I’m Trapped in a Cube - Chapter 163

“Done! Your wish will slowly come true!”

“The Relic I’m giving you is a heart. If you keep using it, you’ll be able to realize your wish, but if you want to use it, you need to drink more hot water every day. Do you understand?”

A heart?

Drink more hot water? What did this mean?

Old Xu didn’t understand what the little sprite meant. He just felt very uncomfortable in his chest area, but there was no pain, just a feeling of great emptiness.

After a strange stiffness, Old Xu touched his heart and found it was no longer beating.

“What did you do to me?” Old Xu demanded in shock.

“I’m helping you realize your wish!” the little sprite answered happily while reaching out to control the water flow that wrapped around Old Xu.

The water flow surged again, the little sprite was submerged within it, and Old Xu was also carefully sent outside by the giant water hand.

The fountain kept rising and falling. Old Xu’s body wasn’t wet at all. He stood there in a daze, covering his heart, unable to adapt.

Just then, the captain happened to pass by and discovered him standing there blankly.

“Xu Jianguo! What are you standing around for? Hurry up and find somewhere we can get out!”

“But, Captain, this fountain…” Old Xu wanted to tell the captain about the fountain, but the captain was very anxious at the time and didn’t pay attention to him.

With his heart unable to beat, Old Xu felt empty inside, with a very uncomfortable feeling. He covered his heart, gritted his teeth, and charged off in a random direction.

A kind of intuition guided him, constantly reminding Old Xu, the exit is this way!

Old Xu stumbled as he ran, suddenly tripping over a protruding stone and rolling to the shell wall.

He got up painfully but found this wall was different.

“It seems particularly weak?”

Old Xu took out his flashlight and shined it around, discovering that outside this wall was the warehouse where fertilizers and pesticides had been stored.

“The Shell People are afraid of this?”

Although the wall here was weak, the shells were still constantly spreading and would probably become hard before long.

Old Xu quickly shouted, “Found it!”

Investigation team members came over one after another. The captain looked at the wall and said joyfully, “Xu Jianguo, you’re really something! I thought you were slacking off earlier!”

The captain quickly took out his Relic. A searing white light flashed, and a hole large enough for one person to pass through appeared before everyone.

“It really is quite weak,” the captain excitedly patted Old Xu’s shoulder.

So everyone helped expand the hole while notifying other team members to evacuate through it.

Soon everyone had gone through the hole into the fertilizer warehouse, then along the warehouse to the power plant, reconnecting the electricity.

Light returned. Old Xu, as if divinely assisted, used his intuition to lead the team searching everywhere for hidden Shell People, like he had a professional detector.

Those Shell People hiding in the darkness were all eliminated. Soon the investigation team regained control of the monitoring station.

When dawn came, the monitoring station was full of fallen Shell People and shattered shells.

“Xu Jianguo, how did you do it?” The captain was breathing heavily, looking at Old Xu in disbelief.

The other teammates were equally shocked. In one night, they had eliminated more Shell People than they had eliminated combined in all their previous efforts. Even Shell People hiding on rooftops could be discovered by Old Xu.

Old Xu seemed to really be a human detector.

Old Xu was also somewhat confused. He had just led a group of people wandering around randomly. When he felt something was wrong somewhere, he would lead them there, but all these places where he felt something was wrong had Shell People hidden there.

When Shell People hid, they were like stones, motionless and making no sound, very difficult to detect. But Old Xu could accurately find their locations.

After one night, Old Xu had gotten somewhat used to the feeling of his heart no longer beating. It wasn’t as uncomfortable anymore. Looking at his curious companions around him, Old Xu couldn’t hold back any longer. “Captain, I have something to report to you!”

……

After hearing Old Xu’s experience, the captain’s expression became increasingly serious. He demanded, “You made a wish?”

Old Xu nodded fearfully.

“What was the cost?” the captain pursued.

“Drink more hot water,” Old Xu said somewhat guiltily.

“No, I’m asking about the cost of using the spring water to make a wish, not the cost of your ability,” the captain explained.

Old Xu thought for a long time but couldn’t figure out what he had actually paid.

“I don’t know.”

Hearing Old Xu’s answer, the captain’s face became even more grave. His knowledge was extensive, and he immediately began telling Old Xu about the terrible consequences caused by various wish-type Relics.

Listening to the miserable fates of those wishers, Old Xu felt his heart area becoming uncomfortable again.

“Captain, save me!”

The captain thought for a moment and comforted him, “You go to the hospital first and find a ward to self-isolate. I’ll have someone watch you. After we finish dealing with those shells, we’ll discuss your situation.”

“Alright…”

So Old Xu found a ward and waited in extreme anxiety for the captain, who came after finishing his business.

The captain brought a group of doctors and began examining Old Xu.

“How do you feel now?” the doctor asked.

“Empty, like my chest is stuffy, as if something is missing. If I don’t pay attention to it, it’s fine. I can’t feel my heart beating, but no other parts of my body feel uncomfortable.”

“Also, sometimes strange intuitions appear, and they all come true. I think this should be the ability the spring water gave me. For example, right now, my intuition is telling me that lamp over there is somehow wrong.”

As Old Xu spoke, he pointed at the desk lamp on the bedside table.

Hearing Old Xu’s words, the doctor turned in the direction he pointed, but his knee accidentally hit the bedside table.

The table surface shook, and the lamp swayed unsteadily, spinning as it fell toward the ground.

Fortunately, the captain had quick reflexes and caught the lamp in his hand.

For a moment, the ward was silent.

The doctor’s words broke the silence: “If you hadn’t said anything, I wouldn’t have turned around.”

“But I just felt that lamp was somehow wrong, and you asked me to describe my feelings,” Old Xu explained somewhat innocently.

The doctor didn’t respond, just silently recorded this strange phenomenon.

“You’d better not use this kind of ability casually. Even if you feel something is wrong somewhere, don’t say it randomly.”

“Why?” Old Xu thought this ability was quite useful.

The doctor’s expression was somewhat serious: “It’s possible that it’s not your intuition being accurate, but rather your behavior causing the corresponding consequences to occur.”

“I also discovered those Shell People using intuition, and that weak wall was the same. That couldn’t have been caused by my behavior, right?” Old Xu asked in confusion.

“Who knows?” the captain asked back from the side.

The doctor also nodded accordingly.

Old Xu looked at the two people staring at him with scrutinizing gazes and suddenly realized he had now been listed as a key suspect.

A barrier had unknowingly formed.

He sighed helplessly.

“Fine, I won’t say things randomly anymore.”