I'm trapped in a cube

Before Radi could react, the wriggling void suddenly began to expand, and countless snarling straws suddenly stretched out from a place where nothing existed. A twisted spider danced its straw limbs and drilled out directly, crawling onto the invisible spider web.

Seeing the Eternal Thirst appear again, Radi immediately controlled the scalpel to cut open the space, and two overlapping cracks directly cut open the straw spider.

However, the void not far away began to wriggle again, and after a while, another straw spider crawled out.

Radi chopped at the spider again and quickly destroyed it.

However, these spiders seemed to be endless, crawling out from all directions, and Radi could only destroy them one by one.

However, Radi's power was not infinite. Under such a war of attrition, the light on his body became dimmer and the blade light on the scalpel began to become less solid.

"These are not the bodies of the Eternal Thirst. They are hiding. These are just the weapons they made..."

However, these weapons alone made Radi exhausted.

Just as Mo Ling was about to help, Radi grabbed his arm.

"We have to find their bodies... We can only rely on this scalpel."

He patted Mo Ling's shoulder: "I will use the scalpel to cut a passage to their bodies later, you jump in and find them!"

Before Mo Ling asked, Radi burst into a dazzling light, the scalpel trembled slightly, and directly cut a twisted passage on the side.

"Quick! Jump in, that's where the cause of the disease is! The deepest cause! Don't hesitate! Don't show mercy!"

Radi pushed hard, and Mo Ling fell towards the passage.

Before he could react, the twisted passage healed in an instant, the sound behind him disappeared instantly, and the surroundings became silent.

The scene in the passage changed, and Mo Ling, with the help of inertia, directly crossed the passage and staggered to grab a railing.

"Wait, railing?" Mo Ling looked at the things in his hand in confusion.

It was indeed a wooden railing. He was standing at the top of a staircase, holding the railing in his hand, and there was a clean wooden floor under his feet.

"Where is this?"

Mo Ling looked up in confusion, but saw an unimaginable scene.

This seemed to be a circular library, surrounded by a circle of bookshelves. The most terrifying thing was that these bookshelves actually extended upwards without end. The densely packed books were piled on the bookshelves, colorful, like pixels, dazzling.

"How many books are there here?"

These bookshelves seemed to have no end, extending to an unknown place, and the spiral stairs were like a giant python that devoured the world, circling to an invisible distance.

Just a glance, Mo Ling felt the terrible breath coming from the bookshelf. In an instant, it seemed that all the bookshelves fell towards him, and the next moment they were about to drown him.

Mo Ling quickly lowered his head and stopped looking at the densely packed books.

He looked away and found that he was in a spacious and quaint hall, with a huge reading table in the middle, surrounded by strange wooden chairs, and various strange creatures were carved on the chairs, vivid and lifelike.

And there were already two readers sitting at the reading table.

They sat at the two ends of the reading table, with books piled in front of them, and they seemed to be talking in a low voice.

And these two readers shocked Mo Ling even more.

They were actually a doctor and a wriggling straw.

Mo Ling couldn't help his curiosity, walked up, pulled out the chair, and sat in the middle of the reading table.

The two readers didn't seem to care about Mo Ling's arrival at all, and they were still talking as if no one was around:

"Can it be cured?" The straw made a hoarse sound, like tearing paper, full of chaos and madness.

The doctor opposite looked at the book in front of him, his fingers kept tapping on the quaint pages, as if he was thinking about something.

"It can be cured."

The straw creature straightened up instantly: "If it can be cured, please cure it quickly. I really can't stand it. It's so uncomfortable. I don't want to go on like this."

"Why?" The doctor on the opposite side asked: "Don't you enjoy the process of acquiring knowledge?"

"Of course I enjoy it... But knowledge is endless, and those question marks are endless. There are question marks after question marks, and confusion after confusion. Desire is endless."

"In order to acquire knowledge, I can only constantly invade, conquer, destroy, and devour... While acquiring knowledge, I also become a slave driven by desire." The straw creature seemed to blame himself very much, and his words were full of frustration.

The doctor paused and knocked on the book in front of him: "But aren't all creatures slaves driven by desire? They seek food because of appetite, reproduce because of lust, expand because of the desire to conquer, and fight because of the desire to survive. You just have a stronger desire for knowledge than other creatures. This is not a disease, but just a trait."

The doctor pushed a book in front of the straw creature.

"What is this?" the straw creature asked.

"The Taotie Research Manual, a creature whose appetite is never satisfied, and this..." The doctor pushed another book in front of the straw creature.

"The Evolution of Succubus?"

"Yes, this is a creature whose lust can never be satisfied. Look, there are so many creatures like you, and they don't think they are sick. Why do you think you are sick?"

The straw creature stretched out its thin straw tentacles and carefully flipped through the books in front of it.

"These are all creatures made up by humans. Don't lie to me..." The straw creature closed the two books directly.

"What's wrong with fiction? I just want to say that strong desire is not a disease. Creatures are born because of desire, and because of the desire of "birth", they become "creatures". If desire is also wrong, then everyone is wrong."

Hearing the doctor's explanation, the straw creature was silent for a while.

"Bulimia is a disease, right?"

"Yes." The doctor answered affirmatively.

"Then why is strong desire not considered a disease?" The straw creature asked back.

"The example you gave is not quite right. Bulimia refers to the difference in desires between individuals, but your desire for knowledge is not an individual difference. All the Eternal Thirst have the same strong desire for knowledge. This is a habit, not a disease, just like a dragon likes shiny things." The doctor explained.

"Dragon? This is another human fiction, right? Why do you like humans so much?" The straw creature said helplessly.

"Because humans, like us, like to read books."