I’m Trapped in a Cube - Chapter 175

“Let me try.”

Just when Mo Ling thought the “escape method” Old Xu mentioned was having the Cube fight their way out, Li Xiangyi spoke up.

“I don’t know if it will work,” she said, looking very unconfident.

She reached for the shuttle behind her. One of the shuttles emitted bright light and shot skyward, then began orbiting around her. White silk threads shot rapidly from the shuttle, wrapping around her body.

As the shuttle spun, those threads began quickly wrapping her up, turning her into a “cocoon.”

When the shuttle stopped spinning, the silk wrapping Li Xiangyi began contracting and hardening, then suddenly burst open.

A Shell Person was actually standing inside!

But the Shell Person still had many shuttles stuck in its back, with different colored threads wound around these shuttles.

This Shell Person was making “clack clack” shell striking sounds.

Mo Ling didn’t know what Li Xiangyi was trying to do, but he was surprised to discover he could actually understand the Shell Person language.

“White silk thread can transform people into other creatures, but they must be creatures I’ve seen. I’ve only seen Shell People in virtual images before, but it seems I successfully passed the judgment,” Li Xiangyi said delightedly.

The Shell Person Li Xiangyi had become reached out and retrieved the light band from mid-air.

Those noisy shell sounds automatically accelerated into language he could understand.

Dense crowds of Shell People stood in this graveyard, but they seemed still puzzled by why the light had suddenly disappeared and hadn’t noticed the group.

He looked at his hands covered in shells with some surprise.

After saying this, the shuttle with white silk thread wrapped around the two of them, turning them into cocoons as well.

“I succeeded. I’ve turned you all into Shell People. Now you should be able to see things in the darkness, right?” Li Xiangyi asked.

“Let’s go quickly while we can,” Old Xu urged.

“Mixing in with the Shell People now, we should be able to get out.”

Li Xiangyi’s meaning was for Li Luo and Old Xu not to resist.

But as soon as the group moved, they saw those newborn Shell People begin turning their heads to look at them.

“So we’re now completely indistinguishable from normal Shell People? We can even understand their language?” Old Xu was very shocked.

Li Xiangyi was somewhat embarrassed by the praise.

When the two new cocoons burst open again, two more Shell People appeared, looking at each other.

But the Shell People quickly stopped staring at the group. They seemed unable to understand what the clothing and backpacks on the three meant.

Everyone looked around. The visual organs after transformation could indeed see into the darkness.

Old Xu nodded, “What kind of ability is this?”

“Yes,” Li Xiangyi nodded. “What we’re speaking now is actually Shell People language.”

Although they had become Shell People, these three Shell People were very special, wearing clothes, carrying backpacks, and bringing Relics.

“If we’d known about this ability earlier, Oasis City wouldn’t have needed to rack their brains studying Shell People,” Old Xu said with some emotion while examining his body.

A false alarm.

These Shell People seemed to have not yet fully digested the mirage vapor information. Their intelligence was still low, and they didn’t suspect these three unusual “companions.”

The group continued toward the edge, only then discovering that the entire graveyard was full of dazed Shell People. After running out from the light, they just stood motionless in the darkness.

Just when everyone thought they could leave smoothly, a shout attracted all the Shell People’s attention, startling the group that was sneaking away.

“Go! We’ll fix the outsiders in place!”

Hearing this shout, all the Shell People instantly crowded together, squeezing the three who were preparing to leave.

A Shell Person stood on a high pile of shells and began commanding its companions.

“This time we won’t go into the outsiders’ fortress first. We’ll first occupy the vehicles that transport their food, hide in the food to enter the warehouse, then fix all the food in the warehouse in place.”

“Their food warehouse is next to the cafeteria. We can put time-delayed spreading shells in the food. After they eat this food, they’ll be fixed in place after some time.”

“This time we need to spread out quickly without letting humans discover us. Avoid the core areas where there are more outsiders. We can hide in residential buildings, fix the outsiders in one room and we can hide in that room for a long time…”

This Shell Person leader patiently explained various invasion strategies. Clearly he was also a newborn, but he spoke eloquently, as if there were great differences in Shell People intelligence.

Most of the Shell People below were dazed and blank, while only the Shell Person leader above seemed very lively.

Hearing about poisoning the cafeteria and invading residential buildings, Old Xu became extremely anxious, wanting to squeeze out and quickly return to Oasis City to report.

But these dazed Shell People squeezed the group in the middle like stones, they couldn’t get out at all.

The invasion methods the leader explained became increasingly insidious. He also planned to have some Shell People go outside the city to destroy roads and crops, which Old Xu found even more unacceptable.

He finally couldn’t hold back and raised his hand, shouting, “We can’t do this!”

With this shout, all the Shell People made space for him and suddenly looked at him.

Even the leader on the shell pile jumped down, came before Old Xu, pushed him up, and then the leader himself instantly became dazed, standing stupidly below.

In an instant, all the Shell People stared at Old Xu in unison. He had become the target of everyone’s attention.

He hadn’t expected his single shout would lead to this result and froze on the shell pile.

Li Luo and the other below were also shocked by Old Xu’s behavior, not understanding what he was trying to do.

Fortunately, Old Xu quickly calmed down and rapidly got into character.

“Compatriots, we can’t do this!”

“Our ancestors have already done so much for the god, constantly trying to fix the outsiders. Can doing this really rescue the god?”

He first posed a question to the Shell People below.

This question indeed delayed a lot of time. The Shell People instantly fell into thought—they seemed to have never questioned the purpose or feasibility of their ancestors constantly attacking humans.

Finally, a Shell Person answered, “But our ancestors have always been attacking outsiders, so we should do the same.”

Old Xu looked at him and questioned, “Why should we do whatever our ancestors did? What meaning do our actions have? Even if we fix all the outsiders in place, will the god be saved?”

Old Xu kept throwing out questions.

The Shell People would seriously consider each question, but their limited thinking would cause them to freeze up, unable to answer.

However, after thinking for a long time, that Shell Person still gave his answer:

“I don’t know.”

“We’ll know after doing it.”