I'm trapped in a block

Chapter 897 Beyond the Dust
While Li Luo was reading the little notebook, Lao Ping walked out of the dusty warehouse and came outside.

A cool breeze blew and directly dispersed the turbid air in his chest. The suffocating feeling brought by the dust just now also disappeared in an instant.

Martin was leaning against the wall outside the house, folding his arms. When he saw Lao Ping coming out, he turned slightly and asked, "Have you finished reading?"

"I've finished reading it. Thank you."

"No need to thank me, thank him if you want to thank someone." Martin pointed to the cube floating in the air. Meng Qilin on the top of the cube noticed that Lao Ping was looking over, and stretched out his short forelimbs to say hello.

Lao Ping was stunned for a moment, then greeted Meng Qilin.

"Can I ask, Mr. Martin, how did you find the notebook? How did you know it was here? If I'm offended, just pretend I didn't say anything." He asked Martin carefully.

"Have you seen my brothers?" Martin asked.

"I saw it."

"They have already searched in other levels of the dream, so of course they know the book is here." Martin explained lightly, pointing to other "Martins" in the distance.

Listening to Martin's explanation, Lao Ping also understood that this seemed to be a kind of ability to utilize dreams. If he asked further, it would be really offensive, so he stopped in time and changed the subject.

"Now that the robot issue has been temporarily resolved, can I know about... the missing case? That matter is very important to me." Lao Ping hesitated for a moment, but still asked Martin.

"Of course, but you shouldn't ask me. I was just called here to help. Go ask that Dream Qilin. He knows more than I do." Martin gestured to Lao Ping again.

Lao Ping also understood Martin's meaning. After expressing his gratitude, he walked towards the strange block...

At this time, the Dream Qilin was lying lazily on the block, looking around with seemingly some curiosity, its front limbs naturally swinging around the edge of the block, and the colors on its body changing happily.

"Lao Ping, you're here." Seeing Lao Ping approaching, Meng Qilin shouted happily.

"You, are you really Hu Le?" Lao Ping looked at the cute Meng Qilin and still felt a little skeptical.

"Of course." Hu Le also knew that he looked very unconvincing at the moment, so he quickly said a few things that only people in the research institute knew.

"Azhen from the Robotics Research Group has a crush on Qiang. Everyone in the institute knows about it, except Qiang himself. He thinks Zhen is always targeting him."

"Azhen has a childhood sweetheart named Zhao Sihai. Because he was jealous, he would throw cigarette butts at the door every time he passed by the research institute. One time, he almost burned the experimental equipment that was sent to him, so he was caught by the security team and severely criticized."

"Qiang then realized that Zhen had a crush on him, but he still rejected Zhen righteously because..."

"Stop talking! I'm sure you are Hu Le." Lao Ping quickly interrupted Hu Le's story and didn't want to listen any more.

He was already sweating when he heard the names Azhen and Aqiang, not to mention Zhao Sihai. He also knew the ending of the story very well, and also knew the reason why Aqiang rejected Azhen:
Because, the one Aqiang likes is actually Zhao Sihai...

Aqiang's relic can enhance his body's perception, allowing him to use his body to sense many physical parameters that ordinary people cannot feel. He can even directly determine the specific values ​​of these parameters, but the price of this relic is - changing his gender.

In other words, Aqiang is actually a girl.

Of course, Aqiang would not tell anyone about the "shameful" price of this relic.

Aqiang has been in contact with Azhen just to get information about Zhao Sihai from Azhen, but Zhao Sihai doesn't know. He just feels that Aqiang has been getting close to his childhood sweetheart, and his jealousy grows more and more.

Ah Zhen was even more miserable. She felt that Ah Qiang was thoughtful, considerate, and able to think from a girl's perspective. Ah Qiang was also very "handsome", so she slowly fell for him, which led to this farce.

This matter has been circulated in the research institute for a long time, and even spread outside the institute. The more it spread, the more outrageous it became, leading to a rumor outside: "The gender of people in the research institute is uncertain, it will change at will, and it will make people who see them fall in love with them easily. You must be careful..."

This kind of outrageous rumor should not have been spread, but this is the Dream City deep in the abyss, and anything outrageous could really happen. With the idea that it is better to believe it than not, people outside look at the employees of the research institute with strange eyes.

During that period, Lao Ping always felt that others were talking about him when he went to and from get off work. Even though he didn't care about gossip, he was forced to understand the ins and outs of the matter, which left a deep shadow in his heart.

Now, Lao Ping was sure that the cute creature in front of him was definitely Hu Le.

"Why are you like this?"

"It's a long story..."

Hu Le moved on the cube a few times, found a comfortable position, and began to recount his experiences, including what happened twenty years ago, what he experienced in his dreams, and how he was transformed into a dream unicorn by Martin...

After listening, Lao Ping sighed: "You have worked hard."

After learning about Hu Le's bizarre experience, Lao Ping also roughly understood what happened twenty years ago:
The people in the robot research group somehow learned the secret of Mengdu, so they found the security department and wanted to get the authority tool. Ah Qing followed them and was involved...

"If I hadn't notified my leader to call A Qing over at that time, maybe I would have been the one missing." Lao Ping stroked his forehead and said helplessly.

"Then do you know where the others have gone? Twenty years have passed. If they wanted to, they would have come back in dreams long ago. Why haven't they come back yet?" Lao Ping asked puzzledly.

But as soon as he asked this question, he thought of what was written in the notebook: A deep hole can only go down, not up.

"They can't go back?"

Since I can't go back, of course I can't send messages in dreams, so I can only wander under the abyss.

"Why didn't they go back to Mengdu after they found out they couldn't go back?" Lao Ping asked Hu Le.

"Because their carrier has disappeared."

Suddenly, a voice came from behind. Lao Ping turned around quickly and found that Martin was slowly coming up behind him.

Martin walked to Lao Ping and pointed at Hu Le.

"Just like him, without the carrier, his consciousness can only wander in dreams, unable to touch reality."

After listening to Martin's explanation and thinking about Hu Le's experience, Lao Ping immediately understood.

"Then do they still have a chance to come back?" He still had some unrealistic fantasies.

"It's difficult." Martin shook his head. "The time span is too long. They may have been lost in the dream a long time ago. There are so many layers of dreams, and they have no means to distinguish them. It is unlikely that they will come back."

Although Martin's words were cruel, they were true. No one present understood dreams better than him. Since he made such a judgment, it proved that the missing people were in great danger.

He patted Lao Ping on the shoulder and comforted him: "Just think of them as dead. It's been twenty years. Others have long forgotten about it. There's no need for you to keep dwelling on it. Just let it go. There are many more things in this world worth caring about..."

"Well, let's take a look at the snow-capped mountains in the distance."

Martin suddenly raised his head and looked into the distance.

(End of this chapter)