I'm trapped in a block

Chapter 1034: The underlying consciousness of escape

The fungi that originally covered Li Luo's body suddenly began to shrink, and the whitish blood vessels quickly regained their color. Li Luo, who had a dull look in his eyes, suddenly blinked, and his pupils trembled slightly.

She seemed to be recovering from her immobile state, and consciousness was gradually returning to her body.

Not long after, the hyphae completely withdrew from her skin, drilled out from the pores, and slowly crawled along the surface of her body to Li Luo's palm.

Li Luo took a deep breath, and her eyes regained their luster. She immediately looked at her hands. The fungus that had left her body had gathered into a ball and stuck tightly to her palm.

After glancing at the fungus in his hand, Li Luo looked at the block beside him.

"never mind……"

She looked around and patted the cube with her fungus-free hand.

"I made a deal with these fungi and they won't infect me anymore."

……

Li Luo looked at his palm and told Fang Cube everything he had experienced in the fungal network.

"After I found the underlying consciousness of the fungal network, it promised to help me leave, but it also asked me to do it a favor..."

Li Luo raised his hand and showed the fungus in his palm to Fangkuai.

“It wants to be free.”

"This ball of hyphae, that's it. It placed its consciousness on the hyphae in my body, and then cut off the connection with the main network, establishing a 'local area network' that is not connected to the outside world, and also dragged me out of the main network."

"However, after leaving the main network, its consciousness has degenerated to the most ignorant stage, and it is almost unable to make subjective reactions to the outside world."

"It may take some time for its consciousness to fully recover. During this period, I need to protect its body."

As Li Luo spoke, he poked the fungus in his hand with his fingers.

The fungus moved instinctively, looking very sluggish.

"This is the price of freedom..."

Listening to Li Luo's story, Mo Ling was also very surprised.

The underlying consciousness of the fungal network actually wants freedom?
Isn't it the leader of what the waiter calls "the cluster"?
"The subconscious mind is suppressed by endless distracting thoughts... I didn't expect that the internal structure of this fungal network is so complicated."

Just as Mo Ling was thinking, Li Luo's face suddenly froze and he jumped to the side.

"who!"

She looked at the darkness beside her and asked sternly. The fungus in her palm was beating slightly, as if it was these fungi that reminded her.

Suddenly, there was a metallic sound in the darkness, and a figure slowly appeared and walked in front of Li Luo with a staggering step.

It turned out to be a robot with its parts making rattling sounds!
"Hello, I'm the waiter in charge of the banquet hall. You can call me Omega Zero. I'm very interested in what you just said about the underlying consciousness. Could you please let me know more about it?"

……

Omega Zero, the waiter who had just been "eliminated", unexpectedly appeared in front of him again. Although he had not fully recovered and still remained in the form of a machine, his speed was already very fast.

"Sure enough, he is right, he is immortal." Mo Ling looked at the Omega Zero who suddenly appeared and felt a little worried.

This waiter was a little different from the two downstairs, and Mo Ling was worried that he would have a conflict with Li Luo.

At this time, Li Luo was also on guard, looking at the robot that suddenly appeared.

"Are you a waiter on this floor? Is this the banquet hall?"

"Yes, that's right. You came up from downstairs, right? I detected the signal of the key on you. You must be a friend of the hotel."

"Key?" Li Luo was stunned for a moment and touched his pocket.

"Delta Three gave this to me," she explained.

"He is my colleague. I remember him. He is the hardest-working one among us." Omega Zero looked at Li Luo with his mechanical eyes that had not yet fully recovered and said calmly.

"Why do you want to know about the subconscious? Aren't you the waiter in charge of this floor? Shouldn't you know everything that happened here?" Li Luo looked at Omega Zero warily and asked several questions in a row.

The robot shook its head. "I'm just an ordinary waiter. Of course I can't know everything. What's more, those fungi can't infect me, and I can't understand the fungal network in depth. I would like to experience it myself, but I really can't do it."

"As for why I want to understand the underlying consciousness, it's just to satisfy my curiosity. I want to find out what these guys who are causing trouble in the banquet hall are..."

Although the robot in front of him still maintained a cold "metal appearance", it spoke very sincerely. It did not approach Li Luo eagerly, but stood at a relatively non-offensive distance and stated its request slowly and leisurely.

"I think as a hotel employee, it is my duty to get to know every guest who comes to the hotel, no matter how they get there."

Having said this, Omega Zero looked at Li Luo meaningfully again, and his eyes quickly swept over Li Luo's somewhat unnatural hands.

The underlying consciousness of the entire fungal network is now in Li Luo's hands. After discovering Omega Zero, Li Luo hid it in his palm.

"Don't be nervous. I have no hostility towards visitors. What's more, you are a friend of the hotel."

Looking at the somewhat "embarrassed" robot, Li Luo did not answer his question immediately. Instead, he turned around and looked around, then asked, "You said this is the banquet hall?"

"Yes." The robot nodded.

"But this is not what a banquet hall looks like..."

"Are you doubting me? I didn't lie to you. This is indeed a banquet hall. It's just that some accidents happened and changed the original structure of the banquet hall."

The robot raised its hand and pointed around.

"You can see that the moss and the animals... they didn't originally belong here."

"One day, they suddenly came, and the floor of the ballroom became a cypress floor. The original tenants disappeared, and the whole ballroom seemed to be 'replaced'. It was completely transformed into another appearance. Only I was left."

"In order to prevent this from affecting other areas of the hotel, I immediately closed the passage between this floor and other floors. It can only be opened with the hotel key."

"After doing all this, I started investigating this matter. I found that those creatures were connected by a kind of fungus. You should have experienced it yourself..."

"But I didn't expect that you could break away from the link and bring out your underlying consciousness. I'm really curious, how did you do it?"

(End of this chapter)