Li Luo's memories churned. Cubes, some shattered and some gathered together, flew past her eyes, and she could not help recalling the past.
As the scenes before her shattered and reassembled again and again, she would always lapse into a daze, thinking of her conversations with Mom, of the two of them sitting on the floor and stacking cubes one after another, building them higher and higher...
She murmured those "answers."
Every answer she recited so easily contained her past.
"Snow Mountain."
"Sea Island."
"Canyon."
"Space..."
The movement of the cubes felt so familiar to her.
So familiar that it seemed as though she had returned to her childhood—that "carefree" childhood.
The things made from those cubes were like her childhood creations. They started out very simple, then grew increasingly complex, and the scenes became ever more spectacular.
Ordinary scenes could no longer satisfy the game's demands, so little Li Luo began pursuing more fantastical settings.
"Vampire Castle."
"Candy House."
"Skeleton Dungeon."
"Animal Kingdom..."
That was the beauty of building blocks: as long as she could imagine a scene, she could build it with her own hands, without caring about the logic of reality.
A child's imagination was fully unleashed. Little Li Luo seemed to truly see vampires wandering through the castle and smell the air thick with the scent of candy. She imagined herself entering a dungeon filled with skeletons, holding her breath in a corner to evade their pursuit. She imagined arriving in Animal Kingdom and becoming good friends with the animals, finally no longer locked up at home...
Imagination would not be restrained by reality. Li Luo had never felt that her childhood was worse than anyone else's. While others traveled all over the world, she roamed through Building Block World. Whatever sights others could see, she