This Text Adventure Game is definitely poisonous-Chapter 1293 - 573: Ghosts Under the Abyss_2

He had fused with Divine Bone and doubled his attributes with Vampire skin, which kept him from being too affected.

Seconds later, Medicinal Plant Gatherer also squeezed through a crack from behind, tumbling to land beside Mu You, and immediately felt the pressure upon landing.

His attributes were far inferior to Mu You’s. Every movement was noticeably sluggish, as if trapped in a quagmire, with sweat on his forehead and struggling to rise.

Mu You was not in a hurry and paused to rest on the spot. After a while, Medicinal Plant Gatherer finally adapted a bit and could stand and move normally, albeit still somewhat stiff.

"This pressure, at least seven levels deep!" said Medicinal Plant Gatherer decisively.

He had personally descended into the Abyss before, reaching as far as the third level.

Based on the gravitational changes of each level, he roughly estimated that this area must be between the seventh and eighth levels, which are currently the deepest layers of the Abyss explored by living beings.

Any further down would not be a habitat for ordinary lifeforms, unless it was a type of creature that had extremely high resistance to pressure; only then might it be possible to go deeper.

After initially adapting to the pressure, the two of them took the time to look around at the environment.

Before them was a rough underground space, as if torn open by some immense force,

Towering rock formations and deep chasms crisscrossed irregularly, forming a chaotic and dangerous landscape. Misty flows of bubbling Lava filled the crevices, with the red-hot magma flickering with a dangerous glow in the darkness.

The air was permeated with the stench of sulfur and the damp smell of earth, creating a heavy and suffocating atmosphere. Ear-piercing roars and shrill screams occasionally emanated from the depths of the Abyss, triggering an instinctual sense of horror.

"Roar!"

Before the pair could take a few steps, a sudden roar erupted, and an abyssal Demon Dog with two heads and horns on its forehead leaped out from the darkness of the rocky wall, baring its teeth and claws, lunging directly at them.

But before it could get close, it was sent flying by a giant hand summoned by Mu You with a slap.

"Ow..."

The demon dog whimpered, rolling on the ground, tumbling several times before quickly shaking its head to stand up and bare its teeth at the duo again, yet not daring to charge forward once more. It evidently realized their strength far surpassed its own.

The two didn’t bother with the dog and kept moving forward with interest.

Along the way, more and more Abyssal creatures appeared, with various forms, including jellyfish-like soft-bodied creatures and fierce beasts resembling lions and tigers, but more were various long-legged insects and Abyssal Demons with horns and wings.

The ground was covered with Beast Bones, crunching underfoot with every step.

The pair stepped on the beast bones littering the ground as they walked, with Demons and Abyssal monsters on both sides eyeing them covetously.

Finally, one humanoid Demon couldn’t resist any longer, leapt up, and launched a stealth attack on them.

And that attack was like a signal. Countless Little Devils surged from behind, swarming towards the two.

Mu You activated his Divine Skin and tore apart the two forefront Little Devils with a hand each, while Medicinal Plant Gatherer conjured an Electric Arc Sword in his hand, thrusting it towards the humanoid Demon...

Moments later, the few remaining Little Devils screamed tragically as they fled the scene, and the other surrounding Abyssal creatures watching the spectacle were also trembling with fear, no longer daring to display a challenging demeanor.

There, scattered on the ground in disarray, lay numerous Demon limbs; the ground was stained red with the blood of the monsters. Mu You, holding the Demon’s head in his hand, casually tossed it aside and swept a cold gaze across the surroundings.

The monsters that had been growling around them immediately fell silent, backing away quietly.

From the beginning, the two men sensed from the eyes of these creatures that the law of the jungle, a brutal rule of survival of the fittest, was taken to the extreme here. Showing any weakness or retreat in front of these monsters meant being immediately treated as prey, to be devoured completely.

Therefore, both of them did not hold back, dismembering the wave of monsters in the most bloodthirsty way. This demonstration of power seemed to finally restrain the Abyssal monsters somewhat.

Afterward, as they continued on their way, the surrounding Demons and Abyssal creatures consciously withdrew, clearing the path for them.

Soon, they saw the platform in the depths of this space, with a Crystal Throne standing erect upon it.

On a cliff opposite the throne was a screen projecting a movie, showing a looped sequence of scenes from an ancient film - "Rural Zombie."

At this moment, the audience sitting on the throne was a woman in white with black hair, her silhouette closely resembling Taurus they had seen before, but now she was motionless, leaning sideways against the back of the chair, exuding no signs of life.

Mu You and the Medicinal Plant Gatherer looked at each other, quickened their pace, and kept walking until they stood before the throne. The woman seated there was still motionless.

The Medicinal Plant Gatherer stepped forward and lifted the woman’s drooping black hair, revealing a corpse-white face with protruding eyes and devoid of any color, not at all looking like someone alive.

The Medicinal Plant Gatherer frowned and then extended a finger towards the woman’s neck...

"She’s completely dead..." The Medicinal Plant Gatherer shook his head at Mu You, actually indicating she had been dead for quite some time.

"No way, did we come too late?"

Mu You’s face looked strange. Although Taurus was injured when last seen, he still looked very lively. How could he have died in just over a month since they last met?

"You did indeed come late, according to the agreement, you’re over a thousand years late!"

At that moment, a somewhat familiar voice came from above.

Both instinctively turned their heads, looking at the screen on the opposite cliff face.

In the image, a black-haired woman in white was staring back at them, and then, to their astonishment, she crawled out of the screen... first an arm, then her head covered in long hair, her body, legs, feet...

Seconds later, a ghostly looking woman with long hair appeared before the rocky wall, floating towards the throne, and finally went straight into the corpse seated there.

As the ghost merged with the corpse, the lifeless eyes of the woman’s body suddenly began to move, followed by a wriggling of her limbs, like a marionette being pulled by strings, from legs to torso to arms. Amidst a cacophony of snapping bones, the corpse stiffly stood up, placed her hand on her neck, moved her head around, and gradually regained some semblance of vitality.

"Taurus?" Mu You asked.

"It’s me." The woman nodded, her voice was indeed that of Taurus from the conference.

Mu You was embarrassed, her entrance was quite shocking; one would think it was Sadako filming a sequel.

"You knew I would come?" Mu You then remembered what Taurus had just said, that he ’was more than a thousand years late’, which confounded him.

"Of course, a few days ago when the Mechanical Heart passed through the Abyss, I felt it." The woman said.

"You also know about the Mechanical Heart?" Mu You was surprised.

"Of course, in fact, for a long time in the past, I was an operator of the Mechanical Heart; I’ve been in contact with the Mechanical Heart much earlier than you." The woman spoke. freēnovelkiss.com

"You... who exactly are you?" Mu You asked.

"I’m not a person, I am a ghost from the Ghost Tribe... Of course, now I’m just an Earthbound Spirit that has lost its body."

After speaking, the woman lifted a lock of hair from her chest: "As for this body, I found it. A Human Race explorer entered here by mistake hundreds of years ago. I initially wanted her help, but before I could speak, she was scared to death by me. I simply borrowed her body to help her live."

The woman moved her stiff arm and remarked, "A ghost’s power can easily manipulate objects through the air, but without a tangible body, many things are indeed inconvenient..."

"Ghost Tribe?"

Mu You tried hard to recall this race name but could not come up with any information: "I’ve never heard of them..."

"It’s normal that you haven’t heard of them because the Ghost Tribe was the first race to be extinct in the Star Spirit World, having disappeared from the Star Spirit World tens of thousands of years ago..." The woman said.

"The first race... So you’ve entered Eden?" Mu You raised his eyebrow.

The first extinct race would be from the time right after the extermination of the Divine Race. With no one to maintain it, races in the Star Spirit World began to go extinct one after the other.

And the Mechanical People from underground had the duty to preserve those extinct races; the first extinct Ghost Tribe must have been brought into Eden too.

"I was imprisoned in Eden for tens of thousands of years, until this era, when I finally escaped with the help of outsiders..." Taurus spoke.

"What exactly happened?" Mu You inquired about the main issue.

Since she was one of the first creatures to enter Eden, she should know everything from beginning to end.