I'm trapped in a block

Chapter 686 Falling into Loneliness
It seemed like snowing in that endless dark night.

The abyss without sunlight was icy cold to the point of being terrifying.

Things that were isolated by the abyss were no longer qualified to continue sinking. They were stuck in the silent abyss, waiting to be used one day.

The abyss is like an efficient machine that excludes all invalid information that occupies its "memory" and leaves only the "useful" content, even sunlight is no exception.

"But what is 'useful'?"

Mo Ling thought for a long time in the darkness with falling snow, but still couldn't figure it out.

For a game, anything that players can see is useful.

For a book, the words that can be seen are useful.

For a world...

Is it true that there is a protagonist in the world, and everything outside the protagonist is illusion, and only when the protagonist approaches will the illusion be truly loaded? Only then will it become meaningful?

Doesn't that mean the world revolves around the same person?
Mo Ling doesn't think so.

If this is not the case, how can we understand Yuan Kong?

Snowflakes continued to fall, and Mo Ling recalled the first time he came to Yuankong. At that time, the fragments of vines were also floating all over the sky, and he didn't notice these cold snowflakes at all.

Without the sunlight, the temperature of the abyss became very low, and those things that were excluded were frozen together. They gradually dissipated on the invisible track of time and became meaningless snowflakes.

The vines, it seems, are no longer here.

Did it continue to travel?
Those little animals are gone too. Without them, Yuankong becomes even more deserted.

In the deep void, there was only Li Luo who kept falling, and the blocks following behind him.

The bracelet on Li Luo's hand kept swinging, and the diamond ring on her neck floated up, still flashing the colorful light.

Mo Ling controlled the cube and followed it as it fell, looking at the silent abyss.

Just as he was thinking about Yuan Kong's matter, the metal wall inside the cube changed.

They are slowly becoming transparent.

Mo Ling walked to the edge of the cube curiously, stretched out his hand, and actually passed through the metal wall and walked into another space.

And this space is larger than the previous one.

As the previous space gradually became transparent and disappeared, he was standing in a new space.

“It’s doubled again.”

This was the first time that Mo Ling clearly felt the changes in the cube space.

His field of vision also expanded again, and he could see farther.

"The space inside the cube is now 16 meters long, wide and high."

"And the field of view is... 161 meters in length, width and height."

“指数上升，1、2、4、8、16……”

The extra 1 is the space occupied by the block.

When he expanded his vision completely, Mo Ling saw an extremely vast world.

"Too far……"

The space in the room was also ridiculously large, making the space that Mo Ling had already "decorated" seem empty again.

Moreover, at a height of 16m, it feels like standing in a hotel lobby, and it feels particularly spacious.

Mo Ling stood in the center of the cube and no longer felt the oppressive feeling he had at the beginning.

“As long as I keep going down, I can break the limit. Maybe after reaching a certain level, this metal block can be completely broken…” Although Mo Ling has become accustomed to the feeling of hiding in the block, he still wants to experience this world for himself.

In fact, he was also very conflicted inside. If he hid in the cube, he would be trapped forever. If he left the cube, he would not be able to protect himself in this dangerous abyss. His fighting ability was even weaker than Li Luo's.

"If only I could go back and forth between the cubes at any time..."

Unfortunately, this is just a fantasy.

In the abyss, Li Luo closed his eyes and watched the snowflakes slowly fall.

She moved her eyelids from time to time, as if she saw something in her sleep.

The surroundings became darker, even the snowflakes became part of the darkness. Everything between heaven and earth was completely integrated into a pool of thick ink, and all things were floating and sinking in the ink.

But the lightless environment had no effect on Mo Ling. He stretched out his vision, which had been expanded again, and observed freely in the abyss.

There are other things hidden in the seemingly silent ink painting.

Mo Ling saw a giant stone statue, floating quietly in the endless void. Even with his expanded vision, he could not see the entire statue. He could only see the tip of the iceberg.

There are extremely mysterious runes carved on the surface of the colossus, which look like some kind of text, or like some kind of murals with only artistic meaning. Those runes have been damaged by the erosion of time, and the body of the colossus has begun to collapse and dissipate.

"Is this a trace left by a certain civilization?" Mo Ling looked at the lonely giant floating in the void, and suddenly felt a little sad.

"They are not allowed to enter the Abyss?"

Why should such a civilization be eliminated in this way?
In this world soaked in ink, there is not only this lonely figure.

Mo Ling also saw a lot...

Green droplets scattered all over the sky, metal creations composed of countless concentric rings, slowly rotating woven balls, high-speed moving silver water droplets, huge rectangular black stone tablets...

These seem to be creations of civilization that have been excluded from the abyss.

They were not qualified to enter the abyss, so they were trapped here in endless darkness, gradually losing all meaning under the erosion of time.

Perhaps they were once the overlords of the abyss, and perhaps they sailed to deeper depths with hopes and dreams, but were unable to go any further down, leaving behind only a shell "for viewing only."

They are the scraps that never load into the game.

Nonsense sentences that will never appear again in the book.

The other side of the world, enemies that the protagonist will never encounter.

The appearance of these things is just a passing scene, presenting a filler description in the piled-up scene descriptions. If these descriptions are replaced with another sentence, this description will also be completely valid without any other impact.

Meaningless...

Replacing the Colossus with a huge mechanical fortress, it seems that nothing has changed. Its function is to appear there so that "people" can see, perceive, read and feel it.

Perhaps, after a period of time, all "people" will forget about this giant statue.

I can't even remember whether it is a colossus or a mechanical fortress.

No matter from which perspective, it is just a code name, without any meaning or memory point, floating in the abyss until all "people" forget it.

In the inky black abyss, there is something lonelier than the giant statue, something that has never appeared and is beyond perception...

No one has seen it.

No one understands.

No one is curious.

It just exists, but it doesn't exist at all...

(End of this chapter)