I'm trapped in a block

Chapter 568: Labyrinth Cage
"There is indeed no change. We have gone deeper." Li Luo looked at the electronic screen in his hand and breathed a sigh of relief.

"The distance between the high walls is also getting wider." Xi looked at the nearby high walls and added.

Now the passages between the high walls are wide enough for several cars to pass through at the same time. Not only that, there are fewer and fewer corners and gaps. At this point, the complexity of the maze seems to be decreasing.

The rabbit that Li Luo was leading was still sprinting madly, and she had a feeling that they would soon reach the center of the maze.

But at this moment, Big Eyes nudged Xi's thigh and pushed him to a fork in the road, humming in his mouth.

Xi was stunned for a moment, then began to listen carefully to Big Eyes' call. Soon, he understood what Big Eyes meant.

"Does that fork in the road smell like Poker?"

“Woo, woo, woo~”

“And the smell of herbs?”

"Uuuuuuuuuuuuuu"

It seems that Big Eyes has noticed something. Xi directly told Li Luo about his discovery. After discussing it, the two decided to go to the fork in the road first.

"Anyway, as long as the rabbit is still there, we can get back on track at any time. Let's go."

So the two of them walked towards the fork in the road.

Not long after walking, I found a pile of scattered herbs in front of a gap in a high wall.

Although this maze was messy, the ground was always clean. This was the first time they saw something on the ground.

Big Eyes rushed forward excitedly and circled around the herbs. Xi immediately followed him, squatted down, and checked this pile of strange herbs, but the more he looked, the more worried he became.

"What kind of herb is this?" Li Luo asked curiously.

"A kind of hallucinogenic plant, when it is dried and burned, it will emit smoke that makes creatures fall into a hallucination." Xi explained.

"Hallucinogenic plants?" Li Luo was a little surprised: "Why is there such a thing here?"

"I don't know." Xi picked up a herb with his fingers and rubbed it a few times. A glimmer of fire suddenly ignited on the herb, and then a wisp of white smoke floated out from the herb.

"We usually use this herb to understand the cause of the disease. After the patient inhales this smoke, he will begin to have hallucinations, and the patient's hallucinations will be displayed on the smoke. We can peek into the patient's memory and understand the cause of their illness, but..."

Xi changed the subject: "This hallucinogenic herb does not only have this effect. Most races use it for interrogation."

"Interrogation?" Li Luo was stunned, but she quickly understood its usage.

"Yes, because it can spy on memories." Xi explained: "When you fall into hallucinations, the memory fragments in your subconscious will be revealed. The more you want to hide the memory, the easier it is to expose it. The interrogator can use this to break through the mental defense."

"Aren't the hallucinations random? What if they are all useless memories?" Li Luo asked.

"No... If you were a patient and someone came to treat you, what would you think about? It would definitely be about the disease, the cause, symptoms, and the environment in which it occurred... Thoughts are uncontrollable. Once you think about them, they will trigger hallucinations, and these hallucinations will appear above the smoke."

"Similarly, if you are the one being interrogated, you will deliberately want to hide the secret, which will make you involuntarily recall the memory of the secret, and your thoughts will burst out like a dam breaking, appearing above the smoke, and all the secrets will be revealed."

"When you are seriously ill, you think about the disease. When you are interrogated, you think about secrets. When you are eating, you don't think about climbing a ladder. When you are climbing a mountain, you don't think about raising a pet. Hallucinations are based on thoughts, so of course they are not unrelated."

After listening to Xi's explanation, Li Luo nodded.

"Since those black ball giants are catching other creatures, then these herbs are probably used for 'interrogation'. What secrets do they want to know?" Li Luo pondered. "Or maybe these herbs were left by the previous healer, but she was overthinking it?"

As Li Luo was thinking, Xi on the side put out the burning herbs in his hand and stood up.

At this time, Big Eyes was pushing him with his head, trying to make him continue to walk into the gap.

"Let's keep going." Xi didn't hesitate and went around the pile of herbs and headed towards the gap. Li Luo stopped thinking about it and quickly followed.

After bypassing a high wall blocking the road, the two came to an open area. This area was surrounded by a circle of high walls. If it weren't for Big Eyes leading the way, they would never have found this place.

The ground here was covered with the hallucinogenic herbs discovered before, but Li Luo and Xi's eyes were not on these herbs. They both looked towards the center of the area.

There were more than a dozen doctors half buried in the ground, lying motionless on the ground covered with hallucinogenic herbs.

Their bodies below the chest were all buried in the ground, and their arms were also wrapped in the ground, leaving only a small half of their bodies exposed above the ground. The synchronized light balls flickered dimly, like candles that were about to go out.

What was even more terrifying was that the chains made of black balls penetrated the chests of these doctors, stringing them together tightly...

Seeing this scene, Xi began to tremble uncontrollably.

Then, Xi looked at one of the doctors and exclaimed:
"Pork?!"

After being stunned for a moment, Xi rushed over and came in front of Poke.

He stretched out his arm tremblingly and placed it on Poke's shoulder, but his companion remained motionless, as if he had fallen into a deep sleep.

At the same time, Big Eyes rushed to Poke and circled around him, but Poke still didn't react and didn't move.

The ball of light on Poke's head flickered for a moment, then disappeared in a flash and became dim again. Xi didn't know whether that was Poke's response.

The surrounding black chains penetrated deep into the high walls, connecting to nowhere. The thick chains formed a sharp contrast with the skinny bodies of the doctors. The wounds on their chests continued to ooze dark red blood, even leaving black and red marks on the chains.

I don’t know if the wound has been infected, but there is a circle of yellow-white pus on the edge, making the wound look even more shocking.

However, even so, these doctors still did not die, and their healing power seemed to still be struggling to maintain their last bit of life.

The hallucinogenic herbs on the ground were covered with stains. These herbs probably had not been used for a long time. The original herbal fragrance was gone, and a rotten stench was emitted.

Xi looked at his dying companions and clenched his fists.

"Li Luo, I'm going to check out their healing space. Please help me keep on guard."

"Understood. Be careful." Li Luo responded. She looked at these doctors who were chained together and had a bad feeling in her heart.

These doctors, like the first time she saw Xi, were in a state of "sleeping". Xi was trapped in the healing space before, so these doctors might be in the same state.

"The body is trapped, is the consciousness also trapped?"

The more Li Luo thought about it, the more he felt something was wrong. This seemed to be a kind of cage targeting doctors.

She wanted to remind Xi, but found that Xi had become dazed.

"It seems that he has already gone in..."

(End of this chapter)