This Text Adventure Game is definitely poisonous-Chapter 1229 - 549: Blind Men Touching an Elephant_3

"Props can’t be used here?" Mu You mused to himself.

Just at this moment, there were also messages from other people in the group chat.

"Damn, why can’t I use my props!"

"Me neither, all of the props have ’rusted’..."

...

Turned out he wasn’t the only one encountering this problem.

Mu You shook his head and didn’t waste any more time trying. Right now, he didn’t have many useful props anyway, and the truly useful Pocket Watch didn’t need to be used in the game.

[You continue to explore ahead...]

[You see a familiar Green Lamp floating on the water at the shore ahead, identical to the Soul-inducing Lamp at the exit of the Tower of the Brave!]

"Soul-inducing Lamp?" Mu You’s eyes lit up.

If there was a Soul-inducing Lamp, it meant that a Fool had set foot here before, and maybe he could find clues left by his ancestors.

[You quickly run up to the Green Lamp, reaching out to touch it...]

[However, your hand passes right through it without touching any solid substance...]

"Eh?" Mu You was stunned. What’s happening, is it fake? An Illusion?

Just at that moment, other people in the group chat piped up with their messages.

"Holy shit, what the hell!"

"What’s wrong?"

"Suddenly, it tells me I’ve run into a tree..."

"... Are you walking with your eyes closed or what?"

"No, I clearly didn’t see anything in front of me, but then suddenly got a notification that I hit a tree!"

"Eh? How do you know you hit a tree?"

"Because after hitting the tree, my character felt the shape of a big tree in front of me, but I can’t see it..."

"An invisible tree?"

"Seems like it’s true! I just got a notice too!"

"You bumped into a tree too?"

"Not exactly, I was attacked by some ’Invisible Thing’!"

"Everybody, be careful. There really are monsters here, and they seem to be transparent. I’ve already lost men..."

...

The ongoing discussions quickly made the atmosphere in the group chat tense.

The most uncomfortable part about pioneering new worlds is that everything ahead is completely unknown. There’s nothing you can reference when you encounter something, and this sort of unknown is the most terrifying thing.

"Invisible trees... Invisible monsters..."

Mu You looked at everyone’s messages in the group chat and couldn’t help but frown.

Combining that with the Green Lamp illusion he had just encountered, he made a bold guess: could it be that everything they were seeing now was fake, and that the true scene in front of them was actually hidden behind these illusions, which is why they couldn’t see it?

Mu You immediately controlled his character to touch around in the vicinity.

As expected, aside from the ground, all objects that he could see and tried to touch were ’pass-through’, having no physical substance. However, along the way, he kept bumping into ’invisible’ rocks and trees, which left him battered and bleeding.

This feeling was as if vision was ineffective, and what was seen with the eyes was completely irrelevant to the actual scene, which could only be probed with other senses like hearing and touch.

Mu You immediately informed the others of this discovery.

"It seems to be true; the obstacles we see around us are all fake!"

"Damn, it’s bad enough the props are ineffective, but now our vision’s been stripped too? How are we supposed to pioneer like this, a bunch of blind people playing guessing games with reality?" someone complained.

"And there are monsters around..."

...

The message Mu You shared cast a further shadow on the already low confidence of the group.

"Don’t worry, these monsters seem to be unable to see us either..." Son of Heaven suddenly left a message.

"That’s right," Mu You almost spoke at the same time.

In the gap between the group’s discussions, he had just used his ability to rewind and successfully resolved an ’invisible’ monster.

[You have killed ’Poisonous Gland Snail’ (2 stars), obtained Snail Shell Fragment*1, Dream Powder*1.]

In the process of killing this monster, Mu You rewound dozens of times, using various methods to probe. The results proved that the snail indeed could not see him. All he had to do was to slightly change direction, and the snail would engage in an entire battle with thin air.

This meant that all beings here were equal in terms of sight—completely blind.

"You’ve killed a monster? Did it drop anything special?" Son of Heaven messaged him to inquire.

"Apart from basic materials, it dropped something called ’Dream Powder’, you?" Mu You replied. The other party obviously had made a kill too, and now asking in this way, most likely they got a special item as well.

"Mine is ’Nightmare Powder’," Son of Heaven replied.

"Oh?"

Mu You first clicked to check the description of ’Dream Powder’.

[Dream Powder: After ingestion, you will have a pleasant dream the next time you sleep.]

Son of Heaven also sent over the information for ’Nightmare Powder’, nearly identical to the description of Dream Powder, only the pleasant dream was replaced by a nightmare.