I'm trapped in a block

Chapter 863 Special Key

Ah Qing looked at the other party's somewhat obsessed eyes, and his hand holding the authority tool tightened a little.

He looked at Lao Ping in the distance calmly, then continued to ask Hu Le in front of him: "Can the security authority really turn off all protections?"

"Of course, the robots we are researching are used for security. We are aware that once these robots are put into use, they will be connected to the security system of Dream City and gain the highest authority in the entire Dream City. Even we cannot control them."

Ah Qing listened to the other party's explanation with confusion on his face.

"Why is the security clearance level so high? This doesn't make sense..."

"Because..." Hu Le was about to explain, but swallowed his words back. He looked at the other people around him and found that they did not stop him, so he looked at A Qing again.

"Do you know how dreams are created? What is the purpose of creation?"

"Do you know why the security clearance of Mengdu can still be maintained at such a high level even though it has developed to this point?"

"Where do you think security needs to be the highest level of authority?"

Hu Le asked A Qing several questions in a row. A Qing thought for a moment and was about to ask back, but Hu Le directly told him the answer.

"Dream City is a prison."

Hearing this answer, A Qing was completely stunned.

And Hu Le continued to explain...

"When Dream City was first established, it was used as a prison, so security authority is the highest authority, which overrides all other authorities. No matter how Dream City develops or what it becomes, this underlying logic will not change. The most important thing for a prison is security, and security personnel will be given the highest authority."

"prison?"

Not only Aqing, but even Lao Ping was stunned.

He had been in Mengdu almost since its founding and had never heard that Mengdu was a prison.

"Dream City doesn't look like a prison..."

Apart from the isolation bubble that surrounds the city, there is nothing that restricts people's freedom.

On the contrary, Mengdu is much freer than other places.

The government basically does not interfere with the behavior of the people, and many banned technologies can be studied in Mengdu. As long as the people who come here do not do anything harmful to the world, generally no one will care.

Dream City is not like other gathering points in the abyss, with all kinds of strange rules.

Can such a place be called a prison?

Ah Qing also asked Hu Le the same question. Hu Le shook his head and replied, "We didn't really believe it at first, but this is the fact..."

"Before, because the robot we were researching needed to be connected to the security system, we made many attempts and found that we were unable to access it. The security system kept prompting us that we did not have enough permissions, so we reported it directly to the authorities, and the authorities sent members of the Mengdu Guard to assist in the access, and we discovered this."

"We were also very curious at the time as to why the security authority was higher than that of our research institute. So while the guard was still there, we used his authority to look up some information about the matter."

“It was then that we learned that Mengdu was built to be used as a prison.”

"As for why it was used as a prison, we didn't have time to investigate because the guard took back his authority. That's why we wanted to borrow your authority. We want to get to the bottom of this matter..."

At this point, Aqing and Laoping finally understood the whole story.

The people in the robot team went to great lengths to deceive the two of them, just for the sake of the "truth".

Ah Qing looked at the permission tool in his hand, then looked at Hu Le's sincere expression, and sighed.

"I just want to check something, is it necessary to go through so much trouble?"

"You researchers are just too curious and want to get to the bottom of everything..."

"So what if the dream is a prison? Aren't we living well now? Maybe the original project was just a prison, and then the development direction was slowly changed. This kind of thing is not uncommon."

"There's really no need to dwell on these meaningless things..."

Ah Qing was getting more and more helpless as he spoke. He looked at the permission tool in his hand, and finally shook his head and handed over this extremely important "key". "Check it out. If you had told me earlier, it wouldn't have been so troublesome..."

Hu Le carefully took the authority tool. He didn't expect that A Qing would give it to him so easily.

He looked at A Qing in disbelief for a few times, and only after A Qing nodded did he quickly insert the permission tool back into the main screen.

Lao Ping was watching this scene from a distance and his heart ached again.

Young people are still worrying. They believe others so easily. Maybe the other party is lying?

However, in this way, A Qing can also watch openly from the side to prevent the other party from doing some other small actions.

"It's just checking some things, there shouldn't be any problems, right?"

Lao Ping thought about it and was no longer so nervous...

However, he always felt a heaviness in his chest, as if something was always poking him.

"what happened?"

He reached into his coat pocket and found the can of Coke.

"I almost forgot about this..."

After so long, he still couldn't remember how the can of Coke appeared in his hands.

"Am I really getting old? Starting to forget things?"

……

Ah Qing was watching over there on the electronic screen, so he didn't have to worry.

He didn't care about the truth. As long as his dreams were developing well, there was no point in worrying about these things.

However, the things that happened today were a bit too much for this old man’s heart.

Looking at the can of Coke in his hand, Lao Ping, feeling a little more relaxed, felt the urge to drink it again.

"Drink it. I haven't drunk it in a long time."

The last time I drank Coke was when I was above the abyss...

Lao Ping clumsily opened the pull ring, sniffed it, put the mouth of the can to his lips, and then took a sip carefully as if he was tasting tea.

A fragrance that penetrated the soul surged into his head, instantly making his mind much clearer.

Lao Ping's eyes widened, and he suddenly felt as if he had just tasted this flavor not long ago.

"So familiar..."

Everything in front of me is so familiar.

The conference room, tables and chairs, messy piles of documents... He hadn't been to this conference room for a long time, but it seemed like he had seen the same scene many times during this period.

A strange sense of déjà vu kept popping up in his mind, and the taste of the cola made his soul completely surge, becoming more and more active.

His somewhat cloudy eyes suddenly became clear, and a burst of air rushed out from his stomach and reached the top of his head.

That energy seemed to break the shackles of his thoughts, break through the confusion of dreams, and bring reality directly to him.

"I remembered!"

"I'm not Lao Ping, I'm Mo Ling!"

"This is just another dream!"

(End of this chapter)