Interactive Fiction: The Right Choice After Unemployment

Chapter 117 Beyond the Status Quo
Option 5.6 77.8%, Option 16.7 [-]%, Option [-] [-]%.

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【Option [-]】

【Contact adaptation】

Specific instructions: Cooperate with the surrounding environment and change your physical state.Gradually nullify the damage types that have caused damage to oneself.

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The river churns, setting off huge waves.Huge plumes of white smoke rose from the river.

Under the water surface, the black liquid monster grabbed Zheng Zhuo tightly.

Zheng Zhuo's body is going out.

"--Uh--!"

And at the same time.

Zheng Zhuo struggled, and clicked [Contact Adaptation].

A huge amount of white smoke rose from the place where Zheng Zhuo's burning body came into contact with the river water.

"—Goo!"

Zheng Zhuo was entangled with the black liquid monster and rolled at the bottom of the river.

Black slime stuck to Zheng Zhuo's body.

The flame inside Zheng Zhuo's body began to get weaker and weaker...

...but at the same time, more and more restrained.

It was as if there was a membrane covering Zheng Zhuo's body.

His flame faltered from the start.

Slowly, it became stable.

White smoke continues.But the flame no longer gets smaller.

The flame in Zheng Zhuo's body changed his state.

It gradually flows in the direction of the current.Its composition is changing.

Became able to burn underwater.

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[Evolved: Speed++, Dexterity+, Ignition, Venom, Territorial Awareness, Contact Adaptation]

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At the same time, the fight between Zheng Zhuo and the black liquid monster began to turn around.

Just now, the black liquid monster has been unilaterally pounced on Zheng Zhuo, extinguishing the flames emerging from Zheng Zhuo's body.But now that [Contact Adaptation] has evolved, when Zheng Zhuo touches the black liquid, the evaporation of the flame is also reduced.

Finally, after colliding with the black liquid again, the flames burning at the bottom of the water broke through the muddy river water and entangled a part of the black liquid monster's body.

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Rumble!
The river roared loudly, setting off huge waves.

Flames and black water appeared and disappeared, slapping swaths of the river onto the shore.Zheng Zhuo wrestled with the black liquid monster.They rolled in the river, attacking each other.

The black liquid monster realized that Zheng Zhuo was gradually difficult to be extinguished.It changed its attack method, and instead used the viscous liquid that made up its own body to stick to Zheng Zhuo, tearing the flame from Zheng Zhuo's body and swallowing it into its stomach.

Zheng Zhuo's [Venom] obviously also has an effect on it.Because every time it swallowed Zheng Zhuo's body, the monster's pitch-black body shrank and became smaller visibly with the naked eye.

But it doesn't seem to know what death is and what fear is.It pounced tirelessly again, devouring these poisonous flames again.

Heck!

Zheng Zhuo hit back with heat.

Each time, when the monster clung to him, he tried to devour it back.

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【Points: 10】

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This method is useful!

The golden-white flame burned away part of the black slime.

And the black slime swallowed part of the golden-white flame.

ignite... ignite, then...

eat.

Zheng Zhuo rolled in the river, he ignited everything around his body.

The river water is evaporated.The freshwater aquatic products and freshwater vegetation that hit him were vaporized, and the black slime that tried to ingest his body was vaporized.

The slime swallowed the flame, and the flame swallowed the slime.

The black liquid monster drank a lot of river water.Its body is getting bigger and bigger.

And Zheng Zhuo also ate everything he could touch.His color became brighter and brighter, and eventually even the golden color faded away.

Zheng Zhuo's flame turned into scorching pure white.

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[Race: Chaos Shadow Fire (pure white)]

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The river flowed continuously.Zheng Zhuo and the black liquid monster tore endlessly, devoured each other, and set off huge waves.

This appears to be a close battle.

But gradually.

Zheng Zhuo, who has evolved 【Contact Adaptation】, began to adapt to the rhythm of the battle.

"..."

His eyes were getting used to the murky water below the surface, and he was able to see clearly in the uninterrupted tumbling.

underwater.

River bank.

Rock shattered on impact.

Weeds torn to shreds.

and also……

Among the water plants, there are iron railings.

"!!"

Zheng Zhuo saw the railing.Square exits and vertical iron railings.

It was the outlet of some sort of drainage system connected to the river.

And near this river, in that direction, there is only...

tall tower.

Ouch!
A loud bang.

Zheng Zhuo slammed into the railing with the monster wrapped in black liquid.

Chill.

The pure white flame melted the iron railing into molten iron in an instant.

Zheng Zhuo and the black liquid monster crashed into the drain together.

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Boom!
Boom!
boom!
Huh-chih!
Zheng Zhuo and the black liquid monster pushed each other and bounced in the drain.

Up—up—!
Zheng Zhuo struggled to move towards the top of the drain, and finally——

Bang!
A loud bang.

Chaos Shadowfire burned through the iron rods at the base of the mage tower.

Pure white flames erupted from below, overturning the huge soup pot on the drain.

slam-la-

The black slime boiling in the soup pot was knocked to the ground.

They go down the drain... and then...

Gathered on the hands of the black liquid monster protruding from the drain.

boom!
The black liquid monster also squeezed out from the drain!The black slime flowing out of the overturned soup pot has all become a part of it, making it bigger and more ferocious.It jumped several meters high, grabbed Zheng Zhuo's burning body, and continued to entangle.

"Heating up... heating up!"

Zheng Zhuo burned everything he could touch.

The white flames are constantly devouring the black liquid.

And the black liquid...

There is no sign of it completely disappearing.

rustle.

A red shadow ran across the top of the tower.

Zheng Zhuo looked at the tower.

It's 【Joker】.

[Joker] kept running through the inside of the spiral mage tower and knocked down the huge soup pot.

The black water flowed down from the inside of the mage tower, fell to the bottom of the tower, and gathered around the monster made of black liquid.

The black liquid sticks to Zheng Zhuo.Pull him and prevent him from flying upwards.

"Uh--!"

What a pest.Too much trouble.

Zheng Zhuo wants to solve it in one go.

The first thing that comes to mind is...

"Increase firepower."

Burn, burn, burn to the limit.

Ignite everything in the mage tower, increase your firepower to the limit, gain the upper hand in the scramble to devour, and swallow the black liquid monster before it continues to spread.

Another way is...

"Let it swallow itself."

It keeps spreading, swallowing the things in the mage tower, and expanding its body range.Give up your body to be swallowed by the black liquid monster.The black liquid monster keeps ingesting the [venom] contained in its body, so that it will eventually be poisoned and die.

The last thing I can think of is...

"assimilation."

Zheng Zhuo looked at the part where he was connected to the black liquid monster.

Because they swallowed too much of each other, the parts where they meet have become quite ambiguous.

Zheng Zhuo began to feel the manic emotions in the black liquid in his consciousness.He also began to realize that he had a little... ability to affect the black liquid.

What will happen if this trend is allowed to continue?

[Chaos] and [Contact Adaptation]...

Will he become one with the black liquid monster?

"So."

Zheng Zhuo looked at the [Joker] running towards the top of the tower.

It's time to make a decision.

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【problem】

[We need to solve the monster made of black liquid here!Which method to use? 】

【Option [-]】

[Burning]: Ignite everything in the mage tower and increase your firepower to the limit.

【Option [-]】

[Venom]: Swallow the things in the mage tower and expand your body range.The black liquid monster constantly ingests the [venom] contained in its body.

【Option [-]】

[Chaos]: Try to mix with black liquid monsters.

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