I'm trapped in a block

Chapter 79 Invisible Hand
  "Shibeng, based on your understanding of the Needle Stone Forest, who do you think is possible to do such a thing?" Li Luo asked.

Shi Beng was still startled. He leaned against the wall and replied carefully: "No one would do such a thing. Spreading the alien disease might even affect you."

Also, self-interested mining tribesmen are unlikely to do such things that may harm themselves.

Fear doesn't allow them to do that either.

Li Luo thought for a moment and then asked: "Is it possible that someone from the Rare Mine Clan did it, intending to turn you into a Rare Mine?"

"It's unlikely. Some of their tribesmen are infected with the alien disease and it has become common." Shi Beng thought for a while and shook his head.

"Then who has the ability to do it?" Li Luo was a little confused.

When Shi Beng heard this question, he seemed to be lost in thought. After a while, he answered: "There is a kind of mining clan that can do it."

"Which?"

"Natural gas family."

Li Luo was stunned on the spot by Shi Beng's answer.

Mo Ling was also shocked.

Natural gas family? Why is there still this clan in the Acupuncture Stone Forest? He almost thought he heard wrongly.

But if you think about it carefully, it makes perfect sense.

Since solid minerals can be produced in stone pillars, gas minerals may also happen to appear.

There is nothing surprising about the occurrence of this completely random and bizarre phenomenon.

Li Luo came to his senses and asked Shibeng: "There is also natural gas? So do you still have oil?"

"Have."

Sure enough, their understanding of the Acupuncture Stone Forest was too shallow.

The mineral races I encountered before were also solid mineral races, which caused their thinking to be limited.

Who would have thought that a natural gas race could actually be born in this stone pillar?

Shibeng explained: "They are a race that lives in peace with the world. They are very rare in number. Moreover, the stone pillars of their race are very small and hidden. The holes and cracks are not big and they are very narrow."

"They don't participate in our fights, and they are very kind to other mining tribes. They huddle in the small cracks of their stone pillars all day long, and you rarely see them."

Mo Ling had some thoughts. If it were gas, he would indeed be able to encounter these patients with different veins without knowing it.

And it will not cause subsequent alarms.

But if it were really them, why would they do this?

"Have they ever suffered from abnormal vein disease?" Li Luo asked.

"I've never heard of it. I've only heard that there is abnormal vein disease among the solid mineral tribe."

Shi Beng's answer made Mo Ling start to doubt that maybe it was really them who did it.

"There is a natural gas family pore rock formation nearby. The path over there is very narrow. If we continue to move towards the exit, we will pass by it."

Is it nearby? Mo Ling became even more suspicious.

They also have the time to commit the crime, but they don’t know their motive for doing so.

"Let's go and take a look." Li Luo said to Shi Beng.

At this time, Shi Beng was a little scared and didn't dare to leave. Although he had no feelings, he was not a fool.

After the previous exchange, he roughly guessed that the culprit of the heterogeneous disease was most likely the natural gas family.

He promised, but his legs were shaking and he couldn't walk.

Mo Ling looked at the stone collapse and felt a little funny.

"As expected of a deserter, he can be so cowardly."

He could probably imagine how Shi Beng ran away from the battlefield.

Perhaps while his companions were fighting more and more bravely out of fear, Shi Beng was already too scared to stay away from the battlefield.

Everyone behaves differently when they are afraid. "If you are afraid, you don't have to go. Just tell us the way." Li Luo said helplessly.

"Go, wait for me for a while, I'm a little scared now." Shi Beng replied tremblingly, and he patted his chest with his hand, trying to relieve his fear.

Mo Ling suddenly felt that Shi Beng, who was now in a state of fear, was much more interesting than the cold face before.

But he was also a little strange. If he was afraid, it would be fine if he didn't go. Why would Shi Beng be willing to take them there?

It seems that my understanding of fear is still a little shallow.

After a while, Shi Beng finally adjusted his condition and stopped shaking all over.

But the ripples reverberating on the body's surface betrayed him.

"I'm ready, let's go." He was still full of fear, and his words were stammering.

Under Li Luo's suspicious eyes, he walked directly to the front, his steps still a little stiff.

At this time, a stone fell from the cave wall in front.

Shi Beng was so frightened that he ran and hid behind the cube. After he saw clearly that it was just a fallen stone, he walked out with a scared look on his face.

Walk to the front again.

I have to say that although he walks very stiffly, his escape speed is really fast.

However, after being frightened like this, the fear of rockslides was reduced a lot, and his pace gradually became brisker.

Following the rockslide, we soon came to a passage full of holes in the cave wall. These holes made the passage look like it was about to collapse.

But in Mo Ling's field of vision, the rock formations in this passage were obviously much denser than what he had seen before. The interior was very solid and tightly squeezed.

Li Luo also discovered this. She knelt down and looked at the hard rock wall at the bottom of the cave, asking if the rockslide ahead was imminent.

"Just a little further and we'll be there."

At this time, the ripples on Shi Beng's body began to reverberate violently again, but they quickly calmed down with his adjustments.

Continuing forward, it didn't take long to reach a circular open space.

Shi Beng pointed upward and said, "This is the stone pillar of the Natural Gas Clan."

Mo Ling floated upward.

This is a huge curved vault, and the dense rock walls cleverly form an arched structure to support this open space.

There are bottomless pores on the rock wall, extending inward from the rock wall, criss-crossing and branching, leading to nowhere.

The largest of these pores was about the size of an arm, which was impossible to pass through. Some of these pores were very wet, but Mo Ling couldn't tell whether they were water.

Do the natural gas people live in it?
  While Mo Ling was observing, a pool of water suddenly flowed out of the hole, and the water slid out of the exit like slime.

Mo Ling quickly dodged, and the water fell from the high vault to the ground.

The sound of water flow also startled Shibeng, and he quickly hid at the edge and looked at the water.

Li Luoben wanted to step forward to observe, but the water began to slowly expand, and a figure emerged from the ground.

When it expanded to half a person's height, the figure could barely be seen.

He seemed to imitate Li Luo's appearance, turning into a woman, and his body gradually turned into mist.

Continuing to grow, the figure finally became as tall as Li Luo, and the water mist on his body gradually thinned out.

After it stopped expanding, the figure circled around Li Luo several times, with a smoke-like phantom behind him. Although it was a human form, it didn't move like a human being at all, but like a ghost.

After looking at Li Luo curiously, the ghost came to the block that had dropped to the ground and began to rotate around the block.

It even got close to the square. In Mo Ling's field of vision, it was like a burst of mist rushing over, and the feeling was very strange.

Then, a faint murmur came, like the wind blowing leaves, soft and fine.

"Friend, are you a victim?"

(End of this chapter)