I'm trapped in a block

Chapter 1091: Towards the Call

The screening process for individual explorers was much simpler than Moring had imagined. Most of the participants were not truly "independent individuals", but representatives or mercenaries selected by many organizations and institutions.

After all, this is the first time that the abyss is open to individual explorers, and there will be many opportunities in the future. Many people who want to enter the abyss and find out what’s going on have chosen to wait and see.

"Am I too anxious... But it's a good thing to get in earlier."

Stepping onto the abyss elevator, Mo Ling stared at the darkness below. The silent call was more tempting than ever before. Mo Ling felt his heart pounding, as if something in the dark hole was tugging at his heartstrings.

Until the elevator started running, Mo Ling was staring at the abyss. The surroundings began to gradually darken. It was still daytime, but the cliffs of the abyss swallowed up all the sunlight, leaving thick darkness in front of everyone.

The explorers were startled by the sudden darkness and began to whisper to each other. Only Mo Ling was not affected at all. His vision allowed him to see every detail in the darkness clearly.

He saw the panic on the explorers' faces, and saw the originally vertical cliff moving farther and farther away from the elevator, and finally disappearing into the distance, leaving only a slowly descending elevator in the empty darkness.

“The further down you go, the larger the cross-sectional area of ​​the pit becomes?”

Perhaps for confidentiality reasons, no one had ever told Mo Ling about this.

The structure of the top layer of the abyss is like an inverted funnel, small at the top and large at the bottom, gradually expanding into a complete world.

But it seems that no one has ever reached the edge of the abyss.

"Is it too far away? Or does it not exist at all?"

Mo Ling knew that he couldn't understand the abyss with normal concepts. It was possible that this "inverted funnel" had no concept of "edge" at all and extended infinitely.

Or maybe the abyss is also a spherical structure like the earth, and this ball is placed in the "funnel". Humans are only exploring on the ball and it is impossible for them to leave the surface of the ball and reach the edge of the funnel.

This was all Mo Ling's imagination. His purpose was not to explore the boundary of the abyss, but to keep walking towards the deepest part of the abyss. The call that always echoed in his mind came from there.

Human beings discovered the existence of the second layer of the abyss very early. When the abyss just came, scientists proposed the theory of multiple layers of the abyss through geological and gravitational calculations. Just like the gravitational interference between different planets, there are corresponding gravitational influences between different layers of the abyss.

The scientists also used gravity to measure the passage between the first and second layers, a mountain with reversed gravity. Because the two layers are so close, the gravity on the mountain cancels each other out.

When you first climb the mountain, the gravity you experience mainly comes from the first layer of the abyss, so the gravity is downward. When you climb to about halfway up the mountain, because the distance to the second layer of the abyss is getting closer and closer, and the distance to the first layer is getting farther and farther, the gravity will reach a balance and you will experience "weightlessness". When you climb to a higher place, the gravity of the second layer of the abyss will dominate again, pulling you upwards, and finally you will "fall" onto the second layer of the abyss.

It is said that the channel between the second and third layers was also calculated in this way, but it is much more complicated than that between the first and second layers. Scientists have calculated "multiple" similar points between the layers, and each similar point between the layers can be used as a channel.

The structure of the abyss further down seems to be even more complicated. Mo Ling has not heard of any news about the fourth layer yet.

It is not easy for human beings to learn so much in just five years. Perhaps the reason why the government now allows individual explorers to enter the abyss is because abyss research has encountered a bottleneck and needs more manpower.

Just as Mo Ling was thinking, the elevator suddenly shook and stopped in the darkness.

"what happened?"

The explorers panicked instantly, and Mo Ling hurriedly checked the condition of the elevator and found that the gears that had been turning had stopped.

"Did something happen?"

Before I could figure out what was going on, the announcement on the elevator suddenly sounded:

"Due to an emergency, the elevator will change its route and land in the north of the first monitoring station. After landing, please head south and reach the monitoring station as soon as possible."

"Due to an emergency..."

The announcement was repeated several times, all with the same content. The broadcast did not elaborate on what had happened, only saying that an emergency landing was to take place north of the first monitoring station.

"North? How far? Due north or north?"

The explorers in the elevator were talking about it, but the content of the broadcast was still too vague.

After a while, the elevator started moving again, but it did not fall vertically. Instead, it fell at an angle and bumped from time to time. Its running posture was very unstable.

But this state did not last long. After the elevator descended to a certain height, it seemed to have suddenly penetrated a barrier and the surroundings instantly lit up, as if the thick darkness before was just an illusion. The dazzling sunlight fell from above, and below was a lush jungle. Clouds floated past the elevator, and a breeze blew across everyone's cheeks.

Its daybreak……

The elevator also stopped shaking and resumed its vertical descent.

At this time, some explorers had already seen the first monitoring station in the distance through the diffuse clouds.

"It's just due south! It's about 3 or 4 kilometers away, not far, and you can get there in an hour on foot!"

Many of these explorers had experience in the wild, not to mention some battle-hardened mercenaries. When they heard that the distance was not far, their panic subsided instantly.

Some people began to take out compasses to determine the direction, while others picked up telescopes to observe the jungle between the monitoring station and the landing site and began to plan a reliable route.

The elevator landed quickly and steadily. There happened to be a clearing in the jungle and there were signs of human reclamation around it. It seemed to be a planned emergency landing site.

Mo Ling looked up at the sky. He was still upset about the "sudden situation" that had just happened.

"In the end what happened?"

He was still struggling with his thoughts when some explorers started to organize themselves into teams and planned to move towards the monitoring station together.

"Put everything in order. We'll be leaving in a minute! I'll lead the way for you. Please follow behind me and watch my back!"

"Everyone, don't fall behind! This is the abyss, it's different from the ground, it's very dangerous, stick together!"

At this time, no one would come out to sing a different tune. After hesitating for a moment, everyone followed the organizer silently, and Mo Ling was no exception.

"set off!"

After checking that no one was left behind, the organizers strode into the jungle.

As soon as he entered the jungle, he picked up the machete he had prepared long ago and began to chop the branches and weeds that blocked the way, fulfilling his duty of "clearing the way" conscientiously.

The birds in the jungle were startled by the noise and flew away into the sky in all directions.

The sunlight shone through the gaps between the leaves onto the team, and beams of light divided the jungle into light and dark.

The fresh air made everyone feel refreshed, but the complex green was dazzling.

A damp mist drifted through the lush jungle, and dewdrops occasionally fell on Mo Ling's head, making him feel cool.

His eyes quickly swept through the jungle. For some reason, he felt a little uneasy since entering the jungle.

"It's like something is watching us..."

(End of this chapter)