I'm trapped in a cube

"Who is this 'Zeus'..."

Li Luo has seen his popular science articles more than once.

I am not a famous author, and I have never heard of this pen name, but I can find his popular science articles just right every time.

Li Luo read the familiar name gently, then turned to look at Fang Fang.

"Have you finished reading?"

The cube was motionless and seemed to have burned out.

"Huh? Did I read too quickly? Do I need to look forward?"

The cube remained motionless.

"..."

Seeing the cube like this, Li Luo was a little worried and quickly stepped forward and knocked on it.

"Clang clang clang!"

…

"Teacher, I didn't sleep!"

Mo Ling woke up instantly in the cube and looked around blankly.

He just dreamed that his fellow woodchuck was elbowing him, so he woke up in an instant.

"When did I fall asleep?"

Mo Ling himself was a little confused. Was it when he saw those theories? Or when you see those calculations?

Drowsily, I seemed to see the teacher's densely written formulas on the blackboard, so I fell asleep unknowingly.

I'm still confused now. I seem to understand the content of that article, but I don't seem to understand it at the same time.

Mo Ling also didn't expect that even if he changed into this strange form, the habit engraved in his bones would still work. He couldn't stop the sleepiness from coming...

The surroundings were dark, with only Li Luo's electronic screen still glowing. The dim light illuminated Li Luo's face, and there was still a trace of worry on his face.

Realizing that Li Luo was still knocking on the cube, Mo Ling quickly controlled the cube and shook it.

Cube finally responded, and Li Luo breathed a sigh of relief.

"Have you finished reading? I've put it away."

Cube trembled.

Li Luo understood what Mo Ling meant and put the electronic screen back into his bag.

"We have to find a way to find a new y-axis... Let's keep walking forward and see. Maybe we can find something."

Staying here is not an option, and the situation can't get worse anyway.

Now they have become "one-dimensional creatures" moving on the x-axis. Instead of staying there and waiting to die, they should look for life on the axis.

Mo Ling didn't think of any solution. He didn't even understand the article, so he could only do what Li Luo said first. He had no other choice.

"Let's go."

Although it made no sense, Li Luo still chose a direction and walked forward.

…

Unconsciously, after walking for a long time, there was no sand around, only the huge pyramid complex was left. These pyramids blocked Li Luo's path, so she had to avoid them in advance.

After bypassing several identical pyramids, Li Luo suddenly stopped and looked at the pyramid in front of him.

"Why don't I go in and take a look?"

Anyway, if you keep walking, you will see these pyramids, so why not just find one and go in and have a look.

After asking Cube for his opinion, Li Luo walked straight towards the pyramid in front of him...

There are many dilapidated stone pillars outside the pyramid. Li Luo walked around the stone pillars, stepped on the high steps, and walked up. The stone bricks used in these pyramid steps were large and square, and the gradient of the steps was also very steep. Li Luo spent a lot of time. It took a lot of effort to climb to the top.

The top of the pyramid is a temple. Just after reaching the top, Li Luo saw a strange statue at the entrance of the temple.

The prototype of the statue seems to be a kind of beast, with thick hair all over its body, like a rickety and thin wild wolf, with its tail stretched to the ground, like a kangaroo, which seems to be used to maintain balance. The hair on the forelimbs There are sharp claws hidden in it. Even if it is just a statue, you can still feel the sharpness of the claws.

Strangely, the beast's head is hollow.

A smooth incision was cut off from the neck, as if the craftsman had deliberately hollowed out the head and was unwilling to describe it...

Li Luo stepped forward and gently put his hand on the incision, still feeling the strange smoothness.

"Why is there no head?"

She was a little confused, but didn't think much about it and continued walking towards the temple.

Mo Ling in the cube was completely stunned at this time.

"Isn't this me?"

That statue is him without a head.

He looks exactly the same as his current form, except that he has no head, and everything about his body is the same.

"Why is there a statue of me here?"

Looking at the "handsome" statue, Mo Lin felt a little awkward. It had no head. It was indeed strange, but if he looked closely, he saw that it seemed strangely coordinated.

"Why do I feel that I am more handsome without my head..."

The unique aesthetics from the dark form is constantly telling Mo Ling that this statue is very "beautiful", but deep down in his heart, Mo Ling clearly knows that this statue is "incomplete" and "imperfect", two contradictory things. The emotions were mixed together, giving Mo Ling an extremely weird feeling.

"It's like looking at Venus with a broken arm."

I know it's incomplete, but I don't want this imperfection to be completed.

This novel feeling made Mo Ling stay in front of the statue for a long time. It wasn't until Li Luo turned his head and looked at the square in confusion that he finally broke away from the strange immersion and continued to fly forward. .

The temple was not big. After entering the temple, Li Luo stopped in front of another huge statue in the center.

She cautiously approached the statue and looked at it with her inferior night vision goggles.

This statue is not a beast, nor does it look like a creature, but something like a totem.

On the heavy base, there is an upright branch, and in the middle of this branch, there is another branch, forming a cross with the upright branch.

At the center point where the two branches intersect, there is a third branch that goes straight through, perpendicular to the two branches in front, forming a totem statue with three vertical branches.

The three branches are carved vividly, with bark patterns and raised nodules on them, just like huge branches that are really "petrified".

Li Luo looked at the three perpendicular branches and suddenly thought of something, blurting out:

"Three-dimensional coordinate system?"

The upright branch is the z-axis, and the two horizontal and vertical branches are the x-axis and y-axis. The most primitive branches are used to build the simplest three-dimensional coordinate axis.

The bark patterns and protrusions on the branches are more like some kind of scale, rather than naturally formed.

Li Luo walked around the statue several times, and the more he looked at it, the more similar it felt.

Although they were just three broken branches, they gave her a sense of mathematical beauty.

Gradually, she became bolder and climbed onto the heavy base, touching the lines and knots on the branches with her hands.

Rough and dense, the craftsman who made this sculpture must have spent a lot of effort.

Every detail was carefully designed, so that these carved branches not only present the beauty of mathematics, but also do not deviate from nature.

Li Luo counted the knots on the branches and roughly measured the distance between the knots with his hands.

"1, 2, 4...10..."

"It's really a fixed distance... This is indeed a scale."

After discovering this, Li Luo himself couldn't believe it.

Is this really a three-dimensional coordinate system?

Or is it just a coincidence?

Maybe the craftsmen didn't really want to create a coordinate system, but just thought that the knots on the branches should be carved at a certain distance to be beautiful.

And...

"If you really want to carve a coordinate system, why do you have to carve it into the shape of three branches crossing?"