This Text Adventure Game is definitely poisonous-Chapter 1594 - 683: Below the Deep Blue Lake Water_3

The bottom of the lake was empty, with only a piece of red... clothing? lying slantwise in the center on a patch of dirt.

Mu You was somewhat uncertain. The clothing was only the size of ordinary human attire, with a surface seeming to be covered in scale armor, yet it looked soft.

Mu You landed on the neckline of the clothing and discovered that beside it was a stone-carved human face.

Most of this face was buried in the lakebed’s mud and sand, with only half exposed.

When Mu You looked over, the exposed eye of the statue suddenly opened and looked at him.

Then, a voice echoed in Mu You’s consciousness.

"It seems you are the one I’ve been waiting for... you’ve finally arrived!"

"Are you... the Mechanic?" Mu You attempted to communicate with the statue. He had long known that the Mechanic wasn’t dead, so encountering a conscious ’person’ at the bottom of the lake naturally made him think of the Mechanic first.

"Yes." The statue’s voice continued.

"So what situation are we in now? Dead? Or not dead?" Mu You was quite concerned about his physical state.

"Not dead... our physical bodies have perished, but our consciousness is hosted by a Soul Butterfly, which has brought us to the lakebed... everyone who jumps into Moon Lake experiences this process, but the spiritual entity can’t reside within the Moon Butterfly for long and will completely perish in a day or two." The voice said.

"What about you? How did you survive?"

"Me? I was supposed to perish as well, but I chose to merge with the Moon Lake and have existed until now... however, this is where it ends for me. My purpose for surviving was solely to await your arrival. Now that you are here, I can finally be relieved..." The Mechanic’s tone carried some ease.

"Wait for me? Why wait for me..."

Mu You was a bit bewildered.

"It’s a long story... do you see that red battle suit?" The voice asked.

"I see it... you said ’battle suit’? Could it be..."

"Yes, this is ’Chixiao,’ the ultimate Origin Battle Armor I designed back in the day! I completed its model form, but it needed Moon Lake for the final tempering, so I jumped into the lake with it."

"It proved my suspicion right; the tempering indeed succeeded in Moon Lake. The battle suit you see now is the complete Chixiao armor, as intact as ever after thousands of years in the deep Moon Lake. Its defensive capability and all functions are exactly as I envisioned for the ultimate armor — except for one thing..."

"The size..." Mu You’s expression was strange.

When he first saw the armor, he didn’t dare confirm it was Chixiao because it was too small, only human-sized. How could a Titan possibly wear it?

"Yes."

The Mechanic’s voice sounded somewhat mournful: "The tempering did finish as expected, but it wasn’t completed for me. During the tempering, the armor’s size shrank dramatically, leaving my originally well-protected body exposed directly to the lake water, which led to its immediate corrosion."

"Besides this set of armor, I’ve also designed over a thousand sub-tier armor blueprints using its principles as the core, covering all aspects of production and life. These are the essence of my life’s work, all stored in Chixiao’s core."

"However, like Chixiao, these sub-tier armors also undergo shrinkage during the final tempering process and become unsuitable for Titans to wear."

"It was at that moment I suddenly realized this armor was not prepared for our Divine Race."

"The original revelation, which I thought was divine enlightenment given to me to save my own race, turned out that I was merely a tool. My life’s significance was merely to complete the battle armor for Moon Lake and then wait here until it was handed over to its original owner."

"The original owner, meaning... me?" Mu You asked, uncertain.

"Not you, but your kind. My life’s work encompasses not only Chixiao but also the entire mechanical assistant system developed in its creation. These were not designed for individuals but prepared for an entire race."

"The Fool..." Mu You exhaled, understanding what the Mechanic meant.

"But why?" Mu You didn’t really understand why Jie Lin went through such trouble to deceive the Mechanic into working his entire life to create this mechanical system, only to give it to the Fool in the end.

Was it merely to have the Fool use this mechanical system to combat the Divine Devouring Beast?

Mu You didn’t think this mechanical armor could prove very effective against the Divine Devouring Beast because it required not only the tempering from Moon Lake but also materials from Jie Lin, making it impossible to mass-produce.

Moreover, even if it were effective, it should be used by the more powerful Divine Race to drive away the Divine Devouring Beast, not the Fool, who wasn’t even born at that time.

"Indeed, this was my question too at the time!" The Mechanic’s voice echoed: "Why must my life and even my race become attire for another unknown race? On what grounds? Are we, the Divine Race, unworthy?"

"With this obsession, I survived and made my way to the lake bottom, angrily wanting to demand answers from Moon Lake, eventually going so far as to merge with Moon Lake, hoping to find the answer."

"And did you get your answer?" Mu You asked eagerly.

"Yes, I got it!"

The Mechanic’s voice grew somewhat excited: "At the moment of merging with Moon Lake, I saw the truth; I witnessed the past, present, and even the future of this land, everything..."

"It was at that moment that I suddenly understood Moon Lake and chose to follow its expectations, not dissipating immediately but continuing to exist as a spiritual entity... until now, when I relay my life’s work and the world’s truth to you, my mission is finally complete..."

Mu You swallowed: "So... what is the truth?"

He didn’t expect the Mechanic to truly know the truth and even intended to tell him directly.

One must know that this was something even the God of Order was tight-lipped about...

Mu You was very curious about what kind of truth it must be to make the Mechanic, who had been toyed with all his life, suddenly change his attitude and wait alone for thousands of years at the lake bottom just for his arrival.

"Don’t rush, this truth cannot be known to the outside world. It’s only in this core area of Jie Lin, where divinity can absolutely not reach, after eliminating all foreign materials, even where our bodies have perished with only our consciousnesses laid bare to each other, that I dare to pass this ’truth’ on to you."

"Moreover, once you leave Moon Lake and return to the Divine World, this memory of the experience must not exist, or it could still be detected by the outside world, leading to everything going to waste."

"Therefore, our conversation here, once you leave the lake surface, you will forget completely."

"What?"

Mu You was taken aback. If he was destined to forget everything, then what was the point of telling him the truth now?

"There is a point!" The Mechanic chuckled: "Rest assured, the memory of the truth won’t vanish into thin air but will be hidden in your timeline. At an appropriate moment in the future, you’ll remember all that happened here..."

"Alright... tell me then." Mu You exhaled, indicating he was ready.

"The truth is..."

The Mechanic began to narrate slowly.

In the Mechanic’s calm tone, Mu You went from being calm to surprised and finally to astonishment.

By the end, his eyes were wide, his heart pounding.

He finally understood why the God of Order said they were all merely pieces on a board...

From the Mechanic’s account, he learned a truth that turned his world upside down.

And... a plan to deceive the world.