I'm trapped in a block

Chapter 465 Dangerous Activation

"Do you see the forest ahead? This means we have finished the outer area and have now reached the central area. The activation phenomenon here will be more obvious. You have to be careful."

In front of Li Luo was a strange forest. The first time he saw the forest, he felt it was a mess.

The roots of the tree have completely emerged from the soil and are growing on the ground in a disorderly manner. Such a plant should have withered, but the leaves are still green.

This place is like a typhoon passing through. Big trees are growing in all directions, the soil is turned inside out, and backward streams are flowing through various cracks. There are traces of moving objects everywhere.

“You have to be careful of everything around you, including the wind.”

Zhou Chao raised his head and smelled the breeze that carried the scent of leaves.

"Do you smell blood?"

Li Luo quickly learned to smell it, and found that there was indeed a faint smell of blood in the forest breeze mixed with the smell of soil.

"A little bit, very faint." Li Luo nodded.

"Animated creatures will hunt all moving things..." Zhou Chao said lightly: "So they will hunt living things."

"When we first arrived at this sky island, the investigation team suffered a lot before they figured out the principle of activated pollution. At first, we thought those activated creatures were some kind of creatures..."

"How did you discover this sky island?" Li Luo asked curiously.

"It's just a routine investigation..."

The Sky Island Survey Team would periodically visit some Sky Island that were not marked by beacons to investigate the ecology of the island and then set up beacons. They came to this island because of an ordinary survey mission.

Every time the investigation team lands on a new sky island, they will go to the center of the sky island and set up a beacon.

Beacons cannot be set up on the edge of the sky island, because these "big rocks" flying in the sky will often break into several pieces. Setting them up in the middle can better prevent such situations.

When the survey team affiliated with the Zhou Dynasty first arrived on the island, they thought it was an island with a normal ecology and very suitable for human habitation.

With the hope of transforming this empty island into a human monitoring station, the investigation team excitedly headed towards the center of the island.

But as soon as they entered the forest, they were attacked by a giant tree creature.

"Is it a tree man?"

There are many tree-shaped creatures in the abyss, most of them are intelligent, but the giant tree creatures on this island have no desire to communicate at all, and attacked the investigation team as soon as they met.

Sharp leaves scratched past, and several team members who didn't react in time were seriously injured.

Fortunately, the investigation team destroyed the strange giant tree in time.

"There are tree-man-like creatures on this island, and they are hostile to humans." This was the initial guess of the investigation team.

But soon, they discovered something was wrong.

As they moved deeper into the forest, the investigation team was attacked by various strange creatures.

Stone creatures, liquid creatures, soil creatures...

The island's ecology is extremely complex, with a wide variety of biological species, but they all have one thing in common - they are extremely hostile to humans.

Unable to communicate, they immediately attacked the investigation team and fought to the death.

The deeper they went into the forest, the more creatures they encountered. Their intelligence also grew, and they began to use traps, sneak attacks, camouflage and other tactics, which made things difficult for the investigation team.

"Captain, shall we retreat first? We don't know what dangers may exist in here." The captain shook his head: "At least set up the beacon before we leave."

Under the captain's order, the entire investigation team continued to move deeper, and they encountered more strange creatures.

Air creatures, dust creatures, and even...

"Photobiology."

Zhou Chao recalled with lingering fear.

"That animated creature caused heavy losses to our team, even sacrificing two of our companions. It was only after we encountered it that we realized how dangerous this island is."

"Did you defeat it?"

"No, we just ran away. It can't enter a place with shadows, and the investigation team has a relic that creates darkness. We used that relic to escape its pursuit."

"It was only after that that we discovered that these things we thought of as 'living things' all had the properties of certain things, and that the characteristics they had when they were 'dead things' had not disappeared."

"Light cannot turn into shadows, and air cannot spread from low pressure to high pressure... Although these creatures are strange, they are still restricted by the laws of physics. The investigation team has discovered this."

"However, the investigation team at that time did not know that this was caused by activated pollution. They just thought it was a characteristic of those creatures."

"Until the items on us started to come alive..."

"The backpack of one of our team members suddenly moved on its own. He opened the backpack and the can inside suddenly jumped out. The sharp can lid cut his hand."

"After we eliminated that crazy can, someone in the investigation team suggested that this was a form of activated pollution."

After listening to Zhou Chao's recollections, Li Luo nodded: "I see."

"After knowing the principle, it became much easier to deal with it. Facing the characteristics of those animated creatures, we had to counter them. The investigation team came to the center and set up the beacon... You know what happened next."

"I was left here." Zhou Chao spread his hands and said helplessly.

He looked at the twisted forest around him, and said in a serious tone: "The activated pollution has become stronger. We didn't have such a scary situation back then, and activated water has actually begun to appear outside the forest..."

"Once we get to the beacon, we must inform the monitoring station of the current situation on the island and ask them to send people to clean up the pollution."

As Zhou Chao was speaking, the earth suddenly rumbled.

Then, the soil in the forest rose and fell like a wave, until the rumbling sound completely subsided and the mud wave gradually disappeared.

However, wherever the mud waves passed, countless large trees were uprooted and fell to the ground.

However, the roots of the fallen trees began to sway slowly, like tentacles, constantly extending and groping around until they touched the soil on the ground, then they drilled into the ground eagerly.

This strange scene made Li Luo and Zhou Chao stop.

The fallen trees came to life, twisting their tentacles. Some tentacles touched other tentacles and began to kill each other.

They twisted together like two entangled poisonous snakes, tearing at each other frantically until one of them was completely torn apart and fell to the ground.

Those fallen roots did not die immediately, but instead squirmed violently like a gecko's broken tail.

However, the movement of the roots attracted the attention of the soil.

The surrounding soil seemed to be a group of sharks that had smelled blood. They all moved towards the roots, like a colony of ants, slowly surrounding, burying, and devouring it...

(End of this chapter)