I’m Trapped in a Cube - Chapter 147

“Not bad, right?”

Martin looked at the content they’d just filmed and asked Bai Zhou.

“Very good. This is much more detailed than what Doctor Li made.”

“I filmed it fairly completely. You can edit out any unnecessary segments yourself,” Martin added.

“I’ll go check on the Black Tower’s blockade,” Martin said as his figure vanished.

After a while, he reappeared. “The blockade outside has been lifted. You can leave anytime.”

“The Black Tower’s distortion needs to be handled by official personnel. You can go to nearby Oasis City to report the situation here.”

Martin was very organized, seeming quite experienced in handling distortions.

“Aren’t you going?” Li Luo asked.

“I can’t go. I’m currently wanted by the officials,” Martin said startlingly.

Just as the two were about to ask questions, Martin interrupted them. “You can also report me to the officials, say you found me in the Black Tower. There might even be a reward.”

Martin laughed self-mockingly. “I’m someone who can help the Core accelerate the correction plan. Do you think I’d be a good person?”

He seemed to deliberately emphasize this point.

Just then, he slowly walked to the Cube’s side and shouted to Li Luo, “Let me borrow your Relic!”

Then, under Li Luo’s shocked gaze, he placed his hand on the Cube. After a blur, he disappeared with the Cube.

Mo Ling didn’t react in time either, instantly pulled by Martin to a strange place.

This was also the Black Tower, but without those Robed Figure corpses.

“Where is this?” Mo Ling’s bracelet made a sound again.

“This is in a dream,” Martin answered his question from nearby.

After hearing Martin’s words, Mo Ling’s memories surged up, and he quickly realized the difference in his state.

It was then that he felt he could wake up at any time.

But Mo Ling wasn’t in a hurry to wake up. Instead, he turned to ask, “How did you bring me here?”

Mo Ling’s heart was full of shock.

He was very familiar with the Dream Relic. To enter it, you first needed a means to communicate with dreams, like the Dream Qilin’s Black Horn, or visualizing a black hole, or some other communication object.

Not only that, you also needed to pay the cost. Although this Relic’s cost was very easy to obtain, just 500 grams of Korean kimchi in a glass jar, finding it anytime was still difficult.

But Martin had brought him in just by touching.

Mo Ling had never heard of dreams being able to bring people in.

“How is this possible?”

Mo Ling looked at Martin in shock. This man had too many mysteries about him, just like his empty body, hard to fathom.

Martin didn’t answer Mo Ling but asked a question instead:

“Can you trust me?”

His tone was very serious, just like when he’d discussed the world’s essence before, as if this was an extremely important matter.

Mo Ling was stumped by this question, he didn’t know if he could trust him.

Since meeting Martin, his background and purpose had been mysterious, and his behavior was neither clearly good nor evil. He showed no concern for the distorted humans, yet his attitude toward Li Luo and Bai Zhou was very good.

After discovering his cube-person body, he’d been helping him continuously.

Could he trust him?

“Understanding is the foundation of trust,” Mo Ling could only answer with this sentence.

After hearing Mo Ling’s answer, Martin was stunned for a moment before laughing heartily. “Of course. What would you like to understand?”

Since he was willing to talk, Mo Ling decided to directly ask the question he most wanted to know:

“Why are you wanted?”

Martin’s body stiffened before he slowly answered, “Because of entering dreams.”

……

After the sanatorium incident was over, Martin joined the officials, using his medical abilities and special blood replacement ability to become a special researcher.

Although he didn’t have the freedom he’d had as sanatorium director, Martin was still very glad to have the opportunity to learn about so many strange Relics and Abyssal creatures.

His behavior was monitored and his movements restricted, but he was still very satisfied with his work and life.

Anna’s incident had left a deep shadow in his heart. Martin understood that power without oversight could never guarantee accidents wouldn’t happen someday.

Even the most poorly functioning Relic could lead to terrible consequences, not to mention that many Relics’ costs were little known.

As a researcher, Martin participated in many Relic incidents, and Dream was one of them.

At the time, after Martin’s team used the Cult Leader’s memories to discover the secret of the world’s essence, not many people paid attention.

This was just a Relic’s superficial manifestation, many Relics had this kind of hidden ability.

For example, a Relic that could create unlimited spaghetti had the cost of making the user see indescribable, terrifying spaghetti creatures wandering in the universe when dreaming.

As long as you chose not to believe it, this cost would only make the user slightly tired the next day from dreaming.

If you believed it, you’d be tormented by these visions daily.

There was another Relic that could give users abilities that only existed in game bugs, like clipping through walls, invincibility, and x-ray vision.

But this Relic’s cost was making the user see ubiquitous data streams in daily life.

In the user’s eyes, walls were rows of data streams, and even family members were strings of numbers composed of 0s and 1s.

This Relic would guide users to believe the world was made of data, that humans were just NPCs created by some other beings, making users very cold and unfeeling.

If you firmly refused to believe this and saw everything around you as normal, then this Relic’s benefits outweighed its costs, and the costs could even be ignored.

As for the Cult Leader, the so-called world truths he saw through Dream didn’t cause much of a stir. Everyone else on the team thought those were just some hidden costs of Dream.

No one would believe the worldview presented by a Relic.

However, this type of world essence data could easily mislead others, so such content generally wasn’t specifically recorded.

Even if it was recorded, it would specifically note that this was just an illusion presented by a Relic and shouldn’t be trusted lightly.

After Martin’s team finished handling the Cult Leader’s matter, they went to the homes of cult members who hadn’t yet entered dreams, erased their memories of the incident, and destroyed the black hole flyers.

Then they discovered the madman Zhou Ming who had returned from the dreamscape.

Only after the Relic’s information was confirmed did the entire matter reach its conclusion.

Zhou Ming, as the discoverer, was invited to the research institute, where Martin communicated with him about wrap-up matters.

It was after this conversation that Martin became interested in Dream.