I'm trapped in a cube

Mo Ling was very sure that was the sentence.

But he couldn't understand.

The text twisted and slowly penetrated into the brain of the man in robe, engraved on it like a tattoo.

But the man in the robe still didn't react, and he still shared it with his companions excitedly, until the black words penetrated deep.

The smile on his face suddenly disappeared, as if he suddenly realized something, his expression suddenly became serious, and he looked around.

There was actually a hint of pity hidden in the eyes he looked at his companions.

He stopped sharing excitedly, closed his mouth, and walked slowly.

Reaching out and grabbing something in the air, the man in the robe seemed to be feeling everything around him and took a deep breath.

"What is he doing?"

Under Mo Ling's puzzled gaze, the man in the robe squatted down and pressed his palms against the ground, as if feeling something.

After a while, the man in robes walked aside again and touched the crooked houses, his eyes full of confusion.

He was like a newborn who had just come into this world, curiously touching everything around him.

After he finished feeling it, he looked at his former companions again, sighed helplessly, and then walked higher up in the black tower.

Bai Zhou and Li Luo also noticed the strange changes in the man in robes. They quickly hid in a hidden place and recorded his behavior.

"Did the blood transfusion succeed?" Li Luo asked quietly.

Bai Zhou nodded in disbelief.

The man in robe walked along the upward hole, away from the village. Many villagers looked at him from a distance, their eyes full of yearning.

"This may be the next stage of distortion." Bai Zhou thought for a while and guessed.

The strange ritual of the robed man seems to be a necessary means to enter the next stage.

But who wrote those books?

Could it be that he was the first person to find this method of "promotion"?

The robed man disappeared from Mo Ling's sight. He was very determined when he left, and he was not even prepared for anything, but this made people even more frightened.

Maybe as he continues to go up, his distortion will continue to intensify.

Something has been guiding them towards the highest point of the Black Tower.

Mo Ling only felt creepy. The black words that had penetrated into his brain kept replaying before his eyes, and they seemed to have a strange and attractive magic power.

After the successfully promoted man in robes left, the men in robes next to the blood ball became even more crazy. They chanted harder and threw rotten debris into the blood ball desperately.

Not only that, the market also began to compete for the rotten black crumbs, and it didn't take long for them to be sold out.

The man in robes who bought the scraps quickly rushed to the blood ball, joined the ceremony, and began to sing the brainwashing sacred song.

However, there was no such lucky person as the man in robe just now.

After recording all this, Bai Zhou called Li Luo and slowly left the village, chasing the direction in which the man in the robe had just left.

"Follow up and have a look."

The two quickened their pace and soon arrived behind the man in the robe.

He seemed to know the path completely and circled around the intricate holes.

These holes are intertwined and connected, and the route chosen by the man in the robe spirals upward, leading to high places.

During this period, we also passed through some holes that connected with the outside world. Strong winds blew from the outside of the black tower, and birds kept passing by.

Although he couldn't see the ground, Mo Ling knew from Li Luo's cautious movements that it must be very high.

A flock of flying birds stopped at the edge of the hole, just like the ones Mo Ling had seen in the pictures before. Only then did Mo Ling realize how big these birds were.

The wingspan is nearly three meters, the white feathers reflect the sunlight, and the six symmetrical huge eyes stare at the man in robes.

However, these giant seagull-like birds don't seem to be hostile, and even a little timid.

They were frightened by the arrival of the robed man and flew into the air, howling and circling outside the hole. The sound was very weird, like fingernails rubbing against a blackboard, making a squeaking sound.

The man in robes shouted against the strong wind blowing from outside the hole, and a pair of black wings suddenly opened from his back.

He suddenly jumped out from the edge of the hole, fell off the cliff, then rebounded and sprinted up from below, his huge black wings fluttering, and rushed towards a hovering giant white bird.

Immediately afterwards, the man in robes shouted again, and a black shadow like a spider web appeared in the sky, blocking the way of the giant bird.

A big hand instantly grabbed the neck of the giant bird that had nowhere to escape, and tore off the giant bird's head.

The headless corpse of the giant bird was sprinkled with blood, spinning and falling from the sky, like discarded confetti.

The man in robes took the head of the giant bird and slowly flew back to the edge of the cliff. He ignored the blood on his face, tied the head to his waist with a straw rope, and continued walking up.

This bloody scene happened so fast that the two of them stopped in place in shock.

Fortunately, Bai Zhou reacted in time and urged Li Luo to continue to follow.

After walking for a while, the hole here quickly shrank, becoming only suitable for one person to pass through, and there were always inexplicable vibrations.

After the man in the robe came here, he was obviously much more cautious, as if he was guarding against something.

Sure enough, as the vibration gradually increased, a strange creature appeared in Mo Ling's field of vision.

It was a nematode covered in armor. The color of the carapace blended with the holes, hiding in the darkness. The vibrations came from its body.

Every time it vibrated, it would pause, as if feeling the difference in the vibration reverberation, and soon it discovered the location of the man in the robe.

It seems that the vibration is a positioning method.

The man in the robe calmly shouted, and the familiar black pointer flew out of his mouth, but it looked darker and richer.

The pointer pointed directly at the position of the nematode. When the nematode crawled towards the man in the robe, the man in the robe had already taken action in advance.

With a low roar, a long sharp blade emerged from the hand of the man in robe, and it pierced hard into the carapace of the nematode, and pried the carapace open suddenly.

Just as the nematode was about to run away, a boulder suddenly appeared above it and hit it hard, pressing it down.

The man in the robe cut off the nematode's head with another knife, along the gap in the carapace.

He reached into the worm's flesh and took out a vibrating bead. It seemed that this was the source of the worm's vibrations.

The man in the robe put the beads in his pocket and walked up again...

Along the way, the robed man has been hunting various strange creatures in the black tower.

After hunting these creatures, he would take off parts of the prey and keep them as trophies.

After killing ten kinds of creatures in total, the man in the robe was already full, and his whole body was covered with trophies.

Finally, he walked out of the hole and came to a stone door.

He took off his trophies and placed them on the tray in front of the door. The tray was soaked with the blood of the prey.

Each time he placed one piece, the tray sank a little lower until he put all ten trophies on it, and the placed trophies instantly glowed with purple light.

Then there was a click and the door slowly opened.