I'm trapped in a block

Chapter 1244 Root System Roaming
"It's time to go."

After a good meal and a proper rest, Lu Qi said to Martin.

Martin saw the burning flames again in his eyes as he traveled along the route.

Perhaps it could be said that this flame has never been extinguished, but has been burning steadfastly, scorching every world they have reached, and along the roots they have reached, it has always radiated a scorching heat throughout the entire abyss.

"hold my hand."

Martin extended his right hand and placed it flat in the air.

Lu Qi grabbed it without hesitation.

Martin didn't know if it was because he himself had little "temperature" that he felt Lu Youqi's palm was very warm, even a little hot.

"You have a fever?"

"What?" Lu Youqi looked confused.

“It’s alright…” Martin quickly changed the subject: “Remember to hurry up. The world’s roots are very complex. I have to focus on selecting nodes, so I might not be able to take care of you.”

"Okay." Lu Youqi nodded heavily.

With everything prepared, a lot of pickles appeared out of thin air in Martin's glass jar. The pickles started spinning instantly, and then countless tentacles emerged, chasing after the pickles. The tentacles twisted into circles of "donuts" inside the jar.

These "donuts" quickly filled the entire glass jar, and at the instant they were filled, Martin and the surrounding environment shattered into countless scattered pixels.

Like a toppled set of building blocks, all the pixels collapsed, turning into colorful beads that dripped onto the ground and then bounced up instantly as if springy.

After the beads landed again, they accelerated once more, their kinetic energy increasing with each impact, becoming faster and faster with each launch, cutting through the air, through Martin and Route's bodies.

They felt nothing as the beads passed through them; only the parts that were hit turned colorful. The beads shot faster and faster, hitting them more and more often, until they were so fast that they could no longer be seen. At that point, they blended into the surrounding colors.

They seemed to have turned into high-speed moving beads, bouncing around in an unknown space.

"When I traveled through the world before, it didn't seem this complicated."

From within the colorful space, came the sound of Lu's doubt.

“This time we need to be fast enough, so we can’t use the same method of traversing as before,” Martin explained calmly.

"Why don't I see the root system you mentioned?" Lu Qi's voice came again.

"do you want to see?"

"of course."

"Wait a moment, until we reach the edge of this world, then I'll open your field of vision..."

Within the colorful pixels, the voices of the two continued to ring out, their positions constantly shifting. The high-speed pixels were launched along the dream's trajectory, using the dreams of the dormant consciousness in the world as slingshots, gradually accelerating to a speed sufficient to jump nodes.

"I think I've figured out your method. This is a gravity slingshot."

"There's no such thing as gravity in a dream; this is a dream slingshot."

"The principle is the same... It's so primitive. I thought you could use something like 'Dream Curve Navigation' to fold the orbit of a dream and jump directly to other locations."

“What you said… is actually feasible, but we can’t withstand that kind of folding. When dreams fold, our consciousness also folds. Human consciousness is too fragile. We will all become ‘stupid’ after the voyage ends.”

"How stupid? Is Mo Ling really that stupid?"

"..."

Martin's voice disappeared for a moment before it rang out again.

"It shouldn't be as stupid as Mo Ling, maybe one and a half Mo Lings."

"That's still pretty scary."

"..."

After gaining enough acceleration, the two finally began to bounce towards the edge of the world. The colorful marbles struck the "ground" again, but this time, instead of bouncing up, they shattered the "ground" and escaped beyond it. Suddenly, the surroundings turned black, no longer a sea of ​​color, but only a thin line of color stretching into the unknown distance.

They were like a spaceship that had burst out of the Milky Way and landed in a desolate wasteland, where there were no longer any planets around, but instead an endless dark void.

The lonely, colorful spaceship moved along the thin interstellar orbit, and the voices of the two pilots gradually became ethereal.

"Now I'm opening my eyes to you."

"it is good."

The pilot pressed a button on the spaceship, and a detailed star map appeared in front of the co-pilot.

Those thin, colorful interstellar orbits do not exist independently. In the unknown distance, they are connected to a node, and below that node are countless parallel subordinate nodes, which are also connected by thin, colorful lines.

These fine lines are the trajectory of dreams, outlining a vast network of roots on that star map.

"This was drawn when I was looking for the starting point last time."

"The one at the very top is the starting point, right?"

Those countless colorful lines eventually converge at a huge node, no longer rising or branching. That is the origin of all branches and the end of the star map.

The colorful spaceship is flying towards that direction right now.

"Hmm," Martin responded softly, his voice fading into the vastness of space.

"It really does look like a tree root; no wonder you thought so."

"This is all the world I can see right now."

"it's beautiful……"

The co-pilot gazed at the intricate star map and exclaimed in amazement.

Countless dim galaxies linked together appear to shine so brightly.

He knew in his heart that they weren't actually dim galaxies; they just appeared slightly dim from this perspective.

Those are worlds on which countless people depend for survival, homes filled with memories. Perhaps to the entire root system, they are just ordinary "nodes," but to the people living in them, they are their everything.

Those twinkling stars are the flames of everyone's struggle. When these flames come together, they form individual stars. And when countless stars come together, they form a galaxy that glows faintly in the void.

Consciousness pulsates, constructing beautiful dreams, the colors of which outline this magnificent star map, guiding them on their way.

For some reason, the co-driver felt tears welling up in his eyes.

Whether in a world that is already decaying or one that is still struggling, human consciousness shines brightly.

"Humanity will be destroyed, but not defeated..."

Even if material things disappear and the world becomes ruins, dreams will still beat like a heart.

The co-pilot suddenly realized that his previous help to those worlds was incredibly worthwhile...

In the past, he was the "savior" who guided the way for the people of those worlds, but now, the people of those worlds are holding torches to light his way.

Martin.

"Ok?"

"Did you see them?"

"I see...we are not alone."

"They are so bright."

"Humanity has always been so brilliant."

(End of this chapter)