I’m Trapped in a Cube - Chapter 153

Mo Ling declined Martin’s invitation.

But Martin wasn’t disappointed either—he said being refused was also predestined.

“Next time you want to do this, call me!”

Number 500 handed Mo Ling a small red button, saying that next time he wanted to find him, just press it, and all the Martins would come help him.

“This is our promise.”

“Let me send you back first,” Number 500 struggled to stand up and said with difficulty.

But the other Martins beside him immediately pressed him back down.

“I’ll send him,” Number 736 said hurriedly.

He once again grabbed Mo Ling’s arm and said to him, “This is Layer 499. One more layer down and you can return to your original layer.”

“Alright, goodbye.”

Mo Ling looked at Number 500 and solemnly said goodbye to him.

Number 500 placed his hand on his chest and bowed deeply to Mo Ling, the colors in his damaged glass jar flickering faintly.

At the same time, Mo Ling suddenly felt the surroundings brighten.

What happened?

When he turned his head, he discovered that all the Martins present had bent down, and the colorful tentacles in their heads suddenly glowed brightly. Countless colored lights connected into an ocean, illuminating the entire space.

Countless Martins, flickering with light, bowed toward Mo Ling.

They all expressed their most sincere gratitude to Mo Ling, as if Mo Ling had personally helped each of them.

It seemed this journey wasn’t just Number 500 accompanying him, but all the Martins participating together.

Those flickering colored lights formed dazzling pixels, slowly dripping colorful raindrops that covered their bodies, until the mountains and fields were all dyed with the colors belonging to dreams.

The colors climbed up the rock walls, spreading all the way to the top, wrapping the entire space. Mo Ling felt like he was in a piece of colorful void, surrounded by colorful textures everywhere.

“Time to go.”

Number 736 grabbed Mo Ling and leaped, jumping onto the colorful ground.

But there was no feeling of landing,the two fell into it like diving into an ocean, beginning to sink down in infinite seawater.

In the changing vision, the colorful patterns pulled out thick and thin lines extending between heaven and earth. The two continued sinking down along the thin lines.

“What are you planning to do next?” Mo Ling asked curiously.

“Continue seeking the truth of the world. No matter what it is, we’ll figure it out,” Number 736 said firmly.

“We’ll figure out why Relics appeared.”

“Figure out the source of our abilities.”

“For the people who died in the Great Cataclysm.”

“For the people who died in the Abyss.”

“For Anna.”

……

“For everyone still alive…”

Number 736 was still speaking when Mo Ling noticed the colored lines had reached their end.

At the bottom where they were about to fall, those colored lines suddenly bent at right angles, forming a cube-shaped space.

And Number 736’s hand suddenly let go at this moment, instantly separating the two.

“See you next time…”

Mo Ling watched him gradually move away, while he fell straight into that cube-shaped space.

As the surrounding colored thin lines gradually slowed down, Mo Ling was already lying on a hard bed.

This was exactly the bed belonging to Martin that Mo Ling had stripped from Layer 0.

Around him were familiar metal walls, and a constantly color-changing button lay beside his hand, the button Martin had given him.

The button that had just been red was now constantly changing colors.

After observing for a while, Mo Ling cast his vision outside the Cube. Number 736 was now standing in front of Li Luo, explaining to her.

“I took it to save someone. Thank you, see you later.”

As soon as he finished speaking, his figure blurred and disappeared into the air again, leaving Li Luo standing there in a daze.

She hurried to the Cube to check, taking out various foods to place on the Cube, asking with concern about Mo Ling’s condition.

After getting the answer “I’m fine,” Li Luo still wasn’t reassured and kept asking where Mo Ling had gone.

Mo Ling told her he had gone to a prison-like place, broken down walls to save someone. After repeated explanations, Li Luo finally breathed a sigh of relief.

“Next time you encounter bad people, just kill them directly,” Li Luo said very seriously. She was indeed very worried.

Mo Ling agreed, then asked, “How long was I gone?”

“One hour.”

“Only one hour?”

It seemed the rescue had indeed only taken about an hour. It looked like Martin had really synchronized the time, he didn’t know how they managed to do it.

After a while, Bai Zhou also slowly walked toward Li Luo and struck up a conversation with her:

“Are you going to Oasis City next?”

Li Luo thought for a moment, then checked the nearby monitoring stations on her electronic screen and nodded.

“Oasis City should be the nearest monitoring station, and it’s high-level, so it should have sufficient authority and personnel to handle the Black Tower situation. We must make a trip there to report the situation here.”

Bai Zhou glanced at those scattered Robed Figure corpses and agreed, “That’s right, this isn’t something the two of us can clean up.”

He thought for a long time, then reached into his pocket and took out the old storage device containing his animation files, handing it to Li Luo.

Li Luo didn’t take it, but looked at him in confusion. “What’s wrong?”

“You take it to Oasis City. I need to return to the Abyss Third Layer,” Bai Zhou said somewhat wearily. “I haven’t been home in a long time. I miss my merman brothers and those chattering old mermen.”

His eyes were full of nostalgia.

“I want to swim. The Abyss Second Layer is all sand, I feel my skin getting worse day by day.” Bai Zhou pinched the skin on his arm and showed it to Li Luo.

Li Luo looked at him with increasingly strange eyes. After thinking for a long time about her wording, she finally asked, “But in your current state, how will you get back?”

Bai Zhou wasn’t worried at all. “Although I’m a bit ugly now, my merman brothers won’t mind. They’re all very simple and kind, there’s no problem.”

He grabbed Li Luo’s hand and placed the storage device in her palm.

“I’ve also fulfilled my promise to Doctor Li, finished filming the animation. The entire Black Tower is gone, I don’t want to stay here anymore.”

When he said this, Bai Zhou seemed somewhat sad.

From within the diving helmet reflecting light came his rambling confessions.

“The colleagues who worked with me, and the people who helped me get familiar with the Black Tower, they’re all gone.”

“Those familiar people put on robes and no longer recognized me. They chased me, wanting to kill me. I could only hide in sewers, secretly completing the animation.”

“Uncle, the hospital guard really liked chatting with me about merman things. He said if he had the chance, he wanted to visit my home and have me show him the merman tribe’s treasures.”

“Sister Guo from the cafeteria always asked me if the fish she newly purchased was fresh, but this is the Abyss Second Layer, where would there be so much fresh fish? But if I said it wasn’t fresh, she wouldn’t let me leave, so I could only lie.”

“We mermen never lie. I was corrupted by you humans,I think that’s not good.”

“Doctor Li originally said he wanted to take me drinking. He said he wanted to see how mermen react to alcohol, but the distortion came too quickly, and we didn’t have time.”

“Nurse Little Zhou bought me lots of dried squid, saying it was return gift for the chocolate I gave her, but I haven’t eaten it yet. I love eating squid the most, I never expected I’d never get to eat it again.”

“……”

“Can you understand, Li Luo?”

“I’m so tired.”

“I want to go home…”