This Text Adventure Game is definitely poisonous
Chapter 408 - 262: I, Sphinx, am back_2

Chapter 408: Chapter 262: I, Sphinx, am back_2

However, Mu You still felt that 100 percent avoidance rate was too unusual.

"Rumor has it that among pandamen, there are a few experts with a unique talent. While intoxicated, they can temporarily obtain future vision, allowing them to predict the enemy’s attack intent ahead of time," Vivian suggested upon hearing Mu You’s doubts.

"I see..."

With Vivian’s explanation, it made sense why a panda could dodge every attack. It had such a ’bug-like’ ability.

Although, he also had the ability to glimpse the future...

In a sense, his pocket watch’s ability to reverse time was equivalent to future vision.

Shaking his head, Mu You returned to the game first.

"Damn, this national treasure must have used cheat code!" Lin Hai’s exclamation was still coming from the headset.

At this point, Lin Xue and Little Ya also seemed rather incredulous. They thought it was just a regular monster, but who would have expected it to be a boss character that they couldn’t defeat, even with four against one. This had taken everyone by surprise.

"Master, shall we go back and try again?" Lin Hai asked.

"No, we can’t beat it..."

After listening to Vivian’s explanation, Mu You knew that it was impossible for their game characters to defeat that panda by merely relying on their current strength, at least not in that tomb.

Inside the tomb, the panda could obtain magic immunity. They couldn’t bring their greatest advantage into full play, while the enemy’s close combat advantage was fully exploited, it was natural that they would be thrashed.

Besides, it wouldn’t hurt to find a different approach toward such an interesting NPC. Mu You wondered if there was a chance to win it over. It would be great if they could recruit this panda to their side.

After that, Mu You greeted everyone and logged off the game. Seeing that there were no more monsters to fight, the others also logged off and went about their business.

The next morning, Mu You woke up at six o’clock. After freshing up, he went in to feed the animals.

The store would open in the afternoon, but it was still business as usual in the morning.

After all the business facilities were ready, it was almost eight o’clock. There were already quite a few customers waiting outside the door.

Without rushing to open the door, Mu You first logged into the game and started playing.

[You have arrived at the Southern Ruins of the Imperial City.]

[You have arrived at the abandoned church.]

[You saw two familiar missionaries waiting at the door. Followers dressed as believers continuously approached and entered the church under their watch.]

A week had passed since the last lecture by the Black Magic Fandom Association. These church members were holding another meeting on schedule. Mu You couldn’t afford to miss a single one of these weekly free Black Magic lectures, so he had set his alarm to attend it early.

[You, dressed as a believer, stood at the main entrance of the abandoned church, showing the missionaires the Fandom Association’s mark on your arm.]

[You have been allowed to enter the church...]

[Inside the church, the Father, holding the Black Cross, has started to preach to the dozens of devout followers below.]

[The Black Magic being taught today is the Intermediate level Black Magic ’Spike Serpent Guard’ among summoning spells.]

[Learning in progress, estimated to be completed in 7.5 hours...]

This time, they are teaching an intermediate-level black magic spell!

But fortunately, the lesson pertained to the summoning category, which was one of his best attributes. With a high talent score of nine points, learning an intermediate magic spell would only require fifteen hours. Coupled with a 100 percent increase in comprehension speed granted by the Secret Technique Crystal, it would only take 7.5 hours, sufficient to master the spell before opening store in the afternoon.

After his character started learning, the rest was just idling in the game. Mu You and the others opened the shop as usual.

With yesterday’s experience, today’s operation was much smoother.

With waves of tourists coming in and out, they all experienced the same joy and amazement as yesterday’s customers. Even though pictures of all the animals in the park had been wildly circulating online through live streaming, nothing can replace the shock of in-person interaction with these magical animals.

It wasn’t until two in the afternoon that Mu You locked up the store after ushering out the last batch of tourists and stopped doing business.

Just as he was about to close the door, Zhang Yang drove over and handed over a few cards.

These were the lifespan cards that Mu You ordered from Dragon Soars. Each card contained a 100-year lifespan and was priced at 1 million in cash.

The current standard exchange rate for lifespan to cash on the Fools’ Forum was 8223 yuan for one year. However, this was the price for small amounts of lifespan.

As the forum placed severe restrictions on lifespan transactions, the process was quite time-consuming and cumbersome, and those willing to sell their lifespan generally only sold three to five years to get some pocket money. There were few who would sell large amounts of lifespan all at once.

Therefore, only lifespans within five years could be quickly obtained at a price ratio of about 1:8000.

If you wanted to buy large amounts of lifespan, several hundred years or more, you either had to spend time and manpower collecting on the forum or pay more to exchange for large amounts of lifespan at a higher price ratio.

For example, the lifespan cards in his hand were an avenue provided by the Abnormal Adjustment Bureau for members to exchange large amounts of lifespan. The price of 10,000 per year seemed to be a quarter more than the market price, but this was actually a benefit for internal bureau members. If you exchanged with ordinary forces on the forum, these cards would cost at least 1.2 to 1.5 million per card.

Mu You spent five million to exchange for five lifespan cards, mainly to use as capital for purchasing magical creatures in the Star Spirit World later on. To maintain the popularity of a pet store, it’s necessary to continuously introduce new species to keep things fresh.