This Text Adventure Game is definitely poisonous
Chapter 290 - 223 Winner Born from a Frog_3

Chapter 290: Chapter 223 Winner Born from a Frog_3

It’s not just ordinary people. Even for Mu You, if relying solely on the occasional Ghost Cloak, it’s impossible to pass through such a long culvert at once. The only way is to wear down one’s lifespan.

The fact that the Beaver Clan is capable of surveying this passageway and even sketching it into a map shows they’ve devised some method to deal with the Self-Destructing Fish.

[The Magnetic Field Generator continuously radiates a magnetic field, causing the surrounding Self-Destructing Fish to automatically evade it, thereby enabling the submarine to safely traverse the narrow passage...]

Mu You followed the map, constantly adjusting his course to avoid missteps.

After half an hour, they finally crossed the trench.

[...After a long journey, you seem to see faint light ahead. You hurriedly accelerate, and within seconds, you’ve successfully broken through the exit of the culvert and entered a new body of water.]

[You have reached ’Stanlo Freshwater Lake’.]

"Finally arrived..."

There’s no need for the submarine here. Mu You controlled his character to leave the submarine. After returning the submarine to his bag, he summoned his Vampire skin and started swimming towards the lake surface, planning to check out the situation above.

He assumed that after so much time had passed, the guard knights wouldn’t idle around a single frog, right? They might have even withdrawn by now.

But reality proved that he jumped to conclusions.

[You maintain your invisibility, silently surfacing on the lake. ]

[However, the moment your head appears, the reflection equipment installed around reveals your presence. Almost a hundred guard knights suddenly reveal themselves at the edge of the lake as numerous attacks instantly shower down on you, depleting your HP...]

"Well, well..."

Mu You groans, admitting defeat. He promptly presses his pocket watch, turning around to return to the lake.

He doesn’t understand - even in the case of the Fool’s familiar, it’s still just a powerless little frog. Is it that worth mobilizing so many people?

Moreover, now that they’ve mobilized so many people, why don’t they just dive in and pursue it?

With no way to figure this out, Mu You continues diving to the lake bottom, planning to find the baby frog first.

[You dive straight to the bottom. The average depth of this lake is around 280 meters. After a long dive, your feet finally touch the ground.]

[As you step onto the muddy sand at the bottom and are about to explore, you suddenly notice several strangely shaped frogs approaching.]

[These frog species have skin of various colors. The sole commonality is that they all have seed-sized buds growing on their backs, which blossom into flowers of diverse forms.]

[The Omniscient Crystal provides feedback on these frog species.]

[Flowering Frogs: A peculiar type of magic frog species. Naturally born with a flower bud on its back that grows as it matures. It feeds on various magic plants. The flowers that bloom from the bud on their back may vary according to the seeds or pollen consumed. Should a poisonous or peculiarly powered flower grow on its back, the creature will possess equivalent poison and abilities.]

[These frog species quickly surround you, each spraying you with a toxic fluid.]

[Under the stacking of a high amount of venom, you’re swiftly poisoned to death...]

"What the damn?"

Mu You was completely confused. He had come to find the froglets, but suddenly poisonous frogs emerged from the bottom of the lake, instantly poisoning him to death.

And the strange description of their shape, why do they look a bit like Bulbasaur?

Without time to think, Mu You quickly pressed his pocket watch and teleported away just before the poisonous frogs surrounded him.

[Swimming back into the lake, you see a myriad of Flowering Frogs appearing from below. Each frog has poisonous flora growing on its back. A large number of poisonous frogs living at the lake bed have resulted in a heavy deposit of poison in the water. Anyone who casually approaches the lake bed is poisoned, leading to their death ...]

Mu You finally understood why the knights outside dare not dip in the water, damn the water is poisonous ...

The reason so many knights had gathered to guard was probably not because of the froglets but to keep these poisonous frogs from escaping and harming the surrounding residents. After all, this place is too close to the capital. If these poisonous frogs pollute nearby rivers and other water sources, it could create major problems.

But coming back to the point, won’t the high toxicity of the water at the bottom poison my froglet too?

Mu You opened the panel to check, under the summoned creatures section, the name Pocket Toad was still listed, clearly still doing well.

[As you continue to swim away from the lake bed, you search for the trail of the Gluttonous Toad. More and more Flowering Frogs appear, gathering at the lake bed. They watch you warily, seeming to warn you not to get close.]

Luckily, these Bulbasaur-like creatures seem to only consider the lake bed as their territory and as long as you don’t approach it, they don’t attack.

Just when Mu You was relieved that he had found their pattern, the next piece of text took him by surprise.

[A Flowering Frog suddenly breaks away from the sea floor and quickly swims towards you.]

[The Flowering Frog has an Ice Blue Frog growing on its back, a striking but highly poisonous flower. Just like the flower on its back, this frog also has beautiful ice-blue markings all over, looking as stunning as a wave breaking on the azure ocean. However, this beautiful exterior signifies that this Flowering Frog carries a lethal toxicity.]

[As the highly toxic frog species rapidly charges towards you, you plan to...]

Three options: [Strike Frog First], [Turn and Run], [Hold Your Ground].

Directly confronting here might incite an uproar from the throng of frogs below, so Mu You chose ’Hold Your Ground’, deciding to first see what this frog plans to do.

Fortunately, this poisonous frog did not attack at once. It swam up to him and stopped, actually beginning to communicate with him.

[The Ice Blue Frog stops in front of you, gives you a once over, and, seemingly confirming something, hands you a Magic Letter.]

[As you take the letter and look, you find that it was actually written by the Pocket Toad.]

[The letter describes the Pocket Toad’s ordeal: It was being pursued, fled to the lake bed, found it could not get out, and had to hibernate there. However, the lake bed is occupied by the Flowering Frog Clan and filled with their poison. To save itself, the toad played to its strengths, stole the ’Magic Fungal Spore Pouch’ from the Frog King of the Flowering Frogs, and swallowed it, thus granting it immunity to the poison of the lake bed. However, it was then caught by the furious Frog King and imprisoned, tortured in various ways to hand over the spore pouch.]

[The Pocket Toad preferred death over submission, and during the imprisonment, it chanced to meet one of the Frog King’s descendants, the most beautiful Ice Blue Frog in the Flowering Frog Clan. Since the Flowering Frogs live all year round at the lake bed and are short-sighted, the Pocket Toad easily won it over with its travels and wisdom, they consummated, and had offspring...]

As Mu You read this, he nearly choked on his tea.

At first, he thought from the beginning of the letter that the toad must have suffered a great deal, but the story had a twist. It turned from prisoner to son-in-law, snagged a rich and beautiful partner, and had peaked in life.

It hasn’t been gone that long, and there are already kids...