This Text Adventure Game is Absolutely Toxic

"Xiaoxue, you...don't you plan to go back?" Mu You turned around and looked at Lin Xue who followed him through the door.

After Lin Xue entered the house, she changed her shoes skillfully, then walked to the closet, took off her coat and hung it up. Then she found a comb, held her long hair in front of her, and combed her makeup in front of the mirror.

Hearing this, Lin Xue turned to look at him strangely while arranging her hair: "Go back? Where do you want me to go back?"

"Well…"

Mu You was at a loss for words.

Lin Xue is different from him. He is alone. He has no other relatives. Everyone he knows is already in this family, so he doesn't need to explain anything to anyone when he comes back.

Since Lin Xue's relatives are still alive, her family must be worried after she has been missing for a month. He also thinks that after Lin Xue wakes up, she must go home first.

Unexpectedly, Lin Hai just left so simply, with no intention of calling his sister to come back with him, and he didn't even ask.

"As for the family, I have already sent a message to report that we are safe. I am afraid that they will be worried. I did not say anything about our disappearance. I only said that I went to do some things out of town. I just came back today, but there are still some things that have not been dealt with. It will take a few days. Go home." Lin Xue shook her head and said.

Her parents were both career-mad and neglected their children, rarely seeing each other a few times throughout the year. However, she and Lin Hai grew up with her grandma. When she was older, she studied abroad all the year round and gradually developed an independent character. Apart from her grandma, As for Xiao Haiwai, her relationship with other elders in the family is actually relatively weak. There is no hatred, but it is true that they are not close to each other.

"Want to stay overnight? I'll prepare a room for you..." Seeing that Lin Xue was sure to stay, Mu You said subconsciously.

Lin Xue shook her head: "No, I want to sleep here tonight. I'm used to this house."

"Then I..." Mu You was about to say, "Then I'll go to another room."

 As a result, Lin Xue predicted his thoughts and interrupted the spell casting in advance.

“…I’m used to having you by my side, otherwise I wouldn’t be able to sleep peacefully.”

　　　…”

Mu You was embarrassed. This was no longer a hint, but a clear statement. No matter how slow he was, he knew what it meant.

　　After thinking about it, Mu You took a breath and walked to sit next to Lin Xue.

 “Xiaoxue, I have a question that I need to confirm.”

 “Hmm. You say.”

Lin Xue also put down her comb, turned around and looked at him, smiling and waiting for him to ask.

"Did we have that kind of relationship before?" Mu You asked, but he couldn't give a specific description, but he believed that Lin Xue could understand it.

"No..." Lin Xue glanced at him and shook her head.

"Is not it…"

Mu You breathed a sigh of relief, but at the same time there was a hint of indescribable disappointment in his heart.

"...the relationship goes further than you think...no, it's several steps." Lin Xue added the second half of the sentence at this time. At the same time, he put one hand on the edge of the table, held his chin and looked at Mu You with a smile. His embarrassment was very interesting.

"Well…"

Mu You was startled, his face looked strange for a moment, he hesitated for a few seconds, and then asked tentatively: "Then...how far have we gone?"

 “Poof!”

Looking at his cautious look, Lin Xue couldn't help but laugh.

"What do you think? After more than two thousand years, there are only two of us in the whole world. Where do you think we have progressed?" Lin Xue asked.

“…” Mu You said he couldn’t answer. He couldn’t even tell whether Lin Xue was teasing him or serious.

Lin Xue became more serious at this time, took his hand, and said with a smile: "We have gone through many times of growing old together in that realm of cessation. You should ask, what else have we not tried?"

　　　…”

Facing Lin Xue’s frankness, Mu You felt a little overwhelmed.

However, after such a conversation, he finally confirmed his relationship with Lin Xue: after two thousand years of getting along day and night, even two stones should melt for each other. They may not be married yet, but their level of intimacy must have far exceeded that of an ordinary couple who could give everything to each other...

“But now that I have lost my memory and forgotten everything about us, will you be sad?” Mu You looked at Lin Xue and asked.

This is what he really wants to ask. They may have loved each other deeply in the past, and their love was equal at that time. But now that he has lost his memory and everything has returned to zero, Lin Xue still maintains that unreserved love for him. I mean, this kind of relationship seems a bit unfair to Lin Xue...

“Of course there will be some sadness.”

Some disappointment flashed across Lin Xue's face, and then she shook her head and smiled: "But fortunately, the moment I saw your instinct to protect me, I knew that everything we have experienced is actually okay. It exists in your body, and sooner or later you will remember it, and I will wait patiently for that day to come."

“I really wish I could think of it earlier...” Mu You sighed.

 “I’m just talking, there’s no need to worry.”

Lin Xue smiled, stood up, walked to him and sat down, resting her head on his shoulder naturally: "Besides, starting over like this is actually not bad. It reminds me of when we first fell in love. Although it is green, it is actually the sweetest time."

Lin Xue thought of those experiences in the past, a happy smile appeared on her face, she raised her head and put her red lips towards Mu You's face.

Mu You also responded to her naturally, without feeling awkward, everything was an instinctive reaction of the body.

 Unfortunately, before their lips touched, a blue goblin suddenly intervened.

Mu Lan's small arms pushed Lin Xue's face, quickly flapped her wings as thin as cicada wings, and tried her best to push her aside. Then she stood on Mu You's shoulders, folded her hands, and stared at Lin Xue angrily. His red face was filled with sullenness.

 Mu You and Lin Xue were both stunned when they were suddenly interrupted.

 “Sorry, I forgot you were here...”

Lin Xue smiled at the cute look of the little goblin. However, she was not jealous of this cute and unearthly creature. Instead, she had a natural maternal desire to protect her. He stretched out his fingers to pinch her and put her down. In the palm of your hand.

 “Well, I know, he is your contractor...”

 “I won’t take it away from him…”

 “But tonight, please lend me your man for a little while, okay?”

Lin Xue relied on her mind-reading skills to communicate with the little goblin who couldn't speak yet.

The little goblin seemed to be even more angry. He clenched his fists and wanted to refuse sternly. However, in the midst of excitement, he suddenly noticed something and froze on the spot, looking at Lin Xue in disbelief.

The newly born fairy is very sensitive to the fluctuations of human emotions, and she just suddenly discovered that Lin Xue's love for Mu You actually exceeded her, the natural connection between the contracted fairy and the contractor, and it was far more than, if she said that she Her love is like a lake, while Lin Xue's is like an endless ocean with no end, which is so thick and broad that she can't imagine.

After seeing this clearly, the little goblin suddenly calmed down, looked at Lin Xue with complicated eyes, and reluctantly raised an index finger to her, meaning 'only tonight'.

"Thanks."

Lin Xue smiled, she knew that the little goblin had actually accepted her existence.

The little fairy blushed, and hurriedly flapped its wings and took off without looking back. It fell into a flowerpot not far away, balled up, and turned into a bud in the soil, without any movement.

 “Then... let’s continue.”

Lin Xue looked at Mu You and asked him to kiss him again.

 But still failed.

This time, Mu You took the initiative to avoid it.

Lin Xue glanced at him in astonishment: "Are you hesitating...Are you worried about feeling sorry for me?"

Mu You smiled bitterly: "Reading minds is such an unreasonable ability."

 He had almost no privacy in front of Lin Xue. Whatever he thought in his mind would be noticed by her immediately.

Lin Xue took his hand: "Yes, so in exchange, I will also open my heart to you. There are no secrets between us. I will tell you what I think in my heart as soon as possible. If you have anything to ask, You can ask anything.”

Mu You glanced at her: "The wound in your heart...why did you hurt yourself? And you also carved my name..."

When he saw his name engraved on Lin Xue's soul with his own eyes, Mu You's first feeling was not that he was moved, but that he was terrified.

In the Heart of Time journey, the result was that he successfully achieved his goal and obtained the divine power of time, and his own memory was reset by the archiver. There was no loss. He didn't even feel any pain during the whole process, as if he had slept. Wake up and get everything.

 But it was precisely because he got it so easily that it made Mu You panic, because the time cage is a cage after all, and the gains and sufferings inside should be directly proportional. His ease was because someone took on the suffering for him. So Mu You was worried. Could it be that Lin Xue was carrying the burden for him...

Lin Xue felt his state of mind, shook her head, covered her heart and said: "Don't worry, this is not your fault, but my punishment for myself."

 “Punishment?” Mu You was puzzled.

"Yeah." Lin Xue nodded, and said with some sadness: "I promised to accompany you until the end, but I couldn't do it. I left you there alone for countless years...I even forgot about your existence for a while..."

Lin Xue's expression was a little painful when she said this: "I can't tolerate things like this continuing to happen, so I dug out your name in my heart. In this way, only you can fill the 'vacancy' in my heart. Once I forget you again, My heart will ache, reminding me to think of you again."

After hearing this, Mu You looked at Lin Xue even more distressed, feeling ashamed in his heart. What virtue and ability could he have to let Lin Xue do this for him...

Lin Xue shook her head: "Don't think so. What I did for you is just a drop in the bucket compared to what you did for me. If I feel guilty, I should feel guilty."

"Xiaoxue, what happened in the time cage?" Mu You couldn't help but ask.

Lin Xue smiled and put her hands around his shoulders: "Don't worry, I will tell you everything, but before that..."

 “Tonight, let me make it up to you…”

 …

Early the next morning, in the frosty morning mist, the door of the pet shop was opened from the outside. Xiaoya exhaled white breath and walked into the shop carrying large and small bags of breakfast.

　　Yesterday Mu You and Lin Xue returned, Xiaoya settled her worries, and after another night of rest, she returned to her usual energetic state.

Xiaoya hummed a song, placed the food on the dining table one by one, and then walked upstairs towards the storage room at the end.

As soon as he went up the stairs, he saw Mu You walking out of the room, stroking his messy hair.

 “Ah, boss, good morning!”

Xiaoya smiled: "I've bought breakfast, it's downstairs."

“Oh, thank you for your hard work.” Mu You walked past her, yawned and walked downstairs.

Xiaoya walked down the corridor, but as soon as she reached the bedroom door, Lin Xue opened the door and walked out, wearing pajamas and looking equally sleepy.

“Ah, good morning, Sister Xue, breakfast is downstairs!” Xiaoya repeated it with a smile.

"Well, thank you..." Lin Xue arranged her disheveled hair and walked downstairs, her movements exactly the same as Mu You's.

Xiaoya smiled knowingly when she saw the two of them, and continued walking forward without thinking too much.

　　It wasn't until she reached the door of the storage room that she was stunned for a moment. Then she came back to her senses. She turned back mechanically and stared blankly at the open bedroom door, realizing something terrible.

 …

 Half an hour later, at the dinner table.

 The three of them were sitting around a table with breakfast.

Xiaoya was wandering around with a glass of milk in her hand, looking up from time to time and taking a peek. Her eyes wandered between Mu You and Lin Xue repeatedly, and she kept thinking wildly in her mind.

“Oh, what a sumptuous breakfast today?” At this time, Linglong and Mianmian walked out of the room downstairs and came to the dining table. When she saw the table full of food, her eyes lit up and she hurriedly sat down to eat.

The little girl dragged a chair and sat down next to Mu You, but she looked listless. She grabbed a fried dough stick and gnawed it listlessly.

“Why, didn’t you sleep well?” Mu You noticed the dark circles on the little girl’s face and felt strange.

Mianmian is the type who falls asleep anytime, anywhere. Her sleep quality has always been envied by everyone, but she didn’t expect that she would also have dark circles under her eyes one day...

As soon as he mentioned this, the little girl's face suddenly showed a frightened expression: "Mu You, please quickly find a mage to come to the house to check the feng shui. The house is haunted!"

“Haunted?” Mu You was stunned.

"Yes, last night, it seemed like someone was knocking on the wall on the ceiling floor. It rattled for most of the night, causing me to fall asleep in the middle of the night..." the little girl said in fear.

 “Pfft…”

Across from me, the sip of milk Xiaoya just drank squirted back. She hurriedly took out a tissue to wipe it, her face turned red, and she didn't know if she had choked.

Linglong smiled mysteriously at this time: "Yes, I heard it too. That ghost is really energetic. I have cast a silent spell, but I still can't suppress the movement..."

Xiaoya's face turned even redder. She buried her head in the tissue and felt the wheels of the car rolling over her face mercilessly.

The little girl had a witness and quickly looked at Mu You: "Look, I didn't lie!"

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Mu You raised his eyebrows and said calmly: "I guess the people next door have just moved in and are renovating. I'll talk to them later."

 A small incident at the dinner table did not cause too many waves.

The attention of several people was quickly attracted to Lin Xue.

Lin Xue said nothing since the meal was served and kept eating.

 She eats elegantly, but quickly.

At first, everyone didn't pay attention, until they saw her eating three steamed buns, four burritos, a bowl of mung bean soup, and then reaching for a plate of beef again, everyone finally realized that something was wrong.

"Xiaoxue, are you... okay?" Mu You looked at her worriedly.

 Lin Xue shook her head: "It's okay... I just suddenly feel very hungry..."

Just after she finished speaking, her stomach made a "gurgling" sound in unison, proving that she was not trying to be brave, but was really hungry.

 Everyone looked at each other in confusion. They all stopped their chopsticks involuntarily and watched Lin Xue cook. The food on the table was decreasing at a speed visible to the naked eye.

Even Linglong, who has the characteristic of gluttony, looked at Lin Xue's whirlwind victory with a strange expression on her face, feeling like she was at a disadvantage.

 A few minutes later, as the last piece of pastry was taken away by Lin Xue, the food on the table was completely emptied, and 80% of it went into Lin Xue's stomach.

However, Lin Xue still looked unsatisfied at this time, as if she was not full yet.

"How about I go buy some more?" Xiaoya looked at Lin Xue and asked tentatively.

Lin Xue shook her head: "No, these things don't seem very hungry. I want to eat something with more energy..."

 “Something with more energy…” Everyone is thinking about what is more energy.

 Immediately, Lin Xue rummaged through the ring and took out a bag.

 After opening it, it was filled with divine crystals.

 Amid everyone's surprised gazes, Lin Xue grabbed a handful of crystals from the bag and stuffed it into his mouth. The crystals melt in your mouth and turn into pure energy, no need to chew or swallow.

 Soon, Lin Xue put handful after handful into his mouth.

Looking at this scene, Mu You felt very familiar. He had eaten divine crystals like this before, but he did it to restore the attributes suppressed by Jie Lin. What was Lin Xue's situation?

 A minute later, Lin Xue finished eating the entire bag of crystals, and without stopping, she took out another bag from the ring and continued eating.

But this time, after taking a few bites, Lin Xue suddenly paused, covering her mouth with an uncomfortable expression on her face.

“What’s wrong?” Mu You asked nervously.

Lin Xue had no time to answer him, but suddenly stood up and rushed to the bathroom.

 A few seconds later, the sound of vomiting came from the bathroom.

"Ah...I'll go take a look!" Xiaoya was closest to the bathroom, got up hurriedly, and followed her into the bathroom.

 The result was that Lin Xue was lying in front of the sink vomiting, but it seemed that he was just retching and didn't vomit anything at all.

"Sister Xue, are you okay?" Xiaoya was at a loss for a moment, thinking to herself that you really shouldn't eat this kind of food. Could it be that there was something wrong with it?

Lin Xue retched for a while and finally got better. However, she frowned and seemed to realize something. She suddenly reached out and pulled open the top in front of her stomach.

 Under the clothes, the originally flat belly now had an obvious bulge... (End of this chapter)