This Text Adventure Game is definitely poisonous
Chapter 1103 - 503: Mu Lan - Guardian of Order_2

Chapter 1103: Chapter 503: Mu Lan - Guardian of Order_2

"Even as your bonded Fairy has regained her sanity, your life is still being scorched by her excessively possessive heart, continuously slipping at the rate of 10 HP per second..."

Mu You sighed in relief. Although he couldn’t directly revert to his Fairy form, at least he had regained his sanity. As for his HP, it had dropped to the minimal 10 points, which could be offset by his equipment—that was enough for him.

It was now approaching six in the morning, and he was nearing the five-day time limit.

Mu You had already retrieved important items like the Pen of Order ahead of time and waited for a moment before the game prompted him.

"Due to the influence of the time-space rules, your consciousness was kicked out of its current space."

"Due to the effect of the Poison of Chaos, your game character has been forcibly locked in place."

"Warning: You have been disconnected from your game character!"

With the appearance of these two messages, his game interface fluctuated, and the character panel disappeared.

Mu You hurriedly tried to operate something.

No matter what he clicked, a message popped up: "Your character is missing, and you can no longer play the game..."

"Really disconnected..." Mu You grimaced.

He had always speculated that his three clones might get out of his control someday but had never imagined that not just the clones but even his own game character would also be gone...

"How long will the Poison of Chaos last?" Mu You quickly summoned the Lamp God to ask.

"A long time!" The Lamp God said gravely, "And if you can’t find a way to detoxify him, it will persist indefinitely."

"Is that so..."

After listening, Mu You sighed but wasn’t too worried. The Poison of Chaos affected the game character, and the Deviation Value had been neutralized by the Fairy girl. Now the only side-effect was his locked game character who would be unable to move for a long time, which had little impact on him personally.

Turning back, Mu You carefully checked his belongings.

This time, he had lost more than his character and three clones. His three pets, including Little Spider and the Shadow Fur Ball, were all left in the past.

Mu You shook his head, turned his broom around, and flew back to the ground from high up in the air.

Upon landing, Mu You realized that the ground was swarming with heads—masses of fully armed soldiers gathered around the Black Hole, all warily watching the skies, giving off a pre-battle atmosphere.

Mu You was startled—could something have happened?

After Mu You landed, several military-looking people quickly approached him. The leader was a member of the Dragon Group, although not someone he was very familiar with.

Mu You, also curious, went up to them. Just as he was about to ask what had happened, the Dragon Group member spoke with some urgency, "Master, has there been some anomaly with the Black Hole? Should we call for reinforcements immediately?"

"Ah?"

Mu You was surprised by the question. Looking around at the imposing array, he quickly understood: his sudden appearance to repair the Black Hole had likely been interpreted as a sign of trouble...

With a mix of laughter and dismay, Mu You hurriedly explained the situation. Of course, he didn’t confess his character’s issues—just said he had some new ideas he wanted to test, and since things were urgent, he hadn’t explained himself clearly, leading to the misunderstanding.

After the explanation, everyone realized it was just a misunderstanding and collectively sighed in relief.

As for being dragged around, nobody harbored any complaints. Quite the opposite, they all took the opportunity to express a wish to add the great master as a friend and take pictures together.

Having caused such a commotion, Mu You couldn’t refuse on the spot. He took out his phone and added a few people as forum friends while a game friend was out of the question—his game character was gone, making adding impossible.

After fulfilling several people’s requests for photos, everyone, content, dispersed, and Mu You was able to leave the scene and teleported back to Lin’s Manor.

Back at the manor, Mu You immediately found a quiet spot, closed his eyes, and entered the Mind’s Eye Vision, sending his consciousness into the Karma Lines and followed them to find several Admins.

Just like before, he effortlessly entered the subterranean space.

The Admins seemed used to his arrivals by now, and as he arrived, everyone continued with their tasks, the only exception being an elder who glanced up: "What’s wrong?"

"Uh... My character is gone," said Mu You.

"Hmm?"

Everyone was startled and looked at him puzzled.

Only the leading elder, not thinking he was joking, furrowed his brow and tried to trace Mu You’s game character.

He soon opened his eyes in surprise: "Really gone..."

The others also hurriedly checked, and soon their faces revealed panic.

"How could this happen?"

"And it’s been missing for five days!?"

"It’s over, another serious bug has surfaced..."

"Can it be recovered?"

"It seems... it can’t be recovered, the game data is encrypted by World-Creating Mountain, unless you have the authority of the World-Creating Mountain..."

"This..."

"It shouldn’t be, there’s never been a problem with this before, everyone check quickly where the issue lies..."

"Shall we shut down the servers for maintenance?"

...

Several old men began to recheck the situation with heads full of sweat.

The loss of game characters was a bug far more serious than the last one that involved swallowing divinity! It had to be clarified immediately, otherwise, the consequences were unthinkable.

"Uh... no need..."

Mu You, looking at the few people’s nervous appearances, and even planning to shut down the servers for maintenance, quickly spoke up to stop them.

He estimated that the issue was beyond their authority to resolve, even now he hadn’t figured out what force had transported him.

He came to these people not to retrieve his character, but to confirm some things.

"You’ve said before that, in the last era, the Fools paid a hefty price to get the blueprints of Sky City from the Fairy Race, didn’t you?" Mu You asked.

"Yes, what about it?" Several elders looked up at him.

"What was the price?" Mu You asked.

"This..."

The elders exchanged glances, and the leading elder hesitated before speaking, "That’s not exactly a secret, there’s no harm in telling you."

"At that time, the Fairy Race demanded two Cheater Tools from us, both were items we had found near an exit of a certain server in the Real World."

"One of them is called the ’Shape Splitter’..."

Just as he suspected!

Mu You raised an eyebrow. He had been wondering where Gege Wu had gotten the Shape Splitter, a gift from the Lord of Calamity, if the Lord of Calamity was the Medicinal Plant Gatherer, then where did the Gatherer get the Shape Splitter from?

Now, the Admins’ statement finally answered this question.

It seemed that the Medicinal Plant Gatherer must have successfully obtained the blueprints from Ormedo and handed them over to the Fools outside at that time in exchange for two key tools.

"What is the other tool?" Mu You asked again.

"The other is a device called the ’Archive device’, which, when used, can record all of one’s current attributes, data, and even memories onto the device. If for some reason part of your attributes or memories are lost, just coming into contact with the Archive device can immediately reset oneself to the state at the time of recording," the elder explained.

"I see..."

Mu You understood after listening; this device was essentially a ’no-wipe’ tool, used to help game characters get through the Great Cataclysm.

With the Great Cataclysm occurring every four thousand years, it would reset all creatures in the Star Spirit World, naturally including the characters controlled by the Divine Race, requiring them to start all over again with their magic, levels, attributes, etc.

However, with this device, one could record their state before the Great Cataclysm and instantly restore to their original state after the Cataclysm, thus gaining a significant lead over other players.

It was obvious why the Medicinal Plant Gatherer would want this tool, to avoid being stripped of memories during the Great Cataclysm and forgetting everything.

"Why are you asking these? What exactly happened?" The Admins looked at Mu You with confusion.

"It’s a long story... Anyway, it has nothing to do with you, don’t worry. There’s no bug in the system, there’s no need for server maintenance, and I’ll get my character back on my own." Mu You shook his head, spoke vaguely to them, and then quickly controlled his consciousness to leave the Karma Lines.

Without his character, there was nothing he could do in the game for now.

Next, Mu You planned to go to the Bitter Garden in person to retrieve his avatar and game character.