This Text Adventure Game is definitely poisonous
Chapter 1144 - 518: The Place of Origin

Chapter 1144: Chapter 518: The Place of Origin

[The roulette wheel continued to spin under your twisting, slowing down more and more, gradually making a creaking noise as if it had been twisted to its limit, but the flow of water from the outlet was still trickling. Do you wish to continue?]

"Yes."

[You ignored the protesting noise from the pipes and continued to exert force. You felt the tremors in the pipe under your feet becoming more frequent... until at one moment, the pipe at the knob finally couldn’t withstand the pressure and burst open at the edge of the knob. The flow of water from the spout gushed out even more violently than before...]

"Uh..."

Mu You felt embarrassed; he had intended to tighten it a bit more to resolve the issue permanently but ended up breaking it instead...

Luckily, there was a chance to start over, so Mu You hastily pressed his watch to reverse time and stopped exerting force with the Kirin Arm.

[You timely stopped turning the roulette wheel knob, and now the knob had been almost twisted to its load-bearing limit, but the flow of water from the outlet was still gently running out.]

[You observed in front of the water tank for a moment, and based on the current rate of water accumulation, it would take about 50 hours to fill up the water from zero...]

Although he hadn’t completely blocked it, the ’tsunami’ time had been extended from one hour to fifty hours, adding a good two extra days of interval, which was basically enough for the players to explore.

Mu You turned around and mentioned this news in the City Lord group chat, asking them to adjust the tsunami clock.

This news immediately invigorated several City Lords. Since the exploration of the Real World began, it was precisely the threat of the tsunamis that had prevented countless players from being trapped near the exit, unable to venture further.

When there are many people, whatever you do gets competitive. Recently, everyone had clearly felt that the efficiency of collecting Divinity was decreasing day by day. If this continued, it wouldn’t be long before players would commonly attack each other for spoils of war.

Fortunately, the tsunami was now timely halted, solving the urgent crisis. The players could now freely expand outward. Given the number of players that had broken through to the Real World and their enthusiasm, it would only take a few days to completely explore this area.

The City Lords received the news, and immediately started organizing expedition teams, preparing to develop new territories.

Mu You, on the other hand, didn’t rush to explore further but instead dived back into the sea.

Since he could avoid trouble with the disguise of octopus skin, he was instead interested in exploring the sea.

A mysterious creature stronger than the Nine Stars had been attracted to stay in this sea region for a long time; there might be some secrets hidden in the sea.

[You dive into the sea, swimming downward.]

[You equipped the Relic ’Medusa Gill’, temporarily granting you the ability to breathe underwater, but your HP continuously decreased at a rate of one point per minute under the influence of medusa toxin.]

This Relic was one of the spoils that the Swamp Demoness had dropped recently. Mu You saw that it could be useful, so he kept it.

Although equipping it would continuously poison him, the toxin wasn’t lethal, and once the HP was reduced below half, he would adapt to the toxin and stop losing HP. After all, it provided the rare ability to breathe underwater in the Real World, so the side effect was somewhat acceptable.

[The water was dim and icy cold. Looking around, the curved coast was covered with luminescent aquagrass, providing a bit of light to the dark seawater.]

[As you dived deeper, several octopuses, each a few meters long, suddenly appeared around you, swimming around you. Luckily, the octopuses did not attack you; instead, they showed curiosity and friendliness...]

Upon entering the sea, the scenario he had imagined, of being immediately devoured by numerous ferocious aquatic creatures, did not occur. Perhaps it was because of the presence of that mysterious octopus that the waters were safer, and ordinary small sea monsters didn’t dare to misbehave.

These ’small octopuses’ gathered around him seemed to be the children of the large octopus. Luckily, he had the disguise of the Octopus King’s skin, so these small octopuses didn’t see anything amiss and accepted him as ’one of their own.’

Mu You ignored the gazing of these small octopuses and continued to control his character to dive further.

But the further down he went, the text repeatedly indicated it was ’getting narrower.’

"Could this just be a ’lake’?" Mu You thought to himself.

The deeper he dived, the narrower it became, resembling a conical funnel terrain. Such topography obviously could only be explained by a lake with one side sealed.

But if it was a lake, the problem would be much bigger.

The pipe leaking water above the sea surface was ceaseless. If this were just a closed lake, the continuous accumulation of water should have flooded the surrounding land long ago. How could it maintain a steady water level all this time?

The only explanation was that somewhere in this lake, there was a hidden connection to the outside world!

With this thought, Mu You continued to explore further down. What surprised him was that along the way, he did not encounter the large octopus; instead, he saw countless little octopuses, easily over ten thousand.

[You dived further down, the depths growing darker and visibility extremely low. Looking around, everything was blurred...]

Although there was no fog underwater, the dim light made the visibility even worse than on land.

He continued diving like this for over an hour until a prompt finally appeared.

[You suddenly see a faint light coming from below, and upon closer inspection, you find that the seabed was right below you, with rocks and flora abounding, and many colorful and peculiar plants growing.]

[You instantly notice in the star-like glowing seabed, a pitch-black, lightless circular gap stands out sharply. The gap, hundreds of meters wide, surrounded by dark currents moving fiercely downward, bottomless and unknowing where it leads...]