I'm trapped in a cube

Immersed in the warmth, Zhou Chao's thoughts were completely blurred.

"Run, run..." He muttered unconsciously.

"Don't stop..."

It was no longer possible to tell whether it was a pancake or a liquid. Zhou Chao only felt that breathing was a little difficult. Fortunately, the cool wind made him refreshed again.

Zhou Chao struggled to move forward in the blood, and the captain's encouragement echoed in his ears.

He seemed to be trapped in a quagmire, with only the sound of "gurgling" around him, and the voices of the team members became more and more blurred.

The blood penetrated into his nasal cavity. Now, even the cool wind could not save him. Zhou Chao coughed suffocatingly.

The smell of blood rushed to his brain, and the tears that had been unstoppable burst out again.

Like a drowning man, Zhou Chao frantically struggled in the blood.

Until a rough hand grabbed him and pulled him out of the blood and mud puddle with force.

Zhou Chao rubbed his eyes that were covered with blood, opened his eyes dizzily, and the captain's face came into view.

The captain said nothing, just patted Zhou Chao on the shoulder, and went to rescue the other team members.

"Captain..." Zhou Chao wanted to say thank you, but suddenly coughed.

He bent over, retching and coughing violently, and the smell of blood came up again. He had never felt so uncomfortable.

It was not until the sticky liquid was coughed out of his mouth that Zhou Chao felt a little better.

He panted and raised his head. The green leaves seemed to celebrate his survival.

"Escaped."

Zhou Chao took a deep breath and let the breeze in the woods flow in his chest.

He looked back and found that behind the blood and mud puddle was the bare forest. They were not far away from the forest.

"It really is a trap."

If they hadn't listened to the captain and continued to move forward, they would have been trapped in the cage of light again the moment they left the shadows, and would never have been able to get out, and all their previous efforts would have been wasted.

Just as Zhou Chao was rejoicing, he saw several team members moving a ball of black coke out of the blood, and the coke was still emitting white smoke.

"What is that?" Zhou Chao approached in a daze.

Until he saw the hair dryer in the coke's hand, Zhou Chao's heart trembled instantly.

He recognized the relic...

"Xiao Li..."

The hair dryer was still blowing cool air, and Xiao Li's hand, which had turned into coke, held the hair dryer tightly, and did not let go until the last moment.

The other team members tried their best, but they couldn't get the hair dryer out of the coke's hand.

"Knock his hand to pieces." The captain said lightly.

"But, Captain..."

"And his nameplate, remember to take it off and give it to his family." The captain turned his head and didn't look at the coke again. He seemed unusually calm, but his shaking hands betrayed him.

Zhou Chao stared at the scene blankly.

The dark coke, the team members crawling out of the blood...

"Is he dead? Is Xiao Li dead? But his hair dryer is still spinning."

The teammate who just handed him water has now become a shrunken coke.

Zhou Chao's eyes blurred again. He looked at the coke that was carried out and wanted to say something, but he felt his mouth was a little dry. When he opened his mouth, he could only make a hoarse sound.

White smoke rose, and the smell of blood and the faint smell of coke mixed together. Zhou Chao was stimulated to cough again.

"Cough cough cough!"

This time the cough was more intense, Zhou Chao's tears gushed out again, and a dizziness came over him. He felt that the teammates around him were patting his back and asking him about him with concern, but there was only a buzzing sound in his ears.

…

“Cough, cough, cough!”

Zhou Chao opened his mask and coughed out a thick pool of dirty blood, with black coke particles in the blood.

He fell to the ground in pain, gasping for breath.

The pale and immature face completely lost its color. Zhou Chao opened his eyes wide and stared at the ground. Countless phantoms flashed before his eyes. He seemed to see those figures overlapped and disappeared without a trace.

“I…”

Zhou Chao’s eyes slowly calmed down, and his vague thoughts gradually recovered, but his hands grasped the ground hard, unable to let go for a long time.

“Are you feeling better?” Li Luo’s voice came from the side.

“Much better…” After spitting out the foreign body in his throat, Zhou Chao’s chest felt much more comfortable, and those surging emotions were suppressed.

“You have been talking nonsense, what is going on?” Li Luo asked.

“So that’s how it is, I understand.” Zhou Chao’s eyes were no longer hesitant.

He struggled to get up from the ground, wiped the stains on his mouth, and put the mask back on.

"I was attacked by an activated creature."

"What activated creature?" Li Luo looked around and asked in confusion.

"Activated fear." Zhou Chao patted his clothes and explained: "That thing can cause fear in people's hearts, and even make those fears reappear."

Li Luo was stunned: "Can even fear be activated?"

"Of course." Zhou Chao said solemnly: "Everything can be activated, this is activated pollution, the activated fog just now was attacked by activated fear, so it keeps running away."

As Zhou Chao spoke, he looked at the glowing holy sword in Li Luo's hand.

"What did you do just now?"

"I put the holy sword on your forehead."

"So that's why I can get rid of fear..." Zhou Chao nodded in understanding: "Thank you."

He looked around and said seriously: "We have to leave here, fear is likely to attack again."

After listening to Zhou Chao's explanation, Li Luo also realized the seriousness and quickly agreed.

...

"Activation...fear?"

Hearing Zhou Chao's words, Mo Ling didn't react for a while.

"Are those flying insects also attacked by activated fear?"

Even emotions can be activated?

What else can't activated pollution do?

Zhou Chao's reaction just now really seemed to have seen something terrible.

"Fear?"

Insects are attacked by fear, so they keep flying around, but their intelligence is too low, and the fear they accept is also limited, which causes them to switch between normal and crazy states, flying around for a while, stopping for a while, and constantly cycling.

On the contrary, humans will fall into deep fear and cannot extricate themselves.

"Zhou Chao must have seen something very scary just now?"

Mo Ling remembered Zhou Chao's previous nonsense.

Mo Ling didn't know what Zhou Chao saw, but the most important thing now was to leave this area.

However, before they had gone far, a group of crazy animated creatures appeared in front of them, rushing towards Li Luo and Zhou Chao like crazy.

The first time Mo Ling saw these animated creatures, he knew that they had completely fallen into fear and became puppets driven by fear.