This Text Adventure Game is Totally Poisonous

There is a round table in the room, with a layer of red velvet spread over the round table.

On top of the flannel, Muyou placed a circle of small items, such as abacus, spoons, ingots, clocks, flutes, jade pendants, etc.

These are all ready-made week-catching items, each with a different meaning.

Yes, today is his daughter's first birthday. The custom of celebrating the birthday is not very popular in K City, and their family doesn't really believe in it, but no matter how basic the sense of ritual is, it must be in place.

Mu You prepared things early, set up the camera, arranged everything neatly, and then carried his daughter to the table.

Xiao Mu Ling looked at the toys on the table and giggled. Without thinking much, she reached out and took everything in front of her into her arms.

"No, no, baby, choose the one you like best." Mu You said softly.

When Mu Ling heard this, she looked at him blankly with her fingers in her mouth, as if she was sure to choose only one? Shouldn’t we want them all?

Mu You nodded insistently, otherwise there would be no point in catching Zhou.

Little Ling'er obediently opened her eyes and looked around, trying to find her favorite.

The little hand waved in the air, and finally landed on a 'knife'.

It was a small scimitar, of course it was just a plastic toy. The little girl took the knife in her hand and started playing with it for her own entertainment without looking at other things.

Mu You shook his head in amusement: "You really follow your mother..."

I don’t know if it was the influence of the overly abundant Death bloodline in her body, or she was used to seeing Lin Xue wielding a sickle and waving it around. A bunch of small toys, the girl was obviously most interested in this thing that was closest to the shape of a sickle.

Mu You has already considered whether to find a way to imitate the Death Scythe and create a magical weapon for the little girl so that she can use it in the future.

However, the little girl only had three minutes of enthusiasm. She grabbed the toy knife and played with it for a while. She soon lost interest. She put the toy aside and crawled towards Muyou. She stretched out her hands and said coquettishly: "Dad...hug..."

"Little clingy spirit."

Mu You complained, but he immediately picked up his daughter.

The little girl lay skillfully in Muyou's arms, curled up her limbs, and curled her eyes, with an expression of peace of mind and enjoyment.

Even though my daughter just turned one year old today, due to the previous energy compensation, her body shape is now at the state of two years old. In addition, as a child of a theocracy, her physique is already stronger than that of ordinary people. In fact, she is already three years older than normal. The child is almost 2 years old and can run and jump.

However, this only refers to the physical condition. In terms of intelligence and experience, he is still at the age of just one year old, so he looks like a two or three-year-old child, but he is still used to clinging to his parents like a baby.

"Dad...Dad..." Mu You was about to put his daughter to sleep when the little girl suddenly started to babble.

"Dad is here, what?"

"Dad...Mom...together...not leaving..." the little girl said intermittently, obviously wanting to express something, but because she was not yet proficient in language, she couldn't express it.

"What's wrong with mom? Mom and dad will never separate." Seeing the anxious look on the little girl's face, Mu You hurriedly comforted her.

The little girl was even more anxious, babbling and shouting: "...Mom is sad...Mom doesn't cry..."

At the same time, he stretched out his hands and groped Mu You's face.

Mu You was a little confused and was about to take her daughter to Lin Xue to let Lin Xue hear what the little girl wanted to express.

At this time, the little girl touched his chin and held his face with her two little hands. A soft energy surged out of her hands.

Mu You suddenly felt confused and stood there blankly.

A memory that had been sealed deep in his soul began to loosen as this energy washed away.

Scene after scene appeared in his mind...

…

Mu You woke up from the chaos, opened his eyes and saw that he was on a commercial street.

The busy road with people coming and going on both sides looks very lively.

But everything fell into a strange tranquility, and everything around him was in a still state. Whether it was people, objects, or birds, insects and flies in the sky, they were all frozen in the painting like photos.

In the whole world, only Mu You himself can act normally.

After a brief daze, Mu You quickly came to his senses. He and Lin Xue had just entered the Heart of Time together. This was obviously the scene of a time cage.

At this moment, he has returned to his normal state and no longer possesses any super powers.

Mu You avoided the pedestrians, walked out of the commercial street, and walked forward for a while. A familiar two-story building appeared in front of him - the Funny Pet Shop.

Looking at the 'Closing' sign at the door, Mu You stepped forward, rummaged through his body, took out the key, opened the door and walked in familiarly.

The house was empty, no one was there, except for rows of various pets kept in cages, all of which remained still.

Mu You went straight to the calendar at the door. The first priority was to determine the specific time of this scene.

On May 27, 2014, the time was 12:55 noon.

Mu You knew it by heart. In 2014, he was still in college and his parents were still alive. The second elder was not at home today and must have gone to a pet care base in the suburbs to purchase goods.

Mu You looked around at home. All electronic devices such as mobile phones and computers were unusable, and the pictures were all frozen in the moment when time stood still.

In addition, the car couldn't start, so Mu You had to ride a bicycle instead.

Mu You, who was used to having a superpower's body, suddenly changed into an ordinary one. Mu You was really uncomfortable with it. After two hours of pedaling on his bicycle, he finally arrived at the nursery in the suburbs.

As expected, a large number of pet dealers were queuing up at the entrance of the nursery. Mu You had also been to this place several times with his parents. At this time, he entered the venue familiarly and counted the heads of people in search of them.

After searching for several hours and searching through almost half of the factory, he finally found his parents in a corner.

At this time, the two elders were in front of the accounting desk, looking excited and arguing loudly with the accounting clerk.

Looking at his parents, Mu You felt a little emotional. He moved a chair nearby and sat down. He chatted with the two elders for a while and described the subsequent situation of the pet store.

Since the sky would not change, it was difficult for him to judge the time. The whole scene was crowded with people, but it was so quiet that you could hear a needle drop. He was the only one talking, which was indescribably weird.

Mu You talked for a while, but soon couldn't talk any more, and even felt a faint feeling in his heart.

Mu You has entered the realm of tranquility before, but he was mostly in battle and had no intention of paying attention to anything else. He usually spins the top endlessly for only ten seconds, and it ends in the blink of an eye, so he doesn't feel anything.

Only now, after spending more than ten hours alone in the realm of cessation, did he have a real understanding of the word "end of cessation".

He was the only living person in the whole world, as if it was a world that only belonged to him. This feeling was really novel at first. But the feeling of depression came faster than expected.

Mu You stopped talking in time, moved the two elders back into the house, sat down on the sofa, and then left the conservation base.

No matter what, meeting my parents this time was a relief.

Next it was time to find Lin Xue.

He and Lin Xue came in together, but he was the only one who could move initially. He needed to find Lin Xue first and pull her into the realm of restraint before they could start their lives together.

Mu You rode on the road and headed straight for the Lin family.

"Speaking of which, Lin Xue must be abroad at this time, right?" Mu You couldn't help but mutter on the way.

Now he is just an ordinary person, and most means of transportation in this world are still unavailable. If Lin Xue is really abroad, it means that he has to rely on two legs to get abroad first, so why not break his legs?

Fortunately, he was lucky.

Mu You rode his bicycle and rushed to the Lin family compound, and successfully found Lin Xue in the back garden of Lin Xue's grandma's house.

Lin Xue was wearing a light yellow dress and a sun hat, holding a watering can in front of the flower bed to water the flowers.

Lin Xue in this era was only 19 years old. Both in appearance and temperament, he was more youthful than the Lin Xue in his impression.

After confirming Lin Xue's location, Mu You felt relieved.

Next, he did not wake up Lin Xue immediately.

The process of awakening is irreversible. The time cage is a 'cage' after all. If Lin Xue wakes up earlier, she will suffer more.

So it was best for him to hold on for as long as possible first, and then wake up Lin Xue when he couldn't hold it anymore.

Next, Mu You returned to the pet shop, preparing to live alone at home for a long time.

The first and most important thing is to record time. In this world where the sun does not rise and the moon sets, and time always stands still, it is extremely important to maintain a sense of time. Only with a clear time record can we hope to survive.

In this space, dead objects he touches will temporarily resume operation, but there are many restrictions, such as all electronic devices cannot be used. His contact doesn't seem to be able to move incorporeal energy like 'electricity'.

Mu You went to a watch shop outside, found a bunch of mechanical watches, picked the best one and put it on his wrist. From then on, the watch never left his body.

Later, I prepared a lot of notepads and diaries, and maintained the habit of writing diaries every day, recording the date by the way.

The second is a regular life. After getting the clock, Mu You followed the habits of normal people, strictly working at sunrise and resting at sunset every day.

Finally, there is a pure heart and few desires. In this world where there is no one to monitor and control, everything is decided by oneself, and many evil thoughts will appear in the human heart involuntarily, such as the desire for destruction, murderous desire, lust, etc.

But we must not let these evil thoughts grow. Once something is opened, the spiritual level will slowly be corroded. If there is a first time, there will be a second time, and more times, until the day when the spirit is completely rotten.

Five thousand years is destined to be a long journey. A regular life and indifferent desires are the necessary conditions to ensure that one does not gradually fall into depravity. After all, he does not just need to stay here for five thousand years, but also has to remain here throughout the period. Keep your mental state stable. Once your sanity drops to a certain level, you will be devoured by the prison and will never have the chance to leave.

Mu You then started a stable life at home, reading and working during the day, resting at night, and eating three meals a day. Although the food here had no taste at all, and he himself did not feel full or hungry. sense, but the sense of ritual should be indispensable.

Even though Mu You tried his best to pretend that he was living a normal life, the feeling of emptiness still came faster than expected.

Vivian is right, the scariest thing about the time cage is not the loneliness of being alone, but the fact that there is no point in doing anything here.

The books at home, and even the books in the entire city, only have content in those parts that he has read personally, and the rest are all blank. Even if he wants to read, he can only reread these things that he has learned by heart over and over again.

At the same time, there is no need to think about computers, the Internet, and mobile phones.

Even if Mu You wants to exercise, his body will not change at all, because the physical data of this world are locked from the beginning, and no matter how long he exercises, it will not add any muscle to him.

Without any positive feedback from anything he did, Muyou felt extremely bored after just one year.

He tried to push away negative emotions, trying to pass the time by sleeping or meditating.

But I soon discovered that the more this happened, the harder it was to calm down.

He had read all the books he could read no less than ten times, and he would feel sick to his stomach every time he read them.

The good news is, he now has all the stuff in the world for him to splurge on.

Mu You then stopped studying, changed his lifestyle, and started farming and building houses.

Unfortunately, seeds planted in the ground will not take root or sprout.

At the same time, cement cannot be formed here, so Mu You can only find bricks and wood to build simple buildings, which he builds and dismantles, and dismantles and builds again.

It’s meaningless, but it still kills time.

However, he only persisted in doing these things for three years, and he could no longer repeat them. He could only continue to switch to new 'jobs'...

…

In a daze, Mu You came to the tenth year since he entered the realm of cessation.

On this day, Mu You came to Lin Xue again.

Looking at the still girl in front of him, but full of youthful vitality, Mu You swallowed his saliva, and the loneliness in his heart drove him to slowly stretch out his hand towards Lin Xue...

But at the last moment, Mu You stopped his hand.

Not because he is determined, but because he knows that if only the first 10 years are too much for him to bear, it will be impossible to complete the long journey of 5,000 years.

He needed to test his ultimate endurance. If this endurance could not even meet the minimum standard, it would be better to give up earlier, lest Lin Xue suffer along with him.

Mu You left the Lin family and even K city.

He planned a grand trip around the world for himself.

Since you can't stay in a familiar place, changing the environment will always bring some freshness.

However, the actual situation disappointed Mu You. There was no "global world" at all, and the external world was much smaller than he imagined.

This world will only generate regions and cities that he personally visited at that time, and in this era, he has never left the province at all. Therefore, only K City and a few surrounding urban areas have things in the outside world, and the other places are all a wasteland. Pure white space.

Staying in that kind of space where there is nothing makes it easier to lose yourself.

Fifteen years later, Mu You traveled everywhere he could and returned to K City.

In the next few decades, he did not leave again, but stayed in K City and continued to think of various ways to kill time.

During this period, Mu You stood in front of Lin Xue countless times.

Recently, his fingers had almost touched Lin Xue, but he resisted and pulled back every time.

On this day, Mu You was like an ordinary person, getting up mechanically, having a numb breakfast, numbly recording a diary, numbly starting meaningless work...

Until a certain moment, Mu You suddenly noticed that little bits of light were emanating from his shoulders, and his figure was becoming illusory over time.

Mu You was startled and hurriedly concentrated and stabilized his spirit. Only then did the light spots stop spreading, and his illusory figure became solid again.

Mu You broke into a cold sweat.

Only then did he understand that in the realm of cessation, real mental breakdown cannot be felt. The moment when he felt so empty and frantically wanted to wake Lin Xue up to accompany him was not about to collapse. sign.

The real collapse is like this now, without any warning, starting quietly, and finally ending in silence.

…

A few hours later, Mu You came to Lin's house again and stood in front of Lin Xue.

‘Day 155, Year 76’.

Looking at the time recorded in the diary, Mu You sighed.

In fact, he originally expected to survive alone for a hundred years, but now he only lasted three-quarters of it.

But there is nothing he can do. This is his current limit. If his sanity becomes more unstable, he may disappear quietly at some point.

Mu You stretched out his hand towards Lin Xue again.

This time he didn't stop and touched her directly... (End of Chapter)