I'm trapped in a block

Chapter 1274 Escape Cube

The Fire Seed Project has reached its final stage, and Li Luo has passed the hunter test of that world and is about to step into the abyss.

Everyone in the underground hall wore a joyful expression; they were about to witness the dawn of humanity.

Martin remained standing in front of the glass, staring at the motionless cube.

After the spark was successfully cultivated, the metal of origin was placed there, and people turned their attention to the "chosen girl".

Only Martin remained staring intently at the cube, wanting to see with his own eyes how fate would deliver it to the girl.

……

"Mr. Martin, should we send the fire up there?"

Suddenly, a researcher walked up to him and asked.

Martin was taken aback.

"Isn't Project Fire Seed still incomplete?"

"It's basically done... We don't need to interfere too much in the affairs of that world anymore, and the Fire Seed can be returned to you as promised. Didn't Mr. Lu say he wanted to use the Fire Seed to save your companions? He urged us many times, and this time we can finally send it back."

The researcher looked at Martin and said seriously.

"What a coincidence?" Martin muttered softly.

"what did you say?"

“It’s nothing, just send it up… You really don’t need it?” Martin asked again to confirm.

"It's really not necessary."

"Why not use it for research? To conduct some experiments? To try and create something new?"

"Need not……"

Seeing Martin's odd expression, the researcher took a few steps back in fear and looked at Lao Quan with pleading eyes.

Lao Quan quickly stepped between the two.

"I will arrange for someone to send the fire back right now."

……

After a while, in the warehouse on the ground, Lu You excitedly looked at the cube.

"We finally got it back, now we can put Mo Ling in."

As he spoke, he took out the kimchi jar containing Mo Ling's consciousness.

"Wait a minute." Martin stopped Lu Qi: "You're just going to put it in like that?"

"What else? Heart Gold has the ability to change. Just let Mo Ling think of her own appearance and then change back."

"What if it can't change back? Are we just going to leave it in its blocky shape forever?"

"That actually works, that way he won't keep praising himself for being handsome."

Lu Ruqi took Martin's joke and reached out to twist open the kimchi jar.

The flame representing Mo Ling's consciousness in the kimchi jar also floated out as if fleeing. After circling in the air for a while, it suddenly burrowed into the cube, as if it knew that it was a container prepared for him.

"Uniqueness really does attract each other."

Lu Ruqi exclaimed in surprise from the side.

As Martin watched this scene, he thought to himself that things were indeed developing in the direction he already knew.

After the flames disappeared into the block, it was as if the stone had sunk into the sea, and nothing happened.

After waiting for a while, the cube remained firmly in place.

"Maybe he needs a while to adjust?" Lu Youqi said uncertainly, looking at the square.

"Martin, can you sense his condition?"

"No, this thing will block my senses; in my perception, it is completely 'empty'."

"Empty? Why is it empty?" This was the first time Lu Youqi had heard such a description, and he couldn't help but ask curiously.

"Didn't the guide say that the Abyss is a distorted space, and this thing is the origin of the Abyss, so it must be a manifestation of some kind of space?" Martin said uncertainly, pointing at the cube.

Lu Qi nodded and continued, "That kind of 'emptiness' means you can't feel anything?"

"That's right, you can't see it, and you can't catch it."

“That could very well be some kind of polar space. How interesting. Perhaps this cube is just a projection of that space into the normal space, like how we look at things in a mirror. It’s not a real existence…” Lu Youqi circled the cube a few times, examining the regular cube, and exclaimed.

However, he soon frowned. "Is adapting to such a container too difficult for Mo Ling?"

Martin was taken aback.

"It really is."

Martin thought about Moring's cube-shaped form, which was clearly the result of his lack of skill in transformation.

When they helped Mo Ling find a container, their focus was always on whether it was unique, and they never thought about whether Mo Ling could understand her new body.

This cube before us comes from the very beginning of the abyss, the core left behind after the destruction of the entire Origin World. It may also carry the secrets of the abyss's spread, and the origin of all things from the abyss may be related to this cube...

With so many "titles" attached, it's impressive, but Mo Ling simply can't understand them, let alone those complex spatial principles.

Martin and Lu Youqi exchanged a glance. The tentacles in the kimchi jar drooped down, and Lu Youqi sighed as well.

They seem to have thrown a three-year-old into the Gundam.

"He probably won't adapt that quickly."

"What should we do then? Leave him here for now?"

"This can only be done temporarily."

……

Days passed, but the cube remained in the warehouse, motionless, and did not change as Route had predicted.

Before they knew it, the day had arrived for Li Luo to enter the abyss.

After that day, the surveillance cameras in the underground lobby could no longer see her, nor could they interfere with her life anymore.

She will reach the bottom of the abyss by her own strength.

The abyss is dangerous, but no one worries that she won't reach it, because the prophecy has been written: the flames will surely ignite, will surely spread across every piece of land, and humanity will surely usher in the dawn of victory...

That very night, Martin woke up Lu Youqi.

"what happened?"

"The cube moved."

Upon hearing this, Lu Youqi instantly sobered up.

Martin also took Lu's hand and led him directly through the wall to the warehouse.

At this moment, the block that had been sitting steadily began to tremble.

"Has he finally mastered the body?" Lu Youqi exclaimed in surprise.

"Not quite like it."

Suddenly, the block trembled and passed through the ground, as if it had become ethereal, and fell directly into the ground, with all obstacles having no effect on it.

"He still can't grasp the space he's in!" Lu Youqi exclaimed in surprise, and quickly had Martin lead him to catch up.

The cube passed directly through the underground hall and fell deep underground, its speed increasing and the gap between it and the normal space widening.

"Can we stop him?" Lu Youqi asked anxiously.

"No, he's not here right now."

"Then where is he?"

"I don't know, I can't sense him, I can only follow him."

At this moment, the blocks are like phantoms floating in a mirror, not existing in reality at all. They can only observe the blocks' trajectory through the surrounding mirrors and follow them closely.

"We're falling behind..."

"Once he stabilizes the space he's in, he should stop."

"When will that be?"

Both of them were very anxious, but there was nothing they could do.

The cube moved faster and faster, gradually turning into a silver shadow that moved back and forth in the "mirror," completely detached from normal space.

Like electrons and photons going in opposite directions, two spaces that never come into contact are instantly separated by a huge distance.

The silver shadow gradually blurred, and Martin tried his best to keep up, but in each moment of confusion, he lost track of the cube's trajectory.

"Where did he go?" Lu Youqi asked, looking at the empty space ahead, feeling lost.

"Gone."

(End of this chapter)