I'm trapped in a cube

Lao Xu and the shell people formed a circle, squatted beside the fountain that had not yet erupted, and stretched his hand into the pool.

The shells spread toward the water along the shell man's arm and soon reached the bottom.

The pool was not deep, and shells continued to spread along the bottom of the pool, soon covering the entire bottom.

The shells also burrowed toward the bottom of the pool and began to fill the rock cracks inside.

The hard rock cracks crushed some shells that penetrated deep into them, but the shell fragments blocked the rock cracks tightly.

The spreading shells compacted the fragments and pushed them deeper.

Soon, all the rock crevices were covered with branch-like shells.

The shell people all looked very tired. Even if they were just squatting, some of the shell people were already swaying as if they were about to fall down, unable to do their job.

Making the dome just now has consumed a lot of their energy. The number of shells a shell man can make is limited, and now the shells that seal the spring water have begun to fall intermittently.

However, the shell people still persisted, and Lao Xu kept urging.

"Work harder! Destroy the fountain, and our descendants will never have to do the same thing as us!" Lao Xu encouraged loudly.

When the shell people heard this, they worked even harder.

Even if some shell men fell to the ground, their hands were still in the water, and their arms were still casting shells intermittently.

"Even if we can't go back this time, we will destroy this fountain!"

Old Xu seemed to be trying to squeeze out the last bit of strength from the people in the shell.

But the shell people did not doubt, but followed Lao Xu's orders unswervingly. They did not care about their own lives, and one by one they began to be unable to support themselves.

Shell people kept falling down, but they all threw their bodies into the water and continued to block the spring water with their bodies.

These shell figures who lost control of their bodies fell into the water like dolls, and the shells spread along their bodies and mixed with their own bodies.

For a moment, I couldn't tell whether it was the shell people or the shells they made.

The hammering of shells continued.

That was their conversation.

"Compatriots, secure the outsiders..."

"agree."

"agree."

"agree……"

Lao Xu was still giving chicken blood to the people in the shell.

The shell man who had answered Lao Xu's question was squatting aside, leaning against the guardrail.

He looked at Lao Xu, and the sound of shell knocking sounded.

"Why do we do what our ancestors did? Is there any meaning in what we do? Even if all outsiders are fixed, God can save them?"

He returned the questions that Lao Xu had asked him before intact to Lao Xu.

Old Xu, who was still encouraging other shell people, was stunned when he heard this shell person's question.

"you ask me?"

"Yes," the shell man replied weakly.

Lao Xu looked shocked. The shell man was still thinking about his previous problem.

"I don't know, can you tell me?" Half of the shell man's body had fallen into the water, but he was still asking.

He obviously had doubts about all this, but he did not stop making shells, which also made his voice weaker.

"I haven't found the answers to these questions from the experiences left by my ancestors. I've been thinking about it, but I haven't figured it out. You asked me this before, because you know the answer, right?"

Lao Xu listened to the shell man's explanation, but couldn't say a word.

He was speaking one sentence after another while giving chicken blood to the shell people, but now he was stunned on the spot, and he was instantly stuck.

The shell man's weak voice sounded again.

"Since I was born, I have only known how to eat and wander around. Until my ancestors showed up and told me what I should do, I would do it, but why I should do it, I didn't understand at all."

"They told me what to do, so I did it. They told me to save God, but I don't even know what God looks like. Is that really our God? What is God? I don't understand."

"My ancestors also told me to use shells to immobilize outsiders and to hide away from the core area, high walls, and guards, but I don't understand why we do this."

"Also, you said that destroying the fountain can eliminate all outsiders. I will do what you say because other companions do the same. Even if I don't do it, I don't know what I should do."

"I don't know why. I've been thinking about your question for a long time, but I'm not smart enough to understand it."

"Can you tell me why?"

"I feel like I don't understand anything."

"I don't understand anything..."

As he spoke, the shell man could no longer hold on, and his body slid towards the pool and fell into it.

Lao Xu subconsciously stretched out his hand to hold him, but his arm stopped in mid-air and froze.

The surroundings are still filled with the chatter of "gadagada" among the shell people. They encourage each other to spread the shells and penetrate deeper into the gaps.

In darkness and silence, these shell people, who were no more than a day old, fell into the pool one by one, ushering in their death.

From birth to confusion to death.

Floating in the pool were the doll-like corpses of dead shell people, rippling in the water waves caused by the shells.

Those shells that are still spreading squeeze their owner's body to float back and forth like duckweed.

Lao Xu was speechless.

He squatted silently on the shore, looking at the scattered shells.

Under the dome, there was only the faint sound of water flowing and the fading sound of shells.

In the blink of an eye, there are not many shell people left. After they exhaust their strength, they will let themselves sink into the water and let their bodies continue to glow.

After the intermittent shells spread out, the body in the water made no sound anymore.

Soon, only three human-turned-shells were left on the shore.

The shell people who maintained the dome in the distance also fell next to the shell wall. They also exhausted all their strength.

The shell people born this time all died for the same reason.

No one is returning to the graveyard this time either.

The dome they painstakingly built became their own tomb.

Li Xiangyi looked at everything happening around him, and after confirming that all the shell people were dead, the shuttle flew out from behind again.

As the shuttle continued to rotate, some white threads began to appear out of thin air on several people's bodies.

These silk threads were tied into them by the shuttle, and the three of them turned back to their human appearance.

She summoned the yellow shuttle again and created the dazzling light ribbon again.

The messy scene in the pool appeared in front of several people again.

Lao Xu was still staring blankly at the shell corpses in the middle of the pool, his eyes dull, not knowing what he was thinking, until Li Luo interrupted his contemplation.

"This should be just what you want, right?" Li Luo looked at the dead shell and the fountain full of shells: "Perish together."

But Lao Xu did not speak, his hands trembled slightly...