I'm trapped in a block

Chapter 1229 Stranger Friends
Mo Ling didn't know why she said "long time no see".

He was still hesitating, but his heart had already made the decision for him, allowing him to express his longing for the long-lost figure before him.

Although he himself did not know where this longing came from.

"Who are you?" Mo Ling asked curiously, looking at the kimchi jar with tentacles constantly swaying.

He could only hope that the other party's answer would resolve his doubts.

"Don't you remember me?" the other person asked calmly.

"Hmm, I've forgotten a lot of things..."

Mo Ling told the person in front of him about his current situation without hiding anything. His subconscious was telling him that the other person was trustworthy.

After listening to Mo Ling's story, the other party simply nodded slightly.

"It's okay, I'll tell you our story again, and you'll remember."

"It all started when we first met. We met on the second level of the abyss, when I was trapped inside the Black Tower..."

The "stranger" in front of her led Mo Ling out of the laboratory and into the living room. She sat on the sofa and recounted everything that had happened between them.

This took a long time. Whenever Mo Ling raised her questions, the other party would patiently answer them, no matter how "naive" the questions were.

"Martin... are we friends?"

"Of course, after I was wanted, I didn't meet many humans. You are one, Li Luo is one, Lu Youqi is one, they are all my friends."

Hearing those familiar names from the other person's mouth, Mo Ling's memories surged up again.

"I went down into the abyss twice, didn't I?"

"Yes."

"Why? Because I didn't reach the bottom of the abyss the first time? So I have to start over?"

"No, you reached the bottom of the abyss both times, but the results were different."

"Different results?"

"Well, you didn't save the world the first time, but you did the second time..."

Hearing Martin mention "success," Mo Ling felt little joy; instead, she suddenly felt a pang of anxiety.

"And what is the price?" he blurted out.

There will always be a price to pay, right?
Why did it take him so long to return to the surface?

Why have all the people Martin mentioned disappeared?

What about Li Luo? What about Lu Youqi?

Why did he and Martin reunite at the top of Dawn Tower?
What exactly happened in between?
Mo Ling felt as if something was gripping her heart, and a tremendous fear arose within her.

He didn't know what he was afraid of. Perhaps he was afraid that the passage of time would take away many familiar things, perhaps he was afraid of the truth buried deep inside, or perhaps he was afraid of the unknown price.

"There's always a price to pay for saving lives, isn't there?"

Mo Ling understood that the Abyss was not so easy to defeat, and he alone could not seal it. What was even stranger was that he had no familiarity with the story of the "Salvation Cube" that was currently circulating, as if he had not made it.

He shouldn't have no recollection of something so important.

Then there's only one possibility... "The truth is not so."

Faced with Mo Ling's questioning, Martin seemed to be thinking about his words. He lowered his head slightly, and the tentacles in the kimchi jar appeared and disappeared from time to time.

"The cost... if it can save all the worlds, then the cost is nothing. This is already the best outcome."

Martin didn't seem to want to go into details.

Seeing his hesitation, Mo Ling decided to ask him from a different angle.

"Why are you here?"

You mean Dawn Tower?

"Hmm, why is there such a building at the top of the tower, as if it was waiting for me to arrive? I had no trouble getting in, found this room, found the laboratory, and discovered the operating manual you left behind... Was this something you arranged all along?"

“Yes.” Martin nodded and explained to Moring.

"As you know, once the entrance to the abyss is sealed, the power of the abyss can no longer penetrate to the surface, including the dream power I use. Once the dream power is exhausted, I can only slowly walk towards death like an ordinary person."

“But I can’t die so soon, so I came up with a plan.”

"I reduced my energy consumption to a minimum, temporarily hiding myself deep within the dream. Then, using my last bit of strength, I dispersed myself into the foundation of the dream—the pixels you see—and then..."

"Injected into the body of every resident of Dawn City."

At this point, Moring was utterly shocked and couldn't help but ask, "How did you inject it?"

"Using vaccines, every resident of Dawn City needs to be injected with the Abyss Virus vaccine. These vaccines are all produced by Abyssheart Technology. I still have a lot of power in Abyssheart Technology, so I distributed my pixels into these vaccines, so that every resident who is vaccinated carries my pixels..."

"What's the use?"

"Of course it's useful. Although the abyss is sealed, relics can still be used. I myself am a relic. I can also use 'blood exchange' to obtain power that doesn't belong to me, and I can also use 'blood exchange' to accomplish some things."

Martin continued his explanation.

"After I injected my pixels into the bodies of the residents of Dawn City, their dreams became connected with mine, and they gained the power of dreams to some extent, but the concentration of power was too low, so they did not notice the changes in their bodies."

"After connecting everyone with me, I can continuously absorb the power of dreams and no longer need to draw power from the abyss."

“Every night, every moment of sleep, people’s thoughts become the foundation of dreams, and all kinds of fruits grow on these foundations. I can then steal these fruits by using the pixels left in their bodies.”

"Although each person can only generate a small amount of dream power, when the entire Dawn City is gathered together, it becomes a considerable force."

"Anyway, their dreams are useless, so they might as well supply me with energy," Martin said nonchalantly, shrugging his shoulders.

"Although I am asleep and scattered, I am still attached to every resident of Dawn City. When I wake up, I will gather the pixels together again, and the dream energy collected during this time will be recycled and become 'Martin' again."

"But I need an 'action' that can trigger recycling."

"It's what's written in the user manual."

At this point, Mo Ling had a general idea that Martin's method was "parasitism," parasitizing each resident of Dawn City, gathering enough energy, and then returning to the city. But there was still one thing he didn't understand.

How did you know I would definitely come here?

"Because you have been here in a dream, and I found traces of your presence in the dream, I am certain that your memory will guide you here, sooner or later."

(End of this chapter)