This Text Adventure Game is definitely poisonous
Chapter 202 - 173: World in a Bottle_1

Chapter 202: Chapter 173: World in a Bottle_1

"Poison Wand, ordinary grade, trash!"

"Phantom Gloves, increased attack speed by 8%, trash!"

"Iron Crystal Mace, excellent grade, hmm, it’s okay..."

"Dragon Skin Belt, Black Iron Rank, adds 2 points frost defense, trash!"

"Lightweight Trousers, Black Iron Rank, adds 1 point physical defense, trash!"

"Mud Boots, not bad, but I already have them..."

"Demon Breaker Hand Cannon, ordinary relic, this is okay..."

"High-grade Thunder Element page? Not bad!"

"Small Magic Potions, ten bottles, useful..."

"Thunder Element course voucher: exchange for a free Thunder Element spell course at any academy in the Imperial Capital... hmm, so this guy planned to pursue the Thunder Element route?"

...

In his backpack, Mu You counted the battle loots taken from the enemy.

The unconscious man in front of him was now stripped down to his underwear. Unfortunately, this guy was only level 12 and didn’t have many good items on him.

The items of value were just the high-grade page and the relic named ’Demon Breaker Hand Cannon’.

Mu You picked up the hand cannon for inspection.

Plainly speaking, it was a large-sized alchemical firearm with a wide furnace and muzzle. It was heavy, requiring two hands to hold and use. Like most magical products, it had infinite firepower, capable of firing magic cannonballs causing area explosion damage, and it had a range of about a hundred meters.

However, this thing was too slow and cumbersome, not as useful as his bow and arrow.

Mu You shook his head. Except for the page and magic course voucher, he planned to sell the rest later.

In addition, a Illuminati badge was found on this person. As expected, this was a member of the Illuminati. It seemed that the task distribution between the two groups was that the Ten Commandments targeted the big man, and the Illuminatis were used to intercept and delay their reinforcements.

Mu You decided not to kill this guy for now and planned to take him back as evidence for Zhang Yang, to expose the Illuminati.

The alliance between Illuminati and Ten Commandments, causing such a serious event and even getting caught with hard evidence, they would easily be convicted of treason, and the country would definitely not let them off easily.

He tied up the man and tossed him in the corner of the space.

Mu You left his backpack and appeared in a canyon in the swamp.

This was the most hidden spot he had found nearby.

It was now eleven fifty, ten minutes away from midnight.

Mu You put the backpack away, shrunk it into a bag, hung it around his waist, and then continued deeper into the canyon. He wanted to find a quiet place at the foot of the mountain to wait for the final time.

However, as soon as he got to the foot of the mountain, he felt something was wrong: why had the mud under his feet become so soft?

He was wearing mud shoes, which should enable him to walk easily on ordinary muddy ground.

However, the feeling under his feet was not as flat as before, it felt more like stepping on soft snow or sand, each step leaving an indentation.

Mu You bent over to carefully examine the mud under his feet. It didn’t reveal any abnormalities from the surface. After giving it some thought, he picked up a handful of the mud.

However, what he held was not the sticky mud as he had expected but a handful of dry sand!

At the same time, accompanying this discovery, the surrounding ground quickly transformed from swamp terrain to an endless desert.

A desert?

Mu You frowned. In the swamp teeming with wet mud, how could there be a desert?

Had he stepped into a teleportation array and left the Poisonous Swamp?

Vivian seemed to sense the anomaly too, she wriggled out from the mouth of the bag around his waist, flew onto his shoulder, scanned the surroundings and said gravely, "You’re still in the same place, but you’ve entered a sealed artifact enchanted with a shrinking spell..."

"A shrinking spell?" Mu You was taken aback.

"Generally, they are things like bottles or boxes. Creatures and items will automatically shrink once they pass through the entrance, thus with such an artifact, you can store many large items within a tiny space...like the box that stores Shadow Ghosts..."

The vivid example Vivian gave made Mu You’s heart skip a beat. He had unknowingly entered such a thing, someone must be playing tricks.

"So, how do I get out?" Mu You asked hurriedly.

"Simple, just go back the way you came."

Mu You promptly turned around and retreated in the direction he had come from.

However, just as he took a step, a violent gust of wind charged at him along with a dark silhouette hidden in the wind.

Subconsciously, Mu You teleported into mid-air to evade the attack.

But his teleportation didn’t take him to his intended location. Instead, an invisible wall in mid-air stopped him and flung him back onto the sandy ground.

"...as long as the entrance is not blocked." Vivian’s latter part of her sentence finally reached him.

But Mu You didn’t have the time to respond. He immediately jumped up, wand in hand, ready to face the enemy.

Under the ability of night vision, he clearly saw a black-robed man standing about a dozen meters away.

Then he looked up again, and the ’wall’ that had blocked his teleportation earlier, unveiled itself after the illusion was dispelled: above the dome, there was a curved inner wall similar to a glass bottle!

At this moment, he was inside a glass wine bottle, which was filled with about half a bottle of sand. Due to his being shrunk hundreds of times, standing on this half-bottle of sand, it felt like standing in a desert.

The direction he had entered from was the mouth of the bottle, which had now been corked by a huge piece of wood, blocking his exit.

Meanwhile, after the shape of this wine bottle was revealed, the Omniscient Crystal finally returned a piece of information.

[Storage Wine Bottle: It looks like an ordinary bottle, yet can shrink any item or creature 1000 times to fit inside.

It has two abilities.

Isolation: When you are in the bottle, you cannot leave the space inside the bottle through ordinary teleportation magic or marks.

Durability: When the owner of the wine bottle is in the bottle, the bottle cannot be destroyed from the inside.]

A bottle that blocks teleportation?

Mu You frowned.

No wonder his teleportation failed earlier, this bottle sealed the outbound path, rendering teleportation and related spells useless. This means even after dying, he definitely couldn’t use the resurrection mark to translocate elsewhere and could only reincarnate within the bottle.

Moreover, the second ability - the bottle cannot be destroyed as long as the owner was inside.

In this way, the bottle formed a natural duel field.

If he wanted to get out, the only way was to defeat the black-robed man in front, and gain ownership of the bottle.

Of course, the opponent dared to trap him inside, himself included, he surely had something to rely on.

Mu You looked up at the black-robed man opposite him and used the Omniscient Crystal to check the other’s attributes.

However, the result indicated [Appraisal Failed.]

Fail?

Mu You was surprised. How come the Omniscient Crystal couldn’t detect the other’s attributes?

Mu You didn’t lose heart and used the appraisal repeatedly. Thankfully, after ten continuous trials, he finally got a result.

[19th-level Mysterious Man, attributes: Strength 20, Agility 45, Intelligence 101, Constitution 20, HP: 3000, Magic Value: 11100.]

"Hm?"

The feedback left Mu You stunned.

Intelligence over 100 was indeed terrifying, but what concerned Mu You the most was the first sentence in the message: 19th-level Mysterious Man?

Just ’Mysterious Man’, but no player was mentioned?

It is known that all previous detections of the players by the Omniscient Crystal were in the format of ’xx-level player, ID, attributes ...’, and the format now that only tells about the level and identity without the word ’player’, is specific to NPCs...

Which means, this man is actually an NPC?

Mu You was surprised because if he was not mistaken, this man was the black-robed man of the Ten Commandments who had conversed with Taurus in front of that door that day.

Does this mean that the Ten Commandments are not players from Earth, but wizards from the Star Spirit World?

This piece of information was truly shocking.

No wonder these people were always finding ways to oppose players from other forces. It turns out they were never on the same team from the beginning...

Without time to think further, Mu You secretly contacted the Battle Eagle and a few summoned beasts who were still outside.

Since the bottle cannot be broken from the inside, they can only find a way from the outside for now.

However, this contact was like mud sinking into the sea, yielding no response. Mu You’s heart gave a thump, the only explanation for this was that the summons had been killed...

"Don’t bother wasting your energy, all your summons have been killed by me. There are no other creatures around now, and without my permission, you will never be able to leave this bottle."

The black-robed man’s voice was hoarse, laughing coldly, "It took me a lot of effort and even wasted a Big Illusion Scroll just to lure you into the trap."

Mu You frowned. Hearing that he had been deliberately set up, he calmed down: "Who are you?"

"As you see, I am a member of the Ten Commandments."

The other party actually admitted it directly, presumably because he felt confident of victory, his speech was unhurried.

While Mu You quickly pondered countermeasures, he asked another question: "Why, specifically, did you target me?"

"Who do you think? Heh heh, you killed the werewolf, didn’t you?" said the black-robed man.

Mu You frowned, it’s because of the werewolf?

But as soon as the other party uttered this, he immediately figured it out.

The only thing he was carrying related to the werewolf was the Chain Claws...

"Heh heh, that Chain Claw was originally mine. You stole the thing I gave to my subordinate. As soon as you used it, naturally, I sensed it."

On hearing this, Mu You sighed with relief. If the opponent was only targeting him for the Chain Claws, that means the opponent didn’t know about his identity or his trump cards.

Probably because he was only at level 10, he was seen as a lamb to the slaughter, so he dared to trap both of them in the bottle, creating this one-on-one situation.