This Text Adventure Game is Totally Poisonous

The ‘Mirage Season Guide’ kindly provided by the Djinn God, Mu You turned around and made it public to the group.

When everyone saw such a detailed mechanism, they all breathed a sigh of relief. As I said before, 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?" Emperor asked.

"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……"

…

Everyone had no objections and simply assigned some tasks in the group.

After waiting 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 everyone.

According to the Djinn, 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 is also an advantage. 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.

After everyone else 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, I found it, the insect eggs! They haven't hatched yet!"

"Awesome, it really lights up the surroundings! I can finally see the real scene!" Blue Beard 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 growing..."

"Wait a moment, the light ball is gone. Let me take people to touch a few more eggs and see..."

…

The news about Bluebeard ended abruptly.

It took more than ten minutes before he bubbled again.

"Damn it! It seems like we have broken into an insect nest. There are so many beetles chasing us..."

"These beetles are just having fun, hundreds of them acting together..."

"It's over, my men are dead..."

"What about you?" Someone was 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 stone carving 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 before being covered by the swarm of insects and completely dead.

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.

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

[…You have come to a place that looks like a wetland. The ground is thick with silt and there are many puddles…]

[You activated ‘Existence’, and your sense of existence became extremely thin...]

[...You fumbled for a snail stone carving, searched around, and soon found some soft and slippery spheres under the stone carving...]

[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 tried it.

[You kill an insect egg, and the life in the egg passes away. The remaining liquid flows out and condenses into a glowing fluorescent ball in your hand, illuminating the space within several meters around it. 】

[You are now in a wet mudland, surrounded by desolation. There is not a trace of green in sight, only a few crooked-neck trees growing a few meters away...]

[You suddenly hear a sharp scream behind you. When you look back, two beetles more than one meter tall appear behind you. Their mouthparts open and close, revealing sharp teeth and tongues covered with barbs...]

[One of the beetles hissed and flew towards you, while the other beetle faced away and opened its mouth and let out a high-pitched hiss...]

[You avoid the attack of the beetle and start running away...]

[At the same time, one of the eggs in your hand just hatched, and a sharp-toothed beetle emerged from the egg and rushed toward your face...]

[You were bitten by a beetle, poisoned, and your health dropped sharply...]

"Backtracking."

[As time goes by, you take out the eggs that are about to hatch in advance and throw 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.

What's more important is that this thing calls out to friends as soon as it appears, and it can attract a large group of people in a short time. It's no wonder that Bluebeard and others were killed just now.

Fortunately, Muyou's situation was pretty good at the moment. He started escaping before the beetles could gather into 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. There are no obstacles as far as the eye can see, 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, others have penetrated deeply into this area. Judging from their feedback, this is indeed the abandoned ancient city they saw in their previous illusions.

And 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 above 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 soon discovered that Gao Xing creatures were very smart. It was almost impossible to fall asleep without eating dream powder. They would either wake up as soon as they hit them, or they would be protected by a petrified layer and couldn't 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 clearing the land, Jiuyou suddenly posted in the group.

"Jiuyou is gone too? So are the emperor and ghost captain the only ones left now?"

"Seems to be……"

"It's so tragic. There are more than 900 people who started to participate in the operation, all of them elites..."

"It's a land reclamation, and we just happened to encounter a natural disaster. It's good to be able to hold on for so long..."

…

Everyone smiled bitterly. Before they came, they were all confident, thinking that if they were more serious, it would not be a problem to last for a week or two. No one expected that the situation on the other side was so bad, and 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? Just after he finished speaking, another one hung up. This time, Mu You was the only one left.

"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.

The second is that 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 early the next morning 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 and used the fluorescence of the light ball to search nearby...]

[Not long after, you suddenly saw a familiar green lamp looming near the puddle not far ahead. It was 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 an eyebrow, could it be the bones of the Fool's ancestor?

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

[You carefully inspected the bones along the way, but unfortunately these bones had been dead for many years, so you couldn’t see any abnormalities for a while...]

[When you come to the soul-inducing lamp, do 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 was activated. Even if he died and returned to the exit, he could transfer here 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 back alertly and 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 moving the building on its shoulders...]

[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...]

Mu You hurriedly clicked on the text of 'crab'.

[Mirage Crab: A companion species of the mirage tapir, it feeds on the flesh and blood of intelligent creatures. Its hard carapace has amazing defensive power, and its sharp claws can cause huge additional damage to creatures affected by the mirage. 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 it with a strange expression.

After reading this explanation, he immediately understood why there were so many bones 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 had been clearing land for a long time, but they were just wandering on the back of a mirage tapir 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 is squirming with eight legs and is walking 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 body...]

[The claws 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 claws...]

[Seeing that your companion 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 presence, which quickly reduced the sense of presence. 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, which is ineffective against these things.

At this point, 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 dying.

[You aim 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, forming a dazzling light ball...]

[The extremely compressed wind energy passes through, tearing apart everything in its path...]

[You only hear a miserable howl from the mirage crab in front of you. Its raised forelimbs are broken from the roots, and its huge pincers fall 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.