I'm trapped in a cube

"Of course they are different. Every place in the pipeline fortress is different."

The old man heard his whisper and immediately said to him seriously.

"What's the difference? Aren't they all pipelines?" He didn't care about the persuasion task at this time and confronted the old man directly.

"All pipelines? That's just a physical appearance! What you see, hear, and touch are all pipelines, so you think they are all pipelines, right?" The old man questioned.

"What else?"

"Then you are trapped in perception? When you reach the fourth level of the abyss, you can no longer simply use perception to understand the world. You have to look for things beyond perception, such as pipeline fortresses. Do you know how pipeline fortresses are formed?"

"I don't know. I heard that they were made by relics."

The old senior heard his answer and shook his head: "Forget it, I'll tell you, in fact, pipeline fortresses are the remains of a creature. This creature will collect all kinds of knowledge. Although they are dead, the knowledge will not disappear, but hidden in a place beyond perception."

Listening to the old senior's nonsense, he inevitably showed a contemptuous expression.

This expression seemed to stimulate the old senior again.

The old senior took a book directly from the bookshelf at the back and came in front of him.

"Let me ask you, what is the title of this book?"

"The Legend of the Demon Mountain, it looks like a novel about cultivating immortals." He answered truthfully.

"No, this is a kind of 'mountain life' racial history. They will be born from the mountains, develop intelligence, and then gradually become powerful..."

"Isn't this a novel about cultivating immortals? Sun Wukong is also like this. He jumped out of a stone, found Bodhi Patriarch to practice 72 transformations, and then made a big fuss in the Heavenly Palace... Shiji Niangniang is also like this. She lived in the White Bone Cave of Skull Mountain and achieved enlightenment for tens of thousands of years. Unfortunately, she was burned to death later..."

"..."

The old senior was stunned for a moment, and after coming to his senses, he knocked his head with the book again.

"This book is not a fictional novel about cultivating immortals, nor is it a fantasy story. The creatures in the book are real, and they are on the fourth floor of the abyss, a place called Demon Mountain Island, which humans have just discovered."

"Really?"

"Of course it's true. Do you know where I found this book?" The old senior continued to ask mysteriously.

"Jumped out of the stone?"

"Almost."

"Ah?"

"It appeared out of thin air, right in this room, Room 0123, and suddenly appeared on the bookshelf that day, and then on the same day, humans discovered the Magic Mountain Island... The area of ​​the Magic Mountain Island had been explored by humans a long time ago, but on that day, an island that had never been discovered appeared in the empty sea, and there were creatures recorded in the book on the island. Do you think there is such a coincidence?"

"Old senior, do you mean that the Magic Mountain Island was brought by this book? The creatures recorded in this book are becoming a reality?"

"This is something beyond our perception. Who knows whether these books have become reality, or reality has affected the books..." The old senior turned his head and glanced at the books in the room, and said in a trance: "Most of the books here appeared out of thin air. The creatures in the books can basically be found in reality. There are also some that have not been discovered, maybe humans have not found them yet."

Listening to the old senior's words, he was a little shocked, but more suspicious.

"These books only appear in room 0123?"

"Yes, that's why I said that every place in the pipeline fortress is different. This place is special. If I leave here, I won't be able to see these books. Once the pipeline fortress begins to be transformed, the structure and spatial position will change, and the location where these books appear may not be this room..."

The old predecessor's words were full of worry. He really wanted to explore the mysteries of these books. The desire in his expression could not deceive people.

"Why don't you report to your superiors? Let them protect this place."

"Of course I reported it, but the researchers at the core of the fortress explained that this was the knowledge carried by the biological remains that had been leaked and was being expressed in a form that could be understood by the surrounding creatures. Because the people living in the pipeline fortress are all humans, this knowledge will appear in the form of 'books'. They said this is a normal phenomenon and asked me not to worry about it..."

Listening to the old predecessor's words, he immediately understood that the old predecessor was just obsessed with the mysteries behind these books and was unwilling to let go.

"These are all precious knowledge..."

"You should obey the order. Maybe humans don't need this knowledge."

Even if it's a pity, since the superiors have said so, there is no need to worry about it.

There are so many secrets in the abyss. Do we have to figure out every one of them?

Humans only need the useful ones.

The resources and energy for exploring the abyss are limited. The superiors have figured out the origins of these books and must have weighed the usefulness of this knowledge. They must have made such a decision after careful consideration.

The transformation of the pipeline fortress is imminent. Humans need enough space to build facilities. Once the transformation is completed, the pipeline fortress will become an extremely important outpost for humans, which has far-reaching significance for the study of the abyss.

With the pipeline fortress as the base point, humans can completely fix the spatial coordinates of the entire fourth layer of the abyss, and use beacons as nodes to build a map network of the entire fourth layer of the abyss.

But all this is based on the transformation of the pipeline fortress.

Under such a vision, all sacrifices and costs are worth it.

Believing in the orders and decisions of superiors is the only thing that ordinary members of the pioneering group can do.

"Old predecessor, I hope you can move away. This is for your safety. I know you want to explore the mysteries of the pipeline fortress more deeply, but this is not the most important thing now."

"Not the most important thing? Even the curiosity to explore the abyss is gone, what is left?" The old predecessor said sadly.

"There are many things more important than curiosity, such as the future of mankind... The senior leaders of the core of the fortress also hope that you can move away. They have been delaying for you for a long time, and the transformation must begin."

"Delay?" The old predecessor shook his head: "They will not delay. Once the time of the transformation plan arrives, they will start the transformation without hesitation. Even if there are still residents in the zero residential area, the transformation will not stop."

The old predecessor walked to the bookshelf desolately, stroked the books, and sighed.

"I understand them, they are always so rational..."

"I always feel that they are not like humans, they don't have human curiosity, they don't have human compassion, all decisions are cold, and everything is based on interests."

"But I also understand them, as long as humans take a wrong step, they will fall into an endless abyss."

"In fact, you don't have to persuade me, I know what to do is 'correct', and I know what 'putting the overall situation first' means, but people will always be selfish and persistent, and I just don't want to accept it."

"I have been in the pioneer group for so long, and I understand everything I should understand, but it's a pity for these books..."

"Oh, forget it..."

The old senior put the "Legend of the Demon Mountain" in his hand neatly, then took another book from the bookshelf, walked to the door, and put the book in his hand.

"I will move it away, and please take a good look at this book..."