Saving the World in an Apocalypse-Style Text Game-Chapter 688 - 343: Belatu’s Notes, Forbidden Lake_1
Lin Xun bid farewell to ’Flandre the Oathbreaker’, returning to his mansion castle.
After acquiring ’Belatu’s Seal Wax Imprint’, both the guards and the servants were completely obedient to him.
Most of the castle guards had been wiped out by him, but their numbers would always respawn after he reset them.
After becoming the new Nightmare Yuri, Lin Xun could now freely explore the whole castle.
Some interesting findings indeed, after a bit of exploration.
[...]
[You searched in the living room on the third floor of the castle and found a blueprint from the desk drawer.]
[You got ’Reconstruction Blueprint of Zhongsi City’ (Item)!]
[You continue to search the living room, unfortunately, you couldn’t find any more valuable items...]
Lin Xun opened his inventory to see.
[’Reconstruction Blueprint of Zhongsi City’ (Item): Blueprint marked with ’surface’ construction of Zhongsi City. According to this blueprint, you can command the feathered ones to construct ’War Incubation Field’, ’Griffin Hatching Pond’ and other buildings after ’White Fleece Snow Season’ subsides.]
He tried to click on the item, immediately a long list of text appeared, all about city construction.
"Is this a city simulation?"
Lin Xun was quite intrigued. He researched for a while and found that the item couldn’t be used for now, only after the ’White Fleece Snow Season’ passed, these factory buildings could be built. 𝕗𝕣𝐞𝐞𝘄𝐞𝚋𝚗𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗹.𝚌𝕠𝚖
[Just as you are about to leave the living room, you suddenly stop!]
[You turned around and looked into the corner at the cupboard, where it seemed like something was calling you.]
[You walked over to the cupboard, opened the cupboard door...]
[Hanging inside the cupboard were a few ordinary clothes, nothing seemed out of the ordinary.]
[An inexplicable guidance lingered in your mind, a voice silently whispered to you, close your eyes and crawl into the cupboard...]
[Would you like to do it?]
Lin Xun’s first thought was, it’s a trap.
He had been tricked by this Underworld game too many times, to the point of having symptoms of ’Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder’.
"Snow Woman, it’s your turn!"
He quickly summoned Shikigami Snow Woman to crawl into the cupboard and scout the way.
Snow Woman had already gotten used to such commands, without knowing when, had changed into a three-headed lion form.
Oddly enough, Snow Woman followed the hints and crawled into the cupboard, closing her eyes, but nothing unusual happened.
Lin Xun shoved a few summoned beasts into the cupboard one after another, but no trap was triggered.
"So, it seems I have to go in myself..."
He gritted his teeth and clicked to enter.
[Following the guidance you felt, you crawled into the cupboard and closed the door, then closed your eyes and waited quietly...]
[...]
[The voice echoing in your mind gradually faded until it disappeared.]
[You confusedly open your eyes. The interior of the cupboard was still cramped and dark, nothing happened at all.]
[You, who have been tricked in this prank, angrily push open the cupboard door, only to find that what is before your eyes is not the familiar living room, but a secret room much smaller than the living room.]
[There are no doors or windows in the secret room, only robust walls surround you, and some simple chairs and tables are arranged in between.]
[A massive page from the Book of Salvation, shimmering with light- the ’Rest Page’, is floating in the middle of the secret room...]
[You found a remnant of the ’Book of Salvation’ - ’Rest Page’!]
[Would you like to touch the ’Rest Page’?]
Lin Xun was thrilled.
A Rest Page not only signified a save point but also meant that there was no danger in the secret room, it was a safety house.
[...]
[After touching the ’Rest Page’, you continue to observe the secret room...]
[A flipped notebook is placed on a desk in front. It highlights writings left by an unknown person...]
[You step forward...]
[You got ’Unknown Notes’ (Info)!]
Lin Xun, unsure of the reason, promptly opened his inventory and read the new item.
[’Unknown notes’ (Info)]
[...]
[I supremely loathe my current body, this body transformed into something demonic!]
[But how dare I defy my mother?]
[Even Flandre, the child who was once the most favored, couldn’t avoid her fate when she defied our mother’s will. What makes me any different?]
[Flandre was the first child to go through the experiment, undoubtedly a severe punishment...]
[As expected, the experiment failed.]
[As a traitor, Flandre not only had to endure the long-lasting torment of darkness and solitude, she also had to weather unending agony.]
[That pipe connected to her grotesquely large lower half kept absorbing her strength without a pause to nourish the land of the Divine Kingdom.]
[What was forcefully absorbed was not only physical strength but also spiritual. This kind of excruciating pain penetrated deep into the soul, far beyond any physical torment.]
[The agony of a soul being torn could effortlessly break one’s will, no matter how resilient and strong that will might be!]
[If it were me, I fear I would have lost my sanity and gone mad in the face of such torment... especially when the darkness and solitude amplify this pain a thousandfold.]
[Having seen what happened to Flandre, no child dared to defy our mother.]
[We naively believed that as long as we didn’t defy our mother, we wouldn’t become test subjects.]
[But we overestimated how much we meant to our mother and underestimated her thirst for power. No, I should say, her desire for ’Transcendence’.]
[Our mother’s once warm and kind eyes subtly changed, her gaze on her children was no different from staring at livestock.]
[I should’ve seen this coming... we are all test subjects, every child, every faithful follower!]
