I'm trapped in a cube

While drinking scented tea, Lao Xu talked about the story of the spring.

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Ever since the official investigation team arrived at the second level of the abyss and discovered the oasis, that spring has always existed, but at the beginning it was just an ordinary spring.

Because it is fresh water, the investigation team used the spring water as a drinking water source after testing and filtered it for drinking water.

This spring is a type of geyser that only erupts at certain times of the year. At that time, warm water will erupt, and it usually looks like an ordinary pool of water.

It can be said that the oasis city was built on this spring.

As a member of the initial investigation team, Lao Xu has been drinking this spring water.

"It's very sweet and not very hard. It's just right for making tea." Lao Xu said nostalgically.

However, Oasis City was not as peaceful as it is now. At that time, it was still called the Oasis Monitoring Station.

The oasis is like a dazzling pearl among the disorderly sand dunes. Many dangerous creatures live in this oasis.

Human activities have affected their survival, so they come to harass Oasis City from time to time. Many people died as a result, and the facilities that were finally built were destroyed.

Among them, there is an intelligent race that looks very similar to humans, but its body is covered with hard shellfish, and its soft parts are tightly blocked by thick calcium armor.

Even the head is wrapped in two hemispherical sharp shells.

This strange-looking intelligent race has been secretly wreaking havoc at the oasis monitoring station until the investigation team discovered them.

They were eventually named Shell People, and the investigation team found that their level of civilization was not high, and they had a population form similar to a tribe.

But the shell people have been living in the oasis for a long time and are very familiar with the oasis. They live in underground waterways that extend in all directions, making them difficult to detect.

The reason why they attacked the oasis monitoring station is not clear, but they actually caused huge damage.

When the Oasis Monitoring Station was understaffed and still in its infancy, they almost destroyed the station.

Once, the Shell Man used his ability to control the proliferation of shells to secretly blockade all the material warehouses at the Oasis Monitoring Station.

They had done this kind of thing before, but when people went to crack shells, the Shell Man sneaked into the power station and cut off the power to the entire monitoring station.

They actually figured out the human electrical system!

It was night at that time, and humans could not see the road clearly without a light source, but the shell people could not. They took this opportunity to destroy the monitoring station and blocked almost all the buildings with calcium shells.

For a time, people were panicked, and the investigation team had no choice but to notify everyone to be on guard in the square, intending to stay on guard until the next morning.

In the middle of the night, there was the sound of crunching shells all around, and the shell people hiding in the waterways came out in full force. Only then did the investigation team know that tonight's attack was a long-planned action by the shell people.

The shell people did not approach, they hid in the darkness, and the crunching sounds of shell collisions came one after another. The investigation team carefully guarded the surroundings, but the shell people did not attack again for a long time.

Lao Xu was also on guard with his relics at that time. Suddenly, he felt something was wrong in the sky. He looked up and saw that the moon in the sky had disappeared.

A drop of water fell from the sky and hit Lao Xu's mouth.

He licked it.

"So salty."

Lao Xu was shocked and shouted: "In the sky!"

The investigation team quickly picked up lighting equipment and pointed it into the air.

The light beam emitted by the device did not shoot straight into the sky, but hit a dome.

That's a dome of shells!

"The Shell Man wants to seal up all humans!" The moment he saw the Shell Dome, Lao Xu understood.

It turned out that the shellers had long known that the investigation team would delay the investigation until morning, so they chose an extremely time-consuming tactic - sealing everyone with shells.

Fortunately, they were discovered early. The shell's dome had not yet been sealed, and reinforcements had not yet begun. The investigation team members quickly tried their best to break out.

"Follow me, charge this way!" The captain led everyone to kill in the same direction.

But after reaching the edge, it was discovered that the "shell man" figure and the sound coming from the surrounding area were just illusions created by the shell man.

There is only a hard shell wall on the edge, and there are shell pieces on the wall that are constantly opening and closing.

"be cheated!"

The shell wall has been reinforced layer by layer. The investigation team has tried various relics, but they can't break it. They can only watch the dome in the sky keep closing.

"Look for other places!" The captain quickly ordered to spread out and look around for weak spots in the dome or other places where they could break through.

Lao Xu ran back directly. He wanted to go farther away.

But when he returned to the spring, he saw that the spring that was supposed to be quiet suddenly started to gush.

Before he could react, he was caught in the current by the giant hand transformed from the spring water.

"Where is this?" Lao Xu was shaken by the giant hand and was dizzy. When he came to his senses, he was surrounded by golden water.

"Sorry, it's a little unfamiliar the first time. Hello." An elf came out of the water.

"What are you?" Lao Xu asked warily.

"I am the spring water you often drink from," the elf explained.

spring?

"I'm in the spring?" Lao Xu looked around and found that there was indeed continuous water flowing around him.

"Are you a relic? Why did you arrest me at this time?" Lao Xu was a little anxious. His companions outside were at a critical moment, but he came to this strange place.

"Yes, I am a relic. I'm sorry to bring you in suddenly." The elf apologized to him: "I just wanted to ask, what is the thing you want most?"

"You can't lie."

Lao Xu was stunned by the elf's sudden question. He was puzzled for a long time. He turned around and saw that the golden water around him already showed his inner yearning -

The investigation team members escaped from the dome, defeated the shellmen, and built an oasis city. They built the oasis city into the most powerful monitoring station on the second floor of the abyss, becoming a stable harbor for countless hunters, and eradicating those creatures that dared to invade...

"Don't you know what I want?" Lao Xu pointed at the phantom in the water and asked doubtfully.

"..."

The elf was very embarrassed and scratched his head: "I just want to remind you not to lie."

"Why should I lie?" Lao Xu asked. He really didn't know what the spring elf wanted to do.

He was very anxious now, thinking about how to escape from the dome and how to destroy the shell wall.

"Send me out quickly, now is not the time to chat!" Lao Xu urged carefully. He was worried that his attitude would be bad and he would anger this relic of unknown origin.

"Okay! I'll send you out right away, and I'll fulfill your wish first."

The elf flew in front of him and tapped his heart with his hand.

Lao Xu suddenly froze and felt an empty space in his heart.