I'm trapped in a block

Chapter 872 The Collapse of Dreams

"Team Leader, what should we do?"

"Prison break, prison break, I want to go home." The team leader muttered stiffly.

Before he was sure of the truth, he said "prison break" with some self-deprecation, but now, his heart is dead, and he really wants to escape from here...

No one can tolerate this kind of deception. The more you give, the more hurt you get.

"We are thinking about the future of mankind, and they are just thinking about locking us up..."

When the dreams of a group of idealists are shattered, they will become more extreme than anyone else.

Hu Le was originally one of this group of idealists.

When the atmosphere of despair spread in the meeting room, he should have fallen into self-doubt like the other team members, but at this moment, he was inexplicably calm.

"What's wrong with me?"

He touched his heart and found that it was not beating too fast.

"I don't seem to be very surprised..."

It seemed that he had already known about the fact that "dreams are a prison", and when he saw the information on the electronic screen, he was not greatly shocked.

It wasn't like he was "receiving" the information, but rather like some memories were slowly emerging from deep within his brain, so he accepted it faster than other people in the team.

Although I still felt desperate and my efforts had come to nothing, I didn't feel that painful.

Hu Le even found himself feeling a bit "outside of the situation", as if everything that happened was not very important. Standing among everyone, he felt a bit out of place...

Hu Le was wondering why he was so calm when the team leader next to him suddenly held his hand.

"Hu Le, is this true?"

The team leader was so shocked that he started to try all kinds of methods.

"Really, team leader, don't be too excited..." Hu Le whispered to comfort him.

However, his consolation had no effect.

A tear oozed out of the corner of the team leader's eye and slowly slid down the corner of his already wrinkled eyes.

"I thought it was to protect us, but it turned out to be to trap us..."

"What are you talking about, Team Leader?"

"The isolation bubble is the high wall of the prison." The team leader said with a trembling voice: "I came to the research institute early, and they said at the time that it was used to protect Mengdu..."

The team leader took Hu Le's hand and slowly told him the story of the Mengdu Research Institute.

The research institute existed when Mengdu was just established.

The team leader at that time, like Hu Le, was an unknown team member. He followed other researchers behind the scenes, doing odd jobs that no one wanted to do, and was cheerful every day.

At that time, the team leader often wandered around the research institute.

He has been to a research team that specializes in studying isolation bubbles.

"We want to create a cover to protect Dream City!" a member of the Isolation Bubble Research Group excitedly introduced to him.

"That cover can emit beautiful light, illuminating the entire dream, so that we are no longer confused by the darkness."

"That cover can isolate the inside from the outside, separate the eternal night from the dream, and let us sleep in silence and tranquility."

"That cover can be expanded infinitely. As Dream City develops, it will become more and more brilliant, allowing the dawn of humanity to spread across the earth."

"Our future will be nurtured in the cover and then grow into a towering tree!" It was at that time that an idealistic seed was planted in the team leader's heart.

Researchers are not anonymous people hiding in the background, but heroes who create the future of mankind. This idea has accompanied him to this day.

At that time, the entire research institute was working hard for the future of Mengdu.

Isolation Bubble Research Group, Dream City Modular Research Group, Object Replication Research Group, Dream Qi Concentration Research Group... Almost every group has lofty ideals.

The researchers who can reach the fifth level of the abyss are not all geniuses with extraordinary intelligence, but they are at least among the smartest people in the world. It is thanks to their unremitting efforts that Dream City has become what it is today.

Because they are obsessed with research, they pay attention to few things and are therefore more pure. They often stubbornly believe in some very idealistic creeds.

They will not have any doubts about the projects assigned by their superiors, and will basically complete them with all their heart and soul. Supported by idealism, they are not afraid of difficulties or bottlenecks, and can usually complete the tasks with both efficiency and quality.

The research institute is like a crib, constantly incubating those creative ideas that were still in their infancy, putting them into practice, and turning those originally immature technologies into the cornerstone of Mengdu’s development.

The team leader grew up in this kind of environment and is of course also an idealist, his heart full of impossible dreams.

The security robot was the first team he led. He put all his efforts into this project and put into practice the principles he had learned from other predecessors.

But the tree watered by this dream grew the wrong fruits.

This is not only a denial of him, but also a denial of the entire team, and a denial of those "unknown people" who work diligently and devote their lives to scientific research.

They are buried under the abyss, making efforts that no one knows about, and only thinking about when their dreams will bloom.

This flower can slowly grow above the abyss so that more people can see it.

But now, I tell them cruelly:

That is not a flower, it is a dream that you give yourself.

“What are we doing all this for?”

The team leader looked at Hu Le with empty eyes.

Those sunken eye sockets seemed to have lost all the light, and his will was completely depressed.

An atmosphere of despair permeated the conference room. In this abyss of eternal night, people only relied on that "qi" to maintain their daily work and life.

But this energy is gone now.

“If it’s not for the future of mankind, who would want to stay here?”

Who doesn’t want to go back home and reunite with family?
Who doesn’t want to not have to live in fear every day?
Who wants to look up and see the deep night sky every day?

After deep despair comes endless anger.

Some team members had already clenched their fists and wanted to find someone to argue with, but in such a big place like Mengdu, they couldn't find anyone to argue with.

Who knows if the superiors at the research institute were also deceived?
Were the officials of Mengdu also deceived by their higher-ups?
Has the entire city been deceived?

They didn't dare to think about it too much, nor did they know how to vent their anger.

In the end, this anger can only be suppressed in the heart.

"We must go back and make this matter public, so that public opinion can force the authorities to make corrections..." The light in the team leader's eyes rekindled, but this time, there was endless anger in his eyes.

Only by "jailbreaking" can the status quo be changed.

The "Mengdu Prison Urban Development Plan" must be abolished. If they cannot abolish it, let the official abolish it. If the official is unwilling to do so, let public opinion force the official to do so.

"We have to give an explanation to all those who work hard for their dreams..."

(End of this chapter)