I'm trapped in a cube

Although he was still very scared, Dr. Liu was still professional.

He tested the girl's blood and conducted a comprehensive physical examination.

The girl's body was normal, except for slow development and severe tooth decay, there was no abnormality.

But after getting the test results of the girl's body, Dr. Liu became even more distressed, because it meant that he could not find the cause of the girl's illness. It was not an organ mutation, nor was it an infection of pathogens. This abyss disease might really be lurking in another world as the girl said.

After experiencing that hallucination, Dr. Liu was very cautious every time he saw the girl. He would always pinch his palms to prevent himself from falling into that terrible hallucination again.

However, he still felt that there was a strange feeling in his heart.

It was a kind of concern that appeared at some unknown time. The picture of the girl would always appear in his mind, and he would always miss her. Sometimes he would even stop his work and keep thinking about the girl.

He also reported his physical condition to his superiors, but his superiors still asked him to hold on for a while.

"I can't wait any longer." Dr. Liu knew clearly that he had to find out the cause of the girl's illness, and then apply for the relics from his superiors to eliminate the cause, otherwise he would end up like Dr. Zeng.

Now, he has confirmed that the other "she" the girl mentioned must be related to the girl's abyss disease.

In order to find the truth, or perhaps influenced by that strange emotion, Dr. Liu made a bold decision-to enter the illusion again.

He found a chair and sat in the girl's ward, loosened his clenched palms, and closed his eyes...

I don't know how long it took, when he opened his eyes again, the little girl reading the book had become an adult woman.

She was wearing a loose hospital gown, sitting in the middle of the ward, her slender fingers stroking the pages of the book, as if she was completely immersed in the world of the book.

"Who are you?" Dr. Liu asked.

"Lan Xin." The woman replied.

"Age."

"24."

Dr. Liu took a deep breath, he knew that he had succeeded, the woman in front of him was the source of the disease.

However, just as he was thinking about how to proceed, the woman raised her head slightly and looked at Dr. Liu.

"You're back." The woman laughed, her voice was like a silver bell, no different from the first time she heard it.

"Are you here to take me away? You finally come to fulfill your promise..."

Dr. Liu shook his head quickly: "I never promised."

The woman was stunned and said in surprise: "Did you forget?"

She closed the book, reached out and grabbed Dr. Liu.

Dr. Liu wanted to avoid it, but out of his duty as a doctor, he let the woman grab him.

The woman's hand was cold, as if there was no temperature.

And the moment the woman held his hand, Dr. Liu suddenly had a memory...

That was a memory between him and the woman.

...

One day, his superior gave him an urgent task and asked him to take care of a patient.

He came to the ward and met the woman for the first time.

"Lan Xin?"

"Yes." The woman nodded.

"Tell me about your illness."

"Okay." The woman said calmly: "I can see the real world..."

In the woman's description, the world they are in is false, fabricated, incomplete, and just a blank fragment.

And in the real world...

"I am only 12 years old, and your surname is not Liu, but Zeng."

The woman calmly narrated the things in the real world, with very detailed and completely self-consistent logic, as if it was really another world.

He listened and was completely fascinated. He was obviously a doctor, but he was immersed in the world described by the patient...

He asked the woman a question for some reason: "How do we get to that real world?"

The woman was very excited when she heard his question.

"Do you believe me?"

"Believe." He followed the woman's words.

"I have a way to send you out, but you must remember to save me, and we will fly away together..."

The woman gently held his hand and placed his hand on her heart.

Then, he felt a sharp pain...

Memories surged, and Dr. Liu shook off the cold hand, only to find that it was a little girl in front of him. He quickly tore off his white coat and put his hand on his heart.

There was a suture scar on it...

"What's going on? What's going on?"

Dr. Liu stumbled out of the ward and called his superior:

"Is my last name Liu or Zeng?"

"It doesn't matter, it's just a name." The leader replied indifferently.

"Is this the real world?"

"If you think it's real, it's real."

"Lan Xin is not the only one who is sick, I'm sick too, right?" Dr. Liu kept asking.

"Your disease has been cured." The superior said calmly: "I remember you were a dentist, right? Tooth decay is a disease. If you fill the decayed area, the disease will be cured... But there is another situation, the tooth is completely decayed, and you can only replace it with another tooth, porcelain tooth, gold tooth... anything is fine, and this is also considered a cure.

"We just need to cure the patient. Why do we need to think so much? Whether it's the original tooth or the porcelain tooth, it doesn't matter at all. As long as the function is the same, it's fine..."

Listening to the content on the phone, Dr. Liu's brain exploded instantly. He hung up the phone like a zombie and walked back to the ward.

"Lan Xin?"

"Yes."

"Age."

"12."

The little girl didn't know why Dr. Liu asked the same question so many times, but she answered obediently.

"Lan Xin, do you want to be discharged?"

"Of course."

"Lan Xin, do you want to be discharged?" Dr. Liu asked the woman in front of him.

"Of course." The woman nodded and answered expectantly.

The two Lan Xins of different ages overlapped, and their eager eyes stared at Dr. Liu in front of them at the same time.

There is no difference between the two...

He finally understood why his superiors gave him this task and didn't send anyone to help him.

"This is a test."

The superiors knew his origins long ago, and knew that the girl's abyss disease was not a halo of pity at all.

From the beginning to the end, this was an experiment.

Lan Xin was an experimental subject, and so was he.

He escaped to the so-called "real world", but was still trapped in this "ward". The experimenters who observed him didn't care whether he had "cavities" or not, they just watched silently to see if his "function" was still intact.

As long as he could still bite those hard foods, he was a good tooth...