I’m Trapped in a Cube - Chapter 262

“Why is the highest authority with you? Shouldn’t it have been lost long ago?”

A voice filled with disbelief came through the fish group channel.

The ancient merman seemed to have great difficulty accepting this fact, continuously questioning Mo Ling through the channel.

“Who exactly are you? Why don’t I recognize you?”

Mo Ling didn’t answer him.

So the ancient merman began frantically trying various methods to unlock the restraint, even attempting to search for Mo Ling’s information.

Soon, he found Mo Ling’s account.

“Guest 500?”

The voice in the channel became even more tremulous.

“Why can’t I find your identity? What does Guest 500 mean?”

The ancient merman was shocked after seeing Mo Ling’s “account name.”

While continuing to search for Mo Ling’s information, he struggled, trying to unlock the armor’s restraint function, but the runic lock wouldn’t open at all, remaining firmly fixed to the armor.

“How is my authority still insufficient? I want to file an appeal!”

He shouted anxiously at the management system.

“Appeal accepted. We will provide you with a response within thirty merman working days. Please wait patiently…”

After a series of system notification sounds, nothing happened.

The ancient merman remained fixed in the air, with the surrounding components and armor on his body still motionless.

At this moment, a notification window popped up in front of Mo Ling:
“Highest Authorirty, hello. Below is new appeal information for your review.”

“Appeal Account: Fish Group 465.”

“Appeal Purpose: Unlock account restriction.”

“Automatic Lock Reason: Attempted attack on Highest Authorirty.”

“Appeal Reason: I didn’t do anything, why lock me?”

“…”

Below the window were several prominent operation buttons.

Mo Ling looked carefully and chose to directly reject it.

With Mo Ling’s choice, the operation box also disappeared.

However, the ancient merman still wouldn’t give up. He kept filing unlock appeals to the fish group system, and rows of notification boxes kept popping up in front of Mo Ling.

Among them, one notification box was particularly conspicuous, with edges glowing red. Mo Ling immediately focused his attention on it.

“Fish Group 465 account anomaly detected. You can adjust this account’s permissions through the account management interface and handle violations.”

The small text below the notification box also carefully marked the method for opening the account management interface.

So user-friendly?

Mo Ling quickly followed the notification box’s instructions to find the account management interface.

As soon as he opened the interface, rows of accounts refreshed, appearing densely packed.

Most of these accounts were simply named with “Fish Group” plus a number.

Just entering this interface, Mo Ling discovered something ominous:

This account list was constantly refreshing, and with each refresh, new accounts would appear.

“The fish group is continuously expanding?”

Mo Ling quickly understood what this meant.

The number of ancient mermen was still increasing. This seemed to indicate that they were racing against time to seize bodies.

Whenever an ancient merman successfully seized a body and created armor, a new account would appear in the account list.

Looking at these accounts that were still continuously appearing, Mo Ling became anxious.

The situation in Merman Island might not be optimistic.

Soon, Mo Ling found an account marked in red in this account list – Fish Group 465.

This was exactly the ancient merman who was currently locked in front of him.

Mo Ling thought for a moment, selected this account, then quickly found one of the options.

“Do you agree to delete the account?”

“Agree.”

Mo Ling chose to agree without hesitation.

The moment he completed his choice, the interface automatically returned.

The red-marked account had already disappeared from the list.

“It actually works?”

Mo Ling hadn’t expected that he could actually delete the account.

But what would happen now?
He quickly looked toward the ancient merman locked in the air and found that deep red light was faintly flickering from the gaps between his armor components.

Before long, the gaps at the connection points of those components began to widen, slowly starting to disintegrate and separate.

The ancient merman inside the armor also fell silent, as if he had suddenly gone dormant. No more sounds appeared in the fish group channel.

Next, those components flickering with red light suddenly exploded and disintegrated under Mo Ling’s shocked gaze, scattering in all directions and flying into the air.

After spinning several circles in the air, they flew toward Mo Ling, gathering into a dark mass that circled above Mo Ling’s head.

The merman who had lost his support also suddenly fell from the air, crashing into the mud.

For a moment, everyone nearby focused their attention on the cluster of components above Mo Ling’s head and instinctively stepped back a few paces.

Only Li Luo remained standing beside Mo Ling, staring at those components with both curiosity and surprise.

“Go save him first!” After Jeff shouted, everyone turned their attention to the merman who had fallen to the ground.

After falling into the mud, the merman seemed dazed from the fall. He sat up with a blank stare, then looked at the people surrounding him with a confused expression.

Several pseudo-mermen quickly surrounded him, binding him tightly with water tentacles.

Jeff walked up to him and demanded, “What were you just doing? Were you trying to attack us?”

The merman sat on the ground, still looking confused.

“What?”

He stared blankly at Jeff, seeming completely unaware of what had happened.

After Jeff stared at him seriously for a long time, he spoke again:
“You don’t know?”

The merman turned his fish head dazedly, looked at the tentacles on his body, then at the people nearby, and shook his head at Jeff with incomprehension.

Suddenly, his gaze fixed on Mo Ling in the back, who was surrounded by the components.

“It’s those things that were chasing us!”

Because he was bound, he could only keep making faces and gesturing frantically to the people around him.

Jeff turned to look at Mo Ling, then turned back to comfort him, “Don’t worry, that’s a human friend who won’t harm us. Tell us carefully, what exactly happened?”

The merman stared intently at Mo Ling for a long time. Seeing that those components continued to circle quietly above Mo Ling’s head, he finally relaxed and earnestly told Jeff the whole story:

“Those components suddenly emerged from the ground and circled above the village in a dark mass. After a while, they rushed down, burrowed into our bodies, and then transformed us into armor…”

As he spoke, he became dazed again.

“Was I just captured by them?”

“Yes.” Jeff pointed at the components above Mo Ling’s head and said, “Those are the components that attacked you.”

Looking at the circling components, the merman’s face showed an expression of fear again.

He looked anxiously at Jeff, “Did I just attack you? That wasn’t me doing it, it was the armor doing it. I had no consciousness at all.”

“That armor would turn me into another person!”