This Text Adventure Game is definitely poisonous
Chapter 1063 - 489

Chapter 1063: 489

[The fairy girl quickly realized something, "The person who saved me before, was it also you?"]

[With everything made clear, the fairy girl’s expression was a mix of emotions, and her eyes dimmed, "So that’s how it is... I was never needed from the beginning, it was just my wishful thinking..."]

["Can I... stay?" the fairy girl looked up, her voice trembling as she asked you.]

[Seeing the dejected fairy girl, you chose to...]

[Stay to continue uncovering her story] or [Firmly leave, as you have a more important mission].

Without hesitation, Mu You chose ’Firmly leave’.

He could sense that there might still be secrets hidden within the fairy girl, but time was seriously limited, and he had no time to linger here.

[You shook your head and gently refused the fairy girl, her gaze dimming further. After bidding her farewell, you turned and walked toward the door.]

["Wait, wait a moment..." the fairy girl suddenly called out to you again, her tone beseeching, "Could I guide you? Although I am a nameless fairy, I was once an upper-class fairy and am very familiar with the locations of all the villages and cities in Bitter Garden. If I lead the way, it will save you time."]

["Please, let me do something for you..." Tears were already swirling in the fairy girl’s eyes, as she pleaded with you in the most humble manner. You chose to...]

Mu You frowned, genuinely puzzled. Why was this fairy girl, whom he had only met by chance, willing to go to such lengths to follow him?

Mu You hovered between the choices [Agree] and [Refuse] several times, but in the end, he pressed ’Agree’.

["That’s wonderful!" Upon finally hearing your agreement to let her accompany you, the fairy girl broke into tears of joy, and the dimness in her eyes was replaced by a renewed brightness.]

"Sigh..."

Mu You sighed. The fairy girl gave him a really strange feeling. He could sense her inexplicable dependence on him, but he knew that might not be a good thing, because accepting such dependence also meant taking on an invisible responsibility.

That’s why Mu You instinctively wanted to sever this relationship, to establish clear boundaries with the fairy girl. However, faced with her repeated pleas, he eventually softened a bit.

Mu You quickly shook his head. Now that he had made his decision, he no longer dwelled on it and, taking the fairy girl with him, left the bud room and immediately called out his Chocobo.

["Brilliant City? This... I don’t seem to have heard of it..."]

However, before they set off, when Mu You told the fairy girl their destination, he received a response that she had never heard of it.

"Never heard of it?"

["I’m sorry, I’m really useless. Could it be a new city that was built after my name was taken away?" The fairy girl’s face turned red as she apologized profusely. Just moments ago, she had confidently boasted, but now the very first location was unfamiliar, which made her feel extremely ashamed.]

Mu You didn’t mind, as he knew the general direction. He asked another question in the game.

["Then, what is the name of the largest city in the southwest direction that you know of?" you asked.]

["Southwest, the largest city... Hmm, could it be ’Falling Flower City’?" the fairy girl said uncertainly.]

"Have you heard of ’Falling Flower City’?" Mu You immediately asked Fuya, who was busy with dinner preparations nearby.

"Falling Flower City?" Fuya quickly paused her meal, grabbed her mobile phone, and started operating it: "Wait a moment, let me ask someone else."

Mu You sweatdropped, wondering why a lady like her was so adept at talking about kidnapping...

It didn’t take long for Fuya to get a result.

"Oh, got it. Falling Flower City is the predecessor of Brilliant City, but Falling Flower City is an ancient name and has been abandoned for a very long time." Fuya said.

"So it’s the same place..."

Mu You nodded, not particularly concerned, and immediately informed the fairy girl about this in the game, asking her to help guide them to Falling Flower City.

The fairy girl gladly accepted, performing the role of the guide diligently throughout the journey.

It must be said that the fairy girl was indeed familiar with the terrain; along the way, she helped Mu You avoid many checkpoints and obstacles. Within about an hour, the Chocobo galloped to their destination.

[You have stopped on the main road about a mile away from the city ahead.]

[It is deep into the night, and there is no one on either side of the road, all is quiet. You have come to a standing Unwritten Obelisk beside the road.]

"The square Unwritten Obelisk a mile outside the Southern City Gate, right?"

Mu You looked at Fuya and asked. This was the meeting point they had just agreed upon.

"Yes." Fuya was holding a cup of milk tea at that time, with the Fool game running on her phone on the table, while another phone in front of her was playing a TV series. Being used to multitasking was nothing new to her.

"I’m here, where are you?" Mu You asked.

"Huh?" Fuya was startled, hastily looked down at her game: "You’ve arrived? My character has been standing here, I haven’t seen you?"

"Could there be another stele nearby?"

Mu You didn’t think much about it, and he controlled his character to leave a mark of the Star Spirit Language character ’One’ on the stele, then he prepared to continue searching nearby on the Chocobo.

"Hey, wait a moment!"

Fuya suddenly called out, looking surprised as she picked up her phone and examined the long block of text that had just popped up, frowning, "My side just alerted me that a new character has appeared on the stele... so strange, it had always been alerting me that it was an ’Unwritten Obelisk’..."

Mu You, listening, felt a stir in his heart and quickly asked, "What character?"

"A ’One’ character."

It actually was the character he had left!

Then that would mean they should be face-to-face right now, so why hadn’t they noticed each other?

"What’s the original text in your game?" Mu You hurriedly asked. He instinctively felt that there was a major problem.

"Oh, it says, ’Bored and idle, you scrutinize the stele and suddenly realize that an indistinct ’One’ character has appeared in the center of the previously empty stele. It is a segment of extremely desolate and ancient writing, seemingly having existed for thousands of years. Eroded by the winds and sands over time, it has become blurred and unclear, hardly recognizable without close inspection...’" Fuya recounted the game text verbatim.

"Desolate? Ancient?"

Mu You murmured these two peculiar adjectives, feeling as though he was about to grasp something.

And recalling all the details of the day, there were strange occurrences everywhere in his experience, while Fuya had not encountered anything odd from the beginning to the end. The backpack from the Star Spirit World could be opened here but the Teleportation Array could not be detected, as well as the relationship between Falling Flower City and Brilliant City, where Falling Flower City was the ancient name for Brilliant City...

Putting everything together, Mu You’s mind suddenly had a flash of insight, and he understood something.

Could it be that he and Fuya not only landed in different locations within Bitter Garden but had also landed in different eras?

Fuya was in the modern age, and he, in the ancient past?

With this thought, Mu You hurriedly operated within the game.

[You suddenly ask the fairy girl, what year is it now?]

[Although the fairy girl finds the question odd, she still answers you truthfully: It is now the year 3870 of the Star Spirit calendar.]

The Star Spirit calendar year 3800, with only a little over a hundred years left before the Great Cataclysm, the years matched!

And the current situation suggested that he might indeed be at some point in the past.

Then there was only one possibility: it was the era that was confused!

He was now in the same period of the previous era, that is... four thousand years ago in Bitter Garden!

And the reason he couldn’t see Fuya now was that, although they were close in distance, they were separated by a vast expanse – a whole four thousand years!