Saving the World in an Apocalypse-Style Text Game

Chapter 28: Chapter 31 Blood Hibiscus_1 Chapter 28: Chapter 31 Blood Hibiscus_1 After searching through Count Fox’s bedroom, Lin Xun once again obtained a Sunflower seed.

It was an ordinary seed that could restore fatigue, not a rare item that could increase the defense of the shell.

Finding no further value to explore in the bedroom, Lin Xun left the room and continued on his way.

[You continue along the corridor and discover a staircase at the end leading to the top floor of the castle.]

[From the cracks in the door at the top of the stairs, you can faintly see the bloody sunlight of noon. You hear the sound of harp playing and a woman’s melodious singing outside the door.]

[Do you want to go up the stairs and enter the top floor of the castle?]

Lin Xun’s alertness immediately maxed out.

Given the content of Count Fox’s notebook and the residual Sunflower seeds in the bedroom,

the singing thing at the top of the castle is most likely the final BOSS of this castle!

He hesitated for a moment before clicking “yes”.

[You step onto the steps, your footsteps echoing in the somber corridor, accompanied by the eerie harp singing, forming a chilling melody.]

[You push open the door to the top of the castle, and the melody suddenly stops.]

[The crimson sunlight is slightly glaring, and the midday breeze brings a bloody smell. The vault of the top floor of the castle is completely destroyed, and the ground is full of rubble, forming a vast open platform.]

[The platform is covered with thick, twisted blood-colored plant roots, and sunflowers cover the entire platform.]

[At the end of the platform, there is a huge object that obscures the sky. Thick stems, requiring several people to embrace, grow rough, blood-colored hairs. Each leaf branch is as big as a carriage.]

[The crimson flower plate gradually occupies your entire field of view. The ‘seeds’ in the flower plate are plump and round. The rotten, foul smell fills your nostrils as the giant flower plate leans down.]

[Only then do you see that each ‘seed’ in the flower plate is a distorted, deformed skull. You suddenly understand that the missing bodies in the castle have all become nutrients for this giant plant, their skulls infused with profane power, becoming the seeds of the Sunflower.]

[In the giant flower plate, a shirtless female torso pushes open the dense skulls and emerges. It has a beautiful face and a full bosom, holding a harp half the height of a person.]

Lin Xun, looking at the bizarre game text, imagined the appearance of this sunflower in his mind.

Unconsciously, his hairs stood on end, and he got goosebumps.

[The ‘Blood Poppy Demoness – Selena’ looks at you with crimson eyes.]

[What should you do?]

[1. Yell ‘Die under the sunflower, be a romantic ghost’, raise the thick scepter, and once again taste the charm of Saint Lance Rose.]

[2. Kneel down and plead ‘a day of marriage a hundred days of grace’, even though the aged bishop’s body couldn’t support her for a hundred days, she had at least worked hard.]

[3. Give a thumbs up to the ‘Blood Poppy Demoness’, encourage her ‘if you want to sing, sing loudly’ and sing praises to the sun with her.]

[4. Wave your hands in front of you randomly, pretending to be a blind man, muttering ‘aba aba aba’ and exiting the top floor of the castle.]

Lin Xun looked at the many choices in front of him, twitched his mouth, and felt confused.

This game text is still as eccentric as ever.

The last three options are to beg for mercy, flatter, and run away, none of which are fighting options, so they probably can’t defeat the BOSS.

He just got the shell of the mage, no matter what, he had to fight head-on and have a direct PK.

Choose the first option.

[Fearless Apostle, you raise your scepter and recite the spell…]

[The ‘Blood Poppy Demoness’ seems to be enraged by your actions, numerous thick and twisted roots rush towards you…]

[A flash of red light…]

[You died!]

“…”

“I saw that coming.”

Lin Xun thought he would just fail, but he didn’t expect that the Yellow Bishop successfully cast his skill.

However, even a powerful skill like ‘Profane Sunlight’ didn’t change the outcome and defeat the BOSS.

He pondered, touching his chin. If one skill doesn’t work, can multiple casts defeat the BOSS.

As long as he could dodge the BOSS’s root attacks, he should be able to cast the skill several times.

He still has a piece of “Enchanted Moonlight Sandpaper”, which can ignore the root attack.

But this item is the last one left, and if it was used and the BOSS is still not defeated, then he would be in big trouble.

“I need to think about this thoroughly, make sure everything is foolproof and then, I can use this item!”

Lin Xun made up his mind.

Seeing that it was almost 12 o’clock, he dressed neatly, ready to leave the rental house.

…

“Manual worker, manual soul, I can’t live a day without work…”

Lin Xun arrived at the “Wencheng Bureau of Culture Special Office” right on time.

As Lin Xun stepped into the elevator, he faintly felt that in the corridors on both sides of the first floor, there seemed to be many pairs of eyes watching him.

Ding~ The elevator reached the second floor.

There was no one at any of the desks on the second floor, and only a strange woman was sitting on a sofa nearby, reading a book with her head lowered.

Um? Which of the Intelligence Team’s colleagues is this? He didn’t seem to recall seeing her before.

Lin Xun approached to greet her.

The woman raised her head, and Lin Xun was instantly amazed.

She had a small and cute doll-like face, and her features were soft and enchanting, resembling the face he had dreamed of in his student days.

Her black shiny hair wasn’t tied up but hung straight down her back.

She was petite but very curvaceous, her ample breasts were not an exaggeration to describe as profound waves. Combined with her pure white pleated dress, it created a powerful visual impact.

What would the marriage of a first love face and a mother figure body feel like?

The woman in front of him embodied this feeling perfectly.

“Hello, senior.” The woman saw Lin Xun greet her, she hurriedly got up, her cheeks slightly red, she bowed slightly.

“Eh, I’m the new member of our Intelligence Team. If anyone should be saying senior, it would be me to you.”

Lin Xun was somewhat puzzled. Hadn’t Ye Xiaoqi mentioned the new colleague to this lady?

“Oh, is that so?”

The woman in white carefully examined him for a while, her eyebrows slightly raised, saying incredulously: “You are… Lin… Lin Xun?”

Lin Xun nodded, and the woman recognized him.

But why did this woman look at himself with surprise… Could it be that she didn’t expect him to be so handsome in person.

According to the usual flow, the woman’s self-introduction would be next.

However, unexpectedly, the woman suddenly pursed her little mouth, and said seriously:

“Mr. Lin, can I ask you a question?”

Although he was baffled, he still nodded.

“Why did you… stand me up on our blind date?”