I'm trapped in a cube

Chapter 664: Blocking the Abyss

"Wenwen, if I ask you to block the abyss, are you willing?"

"Yes."

"..."

"I want your answer from the heart."

"Yes."

Wenwen still answered very firmly.

"Can you still feel my thoughts?" Vine asked seriously.

"Yes."

"My thoughts must have affected you. If you don't want to, don't agree. This is a very important choice. You have to think about it carefully."

"I am willing." Wenwen's answer was still exactly the same.

"Okay." Vine agreed helplessly.

...

The deep abyss rotated at an imperceptible speed. It was pitch black around. All the light that came here would be swallowed and filtered by the funnel of synchronization rate and sent to deeper depths.

The invisible big loophole isolated those things that did not meet the conditions, leaving only the purest existence. This is the operating mechanism of the abyss. It is also like a huge meat grinder, crushing all things that should not exist and throwing them into a corner where no one cares.

In this most chaotic area, the synchronous track is the most regular.

Countless tracks intertwined like gears, forming a precise screening machine. Precise parameters were marked on each track scale. As the track rotated, the selected "spirits" gently passed through the gaps in the track and fell deeper...

What the vine had to do was to add a counter-rotating track to this precise machine.

This track, called life, was used to resist the erosion of the entropy worm.

The vine waved its tendrils and created a huge ball of jelly.

To make a track, you need enough tools...

When the tools were ready, the vine let its body pass through the jelly to the abyss. To make this track, you need a skilled operator.

Countless tendrils swung and knocked on the invisible track.

The jelly also kept squirming, and the soft gelatin turned into a blade that could cut through everything, cutting through the cracks and finding the synchronous parts to make the track.

"Wenwen, come here."

The vine called Wenwen over.

"Do what you are best at... imitate."

"Do what I do."

The tendrils of the vine swung, turning the jelly into a "hammer" and hitting himself.

Wenwen also imitated it and turned into a hammer, ready to hit himself, but before he could do it, he was stopped by the vine.

"Hit me."

Wenwen was stunned for a moment, and then hit the vine as the vine asked.

"Great."

Thousands of tendrils stirred, and turned the jelly into a sharp nail. The vine pierced the nail into itself, nailing the huge body firmly on the abyss hole and embedded in the precision-operated machine.

"Wenwen, continue."

Another nail was driven in, and the track was embedded deeper...

A metallic knocking sound came from the void, as if something was being forged. The huge rumble was transmitted to the distance along with the vibration of space, but in this lonely abyss, only the vines and Wenwen could hear this sound...

"Continue."

The jelly-turned blade cut the tendrils, cut the invisible life track into a suitable shape, and stuffed it into the groove that had been embedded long ago.

"It seems that I can't continue to see this world with you."

"But it should be enough..."

The huge body quietly lay in the set track, adjusted to the appropriate synchronization rate, the operation of the machine was not affected at all, the gears continued to turn, and unknowingly, the newly added track had been integrated into it.

The tendrils rose and fell like waves. Although they were still suspended in the void, they were actually deeply embedded in the track and could no longer move.

The small animals around looked at the shaking tendrils with worry in their eyes.

"Don't worry about me, it's okay."

"If you still want to continue to see this world, just follow and ask."

However, no small animal left, they still stayed quietly beside the vines, looking at the vines with their ignorant eyes.

"Go away, I'm not the god of vines... I'm just a little stronger than you, my tendrils are a little longer than your arms, and my roots are a little thicker than your legs."

Faced with the persuasion of the vines, the small animals remained unmoved.

There seemed to be some resentment in their eyes.

The vines looked at these small animals, and a trace of guilt rose in their hearts.

"There is no way, someone has to take responsibility... Isn't it the strongest, the one with the longest arms and the thickest legs?"

"To be strong is to protect the weak."

"From the beginning, I was like this..."

Listening to the vines' explanation, the small animals became even more resentful.

"Yes, yes, I didn't keep my promise to you. You can follow Wenwen, and Wenwen will take you to continue traveling."

"Originally I was worried that I couldn't take you to continue moving forward, but at least Wenwen is still here, so I'm not so worried anymore."

While saying this, I looked at Wenwen beside me.

"Wenwen, if they want to follow you, you take them with you, understand?"

"I understand." Wenwen replied lightly, still looking ignorant.

"You are really smart, Wenwen." Ivy praised.

"Then let's proceed to the last step. Wenwen, you push the track I'm on and make it run stably, just like I just taught you."

"I don't want to."

"Well, what?" The vine almost didn't react. This was the first time it heard Wenwen reject it.

"I said, I don't want to." Wenwen repeated.

"Are you affected by my thoughts again? Are you afraid? So you don't want to?"

"No, this is my own idea, I don't want to."

Wenwen's answer stunned the vine.

But after a while, the vine felt relieved instead.

"Wenwen, you have a self, congratulations."

Although Wenwen had a "self" a long time ago, it was just a seedling. Now, its "self" has really grown up.

"I don't want to have a self." Wenwen suddenly said.

"What?" The vine didn't react for a while.

"The question you asked me before... I have the answer now. I don't want to have a self."

The vine was stunned, and then it remembered that it had indeed asked this question.

"Why?" The vine was a little confused. Gaining self should be a very happy thing.

Why doesn't Wenwen want to have self?

Wenwen's answer surprised the vine:

"If I don't gain self, it will be me who blocks the hole in the abyss, not you."

Is it because of this? The vine immediately understood Wenwen's thoughts.

"Don't think so, Wenwen, this is my own choice, and it has nothing to do with whether you gain self or not."

"But after gaining self, I will be sad." Wenwen suddenly said.

"What?"

The vine didn't react again. Today's Wenwen was too unexpected for it...

Wenwen swung the tendrils and stuck to the vine.

"I will be sad, 'I', will be sad."

"'My' body will hurt."

"The tendrils are hurting, the roots are hurting, the leaves are hurting, and those invisible places are also hurting, very painful, very painful, before I gain self, I will not feel pain."

"It's better to be a shadow..."

Listening to Wenwen's words, the vine didn't know how to answer.

After thinking for a moment, the vine could only helplessly comfort:

"Ask, there is no other way, this is the price..."

"The price of having a self."

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