I'm trapped in a block

Chapter 1044 The Truth About the Hotel

"Have you finished reading it?" Li Luo's voice came slowly.

"Look... I've finished looking, but... who are they, those in white clothes, humans?" Omega Zero's voice was a little hesitant. When he read the word "human", he seemed a little awkward, as if he was considering how to pronounce this word, and was deeply confused.

"They should be the builders of the hotel, or rather, this is not a hotel, but a spaceship. We are in the data grid of the spaceship, in the data world they built."

"I understand all the ins and outs, but I have some questions... Those builders are called 'humans', right?" Omega Zero asked Li Luo.

"Yes."

"So you are human too?"

"Well, but I am not a human from this world, like that... savior."

After hearing Li Luo's answer, Omega Zero fell silent, as if he was sorting out the relationship between these different "humans". After a while, his voice was heard again.

"Didn't these builders say they would live in data grids? Where did they go? I've been in the hotel for so long, and I've never seen them, nor have I ever seen any 'humans'."

Omega Zero's words were filled with confusion.

"I don't know where they went... Although they disappeared, their traces are everywhere here... There are sundries with various human characters written on them in the storage room downstairs, and you waiters also look like humans. Moreover, the structure of the hotel has been preserved intact, but the 'guests' here have been replaced by other creatures..." Li Luo replied.

Listening to the conversation in the distance, Mo Ling was also wondering what was happening here.

These creatures of unknown origin became the hotel's "guests," and some even spoke human language.

Another ship carrying animals also appeared in the banquet hall.

One ship is carrying living objects, the other is carrying data. Is it possible that the two ships could collide with each other?
Something must have happened after those two spacecraft left, causing the hotel to become what it is now.

Or maybe before setting off, those humans temporarily changed the details of the plan.

"Was it the savior who did it?"

Mo Ling was still bothered by the feeling he had just had. He always felt that the savior's purpose in helping the humans in this world was not that simple.

"Your own world is destroyed, so you run to another world to help?"

Is it really?

The vague figure flashed through Mo Ling's mind again, and the feeling of familiarity and loss surged into his heart at the same time.

In the shattered light and shadow around, there seemed to be some trace of that person, shuttling back and forth in the scattered light beams.

"Can we find a way to find the subsequent videotapes? Maybe we can find some other clues."

As Mo Ling was thinking this, Li Luo in the distance also made the same suggestion to Omega Zero.

But Omega Zero rejected Li Luo's proposal.

"The colleague in the screening room should have discovered us. It's impossible for him not to know about the swapping of the videotapes..."

Not long after Omega Zero finished saying this, another voice suddenly came. The timbre of that voice was exactly the same as Omega Zero's, except that the speaking speed was a little slower and the breath was weak, like an old man in his twilight years.

"Omega Zero, what are you doing in the screening room?"

This should be the colleague he was talking about. Mo Ling couldn't see them now, and didn't know what this colleague looked like, but it was easy to guess that he must have the same appearance as the hotel waiter, but the mark on his forehead was different. Omega Zero found that his colleague had come and quickly apologized:
"Yota Qi, I'm sorry, I took the initiative to change your videotape."

"Yeah." The colleague in the screening room responded indifferently, as if he didn't care at all, and asked softly: "Are you here just to change my video tape?"

"I just want to know what happened in the hotel before." Omega Zero explained quickly.

"Oh, do you know now?" the colleague continued to ask indifferently.

"I see...but I still have a lot of doubts."

“You’re right to be suspicious.”

"What do you mean?"

"I once had the same doubts as you."

"Have you also awakened? Have you also doubted everything in the hotel?" Omega Zero asked in surprise.

"Of course, I've been playing the videotape here for so long and seen so much of the hotel's past. Don't you think I won't have any doubts?" the colleague asked.

"I thought I was the only one awakened..."

"No, many employees in the hotel have awakened before. However, after they found that their awakening had no effect and that confusion would not bring them the truth, they gave up thinking and turned back into well-behaved 'hotel employees'."

Omega Zero was even more surprised when he heard his colleague's words.

"Are you serious? Why didn't I know this before... I asked many colleagues, but they all acted as if they had never awakened."

"Of course they would do this... You are confused, and they are confused too. Two confused people put together are still confused, and there is no effect. We don't want to cause trouble. If the hotel's rules really exist, this behavior will undoubtedly cause trouble for both parties. The best way is to pretend that you know nothing, continue to work, continue to complete the task, and dispel the confusion on your own."

"But if we don't take action, won't the confusion continue?" Omega Zero couldn't understand this approach and asked quickly.

The colleague sighed helplessly, his tone somewhat frustrated: "So what if we put it into action? Do you know how many colleagues have awakened during the long years of the hotel's operation? How many colleagues have tried to understand the truth? They tried hard to find the truth, but the result they got was still endless confusion..."

"Even if you watch the video here over and over again a thousand, ten thousand, or a hundred million times... you will still be confused. You don't know what those creatures called 'humans' are, nor do you know what the 'abyss' is."

"The more you know, the more confused you become. You know that the hotel is a data grid, so you start to think about what a data grid is. You know that we are on a spaceship, so you start to think about where the spaceship is flying to, when it will reach a suitable planet, and then you start to think about what to do after arriving..."

"The humans have disappeared. We have their appearance. Should we help them carry out their plan?"

“Solve one problem, and ten more will appear.”

“Solve ten problems, and a hundred more will appear.”

"Confusion can never be resolved. This is the experience I have gained over the long years. I was once as passionate as you, eager to know the truth of everything, but later I realized that the truth will never end. I am just an ordinary theater attendant. All I have to do is play the videotape well. Don't think about what I played, don't think about the content of the videotape, don't think about things I shouldn't think about, and then confusion will stay away from me."

"But the truth will also stay away from you!" Omega Zero seemed to be irritated by his colleague's words and said angrily.

"No, the truth is something that can never be touched..." The colleague responded calmly:
"the truth--"

“The closer you get to it, the further away it gets.”

“The further you are from it, the closer it gets.”

(End of this chapter)