I'm trapped in a cube

"Isn't it... outrageous?"

Facing Xi's inquiry, Li Luo was so surprised that she couldn't speak. She held the piece of gold turned from a stalactite and her eyes widened.

"We have been deliberately hiding this matter. The outside world thinks that we are just 'doctors' who have the ability to cure everything, but they don't know that what kind of disease can be cured can be completely defined by us."

"When I transformed the parasitic plant and created the Red Spirit Flower, I had a question. Is there any problem with the definition of disease that doctors have always had?"

"For patients, parasitic plants are a disease that is worse than death and a demon that erodes the body. But for parasitic plants, they just reproduce instinctively."

"For viruses, their life is to find cells, burrow into them, start to replicate, and then leave the cells to continue looking for cells. Their world is made up of a bunch of 'transparent spheres', and these transparent spheres are where they replicate. place."

"We eliminate viruses in order to cure diseases. From the perspective of the virus, it means that a world-ending disaster has struck and killed all our companions. We cured the patients, but destroyed an entire ethnic group."

"I have asked this question to the elders before, but the elders told me that we are just doctors, not gods. Our duty is to cure diseases, not to consider the equality of all living beings. Don't think so much."

"But I think we have to figure it out..."

Having said this, Xi stopped talking. He looked at the road ahead and fell into silence.

Li Luo still held the piece of gold and said nothing. She didn't know the answers to those questions, but she knew the source of the doctors' confusion.

"position."

If they were human doctors, there would be no such doubts, because human doctors think about problems from the perspective of curing humans. They will not think about the safety of any viruses, bacteria, or parasites. As long as they can ensure the safety of humans, Curing human diseases is considered as fulfilling one's duty.

But doctors are of different races. They stand from the perspective of "all living beings".

To treat pathogenic diseases, we must kill other living beings. This is a necessity.

Life also brings death, and it is absolutely impossible to pursue balance.

If the pathogen is allowed to live, the patient will die. If the patient is allowed to live, the pathogen will die. As doctors, we must have a precise definition of disease before we can decide life and death, so they are extremely entangled in "what is disease."

Doctors' abilities are innate, but their views on diseases can be changed. Their abilities can also allow them to make all kinds of outrageous "cures". Once their thoughts are biased, it will cause terrible consequences. as a result of.

This kind of thinking about disease will not yield results. Different standpoints will lead to different conclusions, so the elders asked Xi not to think so much.

Li Luo sighed and suppressed what he wanted to say.

This kind of thing can only be realized by Xi himself. Talking too much will interfere with his judgment.

In this way, both of them fell into silence and walked farther and farther along the dry river.

While walking, Xi picked up another stalactite fragment and held it in his hand, thoughtfully.

…

Mo Ling controlled the cube and followed Li Luo.

His attention was always on the ball of light on Nozomi's head.

Until now, he felt that the light was staring at him, which made his hair stand on end. No matter which corner of the square he hid in or which direction his vision turned, the light group was always staring at him.

Even if Mo Ling didn't look at anything and closed his eyes completely, he would feel a thorn in his back.

"What the hell is a healer?"

Mo Ling had no choice but to get into Xi's healing space again. Only here could she not feel the terrifying gaze.

This time, there are no more bright flowers, and there are no oppressive dark clouds in the sky. It seems that the scene has completely changed.

This is a cave. The rock walls of the cave are like blurry textures. A false stream flows through the bottom of the cave. Everything looks very inferior.

The familiar withered body squatted by the stream, holding a stalactite in its hand.

This time, Mo Ling basically understood that this withered human form was Xi himself. The medical creature seemed to be able to exist in reality and the healing space at the same time. This was Xi in the healing space before him.

Mo Ling silently walked behind Xi. Xi seemed very troubled. He stared blankly at the stalactite fragments in his hands, completely unaware of Mo Ling behind him.

"Disease, what exactly is it?"

Nozomi looked at the stalactite fragments and muttered.

"You are sick." He said to the stalactite, and with a touch of his hand, the fragment turned into a piece of gold.

"Is this going to cure the disease?" Xi looked at the piece of gold blankly, seemingly dissatisfied.

At this moment, Mo Ling behind him spoke:

"Can you turn into a diamond?"

Hearing the sudden sound, Xi was startled and immediately stood up straight.

He turned his head and realized that it was Mo Ling standing behind him.

"senior?"

Why did senior suddenly visit his own space again? Could it be that senior could travel to other doctors' spaces at will?

After thinking of this, Xi suddenly realized.

No wonder! I didn't find my senior when I woke up among the flowers. Senior must be able to teleport over long distances and visit other doctors' spaces!

"Senior, how did you get here?" Xi asked curiously.

"Come in directly." Mo Ling answered truthfully.

After hearing "Senior"'s answer, Xi became more certain of his guess.

"Senior, what did you mean by turning into a diamond just now?" Xi somewhat didn't understand what senior meant. Could there be some special meaning in it?

"It means turning into a diamond. Can you turn into gold? Can you turn into a diamond?"

"sure."

Although I don’t understand a bit, since the senior asked like this, there must be a reason.

Xi touched the gold with her hand, and a huge diamond appeared on her hand.

Mo Ling immediately came forward, his huge square head almost touching the diamond.

"You can really change, it's amazing!"

"Excuse me, most doctors should be able to do this." Xi said with some embarrassment.

"Can you give me the diamond? You can make it whatever you want."

"Well, senior, of course you can, but this is fake. The healing space is automatically generated..."

"It doesn't matter." Before Xi finished speaking, the senior took the diamond from his hand, and then the diamond disappeared from the senior's hand.

Before Xi could figure out how the senior did it, the senior asked excitedly: "What else can you change?"

"It should be fine..."

While talking, another stalactite fragment appeared in Nozomi's hand.

This is a structure generated by the healing space. As Xi's "patient", of course it has everything. As long as Xi does not cure it, these stalactite fragments will continue to appear.

"Can you turn it into turquoise?"

"sure."

The fragment of stalactite in Nozomi's hand turned into a piece of turquoise.

"Can you give me this?"

"OK."

The senior took away the turquoise in his hand again...

"Can it be turned into a TV?"

"What is a TV?" Xi asked confused.

"Oh, I'm a bit embarrassed for you, forget it, where is the sofa?"

"What is the sofa?" Xi became even more confused.

"Don't you know about the sofa? What about the chair? You know about the chair, right? Forget it, wait, I'll get something, don't move around here..."

After a while, the senior found a human electronic screen from nowhere and began to show Xi various strange things.

"This is a sofa, this is a gaming chair...and this, this is a TV, but I don't have electricity, forget it, I don't want this..."

Xi holds the stalactite fragments in his hand, listening to his seniors constantly instilling various knowledge into him, and his thoughts are a little confused.

He really couldn't figure out what the senior wanted to do, and he couldn't understand those strange terms at all.

"It would be great if we could get a diesel generator, but it might be a bit noisy..."