I'm trapped in a block

Chapter 1112: There is no way out of the abyss

The return journey was smooth, and Mo Ling and Lu Luqi returned to the monitoring station in a noisy manner.

After reporting the mission, they took Ah Dai to register his belongings.

Mo Ling explained to the staff for a long time before the other party realized that this was a relic.

"If it is a relic, you can keep it for yourself, but you need to report the information of the relic. What is the name of this relic?"

"A-Dai." Mo Ling reported the name he had already chosen. Lu Lu, who was standing next to him, lowered his head with a red face, as if he had done something wrong.

"What about the ability and cost? Do you know?"

"I'm not sure, but we can tell you about her origins."

"Okay, go ahead and tell me, I'll remember..."

Just like that, Ah Dai's registration was completed.

"We should be able to go to the second floor now, right?"

"Okay, we are all qualified now."

"Let's go!" Mo Ling jumped up excitedly. He didn't expect that he could go to the second level of the abyss not long after arriving at the monitoring station.

"Let's go." Lu Qi forced a smile and responded perfunctorily to Mo Ling's "slogan".

"As expected, we are the two with the best qualities among the first batch of individual explorers. While others are still hesitating, we have already set foot on the road to the second layer of the abyss! Our 'Xingtongmolu' team must be the first humans to reach the bottom of the abyss!"

Mo Ling patted Lu Qi's shoulder solemnly and said with a surging heart.

Hearing Mo Ling's bold words, Lu Luqi's smile froze.

"When did this 'Shape Like a Road' come about?"

"I just picked it. I wanted to add Ah Dai as well, but I didn't have enough brains, so I only added our two... It's okay, Ah Dai is not a human, don't count her, she doesn't have any objections..."

Ah Dai certainly had no objection, she wasn't even aware of it.

Looking at the still excited Mo Ling, Lu Qi sighed helplessly: "Whatever..."

So just like that, not long after, the Xingtong Molu team officially embarked on their journey.

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Every time you climb a level on the towering Overturned Mountains, you will find that the surrounding ecology has undergone earth-shaking changes. This is a wonder created by the difference in oxygen concentration and gravity. On this mountain, you can experience the changes of the four seasons and the climate.

In areas with normal gravity and oxygen, the vegetation is no different from that on Earth. It will just seem like a very normal mountain, green and full of vitality.

But if you go a little higher, the environment will quickly become "barren", the tall trees will turn into low shrubs, and finally into even shorter herbaceous plants, the coverage area will become smaller and smaller, and the barren land will gradually be exposed.

However, if you continue to go up, you will see some special vegetation growing on this barren land. These are plants that have adapted to low gravity and low oxygen environments. Their roots are deeply buried in the ground, and their branches sway in the wind like mollusks in the water. Because of the decrease in gravity, they no longer need to use hard branches to support their leaves, so they turn their branches into hollow sections. When they sway in the wind, air flows into the branches through the nodes, thereby increasing the contact area with the air and improving the oxygen uptake rate.

Their leaves become large and flat, hanging at the ends of branches like kites, floating up along the continuous updrafts over the mountains, pulling up the lighter branches and making themselves more "stretched".

From a distance, the area where these plants gather looks like coral reefs on the seabed.

Insects and other small animals in the mountains also live freely among these plants, just like marine life in the coral reefs.

Although they are two very different environments, their specific ecological presentations are surprisingly similar.

In this low-oxygen environment, organisms have shown a trend of miniaturization. They have evolved their bodies to become smaller and smaller to reduce their own oxygen needs, while at the same time achieving a more "graceful" movement posture in a low-gravity environment.

But there are exceptions. Some creatures do the opposite and become fatter and fatter, turning themselves into floating "balls". Because of the decrease in gravity, the burden on their bones and muscles is also reduced. They use this to expand themselves, launching a dimensionality reduction attack on other creatures, and crushing their prey with their "fat" bodies.

Life always finds a way, and even in this "weird" environment, another vibrant scene will emerge.

At the highest point of the mountain, where gravity is almost zero, the air begins to escape upward because it loses the effect of gravity. There is no atmospheric pressure here, only the flow velocity pressure brought by the constantly flowing airflow.

Some dandelion-like "seeds" floated upward along these air currents, passed through the passages between the first and second layers of the abyss, and flew into the unknown disordered sand dunes.

Whether the lives of these seeds can continue depends on the area where they land. If they happen to fall in a place with sufficient nutrients, these tenacious plants will take root there and continue their species. If they are unlucky and fall in a dry desert, they will also become food for other creatures there and contribute to the continuation of other life.

The abyss is so strange, but life still struggles to emerge with an absolutely tenacious attitude, going further and further on the road of continuation.

When humans arrived at the Flip Mountains, they opened up a path.

Wherever humans go, they will first open up a path, and then human civilization will slowly extend along this path.

Occupying both sides of the road, building houses, reclaiming farmland, constructing warehouses, and putting up fences... Eventually this road will become more and more prosperous, more and more people will come here, and more and more houses will rise from the ground, turning this place that does not belong to humans into a human "home."

This is how humans continue to live.

No different from those seeds that drift around.

While the abyss was eroding the world, humans also built roads in the abyss and began to spread into the abyss. The road was built from the bottom of the abyss to the monitoring station, and from the monitoring station to the intersection of the second floor.

One day, you will reach the bottom of the abyss, and the main road will branch out, extending like roots, and like fallen seeds, they will be deeply rooted in the soil and bloom into beautiful flowers.

"The road has been built to the mountain. Do we just have to walk up?" Mo Ling asked the person passing by.

"Well, when we reach the top, we will reach the second level of the abyss..."

"What about the second floor? Is there still a way?"

"I don't know. If not, we can just walk by ourselves. There will be a road wherever we walk by."

"Okay, then we'll keep going until we reach the bottom of the abyss! We'll find all the ways out!"

(End of this chapter)