My Online Wife Turned Out to Be an Eldritch God 74

Chapter 74: Infinite Game 7

“To be honest, it’s not worth it for a meal. A person won’t necessarily die if they don’t eat for three days. We found a well outside yesterday. We still have to test if the well water is drinkable. Just boiling it and drinking distilled water… the well water in a dungeon, everyone probably won’t be at ease,”

“I have a prop that can purify negative effects,” Long Yu said, and took out a set of talisman paper and cinnabar. “It’s not particularly difficult. But I have to draw it now. It can detoxify and dispel most negative states. But cognitive distortion… it might not be very effective in terms of contamination. And I have to burn it and let you drink the talisman ash water… the water has to be drawn from the well outside first, and it has to be treated once.”

Zhu Sheng hesitated to speak. She clearly didn’t want to reveal her trump card directly, but these two teammates seemed to be very reliable, and Long Yu had even saved her… “Alright, I have a trump card. I can rewind time to a minute ago. But the number of times is limited. It’s a real life-saving trump card, not suitable for food.”

As soon as Zhu Sheng finished speaking, she found that the two players were looking at her with a stunned expression. Even Long Yu’s expression had changed a little. They were very in disbelief. “You just said that?”

“Ah?” Zhu Sheng was stunned.

“It seems that your personal luck is very high. If there’s a quest panel and attribute values, your luck points must be very good,” Jiang Yun couldn’t help but pat Zhu Sheng’s shoulder. Although she had asked that, who would really reveal their trump card so honestly? After saying it, she even emphasized that it was a life-saving trump card… Jiang Yun even felt a little sorry for Zhu Sheng.

Zhu Sheng’s skills and props seemed to have formed a system, all related to time. And Long Yu’s system was also very clear.

Jiang Yun touched her chin. Did she not have any skills now? But her survival ability was maxed out, and she also had rich experience in killing zombies… maybe this was also a system. She didn’t know what kind of reward she would get for passing this dungeon… she should be able to pass it smoothly, right?

With Zhu Sheng’s trump card, the three players’ alliance was clearly even tighter. After a brief discussion, Long Yu stayed in the dining room to make sure the food didn’t change, while Jiang Yun and Zhu Sheng went outside to get water together.

Jiang Yun had a water bottle container. After getting water and starting a fire to boil it, she also had a lighter prop to use. This could be done in the dining room. Anyway, a special dungeon was not afraid of fire at all.

Thinking about it this way, her skills and props were very compatible with dungeons like wilderness survival and apocalyptic survival.

After finally boiling the water and distilling it, Jiang Yun skillfully took out her own water-jar-like water cup, first took a few drops and tasted it, and after confirming that there was no problem, she began to wait.

“It’s been so long, but the soup is still steaming,” Zhu Sheng said, holding her stomach and looking at the full table of food with great desire. There were even juices on it.

After Long Yu had drawn the talisman and prepared the talisman ash water, Jiang Yun tightly gripped her prop and sat down at the table as if she were a hero going to her death (and couldn’t wait). She stabbed a large piece of meat steak and stuffed it into her mouth.

“Heavens, it tastes so good! Soft and juicy, this sauce is really amazing! (Chew, chew, chew) Of course, it could also be because I’m hungry… it seems to be fine. The prop has no reaction,” Jiang Yun said while gobbling down the food. Soon, she had finished all the side dishes like carrots and broccoli on the plate in front of her.

Long Yu held Zhu Sheng back and waited for five minutes before she let go of the impatient Zhu Sheng and slowly walked to her seat and began to eat.

“We’ve wasted too much time on this matter. We have to hurry up later. I’ve deciphered the clues in the study. There should be a basement in the ancient castle. There might be clues related to the curse inside.”

*

Wen Ying was also very excited to see the players full and starting to look for the basement. She had installed a SAN-dropping, twisted illusion in the basement. As long as the players went in, they would trigger a floor full of rolling eyeballs.

“This dungeon is actually still a little rough. Many details haven’t been polished yet. But after we’re gone, you can refine it more,” Wen Ying turned her head and said to the ball of light. “Work hard to make it bigger and stronger. Doesn’t your dungeon have a ranking and a rating? You have to at least aim for the highest level, right?”

“I will! I’ve earned a lot of emotional value this time, enough for me to hire a new batch of employees and refine the entire dungeon,” the ball of light said very sincerely. “You’ve given me a lot of inspiration. I will definitely use these elements flexibly in the future and strive to give every player the most perfect, top-notch experience!”

The players’ efficiency was extremely high. After fumbling around on the first floor for half an hour, they found the mechanism for the basement. They turned the holy cross angel sculpture in the hall, and the downward stairs appeared.

Wen Ying immediately watched with concentration.

She had originally thought that the players would have a great fear… alright, in fact, there was indeed a rather rich amount of emotions. Some were terrified, some were shocked, and there was not much pure fear. The most produced emotion was actually disgust and resistance.

Ah, it seemed that the densely packed eyeballs crawling all over the floor were indeed very disgusting. Wen Ying looked at the originally dark tunnel, which was now filled with fire… Long Yu had directly started to blow it up in the basement.

Were her talismans really free? It was really convenient to be able to draw them herself. Long Yu’s expression was tense, but she didn’t see much abnormality. But looking at the way she was grabbing a large handful of talismans… she was indeed quite disgusted.

The three players could be said to have used all their props and skills. Jiang Yun even crushed many eyeballs with her special combat boots with a look of despair.

Although they had just eaten, they held it in no matter how uncomfortable they were, and no one threw up.

The moment the peach wood sword fiercely stabbed into the huge eyeball embedded in the center of the wall, the illusion here suddenly shattered.

The terrifying scene of a floor full of remains and mucus completely disappeared, revealing the evil formation in the basement that was stained with blood.

Jiang Yun tried to steady her arm and turned on the flashlight. She didn’t even dare to take a deep breath. Although everything just now had disappeared, and there was no… unknown liquid left on her combat boots, the fishy smell of the eyeballs seemed to still linger in this room. Maybe it was a phantom smell.

“The formation… seems to have already taken effect? Has it taken effect?” Zhu Sheng came to the front of the formation to observe. She looked at Long Yu. “Are we going to destroy this place? Or what?”

“I’m actually not very familiar with this aspect,” Long Yu said frankly. Three talismans were continuously emitting a faint golden light, and they were just floating around her. Long Yu began to search for any other clues that were left nearby…

There was actually a tattered desk here. On the desk was… “Contamination? What does that mean?” How could this dungeon be related to contamination? …Alright, the cognitive distortion and those traps were indeed very contaminating.

“There’s a notebook here!” Zhu Sheng was extremely excited. She tightly gripped her pocket watch and quickly ran over. She tentatively touched the notebook, and after confirming that there was no abnormal reaction, she picked it up and flipped through it. “Wait, it seems to be a diary…”

“Are the clues in this dungeon so straightforward?” Zhu Sheng was a little dazed. This diary… was a little too comprehensive, wasn’t it? The whole story was written down. At first, it was a normal daily life in a manor. It could be seen that the owner of the diary was a couple with a very good relationship. They had adopted two daughters together, but later, the style of the diary suddenly changed.

Year ■■, Month ■■, Day ■■
I seem to have had a hallucination, or have I gotten some kind of disease? The doctor I invited said that I am very healthy. Alice is very worried about my condition… I’m very sorry, I don’t want her to worry. We have hidden this matter from our daughters.

Year ■■, Month ■■, Day ■■
Alice saw it too, Alice saw it too! What was that?
(Blurry handwriting)
But we haven’t bought anything recently, nor have we gone on a trip. Why did such a strange thing happen? Could it be that we accidentally ate some kind of hallucinogenic plant?

A few pages were torn out in the middle of the diary.

Year ■■, Month ■■, Day ■■
■■ is alive! How can ■■ be alive?! We sought the help of a witch, but the witch was helpless. Heavens, contamination? Why did we attract contamination? ■■ is actually a source of contamination!

Again, there were traces of a few pages being torn out.

Year ■■, Month ■■, Day ■■
We must end all this. Alice and I have sent our daughters away. We hope that the contamination here will not affect their future lives. ■■ cannot be sold. We must contain it here.
God is above, may the purifying flames of the world purify all contamination.

After Long Yu finished reading the diary, her expression also became strange. “This… so, the burnt marks in the room correspond to here. A big fire? But the purification obviously failed, otherwise why are we still here? What is this formation? A sacrifice? To strengthen the flames? Purification?”

“So what are we going to do? Start a big fire?” Jiang Yun’s expression also became dazed. “Before we pass the level? Is it really that simple? Or is there some clue we haven’t found? —This is really a novice dungeon!” Darn it, she shouldn’t have allowed those two new players to act together.

“…Let’s take another look.”

The three players looked at the diary and then at the formation. Long Yu hesitated and cut her finger and dripped a drop of blood on it. The formation immediately lit up for a moment. “There’s a reaction.”

“Let me do it. I have a way to protect myself,” Zhu Sheng took a step forward. She raised her hand and took out an exquisite small knife inlaid with gems, and decisively cut her wrist and let her blood. She controlled the blood to drip along the lines of the formation. The moment the formation lit up again, the three players saw a golden flame ignite in the middle of the formation.

At the same time, the entire ancient castle trembled.

[Warning! Warning! It has been detected that the players have collected the key clues and props, and the plot has advanced greatly! The current task requirement has changed!]

[Attention! The task requirement has changed!]

[Task requirement: Purify the source of contamination, escape the manor]

The ball of light sighed while urgently sending out a notice. This was the consequence of hastily changing the dungeon’s content. It should have scattered the diary fragments in various key locations, and set up clues and mechanisms to guide the players to slowly explore and collect them step by step. But this was a whim of a big boss, so she couldn’t expect the process to be too perfect.

But this new method was really profitable. The dungeon had only been running for two days, and the players’ passing the level had no loss to it. The most important thing was that she had earned a lot of emotional value! At the beginning, the ball of light had felt that these ideas were a little too unfavorable to the players’ development. Now it seemed that this was simply too favorable to the dungeon’s development!

No, even this was not disgusting enough. It could be made even more disgusting—

The three players in the basement just looked at each other. Jiang Yun decisively threw out a piece of clothing and tore it into strips, and then took out a wooden stick to make a simple torch on the spot. Her speed was extremely fast. During this time, Zhu Sheng continued to let her blood, and Long Yu began to draw talismans again.

After Jiang Yun had lit the golden flame on the torch, Long Yu raised her hand and slapped the talisman on Zhu Sheng’s wrist. The blood seeped into the talisman, and just like that, it grew together with the wound, and no more blood flowed out.

The three of them did not dare to delay and quickly left the basement while the ancient castle was trembling. Jiang Yun brought up the rear. After her two teammates had gone up, she kicked the desk to pieces and lit it, and then threw all the extra cloth on it.

Countless talismans floated up and went towards the torch in Jiang Yun’s hand. Long Yu quickly went up to the second floor, and the talismans with golden flames exploded on the second floor. The room door was blown to pieces, and the flames lit the bed, wardrobe, curtains, and everything that could be lit. Long Yu quickly passed through the rooms one by one, while Jiang Yun was setting fires everywhere on the first floor.

Zhu Sheng was not idle either. A corner of the carpet was lit, and she held the carpet and threw it directly outside, determined to light the entire manor.

The golden flames shot up to the sky, and the three players almost simultaneously heard a strange and tragic scream in their minds.

Fire. Fire. Fire. The fire could burn even more fiercely!

They set fires all the way, and Long Yu even used the talisman paper to light the entire manor to the greatest extent.

In the golden purification, the three players finally came to the main gate. Jiang Yun raised her hand and fiercely threw the wooden stick that had been mostly burned into the manor, and took the lead and pushed open the gate with great effort.

[Cleared the game dungeon: Eternal Night Cage]

[Because of an unknown change in this dungeon, this dungeon will not be rated. A compensation reward will now be uniformly distributed to the players who have cleared the dungeon—a longsword made by ■■]

【A longsword made by ■■】: This longsword is stained with the aura of ■■ and will cause great deterrence to all dungeon creatures.
Characteristics: [Indestructible] [Infinite Durability] [Contamination Resistance] [As sharp as iron] [■■ Aura]…

Jiang Yun didn’t even know how to close her mouth. She stared blankly at the longsword in her hand. This was the first time she had seen so many characteristics on a piece of equipment. Most importantly, there were actually black squares! Heavens, was this really a reward that a player could get? Just the introduction that it could cause great deterrence to all dungeon creatures was scary enough.

An unknown change. What exactly had happened in this dungeon? Clearly… it seemed that nothing had happened? The difficulty was not even high, and there was no life-or-death crisis.

Long Yu and Zhu Sheng were also looking at the longswords in their hands. They had gotten the same reward. Zhu Sheng was very excited. She finally had a weapon.

“Let’s add each other as friends!” Jiang Yun said quickly. “When I get the team prop, let’s go to a dungeon together again! It’s very reassuring to go through a dungeon with you guys. I don’t know if we’ll be able to meet again in the future.”

“Sure.”

The three players exchanged friends on the spot. Long Yu waved at them. “Let’s chat privately when we get out. I have to go back first,” she had even drawn a lot of talisman paper. When she got back, she would have to stay in the player’s safe house and grind on drawing talismans.

The players left the dungeon, and the dungeon entered a closed state. Wen Ying also finally stretched in front of the monitor and leaned back into Tan Qingqiu’s embrace. “These dungeons are too low in difficulty. We’re just steamrolling them. But it’s quite interesting to be a planner.”

“Do you want to play more?” Tan Qingqiu held her wife and thought for a moment before saying, “Actually, the Magical Continent can also be modified into this mode.”

“No, no, no, the Magical Continent should just keep its original appearance! I don’t think the infinite world is very interesting. Every world has its own different characteristics. There’s really no need to do these things for me,” Wen Ying was almost scared to death by Tan Qingqiu’s strange idea. The world consciousness of the Magical Continent had finally managed to lie flat and ascend, and now its cooperation with the cyber world was proceeding steadily. If Tan Qingqiu went back and dropped such a bomb, the cyber world consciousness would definitely cut ties with the Magical Continent at the first moment.

“There are still many worlds to experience slowly,” Wen Ying said, pulling Tan Qingqiu’s collar and pulling It down, and affectionately kissed her thin lips. “Do you want to say goodbye to the main god here?”

“No need. It’s very much looking forward to us leaving immediately,” Tan Qingqiu said.

“Tsk, tsk, so this is the treatment of your Eldritch God,” Wen Ying laughed. She turned her head and looked at the little ball of light that was huddled in a ball and didn’t dare to make a sound. “Then goodbye~ You have to run the dungeon well. If we travel here again next time, I hope you’ve already reached the top~”

The little ball of light flashed excitedly and said loudly, “I will work hard! Thank you, and I wish you two a happy honeymoon trip!”

Wen Ying patted the ball of light and pulled the slightly fluctuating Tan Qingqiu out of the world and back into the void.

“You, you didn’t make a sound when I was planning the game, but you’re even jealous of the system after we’ve left? That’s just a little ball of light.”

“I can also be a little ball of light,” Tan Qingqiu said, and as if that wasn’t enough, she added seriously, “I’ll be your only system.”

Wen Ying: “…”