This Text Adventure Game is definitely poisonous
Chapter 1121 - 509: Xiao Shen Snake’s Redemption_3

Chapter 1121: Chapter 509: Xiao Shen Snake’s Redemption_3

"Leave the matters above to Ling Long to handle. We have plenty of problems down here," the Medicinal Plant Gatherer said, looking in the direction of a clearing.

On that clearing, the basket and cage he had brought was placed, and at the moment, the Dark Cave Beast locked in that cage suddenly started thrashing violently against its confines as if going mad.

"It has indeed begun..." the Medicinal Plant Gatherer said gravely.

"Begun what?" Mu You frowned.

Instead of answering, the Medicinal Plant Gatherer took out a short metal rod from his sleeve and held it in his hand.

Mu You had never seen this object before, but he still managed to find some information about it from Ling Long and the Medicinal Plant Gatherer’s memories: It was an archive device!

"Turn on the light! Full power!"

The Medicinal Plant Gatherer suddenly shouted toward the barrier.

The Watchman, still within the barrier, hesitated for a moment but seeing the urgency in the Medicinal Plant Gatherer, he didn’t dare to ask more and hurriedly controlled the barrier’s light, shining it in all directions.

With full force, a dazzling beam of light instantly illuminated the surroundings, almost a thousand meters around, making the bottom of the cave as bright as day.

Everyone instinctively looked up, and upon seeing the sight, they all involuntarily gasped.

Right above their heads, countless dark creatures were rapidly climbing down the rocky walls towards the ground, dense and numbering at least several hundred thousand!

"Holy shit! Watch out, everyone!" the Watchman exclaimed.

Everyone hurriedly drew their weapons, preparing to face the enemy.

These Dark Cave Beasts were not particularly strong, but the sheer number of them could easily turn into a disaster!

Everyone was ready for a fierce battle.

Yet quickly, the Dark Cave Beasts one after another hit the ground, like a surging black waterfall crashing down. However, their target was not them, but—Gusha!

Countless dark creatures washed over Gusha’s body like splattered ink, almost instantly filling the entire underground.

People drew their swords and looked around bewildered, not immediately understanding what was happening.

"Wait, something is wrong!"

At that moment, the Watchman suddenly shouted.

"What is it?" asked the Lamp God urgently.

"It seems like Gusha has escaped!"

"What?" the Lamp God turned pale with shock and quickly looked toward the Holy Spear.

However, the Holy Spear was still firmly in place, unchanged as if it were a mountain, with Gusha still securely suppressed beneath it, showing no sign of having escaped.

"It’s not Gusha’s body; it’s its spirit... A large part of Gusha’s consciousness just vanished!" the Watchman said, forehead sweating and heart pounding, sensing that something very ominous was about to happen.

He and Gusha’s will were directly connected; he could clearly sense this connection and could confirm that the part of the consciousness that disappeared had completely escaped Gusha’s current body!

"Little Eight, what did you do?" the Watchman urgently questioned in his mind.

"What did I do? Heh, wasn’t it what you taught me?" Gusha’s voice sounded with a cold laugh: "The path to redemption lies therein!"

"Ah..."

The Watchman was startled and suddenly recalled the past events.

After he became the Guardian, he and Gusha had been mentally harming each other every single day. Although he had never yielded, Gusha had indeed tormented him miserably, leaving him no time to sleep peacefully.

It was not until a few years later, one day out of boredom, the Watchman casually mentioned the movie "The Shawshank Redemption" to Gusha.

Surprisingly, from that day on, Gusha no longer tortured him mentally 24 hours a day but instead left one hour each day as an ’hours cease-fire’, allowing them both to rest.

The Watchman didn’t think much of it and simply considered that Gusha was also tormented by his nonstop chatter and had to leave a bit of quiet time for itself each day.

Not until now, after much of Gusha’s consciousness had escaped and the remaining will stopped resisting from being probed, did he reveal some hidden memories.

From these memories, the Watchman horrifyingly discovered that Gusha had been secretly planning an ’escape’ all these years!

Since an unknown day, Gusha had discovered that the seal of the Holy Spear had loosened enough for it to slowly shed its skin!

Although it could only shed a grain of skin the size of a sand pebble each day, which was far from enough to carry its will, if given enough time to accumulate, it could eventually gather enough to carry its will!

And its will combined with its snake skin could be considered an incarnation! Even if this incarnation were weak, it was originally an embodiment of disaster; as long as it could escape, it could quickly grow by absorbing negative emotions. Then it could return to pull out the Holy Spear and rescue its true self!

However, this process had to be done in absolute secrecy because the shed snake scales were too fragile; these people could easily destroy it.

And since it was always connected to the Guardian’s will, the moment Gusha thought about escaping, the Guardian would immediately notice and interrupt it’s plan.

That’s why Gusha had been mentally tormenting the Watchman every day, to exhaust him while also leaving an hour of rest time, forcing the Watchman to seize that hour to sleep.

Only during this hour of sleep did the connection to the Guardian’s spirit slightly relax, giving Gusha a rare moment of freedom to carry out its plan of shedding its skin quietly, having to be extremely careful. If the Watchman showed any sign of waking up, it had to immediately stop and even erase any thoughts of escaping from its mind.

Thus, every day Gusha carefully shed a grain of sand-sized piece of snake scale, persisting for a full four thousand years till it finally amassed enough to carry a major part of its will and escape from this place!

Upon seeing these hidden memories of Gusha, the Watchman was dumbfounded: "Damn it, I told you stories to make you reform and be a good snake, not to teach you how to escape from prison!"