I'm trapped in a block

Chapter 1231 Courtyard
Now Moring can no longer fully believe anything Martin says.

He took Martin's words as just a way of comforting himself.

How can a person live well when locked up alone at the bottom of an abyss?

Although Mo Ling couldn't recall any information about the bottom of the abyss, he knew it wasn't a good place.

With each level of the abyss, the danger intensifies, and the environment becomes increasingly bizarre and incomprehensible to humankind.

Even the fifth level of darkness is unsuitable for human habitation, let alone the bottom of the abyss...

"She could never have had a good time there."

Thinking of this, Mo Ling's heart began to ache again.

"Martin, tell me the truth... How is she now? Is she dead or alive? So much time has passed... No, the flow of time at the bottom of the abyss is different from that on the surface, so not much time has passed there."

Moring spoke haltingly, while Martin reassured her, "Believe me, she's really good. She's more suited to that place than any of us. It's her territory."

"How is that possible? No one can adapt to the bottom of the abyss. What does she eat and drink there? How does she survive the danger all by herself?"

Mo Ling asked a series of questions, and with each question, his worries grew.

However, Martin slowly shook his head as he listened to Moring's questions.

After hesitating for a moment, he said something very unexpected to Mo Ling:
“Mo Ling, she is not an ordinary human being.”

Not a normal human? What does that mean?
Mo Ling was stunned, staring at Martin, hoping he could provide an answer.

But Martin didn't continue, only giving vague and ambiguous answers.

"Anyway, all you need to know is that she is not an ordinary human. Her potential will be fully unleashed when she reaches the bottom of the abyss, and she will also reveal her original form, which is the most suitable form for the bottom of the abyss, completely different from the mortal body of a human."

"Why?" Mo Ling asked in confusion, he had never known that Li Luo had such potential.

In those fragmented memories, Li Luo was always an ordinary human girl. Apart from being a little smarter, having a slightly strange family background, a slightly awkward personality, and being a little lucky, she was nothing special. All of this was within the range of normal human beings.

During the journey, Li Luo did not show any great potential. She just kept saying that she was going to the bottom of the abyss, without explaining why she wanted to go.

Martin's words seemed more like a consolation to him.

"Are you lying to me again?"

"I did not lie to you."

“Li Luo is just an ordinary person. No matter how far he goes in the abyss, he is still just an ordinary person.” Mo Ling repeated his point of view. He simply couldn’t believe Martin’s baseless words.

Now that things had come to this, Martin knew there was no other way. To dispel Moring's doubts, he had to come up with something...

After much deliberation, he finally made a decision.

"Let me take you somewhere."

……

Martin gently reached out and drew a crack in the center of the living room. The edge of the crack was surrounded by colorful light strips, shimmering with an illusory light. Through the crack, one could seem to see a weed-covered courtyard on the other side.

"Walk."

Martin took Moring's hand and decisively crossed the crack.

As the pixels dispersed and converged, the scene before her gradually became clear. Mo Ling felt her vision blur and found herself standing in the courtyard.

There's barely any room to stand; the courtyard is completely overgrown with weeds, and the trees, haphazardly intertwined, block out all sunlight.

Even in such a chaotic scene, Mo Ling managed to find some vague fragments in her memory.

“I’ve been here.”

It's not just that I came here, it seems like I even lived here. "Wait... it seems like that memory doesn't belong to me."

It belongs to Li Luo!

This is Li Luo's childhood home!
As the memories came together, everything gradually became clear. He had indeed been here, but not in person; he had come using Li Luo's memories.

"While on Paradise Island, I stumbled upon Li Luo's past..."

Familiar scenes echoed in Mo Ling's mind, and he endured the pain in his heart as he looked around the courtyard.

Li Luo often played in this courtyard. She would climb the trees to look at the street outside, hide by the wall to eavesdrop on the conversations of passersby, and build blocks in the open space, then knock them down, then build them again...

As he immersed himself in that memory that wasn't his, Mo Ling's heart didn't ache as much. He slowly lowered his hand, turned around, and asked Martin, "Why did you bring me here?"

Martin didn't answer him immediately, but instead asked him directly, "You've been here before?"

"I've been here before, in Li Luo's memories." Mo Ling nodded.

"After so long, there's hardly been any change here. If I think about it carefully, it must have been over sixty years, right? And it's still like this..." He looked at the buildings, which weren't particularly old, and sighed.

The passage of time has changed the world, but some places remain in the past.

When Mo Ling recalled Li Luo's childhood, a faint sadness rose in her heart.

Children are easily satisfied; building a pile of blocks, climbing a tree, or catching a bug can make them happy all day. Although Li Luo is confined to her home every day, this courtyard provides her with plenty of fun.

Compared to other children, she was lonely, but loneliness did not cause her any pain.

But that doesn’t mean she’s not afraid of loneliness. Right now, she must be very lonely, sitting alone at the bottom of the abyss.

"Just like when we were kids..."

As Mo Ling was thinking, a gentle breeze blew through the courtyard. Unswept fallen leaves swirled around him, rose up in front of him, and then slowly fell back down, twirling on the ground, as if someone were standing in front of him, responding to him.

“Li Luo”.

Mo Ling murmured softly, the rustling of falling leaves gradually swallowing his calls...

"Since you've been here before, you should know what Li Luo's childhood was like, right?" Martin asked casually.

"know."

After answering Martin's question, Moring suddenly thought of something.

"Is the 'potential' you mentioned related to her childhood?"

Martin nodded.

"What does it have to do with anything?" Mo Ling immediately pressed.

As soon as he asked the question, he immediately thought of the building blocks that Li Luo used to play with as a child.

"A cube...metal...abyssal iron!"

Everything was connected.

The person with the deepest connection to Yuan Tie was not him, but Li Luo!

Because of the trauma of her childhood, Li Luo deliberately hid that connection and never revealed it to anyone.

No matter how hard Mo Ling thought about it, she couldn't understand how Li Luo had done it.

Just because you liked playing with metal blocks when you were a child doesn't mean you can seal off the abyss with iron when you grow up, right?
Only Martin can answer this question...

"What's so special about this place? Why did you bring me here?"

(End of this chapter)