I'm trapped in a cube

"Eternal Thirst?"

This name suddenly awakened Mo Ling's dusty memory.

He quickly remembered that he had heard this name when he was helping those wishing creatures fulfill their wishes in the Sea of ​​Creation.

"That's the Eternal Thirst... They will never stop."

"The desire for knowledge is a desire that can never be satisfied. They will pursue higher wisdom, use the knowledge they devour to destroy higher civilizations, and then continue to devour and destroy, and continue to cycle..."

Information about the Eternal Thirst kept appearing in Mo Ling's mind, and he immediately realized that this creature had long been notorious, and this invasion of the Huasheng Islands must be just one of the evils they have done.

However, the Eternal Thirsts seen now do not seem to be exactly the same as those in Mo Ling's memory.

Although they all look like straws, their current form is obviously more weird. They are floating in the crack void and call this place a "library". Why is that?

Faced with Radi's questioning, these Eternal Thirsts did not seem to care at all.

The hollow stones were floating like straws, and the prying eyes were still staring at the two people on the scalpel unscrupulously.

"We are exploring knowledge."

The sound of tearing paper sounded again, vague, as if there were many sounds overlapping, and countless hollow stones were answering the same question together.

"Do you want to steal the knowledge of the Huasheng Islands?" Radi asked directly.

If it was the Eternal Thirst, they would do anything. In order to steal knowledge, they invaded the Huasheng Islands, which was in line with their style.

Mo Ling suddenly remembered that when the doctors were trapped in the maze, there was also a voice asking them questions. Those questions included various knowledge. The doctors did not answer, so they started to steal their memories.

Now it seems that these actions are also in line with the motives of the Eternal Thirst.

"They are trying every means to steal knowledge from the healers."

However, faced with the accusation with solid evidence, these Eternal Thirsts actually began to defend themselves:

"It's not stealing, it's exploration."

"Knowledge is stored in the minds of creatures, we just dig them out, just like mining..."

Hearing this explanation, Radi was completely angry, and the scorching flames completely devoured the surrounding void.

"You treat other creatures as mines?" Radi asked in disbelief.

"Is there a difference between creatures and mines? They are just naturally produced material aggregates. The ore is hidden in the veins. As long as the veins are dug, you can find precious ore. Knowledge is hidden in the minds of creatures, but it is just a wave of reverberating electric current. We just take this current out."

"But knowledge can be communicated..." Radi immediately found the loophole in the Eternal Thirst's logic: "You could have used a gentle way to obtain knowledge, but you chose the most extreme way, using invasion and destruction to obtain knowledge!"

After hearing Radi's words, the Eternal Thirst fell silent.

The hollow stone like a straw floated around the scalpel in the center, gradually combining into a larger stone group, and then, an illusory light was projected from the center of the stone group.

"You are too naive. The acquisition of knowledge has always been full of blood. This is the experience we have gained on the road to knowledge."

"Living things are like stubborn stones. Only with a hard pickaxe can we break open the selfish shell..."

On the projection, a series of histories belonging to them gradually emerged.

...

The Eternal Thirst, as the name suggests, is a life that is always thirsty.

They were born in the deep sea of ​​the third layer of the abyss. They were originally just some unconscious soft-bodied creatures.

The nutrient-rich water flow passed through their straw-like bodies, leaving nutrients, while the useless water flowed out from the other side of the straw.

At some point, they developed wisdom, and it was at this time that they developed an endless desire for knowledge.

"What is the sea?"

"What is water?"

"What am I?"

"Where is this?"

Countless question marks appeared in their minds. Their desire for knowledge even exceeded their need for food. Not only that, in their perception, everything around them was also a question mark.

There were a bunch of question marks on the stones on the seabed, a bunch of question marks on the starfish on the stones, a bunch of question marks on the tentacles of the starfish, and a bunch of question marks on the protruding particles of the tentacles...

The world was a chaos full of question marks. These question marks that suddenly flooded into their perception made them completely confused, and what followed was a crazy desire for knowledge.

However, at this time, they did not know how to obtain knowledge.

Until one day, a deep-sea creature with question marks all over its body swam to the side of the stone and bit off a tentacle of the starfish.

As the turbid liquid sprayed out, some question marks on the other tentacles of the starfish were replaced, and the Eternal Thirst finally saw the content under the question marks clearly.

"It can be cut off."

"Soft."

"It contains starfish meat."

"It tastes bitter."

"It will float away with the current."

"..."

Countless question marks were like unlocked locks, accompanied by a burst of golden light, revealing their original appearance. The endless ocean of knowledge opened a door for the Eternal Thirst at this moment, and they were able to feel the sweetness of knowledge in this bloody scene.

"It's so delicious."

When the world becomes clear and is no longer an illusion blocked by question marks, this feeling is too delicious, more delicious than any food.

Under the sprayed debris, the Eternal Thirst felt the beauty of knowledge for the first time, and they opened Pandora's box.

From then on, they began their journey to unlock question marks.

They explored the underwater world ignorantly, and everything was so novel and interesting. Watching the question marks open one by one, revealing the content below, the desire of the Eternal Thirst was also satisfied.

Not only that, they also found that the question marks were related to each other. Sometimes when some question marks were unlocked, the question marks next to them would also be unlocked, and even the question marks on other objects would be unlocked together.

This is the relevance of knowledge.

So, they unlocked the question marks faster and faster...

However, when more and more question marks were unlocked, they found that it was becoming more and more difficult to unlock the question marks.

At first, it might only take one "touch" and one "shake", but later, this gentle interaction would completely fail, and they could only use "destruction", but in the end, even destruction could not unlock the question marks.

The Everthirsty were smart, and they soon realized that their means of interaction had reached their limit, and they needed a more powerful method of interaction.