I'm trapped in a block

Chapter 549: The Host I Never Thought of

Through examination of the penguins, doctors discovered that the rainbow virus had no other harm other than making the host's body colorful.

Although they still remained skeptical about the virus, the doctors could not find any more suspicious points. At this point, the cause of the penguins' rainbow transformation was basically understood, so the doctors immediately began treating them.

"Define the Rainbow Virus as a disease, cure it..."

Thanks to the doctors' powerful healing abilities, the penguins soon returned to normal. The rainbow virus in their bodies was completely eliminated, and the colorization completely disappeared. After the doctors examined them, they sent them back to their original sky island.

As for the original virus environment on the sky island, the doctors were powerless to do anything. They could only leave it to fate as to whether the recovered penguins would be infected again after returning to their original habitats.

"We are just doctors, not gods. Our duty is to cure diseases."

Not many doctors would choose to follow the patients back to their habitats like Xi's companions and completely eliminate the source of the plague.

These doctors who treated the penguins did not have the courage to leave the Huasheng Islands.

Because of the strange characteristics of this virus, although Xi did not participate in the treatment of the penguins, he had heard about it.

"A harmless virus that has no other effects other than turning the host into color."

"But no one wants to be colorful. For some races that attach great importance to their appearance, being infected by the rainbow virus is a very scary thing."

"But why is this virus on Senluo Island?" Xi looked at the colorful spindle-shaped hair ball above. He recognized it as the rainbow virus with very obvious characteristics.

"During the time I was asleep, could it be that the Rainbow Virus was also included in the species protection zone? That's impossible. How could a virus be protected?"

Xi was confused. Senluo Island seemed to be completely different from what he remembered...

"What kind of creature is that?" Mo Ling suddenly asked.

"Which one?"

"The one above, the host of the rainbow virus, it must be infecting something, right?" Mo Ling pointed at the strange fish above.

"I don't recognize it. It's too far away." Xi looked at it carefully for a long time, but he really couldn't recognize what it was.

In the dark lake, undercurrents occasionally rolled up turbid mud and sand. The two were facing against the light and could not see the details of the creatures infected by the rainbow virus at all.

Xi could only vaguely see certain parts of the creature, and from the coloration of its body he determined that it was a creature infected with the rainbow virus.

Mo Ling nodded: "Is it too far? Then I'll bring it over."

With that, he aimed at the creature.

Before Xi could react, the creature appeared in Mo Ling's hand.

Mo Ling looked at it for a while, then handed the dead creature to Xi.

"This doesn't seem to be a living creature..."

Xi took the spindle-shaped creature in a daze. The thin strips wrapped around it were constantly peeling off. At the same time, the color on the spindle-shaped creature was slowly fading.

"There are many kinds of creatures! These hair-like creatures are rot worms, a type of worm that eats almost everything. There are many of them on Senluo Island. They were released by the managers to clean up the garbage on the island."

Xi suddenly thought of something and used his hands to pull apart the entangled worms, revealing what was underneath.

After seeing the spindle-shaped object in the center, the two were stunned at the same time. This thing wrapped by rot worms turned out to be a broken leg of a doctor!
Everything below the ankles and above the knees is gone, leaving only the spindle-shaped calves, which are tightly entangled by colorful worms, making it look like a "fish".

But this was not the most shocking thing for the two...

Although it is still fading, it can be seen that the colorization of this calf is extremely serious. Not only that, this calf is still twitching constantly. The "swimming" they just saw was caused by the twitching of this calf.

"Still moving?" Xi was very surprised. He didn't know if the doctor had the ability to regenerate severed limbs.

Mo Ling was also very surprised. This calf had been teleported by him, and now it could still move?
"Is he still alive?" Mo Ling asked doubtfully.

Xi slowly stroked the twitching calf with his hand, feeling it carefully, and soon he gave the answer: "Dead."

"Dead? Then why is he still moving after he's dead?"

"I don't know, all the cells are dead..." Xi didn't understand either.

He grabbed one side of the calf and held it carefully in his hand. The calf was still twitching from time to time.

"Senior, did you see it? It's like there's a string pulling it. Every once in a while, it pulls it in the direction of..." Xi paused for a moment and pointed to the center of the lake: "Over there."

Mo Ling then discovered that the calf twitched in the same direction each time. It was indeed like there was a string pulling it, and the force was not strong, just enough to make the calf move slightly.

"I understand! Senior, this calf was not in the lake at the beginning. It was like the body I created at the beginning. It might be complete, but in the process of moving into the lake, due to some accident, only this one was left."

"It's also possible that it was eaten by rot worms and only this was left... But even if it was completely dead, the center of the lake was still attracting it, pulling it into the lake little by little, and it 'swims' towards the center of the lake like a fish."

Hearing Xi's words, Mo Ling was very shocked.

"Is this attraction something that even death cannot escape?"

What on earth are these bodies doing in the middle of the lake?
Why would Lian Xi's body also be attracted to this strange thing?
In the turbid lake water, Mo Ling looked into the deeper darkness and became more and more confused.

The calf in Xi's hand was still twitching, and it seemed that nothing could stop it from moving forward.

The curiosity in both of them reached its peak. Mo Ling and Xi understood and said nothing more. They just took a step forward and walked towards deeper places along the bottom of the lake.

……

The lake water seemed to become more and more turbid, and not long after they walked, the two saw an even more horrifying scene.

There were white bones everywhere in the mud and sand at the bottom of the lake. Some broken limbs that had not yet rotted were slightly exposed from the mud and sand. Scavengers were wriggling at the bottom of the lake, devouring the food that had "fallen into their trap".

"They are all the bodies of the doctor. Or rather, they are all the body of the manager..."

Mo Ling saw many familiar bracelets at the bottom of the lake, all of which were worn by the manager. But now, these bracelets were either worn on a bone or scattered in the mud and sand. It was obvious that their owners had met with accidents.

It seems that not all bodies can reach the deeper levels, and a large number of them fall down halfway.

Some of the bodies that remained intact were still twitching slightly towards the center of the lake, it seemed that the attraction had not disappeared yet, while the white bones were completely motionless.

These bodies were not exactly the same. Some of them were strangely twisted, and others were covered in strange blue algae. Mo Ling even found that one of the broken limbs had glittering fish scales growing on it. It seemed that the calf infected with the rainbow virus that they saw was not an isolated case.

As Xi looked at these special "patients", the light ball on his head began to shake uneasily...

(End of this chapter)