This Text Adventure Game is definitely poisonous-Chapter 1535 - 662 Blue Butterfly and Chrysalis_2

[You head towards ten o’clock to your left, where a faintly familiar bluish glow flickers ahead.]

[Stepping forward to part the grass and check, you find an ancient Soul Lamp!]

"Eh?"

Mu You hadn’t expected to trigger Ava’s hint so soon on the journey, and discover a Soul Lamp.

This meant that the Fool’s Ancestors had once trodden here before.

Understandable, since this spatial vortex isn’t far from Sky City. Under the Fool’s comprehensive blanket search, it wasn’t impossible for someone to stumble in by chance.

However, in the end, no news ever returned from Jie Lin, indicating that those who ventured inside to pioneer this place were likely trapped by those three giant stones, unable to return.

The Fool’s lifespan is limited, and after so many years with no replenishment, their fate was probably much like the Medicine God’s—dead in foreign lands...

[You light up the Soul Lamp in front of you.]

Mu You sighed, lit the Soul Lamp, and set the character on the road.

[You pass by the surrounding Forbidden Wood and step into Jie Lin.]

[These towering cylindrical trees are so thick that dozens of people would have to embrace them, stretching straight up towards the sky, their gray canopies soaring into the clouds.]

[Dappled sunlight filters through the gaps in the trees, and as you venture deeper into Jie Lin, small creatures hiding in nooks and crannies start to emerge.]

[’Snap’—your footsteps crush a dry branch, instantly causing several thin-bodied, paper-like birds to manifest from the white trunks of the Forbidden Wood, and startled, they fly deeper into the forest, blending with other Forbidden Woods to vanish once more.]

[Unable to track the paper birds, you suddenly feel a numbness on the sole of your foot, and looking down, you see a group of soft-bodied creatures with long antennae, crawling past your shoes in single file. As they pass by, their antennae tilt toward you, emitting faint vibrations, seemingly trying to communicate, but unfortunately, you cannot understand...]

The ecosystem here is richer than imagined; as you continue walking, various unseen small animals keep appearing.

Mu You observed that these small creatures mostly had the aura of divinity, with many abilities relying on divine energy, yet their body strength was much greater than similar-ranked creatures outside.

Just like the soft-bodied creature underfoot, Mu You picked up one and squeezed it, finding that no matter how hard he tried, he couldn’t crush it. The creature would freely change shape like Rubber Mud, and when frustrated, it would spit a mouthful of venom on Mu You’s finger in admonition.

Mu You rubbed the pale green venom on his fingers—it wasn’t very toxic and did negligible harm to him, but it indeed contained faint divinity.

Mu You put down the annoyed soft-bodied creature and continued on his way.

Various small creatures kept appearing along the route, most colored in gray, white, and black. They seamlessly hid themselves within the environment and now emerged, staring at him like a crowd of local tourists visiting a zoo’s new exhibit, with him being the exotic outsider in the park.

Fortunately, they were all non-aggressive creatures, simply curiously watching and not foolishly rushing to attack him, so Mu You didn’t bother either.

["Plop!" A sound of something falling nearby caught your attention.]

[On a branch not far away, you see a group of legged ’eggs’ lining up to traverse it.]

[As you pass by, some ’egg beasts’ instinctively halt and look at you. The squeezing of the line causes one egg beast to lose its footing and plummet from the branch, smashing upon impact with the ground, dying miserably. Yellow and white egg liquid gushes from its shell, spreading all over.]

[Various small creatures immediately swarm around the smashed egg but do not rush in to feast, instead maintaining a meter’s distance, patiently waiting.]

[A few seconds later, you notice a chrysalis forming on the surface of the ’egg beast,’ hatching at a speed visible to the naked eye into a sapphire butterfly.]

[The small butterfly quickly spreads its wings and takes flight, disappearing into the depths of the forest.]

[Once the butterfly vanishes, the surrounding creatures finally rush in, competing to consume the ’egg beast’s liquid and shell.]

[In the blink of an eye, the ’egg beast’ is completely gone, leaving the ground spotless except for the chrysalis that hatched the butterfly.]

[The chrysalis also swiftly vanishes after losing its anchor.]

The intelligence of these small creatures seemed far higher than similar-level beings outside.

Mu You was intently observing the ecosystem when suddenly the small animals around him panicked and scattered.

Ava promptly issued an alert.

["A highly aggressive large beast is sprinting from several hundred meters ahead on your left."]

"Beast?" Mu You was taken aback, but not overly concerned; the other animals ran, so he followed suit.

Mu You immediately controlled the character to leave the area.

The result...

["That creature is still pursuing our direction, targeting us. At our current speed, the probability of escape is only 14.3%," Ava warns.]

"So we can’t escape, huh."

Mu You decisively halted the character, pulling out the God of Decapitation saber to prepare for battle.

[The ground shook relentlessly, and seconds later, a massive Single-horned Rhinoceros, over tens of meters tall, burst forth from the forest. Its body shimmered with colorful spots, making it conspicuously out of place in this predominantly gray and white world.]