This Text Adventure Game is definitely poisonous-Chapter 1275 - 567 ’Fool’ Server Shutdown?

Clearly, it wasn’t just the three of them that got disconnected.

Mu You tried to log in to the forum, and indeed, the forum was functioning normally.

As expected, the forum was also filled with cries of dismay.

"Disconnected?"

"Incredible, this game can disconnect?"

"What’s happening, is the system undergoing maintenance?"

"Why didn’t they give us a heads-up about the maintenance,"

"Damn it, I was in the middle of grinding monsters, isn’t this sudden disconnection sending me to my death?"

"Shit, I just spent 20 years of my life attending a Magic class, I had just entered the classroom, and then it cut me off, my life span..."

"Shouldn’t there be some compensation for this?"

"Waiting for a compensation announcement..."

"I’m not asking for much, just compensate each person with ten years of life span, and make everybody forget this incident..."

"Supporting..."

"Waiting for compensation +1..."

"What are you guys upstairs thinking, with billions of players, how could they give life span as compensation, who could provide that, the last Divinity bug, the officials just played dead and got through it..."

...

The forum was filled with various complaints.

From the tone of the players, it was obvious that none had realized the severity of the issue, thinking it was just a temporary glitch that would soon be resolved, so they were casually joking around.

Even those who complained about the disconnection did not take it very seriously; after all, it was just a disconnection, not a life-threatening situation, and at most, they would lose one year of lifespan, which to most players was not something to fret over.

Having scanned through the forum, Mu You found no one claiming they hadn’t been disconnected; it seemed that this time there was a total breakdown.

After some thought, he sat down cross-legged right there, entered the Mind’s Eye Vision, immersed his consciousness into the Karma Lines, and followed them to quickly find the source - a sphere of light.

However, the sphere of light seemed slightly different from before, though Mu You couldn’t specify exactly how. The rules and causes contained in the sphere were far too complex to understand at a glance.

Leaving the sphere, Mu You quickly found the Karma Lines of several Admins on the surface of the sphere and traced along them until he found where their consciousnesses were hiding.

The Admins were no longer surprised by his arrival, offered no resistance, and allowed him to enter directly.

When he opened his eyes again, Mu You found himself in the familiar subterranean cavern.

"Go check the north side..."

"It’s no good..."

"The 18th node is also disconnected..."

...

Several elders were whispering urgently among themselves, with expressions of haste and tones of urgency.

Seeing this, Mu You knew they must have encountered big trouble as well.

"What’s going on?" Mu You asked.

"Not long ago, all of our communication lines with World-Creating Mountain suddenly encountered a forceful interference, causing the Game System of Fool to disconnect from World-Creating Mountain..." Finally, someone spared a moment to answer Mu You.

"What kind of interference?"

"We’re not sure yet, but it’s definitely man-made interference." frёewebnoѵēl.com

"Man-made?" Mu You frowned, who had such power to interfere with the Game System?

The first entity he thought of was the old man who had taken away Dawn City.

"No, it’s not him." The elder shook his head immediately after hearing Mu You’s guess: "Although his ideals don’t align with ours, his actions are ultimately for the future of Fool, so he definitely wouldn’t do anything to sever Fool’s hope."

"Then who could it be?"

"Don’t know... Not only has the Fool game been disturbed by this force, but our consciousnesses have also been shielded from World-Creating Mountain by this force, and we cannot enter... It feels as if a protective shield has been unfolded around World-Creating Mountain..."

"Protective shield..." The elder’s description immediately made Mu You think of one thing – the mainframe!

Ava, the main control of Eden, this entity, could it have awakened already?

Linking this to earlier, when he happened to disconnect just as he was about to escape Eden, the timing was too coincidental, leading Mu You to wonder if it could indeed be artificial intelligence at work?

"Is there a way to repair it?" Mu You asked.

"We’re trying, but..." The elder gave a wry smile and didn’t finish his sentence, but Mu You already understood the implication.

Before this force withdraws, there’s probably nothing they can do.

"What if this disturbance continues?" asked Mu You.

"If that happens..." The individuals exchanged glances, all helplessly shaking their heads.

To speak frankly, they didn’t understand the rules connecting Fool game and World-Creating Mountain at all. The foundations of the entire Fool system were built on privileges stolen from World-Creating Mountain by the previous leader.

In other words, they were mere maintenance staff, not the creators of the game’s programming. Perhaps only the first leader who had truly accessed the core of World-Creating Mountain could understand its workings, bypass such interference, and re-establish the connection.

And this was something they could not do – at least not before the arrival of the next Great Cataclysm.

Mu You frowned; the situation seemed worse than he had imagined.

The apparent implication was that they were currently unable to deal with the situation, and if this force remained, the only outcome awaiting the game Fool would be a shutdown!

Could Fool really be shut down?

Mu You had not expected to come to this conclusion upon entering.

After thinking for a moment, he left the underground cavern, returned to the Karma Lines, traced his way back, and quickly arrived before the sphere that represented World-Creating Mountain.

Staring at the dazzling sphere as huge as the sun before him, Mu You concentrated his focus and slowly approached it.