This Text Adventure Game is Absolutely Toxic

  Chapter 436 The Truth About the Game of "The Fool"

  After receiving the news from Muyou, Fuya, who was out shopping with Xiaoya, hurried back to the pet shop.

   "You said my ancestor has come? Where is it?" Fu Ya rushed into the store like a wind, and hurriedly asked Mu You who was waiting for her at the front desk.

   Mu You looked up and saw that Fuya was wearing a cool summer dress, and she should have done her hair halfway outside, with a colorful curler on her head.

   It's hard to imagine that a week ago, she was a disgraced young lady from another world, but now she seems to have fully integrated into urban life.

   "This way."

   Mu You led her into the living room, and led her to the old man who just entered the door.

   "She is the descendant of the Chris family you are looking for." Mu You introduced to the old man sitting at the dining table.

   Then he looked back at Fuya: "Here, your ancestor."

   "First, ancestors..."

   Fuya stared blankly at the gray-haired old man in front of her, feeling a little at a loss for a while.

   This was completely beyond her expectations. Fuya originally thought that an ancestor from a magical family would be able to thrive in this world without magic. Not to mention rich and powerful, at least he should have a prosperous life, and even established a new society here. Families, full of children and grandchildren are all possible.

   As a result, I didn't expect the so-called ancestor to be so old...and simple, this outfit looks like a lonely old man who just walked out of a poor mountainous area.

  The old man was also looking up at Fuya at this moment, nodded after a few glances, and said with a smile, "It's indeed my child from Chris's family, that's right..."

   "Son, how is the Chris family now? What generation are you from? Who is your father?" The old man smiled kindly and asked Fuya.

"Ah... Chris's family has now moved to the capital of the Laner Empire. I am the seventeenth generation of the family. My father is Chris Swinburne Joseph, who is currently the Earl of the Laner Empire..." Fu Ya hastily introduced the situation at home quickly.

   "It's been seventeen generations..."

  The old man was quite emotional when he mentioned the family.

   After a while, the old man raised his head again, looked at Fuya and said with a smile, "Based on this, you should be my great-granddaughter."

   "Ah... then you are, my... grandma?" Fuya asked with some uncertainty.

  "Good boy." The old man smiled and nodded, looking at Fuya with kindness: "Unfortunately, I haven't saved any assets in the Forgotten Land, I'm afraid I can't help you much..."

   As the old man said, he reached into the package with a trembling hand. After groping for a while, he found a handful of crumpled banknotes, ranging from one hundred yuan, fifty, twenty or even a few yuan.

  The old man grabbed a handful of banknotes and stuffed them into the dazed Fuya's hand: "Son, take these and use them first..."

  Fuya stared blankly at the scattered coins in her hand, but suddenly felt her nose sore, and her eye sockets became moist.

  She never imagined that her ancestors would have such a miserable life on Earth. Judging from the behavior of the old man, the money is probably all of her wealth...

Looking at the old and skinny appearance of the old man, there is obviously no one to take care of him at ordinary times. I am afraid that he lives a poor life without eating the last meal every day, but she activates the jade just because of curiosity, causing the old man to die thousands of miles away. Running into the city with luggage, just to give her money...

   "What's the matter, child, is it not enough? Don't be afraid, there are still..."

  The old man saw Fuya clutching the money with red eyes, and hurriedly opened the package again, revealing the bottles and jars inside.

"These are magic props that I brought from the Star Spirit Realm when I came here. Although the magic power inside is almost exhausted because of the long time, it might as well be worth a lot at the beginning, but it's still better to use it as an antique and find someone to exchange for some money. OK…"

"ah…"

  Fuya was taken aback when she saw the full bottles and cans in her bag.

She still has basic eyesight. Most of these bottles and jars are magical decorations of ancient nobles. , It’s not a problem to take it out for auction for seven figures!

   "Grandma, you have these things, why don't you sell them yourself?" Fuya asked strangely, selling these things would definitely be enough for her to live a fairly affluent life here.

After hearing this, the old man shook his head with a wry smile and said, "Silly boy, I hid here because I was tired of disputes. These things can be sold for money, but they will also expose my identity and make me get involved in those messy things again. Therefore, it is too late for me to hide these things. After I came to the Forgotten Land thousands of years ago, the first thing I did was to bury all these things in the ground. If not for this time, my descendants If it is difficult to find me, I will not dig them out again..."

   Fuya felt even more guilty after hearing this.

   "I'm sorry, grandma, I didn't activate the jade because I was desperate, but I just wanted to see my ancestors, so..." Fuya lowered her head and blushed.

  She is more than desperate, Muyou lent her money, and Xiaoya and others took care of her, and helped her take care of everything. She is really enjoying her life here!

   As a result, when she was here with rich clothes and fine food, and she couldn't think of going anywhere, somewhere thousands of miles away, her ancestors were lonely in the mountains, living a life of gnawing wild vegetables and eating soil every day. Thinking about it made her extremely sad.

   "Oh? Is that so..." The old man glanced at Fuya in surprise, and then at Mu You beside him. He understood something, but heaved a sigh of relief.

   "I'm sorry, because of my willfulness, I made you come all the way here..." Fuya said guiltily.

"Hehe, silly boy, as long as you live as you wish, it's nothing if I walk around. Besides, if I don't move my old arms and legs, I'm afraid I'm going to rot in the ground..." The old man laughed and shook his head, then looked at Mu Mu again. You, said with a smile: "Besides, when I came out this time, I also met an 'administrator'. It's not a bad trip, so you don't have to worry about it."

   "Administrator?" Fuya was at a loss.

   "Cough... old man, I have some questions to ask, isn't it convenient?" Mu You stood aside, watching the two of them reminiscing about the past, and then had time to interject.

  He has too many questions about the astral world and the world of giants. Now that he has finally met a friendly old fool, he has to ask them carefully.

"Young man, I probably know what you want to ask. Unfortunately, I didn't go to Gaotian with Sky City, so I don't know much." The old man looked at Mu You kindly, and smiled: "You ask Well, I can only answer you as best I can."

"good."

   Mu You nodded, and he was not polite, and immediately asked the question he wanted to know the most: "What happened to the small calamity in the astral world? What did the fools encounter in the high sky?"

  The old man glanced at Mu You unexpectedly: "You can ask about the minor calamity record, which means you already know a lot. Have you heard of the 'Great Disaster Record'?"

  Mu You nodded.

   "That's easy."

Only then did the old man continue: "The fundamental purpose of the fools who tried their best to create the Sky City to go to Gaotian was to prevent the next catastrophe, because after the large-scale damage to the wall of the Forgotten Land, it no longer has the ability to protect the living beings through the catastrophe. Disaster Ji's ability. It's a pity that after they landed in Gaotian, they encountered a large number of 'giants' blocking them, almost killing the Fools who landed in Gaotian at that time, so they had to retreat to the Star Spirit Realm..."

   "At the same time as the fools returned, some giants also followed Sky City and descended on the Astral Realm, causing a terrible disaster in the Astral Realm. This is the origin of the Little Calamity Chronicle."

   "Giant... mean, the Protoss?" Mu You was a little strange. In the diary of the founder of Shadow Ghost, it was said that the Protoss had become extinct, and the lamp **** also mentioned that the Protoss had been extinct.

  But he met living giants in the giant world, and now the old man said that the former fools also encountered a "large number" of giants in the high sky...

   Mu You was a little confused, so did the Protoss die out?

   "It's a protoss, but it's not."

   "Huh?" Mu You was taken aback.

  The old man shook his head and explained: "These giants have the body of the Protoss, but they have changed into something else inside, so they can no longer be called the Protoss."

   "The inside has become something else... you mean, parasitic?" Mu You was surprised.

"You can say that."

The old man nodded with emotion: "I have heard those fools who came back from the high heavens describe that after the giants they hunted were cut open, their brains were filled with a kind of cotton-like stuff, which can be counted as An unknown creature, it is this kind of thing that controls the thoughts and actions of the giants, even the top gods are hard to escape.

Moreover, this kind of thing has extremely strong reproductive ability and concealment. After entering the body of a giant, a new one can be copied within a few days, and then occupy other giants, and the whole process is silent, almost There is no way to detect and prevent it in advance..."

   "The fools gave this cotton-like thing a name, 'God Devouring Beast'. The former protoss were constantly eaten away by this kind of thing until they became extinct..."

   "God Devourer..."

   Mu You frowned. According to the description, this thing is almost a creature specially designed to restrain the Protoss. One pass two, two pass four...exponential growth, and the key point is that there is no way to stop it.

  The zombies in the movie can still be seen as abnormal at a glance. After this thing was parasitized for the first time, there was no sign, and it was completely defenseless. No wonder the gods would be driven to extermination by this thing.

   "But why does this kind of thing scare the fools so much?" Mu You asked again. If this thing is only aimed at the protoss, it seems that the fools don't need to worry too much.

unless…

"Because this kind of creature also has the ability to parasitize fools. To be precise, all humanoid intelligent creatures with divinity are within their parasitic range. Therefore, all fools who have reached the sky, in their eyes, They are just walking prey one by one," said the old man.

   Sure enough!

  Mu You was surprised, fools can also be parasitized, which means that fools can also be overcome by this thing!

  Think about the fate of the Protoss, and you will know the situation of those fools who went to the sky...

   "I should be thankful that I didn't go to Gaotian with Sky City at that time, otherwise, I'm afraid I would be as miserable as those who escaped by chance."

The old man sighed and shook his head and said: "Because of the silent contagion, fools had to carry out internal cleaning in order to protect themselves. In fact, it is killing each other and killing all possible parasites, so there is no need for giants at all. Do it, the fool himself is already in chaos."

"But even so, it was difficult to clean it up. When Sky City returned to the Protoss Realm, almost all of its staff were infected. Fortunately, the God-devouring Beast did not parasitize the fools as thoroughly as the Protoss, and later a fool Found a way to clean out the beasts in the body, and only a very small number of people survived."

"However, even the person who survived by this method has already been drained by the God-devouring Beast. That person will lose the ability to release magic, and lose most of his strength. Skinny and dwarf-like, some survivors can only survive by planting themselves in flowerpots to simulate the absorption of nutrients by plants, becoming neither human nor ghost."

   Mu You heaved a sigh of relief after hearing this, and sighed for those adventurous fools.

If it is said that because of their selfishness, they attracted the God-eating Beast and triggered the Minor Calamity, that is not true. After all, their original intention was to solve the problem of the Great Calamity and let everyone survive in the future. cause such a disaster.

   "The existence of this kind of thing is also the reason why the "Fool" game will appear." At this time, the old man suddenly said again.

   "Oh?" Mu You was taken aback for a moment, and when the game of fools was mentioned at this time, it immediately reminded him of something.

   You must know that he encountered a living giant in the game before, and was trampled to death, but he was not parasitized afterwards...

   "Could it be that through the game of fools, we can avoid being parasitized by the beast?" Mu You asked.

   "Yes." The old man nodded and said with a smile: "What the fools manipulate through the game is just a manifested avatar of each person, not a real entity, so naturally there is no possibility of being possessed by the God-devouring Beast."

"This is also the method that the fools of the previous generations came up with after learning a lot of wisdom: since the fools can't go to the world of the gods in person, then use the method of mental avatar projection to let the fools indirectly move safely in that world, so as to continue to find The way to solve the catastrophe is also the only way to deal with the devouring beast. So, after thousands of years of preparation, this "The Fool" game came into being."

   "Unexpectedly, it is like this..."

  Mu You's expression was weird. In this way, everything makes sense.

  This is the real "main line" of Game of Fools: to allow players to enter the Protoss world to prevent the catastrophe and save themselves while ensuring their own safety.

"Later, I came to the Forgotten Land. I was appointed as an 'Observer of the Forgotten Land' by several administrators who made this game. I obtained some permissions. The task was to report to them regularly about the Forgotten Land." said the old man.

   "The other administrators are also on Earth now?" Mu You asked hurriedly.

"No, they are all in the astral world. I don't know where they are hiding. After I stepped down as an observer a few years ago, I haven't contacted them again." The old man shook his head, and then remembered something. Xiang Muyou.

   "Speaking of which, I am really lucky to meet you today. I just got a message recently and I need someone to help me pass it on to other administrators."

   "Oh? What message?" Mu You asked.

   "Tell them that the Forgotten Land is going to change ahead of time, let them prepare as soon as possible!"

   "Uh... what do you mean?" Mu You was taken aback.

   "It literally means, if you help me send them a letter, they will naturally understand." The old man smiled

   "Okay... But, how to send a message?" Mu You spread his hands: "I don't seem to be able to communicate directly with other administrators."

   "That's easy..." The old man smiled and waved to Mu You. When Mu You approached, she tremblingly stretched out her fingers and tapped on Mu You's forehead.

  Mu You suddenly felt that a misty thing was injected into his mind, and it seemed that it should be the sentence just now.

   "Go find them, and the information will naturally be received by them." The old man said.

  …

  After the old man left a message, he prepared to leave.

   Both Mu You and Fu Ya tried their best to invite her to live in the city for a period of time, or to move here at all, but unfortunately, the old man seemed to resist the life in the city and insisted on going back, so the two had to give up.

   "Grandma, I will see you off!"

  Fuya personally escorted the old man home, and bought a lot of daily necessities before leaving.

  It's fine if she didn't know before, but now that she knows the situation of her ancestors, how can she continue to live in such a helpless way, and she must improve her life as much as possible within the scope of her ability.

   After seeing the two of them leave, Mu You also returned to the study, closed his eyes and entered a state of meditation, opened his mind, and then connected his thoughts to the giant light ball according to the method last time.

   There are still many causal lines winding on the light sphere. After recent exploration, Mu You has figured out that the ends of those red and blue lines actually correspond to smoke beasts.

  Mu You ignored the other causal lines, directly found the green line from last time, and traced the source all the way.

  …

   At the same time, on the other side, somewhere in a dark and dark mysterious space.

  In a dark corner, a pair of eyes suddenly opened: "Not good!"

   "What's wrong?" Another voice next to him asked.

   "I received a message from Franny, she said that the Forgotten Land will change ahead of schedule!"

"What?"

  One stone stirred up thousands of waves, and several voices at the scene shouted in unison.

   "How could this be? Isn't it going to be 'changing' for a few years?"

   "I don't know either, maybe there are too many registered people in "The Fool", and too many players flooded into the star spirit world, which caused some spatial changes..."

   "I said earlier that the public beta should not be so early, at least it should settle for two or three years before it stabilizes..."

   "Okay, what's the point of saying this now? If you really wait for two or three years, maybe new problems will come up.

   "Now that I think about it, it's really a blessing. Server No. 2 was hacked in advance, urging us to speed up the process of some belief systems, otherwise we would be really dumbfounded now..."

   "But, do you really want to put it directly? It's still a semi-finished product..."

   "Otherwise, do you want to watch a small calamity break out in the Forgotten Land?"

   "Even if it is a semi-finished product, it must be thrown out directly!"

  (end of this chapter)