I'm trapped in a block

Chapter 603

Li Luo still couldn't find any information about "0122" in the end, so he could only go to the residential area in the pipeline fortress according to the location provided by the staff.

She first left the lounge, then walked down the pipe on the far side of the dock and came to a larger pipe.

The pipes here are almost the size of a tunnel, and echoes of friction can be heard from time to time in the huge pipes.

Li Luo walked at the bottom of the pipe, and it was pitch black above the pipe. He could hardly see the top. He could only see some densely packed small pipes laid on the top.

Li Luo didn't know what the pipes were used for, or whether there were wires or something like that inside.

But looking at the lighting of this pipeline fortress, it doesn't seem to require electricity.

Inside this huge pipeline, there are some small pipes hanging from top to bottom. The ends of these small pipes will light up with faint fluorescence, and these fluorescences combined together can illuminate the entire large pipeline.

From time to time, strange friction sounds were heard in the distance. Li Luo also saw some figures along the way, but the people in the Pipeline Fortress were very strange. If he didn't communicate with them, they all seemed very indifferent.

They come and go in a hurry, and either keep their heads down or stare at the electronic screen in their hands, seeming to care nothing about the outside world.

Among these people, Li Luo also saw some guards wearing standard military uniforms. Their clothes were very neat, and they carried a huge backpack on their backs. It was unknown what was in the backpack. The most peculiar thing was that there were several wriggling tubes extending from their uniforms to help them support the backpack.

When the guards stepped on the pipe, a dull sound was heard, and a strange jet sound was heard when they moved. When they got closer, they found that there was a pipe on the military uniform's trousers that ran along the leg, extending from the waist to the soles of the feet.

Every time the guards take a step forward, the pipe will compress the gas to support the guards' legs. When they kick their legs, the gas will be ejected to give the guards a driving force to move forward.

Li Luo stood where he was, looking at this strange jet device with some curiosity.

It is clearly used by humans, but it doesn’t look like human technology.

The guards didn't care at all when they were stared at. They seemed to be used to such curious looks. They just carried their huge backpacks and hurried to the other end of the pipe and disappeared into the dim passage.

"Is that a jet exoskeleton? Also made using the pipes of the Pipe Fortress?"

It seems that the utility of those pipes is greater than imagined.

But how did humans find this way of using it?
Could it be that humans have entered the library of the Everthirsty and acquired the knowledge within?

Li Luo shook his head, telling himself not to think about it anymore.

After swaying on the airship for so long, she was now very tired and her whole body ached. She forced herself to stay alert while reporting the information, and now she was starting to feel dizzy.

Once we find a residential area, we need to take a good rest and think about what to do next...

The map seemed to be guiding Li Luo downwards.

After going around many winding pipes, Li Luo finally found the location of the residential area. The pipeline fortress seemed to have many residential areas, and hers was a place specially for outsiders to live.

Li Luo quickly determined the location of his room and crawled into the pipe.

"Residential area 13, second pipeline row, fifth floor, room 3."

After verifying his identity and pushing open a round door, Li Luo came to his room.

This room seems to have been renovated from a section of pipe. The pipe was cut open, both ends were sealed, small pipes were laid on the ground, the ground was leveled, and furniture and appliances were placed on it, creating the current room.

Unexpectedly, this place is not as small as imagined. The cylindrical space looks unexpectedly spacious, and the furniture and home appliances are very complete. The ventilation is also very good, and fresh air is constantly blown in from the small ducts above the room.

Apart from the poor lighting, there are no other disadvantages.

Li Luo put away his backpack, went straight to the sofa on the side of the room and lay down.

She was so tired...

……

The cubes were floating around. Mo Ling had already looked out and studied the strange structure of the room.

Although it is called a residential area, it is actually made up of rows of pipes.

Some pipes serve as rooms, and some serve as corridors.

The pipes serving as rooms are divided and separated into different sizes, while the pipes serving as corridors have gaps opened up and are placed right next to the pipes serving as rooms.

"The second pipe row means the second pipe row."

"The fifth layer means the fifth pipe stacked on top of the second row of pipes."

"Room 3 is the third room separated from the beginning to the end by this pipe."

Li Luo might not be able to see clearly, but Mo Ling looked carefully. On the door frame of the corridor outside the room, in a hidden place where the fluorescent light could not reach, there was a string of numbers engraved:
"13253."

Similar numbers are engraved on the doors of the two adjacent rooms.

"13252, 13254."

Mo Ling's vision slowly extended and came downstairs.

"13243."

Looking at these numbers, Mo Ling instantly understood that this represented the room number.

"13 is the th residential area."

"2 is the second pipeline column."

"5th floor, room 3."

However, aren’t these room numbers ambiguous?

"For example, 13213 could represent the th residential area, the second pipe row, the first floor, and room number three."

"It could also mean the first living area, the third pipe row, the second floor, room thirteen."

Mo Ling discovered that the residential area was very large and had many rooms.

His vision extended to the end and he could not see the edge of the residential area, so it was possible that house numbers with very large numbers existed, which would lead to more ambiguity.

"In order to prevent misunderstanding, the room number has been cancelled? Use text instead?"

When the staff member told Li Luo the specific residential location, he also used written language.

Mo Ling guessed that it was very likely that room numbers were used in the early stages of the construction of the pipeline fortress. Later, in order to avoid ambiguity, they directly switched to text expressions so that people would not go into the wrong room.

The room numbers engraved on them may have been retained as a reference according to custom when the rooms were divided.

Thinking of this, Mo Ling remembered the string of numbers on the information of the pain-relief pills.

"0122..."

"Is it possible that this is the room number? In the early days of the Pipeline Fortress, when numbers were still being used, the room number of the donor was recorded?"

However... if this string of numbers is interpreted as a room number, it seems a bit far-fetched...

"Habitation Zero? Pipeline Row One? Second Floor, Room Two?"

"zero?"

(End of this chapter)