I'm trapped in a block

Chapter 876 No one cares
"Yes, we have become dream creatures."

The team leader nodded and answered calmly, as if he was talking about a trivial matter.

"When we wanted to operate the dream energy before, we had to become like this." He looked at the distorted pixels around him and said with some nostalgia.

"Why do we have to turn into dream creatures? What does this have to do with jailbreaking?" Hu Le has not forgotten their purpose. All they did was to leave Dream City, return to the surface of the abyss, and spread the experiences of the Dream City residents.

The team leader looked at the colorful "paints" surging in the distance and did not answer immediately. Instead, he waved to Hu Le and asked him to follow.

"Where are we going?" Although Hu Le was a little confused, he still followed decisively...

Stepping on those colorful pixels, the soles of my feet feel a little special.

Sometimes it feels like sand, and you can hear the friction sound coming from under your feet. Sometimes it feels like the tiles in the conference room, which are very smooth. When you step on them, they will suddenly dent, just like stepping on rubber...

Feeling the changes under his feet, Hu Le followed the team leader curiously, watching him stop and change direction from time to time.

Hu Le couldn't figure out how the team leader determined the direction, but he noticed that sometimes he would hold up the dream catcher in his hand like a compass, aiming in different directions, without pressing any buttons on the device.

In this way, the team leader took Hu Le around and came to another place.

This scene is no different from the previous one, except that the colorful outlines around it seem to be a darker tone, as if the "brightness" has been lowered a few points.

The team leader finally stopped, turned around and looked at Hu Le again.

"arrive."

"Where is this?" Hu Le looked around. He had no idea where this place was. The distorted colors made it impossible for him to tell the relative position.

The team leader raised his head, looked at the sky covered with colorful paint, and said softly: "This is outside the isolation bubble, in the eternal night."

"Are we already outside?" Hu Le was a little surprised.

He had clearly not walked for long, yet how did he end up outside the isolation bubble? He didn't feel like he had passed through any barrier.

Although he couldn't tell the way, he knew how far he had walked. The distance they had just walked was roughly from one room in the research institute to another, which was not far at all.

But this is outside the quarantine bubble? Hu Le couldn't believe it.

However, the team leader nodded firmly.

"This is outside. Did you notice that it's a little darker around here?"

"Yes."

"This is the interference of the eternal night on dreams. Like I just told you, the feelings of reality will affect the presentation of dreams. Although the impact is not much, it is enough for us to feel the change. This decrease in 'brightness' means that we have arrived in the eternal night." The team leader explained patiently.

"We just left not long ago, how could it be..."

The team leader shook his head and said, "You can't use real distance to measure dreams. It's like when you're dreaming, you might be in one place one second and in another place the next. This is the nature of dreams. In dreams, distance is variable."

After hearing the team leader's explanation, Hu Le thought about his own experience in the dream.

It is true. The scenes in dreams do not follow spatial logic. You may end up somewhere else after just a few moments. Sometimes you want to leave a place, but you can’t leave it…

"When I overslept at work, I dreamed that I suddenly jumped from my bed to the research institute, and when I woke up, I found that I was still in bed."

Dreams are discontinuous. As "thoughts" change, the scenes will also change in an instant. If you think about "going to work" in a dream, you will jump directly to the research institute. If you think about "going to the toilet" in a dream, you will fly directly to the toilet.

Hu Le nodded to the team leader, indicating that he understood.

After understanding this feature, he also vaguely guessed the team leader's method of "jailbreaking".

"Team leader, do you want to return to the surface of the abyss through dreams?" Hearing Hu Le's question, the team leader nodded slightly.

"As long as we enter the dream, all distances will not be a problem. We just need to return to Dawn City in the dream, and then exit the dream to return to reality."

"But..." Hu Le found a loophole: "When we return from a dream, won't we return to the original place? When we dream, we may go to many places, but when we wake up, we will return to the bed."

"Yes, normally, if we come back from a dream, we will return to the bed, but..."

The team leader suddenly stared at Hu Le with a strange look.

"What if we never wake up?"

……

After hearing what the team leader said, Hu Le's heart was shaken.

Never wake up?
That will indeed prevent you from returning to your original place.

But doesn’t this mean that they will always be creatures of dreams?
I can no longer touch reality. Just like those things floating in the dream, I am isolated by the "glass" and wander on the edge of reality...

Hu Le didn't dare to think about it any further, so he could only carefully ask the team leader: "If we stay in the dreamland, how can we pass the message on?"

He had not forgotten that the reason they had to break out of prison was to pass on the news of Dream City to the people above the abyss, and they could not do that without contact with reality.

But the team leader didn't seem to be worried about this problem. He moved his lips slightly and uttered two words: "Dream."

Hearing this word, Hu Le instantly understood the team leader's idea, but is such a mysterious method as sending dreams really feasible?

Hu Le expressed his doubts to the team leader.

"It's entirely possible, as long as we can find someone whose consciousness is close to ours."

"Consciousness is getting closer? What does it mean to be closer?" Hu Le asked.

"Relatives, friends, lovers... As long as they still care about us, we can project our consciousness into their dreams and pass on the information to them."

Hearing this, Hu Le was stunned, and quickly screened out people who met the requirements in his mind:

Parents? Family? They were all gone. They had all died when the Abyss invaded.

Friends? No, after being in the abyss for so long, his friends had long forgotten him.

Lover? That was even more of a pipe dream. If the paper figures in the game could be regarded as lovers, then he would have many. Unfortunately, this one obviously didn't count.

"It seems... above the abyss, no one cares about me anymore."

Hu Le thought about it for a long time, and in the end he could only smile bitterly.

He looked at the sky painted with colorful paints, feeling somewhat helpless. Above that distant void, perhaps no one remembered him anymore.

He came into this eternal night alone. The figures around him faded away like the tide. His heart gradually became lonely. His soul sank into the dreamland below the abyss, and he had no worries anymore.

"Team leader..."

"what happened?"

"I don't want to go back."

"..."

(End of this chapter)