I'm trapped in a block

Chapter 590 Library

Before Radi could react, the wriggling void suddenly began to expand, and countless snarling straws stretched out from a place where there was nothing. A twisted spider, dancing its straw limbs, drilled out and climbed 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.

Ladi slashed at the spider again, quickly destroying it.

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

However, Radi's power was not infinite. In 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 real bodies of the Eternal Thirst. They are hiding. These are just the weapons they created..."

However, these weapons alone were enough to overwhelm Radi.

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

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

He patted Mo Ling on the shoulder and said, "I will use a scalpel to cut open a passage to their bodies. You jump in and find them!"

Before Mo Ling could ask, Radi burst out with dazzling light, the scalpel trembled slightly, and directly cut a twisted channel 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. Mo Ling used inertia to cross the passage directly and staggered to grab a railing.

"Wait, railing?" Mo Ling looked at the thing 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 hands, 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 seems to be a circular library, surrounded by a circle of bookshelves. The most terrifying thing is that these bookshelves extend upwards without end. Densely packed books are piled on the bookshelves, colorful like pixels, dazzling.

“How many books are there?”

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

With just one glance, Mo Ling felt the terrifying aura coming from the bookshelf. In an instant, it seemed as if all the bookshelves fell towards him and would drown him in the next moment.

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

He looked away and found that he was in a spacious and quaint hall. In the center was a huge reading table, surrounded by strangely shaped wooden chairs, on which were carved all kinds of strange creatures, vividly.

There were already two readers sitting at the reading table.

They sat at opposite ends of the reading table, with books piled in front of them, and seemed to be talking in low voices.

These two readers shocked Mo Ling even more. They were actually a doctor and a wriggling straw.

Mo Ling couldn't hold back his curiosity, so he walked over, pulled out a 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 continued to chat 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 was looking at the book in front of him, his fingers constantly tapping on the ancient pages, as if he was thinking about something.

"It can be cured."

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

"Why?" the doctor on the other side asked, "Don't you enjoy the process of acquiring knowledge?"

"Of course I enjoy it... But knowledge is endless, and so are the question marks. There are question marks after question marks, and confusion after confusion. Desire has no end."

"In order to acquire knowledge, I can only keep invading, conquering, destroying, and devouring... While acquiring knowledge, I also become a slave driven by desire." The straw creature seemed to blame itself very much, with frustration in its words.

The doctor paused and tapped the book in front of him. "But aren't all living things 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 healer pushed a book in front of the straw creature.

"What is this?" asked the straw creature.

"Handbook of Taotie Research," this is 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 is never 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 extended its thin straw tentacles and carefully flipped through the book 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.

"So what if it's fictional? I just want to say that strong desires are not a disease. Living things are born out of desires, and because of the desire to 'live', they become 'living things'. If desires are wrong, then we are all wrong."

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

"Bulimia is a disease, right?"

"That's right." The doctor answered affirmatively.

“Then why isn’t strong desire a disease?” the straw creature asked in return.

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

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

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

(End of this chapter)