I'm trapped in a cube

"There are outsiders here..."

"This is in someone else's mind, you should be careful..."

"She's still watching..."

Lan Xin turned her head secretly and glanced at Li Luo.

The double pupils no longer felt cold, but instead looked like a shy little deer, with eyes full of evasion.

Li Luo was stunned for a moment, pretending to be nothing, and turned his head to look at the flames that shot up into the sky.

"The fire is burning so fiercely..."

The ruins in the city were crackling with the flames, and Li Luo no longer paid attention to what was happening behind him.

The fire rose very high, and this dream that had always troubled Li Luo did not seem so annoying now...

The sound of burning covered the conversation between the two people behind him. Li Luo could only vaguely hear some complaints and low comforting voices. As the flames burned more and more fiercely, he could not hear anything.

Just as the wall of fire was about to burn in front of him, a gentle call came from Li Luo's side.

"Let's go, I'll take you out."

It turned out that Lan Xin had come to the side. Li Luo turned around and saw that Dr. Liu had disappeared.

"Where is he?"

"Here..."

Lan Xin spread out her hand, and a small piece of debris was lying in her palm, which looked like a glowing puzzle. There was a faint flicker of fire in the puzzle, and it seemed that some kind of pattern could be seen vaguely.

"Is this really his fragment?" Li Luo asked in disbelief.

Lan Xin looked at the fragment and nodded gently, with a little loneliness in her eyes.

"Why did he become a fragment?" Li Luo asked.

Lan Xin raised her head and looked at the fire in front of her.

"Let's talk about it after we go out..."

She looked at Li Luo, raised her hand again, and poked Li Luo's forehead with her fingertips.

It was the familiar feeling of isolation again. Li Luo felt that he was completely separated from the world, suffocating, dark... When he came back to his senses again, he had returned to the dazzling blue light. Everything just now seemed like an illusion.

Lan Xin slowly withdrew her hand, and Li Luo looked over, only to find that the fragment was in Lan Xin's hand.

"It's not an illusion."

Lan Xin carefully brushed the fragment with her other hand, and the glowing fragment disappeared instantly.

"You won't have those dreams anymore. I took his fragment away." Lan Xin said softly to Li Luo.

"How did he... become like that?" Li Luo asked impatiently.

"Because of a game."

"Game?"

"Yes..."

Under the flickering blue light, Lan Xin slowly told Li Luo the story between her and Dr. Liu...

"At that time, he thought of many ways to create a body for me."

...

At the beginning, the method Dr. Liu found was relatively normal.

For example, using Lan Xin's cells to create a clone, but the conditions at the time did not allow it. With the invasion of the abyss, human concepts became more conservative, and cloning was also more strictly prohibited. Therefore, this road was completely blocked.

Dr. Liu also thought about using other bodies, but after testing, he found that these bodies could not carry the consciousness of Lan Xin from another world. That consciousness was too powerful and would cause great damage to the normal body.

With the technological level of humans at that time, creating a body was not a simple matter. Not only did it have to withstand the test of ethics, but it also had to withstand the passage of time. Perhaps when the body was formed, both of them would have turned into ashes...

After the "technology" road failed, Dr. Liu began to look for answers in the things brought by the abyss.

For example, various relics that can create bodies, and various wonderful abyss creatures...

What a coincidence, he really found one. That creature is called Congying, which can completely copy the main creature.

In the process of studying Congying, Dr. Liu found a relic that can increase the probability of Congying's generation, and even created a shadow for himself.

But when he told Lan Xin the good news, Lan Xin from another world rejected him.

"If I take the shadow as my body, I will lose myself."

Lan Xin in another world is unwilling to lose herself as a price. She doesn't want to become an empty shadow, so no matter how suitable the shadow is, she is unwilling to agree.

Although Dr. Liu is very frustrated, he still chooses to respect Lan Xin's choice.

Anyway, the abyss is so big that there must be other ways.

In the process of searching for a body, although nothing was found, the two of them developed a deep relationship.

They often discussed various wonderful abyss creatures and the abilities of various relics together, hoping to find a truly "perfect" body.

However, things did not go as planned. Such relics never appeared, and Lan Xin in reality grew up slowly and became a teacher at the Dawn City Welfare House.

Every time Lan Xin in another world wanted to meet Dr. Liu, she had to occupy the body of Lan Xin in reality, which was very inconvenient.

At the same time, Dr. Liu also found that he had grown white hair.

Time passed unknowingly, and Dr. Liu became more and more anxious...

Until one day, Lan Xin waited at the door of the welfare house at the agreed time, but did not wait for Dr. Liu to arrive.

She thought that Dr. Liu was busy, so she waited for a long time, but she never saw Dr. Liu.

She had no choice but to call Dr. Liu, but the voice on the other end was a strange one.

"I'm looking for Dr. Liu."

"Who is Dr. Liu?"

“…”

Lan Xin realized something was wrong and called the hospital directly.

The person who answered the phone was Dr. Liu’s colleague. Lan Xin hurriedly asked about Dr. Liu’s whereabouts, but the reply from the other end of the phone made her even more confused.

“Who is Dr. Liu?” The same words came out of Dr. Liu’s colleague’s mouth.

After confirming it several times, Lan Xin hung up the phone in confusion.

She personally went to the hospital where Dr. Liu worked... Then, she found the park where the two often hung out together, the restaurant where they had eaten together, and found their former friends and acquaintances...

Lan Xin was surprised to find that "Dr. Liu" seemed to have never existed. No one knew him except herself.

“What’s going on?”

She found many acquaintances, and even found Dr. Liu’s old comrade before the abyss invasion. Fortunately, this old comrade still knew Dr. Liu.

However, the old comrade told her that Dr. Liu had died as early as the beginning of the abyss invasion, and the entire patrol team he belonged to was buried in the sea of ​​fire.

"It's not that no one knows him... but that he has been dead for a long time?"

Lan Xin was completely confused, as if in the whole world, only her memory was disordered and she walked into a different "timeline" from others.

Lan Xin returned to the welfare home in a daze and found a glowing fragment on the ground in front of the gate.

That was the place where she and Dr. Liu often met. She didn't see the fragment when she left before.

So she picked up the fragment. The moment she grabbed the fragment in her hand, the light flashed, and a memory emerged in her mind...

...

In the blur, she saw that Dr. Liu seemed to have found a strange spherical creature, like a huge cell.

The creature would float out of the ball, imitating the appearance of humans, and looked like a bubble man.

The bubble man asked Dr. Liu why he was looking for it. Dr. Liu explained that he wanted to create a body for his friend.

The bubble man agreed, but also put forward a condition:

"Play a game with me. If you win, I will fulfill your wish."