This Text Adventure Game is definitely poisonous
Chapter 569 - 319 Dark City_2

Chapter 569: Chapter 319 Dark City_2

Mu You opened it and found it as blurry as he expected.

It was just a rough topographical map, many places were so indistinct that the writing was illegible.

Mu You squinted to make it out and after a considerable time, he finally verified the location of the Dark Temple.

However, looking at the map, the temple was buried within an underground mountain range, surrounded by barren hills, with no other entrances marked.

"You’re going to the temple for a task, aren’t you?" came a message from Lin Xue.

"Yeah." Mu You affirmed. Lin Xue knew about the task of mapping fragments triggered by the Elf Horn.

"Then I know a place... here."

Lin Xue sent another picture, still the same map, but a location marked with a red cross, located at the southern foot of the mountain range where the temple was.

"What’s significant about this place?" asked Mu You.

"It’s an ant cave. I’ve entered it for a task before, there’s a valley inside. Although I haven’t explored the internal parts, based on how the routes run, it might lead to the temple. If you want to infiltrate the temple, maybe you can try from here, but you’ll first need to pass through the nest of the White Ant Beast." Lin Xue explained.

"That sounds good, I’ll go check it out." Mu You lit up at the idea. If it was an ant cave, there must be a lot of ant-like magical beasts inside, dealing with them was easier than dealing with the defenses at the temple entrance, and he could level up.

"Wait, I’ll go too." Lin Xue chimed in.

"Aren’t you working on your task?" Mu You asked, confused.

"My present task is ’Kill Magical Beasts 1000 times with a sickle.’, doesn’t matter where I do it." Lin Xue sent an emoji wearing shades.

"Alright, let me call more people."

For a place like the ant cave with possibly numerous monsters, it was best to gather more people before entering.

Mu You directly gathered the same group of people from the last time: Little Ya, Lin Hai, Panda man.

In addition, their team was joined by a powerful helper: Shadow Wolf!

The Shadow Wolf had spent the last few days lazing around in Dawn City, eating grilled fish non-stop, making its appetite insatiable. Mu You was either finding it eating or searching for food every time he saw her.

Thanks to Shadow Wolf’s constant consumption, the fish store was nearly depleted. Mu You was worrying about the future food supply, thus he hastily gave the Hunger Gem to Shadow Wolf, thus significantly reducing her food intake frequency.

When Mu You found Shadow Wolf and told her they needed her to fight, Shadow Wolf agreed without hesitation.

["White Ant Beast?" Upon hearing the name of the creature you intend to fight, Shadow Wolf suddenly showed great interest.]

[You nod, asking Shadow Wolf if she knows anything about the ’White Ant Beast.’]

[Drooling, Shadow Wolf tells you that she has tasted the meat of the ’Queen White Ant’ before, its meat was extremely delicious and a nourishing food for her.]

[Queen White Ant: A female ant in the White Ant Beast species with the ability to reproduce. Each ant colony only has one. It is in charge of laying eggs and ruling the entire colony. The White Ant Queen has extraordinary reproductive ability, but a short lifespan of just seven months. When it dies, it lays an Ant Queen Egg which can grow into a new Ant Queen once it absorbs enough nutrients.]

Mu You felt amused, it seemed Shadow Wolf was still focused on food.

But the text below reminded him that the queen ant should be quite large, right? If they found this queen ant, they could store up more food reserves for Shadow Wolf.

[You and several teammates have arrived at the foot of the Sombre Mountains. Visible in front of you is a deep cave over two meters high. Judging from the bones and traces of mucus around it, this seems to be the nest of some type of insect.]

Half an hour later, the group of six, under the guidance of Lin Xue, found the White Ant nest.

"White Ant Beasts are poisonous ants, not only will they poison you when you’re hit, but they also apply a poison to whoever kills them. Put on any gear that offers protection against poison in advance now. Little Sea, you’ll be under a lot of pressure soon, get ready for both healing and detoxifying..." Mu You started a group chat, summarizing the main characteristics of White Ant Beasts for everyone. This was mainly for Little Ya and Lin Hai to understand, as Lin Xue had experienced these tasks inside the cave before and was well versed in the properties of white ants.

"Oh, got it." Little Ya replied concisely.

"Don’t worry, Master, we’re all prepared!" Lin Hai was eager to try. After the last Ratman raid, he knew that Mu You had called him over for the video game raid, which he was certain would be an excellent opportunity to gain experience.

"Let’s get started!"

At Mu You’s command, everyone in the game stepped into the ant nest.

[You and your team members have entered the ant nest.]

[What presents before you is a vast mountain ravine.... The nest is located halfway up the valley, beneath which lies a bottomless abyss, and the inside passage is made up of a number of narrow mountain paths and bridges.]

[Your intrusion has alerted the nest’s inhabitants. Soon, numerous White Ant Beast soldiers emerge from all directions. Each ant is more than half a meter long, roaring angrily with gaping mouthparts as they haul their front limbs towards you...]

[You rush to lead the team forward, head up the narrow path on the mountain wall, seizing the advantageous terrain, and launch various spells against the approaching soldier ants...]

The number of ants in this nest is more than they had imagined. Under normal circumstances, it would be impossible to break through such a dense swarm with five or six people. They were relying mainly on the advantageous terrain.

Walking on such cliffs, it is much harder for the ants to surround them. They only need to secure their front and back paths, and as for the ants climbing up from below, they can easily send them sprawling with a single spell.

[Within the Magic Roar, colorful Magic Radiance shimmers in the ravine, and large swathes of ants continually fall from the rocks...]

[You have killed a level 7 soldier ant, experience +3, lifespan +1, entered the poisoned state, reducing 2 life points per second...]

[You have killed a level 8 soldier ant, experience +3, lifespan +1, obtained White Ant Shell*1...]

...

The combat was mostly automated by the game characters. Given the density of the ants, any spell they threw was guaranteed to hit. Everyone used their own methods, reaping the experience with abandon.

Kill notifications flashed quickly, everyone’s poison status also continued to stack up, Lin Hai was busier than ever, casting dispel and antidote spells non-stop. Despite his efforts, he still couldn’t keep up with the speed of the accumulating poison.

The monster density here was even more exaggerated than when they raided Ratmans in Phoenix City. The speed of experience gain left everyone agog, basically rising by about a hundred points per minute.

Mu You didn’t waste this efficient monster farming opportunity. He used all four experience cards he had saved up over the last few days, turning his experience income into five times the normal amount, reaching a terrifying 500+ experience per minute.

Of course, such efficient monster farming also led to high physical consumption. Even with the lifespan regained from killing the White Ant Beasts, they couldn’t maintain a balance. Their lifespan was decreasing at a rate of about one year per minute.

Even so, it was worth it.

For the next hour, with the continuous experience card effects, Mu You spent over 60 years of his lifespan for more than 30,000 experience points and instantly filled up his level 15 experience bar, promoting him to level 16!

Although the others didn’t have as extreme results as Mu You, they each gained around 6,000 experience points and all managed to level up once during the raid.

The only pity was that such efficient farming couldn’t last forever.

After advancing a little further, suddenly a notification popped up in the game.

[You’ve crossed the cliff and come to a bridge. To proceed, you must cross this hundred-meter-long bridge to reach the mountain wall on the other side. However, the bridge has broken in the middle.]

[Countless soldier ants are gathered at the end of the broken bridge on the other side, crowding it like a small hill, completely blocking your way.]

[On the other side, the soldier ants on the mountain wall have stopped their attack. They are clustered in groups at a distance, surrounding you...]

It seems after suffering many casualties, these ants have become a bit smarter. They no longer charge mindlessly but choose a strategy of surrounding without attacking, planning to trap them here...

"Master, we can’t proceed!"

Lin Hai’s voice came through the headset.

"You guys keep attacking to cover me. I’ll try to break through and find the Ant Queen." Mu You said.

Now that all the commotion here had likely attracted all the ants in the nest, the queen’s defenses would be weak. The queen is the heart of an ant colony, so if he could find where the queen was, these soldier ants would definitely retreat to aid.