This Text Adventure Game is definitely poisonous-Chapter 1230 - 550: The Early Arrival of Mirage Energy Season
Chapter 1230: Chapter 550: The Early Arrival of Mirage Energy Season
"Dreams... nightmares..."
Mu You frowned as he watched.
Generally speaking, this type of fixed drop item, like the Dark Powder found in the dark cave and the bitter pollen from the Bitter Forest, burst out of monster bodies because the surrounding environment was saturated with such substances.
"So, what connection does this environment have to dreaming?" Mu You mused to himself, but he couldn’t draw any conclusion at the moment.
The group continued their individual explorations.
[...you faintly feel your body becoming heavier, as if you were carrying a sponge soaked with water, making every movement strenuous.]
[You roll up your sleeve and discover green spots appearing on your skin, spreading quietly like moss...]
[You try to clear these spots, but find they seem to grow inside your skin, unable to be eradicated...]
[Under the influence of this unknown presence, you feel your body growing heavier and your movements slower...]
These ’spots,’ and those that had stained the Fog-breaking Mirror, seem to be the same thing.
Mu You had not expected that this substance would not only affect objects but also people.
Checking the group, he saw that others were encountering similar issues.
"Damn, this place is really cursed, I’m about to rust over!"
"Me too..."
"Could it be the air here is toxic? If we breathe too much, will spores start growing..."
"What happens in the end? Surely we won’t all be wrapped in mold and turn into vegetative people, right?"
"I don’t know..."
...
While everyone grumbled, their progress was unaffected.
Although the spots looked creepy, initially they didn’t pose a major impact, just slowing down the pace, so nobody took them very seriously and continued exploring.
[While moving forward, you suddenly feel you’ve bumped into a huge rock!]
[You reach out and feel the rock has well-defined edges and a regular shape, with a horned head and wings on the back, resembling some sort of monster statue.]
[You faintly hear a noise coming from inside the statue and upon listening more closely, you confirm it’s a heartbeat!]
[There seems to be a creature encased within this stone sculpture! You choose...]
[You try to attack the stone sculpture, but all your attacks are swallowed up as they touch the surface of the sculpture, causing no damage...]
Not being able to see the actual object is a critical setback, especially when encountering such bizarre incidents.
Next, Mu You tried to fire at the stone statue with a Wind Burial Cannon, but surprisingly the statue remained unscathed.
It seemed the stone statue was truly invincible. Left with no other choice, Mu You turned back time a bit and decided to bypass it, continuing forward. freeweɓnovēl.coɱ
In the following hour, each person cautiously explored their surroundings.
With a Pocket Watch in hand, Mu You could afford to be more daring than others and covered the greatest distance, encountering the greatest number of things.
Besides the obvious static objects like trees and rocks, he encountered eleven monsters in total, three of which were like the earlier statue, immobile yet invulnerable inside their stone layers.
There were also two moving monsters, seemingly wandering aimlessly as if sleepwalking. Mu You attacked them upon sight, but they didn’t react at all, continuing their aimless wandering until he killed them.
Additionally, he encountered another monster just standing still, not petrified but seemingly just standing and sleeping.
Mu You thought that this monster too, like the sleepwalking ones, could be attacked at random. However, when he actually struck, this monster immediately woke up and launched a counterattack.
The last five were actively moving monsters.
Apart from those three petrified monsters, Mu You killed every other monster and finally obtained five portions of Nightmare Powder and three of Dream Powder.
[...as time passed, your body grew heavier...]
[You lift your sleeve and see the green spots have almost spread across your entire body...]
[You vaguely feel a wave of sleepiness coming, making you feel drowsy. You choose...]
["Find a place to sleep" or "Resist with willpower"]
Faced with both options, Mu You chose the latter. Sleeping here seemed unsafe, especially considering the monsters he had just encountered, making him worry if they too had become like that after falling asleep.
[Using your willpower, you forced yourself to stay awake and continue moving forward... However, the wave of sleepiness kept coming, and you knew relying solely on willpower wouldn’t last much longer...]
Mu You took a moment to check the group chat, and sure enough, it was full of lamentations.
"Darn it, my character just fell asleep on the spot!"
"Me too..."
"I’m still holding on, but I guess it’s almost over..."
"Something is definitely off about this place, it’s like the longer you stay, the more everyone is forced to sleep."
"Wait... after we fall asleep, what if we never wake up?"
"Don’t worry, one of my subordinates fell asleep and was killed by a monster, respawning back in town..."
"What if we’re never found by a monster? Aren’t we stuck here for good?"
"That’s..."
...
Mu You looked at the ongoing discussion among the people and suddenly realized something.
Turning back, at that moment, his game character had also reached the end of his tether.
