I'm trapped in a block

Chapter 1113: “Again” to the Stone Forest
Mo Ling opened the parachute to slow down his descent.

He looked around curiously:
Huge stone pillars rise into the sky, like pillars supporting the sky, extending from the barren ground to the thick clouds.

Mist was lingering, spreading in the gaps between the stone pillars. The sunlight was divided into one grating after another by these pillars, casting strips of light on the ground.

The scorching wind blew from the horizon. The temperature here seemed to be much higher than that on the Overturned Mountains. Looking at the ground from far away, one could see that the air near the surface was distorted by the high temperature, causing a melting-like shaking.

Feeling the heat waves below, Mo Ling came to his senses in an instant. He realized that he had reached the second layer of the abyss, the disordered sand dunes.

He looked at the towering stone pillars, his eyes swept across the inside and outside of the stone pillars, and he exclaimed in surprise.

This is a spectacle I have never seen before. I didn’t expect to see such a wonderful painting just after arriving at the second level of the abyss.

Adjusting the parachute, Mo Ling passed through the gap between the stone pillars.

"Luckily I prepared a parachute in advance. If I hadn't, I might have fallen on the rocks and died..."

This also showed that the route was foresighted. After understanding the characteristics of the flipping mountain, he directly prepared a parachute, which he actually used this time.

"I didn't expect to land in a place like this. It's all stone. How were these pillars formed? Did they grow?"

Mo Ling observed this strange environment, his heart filled with confusion.

But now is not the time to doubt, we have to find a suitable place to land first.

He saw a relatively open space among the stone pillars, so he quickly adjusted the direction of the parachute and flew towards the open space.

When he was about to land, a heat wave hit him and Mo Ling almost lost his balance. Fortunately, he changed direction in time, stepped on a stone pillar, and landed on the open space dangerously.

"Whoo~"

Mo Ling breathed a sigh of relief. If his vision was not able to accurately observe the surrounding environment, he would not have chosen such a risky approach.

Not long after, Router followed closely and landed on the same open space.

Ah Dai was holding him from behind, and when he was about to reach the ground, Ah Dai jumped down in advance and caught him when he landed.

"You are becoming more and more proficient in control."

Mo Ling looked at this scene and praised sincerely.

"You mean I will be the one controlling her from now on, right?" Lu Luqi directly pointed out Mo Ling's intention.

Seeing that his next sentence had been said, Mo Ling smiled awkwardly and changed the topic directly.

"Where is this place? Is it in the information you read?"

"No." Lu Luqi shook his head decisively: "This place is too special. I don't remember the information mentioning such an environment."

"Do you see those stone pillars? They grow all the way up to the sky. I don't know how they were formed."

"Maybe it's similar to karst landforms, formed by water erosion. The original ground level here may have been in the sky, and water seeped into the cracks in the rocks and cut along the cracks. Over time, under thousands of years of continuous erosion, the cracks have been eroded to the current height, leaving behind those stone pillars..."

Lu Qi analyzed it carefully, and Mo Ling also showed a surprised expression.

"You mean, there used to be a lot of water here?" "Well, although it doesn't look like there is now, there might have been."

"The water has been eroding for so long, haven't these stone pillars fallen down?"

Mo Ling walked to the side and jumped onto the rock at the bottom of a stone pillar. He slapped the pillar hard until his hands turned red. All that could be heard was the sound of the slapping.

He pondered for a while and said, "I don't think it's that simple. This is the abyss. Maybe there are other reasons... Maybe these stones are alive, like plants, they will grow slowly. At first, it was just a small stalagmite, which grew taller and taller until it became what it is now."

"Think whatever you want. Don't worry about how these stone pillars were formed. We have to leave here first..."

Lu Qi looked around and frowned slightly.

When you look at this stone forest from above, you will feel it is a work of nature. But when you get down to the bottom, you will find that it is not so easy to get out.

The stone forest covers a large area, and these stone pillars look very similar, so they cannot be used as markers at all. The rocks below are all the same, with extremely similar colors and sizes, and there is no way to distinguish them. The stone pillars block the view and there is no way to predict the route. They don’t even know where to go now, which is equivalent to entering a "stone maze."

What's even more terrifying is that the heat waves on the ground are still surging. Traveling in such an environment will require a huge amount of water. The water they carry will be consumed very quickly. If they fail to leave before the water is used up, they will die of thirst in this maze.

There are dry rocks all around, it doesn't look like there is water, not even a plant can be seen. Without plants, the possibility of animals being present is also very low...

This is a completely barren land.

"We have to find a way out as soon as possible. Every second we stay here is a countdown to our lives."

Lu Qi licked his lips which were beginning to dry and spoke to Mo Ling seriously.

Faced with this situation, Mo Ling put away his contemptuous thoughts.

"Where should we go?"

"Let me think..." Lu Luqi adjusted his glasses: "How far can your field of vision extend?"

"I can keep exploring as far as I want, but it will take a lot of time. Do you want me to explore all the way to the edge?"

"No, just explore this area. Observe which direction the stone pillars are denser and which direction the stone pillars are sparser, and then tell me."

"it is good."

After hearing the instructions from the router, Mo Ling did not hesitate and started observing directly.

After a while, he came back with the results.

"It's denser over there, and sparser in the opposite direction..." Mo Ling pointed to the distance and said to the router.

"I see. Now we just need to pick a direction to go. Remember to keep an eye on the direction and don't let us go astray."

Mo Ling nodded, but he still didn't understand: "Why can we just pick any direction?"

"You can think of the density and sparseness of the stone pillars as the two directions of the coordinate axis, one negative and one positive. No matter which direction you walk in, you can get out of the stone forest, just the distance will be different... Our main problem now is that we can't determine the direction, not the distance to travel, so just choose one direction to walk in. As long as the direction does not deviate, you will definitely get out. Do you understand?"

(End of this chapter)