I’m Trapped in a Cube - Chapter 241

Endless flying components surrounded and surged upward, trying to hinder that agile little eel fish, but everything was powerless against it.

No matter what kind of attacks these flying components used, the attacks would pass straight through the little eel fish’s soft and transparent body, then dissipate into thin air.

Some components glowed all over and crashed toward the little eel fish, but after passing through it, they fell into stagnation.

The runic markings on the components first gradually became shallower, then gradually disappeared, as if someone had filled in those markings out of thin air.

Without runes, the components lost their function and fell to the ground, crashing straight down like pieces of useless scrap metal.

The little eel fish paid no attention to these frantic components. Twisting its body, it roamed freely through the sky, diving into the clouds and mist. A swarm of components gathered into a mass of dark clouds and followed after it, disappearing without a trace.

The mermen race was obviously frightened by such a scene.

They certainly hadn’t expected that the originally non-resistant Chali tribe could create such a commotion.

Bai Zhou, who had originally been circling around that great tree, suddenly had his armor’s permissions locked and was trapped in place, unable to move.

Following the sound, it turned out that those Chali tribe members who had been pinned to the ground were all beginning to transform into the shape of great trees.

Growing taller, limbs stretching longer, pushing apart the mist…

They also seemed to have made their decision to achieve immortality.

The mermen race wanted to stop them, but those components could only batter the great trees until wood chips flew everywhere. Before long, confused transparent eel fish would fly out from the wood shavings.

The mermen had no way to deal with these eel fish and could only watch as they, like the previous little eel fish, flew toward the sky and merged into the mist.

Mo Ling was still marveling when another wave of surprised voices came from the fish swarm.

“Search!”

Another group of armor and components surrounded the great tree, but at this time the great tree was completely motionless, seeming to have truly fallen into eternal death.

Some components with reconnaissance functions slowly flew forward and scanned the great tree, but discovered nothing.

Only wood quality, no wood grain.

From the hole looking inward, the interior was solid throughout, without things like annual rings or joints, just like wood boards that had been crushed and then re-compressed.

Spike-shaped components emitted faint light and passed through the great tree.

A penetrating large hole appeared in the trunk.

Not only that, but it seemed that physical effects like burning and acid corrosion had no effect on this wood at all.

With no interaction with the outside world, this was true death.

They also wouldn’t resist. While isolating all “life,” this wood also isolated all effects that could change its own state.

He had originally thought Immortal Wood was just “incorruptible.”

He hadn’t expected that complete death would be like this, this wood was like losing all connection with everything in the world. No matter how it was treated, no changes would occur.

This was true immortality.

“Truly dead, completely dead.”

After discovering that attacks were just futile effort, they all stopped their actions and helplessly looked at those great trees that were still extending.

Countless transparent eel fish interwove as they flew out from the great trees. Their transparent bodies refracted light, and the surfaces of their jelly-like bodies shimmered with rippling light.

Under the mass of dark components, these swarms of eel fish were like a pile of fragile glass.

But they weren’t as fragile as they appeared on the surface.

Those components that couldn’t dodge in time and were passed through by the eel fish swarms all froze in mid-air. Before long, they crashed toward the ground and embedded into the mud.

Before long, the eel fish swarms had covered the sky and earth. They circled around, interweaving with each other, slowly rising into the high sky and drilling into the endless mist.

On the ground, only lifeless great trees remained.

“General, what should we do?”

The mermen helplessly requested instructions from Jeff.

“Have everyone avoid them, let them go,” Jeff said calmly, looking at the eel fish in the sky that could no longer be stopped.

“But…”

Jeff interrupted his questioning and turned to look at another merman beside him, asking, “Are the results out?”

“They’re out. Immortality indeed counts as a skill, we’ve already learned it,” the nearby merman answered.

“What was replaced?”

“Origami, folding paper into the shape of dragons. Now no one in the mermen race can fold dragons anymore.”

“Mm.” Jeff nodded. “The cost is still acceptable.”

Then he instructed that merman, “Find someone to immediately conduct experiments. No need to be too precise, just achieve eternal death.”

“Yes, General. Someone is already trying.”

…

Mo Ling listened to their conversation, somewhat surprised.

“Learned it?”

“They had already learned immortality?”

Although he had just seen that Chali tribe member’s method and heard his explanation, Mo Ling completely didn’t understand.

“I understand the principle, half eternal death can be exchanged for the other half’s eternal life, but how do you exchange it?”

Mo Ling didn’t understand at all how that Chali tribe member transformed into a great tree, nor did he know how to transform the soul into an eel fish and drill out of the great tree.

Looking at these serious mermen, Mo Ling suddenly discovered that he was currently the only poor student in the class.

The teacher had taught a math lesson, explaining addition and subtraction within ten.

“Students, five plus five equals ten, understand?”

“Half is five, the other half is also five!”

The students below all responded, “We understand! Too simple, teacher.”

But Mo Ling was scratching his head below:

“What is five?”

After the students learned it, they all began doing problems. Only Mo Ling sat dazedly in his seat. The teacher didn’t mind him and just ended class.

The teacher probably hadn’t expected that someone hadn’t even learned numbers, let alone addition and subtraction.

“But indeed no one taught me how to become a tree!”

Mo Ling was somewhat helpless. Could these mermen really figure out everything?

At this moment he was like that poor student sitting in his seat looking around bewildered and at a loss, watching the people around him all writing furiously, his heart full of doubt and confusion.

Soon, various discussion voices began echoing in the fish swarm:

“Use transformation runes, check the wood quality association, position at the boundary between life and non-life zones. Don’t use the whole body for the transformation foundation first, try other things first.”

“No, that’s wrong.”

“Then it should be that the life and non-life positioning has problems, too vague. Find a way to be more precise.”

“This place can’t be made precise. Either it’s life or non-life, there’s nothing in between.”

“It can be made precise. Open settings, there’s a precise search inside. Check that box, then turn off the automatic capture approximate values in the personalized settings.”

“Okay, let me try…”

“Did it give an error?”

“No, everything’s normal, loading…”