I'm trapped in a block

Chapter 473 Don't Stop
Immersed in that warmth, Zhou Chao's thoughts had become completely blurred.

"Run, run..." he muttered unconsciously.

“Don’t stop…”

Zhou Chao couldn't tell whether it was noodles or liquid. He just felt that breathing was a little difficult. Fortunately, the cool breeze made him feel refreshed again.

Zhou Chao struggled forward in the blood, with the captain's encouragement echoing in his ears.

He seemed to be stuck in a quagmire, with only gurgling sounds around him, and the voices of his teammates became increasingly vague.

Blood seeped into his nasal cavity. Now, even the cool breeze could not save him. Zhou Chao instantly began to cough as if suffocating.

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

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

Until a rough hand grabbed him and pulled him out of the pool of blood and mud.

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

The captain didn't say anything, 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 he started coughing.

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

Zhou Chao felt a little better only after he coughed out the sticky liquid.

He gasped and raised his head. The green leaves seemed to be celebrating his survival.

"Escaped?"

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

He looked back and realized that behind the pool of blood and mud was the bare forest. They were not far away from the forest.

"It turns out it really is a trap."

If they had not listened to the captain and continued to move forward, they would have fallen into the cage of light again the moment they left the shadow, 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 carrying out a ball of black coke from the blood, and the coke was still emitting white smoke.

"What is that?" Zhou Chao came closer in a daze.

It wasn't until he saw the hair dryer in Jiao Tan's hand that Zhou Chao's heart trembled instantly.

He recognized the relic...

"Xiao Li..."

The hair dryer was still blowing cool air, but Xiao Li's hands, which had turned into charcoal, were holding the hair dryer tightly and did not let go until the last moment.

The other team members tried their best but failed to pry the hair dryer out of Jiao Tan's hand.

"Smash his hand." 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 stopped looking at the coke. He seemed unusually calm, but his trembling hands betrayed him.

Zhou Chao stared at the scene in a daze.

The pitch-black charcoal and the players crawling out of the blood...

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

The teammate who had just handed him water had turned into a dried-up piece of charcoal.

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

White smoke rose, and the smell of blood mixed with a faint smell of coke. Zhou Chao was irritated and started coughing again.

"Cough, cough, cough!"

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

…“Cough cough cough!”

Zhou Chao took off his mask and coughed out a pool of thick, dirty blood, with black charcoal particles in it.

He fell to the ground in agony, gasping for air.

The pale and immature face had 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 overlapping and then disappearing without a trace.

"I……"

Zhou Chao's eyes gradually calmed down, and his fuzzy thoughts gradually recovered, but his hands were still tightly grasping the ground, 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 object in his throat, Zhou Chao's chest felt much more comfortable, and those surging emotions were suppressed.

"You have been talking nonsense, what's going on?" Li Luo asked.

"So that's how it is. I understand." Zhou Chao's eyes were no longer confused.

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

"I was attacked by an animated being."

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

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

Li Luo was stunned: "Can even fear be brought to life?"

"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 just do?"

"I put the holy sword on your forehead."

"So that's why I was able to escape from fear..." Zhou Chao nodded in understanding: "Thank you."

He looked around and said seriously, "We have to get out of here. Fear is likely to attack again."

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

……

"Animation... of fear?"

After hearing Zhou Chao's words, Mo Ling didn't react for a moment.

"Could it be that those flying insects were also attacked by the animated fear?"

Even emotions can be activated?

Is there anything that can’t be done to revitalize pollution?
Zhou Chao’s reaction just now was indeed as if he had seen something terrible.

"Fear?"

Insects are attacked by fear, so they keep flying around, but their intelligence is too low and their tolerance for fear is limited, which causes them to keep switching between normal and crazy states, flying around and stopping, in an endless cycle.

Instead, humans will fall into deep fear and be unable to extricate themselves.

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

Mo Ling recalled the nonsense before the Zhou Dynasty.

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, and they rushed towards Li Luo and Zhou Chao like crazy.

The first time Mo Ling saw these animated creatures, he realized that they had been completely trapped in fear and had become puppets driven by fear.

(End of this chapter)