I'm trapped in a block

Chapter 470 Deep
The first rays of sunlight in the early morning pierced through the darkness and sprinkled on the open space.

The activated darkness surrounding the open space slowly faded away, hiding in unknown cracks, waiting for the next dark night to come back.

There were faint black residues floating in the forest. They were the corpses left after the war. They dissipated in the light, leaving no trace of their existence.

The dead things that were animated died again.

Zhou Chao suddenly sat up from the stone, gasping for breath.

He seemed to be frightened and looked around frantically.

It was not until he saw Li Luo sitting on top of the boulder that he slowly calmed down.

"What's wrong?" Li Luo asked curiously.

"I had a nightmare. I dreamed that the Coke I drank came alive and turned into a snake in my stomach. It bit through my intestines, came out from my belly button, and spit its tongue at me..."

Zhou Chao touched his belly and said with lingering fear.

Li Luo's expression was a little stiff: "You don't have to explain it in such detail."

"I'm sorry..." Zhou Chao scratched his head. "Last night, I got a can of Coke from your relics. Do I need to pay for it?"

Listening to Zhou Chao's words, Li Luo sighed: "You were thinking about the price before you went to bed last night, right? That's why you had a nightmare."

Zhou Chao smiled sheepishly: "Maybe."

"No price." Li Luo looked at him and said seriously.

"Really?" Zhou Chao was a little unconvinced.

"Really, it's the same as your holy sword." Li Luo picked up the stone sword in his hand and shook it.

Zhou Chao nodded: "That's good."

He breathed a sigh of relief, stood up and patted his clothes.

"Let's go on, there's still a long way to go."

"Okay." Li Luo jumped down from the top of the boulder.

After packing up for a while, the two left the boulder and walked towards the center.

……

The forest here seems to be more dense and the trees have become unusually tall.

The lush leaves even blocked the sunlight from shining through. Although it was a sunny morning, the forest seemed extremely dark.

Faint spots of light shone on the ground. Li Luo and Zhou Chao stepped on the thick tree roots and moved deeper into the cave.

"The activated pollution here doesn't seem to be as serious as before." Li Luo was a little confused: "Shouldn't this be deeper?"

Zhou Chao shook his head: "That's not the case..."

He patted the big tree next to him and said seriously: "These trees have been completely revived, but they are hidden."

Zhou Chao paused for a moment and gave an explanation that Li Luo did not expect:
"They... are playing dead."

"Playing dead?"

"Yes, the more serious the activation pollution is, the higher the intelligence of the animated creatures will be, so they learn to play dead." Zhou Chao explained.

"But why are they playing dead?"

"In order to avoid fighting, in this forest, once you show 'activity', you will become the target of everyone's attacks and be attacked by all the animated creatures. They have intelligence and know this, so they are all pretending to be dead."

Zhou Chao pointed at the soil on the ground and said, "Everything here is alive. They can sense our presence, but humans are too weak for them to be eaten, so they won't risk being attacked by other animated creatures to attack us."

"So, we are still very safe for now."

After listening to Zhou Chao's explanation, Li Luo nodded.

Unexpectedly, when a living thing reaches a certain level, it will disguise itself as a dead thing. Li Luo was not relieved by this, but felt a little creepy.

"Everything is alive, just pretending..."

A motionless tree may wrap its branches around its prey in the blink of an eye.

The calm soil may surge up in an instant and swallow everything.

The breeze in the forest may turn into a terrible tornado at some point.

……

After gaining intelligence, these animated creatures became even more terrifying.

Li Luo took a deep breath and suppressed the fear in her heart, but her movements became more and more cautious.

"Is that all?" Mo Ling was a little skeptical as he listened to Zhou Chao's explanation.

He didn't think the animated creatures were masquerading as dead simply to avoid being besieged.

After witnessing the erosion of the animated darkness, Mo Ling knew that there were even more terrifying things hidden in this forest.

"They are not only trying to avoid being besieged, but also avoiding some more powerful animated entities."

There was peace in their vision, and it seemed that without realizing it, they were back in a completely normal forest.

Even the soil beneath the ground was motionless.

"Is the dirt in disguise? What on earth would attack the dirt?"

Mo Ling searched the area quickly but didn't find any special animated creatures.

"Could it be some invisible thing again?"

Li Luo and Zhou Chao didn't seem to be affected at all and continued to move forward cautiously.

Mo Ling didn't believe it and continued searching in this strangely quiet forest. Finally, he found something strange.

“There are still insects in this forest.”

Although there are living creatures everywhere, they seem unable to completely exterminate the insects.

Perhaps the living things in this area are in a camouflaged state and the ecology is relatively intact, so many insects gather here.

The animated beings seemed to have no interest in these tiny creatures and allowed them to continue to live.

However, the insects in this forest gave Mo Ling a strange feeling.

"Are they hiding from something?"

These insects seemed to be being chased by something, running around in all directions without any logic. One second they were chewing on leaves, and the next second they were flying around like crazy.

After flying for a while, it calmed down again, then stopped on a leaf and continued to nibble on it. But not long after, it jumped up again like crazy, flew away from the big tree, flew to another big tree, and started the next round of cycle.

"Do these insects sense something terrible?"

Mo Ling searched carefully around the insects, but found nothing. They were just frightened for no reason, and then calmed down for no reason.

Just when Mo Ling was puzzled, an accident happened.

A ball of mist suddenly condensed in front of Li Luo and Zhou Chao. After condensing, the mist flew towards the sky, but before it flew very high, it suddenly made a sharp turn and rushed towards the ground.

However, before it reached the ground, the fog suddenly exploded as if it had been attacked, and then gathered again not far away.

"It's the Activating Mist." Zhou Chao looked at the strange mist and said warily, "What is it doing?"

It was as if something terrible was chasing it. It had no choice but to flee everywhere, but it could not escape the clutches of that thing...

(End of this chapter)