This Text Adventure Game is Absolutely Toxic

 The end of the world, on the mist-shrouded grassland.

 Mu You held the little boy in one hand and ran across the grass at lightning speed.

The rumbling sound spread in the distance, and the surrounding scene began to become blurry, as if the water was blown by the wind, rippling.

 The stationary objects and characters in the surrounding space began to become distorted, as if they were not in the real world, but in a dream.

Mu You knew that this was a sign that the limit was about to collapse.

With no time to think about it, he could only increase his power and push Chi Xiao to the limit. His whole body turned into a red lightning and ran towards the mountains ahead.

  Running with all his strength, the journey took nearly an hour when he came here, and he finished the run in just a few minutes when he returned.

A moment later, he rushed into the open stone door of Chuangjie Mountain like a wandering wind, sprinted through the labyrinth-like corridors in the mountain, and quickly found the cave where the altar was placed.

Just a few seconds after Mu You rushed into the cave, the sense of collapse of the limit reached its limit. The still pictures around him were like broken mirrors, becoming fragmented at a speed visible to the naked eye. Energy storms began to form in the cave. Scrape up.

Mu You blocked the storm with one hand, and threw the unconscious little boy towards the center of the formation with the other hand.

 The next moment, a storm of time and space swept through, completely submerging the two of them.

 …

 When Mu You was down to earth again, his feet felt soft to the touch.

　　Opening his eyes, he saw the little boy lying not far from him. The night was hazy around him, and a cool breeze was blowing. They were no longer in the cave of Chuangjie Mountain, but standing on a desert.

Judging from their location, they should have successfully returned to the future, but Chuangjie Mountain has passed the present time, so they were kicked out of the mountain and landed in the original desert.

There was a sound of footsteps in the distance. Mu You turned around and saw that the person coming was Lin Xue.

"You're back."

Lin Xue hurried over and saw that Mu You was safe and sound. The big stone in his heart finally fell and he breathed a long sigh of relief.

 “How long have we been gone?” Mu You asked.

"About an hour has passed since Chuangjie Mountain disappeared until you appeared..."

One hour…

Mu You was stunned. This delayed time was almost the same as the time they stayed in that realm. It can be basically considered that this time that disappeared out of thin air was wasted in the past.

While the two were talking, Hongxiu came silently from the other direction, walked to the unconscious little boy, picked him up, and fed him a bottle of potion.

 “Ahem…”

The little boy woke up quickly and looked at the familiar night and desert around him. After being stunned for a few seconds, he jumped up from Hong Xiu's arms and looked at Mu You with wide eyes.

“Why do you want to bring me back...how can you...if we just come back like this, everything will be back to where it started..."

The little boy fell to his knees in annoyance, pulling his hair frantically. Thinking of what happened before, his eyes quickly turned red.

He obviously went through all the hardships to return to the past, but nothing could be changed. More than a thousand years of hard work came to nothing in just one night.

More importantly, he also learned the reality in the past that made him collapse: it all turned out to be a lie, everyone was lying to him, even his most beloved teacher also deceived him and used him as a tool , playing for so many years...

“Calm down, it’s over.” Mu You said.

 “The end? No, I can’t accept it!”

 While the little boy was regretful, hatred and anger flashed in his eyes: "Why should my hard work and hard work be wasted by them in this way? Why should my life be reduced to a transport tool..."

　　　…”

Mu You didn’t know how to persuade him for a moment.

This man's experience is indeed quite tragic. He was deceived by the person he trusted most, and more than a thousand years of hard work came to nothing. Most people probably can't accept it.

However, at least he survived and had a chance to enjoy the fruits of the Fool's victory in the future.

The teachers and commanders who had paved the way for him to do all this have all died generously for racial justice. From this aspect, it is really hard to compare who made the greater sacrifice.

"No! I want to go back again!" the little boy suddenly spoke, his eyes becoming firm.

"go back?"

"Yes! I have to find a way to create an anchor point again and go back to the past to remind me of the past and I can no longer be deceived by you..."

"What's happening now is not the reality I want... I must change the past..." The little boy said to himself, getting up from the ground.

Mu You frowned. He felt a little sympathy for the little boy, but that didn't mean he would allow the little guy to continue to use his divine power to cause chaos.

 Mu You immediately wanted to control the little boy.

 In the end, before he could take action, he was shocked by the scene in front of him.

 “Hurry, Hongxiu, take me away! Hongxiu…”

 The little boy obviously knew that Mu You would stop him. To continue completing his plan, the first thing he had to do was escape from here.

 This is obviously something he cannot do on his own. He is still entangled with Mu You's power of heaven and cannot open the limit, so he can only turn to Hong Xiu for help.

 The little boy instinctively gave the order to Hongxiu as he had done countless times before.

 But this time what he responded to was a sharp pain in his chest.

 “Poof!”

The little boy lowered his head and looked at the death hook penetrating through his chest in disbelief. He turned around with difficulty, only to see Hongxiu's cold and frosty face.

 “You…cough…”

"That's enough. Don't speak to me with this face and this voice again, you are not worthy." Hongxiu held the death chain and looked at the little boy expressionlessly.

At this moment, in the boy's eyes, he was no longer the hard-working and loving mother he usually was, but like an impermanent ghost who had just come out of **** and was seeking his life.

"Hongxiu, you are crazy... You are looking for death... If you attack me, you will die too..." The little boy's face was pale, and he spoke with difficulty, as the vitality in his body was quickly dissipating.

"I have said before that I am the descendant of the God of Death. If you dare to lie to me, I will definitely let you die a bad death!"

Hongxiu looked at the boy with a dead look in his eyes, then waved his right arm and pulled out the chain.

  The chains were separated from the little boy's body, but his soul was also taken out with him.

The little boy was frightened when he saw part of the blue soul being dragged out from his back. He ignored the severe pain in his body and stood up, clutching his chest, and stumbled away into the distance.

 It’s a pity that his soul has been hooked by the chain. As the boy fled, more and more of his soul was dragged out of the body, stretching like plasticine.

Until a certain moment, the soul was pulled to the end, finally unable to withstand the pull, and broke from the little boy's body.

 A complete phantom of the human soul emerged in the air and was pulled back by the chains.

At the other end, the shadow of the God of Death has condensed on Hong Xiu’s body, and his soul flew in, fell directly into the mouth of the God of Death, and disappeared.

At the same time, the boy who was running away from the opposite side fell to the ground with a thud, and his eyes quickly became dull. Mu You and Lin Xue watched this scene from a distance, looked at each other, and did not stop them. After all, this was a personal grudge between the two.

　　Until everything settled, Hongxiu stepped forward and picked up the boy's body from the ground.

 Looking at the frightened child in her arms, Hongxiu realized it later and felt a great sadness.

 It's a pity that she couldn't cry because her lacrimal gland system had become numb from the nightmare experience during this period.

 “It wasn’t supposed to be like this…”

 “Exactly, when did it start to change...”

Hong Xiu recalled that night a year ago.

At that time, she was just an ordinary woman. She had just graduated from college and became pregnant out of wedlock. She encountered obstacles in the workplace, doing cattle and horse work, earning a meager income, and living a life with no future in sight.

 Until that night, she and her boyfriend were arguing as usual over trivial matters such as food, rice, oil and salt.

 A man shrouded in black appeared at their window and extended an olive branch to them.

 “Want to get ahead?”

“If you don’t want to continue living your current life, sign this contract and become my disciple.”

“I will give you strength that is beyond the reach of ordinary people, and I will also let your children become masters in the future, and they will no longer have to endure the suffering you have endured...”

I don’t know if it’s really for the sake of my future children, or if I have a longing for the painting of the man in black, or if it’s just a simple impulse.

 In short, she followed her boyfriend and agreed vaguely and signed the blood contract.

 As everyone knows, this is the temptation of the devil.

It was from that moment on that their family was doomed to the tragedy it is today...

　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　…

Hongxiu came back from her distant thoughts. Suddenly her throat felt sweet and she coughed up a mouthful of blood.

 With this mouthful of blood, her hair quickly turned from black to white, and wrinkles began to appear on the skin on her face.

Lin Xue was startled. She could clearly feel that the life force in Hongxiu's body was quickly passing away.

Hongxiu was not surprised by the changes in her body. In the blood contract they signed with Zuoqiu, there was a 'symbiosis' contract, which was a clause designed by Zuoqiu for self-protection: the two of them could not attack him, otherwise they would be killed. Will suffer backlash and die.

 In just ten seconds, Hong Xiu’s originally young appearance quickly turned into an old man with a wrinkled face.

Feeling that life was coming to an end, Hongxiu raised his head and looked at Lin Xue.

"Thanks…"

　　　…”

Lin Xue knew that the other party was thanking her for not stopping her revenge just now.

Hongxiu had actually been captured by Lin Xue before. If Lin Xue hadn't acquiesced, she wouldn't have even had the chance to settle the grudge with her own hands.

After thanking Lin Xue, Hongxiu moved his old arm and took out a piece of white paper tremblingly.

 Hands pointed on the paper, and as energy surged, a map quietly appeared on the white paper.

Hongxiu picked up the white paper and looked at Mu You: "This is... the hiding place of the Time Divine Skeleton..."

The white paper came to Mu You and he took it and looked at it. On the paper was a hand-drawn map. The lines were rough, but the basic directions were clearly marked, so it shouldn't be difficult to find.

 “I have only one request.”

The old Hong Xiu looked at Mu You and said: "If you master the power of time in the future, no matter what ability you develop to go back to the past, or go to other parallel time and space... In short, if you have the opportunity to meet the young man you once were, I am ignorant, please help me wake her up hard... don't let her repeat my tragedy again..."

Mu You took a breath, put away the white paper, and nodded: "Okay, I promise, I will try my best to help you complete it within my ability... But the premise is that there is such an opportunity..."

Hongxiu smiled in relief, even though she knew that such a thing had little hope and was almost impossible to accomplish. Even if it was accomplished, it would no longer be her who was changed, but another person.

Even so, she still hopes to see a parallel world where she can stay away from these disputes and live an ordinary life with her husband and children. This is enough.

Hong Xiu died with a relieved smile.

Under the clear light of the moonlight, the mother and son were lying on the sand, facing each other, both lifeless.

 The moment Hongxiu died completely, a ball of death energy surged out of her body and penetrated into Lin Xue's body.

The shadow of God's skin appeared on Lin Xue's body, and the missing left arm quickly grew back, returning to the full form of the God of Death.

 At the same time, along with the power of the God of Death, there were two special divine powers that poured into Lin Xue's body.

 Mind reading and obstacle crossing.

 These two abilities were obtained by Hongxiu using divine bones during this period. They should have dissipated with her death, because the divine bones that have been fused by humans can no longer be condensed into divine bones again.

But Lin Xue gained the power of Suture God because she mastered the power of Suture and Death at the same time.

At this moment, feeling the two divine powers in his body that were about to dissipate, he hurriedly sewed them into the two ordinary divine bones that he had fused, thus retaining these two abilities.

It should have been a happy event to have gained two kinds of divine powers in succession, and the missing inheritance of the God of Death was also restored to integrity. However, when Lin Xue looked at the corpses of Hongxiu mother and son not far away, she really couldn't laugh, and instead felt a touch of sadness.

In a sense, she and Hongxiu are like two sides of the same coin. They come from the same origin and have many similarities. However, due to their different origins and experiences, they eventually took two completely opposite paths.

Lin Xue sighed and stepped forward to pick up the death chain that Hong Xiu had dropped from the sand.

The moment she picked up the chain, she was suddenly startled and felt something strange inside the chain.

"What? She's still there?" Seeing Lin Xue's expression, Mu You thought that Hongxiu's soul had not completely dissipated, and that part of it was entangled in the chains.

"No…"

Lin Xue shook her head: "It's just a remaining obsession, it will disappear on its own after a while..."

Lin Xue has acquired the ability to read minds at this time and can read the intention of this obsession: she just wants to follow them for a period of time from the perspective of a tool spirit, hoping to witness the day when they complete their promise...

 “Then let’s go.”

Mu You nodded and whistled, and the magic carpet taxi flew from the darkness in the distance and hovered in front of the two of them.

 Before leaving, Mu You took Hong Xiu and the little boy's body away with him.

Zuoqiu may have made many mistakes over the years, but what he did is indeed an indispensable part of the Fools' collective. Even if the merits and demerits are equal, there is no credit, but there is still hard work, at least now they should be The body was brought back to earth and buried in its native land.

 A week later, the two returned to Earth.

 The first time Mu You returned, he found several administrators through the causal line and informed them about what happened in this industry.

The two men's trip seemed to be in vain, but in fact, he got some very precious information from the first-generation leader, and this information was enough to change the Fool's next policy in facing the God-Eating Beast. (End of chapter)