This Text Adventure Game is definitely poisonous
Chapter 488 - 290: The Walking Brain_3

Chapter 488: Chapter 290: The Walking Brain_3

"Tree branch tracks? A tree-man? A seedling?"

Mu You frowned, aware that many small-sized tree-men lived in Sunlight Forest, although they were usually only active during the day.

Moreover, if it were just an ordinary tree-man, Pumpkin Lantern wouldn’t single it out for reminder. After all, traces like tree branches were everywhere in the forest.

Regardless, Mu You decided to track it down first and check it out.

[You follow the traces and eventually arrive at a bush.]

[Through the gaps in the bush, you see an oddly shaped figure.]

[It’s a slender tree-man about fifteen centimeters tall. However, compared to its frail torso, its head is a hemisphere made up of a series of creases and grooves, giving it a heavy-headed appearance that looks like a "walking brain".]

[Currently, the tree-man with its ’brain’ is sifting through leaves on the muddy ground, tasting each one separately.]

[The Omniscient Crystal is relaying information about the figure to you.]

[Wisdom Tree: a kind of special tree-man plant with extremely high intelligence. It only operates at night. In its active state, its body is frail and timid. If larger organisms approach or attack it suddenly, it may faint and die on the spot. When rooted, it reverts back to a regular plant, enhancing its survivability but losing its wisdom. It produces one Wisdom Fruit daily.]

The Wisdom Tree!

Mu You’s eyes lit up.

Others might not have heard of this thing, but as a Magic Potion Master, it was known to him!

Early in his study of magic potions, he read about this creature in Vivian’s books. It was one of the highlighted creatures.

’Wisdom Fruit’ produced by the Wisdom Tree can be used to make various important potions such as the Smart Potion and the Never-Forget Potion.

Yet the most critical and renowned one is the ’Comprehension Potion’: consumption would double the understanding ability for a period, like, if you take it before a magic class, the progress in understanding the following course would be doubled!

While not as cherished as a unicorn, it is at least on the level of the mandrake, a treasure worthy of being a store’s signature item.

Mu You would not let go of such an encounter, so he decided to capture it right away.

First, he set a circle of traps and then he appeared to chase it.

[The Wisdom Tree notices your presence. Seeing you rushing toward it, it started to panic and fled.]

[The Wisdom Tree, with a zigzagging step, skillfully walked over your traps, and its steps were so precise that none of the traps were triggered...]

As expected, traps don’t work on it at all; it can completely see through them.

Mu You then tried teleporting to it and trapping it with Chain Claws.

However, both attempts ended in failure. Not because he couldn’t catch it, but because it was too timid. So timid, that just teleporting beside it would utterly shock it and it would drop dead.

Here, ’drop dead’ truly means death by shock! Yes, it’s that timid.

Upon its death, the body would disappear, and it would take a long time to revive again. Where it would later revive was uncertain.

This essentially eliminates any way for Mu You to forcefully capture it.

With no choice, Mu You had to reverse time, trailing behind it cautiously, keeping the distance neither too near nor too far.

The only option now was to tire it out, and only when it had exhausted its energy and had to take root, could he capture it.

[The Wisdom Tree reached into its brain stem and threw a Wisdom Fruit at you!]

[You caught the Wisdom Fruit. The translucent fruit in front of you tempted you; you couldn’t resist taking a bite...]

[You’ve been poisoned by the Wisdom Fruit and died!]

[You have died, life span -100 years, experience -100...]

"Reverse time!"

[Time rewinds, you’re back five seconds ago.]

[Again, the crystalline fruit in your hand tempts you, and you...]

This time, Mu You hurridely clicked on the ’Wisdom Fruit’ before his character could eat it, extracting the fruit into reality.

A crystal-clear fruit, the size of a Glaze Bead, appeared in Mu You’s hand.

Seeing this bead-sized fruit, Mu You couldn’t help but swallow his saliva, almost subconsciously wanting to eat it. He quickly steadied his mind, put the fruit away, and got it out of his sight.

This was the effect of the fruit: any creature that saw it would naturally want to swallow it.

However, it was highly toxic. It can only be consumed after specific treatment. Those who directly swallow it would undoubtedly die!

The Wisdom Tree often killed its enemies with this method by throwing the Wisdom Fruit at them to poison them and help itself escape.

Fortunately, as a professional Magic Potion Master, Mu You wouldn’t make such a basic mistake.