I'm trapped in a block

Chapter 665 The Price of Self

"Price? Can I not bear it?" Wenwen asked stupidly.

"No, this is something that must be endured. If you have a self, you will be sad, but you will also be happy, joyful, and happy from the bottom of your heart... It is precisely because of pain that there is something that exists in contrast to pain."

"Just like light and shadow, because there is light, there is shadow, and because there is shadow, it proves the existence of light. Everything exists relatively."

After listening to Tengman's words, Wenwen seemed to understand something.

"So, the price of being strong is to protect the weak?"

“That’s not the price.”

"So what exactly is the price?"

"You'll know later. Ask. What you need to do now is to push the track..."

Hearing the urging of the vines, the tendrils of the vines passed through the jelly and reached out onto the track.

"Yes, push it." The vine said gently.

However, Wenwen still did not take any action, but just froze in the air.

The vine had no choice but to pull out a section of its tendrils, pull it out from the fixed track, and then slowly intertwine with the tendrils of Wenwen, using the reaction force to push the track up.

Because of the sudden change in synchronization rate, the vine that was not on track was suddenly cut by the different synchronization rate and broke in the air.

Countless eyes poured out from the vines and fell into the void like pearls.

Wenwen was entangled with the broken vine, feeling a little overwhelmed.

The vines followed the track, drifting farther and farther away, and Wenwen clumsily chased after them.

Along the way, it saw the little animals standing by the tracks to see it off.

They stood on both sides of the track, looking at the vines with awe.

"Just ask, no need to chase."

"I have another question." Wenwen said while chasing.

"what is the problem?"

"Why are you doing this? You didn't have to protect the weak, you didn't have to wear those eyes, you didn't have to block the abyss, you didn't have to let me find my own self. Why aren't you doing everything for yourself?"

This seemed to be the longest question Wenwen had ever asked. Vine listened quietly, constantly accelerating on the track of life.

"because……"

However, as soon as the vine said two words, the speed of the track suddenly increased. Before Wenwen could hear clearly what was said, the vine accelerated instantly and its voice suddenly became unclear.

The swaying tendrils suddenly turned into phantoms, as if time had sped up.

The passing of life instantly took its toll on the vine, and it seemed as if it had undergone countless metabolisms in an instant. The originally thick tendrils instantly began to shrink, becoming dry and wrinkled.

The moment the track entered normal operation, countless entropy worms that ran out from the bottom of the abyss attached themselves to the "filter" that suddenly appeared.

The anti-entropy of life began to spontaneously resist the chaos spreading from the bottom up, but the impact of the increase in entropy also acted on the vines blocking the abyss.

The vines were affected by the increase in entropy before they even had time to react, and turned into a mass of "chaos" with only the outer shell left.

The filter is still working normally, but the part belonging to life has completely transformed into the function of the track, blocking the abyss hole tightly.

In the silent abyss, only the dazed Wenwen was left.

The small animals around looked quietly at the vines that turned into tracks, and their eyes seemed to have lost all emotions.

White glowing debris floated out from the vines and dissipated into the endless void.

That is the dust left behind by the entropy worms gnawing at it, the remains of life resisting the increase of entropy...

Wenwen just waited there quietly until the white debris dyed the entire space white, and the light shone on it, reflecting a familiar shadow.

There were countless eyes on that shadow, which seemed familiar, yet extremely strange.

Ask, and you will have your own shadow...exactly the same as the vine's shadow.

Beyond the self, there is the self.

Wenwen did not get the answer it wanted to know. It had been asking questions since it had a self, but the vine did not have time to answer the most important question.

I feel pain, but after a long time, I seem to get used to this feeling...

Its connection with the vine was severed.

Wenwen could no longer feel the vine's joys and sorrows, nor could it feel the thoughts that had always been influencing it. It was completely... free.

But it, which had long been accustomed to following the vines, felt extremely empty at this moment.

In that empty shadow, it seemed that a lot of things were lost.

Within the outline of the shadow, there is no longer any meaning...

"What is the answer?"

If you ask it, it doesn't even have the thought of the vine, let alone know why the vine is doing these things.

In its opinion, these things are of no benefit to the vine at all.

He clearly possesses great power and could live a safe and secure life, but he still gets into trouble because of doing these things.

Now, only debris is left...

The Everthirsty One also advised the vine not to meddle in other people's business, but it chose to do so anyway.

Although it could use other life forms to create a "filter", it still chose to use its own.

"I don't understand."

Wenwen was floating in the silent void, looking at the debris in the sky, and was completely confused.

It doesn't know where to go...

There is no purpose, no idea, after the light disappears, the shadow seems to have no meaning of existence.

Even though it already has a self, that self is still empty.

"Do you know where I should go?" Wenwen asked the little animals surrounding the wreckage in confusion, but the little animals could not answer it and just looked at it pitifully.

"It asked me to continue the journey with you. Do you still want to continue?"

"Don't you want to..."

Those little animals don't want to leave, they would rather stay here.

After understanding their thoughts, there is no way to force them even if you ask.

"Then I'll go by myself."

Wenwen dragged his empty body and drilled into the jelly again, and countless beautiful worlds appeared before him again.

However, those colorful colors cannot fill its heart.

There is still nothing in the dark shadow...

Wenwen arrived at the forest where the vine was born. It had long since changed into a desert. The ecology that the vine originally wanted to maintain was also completely destroyed. With the passage of time, all persistence would become a helpless bubble.

The rabbit race had long since vanished, the predator race was nowhere to be seen either, and everything the vines had done then seemed meaningless now.

Wenwen followed the vine's previous route and went to the worlds that the vine had once reached.

What it sees, mostly, is endless monotony.

As time goes by, those beautiful colors seem to have faded away, and the original life has disappeared.

Asking makes me even more confused...

(End of this chapter)