This Text Adventure Game is Absolutely Toxic

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

On top of the velvet cloth, 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 ritual is, it must be in place.

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

Little Mu Ling looked at the toys on the table and giggled. Without much thought, she stretched out her hand to take all the things in front of her into her arms.

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

Hearing this, Mu Ling 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'.

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 supplies.

 Only Mu You in the whole world can act normally.

But all of this 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.

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

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

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

 “Little clingy spirit.”

 Scene after scene appeared in his mind...

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

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.

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

  May 27, 2014, the time is 12:55 noon.

Mu You suddenly felt confused and stood there blankly.

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

However, the little girl was only interested in three minutes. 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..."

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

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.

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

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

But this only refers to the physical state. 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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

 “Dad is here, what’s wrong?”

 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—Fantasy Pet Shop.

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.

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

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

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.

"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.

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

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

 The road is busy with traffic, and people are coming and going on both sides. It looks very lively.

 …

Mu You was used to the body of a super-powered person, but now he 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.

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

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.

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

Since the sky will not change, it is difficult for him to judge the time. The whole scene is obviously crowded with people, but it is so quiet that you can hear a pin drop. He is the only one talking, which is indescribably weird.

Mu You talked for a while, but soon couldn't talk anymore, 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.

It was not until now, after having spent more than ten hours alone in the realm of cessation, that he had a real understanding of the word "the realm 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 can be regarded as a relief.

 The next step is to find Lin Xue.

He and Lin Xue came in together, but he was the only one who could move at first. He needed to find Lin Xue first and pull her into the realm of tranquility 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.

He is just an ordinary person now. Most of the 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. How about breaking 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.

 He did not wake up Lin Xue immediately.

The process of awakening is irreversible. The time cage is a ‘cage’ after all. The minute Lin Xue wakes up earlier, the more she will suffer.

 So it’s best for him to hold on for as long as possible, and then wake up Lin Xue when he can’t hold on any longer.

 Muyou then returned to the pet shop, ready 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 does not seem to be able to make incorporeal energy such as 'electricity' operate.

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

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

  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, be pure in heart and have 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 these evil thoughts must not be allowed to 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, he must always stay here during 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.

Then Mu You 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 would 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, or 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.

With no positive feedback from anything he did, Muyou felt extremely bored after just one year.

 He tries to push away negative emotions and tries 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 has read all the books he could read no less than ten times, and he would feel nauseous if he read them again.

 The good news is that now he has all the goods in the world at his disposal.

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 samadhi.

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

Looking at the girl in front of him who was still but full of youthful vitality, Mu You swallowed. His lonely heart was haunting him, driving 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, it will be impossible to complete the long journey of 5,000 years.

 He needs to test his ultimate endurance. If this endurance cannot even meet the minimum standard, then it is better to give up early to prevent Lin Xue from suffering along with him.

 Mu You left the Lin family and even left 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 with nothing makes you more likely to lose yourself.

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

 In the following decades, he did not leave again, but stayed in K City, continuing to think of various ways to kill time.

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

 Recently, his fingers have 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, and numbly starting meaningless work...

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

Mu You was startled, and quickly concentrated his mind 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 the Lin family again and stood in front of Lin Xue.

  ‘The 155th day of the 76th year’.

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 reached out to Lin Xue again.

This time he didn’t stop and touched her directly... (End of chapter)