I'm trapped in a cube

The first ray of sunlight in the morning pierced the darkness and sprinkled on the open space.

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

There were faint black residues floating in the forest, which were the corpses after the war. They dissipated in the light without leaving a trace of their existence.

The revived dead died again.

Zhou Chao suddenly sat up from the stone, panting.

He seemed to be frightened by something and looked around in panic.

He slowly calmed down until he saw Li Luo sitting on the top of the boulder.

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

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

Zhou Chao touched his stomach and said with lingering fear.

Li Luo's expression was a little stiff: "You don't have to explain it so carefully."

"Sorry..." Zhou Chao scratched his head: "Last night, I got a can of Coke from your relics. Do I need to pay any price?"

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

Zhou Chao smiled embarrassedly: "Maybe."

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

"Really?" Zhou Chao was a little unconvinced.

"Really, 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 continue to set off, there is 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 prevented the sun from shining in. It was a sunny morning, but the forest seemed extremely dim.

The faint light shone on the ground. Li Luo and Zhou Chao stepped on the thick tree roots and moved deeper.

"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: "It's not like that..."

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

Zhou Chao paused for a moment and gave an explanation that Li Luo didn't expect:

"They... are playing dead."

"Playing dead?"

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

"But why are they pretending to be dead?"

"To avoid fighting, in this forest, once they show 'activity', they will become the target of public criticism and be attacked by all the living creatures. They have wisdom and know this, so they are pretending to be dead."

Zhou Chao pointed to the soil on the ground and said, "Everything here is alive, and they can sense our existence, but humans are too weak for them and are not worthy of being food, so they will not risk being attacked by other living creatures to attack us."

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

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

Unexpectedly, when the living creatures reach a certain level, they will disguise themselves as dead things.

Li Luo did not feel relieved, but felt a little creepy.

"Everything is alive, just pretending..."

The motionless big 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 wisdom, these animated creatures became even more terrifying.

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

“Is that all?” Mo Ling listened to Zhou Chao’s explanation with some doubt.

He didn’t think that these animated creatures disguised themselves as dead things just to prevent being besieged.

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

“They are not only preventing being besieged, but also avoiding some more powerful animated creatures.”

In the field of vision, there was a calmness, as if they had returned to a completely normal forest without knowing it.

Even the soil under the ground was motionless.

“Is the soil camouflaged? What on earth would attack the soil?”

Mo Ling quickly searched the area nearby, but did not find any special animated creatures.

“Could it be some invisible thing again?”

Li Luo and Zhou Chao did not seem to be affected, and they continued to move forward cautiously.

Mo Ling did not believe in evil, and continued to search in this strangely calm forest, and finally, he found something strange.

"There are actually insects in this forest."

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

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

The animated creatures seemed to have no interest in such tiny creatures, and allowed them to continue to survive.

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

"Are they avoiding something?"

These insects were running around like they were being chased by something, without any logic. They were just chewing leaves in the previous second, and they were flying around like crazy in the next second.

After flying for a while, they calmed down again, then landed on the leaves and continued to chew them, but not long after, they jumped up like crazy again, directly away from the big tree, flew to another big tree, and started the next round of the cycle.

"Did these insects feel something terrible?"

Mo Ling carefully searched 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 fog suddenly condensed in front of Li Luo and Zhou Chao. After condensing, the fog flew towards the sky, but before it flew very high, it suddenly made a sharp turn and rushed towards the ground.

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

"It's the activated fog." Zhou Chao looked at the strange fog and said vigilantly: "What is it doing?"

It was as if something terrible was chasing it, and it had to flee everywhere, but it couldn't escape the clutches of that thing...