I'm trapped in a cube

"The price? Can I not bear it?" Wenwen asked blankly.

"No, this is something that must be endured. If you have yourself, you will be sad, but you will also be happy, joyful, and happy from the bottom of your heart... It is precisely because of pain that there is something that exists relative to pain."

"Just like light and shadow, because there is light, there will be shadow, and because there is shadow, it will prove the existence of light. Everything exists relatively."

After listening to Vine's words, Qiu seemed to understand a little.

"So, the price of being strong is to protect the weak?"

"It's not a price."

"So what exactly is the price?"

"You will know later and ask. What you have to do now is to push the track..."

Listening to the urging of the vines, the inquiring vines passed through the jelly and stretched out to the track.

"Yes, push." ​​Vine said gently.

However, Wenwen still didn't make a move and just froze in the air.

The vine had no choice but to pull out a section of its tendrils from the fixed track, and then slowly intertwined them with the asked tendrils, pushing the track up with the help of the reaction force.

Because of the sudden change in the synchronization rate, the vine that was not on the track was suddenly cut open by different synchronization rates and broke in the air.

Countless eyes poured out from the tendrils, scattering like pearls in the void.

As for Wenwen, who was wrapped around the broken vine, he was a little at a loss.

The vines drifted farther and farther along the track, and Wenwen clumsily chased towards the vines.

Along the way, it saw the little animals standing by the track to see each other off.

They stood on both sides of the track, looking at the vines in it with awe.

"Ask, no need to chase."

"I have another question." Qiao said while chasing.

"What's the problem?"

"Why are you doing this? You didn't have to protect the weak, wear those eyes, block the abyss, and let me gain myself. Why are you not doing anything for yourself?"

This seemed to be the longest question Qi Qi had ever asked. Vine listened quietly, accelerating on the track of life.

"because……"

However, as soon as the vine said two words, the speed of the track suddenly became faster. Before Wenwen could hear clearly what was said, the vine accelerated instantly, and its voice suddenly became unclear.

The swinging tendrils suddenly turned into phantoms, as if time had sped up.

The passage of life instantly acted on the vine. It seemed to have experienced countless metabolisms in an instant. The originally strong vines began to shrink and become dry and wrinkled.

The moment the orbit entered normal operation, countless entropic insects that ran out from the bottom of the abyss attached themselves to the "filter" that suddenly appeared.

The counter-entropy that belongs to life begins to spontaneously resist the chaos that spreads from the bottom up, but the influence of increased entropy also acts on the vines blocking the abyss.

Before the vines even had time to react, they were directly affected by the entropy increase and turned into a ball of "chaos" with only the outer shell left.

The filter is still working normally, but the part that belongs to life has completely turned into a track, blocking the abyss.

In the silent abyss, only blank questions remained.

The surrounding little animals looked at the vines that turned into tracks quietly, their eyes seeming to have lost all emotion.

White luminous debris floated out from the vines and dispersed into the endless void.

It is the dust left by the insects of entropy, the remains left by life's resistance to the increase of entropy...

Wenwen waited there quietly, until the white debris dyed the entire space white, and the light shone on it, reflecting a familiar shadow.

On that shadow, there were countless eyes, which seemed familiar yet extremely strange.

Ask, have your own shadow...

Exactly the same as the shadow of the vine.

Beyond the self, there is the self.

The question did not get the answer it wanted to know. It has been asking since it had itself, but the most important question, the vine did not have time to answer.

I feel like I'm in pain, but after the pain lasts for a long time, I seem to have adapted to this feeling...

The connection between it and the vines was severed.

Wenwen can no longer feel the joy, anger, sorrow, and joy of the vine, and can no longer feel the thoughts that have been affecting it. It is completely... free.

But it had long been accustomed to following the vines, but now it felt extremely empty.

A lot of things seemed to be lost in that empty shadow.

Within the outline of the shadow, there is no longer any meaning...

"What's the answer?"

Even the vine has no thoughts, and it doesn't even know why the vine is doing these things.

In its opinion, these things do the vine no good at all.

Even though he has great power and can live peacefully, he still gets into trouble for doing these things.

Until now, only debris is left in the sky...

The Ever-Thirsty One also advised the vine not to meddle in other people's business, but it still chose to do so.

It is obvious that other beings can be used to create a "filter", but it still chooses to cover it itself.

"I don't understand."

Wenwen floated in the silent void, looking at the debris all over the sky, and was completely confused.

It doesn't know where to go...

Without purpose or idea, after the light disappeared, the shadow seemed to have no meaning of existence.

Although it already had a self, that self was still empty.

"Do you know where I should go?" Wenwen asked the small animals around the wreckage in confusion, but those small animals could not answer it, just looked at it pitifully.

"It asked me to take you to continue the journey, do you still want to continue?"

"Don't want to..."

The small animals were unwilling to leave, they wanted to stay here.

After understanding their thoughts, Wenwen could not force them.

"Then I will go by myself."

Wenwen dragged his empty body and drilled into the jelly again, and countless beautiful worlds appeared in front of him again.

However, those colorful colors could not fill his heart.

There was nothing in the dark shadows...

Wenwen came to the forest where the vines were born. It had changed a lot and now became a desert. The ecology that the vines wanted to maintain was completely broken. With the passage of time, all persistence would become helpless bubbles.

The rabbit race had long disappeared, and the predator race was also missing. Everything the vines did at that time seemed meaningless now.

Wenwen followed the vines' previous route and went to the worlds that the vines had reached.

What it saw was mostly endless monotony.

Things have changed, and those beautiful colors seem to have faded long ago, and the original life has disappeared.

Wenwen is even more confused...