I’m Trapped in a Cube - Chapter 60

More painful than falling into a cycle was falling into a misconception.

Liang Zhi simply couldn’t guess who the bubble person was.

He even began to suspect the bubble person was deceiving and toying with him, falling into despair.

When memories surged, he stopped guessing the bubble person’s identity and instead asked, “Why are you doing this?”

He felt he was tormented by the relic, unable to escape the game.

Once trapped in a mental misconception, it was hard to change, so he repeatedly made mistakes.

Liang Zhi was certain his answer was correct and believed the bubble person was cheating, unwilling to let him win.

At this time, the Theseus Cell area was sealed off, making finding the strange egg increasingly difficult.

Each game round lasted longer.

The memory tampering effects grew stronger; each time Liang Zhi found the egg, it took him a long time to recall the game.

This made him even angrier.

Was what he had been chasing just a scam?

He even wanted to end the game because he believed he had found the primordial cell and no longer needed the game.

But the bubble person told him, “The price has been paid; the game cannot end.”

…

The game failed, and the spines kept increasing.

Liang Zhi’s confused memories deepened.

Driven by false memories and thirst for knowledge, he began brewing the Red Rope Worm and riot incidents…

His strong obsession even influenced his modification of the Transforming Tree, as the cube’s pattern subtly implanted itself into the tree’s knowledge.

This indirectly caused the birth of the Qifang Tribe.

Fortunately, after great hardship, he finally guessed the bubble person’s identity.

But he felt no joy of victory.

Liang Zhi sighed bitterly, “I never thought it was the primordial cell itself, no wonder it always said I was wrong.”

But the price was irreparable. Those things were indeed done under his overwhelming thirst for knowledge.

After finishing, Liang Zhi lowered his head and helplessly flipped through the Druid’s Spines on the ground.

“You succeeded, didn’t you?” Captain Su suddenly said.

“Succeeded at what?” Liang Zhi was stunned.

“The primordial cell. You found it.”

“The price was too high.” Liang Zhi still kept his head down.

Captain Su said nothing, instead sitting beside Liang Zhi.

The Druid’s Spines were scattered everywhere, these precious relics looked like common rotten bones on the ground.

Piled into a small mountain.

“Funny, isn’t it?” Liang Zhi casually picked up a Druid’s Spine and held it between them.

Captain Su didn’t look at the spine, just shook his head helplessly.

“This is the Abyss.”

……

Mo Ling listened to their conversation, feeling gloomy.

He piloted the cube to the gap the sheep-headed person had opened and came outside the temple.

He wanted to see where the sheep-headed person had gone.

But what he didn’t expect was a tragic scene.

The primordial cell’s acceleration domain had spread over the entire Transparent Tribe village.

Countless Transparent Tribe members fled in panic, trying to escape the area.

But what awaited them was aging and death; they could never leave.

The primordial cell slowly drifted in midair.

“Why hadn’t it left yet?”

Mo Ling had thought the primordial cell would quickly leave after exiting the temple, but it stayed in the village.

This caused a crisis for the entire Transparent Tribe village.

“Divine punishment! This is divine punishment!”

The Transparent Tribe shouted as they died, then reappeared confused, looked around, and fell into fear again.

The cycle repeated.

“This is the divine punishment for failing to drive out the undying things!”

They kept shouting, but soon their mouths opened wide without sound.

The primordial cell drifted, and bubbles appeared inside it again.

The bubbles began to change into various creatures, repeating the scenes seen in the temple.

But this time, the primordial cell did not create the previous human form.

Instead, it became a graceful female humanoid.

Waves of clothing appeared on her body, covered with various plants.

Her lower body became a coiled snake tail, from which sprouted limbs of various animals.

Her body parts kept changing, resetting every so often, never fixed.

After the primordial cell stopped changing, the figure floated out of the cell membrane, again using exocytosis to exit.

A long spine appeared in the figure’s hand.

Mo Ling finally saw clearly.

This was exactly the statue of the goddess inside the temple.

The moment the goddess stepped out of the cell membrane, acceleration in the Transparent Tribe village stopped.

All the Transparent Tribe were fixed at their accelerated life stages.

They looked at their bodies in fear, and when they realized they would not change again, they knelt down trembling.

“Goddess, please forgive us!”

“Please give us a chance for atonement. We will drive out all the undying things!”

“We truly have been negligent. Goddess, please forgive us and give me another chance!”

…

The pleas never ceased.

The Transparent Tribe frantically kowtowed to the goddess in the sky, some even banging their heads until they bled.

Mo Ling was shaken watching the goddess’s descent.

“The primordial cell is actually the goddess of the Transparent Tribe?”

How could there be such a connection?

He had thought the primordial cell would leave after Liang Zhi’s game ended.

Mo Ling realized he still knew too little about the primordial cell.

This ancient being, whose survival time was unknown, had already exceeded Mo Ling’s comprehension.

The goddess in the sky looked around, then slowly descended, her spine swaying in the wind, looking quite strange.

The goddess walked among the crowd, seemingly searching for something, passing by Transparent Tribe members.

But after a full circle, she seemed not to find what she wanted and returned to the center.

“You have failed,” the goddess said calmly.

Hearing her words, the kneeling Transparent Tribe began begging again.

“Goddess, the undying things are too many, our strength is limited, we really can’t do it.”

“The Flesh Tribe is everywhere. We are driving them out, please give us more time!”

The Transparent Tribe gave various reasons.

But the goddess was unmoved and repeated,

“You have failed.”

Hearing this, a desperate Transparent Tribe crawled to the goddess and pleaded, “Goddess, we have not failed. We are still driving them out, always have, and will succeed.”

The goddess finally responded, looking down at the Transparent Tribe with an ethereal and solemn voice that echoed through the village.

“You have already failed.”

“The eagle is gone.”