I’m Trapped in a Cube - Chapter 165

The water gurgled and splashed.

Li Luo and Li Xiangyi just watched as those powerful Relics created by the Wishing Fountain were swept into the underground waterway.

“What a pity,” Li Xiangyi said with some regret.

“When you feel pity, you’ve already been moved by greed. These Relics shouldn’t exist in the first place. Things that never existed to begin with, there’s nothing to regret about losing them,” Old Xu said flatly.

“But these Relics, if used to explore the Abyss, could reduce many casualties, couldn’t they?” Li Xiangyi still didn’t understand.

“No, using them would cause more casualties. These Relics all have some kind of hidden effect,” Old Xu explained seriously.

“The Wishing Fountain has been open for ten years, and these Relics have appeared for ten years. I’ve learned about the requirements those parents made when demanding Relics, their greed was extreme.”

“They also wanted to use various clauses to avoid possible costs. This is absolutely impossible. Being too clever will ultimately lead to irreversible consequences.”

“Any clause has loopholes. Don’t underestimate Relics with self-consciousness.”

Old Xu was very familiar with those parents’ behavior.

Li Luo thought for a moment and asked, “You only ‘confiscated’ a portion, right? Don’t the other portions need to be ‘confiscated’?”

Old Xu nodded. “Yes, every year I only confiscate a portion. The rest are mostly harmless.”

“How do you distinguish them?” Li Luo pursued.

“Intuition.” Speaking of this, Old Xu pointed to his heart.

“You use the ability the fountain gave you to distinguish whether the Relics created by the fountain are harmful?” Li Luo was somewhat shocked.

“What’s wrong with that?”

Old Xu didn’t mind at all. He took out his investigation team member certificate again, flipped to a page, and skillfully pointed out a line: “In emergency situations, use of any means to solve problems is permitted.”

“I’m doing everything according to regulations,” Old Xu explained casually.

“I confiscate Relics that feel wrong to me, preventing them from circulating. For others that don’t feel dangerous, I leave them alone. I’ve been doing this for ten years.”

“Of course, the ones that feel wrong are few. Otherwise, with my strength alone, I couldn’t handle them all.”

So that’s how it was, he had persisted alone like this for ten years.

“Then why do you just throw them in the ditch?” Li Xiangyi still didn’t quite understand Old Xu’s “destruction” method. It seemed too much like child’s play.

“Intuition.”

Old Xu’s single word left Li Xiangyi speechless.

“My intuition tells me that throwing them in the ditch is safe and won’t cause any harm. Indeed, no accidents have occurred in these ten years.”

Looking at the certificate still on the table, Li Xiangyi couldn’t ask anything more.

As Old Xu spoke, he became somewhat melancholic. “I can’t keep doing this every year. I’m getting old, and I might miss confiscating one someday.”

“Moreover, in recent years, the Relics that make me feel dangerous have appeared more and more frequently, and I’m getting busier.”

“That’s why I want the higher-ups of Oasis City to close the fountain. That way, the problem would be solved forever.”

Old Xu’s hand holding the cup trembled slightly. This matter had clearly always been his obsession.

Being able to chat with two strangers for so long was enough to prove the loneliness in his heart that no one understood.

“Have you looked for them? Aren’t they all your former teammates?” Li Luo inquired.

Old Xu nodded. “Of course I have, but every time they ask me: if I believe in my intuition so much, does the fountain give me a wrong feeling?”

“Does it?” Li Luo asked curiously.

“No,” Old Xu frowned. “Many of the Relics it creates give me a very dangerous feeling, but the fountain itself is completely harmless.”

Li Luo thought for a moment and asked, “Is it because the fountain itself is the ability granter?”

Hearing Li Luo’s question, Old Xu frowned, looking like he was thinking of something very difficult to understand.

After hesitating for a moment, he answered, “No, my intuition tells me the fountain is safe, very safe.”

“Safe?”

How could this be so contradictory?

A spring water that could create various dangerous Relics was actually safe itself?

Old Xu’s answer shocked everyone present.

“That’s right, it’s safe, and recently this feeling has become even more obvious.”

Old Xu’s confused expression never disappeared. This matter seemed to have been his long-standing trouble as well.

“I think there might be something wrong with my intuition.” He touched his heart and murmured, “Recently I’ve felt that many places are wrong. That feeling is very obvious.”

“Which places?” Li Xiangyi asked in puzzlement.

Speaking of this, Old Xu suddenly froze in his chair, the hand holding his cup also froze in mid-air, motionless.

Then he suddenly stood up, walked around the yard with his cup, stopped after a few steps to look at the ground, then walked again, repeating the cycle.

After making a big circle, he returned to the table and said to the two puzzled people, “Everywhere.”

“This wrong feeling is very faint, but it’s definitely there. It’s on my flowers, on the cup in my hand, on the ground, on the table, even on myself and on you two.”

Old Xu surveyed the surroundings, then pointed to the surrounding buildings and said, “All of them.”

Then he stared intently at the Cube, his expression becoming increasingly confused.

“What’s wrong?” Seeing Old Xu staring at the Cube, Li Luo quickly asked.

Old Xu pointed at the Cube and said very puzzledly, “It’s on all things, but there’s nothing on your Relic, no feeling at all.”

Hearing Old Xu’s words, Li Luo immediately asked, “Is this normal?”

Old Xu didn’t answer but walked to the Cube’s side and carefully tapped it, looking completely baffled.

“Very abnormal.”

“Over these years, I’ve studied my ability very clearly. This intuition is actually a quantified assessment of danger level, like a measuring stick.”

“For example, this flower used to have a danger level of 1, but recently it’s risen to 10, so I feel something’s very wrong.”

“The Relics I just destroyed—the moment they appeared, their danger levels would rapidly climb to over 1000, extremely dangerous.”

“And those Relics not worth confiscating all have negative values, which proves those things are safe.”

“The fountain is the same, negative value, safe.”

“But this Cube…” After walking around the Cube once, Old Xu couldn’t think of how to describe his feeling.

“Could the Cube’s danger level be 0?” Li Luo asked, listening to Old Xu’s explanation.

“No, it’s not just 0.”

Old Xu stopped moving and stood thinking for a long time before saying with complete bewilderment what he was feeling—

“It feels like the danger level measuring stick can’t be placed on it.”