Survival at Sea: I Became Number One by Growing Mushrooms

The group walked hand in hand in the darkness. Their eyes seemed to have evolved in the darkness; they had adapted to it and could even see things they shouldn't have been able to see.

A light appeared in her eyes, like a beam of light, which Xu Jiawei thought was her imagination.

"Did you see that?" Boss Xun asked.

Others chimed in, "I saw a passage! Could it be my imagination?"

"We'll find out once we go in," Xu Jiawei said, leading the group forward.

The group followed the path of light, which appeared and disappeared, sometimes near and sometimes far, but it gave them hope.

As they followed, the light disappeared, and they were plunged back into darkness. Her teammates frantically groped around, shouting, "Captain, I touched a wall!"

"Me too!"

"This side is a wall too!"

Xu Jiawei suddenly had a bad feeling and quickly turned on the flashlight.

As the flashlight beam shone, everyone was blinded by the sudden light and closed their eyes. When Xu Jiawei opened her eyes again, she found that they were trapped in an enclosed space with walls all around and no way out.

They were trapped.

On the ceiling, a line of striking text was clearly printed. Si Yunming read it aloud: "The rules are both true and false. You have been deceived. The way out is not in the darkness."

Everyone felt as if they had fallen into an ice cave. Only after reaching this point could they distinguish between truth and falsehood. Wouldn't that mean everything was a dead end? Who would have thought that the rules could be both true and false?

The crowd frantically pounded on the wall, trying to find a way out, and even took out weapons to attack it. However, the wall seemed indestructible, and any marks left by any attack would be instantly repaired.

"Get out of the way!" Si Yunming's voice was icy.

Si Yunming released darkness, which eroded the entire wall, and the wall gradually dissolved under the erosion of darkness. This skill is useful!

The group watched Si Yunming expectantly, but after he completely dissolved the wall, the scene behind it was even more icy.

Because this place is like a coffin buried underground, with a passage carved into the wall, and the surrounding area is still rock, so there is no other exit.

They are now like people buried alive in coffins, with absolutely no chance of survival.

Si Yunming melted all the surrounding walls but still couldn't find an exit.

As the wall slowly recovered to its original state after the corrosion stopped, everyone's expressions grew increasingly grim.

"Boss, should we find a direction and start dissolving as we go? Maybe we can find our way out?" Boss Xun suggested.

"Perhaps the exit is above or underground; we can try both," Xu Jiawei said.

"But, Captain, we came straight here. The exit should be around us," Gu Lin said.

"Maybe we've been teleported," Xu Jiawei said, since the players arrived on the island the moment they opened their eyes.

Perhaps the darkness was simply to conceal the teleportation.

Xu Jiawei suddenly realized something. No, they weren't teleported at all; they just walked over.

After all, players have a special feeling when they are teleported, which is indescribable. She didn't feel this feeling at all just now. Or was it because she was in the dark and didn't feel it?

However, they still needed to find an exit first. Si Yunming first corroded the top of his head, which, like the surrounding area, was all rock. Next, he corroded the ground.

No one had any hope and could only watch as Si Yunming unleashed his skills.

"Found it!" Si Yunming's voice was filled with excitement.

Below the passage was a huge door. Si Yunming cleaved the door open with a single sword strike, revealing a pitch-black hole behind it, the depth of which was impossible to discern.

However, there was no other way out, so Boss Xun gritted his teeth and jumped down first. Everyone thought that Boss Xun would fall directly down, but instead, Boss Xun cried out and was stuck to the wall.

Under the astonished gazes of the crowd, Boss Xun slowly stood up.

He just stood there on the wall.

"Boss, the gravity is different here, you guys come down quickly." Boss Xun felt it was magical and even jumped up and down.

One by one, the group crawled into the cave entrance.

"This is too vicious! Who would have thought the exit was underground? If we had really dug around, we might never have reached the end. By the time we were exhausted and the walls closed, we would have turned into fossils!" Boss Xun patted his chest, relieved to have survived the ordeal.

Xu Jiawei also breathed a sigh of relief. Fortunately, she made the suggestion; otherwise, if the group had actually dug holes around themselves, they would have been completely doomed.

After walking for more than ten minutes, the tunnel finally came to an end, where there was a grand hall with a statue of a god in the center. Xu Jiawei looked up but couldn't see anything clearly. Her mind was filled with a sharp pain, so she quickly looked away.

"Is this the temple of that evil god?" Xu Jiawei asked.

Si Yunming only glanced at it, and demonic patterns began to appear on his face. According to the settings of the game, this was probably mental pollution caused by staring. He really is an evil god.

"Yes, that should be it. Don't look at the idols; it will cause mental pollution." Si Yunming's voice came, and everyone quickly looked away.

"The rules on that stone tablet should be real, but the information about the trapped room is fake. The purpose is to make us panic and make wrong judgments." Xu Jiawei also understood everything. As expected of an evil god, he was too vicious.

"Luckily, you're shrewd, boss. Otherwise, we would all have died there. Who would have thought that gravity could be different!" the second brother said flatteringly.

Xu Jiawei didn't respond. Instead, she began to observe the temple to see if there were any mechanisms or anything. The others also scattered and began to explore.

Finally, I saw a small protrusion behind the statue, which was almost invisible unless you looked closely.

After preparing for the battle, Xu Jiawei slowly pressed the button.

Suddenly, the platform in front of the main hall rose up slowly.

Above the main hall, the rock wall remained unchanged; if one were to jump up there, they might be crushed into a meat patty.

But before they could react, the platform was rising rapidly. Xu Jiawei dared not hesitate; it seemed she had no choice but to take a gamble.

"Go up!" Xu Jiawei jumped onto the platform first, and Si Yunming immediately followed.

The others seemed to realize what was happening and hurriedly jumped up as well.

The platform carried everyone rapidly towards the ceiling, their faces pale, some even closing their eyes in despair.

However, the expected impact did not occur. The ceiling seemed to carry the group through like a phantom, and finally the platform shattered, leaving them standing on land surrounded by broken platforms.

Si Yunming tried to use dark corrosion on the ground, but the ground didn't show any damage.

"My goodness, thank goodness the boss was decisive. If we had hesitated, we would have been completely trapped there. That would have been truly a situation where we were helpless and had no one to turn to."

After all, this platform is a one-time opportunity; once it's gone, it's gone forever.