I'm trapped in a block

Chapter 166 Confiscated by order

The water flowed loudly.

Li and Luo just watched the powerful relics created by the Wishing Fountain being sucked into the underground waterway.

"What a pity." Li Xiangyi said with some regret.

"When you feel pity, you are already greedy. These relics should not have appeared in the first place. It is nothing to regret to lose something that did not exist in the first place." Lao Xu said lightly.

"But if these relics are used to explore the abyss, they can reduce a lot of casualties, right?" Li Xiangyi still didn't understand.

"No, if you use them, it will cause more casualties. These relics have some hidden functions." Lao Xu explained seriously.

"The Trevi Fountain has been open for ten years, and these relics have appeared for ten years. I understand the demands of those parents when asking for relics. They are extremely greedy."

"They also want to use various clauses to evade possible costs. This is absolutely impossible. Being smart will eventually lead to irreparable consequences."

"There are loopholes in any clause. Don't underestimate self-aware relics."

Lao Xu also knows the behavior of those parents very well.

Li Luo thought for a while and then asked: "You only 'confiscated' part of it, right? Don't you need to 'confiscate' the other part?"

Lao Xu nodded: "Yes, I only confiscate part of it every year, and most of the rest are harmless."

"How did you tell the difference?" Li Luo asked.

"Intuition." At this point, Lao Xu pointed to his heart.

"You use the ability given to you by the fountain to identify whether the relics created by the fountain are harmful?" Li Luo was a little shocked.

"What's this?"

Lao Xu didn't care at all. He took out his investigative team member's ID card, turned to one of the pages, and skillfully pointed out one of the lines: "In case of emergency, all means are allowed to be used to solve the problem."

"I always act in accordance with the regulations." Lao Xu explained lightly.

"If I feel something is wrong with the relics, I will confiscate them and prevent them from being circulated. For other relics that I don't feel are in danger, I will just ignore them. I have been doing this for ten years."

"Of course, there are very few things that are wrong, otherwise I wouldn't be able to solve them with my own strength."

It turned out that he had persisted like this alone for ten years.

"Then why did you just throw it into the ditch?" Li Xiangyi still didn't understand Lao Xu's "destroy" method. It was a bit too childish.

"intuition."

Lao Xu's words made Li Xiangyi speechless.

"My intuition tells me that throwing it into the ditch is safe and will not cause any harm. Indeed, there have been no accidents in the past ten years."

Looking at the certificates still on the table, Li Xiangyi couldn't ask any more questions.

Lao Xu said, but he was a little melancholy: "I can't keep doing this every year. I'm getting older, so maybe one less thing will be confiscated every time."

"And in the past few years, more and more relics that make me feel dangerous have appeared, and I have become busier and busier."

"That's why I want the higher-ups in Oasis City to turn off the fountain, so that we can avoid future troubles forever."

Lao Xu's hand holding the cup trembled slightly. It seemed that this matter had always been on his mind.

Being able to chat with two strangers for so long is enough to prove the loneliness in his heart that no one understands.

"Have you ever looked for them? Aren't they all your former teammates?" Li Luo asked.

Lao Xu nodded: "Of course I have, but every time they ask me, if I trust my intuition so much, does the fountain give me the feeling that something is wrong?"

"Is there any?" Li Luo asked curiously. "No." Old Xu frowned: "Many of the relics it created give me a very dangerous feeling, but the fountain itself is harmless."

Li Luo thought for a while and asked, "Is it because the fountain itself is the giver of abilities?"

Hearing Li Luo's question, Lao Xu frowned, as if he thought of something very difficult to understand.

After hesitating for a moment, he replied: "No, my intuition tells me that the fountain is safe, very safe."

"safe?"

How could there be such a conflict?

A spring that can produce various dangerous relics is itself safe?

Lao Xu's answer surprised everyone present.

"Yes, it is safe, and this feeling has become more and more obvious recently."

Lao Xu's confused expression never disappeared, and this matter seemed to have been bothering him all along.

"I think there may be something wrong with my intuition." He touched his heart and murmured: "I feel that a lot of things are wrong recently, and that feeling is very obvious."

"Where?" Li Xiangyi asked in confusion.

Speaking of this, Lao Xu suddenly froze on his chair, and the hand holding the cup froze in the air, motionless.

Then, he suddenly stood up again, started walking in the yard with the cup in hand, stopped after taking two steps, looked at the ground, and then started walking again, repeating the cycle.

After walking around in a long circle, he returned to the table and said to the confused two people: "Everywhere."

"This feeling of something wrong is very faint, but it is indeed there. It is also on my flowers, on the cup in my hand, on the ground, on the table, even on myself and on you."

Lao Xu glanced around, pointed at the surrounding buildings, and said, "They are all there."

Then, he stared at the square again, the expression on his face becoming more and more confused.

"What's wrong?" Seeing Lao Xu staring at the cube, Li Luo asked quickly.

Lao Xu pointed at the square with his finger and said in confusion: "It's on everything, but it's not on your relic. You don't feel anything."

Hearing Lao Xu's words, Li Luo immediately asked: "Is this normal?"

Lao Xu did not answer, but walked to the square and knocked it carefully, with a puzzled look on his face.

"Very abnormal."

"Over the years, I have studied my abilities very clearly. This intuition is actually a quantitative judgment of the degree of danger, like a ruler."

"For example, this flower's danger level used to be 1, but recently it rose to 10, so I felt something was wrong."

"The danger level of the relics I just destroyed will rise rapidly when they appear, reaching over 1000, which is extremely dangerous."

"And those relics that are not worth confiscating have a negative risk value, which proves that those things are safe."

"The same goes for fountains, which are negative and safe."

"But this cube..." After Lao Xu walked around the cube, he couldn't think of how to describe his feelings.

"Is the danger level of the cube 0?" Li Luo asked after listening to Lao Xu's explanation.

"No, it's not just 0."

Lao Xu did not continue walking, but stopped and thought for a long time, and then expressed his feelings at this time with a puzzled face——

"It's like the danger scale doesn't fit."

(End of this chapter)