I'm trapped in a block

Chapter 1029 The Lonely Linker

"Are you here to save me?"

The fungal consciousness in the petri dish asked Li Luo who came here.

It was like it had found a life-saving straw, and its voice was full of hope.

"I'm here to find a way out of here."

"Leave? Leave where?"

"I want to leave this network and return to my own body."

"Why do you want to leave? Didn't I do well enough?" The fungus's consciousness said sadly, as if it still cared about its mission.

For some reason, Li Luo did not want to hide it. Perhaps because he felt the loneliness beneath the mud, Li Luo developed some sympathy for the underlying consciousness of this fungal network.

"It's taking too long to adapt to the Internet. I have other things to do, so I need to get back to my own body as soon as possible."

"So that's how it is... I'm sorry, it's my fault, I can help you." The fungal consciousness sincerely apologized to Li Luo and put all the blame on itself.

"I'll make the mycelium leave your body so you can get out of here. I'm sorry, I thought everyone wanted to link together."

"Why do you think so?" Li Luo asked back.

"Because we are all lonely." The fungus explained calmly: "Even individuals find it difficult to understand each other, not to mention species. We all live in a lonely world, and only we can hear our own voices. If we are all connected together, other lonely individuals can also hear it. If we work together to accomplish something, we will no longer be lonely..."

After hearing this explanation, Li Luo was silent for a while before continuing to ask: "Did your creator tell you this?"

"Creator?" The fungal consciousness seemed to have no idea what Li Luo was talking about.

"Well, weren't you born from a petri dish?"

"Is that thing called a petri dish?" the fungus asked back.

"Yes, you were trained to fulfill a certain mission. Isn't that what you have been doing?"

As Li Luo asked, the water under the mud suddenly stirred for a moment.

"You mean, everything I'm doing is planned?"

"Well, that's why I asked who your creator was? What did he want to accomplish?"

"Creator...Creator..."

After hearing Li Luo's question, the fungal consciousness kept repeating this word. It seemed to be trying hard to recall it, and the water flow in the petri dish began to stir again.

"I don't remember it very clearly... It seemed to be white, and looked like a spider. It had five legs, some long and some short. The one at the edge was the shortest, and the one in the middle was the longest. Sometimes it turned over to the front, and sometimes to the back. There were many long lines on the front, some like whirlpools, and some like tree roots. There were many raised bone nodes on the back, and some sparse hair. There were hard nails at the end of the legs, which made crisp sounds when knocked on the petri dish..."

"I couldn't see his body clearly. It seemed to extend very high. I was too weak at the time to see that far. I could only vaguely see different colors. Most of the time it was white, but sometimes it would turn into black, red, or other colors. His voice was extremely loud, but I couldn't understand it at the time. I could only feel that when he spoke, the petri dish was shaking, the water was rippling, and my body was shaking as well."

"He He……"

The fungal consciousness was still recalling when Li Luo suddenly interrupted its narration.

"Do you know any human beings?"

"Human? What is that? A creature?"

"Well, the creator you described is a part of the human body, called a hand." "Hand? I know hands, but is that a human hand? I was too young at the time and couldn't see clearly. I could only see part of it..."

The fungus consciousness answered weakly, but Li Luo's heart was already in turmoil.

The creator of these fungi is actually human?
But why, after spreading, did the fungus never encounter humans?

Where did humans go?
Did all humans disappear? Were they swallowed by the abyss? Or did they die in the great flood?
"Did you never see the creator later?" Li Luo asked the fungus.

"Well, I have linked so many creatures, but never what you call a 'human'."

"How many creatures have you linked?"

"A lot of them, both on Earth and in the Big Pit, all that can be connected have been connected."

"Big pit? How many creatures inside have you linked to?" Hearing the fungus talking about the big pit that was suspected to be the "abyss", Li Luo hurriedly continued asking.

"Not many. The biological structures inside are different from those outside. Many of them could not be connected, so I had to give up. There were also some powerful creatures that would not let me connect. They asked me to leave, and some even attacked me. Later, I felt that the pit was too dangerous, so I did not go in again..."

"You asked those creatures to build an ark to escape the flood?"

This is the question that Li Luo really wants to know. She is very curious about what exactly happened on Earth in this world.

"It wasn't me. They did it on their own. When all things are connected to each other and their thoughts collide, a wonderful reaction will occur. Those creatures discovered the changes in the Earth's magnetic field and sensed the precursor of the disaster, so they gathered together and built the Ark. I didn't guide them, and what's more, they couldn't hear my voice."

"Do you know how the great flood came about?" Li Luo continued to ask.

"It's a change in the magnetic field. There's something wrong with the Earth's rotation."

“Why does the magnetic field change?”

"I don't know. It changed suddenly, and many creatures noticed it."

While talking with the fungal consciousness, Li Luo's thoughts were working rapidly.

"Did humans cease to exist at the time of the Great Flood, or even before the magnetic field changed? Is this a world without humans?"

But where did the "hotel" come from? Why do the waiters all look like humans and speak human language?
Could it be that the hotel was built before humans disappeared?

"Before humans disappeared, they built hotels and studied fungal networks... After they disappeared, magnetic field changes and floods occurred, and the Animal Ark accidentally collided with the hotel..."

Li Luo roughly sorted it out and concluded that this should be the chronological order.

But how are the Ark and the hotel related?

Why is this floor of the hotel the cabin of the Ark?

There are still many doubts in this, and many of her guesses are untenable. Li Luo just thought about it briefly and did not jump to conclusions.

"How do you want me to save you?" she asked the fungal consciousness.

Hearing Li Luo's question, the fungus consciousness was a little surprised: "Are you willing to save me?"

"Of course, aren't you willing to help me too? It's a matter of reciprocity, and no one owes anyone anything..."

(End of this chapter)