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Chapter 1033 - 480: The Indescribable Thing_2

Chapter 1033: Chapter 480: The Indescribable Thing_2

[You returned a lost dung ball to a Gold Armour Mantis. After giving you a cold stare, the Gold Armour Mantis pushed the dung ball away. Your goodwill points increased by 1...]

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Throughout his journey, Mu You gradually realized that triggering the values of good and evil was not so easy.

Goodwill points aside—if he helped those small creatures, he essentially gave up the Divinity he could have gained by hunting them, essentially trading Divinity for goodwill points.

Mu You initially thought that killing neutral creatures would allow him to kill two birds with one stone, harvesting Divinity and earning evil points. However, after trying it out, he discovered that wasn’t the case. Killing neutral creatures didn’t count as an evil act but was considered normal hunting and survival...

Real evil acts were often thankless tasks, such as destroying the pheromones ants use to find their way home, causing them to circle in place just for fun, or stealing and then destroying other creatures’ belongings, watching them panic. If he stole for his own use or to sell or gift to others, it would still be considered obtaining necessities for survival and wouldn’t increase his evil points.

In short, both aspects seem to have quite strict judgments, leaving no loophole for achieving two aims with one action.

After trying a few things, Mu You was relatively inclined to do good deeds; since both paths were thankless, at least doing good deeds didn’t psychologically burden him, and it made him feel better.

In the next three hours, Mu You spent his time exploring and accumulating goodwill points.

Unfortunately, even after accumulating over ten points, no rewards appeared.

Instead, tsunamis came three more times.

Each time, Mu You followed the same strategy, using an unlucky Sliding Shell Beetle as a decoy, and survived all three tsunamis smoothly.

However, he had also noticed that as he progressed, the tsunamis became significantly more powerful. This became apparent from the increasing amount of HP he lost under the cover of the Sliding Shell Beetle each time.

Especially during the last tsunami, when he was left with only two HP, he almost died on the spot.

At this rate, he was certain to die in the next tsunami!

There was no helping it, his current attributes were too low, affecting even the upper limit of his HP bar.

Fortunately, this phenomenon also indicated that he was getting closer to the origins of the tsunamis.

"In the next hour, I must find a clue!"

After the tsunami, Mu You found a monster and used the Song of Peace to heal, then continued on his way hastily.

To reach the source before the next tsunami, he even gave up farming monsters and goodwill points, traveling at full speed.

However, just a few minutes after setting out, a new notification suddenly popped up.

[As you hurry along the coast, you suddenly feel a sense of discord.]

[This instinctively makes you stop and look back. The strange feeling comes from a boulder not far from you. Do you want to go and check it?]

"Yes!"

[You quickly walk over to inspect—it’s a very ordinary piece of sandstone, lying flat on the sandy ground, its surface smoothed by seawater to a mirror-like finish.]

[But through the perspective of Order, you clearly see the chaotic Order on the surface of the rock.]

[Clearly, the rock has been tampered with by someone, perhaps to hide something. Now that you possess the Power of Order, perhaps you can try to restore this disrupted Order to its original state.]

[Restore Order] [Leave for now]

"Oh?"

Mu You raised an eyebrow. An event requiring the restoration of Order was a first for him.

He grasped the Pocket Watch and tried to restore it.

[You take out the Pen of Order and begin repairing the disrupted Order ahead. The restoration is in progress, expected to finish in 30 minutes...]

"Half an hour..."

Mu You frowned slightly, feeling indecisive.

He was busy hurrying on his way. Wasting half an hour here would essentially jeopardize this exploration session, forcing him to wait another week.

But he didn’t want to pass up such a novel event...

After hesitating for a few seconds, Mu You decided to continue the restoration.

If he couldn’t find the clue, he could simply try again next week. If he missed the event, it might not be there next time.

Having made up his mind, Mu You spent the next half hour in peace, effectively "afk."

[Restoration complete!]

[As the final stroke settled, you saw a circular entrance about half a meter wide appear on the originally smooth stone surface beneath your feet, revealing an artificially carved space below! Do you want to enter immediately to investigate?]

"Yes!"

Mu You held on to his Pocket Watch, ready to face whatever was below—he was going to check it out.

[You jump fearlessly into the hole and quickly hit the ground. Looking up, the cave is much narrower than you imagined, just about the size of a room.]

[In the cave, there’s a rotting wooden bed and a humanoid skeleton leaning in the corner. Besides that, the cave is completely empty.]

[As you approach the skeleton, you quickly confirm it’s a human skeleton that must have died thousands of years ago.]

[Next to the skeleton’s hand, you see several polished stones inscribed with Star Spirit Language.]

["Pioneer hydrologist Rinat Baratov, after much effort, finally unveiled the cause of the tsunami. But while approaching the source of the tsunami by sea, our ship faced a maritime disaster..."]

["When that thing appeared, the world instantly turned pitch black... After the disaster, only Iris and I survived..."]