mu You planned to collect the insect sloughs he would catch next, and when there was enough, he would eat them all in one go.

 This way the impact on his combat power can be minimized.

With this thought, Mu You continued on the road, always paying attention to picking up insect sloughs dropped by nearby creatures along the way, especially high-quality insect sloughs. One high-level insect slough is equivalent to hundreds of low-level insect sloughs.

 With the hope of improvement, this journey is no longer a simple adventure to open up wasteland, but also a way to strengthen himself, and Muyou is suddenly full of motivation.【...You killed a nine-winged beast with difficulty and picked up a high-quality insect slough from its corpse. 】

 【Continuous fighting will exhaust your energy and make you weak...】

　　【A large number of poisonous insect monsters suddenly emerge from the surroundings, densely packed gray-white small and medium-sized creatures, surrounding you from all directions. 】

　　【You hurriedly strike again with your sword, trying to break out. 】

　　【These creatures are suddenly no longer afraid of your slashes, and one by one they charge towards you with violent killing intent, drowning you in an instant...】

  【You were bitten to death by thousands of small creatures...】

　　　【You are dead! 】

　　　【Your soul was drawn back by the soul-guiding lamp and returned to the green lantern in the grass. 】

　　【You were resurrected under the soul-inducing lamp, and cracks appeared on the resurrection stone in your hand...】

 “emmm…”

Mu You was at a loss. What did he do? Why did the creatures suddenly riot?

  Could it be that the nine-winged beast that was killed was the leader of these creatures? That's not true. According to his observations along the way, the creatures here don't seem to have the concept of forming gangs.

Mu You couldn't figure it out for a moment, so he could only think it was bad luck and happened to trigger something.

 After waiting outside the Ring Forest for a day, after the resurrection stone was formed, Mu You set out again.

This time he deliberately took a different route.

result…

　　…The surrounding creatures suddenly rioted, and you were overwhelmed by a large number of poisonous insects and beasts, and died miserably on the spot. 】

　　　【You are dead! The soul returned under the green lamp...]

　　　…”

 The first time can be a coincidence, but if it happens twice in a row, there will be a problem.

Furthermore, the locations of the two herd riots seemed to be almost the same. They both suddenly broke out after he went a certain distance deep into the forest.

 Mu You frowned and continued on his way without believing in evil.

He was much more careful this time. When he was close to the distance from the previous two deaths, he slowed down significantly. At the same time, he communicated with the pocket watch in his mind and was ready to look back at any time.

  【…As you cross a certain distance, the surrounding biomes begin to riot again, and densely packed poisonous insects and beasts rush towards you...】

 Mu You hurriedly retraced time while controlling the character to retreat.

Sure enough, the little creatures immediately stopped rioting, stopped chasing him desperately, and gradually dispersed.

Now Mu You has confirmed the rule: as long as he goes a certain distance deep into the ring forest, the surrounding creatures will riot and either drive him out or bite him to death on the spot. In any case, he will never be allowed to step into that distance.

 “Are the creatures here so exclusive?” Mu You looked strange.

He had asked a savage before about what to pay attention to in Jie Lin. The savage told him that the strategy was very simple: the creatures in the first few floors were very weak, so he only needed to stride in. After reaching the later floors, he needed to slowly pay attention to some advanced creatures. threats.

As a result, this strategy is not applicable to outsiders at all. Who would have thought that he, a person with six kinds of divine power, could not even enter the gate of Jielin.

But then again, if the creatures here are really so exclusive, how did the original mechanics and the previous Fool ancestors get in?

Mu You felt that there was something he had overlooked.

Next, he relied on his ability to look back and manipulate the character to wander along the edge of the biological riot, repeatedly testing and wandering.

Along the way, all the biological communities in the jungle appeared and stared at him eagerly. Fortunately, Mu You never stepped across the cordon, and these creatures were only wary and did not pounce directly.

  【"Metal equipment was retrieved under the boulder thirty meters away on the left."]

 Ava’s report suddenly came out.

Muyou controlled the character to step forward, push away the boulder, and dig around.

　　【You dug out the head of a scrapped combat robot from under the soil. The broken end of this mechanical head bears some marks of piercing by sharp teeth, as if its neck was bitten off by some giant creature. 】

[The chameleon helmet covered the mechanical head. After some debugging, soon, the head opened and a somewhat familiar voice came out. 】

  【"Damn it, it's you ghosts again..."】

  【"...You have destroyed eighty of my robots, how long are you going to stop me..."】

This robot head is obviously the work of a mechanic, and the recording should also be about his experience when he first came to the Ring Forest.

Mu You breathed a sigh of relief. It seemed that he was not the only one who encountered obstacles. The mechanic was also blocked at the door for a long time.

Then how did he get in after that?

Ava continued to debug the robot's memory circuit. Soon, the key content was played.

  【"What I should have thought of earlier is that the divine energy in my body caused the riots of these creatures..."】

　　""These creatures, no, this forest land itself, is autonomous, and it is rejecting creatures with too high divine energy from entering..."]

  【“If you want to get in, you must first make yourself less conspicuous...”】

  【"Insect slough! That kind of worm slough is this forest land, specially prepared as a stepping stone for outsiders..."】

 “So that’s it…”

 Mu You also had a sudden realization after reading it.

From the outside to the inside of this forest, the repelling force against divinity becomes stronger and stronger, so the further you go in, the divinity in your body must become less and less. If the divinity content in your body is significantly higher than that of the local species, it will It becomes a 'conspicuous package' in the eyes of other creatures, and is attacked by surrounding creatures.

Thinking of this, Mu You naturally understood the way to go deep into the Jie Forest: eat insect sloughs!

His previous idea of ​​collecting a large amount of insect sloughs and eating them all at once was not feasible. Here, he had to eat deeply while eating, allowing the energy in the body to slowly decrease, so that he could not be rejected by the native creatures here while ensuring his combat effectiveness as much as possible.

Furthermore, until he finds the savage leader, completes his goal, and leaves the ring forest, he cannot restore his energy limit by taking divinity.

“I just hope that the God-Eating Beast will not come to attack the city during this period…”

Mu You muttered to himself. Before the upper limit of energy was restored, his combat effectiveness would remain at a very low level. If the God-devouring Beast attacked during this period, he would have to spend a lot of divinity to restore the energy first in order to meet the enemy. Come over, and then have to start all over again, which means that this part of the divinity will be wasted.

 Shaked his head, Mu You ate all the bag of insect sloughs he collected along the way.

 【Your energy limit has been reduced by 46 points, currently: 249 (-48)】

  【You have gained 46 restricted attribute points, which can be added to other attributes except intelligence. 】

　　【You gain 4.6% resistance to the divine system. 】

 “It should be almost done.”

 After eating all the insect sloughs at hand, Mu You tried to go deep into the forest again.

 Sure enough, we were not attacked again this time.

  【With countless local creatures watching eagerly around you, you carefully stepped across the cordon. 】

　　【The surrounding creatures did not fall into riots, but just watched you curiously, watching you gradually walk away...】(End of this chapter)