Saving the World in an Apocalypse-Style Text Game-Chapter 641 - 323: Ancient Nest, Moth Mimic’s Blending Liquid_1
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[After a long journey underground, the vibration subsides... The membranous sides of the ’carrier earthworm’s’ abdomen open...]
[The grayish light sprinkling down from above is extremely dim. Looking up, you notice the glow-inducing fungi clinging to the top of the stone wall are sparse, a sign that you are deep underground.]
[The deeper you go underground, the fewer such illuminating fungi exist. Beyond a certain depth, these fungi die out altogether, plunging the area into eternal darkness.]
[Thanks to the faint light, you can barely make out the distant ’abandoned ancient nest’...]
[It’s a massive spherical gray-white structure, its surface covered in burn marks, hefty tubes extending from the sphere to the ground, making the structure exceptionally stable.]
[You leave the earthworm cavity and move closer to the ’abandoned ancient nest’...]
[You arrive at the expansive spherical structure.]
[The door through which entrance is feasible is made of a peculiar material, with vertical grooves across its surface. It feels soft to the touch like living flesh, but press a little harder and you can feel a skeletal-like structure providing rigidity.]
[You sniff the air and detect a faint stench of decaying corpses.]
[You hesitate for a moment, then slowly push open the door...]
[Immediately, a nauseating, pungent gas pours out from the gap in the door. The smell is so foul that it stings your eyes.]
[You fight the discomfort and step inside...]
[Beyond the door is a ring-shaped space, its grayish color a match for the door. The walls have identical surfaces and, on either side, are embedded with containers you recognize — ’incubation sacs’.]
[However, most of the sacs have their membranous surface violently ripped apart, their ’children’ gone, leaving only a sticky liquid akin to amniotic fluid.]
[You proceed along the corridor. It’s a considerable time before you spot an intact ’incubation sac’.]
[The ’child’ inside the sac had been dead for a while, its remains soaked in the liquid, decaying beyond recognition - even calling it rotten meat would be a compliment.]
[After observing for quite some time without discovering anything unusual, you decide to carry on...]
[Suddenly, you remember something and halt in your tracks, returning to take a more careful look at the incubation sac.]
[The ’child’ has rotted into an indescribable lump of flesh, its shattered shells floating in the fluid.]
[What surprises you is that the shell is not the grayish-white associated with the ’Feathered’, but rather the jet-black color of the ’Mutated’.]
[You study the shape of the shell, attempting to reconstruct the full image of the ’child’ in your mind... It’s a ’Mutated’ like Jinmu, covered head to toe in a black shell!]
Lin Xun frowns.
Could it be that the ancient nest in front of him is not an abandoned military factory left by the ’Desire Wet Nurse’, but left by the ’Initial Firefly’?
"That’s not right, the description in the Homecoming skill clearly states that this place is a gift left by the Desire Wet Nurse."
Unable to figure it out, he decides to continue exploring.
[...]
[As you proceed, you come across a few other intact ’incubation sacs’. The ’children’ inside them are like the one you saw before, ’Mutated’ that have decayed beyond recognition.]
[Gradually, you reach the other end of the ring-shaped passage. Here’s a flesh elevator-like contraption.]
[Before the elevator, there lies a uniquely shaped chest.]
[The chest is made of the same material as the gate and wall, all having a kind of unique ’vitality’.]
[Will you open the chest, or bypass the chest to take the elevator?]
The chest in front of him appears too strangely, clearly abnormal.
The underworld game has developed all sorts of tricks with chests, creating numerous traps. It would not be an exaggeration to say that he is traumatized by opening these chests.
Lin Xun narrows his eyes, thinks over it a bit, and makes a plan.
In reality, he summons the Shikigami Snow Woman, gives her some instructions, and then sends her back into the game.
[You inhabit the ’Shell’ of the ’Fire Worshiping Yiye Palace Lord’.]
[You swing your exorcism beads, and the Shikigami ’Primordial Snow Woman of the Mountains’ responds to your summons.]
[Following your instructions, ’Snow Woman’ bravely approaches the chest...]
[You inhabit the ’Shell’ of the ’Fallen Earth Giant’.]
[You quietly take a few steps back, the ’Ancient Dragon Tooth Mace’ in one hand and the ’Tachi: Evil Welcome Eight Scenes’ in the other, crossing both weapons in front of you, on high alert...]
[’Snow Woman’ reaches the chest, glances back at you with seemingly resentful eyes, then decisively opens the chest...]
[After the chest opens, there are no traps that you expected.]
[’Snow Woman’ reaches into the chest, pulls out a glittering object, and walks towards you...]
[Just then, a huge dark shadow descends from the sky, a colourful and poisonous stinger targeting the Shikigami ’Snow Woman’.]
[’Snow Woman’ has been cautious all this while and immediately transforms into a cloud of icy mist, avoiding the deadly attack.]
[The mist of snowflakes floats over to you and transforms back into a woman form. ’Snow Woman’ pats her chest and looks at the giant shadow that attacked her.]
[It’s a Feathered creature resembling a giant moth. Its pair of scaly wings, whether in color or pattern, looks the same as the material of walls and ceiling, making it difficult to differentiate by using naked eyes.]
[The Feathered’s six legs are long and sharp, like pointed lances. It also has a sharp stinger at the end of its abdomen. Looking at the colorful stinger, one can tell it carries a deadly poison.]
