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Chapter 905 - 436 The Truth of the "Fool" Game_3

Chapter 905: Chapter 436 The Truth of the "Fool" Game_3

"But even so, it was difficult to clean up completely, and when Sky City returned to the Star Spirit World, nearly everyone was infected. Luckily, the Divine Beasts’ parasitism on the Fools wasn’t as thorough as with the Divine Race. Later, a Fool discovered a method to cleanse the Divine Beast from within oneself, allowing a very few to survive."

"However, those who survived with this method had their Vitality drained by the Divine Beast. Such individuals would lose their ability to cast Magic and most of their strength, their bodies dramatically withered, organs degenerated, becoming skin and bones, and resembling dwarfs. Some survivors could only survive by embedding themselves in flowerpots, mimicking the way plants absorb nutrients, turning into something neither human nor ghost."

Mu You listened and sighed, feeling deeply for those adventurous Fools from the past.

It wasn’t due to their selfishness that they had attracted the Divine Beast, after all, their original intention was to solve the problem of the Great Cataclysm and let everyone survive in the future. They just didn’t expect such a disaster to happen.

"And this is precisely why the ’Fool’ game appeared," the old man suddenly mentioned.

"Oh?" Mu You was startled, mentioning the Fool game at this moment suddenly made him think of something.

He had encountered a living Titan in the game before, and had been squashed by a foot, but afterwards, he wasn’t parasitized...

"Could it be that through the Fool game, one can avoid being parasitized by a Divine Beast?" Mu You asked.

"Yes," the old man nodded and smiled, "The Fools control merely their Mind Avatars in the game, not their physical bodies, naturally eliminating the possibility of being occupied by the Soul Devouring Beast."

"This is also a lesson learned by the previous generation of Fools: since they cannot personally go to the Divine Race’s world, they use the projection of their Mind Avatars to allow them to safely operate in that world indirectly, continuing the search for a solution to the Great Cataclysm and this is the only way to counter the Divine Beast. Thus, after a thousand years of preparation, this ’Fool’ game came into being."

"So that’s how it is..."

Mu You listened, his expression peculiar. But this way, everything made sense.

This was the real ’main line’ of the Fool game: to let players enter the Divine Race’s world to stop the Great Cataclysm and save themselves, while ensuring their own safety.

"Later, I was appointed by a few Admins who produced this game as the ’Observer of the Forgotten Land’, and I was granted some authority. My task was to regularly report to them about the occurrences in the Forgotten Land," the old lady said.

"Are the other Admins also on Earth now?" Mu You asked eagerly.

"No, they are all in the Star Spirit World, I don’t know exactly where they are hidden. A few years ago, after I resigned from being the observer, I haven’t been in contact with them," the old man shook his head, then remembered something, and looked at Mu You.

"Speaking of which, it’s lucky to have met you today. I just received a message that I need you to pass to the other Admins."

"Oh? What message?" Mu You asked.

"Tell them, the weather in the Forgotten Land is changing ahead of schedule, they need to prepare quickly!"

"Er... what do you mean?" Mu You was puzzled.

"Exactly what it sounds like, you just pass on my message, and they will naturally understand," the old man smiled.

"Alright... but how do I send the message?" Mu You spread his hands, "It seems I can’t communicate directly with the other Admins."

"That’s easy..." The old man smiled, beckoned Mu You closer, and as Mu You approached, she tremulously extended her finger and touched Mu You’s forehead.

Mu You immediately felt his mind being imbued with a foggy substance, which apparently was the message mentioned just now.

"Find them, and the message will naturally be collected by them," the old lady said.

...

After leaving the message, the old lady prepared to bid farewell and leave.

Mu You and Fuya both earnestly invited her to stay in the city for a while, or even to move there permanently, but unfortunately, the old lady seemed very resistant to city life, insisting on returning, and they had to give up.

"Grandma, I’ll see you off!"

Fuya personally escorted the old lady home and before leaving, she specifically went to buy a heap of daily necessities.

Previously she might not have known, but now that she was aware of her ancestor’s situation, she couldn’t let her continue to live so unsupported, and was determined to improve her life within her means.

After seeing off the two, Mu You also returned to the study, closed his eyes to meditate, opened his third eye, and then again connected his thoughts to that giant orb of light as he had done last time.

The orb of light was still entwined with numerous strands of Karma Lines, and through recent explorations, Mu You had figured out that those red and blue lines actually corresponded to individual Smoke Beasts.

Mu You ignored the other Karma Lines and directly found the green strand from last time, tracing it back to its source.

...

Meanwhile, somewhere else, in a dark and gloomy secret space.

In a dark corner, a pair of eyes suddenly opened: "Not good!"

"What happened?" another voice asked beside.

"I received a message from Frannie, she says the Forgotten Land’s weather is changing ahead of schedule!"

"What?"

A single stone caused a thousand ripples, and instantly several voices spoke out in unison.

"How can this be? Isn’t there still several years before it changes?"

"I don’t know, maybe it’s because the number of registered users for ’Fool’ is quite large, and the excessive influx has caused some spatial anomalies..."

"I always said we shouldn’t have started the open beta so early, we should have at least settled for another two or three years first..."

"Enough, what’s the point of saying this now? Waiting another two or three years could bring new problems. It’s just that humans can’t predict everything."

"Luckily, server 2 was breached earlier, which pushed us to speed up some parts of the Faith System, otherwise we’d really be in trouble now..."

"But should we really roll it out now? It’s still a prototype..."

"What else can we do, do you want to watch the Forgotten Land suffer another minor cataclysm?"

"Even if it’s a prototype, we must launch it now!"