I’m Trapped in a Cube - Chapter 187

This was what happened when the investigation team first entered the oasis.

Mo Ling didn’t know that the investigation team of that time had also experienced such struggles. When Old Xu had recounted this experience before, he had glossed over it lightly.

“All beginnings are difficult.”

Establishing a base in the oasis was more difficult than developing the base.

Various conditional limitations, various unknown hidden dangers—there was no absolutely safe place in the Abyss.

These people who settled down had to constantly eliminate hidden dangers, maintaining high vigilance at all times.

“There is no absolute comfort.”

The price of Oasis City’s comfort might be unimaginable.

There was another rainbow light beside the water pool, very conspicuous. Mo Ling worried that continuing to stay here would interfere with the investigation team’s history, so he quickly drilled toward that rainbow light.

“I wonder where I’ll end up this time.”

The rainbow light flickered. Crossing the light, Mo Ling arrived in a desert.

Desert?

Mo Ling controlled the Cube and floated for a while, discovering that the surroundings were completely identical sand dunes, with no moisture at the base of the dunes either.

Not an oasis?

“Is this before the oasis appeared?”

The mirage vapor was actually recreating scenes from before the oasis appeared?

Mo Ling was somewhat surprised. The mirage vapor’s abilities seemed much more powerful than he had imagined. The formation of an oasis took tens of thousands of years, yet the mirage vapor could still recreate it.

But the specific time was also unknown.

There was no trace of any oasis at all.

Only sand.

Perfectly ordinary sand.

Mo Ling remembered that the circular lake around the oasis was a saltwater lake. This place originally wasn’t a sea, so how did the water in that lake come about?

After careful observation, there were no suspicious rivers or underground waterways either.

Just as Mo Ling was puzzled about where this sandstorm came from, rhythmic vibrations came through. All the sand on the sand dunes was shaken into jumping motion, each grain of sand was like rice on a sieve, dancing rhythmically with the vibrations.

“Something is approaching.”

As Mo Ling was wondering, sand suddenly swirled around the Cube, and a sudden sandstorm blew toward the Cube.

“Where did this sandstorm come from?”

This sandstorm appeared very abruptly, as if appearing out of thin air, without any warning.

Although he was in the howling sandstorm, Mo Ling felt no impact and floated calmly in the air.

Mo Ling could still hear the howling wind and the friction of sand collisions outside the Cube.

But those sands couldn’t cause any damage to the Cube, they were all just illusions.

In the blink of an eye, the sandstorm swept the Cube into its center.

As Mo Ling was thinking, he saw a huge black wall in the distance approaching him, crashing directly into the Cube.

This black wall that should have been an illusion could actually touch the Cube!

Oh no.

The Cube was directly knocked into the air by this black wall. Mo Ling quickly curled up, hugging his head tightly, trying to prevent himself from being hit by the metal wall.

But after spinning in the air for several rotations, Mo Ling didn’t feel any impact.

“What happened?”

When Mo Ling came to his senses, he discovered he was already standing in mid-air.

He felt the sensation in his hands was somewhat wrong. After carefully feeling around, he discovered his head had turned into a cube again.

Just like when controlling the Cube, Mo Ling found he could control his body to float in the air, and the impact just now hadn’t caused him any harm either.

“I’ve become cube-person again. What exactly was that wall?”

It could actually knock him into cube-person form?

Mo Ling quickly looked down. When he saw the main body of that black wall, he could no longer suppress the shock in his heart.

It was a turtle!

A turtle as huge as a mountain!

Although it resembled a turtle, it had a bird’s head, a snake-like slender tail, and the bird head’s eyes were rolling around, looking toward the area that had just been impacted.

Seawater continuously flowed down from the cracked turtle shell, irrigating the arid desert nearby. The flowing water circled around the strange turtle, forming a ring.

The strange turtle seemed to have stopped because it had just hit the Cube.

After looking around, it began digging a hole in place.

“What was it trying to do?”

Mo Ling carefully floated down, wanting to see what the strange turtle intended to do.

The strange turtle was still digging the hole. It seemed very anxious and very alert to its surroundings. Most importantly, it noticed Mo Ling approaching.

“What are you trying to do?” A sound like shell striking came from the strange turtle’s mouth.

This greatly surprised Mo Ling, “You can see me?”

The vocal bracelet promptly voiced Mo Ling’s question.

“Don’t come closer, leave quickly!” The strange turtle’s tone was very serious, but it didn’t stop digging.

Mo Ling suddenly realized he was once again inadvertently interfering with history.

This strange turtle might originally have been going to walk to some other place, but because of his collision, it stayed in place.

Perhaps his conversation with the strange turtle would also affect the future.

But looking at this giant turtle, Mo Ling could no longer suppress his curiosity. This strange turtle must be related to the origin of Oasis City.

The seawater flowing down from the turtle shell looked like the origin of that circular saltwater lake around the oasis.

The strange turtle discovered that the cube-person before it was still in a daze. Its back shook, and the barnacles wrapped in dried seaweed on the turtle shell actually began to move.

“Defense!”

With the strange turtle’s shout, many Shell People emerged from the barnacles on its back. They hurriedly ran to the front of the turtle shell.

“God! What’s wrong with you?” As soon as this group of Shell People reached the front of the turtle shell, they began asking the strange turtle.

This strange turtle was actually the Shell People’s god?

So that giant virtual image in the Shell People graveyard’s mirage vapor was this strange turtle.

The reason the mirage vapor couldn’t recreate it might be because the strange turtle’s size was too enormous to be completely recreated.

“Defense, defend against the enemy in front.” The strange turtle’s voice sounded somewhat weak at this time.

Mo Ling found it strange—, ts current condition didn’t seem quite right.

“God, where is the enemy?” The Shell People searched all around the edge of the turtle shell but couldn’t find any trace of Mo Ling. They seemed unable to see the cube-person in the air.

The strange turtle had no way to tell them at this point and could only call out weakly, “In front, in the sky, in…”

Its weak appearance made the Shell People even more anxious, running around on the turtle shell like ants on a hot pan.

“We can’t find the enemy, God. Where exactly is the enemy?” The Shell People searched while desperately complaining to their “god.”

Another group of Shell People began creating shells to cover the strange turtle’s back. The shells piled thicker and thicker, as if they were building some kind of defensive fortification.

These Shell People were numerous, and their shell-creation speed was very fast. Using those already existing barnacles, the shell spreading was very rapid. Before long, they had created thick defensive works on the strange turtle’s back.

Not only that, but using those barnacles, these Shell People seemed able to create shells endlessly, much faster than what Mo Ling had seen before.

The shells quickly “fixed” everything on the turtle shell in place, protecting everything.

These rapidly produced shells even made the turtle itself somewhat unsteady.

“Isn’t this just trapping their god?”

Although they took many measures, these clumsy Shell People still couldn’t see Mo Ling.

“What exactly are you doing?”

Mo Ling could no longer suppress the curiosity in his heart, his desire for knowledge overcame everything.

At this moment, the strange turtle finally seemed to realize that the person before it had no malicious intent.

A weak response came from the strange turtle’s mouth.

“I… I am laying eggs.”