I'm trapped in a block

Chapter 645: From the Film
"What a magical creature, so interesting..."

He now probably understood why the old man was reluctant to leave here.

Human curiosity cannot be extinguished.

There is a wonderful joy in seeing interesting creatures and discovering new knowledge.

"Every once in a while, new books appear. They contain knowledge never seen before, wonderful creatures, and a bizarre world. Even I, after reading just one book, want to continue reading and don't want to leave, let alone the seniors who have been here for so long."

You don't have to struggle in the dangerous abyss. As long as you stay there, you can appreciate the magic of the abyss. Everyone would want to live here forever.

"However, I cannot disobey my superiors' orders, and my personal curiosity must give way to the development of the entire fortress. What should be abandoned must be abandoned decisively. This knowledge may appear somewhere in the fortress in the future, and the transformation cannot be delayed. This concerns the fate of the entire human race."

It is still easy to distinguish what is more important.

He hadn't finished reading the book "From the Shadow" yet. He checked the time...

"It's still early, let's keep watching."

……

After seeing this, he was completely immersed in it.

Unconsciously, he sat down against the wall in the room, holding the book, and was lost in thought.

He seemed to see himself turning into a shadow and falling behind a person. As time went by, he broke away from the shadow and turned into a ball of black smoke. He slowly imitated that person, learned his movements and outline, and gradually became exactly the same as him.

During this period, others came to investigate the causes of his changes and study his changing process.

All of this seemed to be something I saw in a book, but it also seemed like a real memory.

Those vague things that happened seemed like things he had experienced before, but also seemed like just words in a book, very far away, yet right in front of him.

"Is it really okay to let him follow the pioneer group? He is an outlier."

"It doesn't matter. He thinks he is human, so he is human."

"Should he also take the relics left behind by the patrol?"

"Take it with you. It's not a valuable item... Don't be too nervous. Just treat it as a human with a special identity, just like those humanoid relics. There are so many strange things in this abyss. If we have to be so careful with each one, we won't be able to handle it. Let's hide the information about the relic to avoid any trouble."

"Okay, I understand..."

It seemed that someone was talking non-stop beside him, discussing his identity.

There was a lot of talk in the fortress. Some people couldn't stand him, so they kept ostracizing him.

The words on the book "From the Shadow" seemed to be telling some familiar stories, but when you look closely, the words vaguely turned back into an introduction to the creatures from the shadow.

"If you imitate too long, the shadow will forget that it is a shadow."

He always felt that the creatures described in "From the Shadow" were familiar, but he didn't know where he had seen them or heard similar stories.

"Why did the old man give me this book specifically?"

He was puzzled. The things in the book always evoked his "non-existent" memories and made him think of some strange images. The words in the book also kept changing and becoming blurred, making it impossible for him to finish reading.

When I turned back to the page I had just read, the content had completely changed.

He had clearly just read it not long ago, but he had forgotten its contents.

Those real and illusory memories kept repeating, and he no longer knew whether he was in the book or in room 0122. Sometimes room 0122 overlapped with room 0123. He seemed to see the old senior, who had turned into a "martial arts leader" wearing a neat training suit, instructing him in practicing swordsmanship.

The book in the old man's hand turned into an illusory sword and hit him on the head.

"Get up and practice sword fighting!"

"What sword practice?"

"From the Shadow Sword!"

He responded and tried to stand up from the wall, but found that he had forgotten the action of "standing up" and his body was completely stiff.

The old man saw him still on the ground and scolded him angrily: "How come you can't even stand up? You are so stupid!"

He had no choice but to look at other places in the training ground. There, a doctor in a white coat was getting up from the ground. Watching the doctor's movements, he actually copied them and stood up steadily from the ground.

"I'm going to teach you the Shadow Sword now. You must pay attention!"

The old man randomly performed some strange sword skills in front of him. His body turned into countless human figures. Each of them used a different attack method. Countless sword qi slashed on the ground, leaving dense sword marks. "Have you learned it? The Congying Sword is not a specific sword, but a variety of sword techniques. Every time you learn a sword technique, you will have one more Congying. The more sword techniques you have, the more Congying you will have."

"I've learned it." He nodded and memorized the sword technique in his mind.

But he still couldn't forget the doctor standing beside him.

The doctor also noticed his gaze, walked towards him, and put a plate of pills in his hand.

"Here, now that you have learned how to use the Shadow Sword, be a good person."

After saying that, the doctor turned into a ball of broken charcoal.

A sudden sadness arose in his heart, but it gradually faded away. In a blink of an eye, he could not even remember what the doctor looked like. He clearly remembered that he was kind and had a nice smile.

The back view was even more solid, as if I had seen it many times.

"Old Senior, who was that doctor just now?"

"Where is the doctor?"

……

A bloody storm began in the martial arts world. He wielded the Shadow Sword and continued to clean up those "evil guys."

These evil people were once the stubborn residents in Residential Area Zero.

He seemed to have returned to the time when he persuaded them to move out, waving the Shadow Sword and driving these evil people out of Residential Area Zero one by one.

However, when he was about to get rid of the last villain, he discovered that this last villain was actually the old senior "Master of the Martial Arts World" who taught him the Shadow Sword.

This old senior is the culprit who caused chaos in the world.

"So it's you! Then why did you teach me Shadow Sword?"

"I never taught you anything. You learned it all by yourself."

"what?"

"I just gave you a book called From the Shadow. What you saw and learned from it is all your own 'perception'. In order not to admit your own identity, you imagined so many things. In the end, what you learned was all yourself..."

The old senior used the Shadow Sword and transformed himself into his appearance. Countless figures emerged from his body, some of them turned into the strange doctor, some turned into his superiors, and some turned into the stubborn residents in the No. 0 residential area...

These familiar figures surrounded him, and he was completely stunned.

"Who are you?" he questioned the figures.

"We should ask who you are?" the figures said in unison.

He was stunned and looked at his body:
It was dark, like a shadow.

"The Shadow Sword has been perfected!" Those figures suddenly shouted, "You have actually mastered the art of transforming your body into a shadow!"

He was still wondering when suddenly countless black shadows burst out of his body and instantly killed the attacking figures.

Before he could react, he suddenly woke up and hit his head on the wall.

There is no bloody Jianghu, only the empty room 0122...

He was stunned for a moment, scratched his head, closed the book "From the Shadow" in his hand, and stood up using the posture he learned from the doctor.

The room was a little dim. Due to the renovation, the electricity here had been cut off in advance, and only some necessary lighting lines remained.

He staggered out of the room, and the corridor was even darker.

The luggage was still placed steadily on the ground, and the surroundings were quiet. Once there were no people around, this former residential area would look a bit eerie.

"time to go."

He unpacked his luggage and wanted to check it one last time, but when he first glanced at it, he was stunned...

His suitcase was filled with densely packed books, and on top of the pile was a familiar book -

"The Legend of the Magic Mountain."

(End of this chapter)