I'm trapped in a cube

"I have obtained the qualification to go to the fifth floor."

Li Luo came to the airship dock again and found the previous staff member.

"Congratulations."

"You said before that there was a way for me to go directly to Rainbow City?"

"Yes." The staff member directly took out a prepared small box: "When you are ready to go to Yuankong, just take out the contents of the box. This is an anchor that can be used in Yuankong. When filtering, position yourself so that you land in a certain place.”

Li Luo nodded and took the small box.

"How much?"

Her question made the staff member stunned for a moment.

"What?"

"How much?"

"No need... this is not a valuable thing. I recommend you to choose that relic. It has caused you trouble. I feel very guilty. Please consider this as my apology."

Hearing this, Li Luo did not refuse and put the small box away.

"Take care of yourself."

"good……"

Neither of them had anything to say. After taking the box, Li Luo left silently, and the staff continued their work.

They probably all knew that this might be the last time they saw each other, but there was no tearful farewell between the two of them, they just parted in a normal way.

Encounter by chance, meet suddenly, and leave quietly.

It wasn't until he was far away from the dock that Li Luo took out the small box and looked at it for a long time.

She didn't open it, just looked at it like this, wondering what she was thinking...

Back in the room, Li Luo started to pack his luggage.

She had already planned things before leaving the Pipe Fortress.

First pack your luggage, then send the books to the data center of the Pipe Fortress, where specialized personnel will recycle the books, and finally set off for Yuankong.

Li Luo had already bought the anchored supplies in advance. These things could be brought together under Yuankong without being stopped by Yuankong. She also checked her luggage to prevent anything from being isolated by Yuankong.

After delivering the books to the data center, Li Luo set out on the road to Yuen Khon.

The strange thing is that the Abyssal Hole is not outside the Pipe Fortress, but in the core area of ​​the Pipe Fortress.

"Is there any way to reach Yuankong?"

With doubts, Li Luo came to the area known as the "Entrance of Yuan Kong".

This is a circular square supported by huge pipes. People come and go inside, which is much more lively than other places in the Pipe Fortress.

Some pipes are constantly squirming in the square, expanding and contracting up and down, as if they are performing some kind of mechanical activity, and deafening sounds are constantly coming from inside the pipes, as if they are beating some kind of metal object.

However, apart from the pipes, nothing else was seen. They seemed to be just squirming and hitting the air, making that strange metal knocking sound.

Bang, bang, bang, bang~

With those deafening knocks, the entire square shook.

But the people coming and going didn't seem to notice those sounds and were just minding their own business.

"Where is Yuan Kong?"

Li Luo looked at it suspiciously for a while, but couldn't find the location of Yuan Kong.

Last time at the anchorage inspection center, I could still see the dark hole. Why didn't I see the abyssal hole when I arrived at the entrance?

When Li Luo was confused, the cube slowly passed over her head...

"Are those jelly?" Mo Ling was a little unsure of what he saw.

In his field of vision, there was a different scenery in the square.

I saw that the pipes that were making loud noises were filled with jelly that humans called "synchronization residue". However, the jelly here seemed to have been compressed, making it more viscous, and even a bit like it was completely crystallized. of solid.

Those crystal clear solids also contained various strange splicing objects, but during the process of the pipes stretching and swinging up and down, those splicing objects actually passed through the hard crystals, were thrown out directly, and then suddenly appeared again. There was an explosion inside the pipe.

These explosions were the source of those loud noises.

The contact of objects with different synchronization rates is like the collision of two trains at different speeds, releasing terrible energy, but that energy is collected by the hard pipe and sent to certain places under the pipe.

The pipes above the square seemed to be continuously transporting jelly into the square.

Mo Ling looked at this scene and was so shocked that he couldn't speak.

"All the jelly around the Pipe Fortress was transported here?"

"Are humans exploiting these jellies?"

Human beings seem to have figured out the properties of those jellies a long time ago and have taken advantage of them. However, for some reason, the information about the jellies has been hidden. Most people think that it is just useless synchronization residue.

There are a lot of jelly in the pipes, and they are even used as some kind of energy source, but many people don't know it.

After thinking for a while, Mo Ling roughly understood how these jelly were used.

"The knowledge of the Eternal Thirst may have been obtained by humans long ago."

That knowledge has long been transformed into various media and appeared in the Pipe Fortress. The Pipe Fortress has been developed for so long, and it is impossible for the people who developed it not to understand that knowledge.

Therefore, the data center will have a dedicated place for recycling books.

However, the knowledge of the Eternal Thirst cannot be applied as soon as it is acquired.

Most of that knowledge is described in very obscure terms and may be dangerous, so humans must analyze, screen, and test it before they can convert it into applications.

First use it on a small scale to test its stability, and then put it into large-scale use.

Not only that, in order to prevent panic and opposition, the application of this knowledge must also be hidden, and the data must be blocked, just like the jelly in these pipes, everything that violates normal cognition will be blocked and closely monitored.

Human society is also like the slowly running pipe fortress, with various rules. The strict mechanisms hinder the spread of knowledge, but also ensure the safety of individuals.

In the process of human beings touching the abyss, it is this strict system that resists the erosion of the abyss, wraps a layer of protection called rationality on the unknown, and suppresses disorder and chaos.

Although these bloated rules and mechanisms will make everything complicated, complexity is the premise for ensuring safety.

Individuals will be controlled by emotions, attracted by the unknown, impulsive, and emotional. This is inevitable for human beings, and the same is true for groups.

However, the various rules created by humans are absolutely rational. There is no better tool than these to judge those bizarre things in the abyss.

They are cold, but useful.