I'm trapped in a block

Chapter 1260 Relative Disappearance
Liu Xiaoliang thus became the sole survivor of the disappearance case.

Everyone else disappeared, but he survived, and to make matters worse, he forgot everything...

Not only the public security department, but also his colleagues in the mining area, the families of the missing persons, and the town leaders all came to him, wanting to learn something from him, but he couldn't say anything, and they could only leave disappointed.

Liu Xiaoliang couldn't sleep. He lay in bed, desperately trying to recall what happened that day, but his memory was still blank.

Back at the mine, he seemed to sense that the way others looked at him was a little strange, carrying a hint of pity mixed with suspicion.

As a survivor, he deserves sympathy, but he doesn't want that sympathy.

He also felt that he shouldn't be suspected, since he hadn't done anything and had just happened to come back to life.

But did he really do nothing? Liu Xiaoliang asked himself this question countless times.

He couldn't stand the strange looks from his colleagues, so he chose to leave the Tonggu Mine and start a small business in the town.

Later, as his business grew, he left Tonggu and went to another province...

Many times, his children wanted to take him back to Tonggu for a visit, but he always refused.

He didn't want to see that mine again.

Whenever he sees that mine, he thinks of his colleagues in the blasting team.

He shouldn't feel guilty; he knew it wasn't his responsibility, but he still felt a strange sense of guilt.

In his sleep, his nineteen colleagues seemed to be questioning him: "Why are you the only one who survived?"

He woke up with a start, clutching his head, still unable to remember anything. In the end, he could only stand on the windowsill, gazing at the night sky, and turn to the gods and Buddhas for help.

Liu Xiaoliang had a happy old age, with a comfortable family and many children and grandchildren, but he would occasionally get distracted and think about the past.

He never talked to his family about his time in Tonggu, and he wouldn't even see his old friends who came from Tonggu. He was clearly an outgoing person, but he was completely closed off when it came to things related to Tonggu.

The year he was diagnosed with late-stage liver cancer, he secretly bought a train ticket to Tonggu and embarked on the journey alone.

He returned to this familiar yet unfamiliar town. The town hadn't changed much; it seemed to have stood still in time.

He followed the familiar path up the mountain, but instead of seeing the mine, he saw a lake that looked like an emerald, its waters concealing everything that had happened there.

"I'm here to see you."

Liu Xiaoliang placed the flowers he had bought by the lake and gazed at the water, lost in thought.
The lake water seemed to have risen, and he seemed to see several blurry figures at the bottom of the lake, one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight... a total of nineteen, standing there, gazing at him.

……

The moment Liu Xiaoliang locked eyes with the nineteen figures, Martin felt the "boundary" completely restored, and he instantly broke free from the dependent state.

When he looked in front of him again, the figure that belonged to Liu Xiaoliang had also disappeared.

Only nineteen figures remained in the lake...

He appears to have successfully saved one person.

"The number of missing persons has increased to nineteen."

However, the result doesn't seem to have changed.

The shadow of that disappearance still hangs over the town, making it impossible for those who experienced it and were involved to forget the profound pain.

"There's no difference between nineteen people missing and twenty missing..."

Martin fell into deep thought. He hadn't expected that he could actually change the fate of these missing people.

"That hollow power devoured everything at the same time, and it also condensed time and space at that moment. When I touched their figures, I also touched the time and space when they disappeared."

Martin speculates that this is a form of "compensation".

What is taken from one place will surely appear in another.

Pick up the cup from the table, and the cup is in your hand. Everything is conserved.

That force took everything from the twenty people at the scene, turning them into "empty shells." But everything that disappeared must still exist. In order to achieve conservation, the traces they left behind were also endowed with special power.

Since Liu Xiaoliang was not taken away by that force, he will not leave behind a void.

As Martin looked at the remaining nineteen figures, an idea suddenly occurred to him:
"Can I save them all?"

As he thought about it, he reached out towards the figure of the head of the demolition team.

The boundary was broken once again the moment he touched that figure.

He returned to the past once again...

A short while later, he returned to the lake. The figure of the person in charge had disappeared, but a figure reappeared not far away.

That was Liu Xiaoliang's figure.

Martin successfully rescued the person in charge, using the same method—running frantically—but this time, only one person survived.

The outcome remained unchanged.

Looking at the nineteen figures reflected in the lake, Martin was at a loss.

"What should I do?"

When he became the person in charge, he tried to call on the others to escape together, but the incident happened suddenly and time was of the essence, and the others did not have time to react.

"If only we had more time..."

Only by running away with all our might can we escape the range of that force.

This is not something that can be achieved simply by shouting a slogan.

The emergence of that force has absolutely nothing to do with the detonation, and the outcome cannot be reversed by the detonation device...

"Is the only way to achieve a perfect ending to defeat that force?"

Martin shook his head immediately upon recalling that terrifying power.

This is not something he can defeat. Even with all his power, he couldn't defeat that power, let alone now that his power is limited.

That was a terrifying rule that could "erasure" everything. It might be related to some kind of nature of the world's root system itself, and it didn't belong to the abyss at all. It might even be a level higher than the abyss.

If the abyss is a rotting disease on the roots, then that power is some kind of brute force outside the roots, directly breaking the roots. No matter what it is, it will completely disappear after touching that power.

Fortunately, the force wasn't targeting him; otherwise, he would have been destroyed along with the missing people when he possessed their bodies.

After thinking it over, Martin decided to take a roundabout approach.

"We cannot confront that force head-on."

"I shouldn't have been thinking about stopping the explosion. My original thought was correct; I should have been thinking about how to get all twenty people to escape..."

Looking at the nineteen figures in the lake, Martin suddenly began to measure the distance.

"They didn't seem to be very far apart from each other..."

Even Liu Xiaoliang, who was the furthest away, was only a dozen steps away, while the other members were gathered near the explosive device. This gave Martin a bold idea.

"If possible, could I control twenty people at the same time?"

"As long as all twenty of us work together and run with all our might, we can all escape!"

"However, before that, we need to adjust the position of the figure..."

(End of this chapter)