I'm trapped in a cube

Mo Ling controlled the cube and followed Li Luo as if nothing had happened. He waited for the investigation team to report their experiences on the empty island before the soldiers took everyone into the elevator paved with pipes.

After passing through layers of thick clouds and mist, everyone finally arrived at the ground.

The ground here is also paved with intertwined black pipes. No wonder it is called the Pipe Fortress. There are also huge pipes in the sky passing through the clouds and mist, and I don’t know where they are connected.

Although it was down to the ground, the wind was still very strong as on the tower, and the white air flow blew through the mouth of the huge pipe, making a strange whining sound.

Li Luo raised his head and looked at the pipes drilling into the clouds, thoughtfully.

"It's strange. It is said that these pipes all come from the same relic. This fortress was built on a relic." Seeing Li Luo's curiosity, Zhou Chao explained.

Li Luo nodded and asked, "Have you been here before?"

"Of course, I have been here many times. This is a large monitoring station. The investigation team often comes here to rest."

Zhou Chao pointed to the pipes that penetrated into the clouds and mist, and introduced: "Those pipes are responsible for fixing the entire pipeline fortress, so that the entire fortress will not move with the air flow, just like a filter, blocking the turbulent flow nodes. In the center, every empty island passing through the node will be equipped with a beacon, which is more efficient than exploring one by one. "

In the thick clouds and fog, you can't see the edge of the fortress at all. You can only see the ground with countless interlaced pipes. Those long black figures are swinging in the clouds and fog, like some kind of huge creatures.

Staying in this fortress can feel a strange kind of shock.

"Was the Pipe Fortress built by humans?" Li Luo asked curiously.

"Yes." Zhou Chao nodded: "It is said that at the beginning, a fixed observation point was built just to capture the drifting objects in the air-sea circulation. Later, it became more and more grand and had more and more functions. Gradually, It became the current Pipeline Fortress.”

Zhou Chao pointed to the ground: "There are still facilities left behind here. Every time the space is not enough, the pipeline fortress will continue to expand on the original basis. Therefore, the fortress has many layers, and there will be many underground facility."

"There are also many anemometers, air detection instruments, and synchronization rate analyzers installed in those huge pipelines... used to monitor the airflow data and real-time fluctuations of the sea of ​​clouds."

"Although the Pipe Fortress looks strange, it is actually mostly filled with human technology. The pipes are just a carrier, just like the bricks used to build a building..."

After Zhou Chao's description, Li Luo also had a certain understanding of the pipeline fortress at his feet.

"Are you planning to go deeper into the abyss?" Zhou Chao suddenly asked.

"Yes, does the Pipe Fortress have a passage to the fifth floor?"

"Yes." Zhou Chao nodded: "But you should not be qualified yet..."

Hearing this, Li Luo was a little excited: "What qualifications are needed? A sufficient number of relics? Or is it the same points system as the first floor? Or does it require money?"

"No, there is no need..." Zhou Chao hesitated and said seriously to Li Luo: "It takes time."

"When you come from the third floor to the fourth floor, you will experience a synchronization, which will make your speed the same as that of the lower half of the abyss. However, synchronization does not happen overnight and requires a process."

"If I want to accelerate a car to twenty kilometers per hour, I just need to step on the accelerator. But humans can't. The synchronization device can only accelerate every particle of the human body to a specified speed, but the whole person is Detached."

"You are just a group of 'same speed' particles floating above the abyss. You have not yet completely landed on the abyss. If you forcefully enter the fifth floor now, your group of 'particles' will completely disperse."

"So, after reaching the fourth floor, you have to spend time anchoring your body, using time as an anchor to stabilize your body."

"When the particle clusters floating outside the abyss are related to various events in the abyss, it will be like a chemical reaction, fixing the existence of 'Li Luo'. Only then will it be qualified to go to an even more unfamiliar place. Stable Abyss Level 5."

Listening to Zhou Chao's somewhat confusing explanation, Li Luo was a little confused.

"how much time is required?"

"Not necessarily, everyone is different."

Just as Li Luo was about to continue questioning, his teammates behind Zhou Chao suddenly called him to report on the mission, and he could only say goodbye to Li Luo in embarrassment.

"If you don't understand, you can go to the fortress's data center to check, and remember to update your database. I'll come back to you after I finish the work."

After saying that, Zhou Chao hurriedly left, leaving Li Luo alone.

"data center?"

Li Luo looked at the interlaced pipes around him and was stunned.

…

Fortunately, Li Luo finally found his way to the data center.

After passing through layers of pipes and taking several pipe elevators, Li Luo arrived deep underground in the fortress.

There is a huge hall here. The top of the black pipes cannot be seen. They are arranged regularly. Some dim lights flicker on and off. The occasional few figures do not communicate much and disappear after getting into the gaps in the pipes. not see.

"It doesn't look like a data center, but more like the lair of some underground organization." Li Luo swallowed and walked deeper into the hall with the cube.

After walking to the huge pipe in the depths, a miniature version of the pipe suddenly protruded from the regularly arranged pipes, and the top slowly turned into the shape of an electronic screen interface.

Seeing the interface, Li Luo understood, took out her electronic screen, and connected it without hesitation.

"Welcome to the Pipeline Fortress Database."

A cold mechanical sound came from the electronic screen, and the miniature pipe shook a few times, directly supporting the electronic screen.

Li Luo also let go, letting the electronic screen fly into the air with the pipe, and then stopped in front of her.

"Search: Qualifications for the fifth floor." Li Luo said directly to the electronic screen.

As soon as the words fell, the electronic screen began to change, and countless information popped up directly. Before Li Luo could choose, it automatically jumped into one of the articles:

"The non-existent cup - the road to the fifth floor."

Li Luo looked at this slightly strange title and curiously flipped down...

...

"What did we touch when we drank a sip of water?"

"Pick up the cup with your hand, touch the edge of the cup with your lips, lift the cup, open your mouth slightly, and let the water flow into your mouth under the action of gravity... This is our interaction with the cup and water"

"In the 'event' of drinking water, the existence of three things, me, the cup, and water, is proved."

"And we who fell into the fourth floor are a non-existent - cup."