I'm trapped in a cube

"Senior, do you know where this is?"

"I don't know. I followed you in. Aren't you familiar with Senluo Island? There is a lake here. It's so obvious. Don't you know the exact location?"

"I don't remember. I haven't been here either..." Xi said embarrassedly.

So, the two fell into silence again.

...

"Can you make a map?"

"What kind of map?"

"The electronic map of humans, the kind with radar, you can know where you are in a moment."

"Senior, I can't do it. You can't make something without a specific concept."

"Then can you make someone to show us the way? How about the manager?"

"Senior, don't talk nonsense. A doctor can't make a doctor. Even if he makes one, it's a headless corpse..."

At this point, Xi stopped instantly.

"Yes! The doctors created by the doctors are headless, which means that the bodies in the matrix tree are all created, so they look exactly the same."

"Because they are created by imagination, they all have the same bracelet on their wrists! Senior, you are really a genius!"

Xi rushed to the senior and excitedly circled around him.

"Uh..." Mo Ling, who was called a senior, was embarrassed to continue.

After a while, Xi picked up a pebble from the ground and began to rub it with his hands.

Then he threw the stone to the ground.

After the stone fell to the ground, it suddenly swelled up, with dry wrinkles on the surface, and short limbs grew on the edges, slowly stretching.

Not long after, a dry doctor's body appeared on the ground.

Not only that, this body also wore the familiar bracelet on its wrist.

"Success! It's true, this body is created!" Xi stood aside and said excitedly.

However, what Ling Xi didn't expect was that the body started to twitch strangely just after it stretched out, and then, as if it was controlled, it stood up stiffly from the ground.

Its movements were very uncoordinated, and its arms were still shaking randomly. It turned around and walked towards the shore.

"Are you controlling it?" Mo Ling looked at the back of the body and asked curiously.

"No, no, senior, it's moving by itself..." Xi was also very surprised: "This kind of body without conscious control should not move, how could it be like this?"

"Follow and see." Mo Ling was very curious about where the body was going, so he called Xi and followed the swaying body together.

Soon, the dry body stepped on the muddy river bank, and its legs sank directly into the thick mud. The body struggled, constantly exerted force, and took difficult steps.

During this process, it also became less stiff, as if the consciousness that controlled its body slowly began to adapt to this body, and its pace became faster and faster, gradually adapting to the movement in the mud.

In this way, it finally came to the lake and touched the lake water.

But it was still a little unfamiliar when it first touched the lake water. After being washed by the water, it could no longer maintain its balance and sat down in the mud.

After trying several times, it could not stand up from the mud. It just clumsily tossed around in the shallow lake water for a while, and finally it adapted to the new environment. It no longer entangled in its own way of action, opened its arms, and crawled into the lake.

Although the posture was very ugly, it kept shaking its body and crawled farther and farther in the lake, and finally sank to the bottom of the lake, leaving only a few bubbles.

"What does it want to do? Throw itself into the lake to commit suicide?" Mo Ling hurriedly followed and jumped into the lake.

Xi also hurriedly followed.

In the turbid lake, Mo Ling found that the body had disappeared, and seemed to have gone deeper. He had to turn his head and found Xi.

"Do you really not remember this lake?"

"I don't remember. There are many lakes on Senluo Island, more than a dozen large and small. They will expand during the rainy season, forming some swamps that look like lakes. The outline of the lake will also change completely, and it is impossible to tell which one is which."

Listening to Xi's explanation, Mo Ling looked at the turbid lake again.

"We have to go down and take a look."

"I listen to you, senior."

Mo Ling walked slowly into the lake, and the lake water gradually submerged his body.

He thought it would be difficult for his square head to sink to the bottom, but he didn't expect that there were undercurrents everywhere in this seemingly calm lake. Before the water surface was above his head, the undercurrent pulled him into the deep water.

The surging whirlpool rolled up the mud and sand at the bottom of the lake, and the lake water was also turbid, but the glowing light ball above Xi's head was still very obvious. Mo Ling kicked and came to Xi's side and grabbed Xi's arm.

"Senior, is that you?" Xi said with some fear. He couldn't see clearly in the turbid lake water.

"It's me."

In this way, Mo Ling grabbed Xi and slowly sank to a deeper place.

The undercurrent rolled up the mud and sand, and the dim light shone down from the lake surface, making everything so blurry.

"Senior, there seems to be something above..."

Hearing Xi's reminder, Mo Ling looked up and found that there seemed to be a swaying black shadow near the top of the lake.

The black shadow swayed its body and kept circling above the two of them.

Although it was very blurry, the shuttle-shaped outline could still be seen.

"That should be a fish..." Mo Ling thought.

But something was wrong. The "fish" moved in a strange way. It didn't swim forward, but swung irregularly in the water.

Just like... water plants.

"And the color seemed a little strange, as if it was constantly changing."

Not only that, through the dim light, Mo Ling found that there seemed to be some faint, hair-like silk threads around the "fish", swaying constantly in the lake with the undercurrent.

"Xi, do you know what kind of fish on Senluo Island has a lot of hair on its body?"

"Fish with hair?" Xi was stunned and began to ponder.

After a while, he gave the answer: "No, unless other doctors put new protected animals on this island during the time I was asleep..."

Before he finished speaking, the strange fish twitched and floated down.

The muddy sand slowly fell, and the sun shone through the lake onto the strange fish. The two finally saw the fish clearly.

It was not a fish at all! It was a spindle-shaped hair ball made of colorful tiny strips. Those strips kept wriggling, and at the same time, they kept changing colors like an octopus. They floated with the water and looked like long swaying hair.

The moment he saw that thing, Xi's body trembled and exclaimed:

"It's the rainbow virus!"