Interactive Fiction: The Right Choice After Unemployment

Chapter 280 Desperate Situation
Option 10 is 10%, option 60 is 20%, option [-] is [-]%, and option [-] is [-]%.

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【Option [-]】

【Conjurer】

Possessions: An enchanted short sword and a spellbook
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Inside the hut.

The man has already eaten the second moss pie.He wolfed it down, and the crumbs stuck to his fingers and cheeks.

That was also the last ration at home.

Teenage girl is scared.

It was not a good decision to let a man into the house, she thought.

But what can she do?Her stalk-like arms were so fragile that resistance would only lead to worse results.

She shrunk into a corner to make herself look smaller.

Noticing the movement in the corner, the man stopped his movements.

"this is for you."

A thing was dropped.

It fell to the ground in front of the girl.is soft.The girl stretched out her hand timidly.

She opened it.It was a cloth package.

"We're going. Get out of here," the man said. "Take everything you can with you."

Got to go?
The girl didn't understand.

take me?Why?Where are you going?

The man looked at the girl for a while.Seeing that she didn't move, he added another sentence.

"Weapons, food, equipment. Anything," he said. "There's no food or water for three days' travel around here. You're going to die if you stay here."

The girl nodded blankly, then shook her head again.

"I have nothing."

This home has it all.Weapons, food, equipment, nothing.

The man frowned.

"How did you survive?"

"My brother...my brother will bring food back."

The man's eyes flickered.Like a wild beast catching its prey.

He frightened the girl again.

"Where did your brother go?"

the man asked.

"West..."

"I'm just from the west. I don't see anything that looks like a transparent mass... like a young male."

The girl was silent.Seeing this scene, the man pushed away the table and stood up.

"lets go."

He picked up the cloth package and carried it on his back.

Only then did the girl realize that it was his package.

It was empty there too.

"Don't wait." The man said to the girl, "Let's go and find your brother along the way."

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Ah... ah.

Zheng Zhuo sighed inwardly as he led the young woman who was at least ten years younger out of the low and gloomy hut.

"(Are the helpers gone...)"

Zheng Zhuo looked at the girl behind him from the corner of his eye, and sighed.

Zheng Zhuo fell into this world together with the golden [Rebel] card.The young woman, the transparent mass, and him were all together before they hit the ground, but they were separated by the impact when they touched the ground.

Fortunately, Zheng Zhuo caught the golden card.He followed him into the lord's castle in the west, and fell with Jinka.

This time, perhaps without the [pure white space] or the additional constraints of that computer, Jin Ka directly took Zheng Zhuo to the destination.Zheng Zhuo landed on the top of the castle.There, there are several thick spikes that grow outward.

At the tip of the spike, there was a dead body.

To say it was a corpse was actually flattering him.Hanging so high, he was rotten, weathered, and eaten away by birds from the neck down, leaving only his head.The eyeballs had been gouged out by the birds, and the empty sockets seemed to be wide open, passing through the spikes.

It was also the only surviving head that helped Zheng Zhuo confirm his identity.

He is [Rebel].

"(Is there anything I can do?)"

Zheng Zhuo looked around.He found a red glowing short sword and the cover of a spellbook.

It was all torn inside.Many pages were blown away, Zheng Zhuo searched for a long time, and finally found a page of [Fireball Art] that was hung by the city wall.

Zheng Zhuo sent out a fireball with that dagger.The fireball hit the middle of the spike and the head fell off.

The golden card that Zheng Zhuo had been pinching had a reaction at this moment.It flew forward and merged into the head.

The head dissipated.The surroundings began to glow with golden light.

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That's it!
Zheng Zhuo was shocked.He didn't expect it to be so fast—the young woman and her brother who fell together have not yet been found—

But within the golden light, there was a tyrannical thrust.

"(!)"

It seems that there are countless invisible forces walking through the golden light. The cards of [Rebel] and Zheng Zhuo were both pushed back by this huge force.

The golden light appeared a few more times.However, it's the same every time.

The dazzling [Rebel] card fell silent.Zheng Zhuo held out his hand.

Unlike the feeling of coldness and nothingness when touching a card before, this card is warm and has weight.

"([Rebel] has already entered this card...but cannot return to the [real world].)"

Zheng Zhuo thought.

"(Is there no way to leave through [Golden World]?)"

Previously, he saw in [Golden World] that the computer in [Real World] launched an attack on the participants.

Those attacks must go through [Golden World].Now, the fighting has clearly become more intense.It's probably a mess in there.

"(Can I still leave?)"

Zheng Zhuo is not sure at all.

He has entered the [Subconscious World] three times in a row.He doesn't feel anything unusual now, but he still has strong worries.

If you stay for so long, you might not be able to go back.

However, he couldn't do anything about it.

This time, he still fell into this world without any [ability].What's worse, this time there is no hint when falling.

"Is it completely shut down..."

Zheng Zhuo had no choice but to try to move towards the direction where the young woman and the transparent mass that he saw just now fell down.

This walk is three days.

No diet, just a little dirty water and lots of misshapen monsters.

Zheng Zhuo evaded and seduced all the way, and finally met the young woman after all the hard work.However, her condition is worse than Zheng Zhuo's.

Don't talk about whether you have [ability].Unexpectedly, even the memory was lost.

Moreover, the transparent mass was also missing.

Zheng Zhuo sighed again.

Feeling that the girl behind him was a little uneasy because of his attitude, he stopped again.

"(Anyway, we have to find a way.)"

Along the way, Zheng Zhuo is not completely fruitless.

Before finding the young woman, he had passed several misshapen travelers while taking a detour to avoid a group of monsters with antlers on their heads.

With hoarse voices, they recited lines that Zheng Zhuo couldn't understand at all, and said that this world is a world that has been abandoned.

"Broken holes everywhere!"

they said.

"Spots of light and black holes devouring! Those are windows to the world, and we're all going to be overwhelmed by them—"

There they brushed past Zheng Zhuo.

They said they were going to the window of the world to end all this suffering early.

At that time, Zheng Zhuo asked where they were going.

A small party of travelers said they were going to the southwest.There burns forever, a flame that will never be quenched.

A small group of travelers said they were going to the northwest.There is a dragon-slaying spear inserted on the ground, connecting the sky and the earth.

The last group of travelers said they were going due west.Just below the Lord's Castle, there is the largest and deepest Cave of Despair.

They were once the target of travelers.

But Zheng Zhuo thought, now, they will become his target.

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【problem】

[Where do you want to go next? 】

【Option [-]】

【Go to the Eternal Flame in the Southwest】

【Option [-]】

【Go to the Northwest to the Dragon Slaying Spear】

【Option [-]】

【Go to the Cave of Despair in the West】

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