I'm trapped in a block

Chapter 1137 External Objects
"Human beings are not only external objects, but also very special external objects..."

"To go from the fourth layer of the abyss to the fifth layer, a process is required. This process is called anchoring. It is the process of transforming the external objects of the abyss into internal objects. Only after anchoring, you are qualified to pass through the passage between the fourth and fifth layers."

"This passage is called the Abyss Hole. It is like a funnel that can filter out what the Abyss really needs. Things that have not been anchored will be excluded by the Abyss Hole and cannot enter the lower layer of the Abyss."

"The special thing about humans is that the anchoring process you need is more complicated than other things. You need to constantly participate in the events of the Abyss, make yourself a part of the development of the Abyss, and play certain roles in the process of the 'proliferation' of this cancer cell in the Abyss. Only then will this cancer cell regard you as its own."

"Compared to other foreign objects, they may be considered by the abyss as 'food that falls into the mouth', while humans will be considered 'foreign objects that invade the mouth'. The abyss will be more stringent in its screening of humans, and will require a greater anchoring coefficient."

"You can think of this process of going from outside the abyss to inside the abyss as the process of a living organism accepting foreign objects... It's similar to digestion. After swallowing a piece of meat, the stomach and intestines break it down into various nutrients, which are then absorbed by the living organism. In this way, the purely foreign object becomes a useful substance for the abyss."

"In order to achieve anchoring, we must stay on the fourth floor for a while until the abyss accepts us..."

The elf narrated the story to him seriously.

After listening to it, Router thought for a while and asked, "How long will this take?"

"Uncertain. The anchoring time of each foreign object is uncertain. If it is similar to the abyss itself, the time will be shorter. If it is a foreign object that is difficult to 'digest', the time may be very long."

"I see..." Lu Luqi said softly, his tone somewhat frustrated.

After a while, he seemed a little unconvinced and asked the elf again: "Do we have to be 'digested' by the abyss?"

The elf's answer was still exactly the same: "This is a process of transforming from an external object into an internal object. Only when it becomes a 'nutrient' can it be accepted by the abyss."

Human beings are like a piece of flesh and blood outside the abyss. If they want to enter deeper into the abyss, they must first be digested and decomposed into nutrients and become something that can be accepted by the abyss and filtered through the holes of the abyss. This is a necessary path and an unavoidable choice.

However, Router didn't seem to think so. After a moment of silence, he asked the elf another question:
"The purpose of anchoring is just to filter, right?"

"Yes."

“Then can we bypass the screening?”

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"To enter a living body, being digested is not the only way. There is another way - to become a virus."

"You said before that the Abyss is a mass of cancer cells, but no matter how powerful a cancer cell is, it is still a mass of cells, and the virus can still invade the interior of the cells."

"The abyss screening mechanism you described is actually similar to the screening of cell membranes."

"The first is the physical barrier. The phospholipid bilayer structure of the cell membrane can prevent the free diffusion of most polar molecules and charged substances, just like the physical isolation between the fourth and fifth layers."

"The second is the selective channel, which uses channel proteins, carrier proteins and pump proteins to actively and passively transport some substances. This is just like the abyss, which retains useful substances through screening."

"There are also macromolecule endocytosis and exocytosis as well as immune recognition, which all utilize receptors on the cell membrane. The abyss pores should also have the function of receptors, specifically transporting the anchored objects into the abyss..."

"This screening only looks strict. If we can find a way to become the 'Abyss Virus', we can easily bypass the screening."

"There are many ways for the virus to bypass screening, we just need to choose one of them..."

"It can disguise itself as something that the cell needs... It can disguise us as something that has been anchored."

"We can hijack the endocytosis pathway... forcefully control the Abyss Hole, and use its transport function to send us to the lower level."

"You can directly fuse the membrane to break through the barrier... find the connecting barrier between the fourth and fifth layers, break the barrier and directly enter the fifth layer."

"It can also interfere with immune recognition... use the substances of the Abyss itself to wrap itself and deceive the Abyss's 'immune function'." "It can also use cellular enzymes to assist in invasion... find the loopholes of the Abyss itself and use its own defects to open a gap in the channel for us."

The router mentioned many methods in one breath, however, these methods are only feasible in theory and have little practical significance.

But after listening to it, the elf gave an affirmative reply: "We can indeed bypass the screening, which will save a lot of time..."

"Do you have any specific approach?" Lu Qi asked seriously.

"No, but I know a place where it might be," the elf answered decisively.

"Where?"

"library."

……

The blue olive rose and fell, and Mo Ling listened to the conversation between Router and the elf, and fell into a deep sleep again.

He always does this every time he hears complex knowledge.

He had this problem when he was in school. Once the "CPU" was overloaded, it would choose to hibernate. This was a protective mechanism for the brain, but it also made Mo Ling miserable.

Every time he was woken up by the teacher, he would apologize sincerely.

"I'm sorry, teacher. It's not that I don't want to listen, but you explained it so well that all the knowledge entered my brain. I couldn't bear it, so I fell asleep..."

Having seen Mo Ling like this, the teacher could only sigh helplessly, advised her to "listen carefully", and then continued with the class...

Every time this happened, Mo Ling's groundhog classmate would say sarcastically, "You got away with it again, Sleepyhead."

Mo Ling knew he was in the wrong, so he could only scratch his head and smile awkwardly.

"The teacher is here...why didn't you wake me up?"

"She's already found out, so why not let you sleep for a few more seconds and have a sweet dream? The old witch has sharp eyes. She saw you as soon as you fell asleep, but she waited for you to fall asleep for a while before calling you."

"I was just thinking that you were disloyal for not reminding me."

"Don't I understand you? Your brain can only hold this much. You won't understand anything even if I wake you up. It's better for you to sleep and digest it. You'll wake up by yourself after digesting it..."

"That's true, you really understand me."

"Of course I understand you! I even know what you are thinking right now!"

"Really?"

"Really? If you don't believe me, just think of a number and I can guess it right away."

"I figured it out."

"7."

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(End of this chapter)