I'm trapped in a block

Chapter 1201 The Hero Who Saved the World

The screen flickered, and Director Wang's voice echoed intermittently in the conference room. Mo Ling's heart, contained within the cube, began to pound.

He actually became the so-called "Salvation Cube"?
"Am I the hero who saves the world?"

So many things happened after he entered the abyss?

"I went to the bottom of the abyss... and gained the ability to create abyssal iron. I even sacrificed myself to seal the abyss?"

This experience, which did not exist in his memory, was simply too "absurd".

"Am I the kind of person who would sacrifice myself to save the world?" Listening to Director Wang's words, Mo Ling began to question her own heart.

The answer received was "uncertain".

Moreover, listening to these experiences, Mo Ling felt a sense of unfamiliarity.

"Did I really do this?"

Although he was very familiar with the abyssal iron and seemed to have some impression of the bottom of the abyss...

He seemed to have been to the bottom of the abyss, but it didn't seem to have anything to do with the Abyss Iron.

"What exactly is there?"

"Where did Yuan Tie come from...? Did I create it? Why don't I feel any familiarity with it?"

After listening to Director Wang's account of his "experiences," Mo Ling's memory became even more confused.

Images of iron blocks being joined together flashed through his mind. He seemed to remember something, but these images were fragmented and lacked any context.

Each of the words Director Wang used could evoke some emotions in his subconscious, but these emotions could not bring him clear memories, and Mo Ling could not sort out any patterns from the fluctuations of these emotions.

"Perhaps seeing those iron fragments with my own eyes might remind me of something..."

He needs something more "stimulating," something that can cause a greater emotional fluctuation, to break the chaos in his mind.

Director Wang's explanation was not entirely useless; at least it helped him understand the current situation.

"It's been so long already..."

"The world has become something I don't recognize."

Mo Ling was quite curious about this new world. What exactly had become of the world after the abyss descended and then closed off again?
To what extent has human technology developed?
Having acquired so much forbidden knowledge from the abyss, where will humanity's technology tree veer off course?
As someone who "traveled to the future," Mo Ling didn't have many worries; on the contrary, he was full of anticipation. He wasn't afraid of being disconnected from this world, and he was already very satisfied to be able to return to human society.

"Being able to eat delicious food and drink cola..."

Thinking of this, Mo Ling scratched her head and muttered in confusion, "How strange, why do I always want to drink cola?"

Mo Ling placed the empty Coke bottle on his bedside table. He hadn't drunk a drop of water since waking up, and now his mouth was dry and had a strange bitter taste, as if telling him that only Coke could quench his thirst.

Although there were some drinks on the metal floor nearby, the cola he wanted was not among them.

Strangely enough, even though it was all water, he had no desire for those drinks; all he could think about was cola.

How do I tell people outside that I want to drink Coke?

"Isn't it a bit inappropriate to say I want a Coke at this time?" The research institute staff outside, as well as the middle-aged men in suits, all had very serious expressions. Suddenly interrupting the meeting to say they wanted a Coke was somewhat disrespectful.

As he thought about it, Mo Ling bent down and picked up the bottled water that had just been brought in from outside. His body was still a little weak, and the mere act of bending over made him tremble.

"This is the only drinkable one. The other drinks must have expired, after all, they've been expired for so long..."

As the sweet water flowed down his throat, the sweetness and bitterness in his mouth finally subsided a little. But once the water had completely entered his stomach, a bitter taste returned to his mouth, as if the bitterness had stuck to his tongue and could not be washed away with water.

Mo Ling took only one sip and then put the water bottle aside.

"It's so bitter... I really want something sweet..."

Mo Ling didn't know what was wrong with him or why his sense of taste was so strange. After the water went down, he didn't feel thirsty at all; instead, he felt an even greater "emptiness."

What exactly did I experience in the abyss?

He licked his lips, which had become dry again, and covered his chest.

At this moment, not only did my mouth taste bitter, but I also felt a sense of emptiness in my heart.

"Save the world, shouldn't that be a happy thing? Why don't I feel happy? Instead, I feel a bit dazed."

This is abnormal. Although he has lost his memory, his subconscious will still react correctly.

Just like when he heard Director Wang recount the events of those experiments, he felt a corresponding emotion. Even if he didn't remember it, he could still get an emotional response from those fleeting, blurry fragments.

Faced with the experience of "saving the world," he felt no joy whatsoever, not even fragments of memory surfaced, and his mind remained a complete blank.

"Did I really do that?"

Mo Ling had doubts again, but looking at the serious faces of everyone in the conference room outside, he felt that his doubts were somewhat unnecessary.

"All that effort just to deceive me seems pointless..."

Perhaps there's no need to rush. Once the memory is fully restored, the truth will be revealed...

Mo Ling took a deep breath and suppressed her doubts.

Director Wang was still showing pictures, but they were all just photos of routine experiments.

The screen flashed rapidly and stopped on a comparison chart. Director Wang also looked up at the square.

"Not long ago, we detected an unusual observation wave signal originating from the cube. We quickly went to the exhibition hall, communicated with the cube, and confirmed that the cube's main consciousness had fully returned, and the observation wave signal had completely stabilized..."

"The two charts on the screen, the left one is the waveform of the cube in its dormant state, and the right one is the waveform of the cube in its awakened state. You can see a clear difference, and the waveform continuity is also more complete..."

Although Director Wang was looking at the cube, he was speaking to the middle-aged men.

They maintained a steady sitting posture throughout, their facial expressions remaining unchanged, but simply sitting there exuded a powerful aura. Many of Director Wang's words were "deliberately" spoken to them.

"These are the institute's current findings. We will strengthen our communication with the cube to help it recover from traumatic memory and understand contemporary society..."

The rest was just a series of platitudes. After Director Wang finished speaking, he bowed to the audience and then looked in the direction of several middle-aged men, waiting for their instructions.

(End of this chapter)