I'm trapped in a block

Chapter 877: Lonely Evaporation
If someone cares about something, who would jump into the abyss?

Not many people have the firm belief to dedicate themselves to the whole of humanity, and not many people can sacrifice themselves wholeheartedly for the future of mankind.

If you have something to worry about, you won't look back.

As long as the light is still shining behind them, they will stagnate at the edge of darkness. Most people who can come to the bottom of the abyss are free from worries.

Only when you have no worries can you move forward with great strides.

The same was true for Hu Le. At such a young age, he had no one who cared about him, and he had no one to care about, so he followed the exploration team and came to this dream city step by step.

"Team leader..." Hu Le called softly to the team leader in front of him.

"what happened?"

The team leader also noticed that he was in a bad mood and put his hand on his shoulder.

"Do you think we need to go back?"

After hearing this question, the team leader's pupils trembled and a look of panic appeared on his face.

Although he was much older than Hu Le, he seemed to have no idea how to answer this question.

He thought for a moment and sighed: "We are going back not for ourselves, but for those people in Mengdu who are being missed."

Hearing this, Hu Le lowered his head.

"Or for someone else?"

He muttered quietly, with a hint of complaint in his tone.

I came to Dream City for others, I studied robots for others, and now I want to escape from Dream City for others...

This group of people seem to be always dedicated, as if they have never done anything for themselves.

Living in Dream City, Hu Le’s happiest time of the day is after get off work, when he picks up his game console, opens a can of Coke, and immerses himself in his own world, emptying his brain and letting time flow by as he indulges himself.

The next day at work, I was back to that enthusiastic "state of dedication" in a daze.

Most of the people in the research institute are in the same situation. Since they can no longer do anything for themselves, they can only devote themselves to the collective, use "idealism" as an excuse, and under the banner of "for humanity", they turn themselves into part of the surging crowd and go with the flow.

They are free and unattached, just a lonely drop of water in the ocean, with no other drops to connect with them.

They have no desires and are just rushing along with the ocean current towards an unknown future, being swept towards the beach.

They were lost silently in the vast ocean. No matter whether the sea was rough or calm, no one would pay attention to the tiny drops of water.

People call them "heroes" and only call them "heroes".

No one knew their names or where they went.

In the rolling torrent rushing towards the abyss, it evaporated silently and gradually disappeared...

Hu Le took a deep breath. In this colorful dream, the air seemed equally cold.

Although he was still breathing, he felt suffocated.

So he could only hold his chest and gasp for breath.

"Hu Le, what's wrong with you?" The team leader bent down and asked with concern.

"I don't know." Hu Le breathed too quickly and suddenly started coughing. A tear flowed out of his eye due to choking.

Whoa, whoa, whoa!
He bent over and looked at the colorful ground. The pixels kept twisting and squirming in front of his eyes, making him feel dizzy as he was already suffocating.

That strange double image appeared again...

The already chaotic pixels were divided again, turning into countless randomly flying dots that began to spin in front of Hu Le's eyes.

In order to keep his attention focused, Hu Le could only chat with the team leader in front of him.

"Team leader, do you see double?"

"What kind of double vision?" "It's just like the double vision you see when your eyes are out of focus, except that the colors of the double vision are separated. Some have become red, some have become yellow, and some have become green..."

Hu Le didn't know what he was saying. He was dizzy at the moment and said a lot of nonsense to the team leader, but the team leader didn't ignore him and kept trying his best to respond to him.

"I think I know what you said. It's a sign of the collapse of the dream. When I used the dream catcher and was about to return to reality, I also saw this kind of colorful double image..."

Dream collapse?

A strange feeling arose in Hu Le's heart.

Why did he see double images before he fell asleep?

Will reality collapse?

"I saw this double image during the meeting," Hu Le told the team leader truthfully.

"Do you remember I said I had something to tell you, Team Leader?"

"remember."

"Can I say it now?"

"Go ahead."

The team leader asked Hu Le to hold his shoulders and looked at him with some concern.

Seeing the team leader's serious look, Hu Le slowly began his story:
"While I was in the meeting, I had a dream."

"I dreamed that I was trapped in a metal space, and coke with bubbles kept seeping out from under my feet. The coke became more and more, gradually submerging my ankles and knees... and finally covering my nose and mouth. I floated in the ocean of coke, swimming upwards, but in the end the coke submerged the top of the metal space, and I gradually suffocated..."

"And then?" the team leader asked curiously.

"Then I woke up with a can of Coke in my hand..."

When Hu Le thinks back on his experience, he still finds it weird.

He told his team leader about the can of Coke from 20 years later and the authority tool that suddenly appeared, and poured out all his confusion.

"Team leader, what happened today? Why did so many things happen?" Hu Le asked the team leader as if asking for help.

Hu Le's mind was in a mess until now. He forced himself to stay calm, but now he could no longer hold on...

After listening to his story, the team leader touched his head and suddenly sighed:

"I understand... You've worked hard, Hu Le."

He looked at the dream catcher in his hand, smiled bitterly, and then threw the device to the ground.

Seeing this scene, Hu Le was a little confused. He quickly bent down and tried to pick up the dream catcher that had fallen on the ground, but the dream catcher slowly sank into the colorful ground, like a stone falling into a swamp...

"No need to pick it up. It's not needed." The team leader helped Hu Le up and said to him softly.

"why?"

"Because this is a dream." The team leader explained lightly.

"I know this is a dream, but..."

Hu Le wanted to continue speaking, but the team leader interrupted him directly.

"I said, this is all a dream. Everything you experienced today was a dream. From the moment you woke up during the meeting, everything you saw was a dream..."

The team leader stretched out his hand, pointed at himself, and then said to Hu Le seriously:

"Listen carefully, Hu Le."

"I am also your dream."

(End of this chapter)