I'm trapped in a block

Chapter 724: Branching Cave
“I can only take you so far. If you go any further, you’ll be close to the Green Kidney.” The old phoenix hovered at the edge of the mist and said to Mo Ling on the bird’s head.

"Then let me go..."

With a sound of feathers colliding, the giant bird landed on the ground, its head slowly drooped, and Mo Ling also jumped to the ground.

"Thank you." Mo Ling turned to look at the old phoenix, thought for a moment, and asked hesitantly, "Did you hear any sound just now?"

"what sound?"

"It's the sound of a heartbeat, or the sound of the wind. It's very regular and lonely..." Mo Ling didn't know how to describe the sound in detail. After he was separated from that sound, he could no longer remember it.

The old phoenix lowered its head, and its huge bronze eyes stared deeply at Mo Ling with some complicated emotions. A faint light seemed to flicker above the dull bronze lines.

"I didn't hear it." It replied lightly.

"Okay." Mo Ling scratched his square head.

The old phoenix just looked at Mo Ling silently, and after a while, it raised its head.

"I have to go now……"

"it is good."

The huge wings fanned up a gust of wind, blowing away the mist on the ground.

The giant bronze bird took off again, but before leaving, it left behind a ethereal voice:

"Only those who lean close to others' chests and listen carefully can hear their heartbeats..."

The voice left by the old phoenix echoed in Mo Ling's bronze body for a while before gradually dissipating.

Mo Ling stood there, stunned for a while, and didn't understand what Old Phoenix meant.

He scratched his head, put his doubts aside, and began to observe his surroundings.

The green mist has completely dissipated, but a thin layer of green smoke still hangs over the surface.

This place seems to be far away from the Bronze Heart. The dome of the sky is no longer blue, but has turned into a yellowish green.

Although the dome was still very high, it was much lower than Bronze's heart. Just now, the old phoenix felt a little cramped when flying in the air.

In order not to trigger the bronze heart's heartbeat, Mo Ling quickly used teleportation to remove the bronze shell covering his body. The mist here was no longer enough to turn him back into a bronze life.

After checking that nothing was missed, Mo Ling began to look around.

"Where is the Green Kidney?"

Mo Ling now didn’t even know what the Green Kidney looked like, nor did he know where he was going. He could only move forward slowly in the opposite direction of when he came.

The ground here is still very soft, and the corpses of yellow worms are everywhere on the ground. Logically speaking, this place is far away from the battlefield, so why are there so many corpses?

"Could it be that Huang Shimai has other enemies?"

In other words, the Green Kidney has not completely failed and is still playing a role, but the effect is not significant?
While observing the surrounding environment, Mo Ling walked towards the depths. The dome became more and more cramped and gradually turned into a cave. The green smoke on the surface completely dissipated, leaving only a thick layer of insect corpses.

After a while, Mo Ling actually walked to a fork in the road. The dome extended downward and directly connected to the ground. A partition wall appeared, and there were different routes on both sides of the wall.

"It really is a cave... Could it be that we are lost?"

Mo Ling observed the fork in the road for a while and finally chose to go for the larger one.

"Go ahead and try first, and come back if it doesn't work."

What made Mo Ling a little worried was that he had been walking for so long but had not seen any trace of the Yellow Death Vein.

"It would be fine if we saw him from the front, but now, maybe he's hiding somewhere..." The dome has completely turned into a cave, which is very depressing.

The color also turned into a slightly yellowish green, looking extremely decayed.

Mo Ling walked to the edge of the cave and gently touched the wall. The feeling made his hair stand on end instantly.

It's like the skin of an old person, dry and wrinkled, soft when pressed, and won't bounce back. It seems that a little force will pierce through the fragile "paper", and there's some jelly-like soft stuff moving around inside, which feels particularly weird.

Not only that, after touching it, Mo Ling found that his hands were covered with a layer of yellowish-brown powder, just like the peeling wall dust, which was very dry and could not be knocked off even after several attempts.

"What is this?"

Mo Ling clapped his hands, but found that they became dirtier and dirtier. Some strange yellow mucus appeared on his hands, and they also emitted an unpleasant smell.

"Ok?"

He put his hand in front of him, took a closer look, and was so scared that he activated the transmission immediately, clearing away the yellow dust on his hand.

That's not "wall dust" at all, it's insect eggs! Yellow worm eggs!

For some reason, these insect eggs were attached to the wall and could not be distinguished with the naked eye because they were too small.

Just now, Mo Ling clapped his hands to try to slap them away, but instead broke the eggs, causing the mucus in the eggs to leak out.

"It's so disgusting."

Mo Ling quickly moved away from the wall and didn't dare to get any closer.

As they walked, the structure of the cave suddenly became complicated. Mo Ling kept groping around with the help of the faint yellow-green fluorescence. After passing several bends and forks, he was already a little dizzy.

"Green Kidney, isn't it a maze?"

Mo Ling had a bad feeling in his heart. These organs were stranger than each other, and their forms were unprecedented. Maybe it was really possible.

After walking for a while, Mo Ling encountered a more complex structure:

"A three-dimensional fork in the road!"

There is a cave wall across the middle, and there is a path next to it that allows you to walk upwards, or you can ignore the cave wall, pass through the bottom and continue moving downwards.

Standing in front of this fork in the road, Mo Ling was in a trance and completely forgot the previous route.

He had no idea how deep he had walked. The surroundings were filled with yellow-green fluorescent light. In order to prevent any accidents, Mo Ling did not dare to touch the cave wall casually. He just stood in front of the fork in the cave for a long time.

"Forget it, let's move on."

Mo Ling relied on his intuition and chose a path.

As soon as he stepped into this road, Mo Ling noticed something was wrong.

This is no longer an empty cave. In the center of the cave, there are some strange "stones" standing.

Mo Ling moved closer out of curiosity, only to find that these were not actually "stones", but were made of the same material as the cave walls.

It's the kind of material that's like an old man's skin, with a jelly-like gelatinous substance inside.

Through the yellow-green fluorescence, you can see the turbid gelatin inside these objects. Some black branches like blood vessels are evenly distributed throughout the gelatin. It is blurry and you can't tell what they are.

The yellow insect eggs were attached to these objects. Mo Ling didn't dare to touch them and just observed them carefully.

But what he didn't notice was that while he was observing the object in front of him, several figures were moving in a strange manner in the depths of the cave, approaching him...

(End of this chapter)