This Text Adventure Game is Absolutely Toxic

 “What reason is this?”

Vivian shook her head with a headache after hearing what Lin Xue said.

Coupled with Lin Xue’s anomalies along the way, Vivian was actually somewhat aware of her thoughts about Mu You.

Mu You was the disciple she brought up, and Lin Xue was the granddaughter entrusted to her by Alto. Vivian regarded both of them as her own children. If normally, there would be sparks of love between the two children, she would He will not object, but will be happy to see its success.

 But in the current situation, Vivian, as an elder, does not want the two of them to go in for such a childish reason, because she knows how dangerous the time cage is.

 Mu You also looked at Lin Xue in surprise.

He was very grateful that both Lin Xue and Xiaoya were willing to go in and accompany him for something that was extremely dangerous and took a long time.

However, was there some ambiguity in what Lin Xue just said?

 ‘I don’t want to give up this position’, does it mean the position of entering the time cage?

This opportunity is indeed very precious. As long as you stay in it for more than five hundred years, you can obtain the extremely practical passive ability of 'Time Observer'. In the past, so many big names were vying to get in and experience it just for this ability.

 But, Lin Xue is also interested in this ability?

Since Mu You met Lin Xue, her pursuit of various extra powers has always been more Buddhist-like, and she rarely takes the initiative to fight for anything. However, she was so active this time, which surprised Mu You.

"Don't worry Vivian, if you encounter any danger inside, I will send Xiaoxue out as soon as possible."

Mu You noticed the worry in Vivian's eyes and comforted her with a smile.

The Fairy Queen mentioned just now that as a trialist, the scene is built with Mu You as the core. He can safely send out the people he brings in at any time.

Unexpectedly, Lin Xue frowned and looked at him after hearing this: "Since I decided to go in with you, I will definitely not leave you alone halfway."

“Of course it would be best to get through it directly, I mean what if…” Mu You smiled dryly.

"There is no such thing. No matter what happens, I will accompany you to the end." Lin Xue's tone was extremely serious.

“Uh…” Mu You was a little surprised. Lin Xue seemed to be particularly strong today…

Listening to the conversation between the two, Vivian sighed, knowing that she could no longer persuade them.

“You two can go, but just in case, activate the archiver first.”

Vivian took out a short metal rod from the space ring.

This is a special prop that the clones got in the Bitter Garden. After touching it, it can store all the current status including attributes, data and even memories. No matter what it becomes in the future, as long as you activate the previous 'archive', you can immediately restore everything to the archive. status at that time.

This thing has been kept by the herb collector before. Before leaving this time, Vivian considered the current situation and asked the herb collector for the archive device before leaving.

 “That’s fine.” Mu You nodded.

After all, what they are going to is a "cage" of mental torture. There is no harm in saving a file in advance. Once you suffer mental trauma in it and find that you have a mental problem after you come out, you can use the save file to easily recover.

Lin Xue didn’t refuse either.

Both of them touched the archiver each and saved the current status.

Next, Vivian told the two of them some precautions in the time cage, and the two were ready to set off.

From a distance, Xiaoya stared blankly at Mu You and Lin Xue who were about to leave, feeling inexplicably disappointed in her heart.

She didn't know why, but from the moment Lin Xue spoke before her, she felt that her heart suddenly became empty, as if she had quietly lost something important, and it was something she might never get back if she didn't keep it. …

"Boss! Sister Xue! Actually, I...I also..." Xiaoya suddenly spoke.

In the distance, Mu You and Lin Xue, who had already walked to the square, stopped when they heard the sound and turned back to look at her.

"I also…"

The moment they both looked back, Xiaoya was stunned for a second. Looking at the two standing side by side, she sighed helplessly, with a flash of relief on her face, and changed her words at the last moment.

 “I’m also...very worried about you...”

“I’m sure, everyone will come back safe and sound!”

"Will do."

Mu You smiled: "Don't worry, it won't take long, about five seconds, you will be able to see us again."

 In the time cage, 1000 years is equal to 1 second in the outside world, and 5000 years will end in about 5 seconds.

 “Well...I’ll wait for you!”

Xiaoya murmured softly, watching the two of them walk to the Heart of Time.

Mu You opened the Order Space, took out the Divine Bone of Time, and held it in his hand. Then he and Lin Xue looked at each other, and the two of them stretched out their hands at the same time and touched the surface of the cube.

 The next moment, a burst of white light appeared, and the two people disappeared.

 …

 Consciousness returns from chaos.

Mu You woke up suddenly, but felt his body was empty and he sat down on the ground.

After being stunned for a few seconds, Mu You sat up in confusion and saw a familiar short metal stick in his hand.

Looking around, there is a pure white space around you. In the center of the space, a broken square floats abruptly.

On the ground not far from the cube, a crow and a little goblin were lying weakly on the ground. The crow was motionless, while the little goblin was struggling to turn his head and look in his direction, with a kind of light flashing in his eyes. The emotion of shock.

 Except for these two small creatures, the entire space was empty and there were no living creatures.

 Mu You stared at the crow on the ground, his mind in chaos, and his consciousness and memory gradually returned.

 Until a certain moment, he suddenly woke up as if he was belatedly aware of it.

Mu You finally remembered his identity and experience, as well as the identity of the crow on the ground: "Vivian?"

Mu You was startled and rushed over to pick up the crow on the ground.

 Fortunately, the crow is still alive.

At this time, Vivian was extremely weak. The magic power in her body was almost exhausted. She could not move her whole body. She didn't even have the energy left to turn her eyes to look at him.

 Without any time to think, Mu You hurriedly injected magic power into the crow's body.

With the infusion of abundant magic power, the dying crow finally regained his vitality, and turned his head mechanically for half a turn to look at Mu You.

"You...are back..." "Vivian, what happened? Didn't I enter the time cage? Why did I come back?" Mu You asked.

Vivian opened her mouth, but it seemed that she had not regained the strength to speak. The Fairy Queen on the side answered for her: "You have passed the experience of the time cage..."

“Passed?” Mu You was stunned. He had already gone in? But he had no impression at all...

Mu You then remembered the short stick in his hand.

 Archer!

Yes, he activated the archiver and his body returned to the moment it was archived, so he lost the memory of being in the cage...

 But what happened that he actually needed to use the archiver to go back?

"Where are Xiaoya and Lin Xue? And what's going on with you? I just left for five seconds, why did you become like this?" Mu You was confused.

His goal is to stay in a time cage for five thousand years. It only lasts five seconds in the outside world. Logically speaking, it only takes a blink of an eye. Why does the outside world change so much?

 “Five seconds?”

The Fairy Queen smiled bitterly and said with a strange expression: "Do you know how long you have been in there?"

"how long?"

"Today is the thirty-fifth day you enter the heart of time..."

 “Thirty-five…days?” Mu You was stunned.

 He was stuck in a time cage for more than a month?

Furthermore, this refers to the time of the outside world, 35*24*60*60, which is a total of 3024000 seconds. Calculated based on the fact that each second is equal to one thousand years inside, the result is... 3.02 billion years!

 He has been in a time cage for 3 billion years? ? ?

"How is it possible?" Mu You shook his head subconsciously. No matter how confident he was in himself, he would still think that he could stay in it for tens of thousands of years, hundreds of thousands of years, or hundreds of millions of years at most? Even if he is an iron man, he will become a living fossil...

"Yes, I also want to know, how is it possible? 5,000 years is already the highest record in the past time cage, but you have stayed in it for hundreds of millions of years... This is no longer something that can be explained by a 'miracle'. This is It’s a true miracle…”

The Fairy Queen looked at him with a very strange look: "Now I finally understand why the will of the world chose you as its spokesperson..."

 Mu You was heartbroken when she was stared at by the Fairy Queen, but she didn't care about it at the moment and glanced around.

"Where are the others? Why aren't Xiaoya and the others here?"

"Xiaoya, I've gone back..." Vivian said hoarsely, seeming to have finally recovered a little.

“Ordinary people cannot stay in the City of Time for too long, otherwise they will get lost. When I found that you did not come out immediately after entering, I sent an **** to take her back to reality.”

The Fairy Queen explained to Vivian: "During the month when you enter the cage, I need to guard the heart of time at all times to maintain its stability and cannot escape. Vivian will stay and temporarily manage the city of time on my behalf." But because she can't get energy supply here, she becomes weaker and weaker over the course of a month. If you come back a little later, she might really starve to death."

Mu You understood what she meant. Vivian's current body needed magic power to maintain its shape. Previously, he and Lin Xue took turns providing Vivian with daily magic power, but this time he and Lin Xue entered the time cage at the same time. , without the source of magic power, the moment the magic power in her body is exhausted, it is the moment it dies.

"What happened? Didn't you say you can leave in five thousand years? Why did we stay in there for so long?" Mu You looked at the Fairy Queen and asked.

"I don't know... we can't see what's going on in the time cage." The Fairy Queen shook her head: "I only know that it was the girl who carried you out."

"Girl? You mean Xiaoxue?" Mu You was stunned for a moment, and then he realized, by the way, where is Xiaoxue?

It’s understandable that Xiaoya has already gone back, but Lin Xue entered the cage with him, so why do you only see him but not Lin Xue at this time?

"No, maybe, that is not her, but her from another world..." The Fairy Queen muttered to herself at this time.

"What do you mean? What do you mean by her in another world?" Mu You frowned.

“Just now, about three minutes ago, the girl named Lin Xue suddenly broke into the Heart of Time from outside.” The Fairy Queen said.

 “Intrusion from outside?” Mu You heard this strangely. Lin Xue entered the time cage with him. Even if he was sent out halfway, he should have appeared directly inside the square space. How could he come in from the outside?

“That’s why I said she might not be the Lin Xue of our world.”

The Fairy Queen pondered: "When she came in just now, when she saw us, she immediately wanted to save Vivian. Unfortunately, she tried and found that she couldn't touch us or communicate with us, so she had to give up. …Now that I think about it, this is because she is in a different world line from us, and it is just because of the special nature of the City of Time that the two worlds temporarily intersected here..."

"What happens next?" Mu You didn't really understand. At this time, he was more concerned about Lin Xue's situation.

“Afterwards, she walked to the Heart of Time, opened the entrance to the Time Cage, and jumped in alone…”

“But just half a second later, she appeared again, carrying the unconscious you on her back..."

The Fairy Queen looked at Mu You and said with a strange expression: "At that time, you had lost all your memories in too long a time. You had forgotten who we were, and you had even forgotten who you were. Your eyes were so vicissitudes of life that you looked like a Living dead... But under such circumstances, your consciousness has not yet sunk, and you still maintain a vague sense of vitality..."

  The Fairy Queen looked at Mu You again with that disbelieving look: "I can't imagine that in 3 billion years, even a stone should have weathered into ashes long ago, and you can still..."

 “Where is that girl?” Mu You had no time to listen to her exclamations and asked about Lin Xue’s situation.

"After that, the girl put the archiver in your hand and activated it for you...and then she disappeared." The Fairy Queen said.

"Disappeared?" Mu You was surprised: "You mean she...is dead?"

“I don’t know if he is dead or not. In short, he disappeared suddenly like a soap bubble... But everyone said that he was a person from another world line and has nothing to do with us.”

"How could it not matter..." Mu You frowned.

 ‘Another world’, if it really exists, Lin Xue from that world came here specifically to rescue him. Obviously he knows who he is and what happened to him...

 The most important thing is: where is their own Lin Xue? Are you following...

"Don't worry... Xiaoxue, you're still alive." Vivian suddenly said.

 “How do you know?” Mu You asked hurriedly.

After a short rest, Vivian regained some strength and could speak normally: "Because, before Xiaoxue left, she gave me a 'reassuring' look, which meant that I shouldn't worry... This look made me sure, She is actually our Xiaoxue, but for some unknown reason, she lived in another world..."

"Anyway, you should go back and take a look first... If your expectations are good, she should be at your home now..." Vivian said.

"good."

Mu You actually didn’t quite understand it, but he didn’t have time to think too much at this time. He picked up Vivian and ran towards the exit.

But just after running a few steps, I remembered something, turned around, and looked at the Fairy Queen who was busy in front of the square.

"Sorry, we...have to go back first..." Mu You was a little embarrassed.

 The current damage to the Heart of Time was obviously more serious than before he entered. It was only thanks to the efforts of the Fairy Queen that it did not collapse.

At this time, they achieved their goal, but left a big mess here. It was really inappropriate to run away without helping others clean it up first.

 But he was really worried about Lin Xue's situation and wanted to run home immediately.

“Oh, forget it, you are just an eyesore if you stay, and it’s not as efficient as me working alone... Let’s go, let’s go...” The Fairy Queen muttered a few times, shook her hand in disgust, and drove the two of them away.

"Thanks…"

Mu You thanked her sincerely, jumped out of the cube with Vivian in his arms, and headed straight to the outside of the City of Time.

The Fairy Queen's cry came from far behind: "When you go back, remember to consolidate your power of time..." (End of this chapter)