Chapter 668 Meeting an Old Friend in a Foreign Land

[…Raindrops continue to fall, hitting every inch of the jungle, as if the God of Life is awakening the sleeping life with gentle fingers. Countless burrowing animals emerge from their underground hiding places, pushing their newly born cubs, insect eggs and unhatched eggs into the rain curtain…]

[Under the continuous nourishment of rain, insect eggs begin to hatch, and young birds struggle to get out of their shells, curiously exploring this new world. Countless buds emerge from the soil and treetops. On the earth, every creature is cheering and celebrating this feast of life…]

At this time, Mu You’s character was soaked like a drowned chicken, but it did not prevent him from appreciating the scenery of all things around him.

I have to admit that this jungle, which seems to be monotonous in color and has few changes in the environment, also has its own unique beauty.

[You suddenly heard a rumble in front of you, as if something heavy fell to the ground. ]

[You hurried over in the rain to check and found that the source of the sound was the withered ring tree where you had hidden before. 】

【At this moment, the trunk of this dead tree has been filled with dense blade wind crystal thorns. Thousands of crystal stones pierce and stay on the dead tree. The huge weight makes the dead tree overwhelmed and collapses. 】

【And at the broken root of this withered ring tree, under the hollow tree stump, you can see a white ring tree bud, which is stubbornly squeezing out of the rotten wood and drilling out of the soil, desperately absorbing sunlight and rain. The branches and leaves begin to rise at a speed visible to the naked eye. I believe that it will grow into a towering ring tree again soon...】

Looking at this text describing the rejuvenation of the rotten wood, Mu You suddenly has an epiphany.

Blade wind and time rain are not meaningless weather disasters. Needless to say, time rain allows countless new lives in the ring forest to be born and grow, and at the same time frees those aging and rigid creatures, completing the handover of the life cycle.

The knife wind with mineral crystals is of course fatal to living things, but for the ring wood, it is one of the links of renewal, because the normal ring wood is extremely hard and will not be affected by the knife wind. Only those decayed and withered ring wood will be affected. Only by destroying these aging ring wood with the knife wind can the living space for the new ring wood be made.

At the same time, taking advantage of this strong wind, the materials in the entire ring forest are balanced, so that the pure crystal ore produced in the depths of the ring forest is spread to the periphery, and the concentration of divinity outside the ring forest is reduced as much as possible to maintain the purity of the ring forest.

Otherwise, if there is no such strong wind as a means of resistance, the ring forest will sooner or later be eroded and infiltrated by the increasing pressure difference of divinity in the periphery, until it is completely replaced by the divinity system.

In short, these two natural disasters are of course disasters for humans, but for native species, they are necessary processes to maintain ecological balance and allow the ring forest to continue to exist.

The whole rain of time lasted for about five hours and finally stopped.

[After a rain, a large number of snail larvae crawled on the ground, leaving a trail of mucus, which was picked up by each small animal and taken to the depths of the forest...]

[You also picked up the snail larvae on your body and placed them on the branches of nearby plants. The snail larvae raised their tentacles to you, thanked you for your help, and then crawled deep into the branches...]

The rain ended, and Mu You cut out the panel to take a look.

What made him regretful was that an hour ago, the growth of his seed of time stopped, and finally stopped at 10.3%. After that, no matter how much rain it got, it would not grow by half a point.

"It seems that relying on the rain of time alone, it can only be improved to this point..."

Mu You is not sure whether this limit is the limit of the divine power of the pocket watch, or the upper limit of the time authority possessed by the Ring Forest.

If it is the latter, it means that the Ring Forest is obviously at a disadvantage in the tug-of-war over the time authority between the two world systems. As the only common rule between the two worlds, the time authority has been occupied by the divine world by 90%, and the original world only has the last 10% left...

Let's get back to the point. At this time, the rain has passed and the mental state of the game character seems to have been sublimated and baptized with the wind and rain. All the injuries on the body have been removed and the physical strength is full.

Mu You didn't waste any more time, and stepped on the slippery and muddy road like a black angel and continued on the road.

It took him three days and three nights to finally walk out of the third floor smoothly.

The day when the sword wind and rain broke out was equivalent to his staying in the third floor of the Ring Forest for four consecutive days.

It doesn't matter if it takes more time. What really makes Mu You regret is that he didn't find the Moon Well on the third floor and the relics left by the mechanic.

He has tried to expand his walking range, and Ava has also tried to detect all the way, but still nothing has been found. There is no way, the Ring Forest is too vast. If there is no transmitter positioning, trying to find a specific place is like looking for a needle in a haystack.

[After crossing the bushes in front, you find that the color of the jungle in front has changed and become more monotonous, leaving only five colors: black, white, gray, red and blue...]

[You have arrived at the fourth floor of the Ring Forest. ]

Seeing this prompt, Mu You finally realized what the disharmony of the third floor was, it was the color!

In the third floor, the two important basic colors of yellow and green completely disappeared and were not mentioned in any text.

And in the fourth floor, purple and other colors also disappeared, leaving only five colors in the whole world. In addition to the three main colors of black, white and gray in the Ring Forest, there are only red and blue.

And these two colors are not naturally formed, but the colors given by light.

Red sun, blue moon.

That is to say, if there is no influence of the sun and the moon, the Ring Forest at this moment has no color at all, just like a photo taken with a black and white camera in ancient times.

Of course, he only has a text perspective anyway, so color is not important.

What matters at this time is the change of state.

[As you step into the range of the fourth floor, a deeper pressure invades your body, and you suddenly feel that the divine power in your body is suppressed and weakened. ]

[Warning: Under the current environment, the effects and power of your divine arts, divine power, and divine props are weakened by more than 99%. ]

[Warning: More parts of the Black Angel are invalid due to the environment, and the combat effectiveness is greatly weakened. Please replace the parts that adapt to the environment in time. ]

[Warning: The Fool Game is subject to a lot of interference, the efficiency of transmitting and assembling items is greatly delayed, the text transmission efficiency is affected, and all texts will be delayed by 8-15 seconds. ]

Three warnings popped up in a row, and Mu You's eyelids jumped a few times.

The first two were fine. The fourth layer suppressed the divine system by 100%, and the black angel was further suppressed. He had expected these two points long ago, so it was not too strange.

The key point is the third one: the game text began to delay!

This has a huge impact, because it means that all the information he sees next is what has already happened, and he can't react in time.

Of course, the game AI will also react temporarily when it encounters a situation, such as choosing to fight automatically in battle, but AI is rigid after all, and no one is in control of it, so many situations cannot be dealt with correctly.

More importantly, the text delay of 8-15 seconds means that backtracking can no longer be used. After all, the longest is only ten seconds, and backtracking cannot change the result.

While he was weakened repeatedly, the creatures around him continued to become stronger. Mu You had already vaguely felt that he might not be able to pass the fourth layer in his current state.

Sure enough, along the way, he began to be bullied by various small and medium-sized animals.

At this time, the divine power such as beheading gods was completely ineffective. Mu You completely degenerated into an ordinary human being, and the only one he could rely on was the black angel.

But the Black Angel was also suppressed severely, and all kinds of weapons on his body failed one after another. Except for his own defense, his attack was already terrible.

In this case, even some low-level creatures in the Ring Forest could bully him at will. Along the way, Mu You was entangled by various naughty little creatures and wanted to vomit. It was only thanks to the defense of the Black Angel that he could withstand the damage and break out.

And this is only the fourth level, and there are three more levels waiting for him.

"Too difficult..."

Now Mu You has fully experienced how weak humans are in the Ring Forest environment.

Think about it, in the original wild world, even the gods with giant bodies are only low-level species, not to mention that humans from the lower planes are destined to be the bottom of the bottom in the original world where physical strength is king, and they are powerless.

Next, Mu You carefully and arduously moved forward on the fourth level for a day, and only walked one-tenth of the distance.

Fortunately, he did not encounter any large creatures during this day, otherwise, with his current state, he would definitely die.

【“Warning, enhanced pulse signal detected, coming from the right front 10,000 meters away!”】

“Huh?”

Mu You was surprised to find the signal from the mechanic at this time.

Moreover, this time it was an ‘enhanced’ signal, with a greatly increased transmission range, which was why Ava caught it, otherwise she would have missed it.

Without time to think about it, Mu You hurriedly controlled the character to go there.

This time it was a fixed signal, not moving, so there might be relics left by the mechanic hidden nearby. If you find these relics, Mu You can modify the Black Angel and get out of the current predicament.

【You drive the Black Angel, step through the dense jungle, and rush towards the direction of the signal...】

【A black shadow suddenly rushed out from the forest and entangled one of the Black Angel’s legs at a tricky angle. 】

【The Black Angel was not aware of it, lost his balance, and fell to the ground. 】

【Ava immediately controlled the Black Angel to get up and flee, but more and more vines spread from behind, and soon entangled the Black Angel’s body tightly. 】

【These vines seemed to have life and kept wriggling, naturally avoiding the sword of the black angel, circle after circle, and in the blink of an eye, the black angel was tied up like a dumpling. 】

【Warning: The joints of the black angel are blocked, out of control, and unable to operate. 】

"Hiss..."

Mu You's heart skipped a beat, and his mind was finished.

At this time, he was stuck inside the black angel. The black angel couldn't move, and he naturally couldn't get out.

If it was on the third floor, he could still use the power of the God-Slaying Divine Power to cut these vines, but the power of the fourth floor's divine power was reduced to 0. Even if he wielded the God-Slaying Sword, he couldn't create that kind of sword energy anymore, and could only watch being trapped here.

More importantly, this plant spent a lot of effort to tie up the creatures passing by, it couldn't be just for fun...

Sure enough, a bright red prompt popped up immediately afterwards.

【A thorny vine drilled in from the gap of the black angel and pierced your back, and a plant toxin was injected into your body from the thorns. 】

【You suddenly feel dizzy, all your strength is gone, your consciousness becomes blurred, and under the influence of the toxin, your skin and flesh begin to soften and rot...】

"Is it over..."

Mu You sighed. Facing this desperate situation, he was powerless and was ready to return to the second floor under the soul-guiding lamp to start over.

"I must find the mechanic's relics on the third floor this time..."

Mu You was thinking silently in his heart.

But he didn't expect that just when he had given up hope, an unexpected prompt popped up.

[You suddenly heard footsteps approaching from not far away. You reluctantly opened your eyelids and vaguely saw a pair of human feet on the ground in front of you through the gap of the mecha. ]

[The next second, you fell into a coma under the effect of the toxin, but before you fainted, you vaguely heard a childish cry: "Brother, there is a person here!"]

[Some out-of-tune Star Spirit language echoed, your eyes went black, and you completely fainted...]

"Human feet?"

Mu You was stunned.

In this kind of ghost place, there are actually humans alive?

Moreover, the "Star Spirit Language" was mentioned later. This "human" speaks the Star Spirit Language...

Could it be that the foolish ancestors who once opened up the wasteland were not completely wiped out?

When Mu You entered the fourth floor, he did not see any messages from the Fool Ancestors nearby, so he naturally thought that the few remaining ancestors had died on the third floor and no one had walked to the fourth floor.

But now it seems that someone really survived and has survived in the Ring Forest until now?

[In a coma, you vaguely felt that you fell to the ground, were lifted up, and were transported to somewhere in a shaky manner. Then the mecha on your body was removed piece by piece, and your clothes were also stripped off...]

[You vaguely heard the voices of a man and a woman talking, and some cool medicine was applied to your whole body...]

Then Mu You's character was in a coma for more than ten hours, and his state was once on the verge of death, but he seemed to be sent to a place for treatment, and was finally forcibly rescued.

It was not until the next day that Mu You's character woke up slowly.

[The cool wind blew across your eyes, and you woke up from your sleep. When you opened your eyes, you saw two faces. ]

[A boy and a girl, two children with light blue skin, are gathered around you and staring at you. Both of them have gray-white paint on their faces and wear some accessories made of animal teeth and bones on their heads. ]

["Daddy and mommy, he's awake, he's awake!" The little girl screamed and ran out of the room. Only the little boy was left, still with his arms crossed, looking at you expressionlessly, but his eyes flashed with obvious curiosity. ]

[You wanted to sit up, but your body in pain made you fall back. You realized that you were in a simple stone house, with a faint scent of herbs floating in the air. And you were lying on the only wooden bed in the house, wrapped in bandages. ]

[A pair of adult men and women walked in from the door one after another. You noticed that these two people had normal human skin color - they were two fools! ]

[The tall male fool walked to your side and looked at you with a strange expression. You noticed that he was holding a familiar mechanical head in his hand - the head of the black angel. 】

【"It's incredible that you managed to get here by yourself with this ineffective armor... Have the Fools in the outside world developed to this level?" The male Fool said to himself. 】