I'm trapped in a cube

The footsteps were getting closer and closer, and there was a strange dullness when stepping on the hollow pipe.

Li Luo held his breath and listened carefully to the dull footsteps.

In the quiet room 0122, there were only the collision of boots and pipes and Li Luo's heartbeat.

"Da, da, da..."

The sound was getting closer and closer, not walking fast, but the footsteps were very steady.

Soon, a figure stopped at the door of the room.

Through the dim light, Li Luo also saw the man's appearance clearly. A standard cloak of the pipeline fortress, it seemed that it had not been washed for a long time and was covered with dust. It seemed that because he had to move forward in the low pipeline corridor, the man was hunched over and looked like a staggering old man.

But when the visitor took off the hood of the cloak, Li Luo could see clearly that under the cloak was a young man with a decadent face. When he walked to the door, he was stuck on the steps and staggered against the door.

He was panting and seemed very weak, which was totally inconsistent with his steady steps just now. Holding the door, the young man looked at the hanging cube in the room, and was stunned for a moment before noticing Li Luo leaning against the side.

"Little girl, it's very dangerous here, leave as soon as possible."

The young man was obviously not much older than Li Luo, but he spoke with an old-fashioned look, and his voice also carried a vicissitude that should not be at this age.

The hoarse voice made Li Luo a little dazed. After she reacted, she asked the young man: "Who are you?"

Hearing Li Luo's question, the young man slowly took out a wrinkled certificate from his cloak: "Fortress Guard, Liu Ying."

The certificate was indeed a photo of the young man, but the words were a little blurred. Li Luo looked at it for a while with half-belief and half-doubt, and then watched the young man take the certificate back.

"You said it's dangerous here?"

"Yes, the zero residential area has been abandoned. The pipeline structure here has been renovated and changed, and it is very fragile. Sometimes it collapses. Some people have mistakenly entered here and got injured before, so we often come here to patrol..." The young man who called himself "Liu Ying" explained lightly.

"Leave early, little girl, there are no treasures here." The young man still looked old-fashioned.

"I'm not looking for any treasures, I'm just looking for the source of this relic." Li Luo took out the pain-reducing tablets from his pocket.

Unexpectedly, the young man froze when he saw the pain-reducing tablets, and then suddenly rushed to Li Luo and wanted to grab the tablets, but Li Luo was quick and took the tablets back directly.

"What do you want to do?" Seeing the young man's reaction, Li Luo retreated to the other side of the room vigilantly.

"No...nothing, I know this relic." The young man said a little stumblingly, and the old-fashioned look just now suddenly disappeared.

"Do you know it?"

"Yes, I know it. It's a relic of a friend of mine. After he died, I donated it to the relic library. That friend's birthday is January 22, so I wrote 0122 when I donated it. By the way, it happens to be the room number of this room... I didn't expect such a coincidence that I could see this relic again in this room. Maybe there is a destiny in the dark..."

As the young man spoke, he stared blankly at the pain-reducing tablet in Li Luo's hand.

There was no greed in his eyes, only deep nostalgia.

"I was a little excited just now, sorry." He said apologetically.

Hearing the young man say "0122", Li Luo's defenses relaxed a lot, but she still had some doubts in her heart.

"Besides 0122, what else did you write?" she asked.

The young man looked at the pain pill and answered without thinking: "Authority, I also wrote the word authority."

"Why?"

"Because my friend is called Liu Quanli..." The young man answered helplessly: "He always hoped that he could save more people. I donated this relic to fulfill his last wish."

"Authority, 0122... I wrote these just to commemorate him, Liu Quanli, born on January 22, name and birthday, that's all."

As he spoke, the young man's tone became more and more lonely, as if he was thinking of the past.

Hearing the young man's explanation, Li Luo's tone also eased a lot: "Just like this?"

"Yes, just like this..."

Li Luo looked at the decadent young man, and the young man stared at the tablet in a daze. The two stood in the room and were silent for a long time.

"After using this relic, I have been having the same dream..." After hesitating for a moment, Li Luo still planned to tell the young man about his experience.

After listening to Li Luo's experience, the young man sighed: "I didn't expect that after so many years, his obsession is still so deep that it can even affect the next user."

"Obsession? Those dreams are his obsession?" Li Luo was a little surprised.

"Yes, obsession, in fact, this is also related to the characteristics of the pain-transforming tablet..." The young man thought for a moment and explained: "In fact, obsession is also a kind of pain, spiritual pain... He used the pain-transforming tablet before his death, and these spiritual pains happened to be preserved, and because of your use, they were transferred to you, so you had such dreams and felt his obsession."

"Can obsession be transferred?" Listening to the young man's explanation, Li Luo was very surprised. She didn't expect that the pain-transforming tablet could also work on the mind. When she was in the relic library before, the staff member didn't mention this to her.

"Are you familiar with this relic?" Li Luo asked.

"Of course, I took this relic all the way down, from the first floor to the fourth floor of the abyss, from the Dawn City to the Pipeline Fortress, until it was no longer useful to me, I donated it. To be honest, I didn't use it to its full potential, so I always wanted to donate it to people in need."

The young man pointed to the pain-reducing tablet in Li Luo's hand and said sincerely: "When I used this relic, although I had the same dream, the content of the dream was very vague, and I didn't dream so frequently. Maybe this relic has never recognized me."

"Then why did it choose me?" Li Luo asked puzzled.

"Uh..." Hearing Li Luo's question, the young man suddenly hesitated, opened his mouth, and wanted to explain, but swallowed it halfway through, as if he was considering the right wording.

"Because you are related to his obsession."

"Me?" Li Luo was stunned. She couldn't figure out what the relationship was between her and the obsession of the former user.

The young man hesitated for a moment, but decided to explain the matter clearly...

"The dream you have been having is actually his experience before his death. He didn't want to die, so the torment and pain in his heart were recorded by the pain film."

"The reason why he was so painful was because he wanted to go back to see someone..."

"Someone who was very important to him."