This Text Adventure Game is Absolutely Toxic

 The night was as cool as water, and the moonlight spread like fine sand, falling into the desert below.

In a wind-eroded rock forest, Hongxiu tried his best to escape, crossing the wind-eroded rock pillars, while trying to suppress his breathing to avoid revealing his position.

 In the rear, the sound of breaking through the air continued to sound.

Silver needles connected with sutures, like Death's embroidery needles, shuttled through the rock forest, easily piercing all obstacles along the way.

 Behind the row of silver needles, Lin Xue was chasing after him with a sickle in his hand.

Hong Xiu was a little bitter. Ever since the other party changed his thinking mode, she knew that mind reading was no longer useful.

As a top student in the Department of Medicine, this woman has a deep understanding of the digital correspondence of human muscles and bones. She does not need any reaction time at all. She can easily attack digital attacks when she sees them.

 But she is different, she is just an ordinary person, and it is really unreasonable for the other party to despise her in this way.

Especially because the other party also holds the divine power of the God of Sewing. These silver needles and sutures are extremely troublesome. Once entangled, it will be difficult to escape even with her abilities.

 So after fighting against the opponent several times and finding that he couldn't beat him, Hong Xiu decisively chose to run away.

 “Whoops!”

A sound of breaking through the air suddenly sounded above her head. In a brief moment of thought, the other party had discovered her location again in some way.

Hongxiu hurriedly got up and ran away again.

The silver needles around her seemed to have eyes, emerging from all directions and surrounding her.

 “Damn it!”

Hong Xiu cursed secretly, knowing that there was no way to escape, and hurriedly dove into the sandstone at his feet.

Her ability to teleport obstacles is very useful for reconnaissance and ambush, but it is not very useful for escaping, because when she assimilates into an obstacle, her movement speed will be greatly slowed down, and she cannot hide too deep. Because each obstacle can only last for half a minute at most. If you don’t come out when the time is up, you will suffocate yourself to death.

The two shortcomings combined make it not as convenient as escaping on the ground.

At this moment, she really had no choice but to go underground to escape. At least when entering the obstacle, she was invincible.

However, not long after Hongxiu got into the ground, she suddenly felt the ground shaking, followed by a floating feeling.

 The boulder she was standing on seemed to be forcibly lifted from the ground by some force.

This is not over yet, several silver needles and sutures penetrated the stone, and then spread out, connecting to the large amount of sandstone on the surrounding sand.

 Then, pieces of boulders began to be 'stitched' to the sandstone where she was.

 “Boom…boom…”

Hearing the constant bombardment around him, Hongxiu was startled and soon realized the other party's purpose: he wanted to suffocate her to death in this stone!

 Obviously this woman has seen through the weakness of her ability. Once she does not show up for a certain period of time, she will be permanently assimilated into an obstacle.

Thinking of this, Hong Xiu hurriedly moved outward, trying to get away from the boulder. However, every time she left a stone, new stones from the outside world were sewn together, causing her to keep walking through the sandstone without ever being able to see the end.

The time to break through the barrier was still passing by, and Hongxiu became more and more anxious. He mobilized his whole body's energy and wriggled outwards desperately.

 Fortunately, as more and more stones were sewn together, the surface area became larger and larger, and the speed at which the other party filled the stones gradually could not keep up with her escape speed.

Finally, just before the barrier-breaking time was about to reach its limit, Hong Xiu emerged from the sandstone and breathed fresh air again.

However, before she could be happy, a large net made of sutures came over her face. This time, Hong Xiu had no chance of escaping and was trapped tightly by the net.

Below, Lin Xue walked out of the smoke and dust. With a slight tug on the sutures extending from the fingers of her right hand, the thread network around the red sleeves quickly tightened, and her whole body was wrapped into a zongzi by spider web-like sutures, hanging in the air, completely moving. No.

"Sure enough, your obstacle crossing can only be assimilated into tangible matter, and the sutures made of energy bodies cannot be assimilated." Lin Xue looked at Hongxiu and opened his mouth.

Hongxiu felt a little bitter when she heard this.

This woman is really too keen...

 She is obviously able to read minds, but the other party seems to have piercing eyes, easily seeing through her weaknesses one by one, and countering them one by one.

“Then, now, tell me everything you know.” Lin Xue stepped forward, took away Hongxiu’s death hook, and put the sharp blade of the sickle in front of the opponent’s neck.

Hongxiu couldn't break free at this moment, and from what she read in Lin Xue's thoughts, the other party had already thought of dozens of ways to deal with her once she broke free.

This complicated thought made Hongxiu feel numb. She suddenly wanted to retract her preamble: This woman is really terrible. Compared to this, she would rather fight Mu You with a real sword and a real gun. At least she would understand that she would die. …

"I don't know the specifics. I only know that this is his 'Plan B'..." Hongxiu swallowed and had to speak obediently.

 “What do you mean?” Lin Xue frowned.

"Before taking action, he prepared two plans. The first one is what I told you before, to control the authority of Chuangjie Mountain and then resurrect the first generation of Fools. And if there is an accident in the middle of this plan and it cannot be realized, it will be activated The backup plan is to use a prop to go back to the past directly, but this seems to have some unknown risks, so it is designated as a backup plan..."

"What is the purpose of going back to the past? Can I still come back?" Lin Xue asked.

"have no idea…"

"have no idea?"

"I really do not know!"

Seeing Lin Xue frowning and moving the sickle in front of her, Hongxiu hurriedly added: "He also revealed the above unintentionally, and he never told me the more specific content."

Lin Xue looked at her with a sneer: "You are a person who can read minds. What do you want to know? Do you need him to tell you?"

Hongxiu's face looked a little sad: "I...can't read his mind."

"Why?"

 “He does not allow…”

 “It’s a joke, why don’t you read it if he doesn’t allow it?”

"He will feel it!" Hong Xiu sighed and said with some sadness: "Before helping me integrate the mind-reading divine bones, he threatened me with his child, saying that he had some top secrets in his heart that must never be known to outsiders. If I dare to try to read his mind, no matter whether I succeed or not, he will let us, mother and son, die without a burial..."

　　　…”

Lin Xue's face gradually became weird after hearing this.

"What's that look in your eyes?" Hong Xiu suddenly noticed that there was some "sympathy" in Lin Xue's eyes when he looked at her, which made her feel extremely uncomfortable.

 “I just think you are very pitiful.”

"What's the meaning?"

"Can't you see that your child is dead?" Lin Xue said bluntly.

Hongxiu suddenly became excited when he heard this: "No, my son is not dead! He promised me that he would train my child to become a talented person and then return him to me intact!"

"You..." Lin Xue was stunned for a moment, and she couldn't tell whether she really thought so, or she simply couldn't accept the facts and was deceiving herself...

"Even if you don't read his mind, as the descendants of the God of Death, our eyes can directly see the good and evil values ​​​​of each person. This represents the core essence of a soul. If your son is still alive, you should know I saw two numbers in his body, but actually..." Lin Xue shook her head.

 The reason why she was so sure that Hong Xiu's child was dead was because there was only one good and evil number in the little boy's body, -129.

This is obviously the value of the old man named Zuoqiu. Although it is a negative number, the value is not too big, indicating that this person is not actually so bad as to be heinous.

"Maybe... it's just because the numbers overlap... Besides, we haven't seen any other examples of this kind of soul possession. How do you know there will be two?" Hongxiu defended instinctively.

Lin Xue didn't answer. She raised her head and took a closer look at Hongxiu, and suddenly her finger popped out.

A silk thread flew out and wrapped around Hongxiu's face before she could react. With a move of Lin Xue's fingers, the mask on Hongxiu's face fell off along with the thread, revealing the true face under the mask.

 “What are you doing?” Hongxiu was startled and turned her face quickly, trying to cover her face.

"Sure enough, your appearance has recovered..." Lin Xue sighed.

 “So what?” Hong Xiu was a little flustered.

"At that time, we were fighting for the inheritance of the God of Death in the Tomb of the God of Death, and both of us lost our most precious things. My grandma died because of this, and you lost your appearance."

"This is not a prank left by the God of Death to future generations, but a price that everyone who controls the power of the God of Death must pay. I used to think that this price was fixed, but now from your example, it seems that in everyone's heart The most precious things may change with the stages of life..."

"So even the God of Death himself in history is always alone without any friends, because anyone he regards as a close relative will die soon..."

Lin Xue looked at Hong Xiu's face that had returned to normal: "Your appearance was once ruined, but now you have recovered it because the most precious thing in your heart has changed. From your appearance, it has become your child..."

"No, it's impossible! My son is still alive, he can't die! This is just your guess..." Hong Xiu's eyes widened, her voice suddenly raised, and she tried her best to retort, but her trembling body proved that she was shaking.

Lin Xue breathed out. The more she retorted, the more she proved how much she valued her child.

"Unfortunately, as the descendants of the God of Death, from the day we obtained the power of the God of Death, we were destined to never have anyone we love in this life again..."

"Whether your son is alive or not, you just need to wait until they come back and read your own mind to confirm."

 “However, the premise is that they can come back...”

 …

 Muyou's vision gradually recovered from the darkness.

 Opening his eyes again, he was still standing in the altar cave, and his position had not changed at all.

The cave was empty, he was the only one, and the little boy and Ava were nowhere to be seen.

The surrounding storm had calmed down for some time, but when Mu You turned around, he quickly noticed something unusual: he saw a stone suspended in mid-air near the entrance of the cave.

Mu You stepped forward and reached out to take the stone.

This is obviously just an ordinary stone without any strange energy attached to it, but it floats in the air so naturally, unless...

　　After thinking about it, Mu You threw the stone out of the cave.

The stone was released and just flew three or four meters away before it stopped and hovered in mid-air again.

Mu You raised his eyebrows and finally confirmed: he was in the realm of cessation!

“Is it because of that block?” Mu You recalled the previous scene, and after a moment of pondering, he vaguely understood.

That cube is a container that holds the fragments of the Heart of Time. Vivian once said that after activation, this thing can temporarily give him a time-sensing ability similar to Vivian's. When someone around him activates the time ability, he will Will also respond passively.

　　The little boy destroyed the hourglass treasure before, which obviously activated some kind of time ability, and because of the shattering of the cube, he was also involved in this ability along with the other party.

"who?"

Mu You was sorting out the situation when he suddenly heard an undetectable sound coming from outside the cave.

Mu You dodged and rushed out of the cave, and saw a young figure sneaking out in the mountain corridor ahead. It was the little boy from before.

At this moment, the boy was standing on tiptoes, taking every step with great care, trying not to make any sound.

 Unfortunately, he still underestimated Mu You's hearing.

The moment he saw Mu You appear, the little boy's face showed obvious panic. Without restraining his steps, he started running wildly towards the outside of the cave.

But the speed was still too slow. Mu You's figure flashed continuously like a ghost. In a few steps, he had caught up with the opponent and reached out to lift the little boy up.

 The little boy was choked by Mu You's iron hand again and again. While struggling wildly, his heart was full of misery.

He laughed at the other party at the end, and then he was supposed to leave in style and reach this absolutely safe place. Who knows how the other party could follow him...

It feels like driving a car and flashing the **** to a passerby. After the other person becomes angry, he should have walked away, but suddenly finds that the car is out of gas.

"where is this place?"

 “What was the prop you just used?”

Mu You asked two questions in a row while using a little force on his hands.

 The little boy suddenly felt the feeling of suffocation coming back again, his little face turned red from holding back, and his neck was on the verge of being broken at any time.

"This is the stop, the stop in the past... Ahem, the prop just now is the stop anchor. After activation, you can go to the stop that has been opened in history..." The matter is a foregone conclusion, and the little boy has nothing to do. Concealed, and under threat of life, he hurriedly told the truth.

"The end of the past..." Mu You frowned when he heard this: "What era is it specifically?"

"1,300 years ago...on the eve of the decisive battle between The Fool and the God-Eating Beast...ahem..." The little boy tried his best to say the message. Venus began to appear in front of his eyes, like a drowning person, kicking his limbs desperately.

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Mu You was stunned. He didn't expect that he would follow the other party and jump directly over more than 1,300 years...

 “How to go back?”

 After reacting, Mu You asked subconsciously.

 Going back to the past is not a good thing for him, because there are still many things waiting for him to deal with in the future.

Besides, this time is obviously not a normal time travel, but a certain end of the past. Doesn't that mean that if he can't go back, he will be trapped in this end forever?

"I don't know...ahem, my teacher...only told me the way to get here...I never thought about going back..." the little boy said with difficulty.

"Teacher? Who is it?" Seeing that the little boy was about to die, Mu You relaxed his grip on him slightly.

"The Lord of Shuguang City in this era..." The little boy finally managed to catch his breath and hurriedly took a deep breath, but he did not dare to ignore Mu You's question for fear of being picked on again.

"The agent of the God of Time..." Mu You suddenly understood. No wonder this man knew so much about Dawn City and the ability of time. It turned out to be a teacher-instructor relationship. (End of chapter)