This Text Adventure Game is definitely poisonous-Chapter 1228 - 549: Blind Men Touching an Elephant_2

At that moment, Mu You had no regard for anyone else and dove down alone.

More than ten minutes later, Mu You was the first to reach the lake bottom.

[Rocks at the bottom of the lake were overgrown with grass and trees, and many more colorful and strange plants thrived...]

[You immediately saw it at the central position of the lake bed, that perfectly round aperture devoid of any light, the "Dark Vortex"...]

[You accelerated your dive and quickly swam to the area above the Dark Vortex.]

[Looking down, you saw an abyss as black as ink, fathomlessly deep, with dark currents swirling around, resembling the monstrous gaping maw of a beast choosing its prey.]

[Crossing through the Dark Vortex, you would be instantly transported to another vortex far away in the horizon, greeting you would be a whole new space, but with it, unknown risks too. Do you step into it?] freewēbnoveℓ.com

"Yes."

[Ignoring the risks, you continued to dive and plunged headfirst into the vortex.]

[Just before darkness engulfed your vision, you faintly heard the familiar roar of the Octopus Monster from the water’s surface above...]

[Darkness completely took over your sight...]

[Accompanied by a moment of intense disorientation, once your vision cleared, you found yourself in another body of water, the icy chill instantly dissipated, replaced by a warm current...]

[Not long after you emerged, successive silhouettes sprung out from the Dark Vortex behind you, spinning into the water...]

"Darn it, I actually survived! That octopus was way too fierce!" In the group chat, Baron from Hell commented, seemingly still shocked.

"What happened just now?" Mu You asked.

"Just now, that octopus came back, crazed, hunting us down, a single slap could kill a swath of people. My group fled desperately; in the end, only a few of the stronger ones survived..." Baron from Hell explained.

"My group suffered heavy casualties as well, out of more than eighty, only six survived. Had I known, I wouldn’t have brought them along from the start..." Solomon also sighed.

Mu You then received a message from Little Ya, opening it to see a crying emoji. Even she had fallen victim to the octopus’s poison. It was almost time for them to meet, the last wave had cost many lives.

"Did the octopus double back, is the Titan dead then?" Holy Light Nana suddenly asked.

"He’s dead. The octopus turned back only after biting the Titan to death... The plus side is the Titan’s body was left behind, my people are already congealing the remains of the Titan." Son of Heaven left a message with a brief explanation.

Everyone breathed a sigh of relief. With this, their deaths weren’t in vain, at least the scheme to use others to kill had succeeded, and they had luckily retrieved a complete Titan’s corpse.

"Everyone give a headcount, see how many are left," Mu You said.

"I’ve got seven here!"

"I have nine."

"Only three left for me..."

...

Everyone reported the casualties of their respective teams.

After a final tally, out of the more than nine hundred who dived, a mere thirty-two survived, an incredibly grim survival rate.

"As usual, let’s explore separately and share information constantly. Also, prioritize pioneering and try to avoid unnecessary risks," Mu You typed out.

A hard-fought opportunity for pioneering left them with just a few people, each one precious, they certainly had to be cautious—first, to fully understand the situation here before anything else.

"OK!"

"Understood."

...

The participants acknowledged and began leading their own people, dispersing in all directions.

Mu You also commenced his exploration in earnest.

[You dove smoothly, quickly surfacing...]

[The area of water you found yourself in was remarkably calm, and you easily swam to the shore, climbing out.]

[The sight that met you was a field of lush green grass, looking up, the sparse fog churned from time to time, as if you had entered a fairyland. Your gaze reached several hundred meters away to where pavilions, towers, and residential buildings were faintly discernible in the mist...]

"Pavilions and towers?"

Mu You was taken aback.

"Eh? The visibility here is impressively high!" In the group chat, someone had already exclaimed with amazement.

Others also noticed this. At the exit, visibility in the fog was only a few dozen meters, but here it effortlessly exceeded several hundred meters!

However, more than the visibility, it was the scene they beheld that concerned everyone.

"It’s strange. Why does my prompt say I’m seeing ’buildings’, and they appear to be floating on the sea too..."

"Me too. Is this an underwater city? Like Venice or something?"

"Even if it’s a city, it must be abandoned. Anyway, there’s been no indication of any Titans thus far..."

"Not sure, but this place seems safe for now, let’s just wander around a bit..."

...

While conversing, everyone continued their exploration.

Mu You also took out his Fog-breaking Mirror, ready to scope out his surroundings through the mist.

But as soon as he tried to use it, a prompt popped up.

[You took out the Fog-breaking Mirror, only to find the surface of the tube smeared with a green moss-like substance, slick and sticky, spreading rapidly...]

[You attempted to activate the Fog-breaking Mirror... Activation failed. The Fog-breaking Mirror has been tainted by a special substance and is temporarily out of use.]

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Mu You frowned and checked his other items.

[Equipment failure, Demon Breaker Hand Cannon has been clogged and rendered unusable due to a special substance...]

[...The small shield has been contaminated with a special substance, temporarily ineffective...]

The result was the same for all, each displaying a prompt indicating ’contaminated with a special substance’.