I'm trapped in a block

Chapter 1265 Origin and Destiny
Martin was deeply shaken as he listened to Lu Qi's account.

He never imagined that the world would change so much because of his "level-up".

Heart gold?

Things that do not belong to humankind will surely bring disaster to humankind!

Martin turned to look behind him, and the deep mine seemed to be staring at him.

"Let's follow the route."

"Leaving? Aren't we taking the ore?" Lu You asked, puzzled.

"I won't take it."

"Where to go? Are there other things in this world that can serve as a vessel?"

"Let's leave this world. Something's not right here. Let's look elsewhere."

"Why?" Lu Youqi was even more puzzled.

"Do you believe me?" Martin asked Lu Qi earnestly.

"Mm." Lu Youqi nodded.

"Then come with me. If all else fails, we can look elsewhere."

Seeing Martin's unwavering resolve, Lu Youqi stopped arguing. He knew Martin must have his reasons for doing so.

Martin kept looking back at the deep mine, and Lu Qi followed his gaze.

That pit...

The route seemed to reveal something to him.

“Hold on tight.” Martin reached out his hand again.

He sensed the anomaly of this world. Even though the object that could serve as a vessel for Mo Ling was right in front of him, he didn't want to touch it. He just wanted to escape as quickly as possible, like a child who had broken a vase...

Martin knew he should take responsibility, but the immense unease kept him from breathing.

After undergoing changes, the world seems to be developing in an unimaginable direction, and he, the "culprit," is firmly tied to the fate of the world.

"I can't get involved any longer, I have to escape..." Martin had only one belief left in his heart.

As Lu Qi grabbed Martin, he immediately used his last bit of dream power. Dreams are rejected in this world, and he used this "repulsive force" to quickly escape into the rift in the world.

"Why are you in such a hurry to leave?" Lu Youqi asked from the side.

"We have arrived at the beginning of the abyss."

“I know… but why leave? Didn’t we come to the starting point to find the container?”

Martin remained silent for a moment, trying to control the direction of their escape while pondering how to explain things to Lu Qi. Only after their figures completely turned color and disappeared at the edge of the mine did he manage to find the right words:

"The beginning...the place we arrived at is the beginning."

"It was our arrival that made it the beginning."

"It was our appearance that caused the abyss to appear, so the point we arrived at is the starting point..."

Plant roots periodically send out signals to detect diseases. These signals disappear into the normal root system, but if a disease occurs in that part of the root system, the signals will be triggered, and the plant will take its own defense measures. One strategy is to cause the affected local root tissue to die or break, thereby preventing the disease from spreading further to the main root or other parts of the plant.

This reduces the damage that disease causes to the whole plant, much like a lizard shedding its tail—sacrificing a part to protect the whole.

As a signal that appeared in this world, it should have been lost without a trace, and the disappearance of twenty people should have brought peace to the world, just like a gust of wind that only caused a few ripples in this world.

But Martin's arrival changed the predetermined outcome, allowing the accidental signal to detect the disease.

Martin brought the disease here, and the signals reacted, causing the root system to begin to die and break, thus making this the starting point. The abyss shaped Martin, and Martin brought the abyss!

Martin found it hard to accept this and felt guilty for his reckless behavior, but he knew he couldn't stay there in despair.

Who would have predicted that saving twenty people would lead to God's judgment?
Fate seemed to be playing tricks on him.

Did the starting point exist from the beginning, or did it appear after its arrival?
Martin carefully considered the logic behind it, and soon he understood...

If he had chosen not to save those twenty people, the starting point would not have appeared, he would not have come to this world, and the abyss would not have appeared. Of course, he would not have had the opportunity to choose whether or not to save people.

"Therefore, from the very beginning, my decision to save people was inevitable; I only had one option: to save people!"

After Martin understood the cruel trick of fate, his guilt completely disappeared.

He never had the power to choose.

The beginning of the abyss was inevitable!

The rot of the roots comes from a huge and complex cycle. As the diseased ones, they will surely face divine punishment. The occasional signal that passes by is the gaze of God, and it is also the anger that humanity is destined to suffer.

Martin was at peace. Since he couldn't choose this destined trial, and he was just a cog in the machine, why should he regret his choices?

If he had to choose again, he would still choose to save those twenty people.

This is at least a choice he made from the bottom of his heart, an option that would bring him pleasure.

Martin watched as the world beneath his feet grew increasingly blurry. The enormous mine, the twenty people, the no longer peaceful town, and the divinely bestowed ore seemed to form an intricate web, trapping him and Lu Qi, who had just arrived in this world, within it, unable to move.

From the very beginning, they were destined to only advance at the nodes of the network, eventually falling into the deepest part.

It was disheartening, but Martin didn't think much of it.

He's gotten used to it, or rather, he's become numb to it.

From that life-changing blood transfusion onwards, everything about him has been caught in a giant web.

"At least my struggle was my own choice."

He once again channeled the power of his dreams, charging towards the barriers of this world. He needed sufficient speed to break through that blockade.

In this world without dreams, he must rely on himself to accelerate.

The speed gradually increased, and soon reached the second dream speed, which is the minimum speed required to escape the gravitational pull of the current world.

Martin breathed a sigh of relief.

But just when he thought he could leave this world safely, gravity suddenly changed.

The world beneath our feet is becoming increasingly larger!

"It's Heart Gold!"

That divinely bestowed metal is altering the weight of the world, making what was once a light and airy world incredibly heavy.

The change in mass caused the lower limit of their escape velocity to rise sharply, and their current speed is gradually becoming insufficient to escape gravity.

"We need to keep accelerating..."

Martin felt a pang of melancholy as he felt his fuel dwindling.

"I've already fulfilled my mission, why won't you let me leave? What else do you want me to do?"

He looked down at the Origin World and saw it as if he were seeing a huge beast toying with its prey.

The golden core was rapidly covering the beast's body, making it increasingly cruel and ferocious, less and less like a living being...

(End of this chapter)