This Text Adventure Game is definitely poisonous
Chapter 882 - 429: Mirage and Lamp God

Chapter 882: Chapter 429: Mirage and Lamp God

[You had read the letter and only then did you learn that Pocket Toad had heard that many hidden treasures were buried in the desert. Coincidentally, Ice Blue Frog had expressed a desire to witness the desert’s solar eclipse. Thus, the two frogs hit it off instantly and entered the desert together to travel and treasure hunt.]

However, a few days ago as they were passing through the Crimson Desert, Ice Blue Frog suddenly vanished mysteriously. Pocket Toad searched everywhere nearby but, due to the monotonous desert landscape, feared getting lost and dared not stray from the disappearance site, frantic with worry. The only option left was to ask its friend to seek help from you...]

"..."

Mu You looked at the letter, feeling utterly confused.

Never mind that you two amphibians, driven by a whim, decided to travel to the desert, but you even managed to lose your wife...

Luckily, at the end of the letter, the frog included a description of its current location: below Red Cliff, beside the Ghost Pillar.

"Red Cliff? Ghost Pillar?"

Mu You naturally had never heard of these names, but since there were plenty of locals around, finding the place shouldn’t be a problem.

[You reached out to stop the frenzied congregation below and asked if anyone knew the place "below Red Cliff, beside the Ghost Pillar."]

[Most of the congregants looked at each other in bewilderment, obviously having no clue. Only one of the congregants suddenly raised his hand, indicating he knew the place.]

["Red Cliff is a cliff extending for dozens of miles in the middle of the Crimson Desert. It got its name because the entire cliff is composed of blood-red rocks," the congregant explained.]

["Below Red Cliff, near the edge, grows an erosion pillar about dozens of meters high, shaped eerily like a human head skeleton, thus named ’Ghost Pillar.’]"]

["Very good, lead the way!" Your praise made the congregant very happy, and he quickly nodded in agreement.]

[You allowed the others to roam free, then led this congregant and several dozen more out of the palace, boarded a land ship, and set off toward Red Cliff...]

Located in the center of the Crimson Desert, Red Cliff was not too far from their location. After about an hour’s travel on the land ship, they reached the place.

[Under the guidance of that congregant, the land ship finally stopped under a huge cliff. You led the congregants off the land ship and came before the cliff.]

[Looking up, the several-hundred-meter-tall blood-red cliff stood strikingly conspicuous in this world filled with swirling yellow sand.]

[Suddenly, a frog leaped onto your shoulder. It was the long-missed Pocket Toad.]

[Pocket Toad, excitedly waving its webbed paws, kept pointing toward the cliff in front of you, tearfully recounting its ordeal over the past few days.]

[Since the letter was sent, it had been waiting here for a full three days. During this period, it finally spotted Ice Blue Frog’s tracks!]

[It turned out that Ice Blue Frog had been captured by another frog from the desert. Located in the middle of Red Cliff, the images of the two frogs appeared punctually on the cliff face every day at the hottest time, but Pocket Toad could not find any entrance to the cliff and could only watch helplessly as its partner was teased by another frog, grinding its back teeth in jealousy...]

"..."

Mu You watched with a twitching corner of his eye. That was... quite a tragic experience for a frog.

But, images appearing on the cliff?

What did that mean? Did the cliff also function as a movie screen?

Pocket Toad’s explanation was vague, leaving Mu You unable to judge for the time being, so he had no choice but to order the other congregants to search nearby for any other entrances or mechanisms in the area.

They searched for a long time but ultimately found nothing.

It wasn’t until around two o’clock local time that the game suddenly displayed a new prompt.

[You heard a series of exclamations from the surrounding congregants, all of them looking toward the cliff with surprised faces.]

[You also looked toward Red Cliff and saw a moving image actually appearing on it!]

[In the image were two frogs, one Flowering Frog with a beautiful ice-blue flower growing on its back, and the other a Desert Stone Frog, its back covered with colorful round beads like those on a toad, and its tongue and jaw also studded with beads.]

[In the image, the Desert Stone Frog was holding several bizarre flowers in its mouth, its face full of eagerness as it lingered near the Ice Blue Frog, seemingly trying to win Ice Blue Frog’s favor with the gifts in its hands.]

[However, love unreciprocated, the Ice Blue Frog curled up in the corner with its eyes closed and remained motionless. Its body was surrounded by various desert insects and scorpion corpses, but it was completely unmoved, appearing as though it would starve itself in refusal.]

[The toxic nature of Ice Blue Frog made it impossible for the Stone Frog to approach carelessly, and it could only pace anxiously nearby without daring to make direct contact.]

[At this moment, more frantic than the Stone Frog in the image was Pocket Toad!]

[The moment the image appeared, Pocket Toad burst into rage, leaping up and clinging to the rock wall, furiously scratching at the spot where the Stone Frog in the image was located.]

[Unfortunately, its fury was poured only onto the cliff itself, having no effect on the Stone Frog in the image.]

"..."

Mu You looked on with an odd expression.

So, was this image a mirage?

Mirages in the desert were not uncommon, but usually, they appeared in the air, not projected directly onto a cliff face?

Of course, regardless of whether this scene was a mirage or not, since an image had been projected, it indicated that the events inside were truly occurring somewhere. Ice Blue Frog indeed was lost in some place.