[You have arrived at the western area of the underground factory.]
[You are disguised as a cleaning robot and have been sweeping your way here.]
[You notice that the entrance to the western area is surrounded by lookout points and surveillance equipment. Yellow lines on the ground indicate that this is a restricted area.]
[As you approach, the overhead surveillance camera immediately focuses on you. An elderly Admin, sitting on a reclining chair reading a book with reading glasses on, also looks up at you.]
[You have no choice but to change direction before the boundary line, and continue to sweep forward...]
As Mu You read the game text, it wasn’t as easy to access the destination as he had expected. There was a designated Admin guarding this entrance 24 hours a day.
Next, he made his game character wander around the vicinity. Sadly, all places that seemed like potential entrances were heavily guarded, and even cleaning robots weren’t allowed near.
But as the saying goes, even the tightest security cannot be entirely foolproof.
Since there was a Gu Venom Pool inside this western area, producing thousands, if not tens of thousands of bug corpses every day, how would this waste be discarded?
Mu You continued to search patiently around the vicinity.
About half an hour later, he indeed found a location.
[You notice a bunch of cleaning robots crowded together, stationed in front of a black river.]
[You approach and see many bug corpses floating along the river, dyeing it black.]
[These cleaning robots were stationed on both sides of the river, continuously fishing out bug corpses, putting them into their onboard waste bins. When the bins are filled, they would carry them in batches for disposal.]
[You squeeze into the line of robots to help while also looking around. You quickly discover a pipe opening at the end of the river, as black water continuously flows out...]
Upon seeing this, Mu You understood. This pipe was undoubtedly the waste pipe, and it very likely led directly to the Gu Venom Pool. By following the pipe, he should reach the Gu Venom Pool.
[You move away from the river, from an angle where the other robots cannot see, you navigate to the side of the pipe.]
[You enter the opening of the pipe. Inside, rotten bug corpses are scattered about, propelled forward by the water current.]
[You walk against the current, pushing away the surrounding bug corpses, crawling deeper into the pipe.]
[Bodies of these bugs are in part acidic and corrosive. Anything that mistakenly enters the pipe, even machinery, cannot escape corrosion. The outer shell of your mecha is slowly corroded and rusted, thankfully you have reactive armor installed, which continuously repairs your damages, balancing the rate of damage and repairs.]
[After crawling a distance forward, you discover more living bugs appearing inside the pipe. The number rapidly increases as you advance.]
[Bugs are crawling all over your body, constantly moving across your machinery’s surface. They seem to be trying to find an opening to invade your body. Luckily, you’re a machine and cannot be infested by bugs.]
[Although the bugs cannot invade your body, their large numbers considerably slow your progress. Some bugs even crawl into your joints, making your movement even more difficult.]
[...Bugs have completely clogged your joints, you cannot move!]
Mu You’s heart jumps as he watches.
A high-powered robot could be brought to a halt due to bugs lodging within the joints, it is clear to see how dense the bugs here are.
Fortunately, this is a text game, a few lines of text lightly cross over it all. If it were real life, no one could withstand such an impactful scene.
Mu You had no choice but to log out of the game, then log back in after half a minute.
[You reappear in the bug-filled sewer pipe, continuing to crawl forward.]
When logging off, the game character collapses in place, naturally shaking off the bugs that were on it and making the body clean when logging back in.
However, this state doesn’t last long. About a minute later, the text indicated that bugs have covered the mecha’s body again, rendering it immobile.
Left with no choice, Mu You must log on and off every minute to continuously remove the bugs from his body.
After crawling step-by-step in the pipe for over an hour, a new message popped up.
[You emerge from the end of the pipe, entering a vast circular pool.]
[The pool is filled with bugs. Their density is even ten times higher than in the pipe.]
[Thousands of bugs are writhing and squirming in the pool, making the pool like a boiling black lake...]
He has finally reached the Gu Venom Pool described in the diary. As expected, this place was something else – the quantity of bugs was way more than he had imagined.
Of course, the greater the density of such bugs, the more likely their nemesis might appear.
Mu You hastily made his character to continue the grueling crawl in the Gu Venom Pool.
His mecha was now at the base of the pool, totally engulfed by several meters high wave of bugs; he could not see the outside world at all.
Mu You activated the Sand Spider Nest in desperation.
[Hundreds of Sand Spiders swarm out from you, exploring in every direction in the bug pool.]
[Numerous detection screens flash before your eyes, but the images are mostly covered by dense bugs...]