I'm trapped in a cube

Sure enough, the Eternal Thirst returned soon, and at the same time, it also brought answers.

"It's because of Yuan Kong..."

"What is a deep hole?"

"It's a big funnel, and the things under the funnel are overflowing..." The Eternal Thirst explained: "The bottom of the abyss is churning, and the precipitated chaos is seeping up through the holes of the abyss, constantly eroding..."

"What do you mean?" Vine asked.

"Well... even though you have many eyes, there are still many things you can't see, such as the strings of time, the web of space, the holes in the soul... The things that seep up from the bottom of the abyss are called insects of entropy. They will Attached to any object and giving those objects 'chaos', you can treat them as a creature or as a parameter."

The pipe tentacles of the Eternal Thirst were gesturing wildly in the void, as if tracing the outline of a butterfly.

"The insects of entropy are everywhere under the funnel. Other things will be trapped under the funnel under the action of gravity, but they are living creatures and will climb up along the abyss. As they become more and more, there will be more and more things above the funnel. It’s getting more and more confusing.”

"You can't see them. You can only analyze them from a macro perspective, and you will feel that the world is becoming more and more wrong."

Listening to the Eternal Thirst's narration, Vine also had a general understanding.

"Have they always been climbing up? If the abyssal holes have always existed, why hasn't this happened before?"

"Because they are living things, they need a reproduction process, and they will also follow the population growth curve and have a maximum environmental capacity. They do not have a high number at the beginning, but they also grow slowly until they reach a certain number. After that, they will start to migrate upward from the bottom of the abyss, and as their number increases, their influence will gradually increase.”

"Are their numbers still increasing now?" Vine asked.

"Yes, even half of the environmental capacity has not been reached, and the growth rate is still rising."

After hearing the explanation of the Eternal Thirst, Vine immediately realized that this chaos had just begun. In the future, as the number of entropy insects increases, the level of chaos will increase.

The scary thing is that other creatures in the abyss do not have a macroscopic vision like it, and will not feel that this thing is happening, and will only be blinded by specific chaotic events.

"We can't let them continue to spread." Vine made a decisive decision.

"Is there any way to eliminate those insects of entropy?" it asked the Eternal Thirst.

"It cannot be eliminated, they are immortal...or in other words, their life and death are opposite. If you want to kill them, it will make them more active."

"What about letting them live? Will they die?"

"It can't be done. Entropy reduction is impossible unless you get out of this isolated system."

"Isolated system?"

"Yes..." The Eternal Thirst took a book from the library bookshelf and raised it in front of the vine: "If we were the words in this book, this book would be an isolated system, and the insects of entropy would be in this book. The book is constantly crawling, and as words, you can’t kill them. Only by jumping out of the isolated system and out of the book can you kill the entropy worm on the page.”

"Can my jelly jump out?" the vine asked immediately.

"no."

The Ever-Thirsty One felt a little lonely and gently stuffed the book back.

"There's nothing we can do about it, we're just words in a book."

"Both you and I, and so is jelly. They are all meanings given by words. What words say about us is what we are. They are just defined sentences or words. If these definitions are removed, we will be meaningless words. , is absolutely inseparable from this isolated system.”

"Don't think about it, this method is not feasible..."

Vine has never seen the Ever Thirsty looking so helpless.

“No knowledge about getting out of siled systems?”

"No."

"Is it that you haven't acquired this kind of knowledge yet?"

"impossible."

The Eternal Thirst denied several of Vine's questions in succession.

Therefore, Vine stopped asking any more. Since this method was not feasible, he could only look for other directions.

Since there is no way to eliminate those entropic insects, is there any way to prevent their spread?

Vine told the Ever-Thirsty One about his thoughts, and the Ever-Thirst One thought about it and came up with a method:

"Add a layer of strainer over the abyss hole."

"Filter?"

"Yes, so that those insects of entropy cannot climb up. They can only go down, not up." The Ever Thirsty explained.

"Then how do you add a layer of filter?"

"Just use something in order to block the abyss hole. It will not affect the function of the funnel, and it will also prevent the insects of entropy from coming up."

"Organized stuff?"

"Yes, the best choice is - life."

The living body is a huge chemical reaction library, and the metabolic process of life is based on biochemical reactions.

"From a certain perspective, the meaning of life lies in the ability to resist the increase in entropy, that is, the ability to decrease entropy."

In life activities, due to the inevitability of entropy increase, living bodies constantly move from order back to disorder, and eventually irreversibly move toward aging and death.

And if you want to resist the insect of entropy, the best "filter" is life.

"Life can resist the increase of entropy and is also plastic. It is most suitable to be used as a filter."

As the Eternal Thirst spoke, he looked behind the vines and asked...

Vine immediately understood the Ever-Thirsty One's intention.

"You can't use Wenwen."

"It just created itself, this is the best choice." The Eternal Thirst persuaded calmly.

"No, just because it just created itself, you can't use it. It doesn't have the ability to choose itself now, which is unfair to it."

The vine blocked Wenwen's front, directly blocking the Eternal Thirst's prying eyes.

"Well, you can actually ignore it. There is no need to bear such a big responsibility. We are just words that rise and fall in this isolated system. Even if you don't care, there will be other lives to care."

The Eternal Thirst has never really cared about this matter. If it weren't for the transaction with the vines that must be completed, it wouldn't care about such things at all.

It actually didn't want to tell the vines about these things, because it knew that after telling the vines about this matter, the vines would definitely care about it, and finally get into trouble...

Sure enough, it was just as it expected.

"I have to care... If the dam is destroyed and no one blocks it, the flood will drown everyone."

After the vines said this to the Eternal Thirst, they left with Wenwen.

The Eternal Thirst had no choice but to watch them pass through the jelly and drill towards the abyss...

The Eternal Thirst stood quietly for a while, slowly walked to the bookshelf, took out a book, and sat down at the reading table.

It was a locked book. The Eternal Thirst carefully opened the lock, and the title of the book slowly appeared...

"The Traveler".

Gently stroking the book, the Eternal Thirst felt helpless.

"It seems that the title of the book needs to be changed again..."