This Text Adventure Game is Absolutely Toxic

Chapter 728: Fraudulent World

 The God of Chaos looked at Mu You with a fanatical smile on his face.

 “I immediately detected the future of you fools.”

“You fools are the product of the confrontation between the wills of the two worlds. In order to fight against the divine system, the will of the original world will promote the birth of a heavenly being in the future.”

“And I don’t need to change this fact. I just need to go with the flow and interfere a little at some key nodes to make the type of Heavenly Dao of this Heavenly Dao go in the direction that meets my expectations...”

Mu You stared at the God of Chaos and narrowed his eyes: "In other words, you have already planned all this since the time of the first generation of Fools?"

The God of Chaos smiled: "Otherwise, why do you think those first-generation fools were able to escape back to the lower realm smoothly? With our strength at the time, it would be easy to kill them all in the sky."

"In the thousands of years since then, day after day, I have carefully deduced and influenced the future... Finally one day, I successfully deduced your existence and directed your power to the route I wanted..."

At this time, Mu You had a deeper understanding of what the God of Order said at the time, "His appearance is the result of many people's planning."

The ‘many people’ here are not only the Ancestor of Fool, the God of Order, but also the two world wills.

 Including the enemy in front of him, the God-Eating Beast.

 Every person, or each camp, has their own different purposes. In the end, the current situation was created due to the struggle and pull of various forces.

The God of Chaos was still showing off and continued his explanation: "This space is a place I created specifically for this battle a thousand years ago. There is no interference from outsiders here, only you and me, and you control the past. , I control the future, we have enough time, I can spend it with you for hundreds of years, thousands of years, or even tens of thousands of years?"

“You will never be able to kill me, and I will never be able to do anything to you. If our struggle continues, there can only be one outcome from the beginning: fusion into one…”

“Do you know now why the future we both see ends on this day?”

The God of Chaos looked at Mu You with a leisurely expression: "Because from today on, I will abandon my original body and replace you to become a brand new life form."

 “Until the integration is complete, you and I will have no future.”

 …

Mu You did not answer, and flashed past again, slashing out with a knife, easily killing the God of Chaos in front of him, and then turned back to look at the newly appeared God of Chaos behind him.

 “I know you want to parasitize me, but how do you do it?”

The Chixiao Armor on his body is an artifact made by a mechanic who spent his entire life to fight against parasites.

If the opponent wants to parasitize him, they can only destroy the armor first, and then they must capture him at close range first, but is this possible?

The current difference in strength and speed between the two sides meant that the opponent would be beaten in close combat. If Mu You wanted to escape, the opponent would not even be able to touch the corners of his clothes.

"Yes, now I no longer have the ability to capture you alone." The God of Chaos admitted this frankly, but then added the second half of the sentence.

“Unless the parasitic seeds have been planted in your body in advance.”

 “What?” Mu You was startled.

 The word ‘seed’ made him realize something instantly.

In his mind, there were three villains representing divine authority. The seeds of chaos among them suddenly showed some abnormality at this moment, and a ball of black energy emerged from the seeds.

Could it be that…

Mu You's eyelids twitched. He always thought that the will in the seed of chaos had been eliminated long ago, but he didn't expect that there was still a trace left.

The separation of the three divine powers is a very delicate balance. The seeds of chaos have always been suppressed by the seeds of order. At this moment, with the riot of chaos, the seeds of order also responded quickly and immediately released their power to suppress it.

But no matter how quickly, the balance of heaven and earth in his body was eventually fluctuated, causing Mu You's consciousness to be in a trance for a moment, even if the fluctuation was suppressed in less than half a second.

 But in this top-level battle, half a second of lag is enough to end everything.

When Mu You came back from his trance, the God of Chaos had appeared in front of him, strangled his neck with one hand, and even the chaotic energy had covered his body surface.

 At the same time, a stronger force of heaven suppressed him, making him unable to move for a moment.

Mu You subconsciously started looking back.

 Keep looking back, trying to revise this past.

“No need to try, you can keep going back to the past, and I can keep correcting the future.”

"At least the current situation, the future is greater than the past. No matter how you change the past, the future has been determined by me at the moment of your negligence." The voice of the God of Chaos sounded.

 Mu You knew that the other party was not being alarmist. He had just backtracked more than 3,600 times. He had tried all possibilities, but found that it was useless.

It is indeed as the other party said, at the moment of his negligence, the future of this node has been locked.

The next second, Mu You felt something cold and invisible, penetrating the armor, passing through his throat, and invading his body.

 “Capture completed…fusion started…”

With the last words, the voice of the God of Chaos stopped abruptly.

Mu You and the God of Chaos were frozen in place at the same time, their eyes dull.

 The difference is that Mu You's power of order began to slowly increase, while the vitality of the God of Chaos opposite him was rapidly fading.

 …

 The parasitism of the God-Eating Beast is a very long process. Depending on the physique of different organisms, the time required fluctuates in the range of 1-220 hours.

 Integrating the body is only the foundation, what is more important is the integration of memory and personality.

 An orange jellyfish body appeared in Muyou's sea of ​​consciousness and began to search and organize the memories and experiences of his life.

 In the depths of its memory, it relied on the ability of the parasitic beast to see Mu You's complete life timeline.

  But on this timeline that should normally be straight, there are countless bad points.

 Some form a dense closed ring at a certain point, some have an abrupt fold, and some areas directly have small-scale line segment breaks.

Jellyfish Body naturally knows that these are time abilities that Mu You has used before.

Those closed circles on the timeline, each ring represents a time retracement. The 'fold' means that time is still, and the 'break' means that part of one's time is deleted.

Now, it needs to sort out all the bad points and knots in these timelines during the integration process, and follow Mu You's life from beginning to end until it fully understands everything he has experienced before it can complete the parasitism.

This process will be a huge challenge for ordinary parasitic beasts, but for the God of Chaos, who also deals with the ability of time all the year round, he enjoys it.

 The God of Chaos took his time and sorted out his memories bit by bit according to the chronological order of Mu You's life...

 Until a bad point…

“Oh? There’s another section here…I almost missed it…”

 The God of Chaos accompanied Mu You's life, and he read it in one breath from the age of 0 to the age of 27, and it was a smooth journey.

 Until the timeline advances to the scene where Mu You enters the Ring Forest and jumps into the Moon Lake in the deepest part of the Ring Forest.

At that time, Mu You stayed in the Moon Lake for a day and a night. He should have no memory of this period, because he was dismembered into dust and died from the moment he jumped into the Moon Lake, and was not reassembled and resurrected until he left the Moon Lake.

 But the God of Chaos carefully discovered that in the time blank of this day and night, there was a slight fluctuation at a certain point.

If the God of Chaos hadn't been sharp enough, he might have simply missed the past, eventually leading to the failure of the fusion.

"Interesting, let me see what you are hiding here..." The God of Chaos instinctively dug in and unlocked this memory that had been dusted by external forces.

It was at the bottom of a cold and dark lake. It stood drowsily on a stone statue with a human head, and a voice below slowly narrated. “…This is a secret that can never be known to the outside world, and it can only be found in the core of the Ring Forest, a place where divinity cannot reach…”

“…The ‘truth’ that can be conveyed to you can only be conveyed to you when all foreign matter has been eliminated, and even you and I have completely destroyed our physical bodies, leaving only a group of consciousness that can be honest and honest with each other..."

“And after leaving Moon Lake, you will forget everything here...until the right time in the future, you can recall it again..."

 …

 The God of Chaos didn't pay too much attention to it at first, but as the conversation progressed, a chilling feeling on the back arose from his body.

 The God of Chaos was shaken. In this short time gap, it heard a terrifying conversation, a... misleading plan for the divine world...

 Before it could fully see this part of the memory, the time of consciousness suddenly jumped.

 When the jellyfish opened its eyes again, it found itself in a stagnant world.

That was a shop, the place most familiar to Mu You—the pet shop where he grew up.

"What happened?" The jellyfish body was a little confused. It knew that this should be a memory that had not yet been sorted out, but it just didn't quite understand why it suddenly jumped here.

 In the scene, Mu You walked to the study room on the second floor.

The sun was shining brightly in the study room. Lin Xue was sitting on the lounge chair in front of the window sill, basking in the sunshine, curling up her legs, leaning lazily on the back of the chair and falling into a light sleep.

 In the entire realm of tranquility, they are the only two people who remain active.

From the perspective of a bystander, Jellyfish saw Mu You walking towards the sleeping Lin Xue. Looking at the sleeping face of the person he loved deeply, he sighed softly and slowly raised his right palm.

Lin Xue, who was sleeping, woke up at this moment. When she saw Mu You's actions, she suddenly panicked and grabbed his hand: "No, you can't do this... I can still persist... I promised that I will accompany you. over…"

Mu You smiled and said, "It's time for you to leave..."

 “And, I believe more than anyone else that you will come back here to find me...”

"No, don't..." Lin Xue stretched out her hand, trying to refuse in panic.

Mu You had already slapped it on Lin Xue's body.

Just like when he was in the ring forest, he took out the butterflies from the parasites one by one with one palm. At this moment, something invisible was shot out of Lin Xue's body.

Lin Xue immediately continued to reach out and fell into petrification. Like other creatures sealed in the stop world, he exited the stop world and turned into a humanoid shell.

 The area became quiet. Mu You carefully placed Lin Xue's statue in the corner, then turned around and looked at the jellyfish floating behind him.

 “Then now, it’s time to solve our problem…”

 “Where is this place?” Jellyfish asked with a frown.

 “This is the time cage.”

Jellyfish immediately realized that this was Mu You’s memory of being in the Heart of Time... The God of Chaos had also entered the Heart of Time, and he was no stranger to the rules here.

"What did the conversation just now mean?" What the God of Chaos was more concerned about at the moment was the horrifying message he just heard.

"It literally means, this is a game, everything is to lead you here, into this cage specially built for you..."

 “Made just for me?”

“You think you are standing in the atmosphere, but in fact, you are just a chess piece. All the actions you seem to be planning in secret are actually just choices made under the subtle guidance of the environment..."

Mu You is still in a parasitic state at this moment, and the jellyfish is eroding his will and memory bit by bit, but he is not afraid at all, and even turns his back on the guests.

　　It is as if this is his realm, and the God of Chaos is not actively invading him, but is just invited in as a guest.

"You already knew those truths?" Through the erosion of consciousness, Jellyfish quickly understood the cause and effect, and guessed what would happen, and glared at Mu You with resentment.

"I know, but I forgot. It's thanks to you that I was reminded of this very important memory..." Mu You breathed out.

At this moment, he has completely remembered the information the mechanic told him under the moon lake.

At that time, the mechanic was already like a prophet, telling him all the future directions, including that he would fight the God of Chaos in the future, and that he would be defeated by the God of Chaos and parasitized on the spot.

 But parasitism is the real beginning of their plan, because they have already dug a pit and prepared a cage in Mu You's memory, just waiting for the mother body of the God-Eating Beast to jump in.

But this plan is a secret move, a hidden fraud that cannot be known by anyone. The 'anyone' here includes even Muyou himself, because the target of their fraud is not an individual, but the entire divinity. In the world, any clues exposed will make this plan fail.

The reason why the future they observed ends at today is not because they will complete the parasitic handover on this day, but because on this day they will return to the time cage and complete a larger time closed loop. Before the closed loop is completed, , the future of this world line will be unobservable, and it can even be said to cease to exist.

"You want to use this place to trap me to death? It's a pity that simple time cannot kill people." The jellyfish body said with sinister eyes.

 “You are wrong, time can kill, time can even erase everything, as long as the time is long enough...”

Mu You now finally understands why he stayed in the time cage for a month in the first place.

It's not because he can't get out, but because he actively chose to stay. After spending two thousand years in the time cage, from the moment Lin Xue was sent away by him, this place was no longer just a cage, but also a place for him. and the battlefield of the God of Chaos.

"Our battle will indeed last for a long time, but it will not be hundreds of years, not thousands of years, nor tens of thousands of years, but - 3 billion years." Mu You looked at the jellyfish body calmly.

Vivian is right, a person cannot stay in the cage of time.

Lin Xue, Vivian, the Fairy Queen, including himself, all thought at that time that he had walked through the remaining 3 billion years alone.

It was only now that he realized that he was not the only one imprisoned in the cage of time. It was precisely because he was always accompanied by someone that Mu You was able to survive for such a long time.

But even so, three billion years have passed, and his soul, memory, and will have all been wiped out, leaving only an empty shell without a soul. If it weren't for the archive device, he would have been a dead person at that time.

And he can't hold it, can the enemy hold it?

 Still the same sentence: Time can kill everything, as long as it lasts long enough...

 3 billion years…

Hearing this number, the jellyfish body couldn't help but take a breath and glared at Mu You bitterly: "Do you want to die with me?"

Even if it has not experienced it personally, it can probably imagine what it will look like in 3 billion years...

He couldn’t understand how Mu You could agree to this plan of ‘since I can’t kill you, I’ll use time to kill you’.

"Perish together? No, you are the only one who will die here. One day in the future, she will come back and save me." Mu Youyou.

The jellyfish body sneered: "If you have seen the future, you should know that every time you start over, a different future will be born."

"That woman has now wandered to another world line without you, and has forgotten your existence under the rules of the world. The last time she came back was because she got lucky by various coincidences. How could you Are you sure she will remember you again?"

Facing the jellyfish body's doubts, Mu You just smiled and shook his head: "Because we have made an appointment, I believe that no matter how many times we come back, she will definitely come back here to keep the appointment."

"No, she won't! You will be forgotten by her, forgotten by everyone, and eventually turn into a dust of time, floating here forever..." the jellyfish body said like a curse.

“Then, let’s wait and see.” Mu You smiled and didn’t argue much. He just turned to the jellyfish body and stretched out his hand.

“Anyway, please give me your advice in the next 3 billion years…”

"I hope you can hold on as long as possible, otherwise I will be very lonely..."

 (End of this chapter)