Interactive Fiction: The Right Choice After Unemployment

Chapter 32 New arrival
Option two is 26.3%, option three is 52.6%, and option four is 21.1%.

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【Option [-]】

[Change the storage location.Hide those cultural relics under his (Zheng Zhuo) bed]

……

"Those things are affecting you."

Zheng Zhuo said to Chu Huairen.

"Do you remember? On the first day of boarding the ship, a sailor showed symptoms of physical discomfort. And he was the sailor who helped Professor Lin Wen carry the luggage at the pier."

"..." Chu Huairen remained silent.But Zheng Zhuo knew that he was listening.

"During the docking, all the crew members and students resting on board were infected with a special skin disease. The sailor's symptoms were the most serious." Zheng Zhuo stared at the turbulent sea and said, "Only sleeping in a tent I, you, and Professor Lin Wen in the box are not infected. But the professor has also become fanatical. I suspect that the scientific research harvest in that box - including the pottery tablet that the professor has been carrying - will affect the people around it .”

"It has affected you. Give it to me and we alternate holdings."

"what?"

Chu Huairen finally moved.He looked visibly surprised.

"Then... won't it affect you?"

I was going to go to the deep sea.Zheng Zhuo thought so.

"We alternate holdings. That way, we're all less affected."

But he found a reason for now.

……

Professor Lin Wen's collection was transferred from under Chu Huairen's bed to under Zheng Zhuo's bed.For the next two nights, Zheng Zhuo did not dream of the ocean, temples and statues that Chu Huairen mentioned.He didn't know whether it was because he hadn't been in contact long enough, or because he clearly realized that he was a visitor from outside this world.

But there is no time for Zheng Zhuo to continue to verify.

Because, on the third day, a long and narrow island appeared in front of everyone.

[Beautiful Future] has arrived at the second island on the map drawn in the niche.This time the landing was more than ten times smoother than the first island.Since the tethers did not suffer much damage during that frightening night, the scientific research ship easily approached the beach and firmly fixed its huge body on the shore.

Professor Lin Wen and the students carried equipment on their backs and slowly climbed down from the boat along the fire rope ladder.The springboard had been abandoned during the murloc raids, but, luckily or unfortunately, they no longer had any large instruments that needed to be carried by the springboard.

The scenery of this second island is obviously much better than that of the first island. [Beautiful Future] is currently docked on the east side of the island. Looking east, you can see hills built from rocks.Looking to the west, the lush and dense forest is like a green belt undulating on the sea.

"It's there."

Professor Lin Wen stood on the beach, held a telescope, and looked towards the top of the hills in the east.

Zheng Zhuo looked over.On the top of the hill, he could faintly see the shape of the pile of stones became regular and orderly.

"That's an artificial trace."

the professor said with certainty.

"The map in the niche guides this island, it must be because of that."

……

Under the leadership of Professor Lin Wen, Zheng Zhuo, Chu Huairen and four other students set off.The destination, of course, was the top of that hill.

All the students stopped speaking.They followed the professor silently, their appearance was a little strange.Zheng Zhuo could only hear them scratching their necks occasionally, the rustling sound of their nails rubbing against their skin.

And this is also the only sound made by this team other than the sound of footsteps, breathing and equipment friction on the road.

"..."

When gradually moving away from the scientific research ship, Zheng Zhuo turned to look at [Beautiful Future].

The long-lost dock.However, no crew members disembarked.Zheng Zhuo saw from a distance that the captain, first mate, sailors...all stood in a row on the deck, quietly watching the direction in which the scientific research team left.

Chu Huairen, who was walking behind, saw Zheng Zhuo turning his head, and subconsciously wanted to look back.

Zheng Zhuo pushed him.

"You go ahead of me."

He interrupted Chu Huairen's movements.

……

The location where the scientific research ship docked was not far away, and the beach was not difficult to walk. It only took 15 minutes for everyone to reach the hills.

The hills are not high.All the people held their equipment and walked up the slope that had been eroded by the sea wind. After a few minutes, they reached the top of the slope.

Have it.

It was Professor Lin Wen at the forefront who discovered those cultural relics first.

The top of the hill is made of rubble.However, instead of saying that they are crushed stones, Zheng Zhuo prefers to think that they are broken bricks due to weathering - because they have obvious traces of being polished.The well-preserved parts of the crushed stones are all regular squares.

All these stones form a stone platform about ten meters by ten meters.On the top of the stone platform, a semicircular stone bowl rests on a low cylindrical plinth.The stone bowl is about slightly larger than a human head, and is made of a pure black stone.

……

【Altar of ■■■】

[Date: 372 BC]

【Damage degree: 90%】

……

After coming here, the results displayed by [Appraisal] are even more strange.The ruins are completely exposed to the outside, and have been destroyed by the sea wind until only a bowl remains—however, its integrity is far better than the complex and exquisite ancestral hall on the first island.

"(Can you tell what material it is...?)"

Thinking about it, Zheng Zhuo turned on and off [Appraisal] repeatedly, constantly adjusting the accuracy range.

……

【Material: ■■■■■, Obsidian】

……

Finally, the material of the bowl is displayed.

"(Obsidian. Obsidian... ah...)"

Obsidian processed in 372 BC.This thing is getting more and more exaggerated.

Zheng Zhuo looked at the people around him again.Chu Huairen, who had been anxious these days, was still standing aside, and each of the other students took out tools such as cameras, brushes, rubbing paper, and plaster, and began to follow Professor Lin Wen's instructions for surveying.

Zheng Zhuo walked over slowly.

He turned around the stone platform a few times.The ancestral hall on the first island has complex structures and interior surfaces, but here there is nothing but stone platforms and bowls.

Inadvertently, Zheng Zhuo glanced at the jungle on the island from the corner of his eye.

"...!"

A picture suddenly flashed in his mind.

The island is a long and narrow island, half of which is a beach. It goes deep into the dense forest behind the beach and brushes over the wreckage of a crashed propeller plane...

That's what he saw as he followed the cards.

Small islands, beaches, dense forests.Everywhere fits here.

However, what the card passes by is not the stone platform and the stone bowl, but the wreckage of the plane that crashed deep in the dense forest.

"(Where is the key?)"

Zheng Zhuo started to walk back.He returned to the front of the stone platform—Professor Lin Wen was still standing here.

"Professor. I want to go to the jungle."

he said to the professor.

"I think there may be other relics in there."

"Oh, okay." The professor quickly recorded the discovery on the paper, and said without raising his head, "Don't go too deep, keep in touch, and stay safe."

Zheng Zhuo nodded.

At this time, he saw Chu Huairen again.

Chu Huairen recovered a little.Now, I am looking at the stone bowl.

So……

Zheng Zhuo thought, it's time for him to go to the jungle.

But, do you want to go alone?

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【problem】

[There may be clues in the jungle!How to explore? 】

【Option [-]】

【Explore alone】

【Option [-]】

[Take Chu Huairen to explore together]

【Option [-]】

[Take Shen, who has the [climbing] skill, to explore together]

【Option [-]】

[Bring Xue Ying who holds [Radio Technology] to explore together]

【Option [-]】

[Bring all the above three people together to explore]

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