I’m Trapped in a Cube - Chapter 164

Old Xu agreed with his mouth, but his eyes drifted toward the hospital room window.

He really couldn’t control his intuition. When something was wrong, it was just wrong, and that abrupt feeling would keep reminding him like an alarm clock.

Especially in the quiet environment of the hospital room, that kind of intuition came even more fiercely, making it impossible for him to ignore.

Compared to his empty heart, this psychological feeling was actually more unbearable.

“That window is wrong!”

His intuition kept reminding him, and Old Xu couldn’t help but repeatedly examine it.

But because of the doctor and captain’s previous warnings, he didn’t plan to say anything.

However, his strange expression caught the captain’s attention.

The captain looked toward the window, thinking Old Xu was too cold, so he walked over and closed the window.

Just as he was walking back, a white bird flew straight into the tightly closed window.

Snap!

A bloody mark was left on the window.

The captain looked at the window in shock, then at Old Xu sitting innocently on the bed, his suspicious gaze becoming even more intense.

The doctor quickly recorded this incident as well.

“I’m finished,” Old Xu thought, looking at the two men’s intense reactions. His heart grew more panicked, and he began to doubt his own ability.

Was this really “intuition”?

The doctor continued recording while taking out the X-rays he had just taken.

“Look at your heart. Do you know why it always feels empty?”

“I don’t know. I can’t understand it,” Old Xu shook his head.

“Your heart has been gone for a long time. Now your heart is just a mass of air, or maybe not air, anyway, it’s just a hollow space with nothing in it,” the doctor explained flatly.

Hearing the doctor’s blunt explanation, Old Xu felt his heart area becoming uncomfortable again.

“But your physiological functions haven’t been affected at all. Your blood still flows normally. This hollow space has completely replaced your heart’s function, and the effect is particularly good.”

“No other abnormalities have been discovered yet. We’ll continue observing later.”

After the doctor finished explaining, he had Old Xu continue resting, then hurriedly left the hospital room as if avoiding something.

The captain’s attitude was the same. After giving a few instructions, he pushed the door open and left, closing the door tightly, leaving only Old Xu alone…

Before long, the fountain was ordered to be tightly sealed, not allowing anyone to approach.

From then on, Old Xu became an outcast.

When going on missions, whenever he felt something was wrong, danger would soon appear. But as long as they didn’t bring Old Xu, no danger would occur, so no one asked him to team up anymore.

During construction, whenever he felt there was a problem somewhere, accidents would soon happen, so others wouldn’t let him participate.

During planting, when he told his companions they couldn’t plant during a certain period, sure enough, extreme weather occurred afterward, and the planted crops had no harvest at all.

Even if he held back and didn’t say anything, accidents would still happen in the end, so he simply said everything, which made his relationships worse and worse.

He could only live alone, building a simple tin house, watching the small monitoring station gradually develop into Oasis City while his teammates all became high-ranking officials in Oasis City.

Tall towers kept rising around him, and the tin house became an abrupt nail in the core area, but those teammates still maintained some courtesy and didn’t let urban planning affect Old Xu’s residence.

He had lived alone like this for so many years.

“No one likes to stay with a ‘jinx’ and have various misfortunes constantly appear around them,” Old Xu said somewhat mockingly.

“That fountain has always been my obsession. I’ve always remembered the captain’s warning, but they opened the fountain and even let children use it. I absolutely cannot accept this.”

This fountain that had brought him a lifetime of loneliness was now reopened with the tacit approval of the higher-ups. Old Xu had never been able to let it go.

After listening, Li Luo asked curiously, “How long have they had it open?”

“Ten years. It’s been ten years already. Countless children have used that fountain, and the Relics created are countless. I’ve approached my former teammates and asked them to close the fountain, but they also said it was a decision from higher up.”

Old Xu became more and more angry as he spoke. “They clearly saw my fate, yet they still insist on letting these children use it. So I go and cause trouble every year. They don’t dare arrest me anyway.”

Speaking of this, Old Xu picked up the cup in front of him, drained the flower tea in one gulp, and suppressed the anger in his heart.

“Oh right, today’s Relics haven’t been destroyed yet.” He suddenly thought of something and began rummaging through his cloak.

Then he took out a silver ring.

It was the ring the father and son had gotten from the fountain, he had actually stolen it!

“When did you steal it?” Li Xiangyi asked in shock.

“What steal? How can the investigation team’s business be called stealing? This is called confiscation!” Old Xu said indignantly. “The official investigation team has the authority to confiscate and destroy Relics of unknown function!”

Then he threw the silver ring into a nearby ditch.

This precious Relic flowed with the water and was swept into the underground waterway.

“Your destruction method seems a bit off,” Li Xiangyi said helplessly, watching the disappearing ring.

Old Xu didn’t care and continued searching through his cloak, taking out some other items and throwing them down the ditch.

“Done.”

Afterward, he pulled out a worn red certificate from his cloak and opened it for Li Xiangyi to see.

“Abyss Investigation Team Three, Level 1 team member, Xu Jianguo.” The certificate clearly showed Old Xu’s information, along with various official stamps, things that were basically unseen nowadays.

The certificate also contained an electronic card with his name marked on it.

Old Xu flipped to one page and pointed to a line that clearly read: The investigation team has the authority to confiscate and destroy Relics of unknown function.

“I wasn’t lying, right?” Old Xu said proudly, holding his head high.

Li Xiangyi quickly nodded, indicating she had no objections, then asked curiously, “Those destroyed Relics, were they all ‘confiscated’ by you just now?”

Hearing Li Xiangyi being so “teachable,” Old Xu answered happily, “Of course. I’ve been doing this for ten years and never get discovered.”

“The reason I fought with that last one was to save face for those soldiers. After all, they often come to comfort me, and it was convenient for them to arrest me so I could make a clean getaway.”

“If someone reports it later, they can also say the criminal was caught on the spot, but no stolen goods were found.”

“Of course, they won’t come looking for the stolen goods either.”

Speaking of this, Old Xu pointed to his certificate again.

“I’m confiscating by imperial decree.”

Too “brilliant”, both Li Luo and Li Xiangyi were shocked by Old Xu’s bold behavior.

“Don’t just stand there, drink your tea. The tea is getting cold.”

Old Xu sipped his tea with an air of calm detachment, like a worldly master who hides his achievements and fame.