Saving the World in an Apocalypse-Style Text Game

Chapter 75: Chapter 77: The Tomb of the Nameless (Please Subscribe!)_1 Chapter 75: Chapter 77: The Tomb of the Nameless (Please Subscribe!)_1 Following the usual pattern, he automatically dismissed the first two options, and chose the third.

[You stride boldly up to the bench, pocketing a long-burning piece of white wax.]

[You’ve obtained ‘White Moon Wax’ *1 (Junk Item)]

“Eh? Isn’t it a ceremonial white wax?”

Lin Xun hurriedly opened his inventory to check.

[White Moon Wax (Junk Item): A short round white candle made from the fat of a massive sea creature, the white whale. It’s used to worship the ‘Bright New Moon’ and is typically used in the White Moon Church.]

He raised an eyebrow. This candle was obviously much fancier than the ceremonial white wax, he wasn’t sure if the tombstone could handle such a luxurious product.

Exiting the small church and riding the lion, it took him some time to return to the graveyard.

Proceeding to the last tombstone.

He opened his inventory and clicked on the recently acquired ‘White Moon Wax’.

[Would you like to light the ‘White Moon Wax’ in front of the tombstone?]

[You place the ‘White Moon Wax’ in front of the tombstone and light it, bowing silently. The inscription on the tombstone glows even brighter!]

“Thankfully, the White Moon Wax could also serve as a substitute for the ceremonial white wax.”

Lin Xun silently awaited what was to come.

[Faint rumbling sounds emanate from the depths below, and a gaping hole big enough to swallow a cow suddenly collapses in the middle of the graveyard.]

[You approach and find that the hole is over two meters wide. The midday sun can only illuminate the top part of the earthen wall of the hole.]

[You lean over to look inside and see nothing but a bottomless darkness.]

[Will you leap into the hole?]

“Jumping again?”

Lin Xun frowned, scanned his inventory, and flipped through the text.

He spent a good while and found no clues that could help resolve the issue of jumping.

Going by the text’s description of ‘bottomless’, without a resurrection item, the chance of dying by jumping was pretty high.

He thought for a moment and decided to switch to the Dancer’s Shell.

[You have now occupied the shell of the ‘Fallen Ancient Theatre Dancer’].]

The dancer used to be a master assassin and wore equipment that reduced body weight.

The chances of dying from a fall of the same height would surely be lower for the dancer than for the Yellow Bishop.

Just as he decided to jump down the hole, he suddenly thought of a cunning trick.

Both of his summoned beasts were still alive, the lion could take the horse’s place, and he couldn’t summon both at the same time.

So why not let the horse jump down to test if it would die? After all, the horse was a bit extra right now, and it wouldn’t cost any soul power to recreate if it died.

Or he could ride the horse and then jump. Having a big meat cushion might significantly lessen his chances of dying.

But that was risky, too. If both he and the horse died from jumping, it would be an outright loss of two soul power points.

After considering for a long time, Lin Xun decided to use the second plan, and jump down while riding the horse.

Because if he used the first plan and the horse didn’t die from the jump, he would still have to be the one to take the fall.

Opening his inventory, he clicked on the Summoning Horn.

[The loud sound of the horn echoed, you summoned the majestic ‘Turkmen Blood Horse’.]

[Upon the appearance of the ‘Turkmen Blood Horse’, the ‘Fallen Three-Headed Lion’ growled, transformed into specks of stardust, and dissipated in the wind, waiting for your next summon.]

[You mount the horse, whip the reins, and leap into the bottomless abyss…]

There was a brief pause before the text continued to display.

[You and the ‘Turkmen Blood Horse’ have fallen to the bottom of the pit.]

[The massive impact from the fall from such a height has killed your summoned beast!]

[You’ve also sustained considerable injuries. Your lower body is paralyzed, and you’ve lost the ability to walk.]

[You’re at the bottom of a pit engulfed in pitch darkness. An old, earth smell fills your nose. In the distance, you seem to see a tiny light.]

[Will you crawl forward with your disabled lower limbs?]

“Success!”

Lin Xun pumped his fist in excitement.

The horse was sacrificed to cushion the fall, the shell was still alive.

As long as he could make it alive to a new area, it would be considered a success. The paralysis didn’t worry him too much.

Within the game, if a shell was injured, he could just go to the Rest Page and refresh once, and he would be as good as new.

He opened the Shell column and clicked on the Yellow Bishop.

[You have taken possession of the ‘Shell of the Fallen Church of the White Moon’s Yellow Bishop’.]

[The ‘Thunder Dragon Scepter’ in your hand is emitting a brilliant golden glow.]

[You can see a long corridor in front of you, with a faint light at the end.]

[Do you want to move forward and investigate?]

Lin Xun cautiously chose ‘No’.

But the game didn’t pop up any other search options.

Seeing that there was nothing else to explore around, he had no choice but to enter the corridor.

[You step into the deep corridor illuminated by the glow of the weapon in your hand…]

[You have entered the ‘Tomb of the Unnamed’.]

The Tomb of the Unnamed?

For a moment, Lin Xun associates this with the reward events of burial objects, treasures, treasure chests, and so on.

However, according to the nature of the Underworld game, even if there were treasure chests, there would undoubtedly be a BOSS monster guarding it.

[As you gradually approach the faint light at the end of the corridor, you discover that it is a huge crystal embedded in the corner of the corridor.]

[The crystal is taller than a person and its smooth surface can clearly reflect your figure.]

Could this be the treasure in the tomb?

It might be a tomb illumination device like a Night Pearl.

A glowing crystal of this size should be quite valuable; the identity of the tomb owner might not be simple. Lin Xun thought to himself.

[Your figure was captured by the crystal, you’ve triggered a trap!]

[A beam of intense light suddenly shot out from the once faintly glowing crystal and hit you.]

[You are melted by the intense light…]

[You died!]

“…”

This trap was too sudden, Lin Xun hadn’t had time to react before he was killed.

He thought he would trigger a [You have acquired XX crystal]text.

But he hadn’t expected that this crystal would be a trap…

“This Underworld game really is sinister.”

After experiencing a variety of bizarre deaths, Lin Xun felt that the game should be renamed. Instead of ‘Book of Salvation’, it should be called ‘Encyclopedia of Ways to Die’.

[The weak Wandering Soul is reborn in a shanty in the wilderness…]

He clicked to rest on the Rest Page, curing half of the Dancer’s Shell paralysis.

Now the remaining living shells are the Engineer and the Dancer, while he has three Summoned Beasts left.

Lin Xun checked the text of the unexpected death, [Your figure was captured by the crystal, you’ve triggered a trap!]

“Hmm, so as long as the crystal doesn’t reflect you, using the invisibility skill should allow you to avoid the trap.”

Lin Xun pondered, stroking his chin.

But the cost of death in the tomb is too high.

Entering the tomb cost the death of a Summoned Beast and half-paralysis of a Shell.

Given this risk, the rewards within the tomb should be high.

As the trap of the crystal requires the Dancer’s invisibility skill to break, the Dancer cannot be allowed to fall into the trap.

After careful consideration, Lin Xun decided to sneak past the traps.

If a BOSS appeared, he would use the Engineer as his trump card.

It’s not that he can’t defeat the BOSS, it’s just that the cost of attempting and failing in the tomb is too high.

One death costs two points of soul strength, which would greatly slow down his game progress.

Lin Xun was not a man who didn’t know how to adapt. When the situation called for cheating, he had to cheat.

With that in mind, he started his word processing software.

After finishing two chapters, he successfully managed to stay up till night, his soul strength recovered.

He pulled out his phone. Book of Salvation, launch!

[The weak Wandering Soul awakens in a shed in the wilderness…]