I'm trapped in a block

Chapter 1238 Inquiry
In his moment of confusion, Martin suddenly remembered an old friend—

The eternal thirsty one.

"Since it tells us to search in other worlds, it must know something else."

So Martin traveled alone through the dream world and returned to the Library of the Eternally Thirsty Ones.

……

"You're back again, puppet of dreams. What have you decided? How about I help you break free from the shackles of dreams and become a higher being? Maybe you can even kill the dream yourself and seize its power..."

When Martin and Lu Qi last came to see the Thirsty One, the Thirsty One was very interested in him, the "pickled can man," and kept urging him to become a higher being.

Martin sensed a “morbid humor” in the advice of the eternal thirsty man.

It didn't really want to help Martin, but rather wanted to use him as an experiment to verify some kind of knowledge. This blatant intention was very obvious, so Martin didn't hesitate to reject the Ever Thirst's "help".

“I’m very satisfied with my current situation,” Martin replied earnestly.

"Oh? Are there really people willing to be puppets? From what I know of humans, humans are a race that values ​​freedom exceptionally much, even more than life and emotions. I see that yearning for freedom in you, but you've rejected me. I really don't understand. Are you doubting me?"

“Yes, you look like you have ulterior motives.” Martin didn’t hide anything and retorted directly.

The greed in his eyes was so obvious, as if he coveted everything about him and wanted to devour him alive.

"I'm helping you for my own reasons. I want to acquire some knowledge, and experimentation is one way to do so... It helps you and satisfies my desire for knowledge at the same time, so it's a win-win situation. I won't hide my thoughts, and you don't need to be too wary of me."

Despite what the Eternal Thirst said, Martin still couldn't easily believe it.

"No need to say more... I'm here to inquire about uniqueness, just like last time." He stated his purpose for coming.

“I know.” The Eternal Thirst wasn’t surprised at all: “You didn’t find it, did you?”

"Yes, we have been to many worlds, but none of them have a unique trace."

"Uniqueness is not something that can be found so easily. Just like a dream puppet like you, many things in the world are born from the impossible. They seem to appear very simple, but in reality, they are the result of countless accidental factors intersecting and being born with a probability of almost zero. The right time, the right place, and the right people are all indispensable."

“That’s why you’re so covetous of us,” Martin added from the side.

"Of course I covet you... I covet the knowledge you possess. The chances of understanding you, these accidental creations, are too few. Like rare gems, you shine brightly among countless ordinary stones, making it hard not to arouse my desire to explore."

The thirst of the eternal thirsting man for knowledge has never changed; his "desire" has always been so pure. It's just that the means of acquiring knowledge are no longer so "direct."

"Why did you send us to other worlds to search? You knew that this world no longer had a unique identity, right?"

"Well, I've learned about this world pretty much. There are no conditions for uniqueness to appear here... Only a suitable cradle can nurture a suitable individual."

"What are the conditions for uniqueness?" Martin immediately pressed. If he knew these conditions, he could filter the world and no longer be as confused as he was now, searching for a needle in a haystack among countless worlds.

The Thirsty One did not immediately answer Martin's question, but instead began by asking, "Do you know the One you wish to help?"

"You mean Mo Ling?"

"Yes, it's that human called 'Mo Ling,' do you know him?"

Martin thought for a moment, then nodded slightly.

I guess I understand...

“If you understand him, you can naturally deduce the conditions for the occurrence of uniqueness from him.”

Is it really possible to deduce it? Martin carefully recalled Moring's experience, and it seemed there was nothing special about it, except that he was a little lucky.

“You don’t understand him…” the Eternal Thirst said calmly, looking at Martin’s bewildered expression.

“You’re right, I really… don’t know him that well,” Martin admitted.

In reality, he hadn't spent much time with Mo Ling, and they had only met a few times. Most of his interactions came from what he heard from Lu Qi. Putting aside his experience of reaching the bottom of the abyss, Mo Ling was just one of millions of ordinary people. She didn't have outstanding intelligence or high moral character, and her physical abilities were only at the human average. Martin had seen many "perfect" humans under the sky, and an ordinary person like Mo Ling would be impossible to find in a crowd.

No, it's still possible to find it...

"He's quite handsome."

Although I hate to admit it, this is the truth.

However, there are many people with outstanding appearances everywhere, so what makes Mo Ling so special?
“Think carefully, when did his uniqueness emerge?” the Eternal Thirst prompted from the side.

Martin paused, then began to recall.

"After entering the abyss? It doesn't seem so..."

"When the abyss descended? Judging from Lu Qi's description, Mo Ling seems to have never changed, except that she gained the 'vision ability' when the abyss descended."

"Is it the uniqueness brought about by that ability? It seems that the two are not related."

"He's always been very lucky, and he's always been this 'naive'."

"Uniqueness seems to have always existed within him, even unrelated to the abyss; it all stems from him..."

"From the moment of birth!"

Once Martin understood this, his mind opened up instantly.

"He was born unique! It has nothing to do with any of his experiences!"

Martin suddenly realized that uniqueness is innate, and all those coincidences, intertwined destinies, and conditions that brought about its birth all happened before Moring was born!

"Do you understand now?" the Eternal Thirst asked again.

"Yes, uniqueness was born with him."

“You haven’t thought it through completely yet. Think about it again. What’s the difference between him and ‘us’? By ‘us’, I mean you and me…”

"us?"

Martin didn't quite understand what the Eternal Thirst had to say.

"What makes Mo Ling different?"

Didn't he just think about this question? Mo Ling is nothing special; he's just an ordinary human being.

Is being handsome really useful? Surely not?
To be honest, everyone is different, so how does he feel about that...?

Martin fell into deep thought, constantly comparing Moring to himself and then to the Eternal Thirst beside him, noticing the increasing differences.

Suddenly, he remembered his own answer.

"Uniqueness was born with him."

"Back then, it seems there was no abyss yet..."

"And our power comes from the abyss."

"If our power is a branch of the abyss, then its uniqueness..."

"It exists parallel to the Abyss! It exists outside the Abyss!"

Martin was instantly enlightened, his thoughts racing.

(End of this chapter)