I'm trapped in a block

Chapter 871 Dreams and Dreams
"Team leader, I'm ready."

"Then go ahead and act naturally so as not to arouse suspicion."

"understand……"

Hu Le was pushed out of the meeting room by the team leader.

Standing outside the door, a cool breeze blew and Hu Le sighed.

Although he is the youngest member of the research team, he has to bear a burden that he shouldn't have to bear.

"Why did this happen to me again?"

He wrapped himself up in clothes, hoping that the cool breeze would make him feel less cold.

But when his hand slid into his coat pocket, he felt something hard.

"what is this?"

He took the thing out of his pocket with confusion.

It's black, like a worn-out USB flash drive...

……

"Team leader."

"Why are you back so soon?"

"This……"

Hu Le handed over the permission tool with a dazed look on his face.

The team leader was about to ask, but when he saw what Hu Le was holding, he was also stunned.

"Didn't you just go out?"

"I do not know."

"Where did you get it?"

"I do not know."

"..."

The team leader was speechless when he saw Hu Le, who didn't know anything. He took the permission tool reluctantly and patted Hu Le on the shoulder: "Don't stay up late in the future. It will hurt your brain."

"No, Team Leader, this has nothing to do with staying up late..."

"Don't say anything, as long as the task is completed." The team leader interrupted Hu Le's explanation and walked towards the main electronic screen in the conference room with the authority tool.

Hu Le stood there, scratched his head, and rummaged through his pockets.

"Why is that thing in my pocket?"

"When did I ever get it?"

He looked at the unfinished Coke in his hand, then looked at his pocket, and suddenly had an idea.

“That thing is also from twenty years later?”

The stains on the outer shell seem to have appeared a long time ago, and there is a slight mold on the edges. Looking back, this is indeed possible.

If Coke is used for early warning, then what is this permission tool used for?

"What do you want me to check with that thing?"

Hu Le came to the team leader curiously.

"Team Leader, I have something to tell you."

"Wait a minute, let me finish checking." The team leader was staring at the screen intently and had no time to chat with him.

Hu Le could only swallow his words and watched the team leader start the operation...

……

Soon after, the meeting room fell silent.

"It's true. Mengdu is really a prison."

The development plan on the screen is clearly written.

These researchers are nothing more than prisoners with "special talents", and Mengdu's goal is to trap them here.

The security robots they created are the "prison guards" who guard them. "How could this be?"

No one present could accept this fact.

Their entire robot research team has spent countless efforts to create security robots...

When they first received this project, they were full of enthusiasm.

"An unprecedented robot, with dream energy as its core, guarding the safety of the entire Dream City."

Most of these researchers do not have strong combat capabilities. They came to the fifth layer of the abyss, and many of them followed the exploration team. Looking at those powerful fighters, they often feel envious in their hearts.

"It would be great if I had such a strong power."

Unfortunately, human society has a division of labor. Some people are responsible for fighting, while others are responsible for scientific research.

They are protected in the rear and must perform their duties.

However, scientific research often does not bring immediate benefits, and during the long period of life in the abyss, they often feel that they are "inferior".

That's why they were so excited when they got the project.

“Finally I have the opportunity to play my part.”

It is no longer about studying how to grow potatoes in the eternal night, or how to calculate the trajectory of the sky island... but about truly being able to create "power" and create the capital for mankind to gain a foothold in the abyss.

At that time, almost everyone in their makeshift team made a bold statement that they would create a robot that was more powerful and advanced than any existing robot.

Once this type of robot is put into use, it will be able to take over the security work of Mengdu, allowing the humans who have been protecting Mengdu to retire.

During the course of the project, they have been working towards this goal.

All efforts are made to create this kind of machine that "protects humans".

Dream gas is not a material that is easy to control, and human research on it is only in the primary stage. Other research departments cannot share information with them due to confidentiality reasons, so they can only study the characteristics of dream gas on their own.

Turning dream energy into machines was something that no one had ever done before. The robotics research team supported themselves with their pure ideals and overcame one bottleneck after another. In the process of trying to come up with the dream energy formula, several team members were even sacrificed.

Dream energy is powerful but also dangerous. To realize your ideals, sacrifice is inevitable.

After the grief, they worked even harder, not only to give an explanation to the residents of Mengdu, but also to give an explanation to their companions who had sacrificed their lives.

Finally, after unremitting efforts, they finally built the first machine.

The results they achieved with their ideals also won unanimous praise from senior management.

That prototype was exactly as they had originally envisioned.

Beneath that plain black exterior lies nearly unlimited potential.

Dream energy endows this machine with infinite possibilities. From the moment it appears, it begins its endless evolution.

The reason for this is that the robotics team used a trick when making the prototype.

They set a closing condition for the dream energy on the robot, and it was the only closing condition:
“It becomes a material that continues to evolve for the future of humanity.”

This prototype carries the dreams of the entire team and will eventually become something they can hardly imagine.

As for what it will become...

"Just let the dream play out on its own. When we are dreaming, we don't know what the dream will turn out like."

The team leader at that time looked at the prototype and said with anticipation.

All team members have the same expectations.

Many years later, this machine may really become the one that creates the future of mankind, even though it is now just a "black" lump of iron.

This prototype, made of dream energy, carries the dreams of the entire team. They hope that this prototype will become more and more splendid like a dream.

Even if they leave, these robots carrying dreams will continue to shine and take their dreams far away.

But now, their dreams are shattered...

“This is not a dream.”

The team leader muttered blankly that he was the most idealistic person in the entire research group, and when his dream was shattered, he was also the most hurt.

Hu Le looked at him worriedly, and found that his eyes, which had always been shining, had become dim and lifeless, and the whole person seemed to have aged many years in an instant...

(End of this chapter)