I'm trapped in a block

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"and after?"

"Through the dream's fissures, which resembled colorful mille-feuille cakes, Mo Ling asked urgently."

"Later... we could never find you again."

Martin's narration came to an abrupt end.

Mo Ling pondered for a moment, then said, "You deliberately didn't come to see me, didn't you?"

“Hmm.” Martin nodded. “I roughly know where you went. You must have run off to Lilo’s place, but I don’t want to go looking for you. I know your destiny has begun to unfold, and all I have to do is wait.”

"And then it's come to this?"

"Ah."

“I understand…” Mo Ling said softly.

"Do you really understand? You have nothing to 'take revenge' on, nor do you need to overturn the chessboard. Just let things continue as they are. This is the best option."

Those who are "playing chess" are nothing more than a group of strategists who want to make the world a better place. They are acting in accordance with the ideals they believe in, paying a small price to save humanity from the abyss...

"I really understand now... My best option right now is to do nothing."

"Yes."

In the colorful dream rifts, Mo Ling seemed to see every part of Li Luo's "home" overlapping together, which also stirred up the vague "childhood fragments" in his mind.

He seemed to have transformed into Li Luo, wandering around this empty house, feeling lonely yet amused.

Children's time is full of fun. In their free time, they can stare at the sun, see summer mosquitoes as cranes, and watch two insects fight for a whole day.

Lilo's childhood was spent in what adults would consider a dull time; she had no friends, little family love, and not as many toys as other children.

She treated her home like a giant castle, hiding blocks in every corner of the castle. Then she transformed into a hero who used block magic to defeat all kinds of monsters, collect blocks, and finally defeat the Demon King.

She treats each room's door as a gateway to another world, placing blocks representing those worlds in each room. She is a wandering bard, singing exotic songs and sharing her travel experiences with every world.

She would stare at the two monsters made of building blocks and imagine their battle.

She would bury herself with building blocks, erect a tombstone, and hold a funeral for herself.

She would try dropping a large block and a small block from the same height at the same time to see which one landed first...

The scenes in Li Luo's memory were extremely monotonous, yet they became incredibly vibrant in her imagination.

Thinking about these things, Mo Ling felt a moment of disorientation, as if the nursery rhyme sung by Li Luo's mother was echoing again in that empty room.

Why does that nursery rhyme sound so familiar?
"Martin, were Li Luo's parents just pawns?"

"Yes, they are also part of the Fireseed Project."

"Were those songs her mother sang specifically for her?"

“Songs?” Martin thought for a moment. “It seems that some songs were indeed sung, but that wasn’t part of the plan… The actress at the time seemed to have suffered a mental breakdown due to ingesting too much metal.”

"After all, they eat and live together. Whatever Li Luo eats, the actress eats too. But she doesn't have Li Luo's constitution, so she will have all sorts of health problems."

"Both actors experienced mental problems after ingesting too much metal. They reported to the monitoring room that they often had dreams about fire and sometimes saw blurry images in a daze."

"Later, to prevent both actresses from developing mental abnormalities, the male actor was asked to stay away from the mother and daughter as much as possible..."

That's why Li Luo's father is so "distancing".

Mo Ling suddenly realized. All of this was so that the plan could continue...

Thinking of the Abyss Iron that sealed the entrance to the abyss, Mo Ling felt somewhat lost.

"Martin, you just said that the abyss is the root of decay, right?"

"Yes, at least that's how it appears from my perspective."

"Won't rotten roots eventually fall off? Sealing the abyss can only slow down the process of falling off, right?"

"This is not just a delay, it's a halt, stopping the decay process halfway so it won't reach the final step."

"But the decay still exists."

"Yes."

The abyss has not completely disappeared; it has simply been isolated.

The metal from the starting point of the abyss became the "medicine" that suppressed the abyss, just as a tumor caused by cancer cells blocked the channel for the spread of cancer cells.

This was somewhat unimaginable for Mo Ling.

He will need a long time to understand this unfamiliar knowledge...

While Mo Ling was still processing Martin's words, Martin suddenly patted her on the shoulder:

"You must live well; there are still many wonderful places in this world."

Upon hearing this explanation, Mo Ling immediately realized that something was wrong.

"what are you up to?"

“I didn’t mean to do anything… The Abyss no longer exists in this world, and I, entangled in dreams, shouldn’t exist either. I should have left this world long ago, like Lu Youqi, but I’ve delayed for too long waiting for you… I can’t help it, you’re too stupid. If no one explains things to you clearly, you’ll go and cause trouble again, and in the end, you’ll still end up with a lot of bumps on your head…”

Martin suddenly started rambling on: "We old folks should have disappeared with the closure of the abyss. This world no longer needs saviors or heroes, only some motionless, speechless 'symbols' as objects of people's admiration and worship."

"Luoqi and I traveled to countless worlds and tried countless methods to try to save humanity from the abyss. In the end, we both realized one thing: humanity can only be saved by humanity itself."

There has never been a savior.

"Prometheus was wrong. Humanity needs to find fire on its own. To create human happiness, we must rely on ourselves."

Martin suddenly chuckled: "Do you know why that guy Lu Youqi calls himself Zeus?"

"He saw it very clearly: God cannot save humanity."

"Human beings can only become gods themselves."

"Unfortunately, most of humanity's power today comes from the abyss. Trying to use power from the abyss to kill the abyss is like trying to use the power of a god to kill a god. It's wrong from the start."

“Lu Qi understood this principle, so he always maintained that he existed as a ‘pure’ human being.”

“I am the opposite of him. He chose humanity, while I chose the abyss. I tried to make humanity exist by relying on the abyss, so that even if the roots fall off, humanity can still survive…”

“Our ideas are conflicting, but we can understand each other.”

"And you are fully entitled to make the third option."

"It is another god that can kill a god."

(End of this chapter)