I’m Trapped in a Cube - Chapter 173

“We sent people to look at that island. That strange mist is what caused you to fall into the historical remnants,” the official explained.

“But my body shows no abnormalities at all?” Shen Ping was somewhat confused.

The official shook his head. “That mist only creates virtual images through light refraction, so of course it has no effect on your body. But why it records history is something we’re still researching.”

After hearing the explanation, Shen Ping nodded.

Then the official asked him many more questions, including his feelings in the mist…

“We’ve tested this cup too. Everything’s normal, you can take it back and use it yourself.” The official pushed the bronze cup over.

After confirming once, Shen Ping took the cup back, might as well take what was offered.

“After putting medicine inside, it will replicate many identical doses, but it can only be medicine. Traditional Chinese medicine and Western medicine both work, the judgment is quite lenient. Water, sugar, salt all count. You can develop it further.”

The official even took out a test report and handed it to Shen Ping.

“Medicine?”

“That blue olive really resembles the Wishing Fountain,” Mo Ling suddenly had this strange thought.

But thinking of the Primordial Cell, Mo Ling also realized that the fulfillment of these “wishes” often came with terrible costs. Anyway, those who made wishes through the Primordial Cell all ended up quite miserable.

Both could fulfill “wishes” by creating Relics. Perhaps there really were many wish-type Relics or creatures in the Abyss.

Eventually, the mist on the island was also named mirage vapor. It could recreate virtual images from history but wouldn’t cause any harm to people.

Recreating shadows of history, even allowing glimpses of creatures that once existed—truly marvelous.

Only Shen Ping was left standing there stunned…

It turned out that the reason Shen Ping went down to the Abyss and worked so hard, carrying loans all over his body, was because his sister had a rare disease and needed to take a particularly expensive type of medicine.

……

But his family’s financial situation was too poor, so he could only come to the Abyss to try his luck, hoping to strike it rich…

The record ended abruptly, with no details about Shen Ping’s affairs.

“The Primordial Cell should count as one too.”

“So this is mirage vapor,” Mo Ling sighed somewhat.

“Mr. Shen Ping, don’t try to figure this out. This is historical inevitability. Use your Relic well.”

After speaking this vague warning, the official said goodbye again and pushed the door to leave.

“Yes, thank you for your cooperation. I have other matters to attend to, so I’ll go first.” After the farewell, the official picked up his box and prepared to leave.

Unless some method was used to communicate with history.

This was the discovery process of mirage vapor.

Shen Ping’s hands holding the bronze cup trembled slightly as he asked in a daze, “How did it know I needed medicine?”

“Wait!” Shen Ping quickly called out to him.

After hearing Shen Ping’s explanation, the official sighed.

However, Shen Ping’s experience was truly extraordinary, to actually communicate with the past through virtual images and even obtain a Relic because of it.

After reading the records about mirage vapor, Li Luo also breathed a sigh of relief.

Mirage vapor only recreated virtual images of history and wouldn’t have any actual effect on people. Essentially, it was just a special mist phenomenon.

Perhaps they could even use mirage vapor to understand what had happened here.

The rainbow lights around them became increasingly solid and kept spreading, beginning to cover the surrounding environment.

The sound of shell striking became more and more frequent. The sounds from within the clustered rainbow lights also became very loud, gradually drowning out the rushing water.

Not only that, but figures began appearing from the condensed rainbow lights.

When they slowly solidified, everyone discovered these figures were Shell People.

But before them was a creature of vague shape. Countless rainbow lights tried to recreate its appearance but couldn’t succeed no matter how they tried. The water flow’s impact was very unstable, and the creature’s body kept flickering.

Heavy shell-striking sounds came from that creature, and the striking speed kept increasing.

These originally intermittent sounds kept accelerating, actually producing a feeling of tonal variation.

Finally, they even connected into a sentence:

“Save~ me~”

Save me? This strange creature was actually calling for help?

Due to the water flow’s varying speed, the mirage vapor was extremely unstable. This group of Shell People’s movements seemed accelerated, and the shell-striking sounds from their bodies were similarly affected by the acceleration.

Most shocking of all was that humans could actually understand these accelerated sounds!

It turned out that the Shell People’s language wasn’t an independent language, it was just that they spoke too slowly, even breaking down into individual tones of striking sounds, which was why humans couldn’t distinguish them.

Hearing the accelerated Shell People language, Old Xu was already stunned in place, constantly sighing, “So that’s how it is, so that’s how it is!”

This Shell People language that had stumped countless researchers in Oasis City and couldn’t be deciphered was actually so simple!

The rainbow lights formed blurred Shell People figures accelerated beyond recognition. They kept trembling, responding to that giant creature’s call for help.

“God, what’s wrong with you?”

This creature they couldn’t see clearly was their god?

The Shell People’s god seemed very weak, slowly saying, “I’m trapped. Save me, save me.”

Hearing their god’s nearly desperate voice, the Shell People became panicked. “God, how do we save you?”

Everyone stared intently at the surrounding virtual images, but at this moment the rainbow lights suddenly became blurred, becoming extremely chaotic.

“The mirage vapor here is very unstable,” Old Xu said helplessly.

When those dancing rainbow lights stabilized again, the scene had changed. The god’s blurred and twisted figure had disappeared, leaving only a group of anxious Shell People.

“Go! Let’s go fix the outsiders in place!” a leader-like Shell Person shouted to his companions.

The virtual image blurred again. When it stabilized once more, that group of Shell People had already fled back to the graveyard.

“The outsiders are too strong. We can’t fix them in place. Time is running out, we must tell the next generation.”

“Agreed.”

“Agreed…”

These Shell People all agreed, so liquid began appearing inside their shells, dissolving themselves, leaving their shells to fall to the ground.

After that came a long period of darkness.

Until one day, an earthquake occurred in the underground waterways. The graveyard’s position changed, apparently becoming very close to the surface.

A ray of light pierced through a rock crevice and shot underground.

Sunlight shone on the shells, and soon small Shell People slowly grew from these shells. They seemed to be Shell People newborns, confused and bewildered. After birth, they just wandered around the graveyard.

These small Shell People seemed to have little intelligence, only knowing to eat small creatures washed down by the water flow beside the streams, then gnawing on moss like unconscious beasts.

Their bodies seemed to grow very quickly, reaching mature form within minutes, but their intelligence didn’t seem to develop much, they remained muddled.

Until mist rose from shell fragments illuminated by sunlight, followed by rainbow lights appearing, slowly recreating what had happened before.

The second-generation Shell People stood before the mirage vapor, silently watching everything.

Incredibly serious.

Unfortunately, the words about the god here were even more blurred, only the records belonging to the previous generation of Shell People were relatively clear.

The newborn Shell People became immersed in the virtual images.

After the historical virtual images ended, one second-generation Shell Person turned to his companions and said:

“Let’s go! We’ll fix the outsiders in place!”