I'm trapped in a cube

"Don't say anything. Can you cure my disease?"

"Yes..." the doctor answered affirmatively, but there seemed to be a hint of sadness in his words.

"There is no time to lose. Let's cure it now." The straw creature crawled directly to the doctor's side, found a chair, and sat down.

The doctor hesitated for a moment, and gently placed his hand on the straw creature.

The faint healing power passed along the skinny arm to the straw creature. The healing power was different from what Mo Ling had seen before. It seemed a little dim and messy, just like a novice.

"Your healing level is really poor." The straw creature complained helplessly.

"It took me a long time to master it. Don't be so demanding..."

In Mo Ling's surprised eyes, the dim white light slowly entered the body of the straw creature, but the straw creature actually began to shrink. The originally plump and soft body seemed to be leaking air, and wrinkles like an old man appeared on the smooth skin.

Is this a cure? Isn't this poisoning?

As Mo Ling was thinking, the straw creature also noticed the changes in his body, but he seemed to have expected it long ago and said weakly: "It's so ugly."

"You are about to die, what difference does it make whether you are ugly or not?" The doctor continued to output healing power while saying.

Hearing this, the straw creature was silent.

He seemed to be unable to accept such a result, and asked with a glimmer of hope: "Is it possible that I will not die?"

"No, if you cure the disease, you will die, this is absolute." The doctor said mercilessly: "Desire is the essence of your existence. The moment you treat desire as a disease, you cure the disease and kill yourself..."

"Maybe your medical skills are too poor..." The straw creature complained in a low voice, but it was still heard by the doctor.

The doctor knocked on the straw creature's head helplessly, and the two looked at each other in silence.

"I'm so tired..." When the desire gradually subsided, the straw creature suddenly became tired.

"I have collected a lot of knowledge, but I have never used it. I found that I have been deciphering various question marks, but I have not carefully read the content behind the question marks."

"I know a lot of delicious food, I know their taste, I know how to cook them, but I have never eaten them."

"I know a lot of beautiful buildings, I know how they are built, I know their uses, but I have never lived in them."

"I know a lot of beautiful places, beautiful sea of ​​clouds, blue shallow bays, I have experienced the beauty of those places in the memories of other creatures, but I have never been there in person."

"I know a lot of magnificent history, but I am not a witness of those histories. I just stand beside the long river of time, watching those living creatures and turn into rigid texts."

"I know those taboo technologies, but because I know too much and am afraid of bearing their unknowns, I have never really used these technologies."

"I know the location, ability, and cost of various relics, but I never dare to use them."

"I seem to have gained a lot... and missed a lot..."

"You say, have I never really understood the meaning of 'knowledge'?" The straw creature suddenly stretched out a tentacle, grabbed the doctor's arm, and asked.

The doctor did not answer him, but gently placed his hand on his tentacles.

However, when the doctor's arm touched the tentacles, the tentacles slowly became transparent, and then turned into tiny particles, drifting away with the wind.

And those particles were actually in the shape of question marks.

The small question marks floated and disappeared...

The straw creature looked at the question marks and whispered softly:

"Who am I? The Eternal Thirst."

"Where do I come from? In the desires of creatures precipitated in the deep sea."

"Where do I go? To collect all knowledge and satisfy all my desire for knowledge."

The doctor looked at the dissipated smoke and dust, and then looked at the straw creature.

"What are you reading?"

"I'm reading the question marks on my body." The straw creature answered in a low voice. At this time, he was already on the verge of death, his voice became weaker, and the sound of tearing paper became unusually soft.

"I'm about to disappear." The straw creature said lightly, and his body began to slowly become transparent, and then gradually turned into drifting smoke and dust. Those small question marks drilled out of his body and drifted into the unknown.

The doctor did not stop his healing, and the light on his hand continued to flicker.

The straw creature wanted to say something again, but his voice had become messy and vague. Some confession and regret could be heard vaguely, but all of this quickly disappeared.

After the last flicker of light, the last bit of the straw creature's body turned into smoke and dust, drifting in this huge library.

The doctor kept stretching his arm and was stunned for a long time.

The dim light kept flickering, and I don't know what he was thinking.

After a while, the doctor came back to his senses and grabbed the non-existent smoke and dust in front of him with his hand, but he didn't catch anything. He could only put his hand down in a daze and sat in front of the table in a daze.

Mo Ling sat in the middle of the reading table, and the doctor sat at one end of the reading table. Neither of them spoke.

Mo Ling didn't know the identity of the doctor, so he didn't act rashly. The doctor still seemed to not see Mo Ling, and the library fell into silence.

Finally, after a while, the doctor looked at the uninvited reader.

"Are you here for revenge?" He seemed to guess Mo Ling's intention at once.

"Yes, for my friend." Mo Ling thought of the experience of the doctors on the Huasheng Islands and replied.

In any case, the doctors on the Huasheng Islands can be regarded as his friends.

"Many avengers came here before, but we sent them away, except for one from the lobster tribe, who almost killed us all..." The doctor said nostalgically.

"But, at that time, I was not like this."

As he spoke, the doctor pushed the chair away and slowly stood up.

Mo Ling could see clearly that the body of this doctor was not like a normal doctor. There were chaotic medicines all over his body. These medicines were like patches on his body, making him look like a tattered doll.

Not only that, the lower body of this doctor is also full of tentacles that wriggle like the straw creature, and each tentacle is hollow, just like a straw.

Mo Ling immediately understood that this "doctor" might not be a real doctor. He is in the same group as the straw creature, or he is a puppet controlled by the straw creature.

"But why did he want to 'kill' the straw creature?"