This Text Adventure Game is definitely poisonous
Chapter 291 - 224: Underwater Blasting_1

Chapter 291: Chapter 224: Underwater Blasting_1

[You follow the green-blue Flowering Frog back down to the bottom of the lake, finding a path that avoids other poisonous frogs.]

[As you approach the bottom of the lake, you take an antidote, granting you five minutes of immunity to toxins.]

Although the little frog has settled down and had children with the females of the other frog species, the Frog King here still won’t let him go so easily, supposedly imprisoning him in a ’prison’.

Therefore, Mu You controls the character to follow the frog, bypassing other frog species along the way, and finally arrives at a certain place under the water, where he finally sees the so-called ’prison’.

[Arriving at a dark corner at the bottom of the lake, you see a low stone hill standing abruptly in front of you. The hill is covered with rugged stone caves, each connected to the others, resembling a hollow artificial mountain. Each cave is sealed with a transparent mucus layer, enclosing the entire artificial mountain like a barrier.]

[This is a nest made by a deep-sea hard-shelled snail using its shed shell, possessing extreme durability and the function of blocking other organisms from entering or exiting. Only those covered with the same kind of snail’s shell can pass through the mucous membrane and go in and out of the artificial mountain. After the extinction of the hard-shelled snails at the bottom of the lake, the nest was occupied by the Flowering Frog family and used as a prison.]

[You swim to the front of the artificial mountain, and through the fleeting gaps in the mountain, you vaguely see a familiar frog figure inside. It is your familiar, the Pocket Toad, which is surrounded by numerous tiny tadpoles swirling around it, seemingly begging it for food.]

"So many tadpoles...how many were born..." Mu You looks at the latest text description on his phone, his eyelid twitching.

[The Pocket Toad sees you and happily leaps towards you, but gets blocked by the membrane on the artificial mountain. The Pocket Toad pleads with you through the mountain, hoping you can save it and its 108 children.]

"108...you’re ruthless!" Mu You was speechless, this reproductive ability was crushing a lot of species. Weren’t the Pocket Toad and Flowering Frog of different classifications and have reproductive isolation?

[At this time, the Pocket Toad shows you a piece of worn-out snail shell that it found inside the cell. Over these days, it has used this fragment to secretly dig a tunnel from the bottom of the artificial mountain to the outside world. But just as it was about to succeed, it discovered that there was an even more durable layer of mucus barrier underground that it couldn’t destroy even with the snail shell. This was a fully-protected nest from all angles.]

"You... are ruthless! Wait for me to save you." Mu You’s eye twitched again.

The hard shell nest here isn’t invincible, but breaking it would take quite a bit of time, which is precisely what Mu You lacked.

The only option is to have the Self-Destructing Fish help with the explosion.

These two species are neighbors but hardly interacted, which was strange. This crackdown would be a good opportunity to play matchmaker and let them have a companion at the bottom of the lake.

Seeing that the five minutes of immunity from the antidote was about to pass, Mu You had to leave the bottom of the sea and swim back to the lake.

Before leaving, he left instructions for the little frog to take its children into the hole it had dug.

Then he returned to the dark river above the mountain wall on the Goblin Submarine.

[You navigate the Goblin Submarine into the Underground Dark River, travel for a while, find the area with the highest concentration of Self-Destructing fish, and light the Self-Destructing Fish’s Burning Stick there.]

[You saw countless Self-Destructing Fish madly rushing towards you so you quickly turned the ship away and escaped the scene.]

[The Burning Stick was held by one of the submarine’s robotic arms, emanating a dazzling white light, like a lighthouse in the darkness, showing the surrounding Self-Destructing Fish the way.]

[As you raced, more and more fish concentrated from behind and began getting closer to the submarine.]

[You had to increase the speed of the submarine, raising it from level two to level five. The current speed is 50 kilometers an hour. Please note that at this rate, it is difficult to steer. An accident may occur while navigating narrow waterways. Do you want to slow down?]

[You chose to sail at risk.]

[... You have encountered a sharp turn, and due to the high speed, the submarine was unable to avoid collision and crashed into the mountain wall, leading to the destruction of the ship and the death of the crew...]

"Rewind!"

[Time rewinds, and the submarine returns to the previous intersection. Having learned from the previous death, this time you steer the submarine in advance and managed to pass this junction without incident...]

With the margin of error provided by the Time Pocket Watch, Mu You can recklessly participate in this underwater drag-racing.

At the speed of level five, they have managed to shake off the school of Self-Destructing Fish and enter Stanlo Freshwater Lake first.

[You enter Stanlo Freshwater Lake, continue sailing the submarine straight towards the shell nest.]

[At this time, the Burning Stick has almost completely burned out, so you immediately ignite a new one, guiding the direction for the school of fish that followed you into the lake.]

[You led the army of Self-Destructing Fish, rushing massively above the snail nest, and then dived down, inserting three Burning Sticks into the various holes in the nest.]

[The toxins sedimented at the bottom of the lake have infected you. You are severely poisoned and your HP is rapidly decreasing.]

[You put the submarine back into your backpack and lit the burning stick.]

[You see a large number of Flowering Frogs converging towards you from the lakebed. Simultaneously, several Self-Destructing Fish are making shrill noises, hurtling towards the snail nest behind you from the water...]

Mu You couldn’t see the rest of the text because right after he ignited the burning stick, he quit the game and forcefully logged out.

Death seemed inevitable at this point, but it would only cost him a year’s lifespan.

After waiting for a minute, he tried to log back in. As he saw the text notification stating ’Countless ripple explosions rebounded around you, you died instantly.’ The lakebed was still in chaos, Mu You just had to rewind time and continue to wait.

After waiting another minute, he logged in again.

This time the explosions had finally ended.

[You reappear at the bottom of the lake, seeing wreckage all around. No traces of Self-Destructing Fish or Flowering Frogs could be seen. Clearly, both sides had severely damaged each other in the explosion.]

[Unstable Sulphur is drifting in the lake water, while on the ground beneath your feet, some scattered plant seeds could be seen. These are items dropped after the death of the Flowering Frogs. This species has a chance of dropping a random seed from the plant it consumed during its lifetime upon death.]

[You quickly search the area and collect Unstable Sulphur*74, various poisonous flower seeds*33. However, during the collection process, you die again due to the severe poisoning from the toxins in the lakebed, HP -1, XP -20...]

Another death for the sake of looting. However, compared to the rewards, this loss is insignificant.

[You leave the lakebed and look downwards. The location previously occupied by the snail nest is now completely leveled.]

[You see the ground moving at the bottom of the lake, as the Pocket Toad burrows out, leading a group of tadpoles swimming towards you.]

[You open the storage bottle, allowing the Pocket Toad and tadpoles to swim into it.]

[Just as you’re about to leave, the alluringly icy-blue Flowering Frog appears before you yet again.]

[The Flowering Frog princess, who has been dwelling at the bottom of the lake all her life, possesses a yearning for freedom. Moved by the stories of the outside world shared by the Pocket Toad, she longs to travel with her husband and therefore hopes that you could take her with you.]

[You agree, but only under the condition that it becomes your familiar, just like the Pocket Toad, so that you can bring it along without hesitation.]

[The icy-blue Flowering Frog agrees to your terms and requests a contract from you. Will you accept?]

Mu You is surprised by how quickly the frog princess is willing to leave everything behind, even with her home destroyed and the Frog King in the midst of his resurrection process. Her desire to run away with him is quite remarkable, eloquently showcasing a daughter’s duty towards her father.

However, Mu You has no objection to this and joyfully accepts.

[You accepted the contract request from the Flowering Frog, dropping a bead of your blood onto it, the contract incantation is automatically completed.]

[Contract successful, the Flowering Frog (Icy-Blue Form) has become your familiar.]

[Flowering Frog: A non-combat familiar that can retain up to three forms of seeds. It can switch between these forms at any time. Current forms: Icy-Blue (Highly Poisonous), Silver Lotus (Non-poisonous), Coral Vine (Non-poisonous).]

This frog can retain the seeds of plants it has consumed, which allow it to switch between the forms of the plant on its back, just like player skins. Different forms have different toxicities and capabilities, but there is a limit of three forms.

[You put the Flowering Frog into the storage bottle, then leave Stanlo Freshwater Lake to go back into the Underground Dark River. You place the Dark Teleportation Array in a hidden location.]

[A wave of dizziness hits you, then you find yourself back aboard the Ghost Ship’s captain’s cabin.]

[You take out the storage bottle, open it, and prepare to release the familiars. However, the two frog familiars are unusually slow to exit.]

[You pick up the bottle to inspect it, only to discover that the two frogs have once again paired off on the sandy bottom of the bottle...]

[A moment later, you spot a clutch of crystal-clear frog eggs beneath the water grass, from where the pair of frogs had departed...]

Mu You: "..."

Goodness gracious, you two have managed to produce a new brood during this short absence?