I'm trapped in a block

Chapter 1037 "Awakening"

Omega Zero kept his word and sent the tenant "away" on the spot.

After a scream, the tenant who was alive just now has turned into a corpse.

Omega Zero stared at the corpse at his feet in shock for a long time.

Under the scalp is the skull, and there doesn’t seem to be anything strange about it.

The hotel's self-cleaning function quickly cleaned up the body, as if nothing had happened.

"I still don't know who you are..."

He whispered to the empty ground.

As a waiter, killing a guest without determining that the guest would affect the operation of the hotel was an extremely outrageous act, and Omega Zero was prepared to be punished.

However, there are already enough unreasonable things happening in the hotel, and this one is not the only one.

The next morning, the banquet started as usual. There was no punishment, and the other guests did not notice that there was one person missing from the banquet hall. They continued to sing and dance, jumping and skipping...

Omega Zero was already somewhat numb. He walked over to a tenant and asked him:
"Do you remember the guy who often played with you at the banquet before?"

"Remember, it disappeared. Did it go to another level?"

"No..." Omega Zero hesitated for a moment, then said calmly: "I killed it."

"Killed?"

"Well, I ripped off its scalp, and then it died."

"Haha, Omega Zero, you really know how to joke."

……

Why doesn't anyone find it strange that he did something so outrageous?

Omega Zero stood in the corner of the banquet hall, watching the banquet being held as scheduled, and suddenly felt that everything in front of him was not real.

Since he came to the banquet hall, he has been working diligently, trying to organize every banquet well and serving every guest wholeheartedly. However, in the end, it all seems to be meaningless. Even if he does not do so subjectively, the hotel will put everything on the "right track" and use invisible and intangible rules to constrain the operation of the banquet hall.

The tenants here have their cognition modified, the environment here is defined, and the banquet here...

Omega Zero suddenly looked at his hands, his eyes widened, and he realized something strange:

“How did I throw a party?”

He seemed to have no involvement in the preparation of the banquet at all, but also seemed to be "involved" in some way.

"Didn't I kidnap the tenants yesterday? How did I prepare for the banquet?"

The same went for the previous banquets. The themes of those banquets seemed to appear out of thin air in his mind. The food, scene layout, and activity schedule at the banquets...it was as if he had never prepared them.

Omega Zero didn't remember ever bringing food to the table himself.

He also didn't remember setting the scene.

The process of those activities seems to be automatically "carried out" when the time comes.

The "stopped" banquets, "not held" banquets, and "lights turned off" banquets that he had specially organized before were actually also a kind of theme banquets. After these ideas were generated in his mind, the banquet hall automatically held these themed banquets according to his ideas.

“What on earth was I working on?”

“Am I really working hard?”

"Or am I just like those 'tenants'? I just need a 'waiter' here, and I only need him to play the role of 'waiter', and he doesn't need to take care of anything else?"

Omega Zero suddenly felt a great fear rising in his heart.

He had always thought that he was "awakened", but only now did he realize his problem, and realized that the "identity" he had been insisting on was so unreasonable. "Awakened, but not completely?"

"Or... my awakening is also the theme of a banquet?"

"Waiter's Awakening Party?"

"Waiters massacred tenants at the party?"

"Am I playing the role of an awakened waiter, or am I really awakened and aware of the problem?"

Omega Zero held his head, looking at the flickering lights in the banquet hall, feeling a little dizzy.

The lights flickered, turning into strings of codes that penetrated into his body. His consciousness alternated between "reality" and "falsehood", just like those "1" and "0". The scenes that happened in the hotel kept replaying before his eyes, from the time he started training until now.

His efforts, his dedication, his doubts, his confusion… all turned into strings of code, shuttling through the lights. Some passed through the bodies of the guests, some flew over the walls of the banquet hall into the void, some turned into food and were eaten by the body, and some turned into the waiter uniform he had never changed…

"I am Omega Zero, a waiter at the hotel..."

"After the training, I came to the hotel..."

"My job is to host banquets and keep the hotel running until..."

"until……"

He once again asked himself three philosophical questions.

But even I didn't believe my own answer.

Is he Omega Zero, or something else?
Omega Zero took a dazed step and walked into the party.

The guests swayed as they passed by him in strange postures. The colorful lights highlighted the liveliness of the banquet. Exquisite food was carefully prepared for every guest. He had worked here for so long, but he had no idea where the food came from.

Omega Zero picked up a piece of cake and crushed it slowly in his hand.

This is a kind of cake made with vanilla. Many vegetarian guests like to eat this kind of cake. It tastes very fragrant and crispy. A lot of it is prepared for every banquet.

The biscuit crumbs slowly fell down, and he was stunned again.

He had obviously never made this kind of cake himself, but he knew how to make it and which tenants it was served to.

He had previously introduced it to the tenant in a very detailed manner, as if he had really prepared it himself.

"Why would I know that?"

“I didn’t learn that during the training…”

Omega Zero's hands dropped weakly, and the few remaining crumbs fell to the ground. He looked at the table full of "familiar" food and for a moment he didn't know what to do.

"The theme of this banquet is called - The Confused Me."

He seemed to have become the protagonist of the banquet, an "object" that had long been placed in the scene. In essence, there was no difference between him and the vanilla cake on the table.

The banquet will continue according to the normal "process" until... it ends?
"No, it won't end."

Omega Zero knew that today's banquet was over, and tomorrow's banquet would begin again, and the cycle would repeat itself, never ending...

His confusion will continue as the banquet continues.

unless--

He left the banquet hall, left the hotel, and left this fictional world.

Only by going outside the "banquet" and personally examining the "banquet" with an outsider's eye can he know the truth.

Only in this way can he find a way out of his confusion.

(End of this chapter)