I'm trapped in a cube

"alright……"

Xi stood up and stretched, his bones making a crunching sound.

"After treatment... let's go to the forest first. After passing through the forest, we can see the way out of the island."

A gust of lake wind blew over, and the ripples on the lake surface reached the shore. Light water waves washed up on the shore. Everything seemed so calm.

But Li Luo frowned. She smelled the smell of the wind carefully, and the moist vapor poured into her nasal cavity.

"Did you smell something fishy?"

"It smells fishy? It seems to be a little bit, maybe it's dead fish."

Li Luo looked at the lake. The waves were still rippling. She always felt that it didn't smell like dead fish...

"Let's go."

"good."

The two of them walked towards the forest in the distance, the wind was still blowing, Li Luo turned around from time to time and looked into the lake. The fishy smell never went away. Even if they were far away from the shore, it still did not weaken at all.

"Fresh meat, soil, weeds..."

Li Luo suddenly realized that it was not a fishy smell, but a mixture of countless flavors, the smell of grass, the earthy smell of earth, the faint umami taste of raw meat...

"And that's not all."

Ground wheat, torn bark, fallen nails...

"Wait!" Li Luo suddenly woke up: "Why can I sense the source of these smells? Can I distinguish them so clearly?"

Moreover, those smells seemed not only to come from the lake, but also from the woods ahead.

The wind direction suddenly changed, and the wind that originally blew from the lake suddenly reversed, and that strange smell also blew from the forest.

At this time, the two of them were getting closer and closer to the forest, and Li Luo also noticed that the swaying leaves seemed a little strange.

After walking some distance further, Li Luo's eyes passed through the lingering clouds and mist at the top of the forest, and finally saw clearly what the thing hanging on the tree was.

Li Luo was stunned when he saw those "leaves" for the first time.

"Xi, have you seen the woods in front of you?"

"I saw it, what's wrong?"

"Those leaves..."

Xi has not looked carefully at the green leaves. He has been feeling the "breath of life" on Senluo Island. This is the island with the richest species and the most vibrant island among the Huasheng Islands.

Because I haven't been here for a long time, Xi misses the smell of the island very much and has been immersed in memories.

He didn't notice those weird "leaves" until Li Luo reminded him.

"Is it always like this on Senluo Island?" Li Luo asked curiously.

What Li Luo didn't expect was that Xi's reaction was the same as hers.

Xi looked at the swaying leaves from a distance and froze in place.

"How could this happen? How could this happen?"

Xi asked while rushing forward, and Li Luo immediately followed after seeing this.

After rushing to the side of the forest, Xi stood upright, the light ball on his head flashing continuously, obviously suffering a huge impact.

"The ones planted here should be iron-green trees. Their leaves are needle-shaped, like emeralds, sparkling..."

Xi pointed at the weeds on the ground and said: "The grass planted here should be light-proof grass. It is a plant that can only survive in the shadow. The leaves are oval, fat and very cute."

The weeds here indeed only grow in the shadows, but their leaves are not cute at all. They are all organs from different creatures, as if they have been painted with a layer of green paint and then forcibly blended with the grass roots. .

The habits are the same, but the appearance has completely changed, becoming a strange stitched state.

Xi immediately found the crux of the problem. He carefully placed his hand on a large suture tree, wanting to know more about what happened to these trees.

But as soon as his hand touched the bark of the tree, it quickly bounced away.

"This is not bark..." Xi looked at his hand, a little surprised.

He stretched out a finger again and gently placed it on the bark of the tree.

"Meat?"

Pressing it down gently with his fingers, his fingertips pierced the fat-filled fleshy bark and inserted it without any hindrance.

Xi pulled out his hand tremblingly, and yellow sap flowed out from the wound he poked, but the smell could not be deceived. The rich smell of blood spread quickly, and even Li Luo, who was not far away, could smell it. arrive.

Immediately afterwards, some white pus flowed out from the resin. The pus had a weird milky smell, and there were some round particles in it, like nodules of some kind of creature.

Xi raised her finger and froze again.

This experienced doctor was completely stunned by this situation.

"Fleshy bark? Bloody sap? Milky resin? What on earth is this?"

Xi stepped back blankly, away from the big tree that was still flowing with strange liquid.

At this moment, a gust of wind blew, and a sharp neighing sound suddenly came from the big tree.

"ah!!!"

Xi was so frightened that she almost lost her balance.

"Something's wrong! This must be a disease! A disease that causes alienation of living organisms!" Xi immediately made a judgment, walked forward again, and put his hand on the tree.

However, not long after, he quickly moved away from the big tree.

"The cause is wrong! The treatment failed. What's going on?"

Li Luo became nervous when he saw Xi's surprised look.

"Can't doctors 'define' diseases? Why does treatment fail?" she asked in confusion.

In her opinion, Xi could define this alienation as a disease and then cure it, just like he did with stalactites.

Xi also immediately understood Li Luo's doubts and explained: "No, we can only define objective facts as diseases, so we must understand the cause before we can define it."

"I have to know why stalactites are stalactites before I can treat them."

"I don't know why these trees have become like this, so I can't treat them."

"It's not alienation, not disease, not relic pollution... I've tried everything, the cause is wrong."

Xi's tone became more and more nervous. If he couldn't find the cause, he had no way.

Listening to Xi's explanation, Li Luo also understood that the premise of a doctor using healing power is based on "knowing". Once faced with an unknown disease, it can't be used at all.

It seems that this powerful power still has certain limitations.

For now, we can only figure out what happened on Senluo Island and why these plants have become what they are now.

Thinking of this, Li Luo hurriedly said to Xi: "Don't worry, do you know what happened on Senluo Island recently?"

"I don't know, I have been sleeping in the red spirit flowers, of course I don't know."

"What about before you fell asleep?"

"Before?"

Xi fell into deep thought, and those vague memories slowly came up.

"Before... This place was used as a species protection area. When I came here last time, everything on the island was normal..."