I’m Trapped in a Cube - Chapter 193

Turtle jelly.

A straightforward answer that encompassed everything.

Although this explanation was very mischievous, it was also extremely simple and easy to understand.

“This is extracting the Spiral Turtle’s energy.”

Those black silk threads drilled underground, extracted the Spiral Turtle’s energy, then transmitted this energy to other silk threads, thus producing this effect of nearly creating everything.

“The Spiral Turtle has made indispensable contributions to the oasis.” Mo Ling suddenly had this strange thought.

It had used its own body as a foundation, created a circular waterway capable of storing the oasis’s moisture, and even the energy for creating the oasis was provided by it.

Even the Shell People dependents on its body were helpers in creating the oasis.

But this was certainly not its wish.

After the oasis was created, the shuttles around Li Xiangyi spun rapidly. The colorful gauze net quickly retracted, and silk threads of various colors were pulled out strand by strand, spiraling back onto the shuttles.

Just as the shuttles returned, Li Xiangyi’s expression instantly became confused.

Her body became crooked and twisted. Like someone who couldn’t stand steady, she began spinning in circles on the spot.

“What’s wrong with her?”

“The loss of directional sense has become more severe. This is the cost of that Relic,” the little sprite explained. “That Relic doesn’t cause all directional loss from the beginning…”

Under the little sprite’s introduction, Mo Ling gradually understood the characteristics of the Relic called “Rainbow Shuttle.”

This Relic was very powerful. Various silk threads had incredibly unique abilities with very high limits. If energy was sufficient, it could even destroy heaven and earth.

But the cost was the user’s loss of directional sense.

At the beginning, the loss of directional sense would only appear in very small aspects.

For example, not being able to distinguish left from right.

Normal people would have such problems, being unable to distinguish left from right.

When others mentioned some direction-related vocabulary, the user’s mind would not be able to recall what this vocabulary meant.

When “left” was mentioned, the user would think for a long time about what “left” meant.

Of course, this was only the beginning.

Soon, the user would begin to be unable to distinguish various directions—front, back, left, right, east, south, west, north. These terms would become highly difficult vocabulary for them, extremely hard to understand.

Like describing the shape of an elephant to someone who had never seen an elephant, others would find it difficult to describe direction-related words to Rainbow Shuttle users.

At this time, the user would experience directional confusion.

Tell her to go east, and she would go west. This wasn’t because she was stubborn, but because she truly couldn’t distinguish.

“East” and “west” had no difference in her eyes.

Next, the user would fall into a degree where she couldn’t understand any direction.

For example, saying to a Rainbow Shuttle user, “The direction of gravity is downward, this comes from Earth’s gravitational pull.”

She could understand the meaning of the entire sentence, but she didn’t know where “down” was.

The gravitational sensation she could personally experience had completely separated from her sense of direction.

If a Rainbow Shuttle user was forced to connect her personal sensation of gravity with the directional sense of “down,” the cost would even affect her gravitational sense.

The user would instantly not understand where her center of gravity was, becoming confused about the sensation of standing on the ground.

This was also the next problem the user would experience.

Because human directional sense was originally connected with various sensations and couldn’t be completely separated.

When using gravitational sense to understand “down,” gravitational sense would be affected and fall into confusion.

When using bodily sensation to understand “front, back, left, right,” bodily sensation would also be affected, becoming confused about her own body and unable to distinguish parts of her own body.

The heart is on the “left side.”

The stomach is “bottom left.”

The head is at the “very top.”

Left hand, right hand, upper limbs, lower limbs…

These senses would all be gradually blurred, and even other people in the user’s eyes would become confused in their limbs.

The little sprite said that in the eyes of Rainbow Shuttle users during this period, other humans were all jumbled masses of flesh, without any distinction of up, down, left, right, and without eyes or noses.

Because the positions of these organs could help users “understand” direction, they would also be affected by the Relic’s cost.

After this period, the user’s understanding of the world was already completely different. Everything was a directionless jumble, the world a chaos:

Birds with eyes growing on their wings crawling on trees.

Rotating leaves crossing mountain-like branches floating in lakes.

Tongues licking elbows.

Teeth gnawing bellies.

…

Users could only constantly adapt to this world in this process, completely removing “directional sense” from their thoughts.

Trying to use intuition to perceive this world.

Everything they experienced would be distorted and jumbled movie scenes, presented one after another, without any spatial sense, only constantly jumping bizarre images.

Users were like jumpers in this strange world, watching themselves go from one unrecognized place to another unrecognized place, with everything around changing to a new distorted way.

Only users with sufficiently strong intuition and talent could directly face the Rainbow Shuttle’s cost and completely adapt to that feeling of losing directional sense.

But things weren’t that simple.

After experiencing various things, humans would produce various “synesthesias” that were originally able to help understand space and position, but these “synesthesias” would also be affected by the Rainbow Shuttle’s cost.

For example, the aroma of delicious food represented the “direction” of the kitchen, the sound of chopping meat was the direction of the “cutting board,” keyboard tapping sounds were the “direction” of the study, and the rushing sound of water and unpleasant odors were the “direction” of the toilet.

These senses about “direction” would soon also be affected by the cost, producing confusion.

Like visual blurring, information about “direction” in these smells and hearing would be completely chaotic, not leaving any trace.

So the user would begin to hear the sound of chopping meat in the study.

The sound of keyboard tapping in the kitchen.

Smell indescribable strange odors under the bed.

And the aroma of delicious food in the toilet…

Not only that, she also raised her finger and began pointing randomly, sometimes at the sky, sometimes at the ground, and before long she was making circles again.

Finally, she could only sit down on a nearby rock, constantly twisting her head and looking around in confusion.

She waved both hands again, and the shuttles returned to her back one by one.

Looking at Li Xiangyi surrounded by countless flying shuttles, Mo Ling was completely puzzled.

“What was her purpose after all?”

While thinking, the little sprite beside him looked at Li Xiangyi and said calmly, “It should be finished. From now on, she can be a pure human.”