Saving the World in an Apocalypse-Style Text Game

[What you see here is Volume Seventy-Six of the Daily Life Officer’s notes, documenting nearly fifty years of major events in the Vermillion State and the itinerary and speeches of Emperor Wu.]

[You flip through the pages and quickly find the key content and the reason why this book needs to be destroyed...]

[It turns out that more than thirty years ago, Emperor Wu took advantage of a period of incognito travel and secretly set out to sea to search for ’Penglai Immortal Island’ atop the Eastern Mysterious Sea.]

[With the support of the Buddhas and Bodhisattvas of West Heaven, the Vermillion State has long enjoyed a prospering and unbroken reign. Emperor Wu’s covert visit to Penglai Immortal Island, whether or not he found the Daoist Immortal Venerable, amounted to a grave disrespect toward the Buddhas and Bodhisattvas of the West, hence this journey should not be made public.]

[According to records by the Daily Life Officer, Emperor Wu boarded an oceanic ironclad ship and drifted for a long time in the Moon Plate Maritime Domain, one of the nine great sea regions of the Eastern Mysterious Sea, in an attempt to find ’Penglai Immortal Island’.]

[The ancient texts say, it was once heard that Penglai Immortal Island, truly a Daoist sanctuary, lies hidden in the Moon Plate Maritime Domain, its portals constantly shifting, elusive to those without predestined immortal fate, barely offering a glimpse of its path. Thus, if one with fortuitous coincidence should, by chance, glimpse the secrets of heaven and find the gates of Penglai; on the other hand, those who seek it with forceful desire, even if they exhaust their entire lives, would hardly trace its whereabouts.]

[Emperor Wu only knew that Penglai Immortal Island was situated in the Moon Plate Maritime Domain, but due to the elusive and shifting entrance of Penglai, he was unable to gain entry for a long time.]

[Perhaps Emperor Wu’s earnest desire to pursue the Dao moved heaven and earth, and after a sudden, violent storm at sea had passed, the winds halted, the waves calmed, and the skies cleared, the ironclad battleship sailed into an unseen region of sea, and Penglai Immortal Island brilliantly came into view.]

[Penglai appeared majestically beautiful and strange, akin to a celestial palace descended to the mundane world, the island’s outline resembling a naturally formed painting, with green peaks piled upon one another, shrouded in mist and clouds.]

[Upon the island, magnificent buildings with eaves towering into the clouds were arrayed in sequence, radiating the grandeur of the Immortals. The structures, built on bases of white jade and adorned with bamboo and pine, soared into the clouds.]

[Around the island, azure waves shimmered, the crystal-clear sea water sparkled, the sand on the beaches shone as white as silver, and within this magnificence roamed precious Exotic Beasts and cranes soared under the blue sky and white clouds...]