I’m Trapped in a Cube - Chapter 167

The special sponge quickly absorbed the moisture from everyone’s bodies.

Old Xu sighed to Li Luo, “Technology is so advanced now. In the past when our clothes got wet, we had to dry them by fire, and they’d stink after drying. If we’d had this thing back then, I wouldn’t have suffered in the Abyss Third Layer.”

“You’ve been to the Abyss Third Layer too?” Li Xiangyi asked in disbelief.

“Of course.”

Old Xu reached into his cloak and pulled out a nameplate with strikingly conspicuous mysterious text engraved on it:

“Level 5 Hunter, Heartless One Xu Jianguo.”

“Level 5 Hunter?” Li Xiangyi was shocked.

“Yes, I’ve gone as far down as the Abyss Fifth Layer,” Old Xu said casually. “Back then no one dared team up with me either, so I went down by myself. But my title gradually became like this, not very pleasant sounding.”

He put his nameplate away, as if this wasn’t anything important to him.

“Just going down continuously was quite boring. As long as you keep walking toward places with low danger levels, it’s very easy to reach the next layer…”

Hearing this, Li Luo and Li Xiangyi were speechless.

Old Xu looked at both sides of the waterway and asked Li Xiangyi, “How long can you maintain this light band?”

“I can maintain it continuously,” Li Xiangyi answered.

“Then follow me. I know the way, we’ll be able to get out quickly. The underground waterways have some exits that lead directly to the surface,” Old Xu said confidently.

“Didn’t you say there are no maps? How do you know the routes?” Li Xiangyi was somewhat puzzled.

Old Xu smiled faintly and pointed to one end of the underground waterway, “The danger level is 460 over there.”

Then he pointed to the other side, “170 over here. We go this way.”

After saying this, Old Xu confidently walked along the shore.

So that was it, as long as you kept walking toward relatively safe places, you’d definitely be able to get out. Even if you couldn’t get out, you could reach safer places.

Mo Ling finally understood how Old Xu had made it down to the Abyss Fifth Layer.

As long as your luck was good enough and you avoided all dangers, then the Abyss would essentially have no danger at all.

Mo Ling gained a new understanding of Old Xu’s miraculous Relic ability.

While walking, Mo Ling’s vision also penetrated into Old Xu’s body, looking toward his heart area.

This was indeed a hollow space.

But the blood within was completely unaffected. It floated in the center of the hollow, flowing according to the heart’s original blood transport routes, being pumped out with the nonexistent heartbeats.

The tissues around the heart also showed no abnormalities from the heart’s absence, as if the heart had become transparent.

“Could it be that the heart isn’t missing, but has become transparent and can’t be seen?” Mo Ling suddenly had this speculation.

But Old Xu himself couldn’t feel his heart beating, and his nameplate clearly read “Heartless One,” which conflicted with the “transparent heart” speculation.

Mo Ling stared for a long time but couldn’t make out any results, so he had to focus his attention on the path ahead.

Along this journey, Old Xu continued demonstrating his magical ability.

At a fork in the road, he stopped and had the two wait.

Li Xiangyi saw he hadn’t moved for a long time and asked in confusion, “Which side has the lower danger level?”

But Old Xu waved his hand, “Both are very high. Let’s wait.”

Sure enough, after a while, the path ahead began trembling. The entire waterway actually twisted under the trembling’s influence, even changing its flow direction.

After the earthquake stopped, the original fork had become a waterfall. Rushing underground water crashed down below, and a huge depression appeared before them.

“This way,” Old Xu led the two jumping across narrow stone blocks at the waterfall’s edge. There was actually a hidden rock crevice here.

After going around a big circle through the rock crevice, they had descended above the depression. Here the water flow scattered in all directions, flowing toward various places through different tributaries.

Because the water flow suddenly dispersed and water storage was insufficient, many rocks in this depression were exposed, making it completely walkable.

Old Xu led the group onto the depression. Although he appeared very confident throughout the journey, he was very careful when advancing, not being careless at all.

When they reached a pitch-black water pool, he suddenly stopped and looked around.

“This water pool is very wrong. The danger level keeps rising, yet it’s still the safest route in this area.”

Old Xu picked up a small stone and threw it over.

Just then, a toad-like brown creature jumped out of the water pool and instantly ate the stone in mid-air.

This toad was covered in small pustules, with pitch-black dots in the center of each pustule.

Those dots kept rolling up and down like human eyes, staring fixedly at the surroundings.

The toad also had a long tail behind it, as if it hadn’t fully developed from its tadpole stage.

Old Xu quietly warned the two behind him not to move, while his eyes glanced toward a nearby cave.

Although they didn’t know why Old Xu arranged things this way, Li Luo and Li Xiangyi still obediently followed his instructions.

The toad seemed to be stuck by the stone, keeping its mouth open making strange sounds. Each time it made a sound, its whole body trembled, the pustules on its body shaking accordingly, with the dots rolling continuously within them.

“So disgusting.”

The toad twisted its body and actually crawled toward Old Xu, but Old Xu remained motionless, watching the toad come right up to him.

His face showed no trace of panic, as if everything was within his expectations.

The toad’s slime dripped onto Old Xu’s hand, but he paid no attention.

Just as the toad was about to press down on Old Xu, Mo Ling had already aimed at the toad preparing to activate teleportation.

Just then, a giant hand suddenly reached out from the cave Old Xu had been glancing at!

That hand was like a human arm, but covered with black coarse hair with clearly visible pores.

Sharp fingernails, thick joints, and groove-like lines resembling human palm prints.

As soon as it emerged from the cave, this terrifying giant hand quickly grabbed toward the toad.

Before it could react, the toad was tightly gripped by the giant hand. It kept secreting slime, trying to escape from the giant hand’s grasp, but those black coarse hairs hooked it like barbs.

Not only that, the black coarse hair also began writhing, drilling deep into the toad’s skin like earthworms, fixing the toad in the palm.

The toad could only keep screaming miserably, its tail constantly swaying, struggling to escape, but it couldn’t move at all.

Gripping the toad tightly, the giant hand quickly withdrew, retreating into the narrow cave.

Then from within the cave came the toad’s screams and “crunch crunch” gnawing sounds. After some time, only the sound of bones being crushed remained.

“Let’s go, it’s safe now.” Old Xu ignored the slime covering his hand and told the two to hurry and follow.

When they reached the entrance to a tributary at the edge of the depression, he finally relaxed slightly.

“What was that just now?” Li Xiangyi asked fearfully.

“That hand? That’s called a Cave Limb, a creature like a hermit crab that parasitizes in caves, specializing in hunting prey that passes by the cave. That arm is their complete form. Pretty disgusting, right?”

Li Xiangyi quickly nodded.

But then Old Xu did something even more disgusting.

He took out a small bottle from his cloak and carefully collected the slime the toad had dripped on his hand, as if this were something extremely precious.

After collecting it, he even licked the bottle opening with a look of enjoyment.

“Tastes good!”