I'm trapped in a block

Chapter 524 Pipeline Fortress
Mo Ling controlled the cube as if nothing had happened and followed behind Li Luo, waiting for the investigation team to finish reporting their experience on the Sky Island. Only then did the soldiers take everyone on the elevator made of pipes.

After passing through layers of thick clouds and fog, everyone finally arrived on the ground.

The ground here is also paved with crisscrossing black pipes. No wonder it is called the Pipeline Fortress. There are also huge pipes in the sky passing through the clouds, and no one knows where they connect to.

Although we were on the ground, the wind was still very strong, just like on the tower. White air currents blew through the huge pipe openings, making a strange humming sound.

Li Luo raised his head and looked at the pipes that penetrated into the clouds, thoughtfully.

"It's strange, isn't it? It is said that these pipes all come from the same relic. This fortress was built on a relic." Zhou Chao explained when he saw Li Luo was so curious.

Li Luo nodded and asked, "Have you been here before?"

"Of course, I've been here many times. This is a large monitoring station, and the investigation team often comes here to rest."

Zhou Chao pointed at the pipes that drilled into the mist and introduced: "Those pipes are responsible for fixing the entire pipeline fortress, so that the entire fortress will not move with the airflow. It is like a filter, blocking the center of the turbulent node. Every sky island passing through the node will be installed with a beacon, which is more efficient than exploring one by one."

In the thick fog, the edge of the fortress could not be seen at all. Only the ground with countless pipes crisscrossing could be seen. Those long black figures were swaying in the fog, like some kind of giant creatures.

Being in this fortress, one can feel a strange shock.

"Was the pipeline fortress built by humans?" Li Luo asked curiously.

"Yes." Zhou Chao nodded. "It is said that at the beginning, it was just to capture drifting objects in the air-sea circulation, and a fixed observation point was built. Later, it became more and more magnificent, with more and more functions, and gradually became the current pipeline fortress."

Zhou Chao pointed to the ground and said, "There are still facilities left over from before. Every time there is not enough space, the pipeline fortress will continue to expand on the original basis. Therefore, the fortress has many layers, and there will be many facilities underground."

"There are also many anemometers, air detection instruments, and synchronization rate analyzers installed in those huge pipes... They are used to monitor the air flow data and real-time fluctuations of the sea of ​​clouds."

"Although the pipeline fortress looks strange, it is actually mostly human technology. The pipelines are just a carrier, just like the bricks used to build a building..."

After Zhou Chao's description, Li Luo also had a certain understanding of the pipeline fortress under his feet.

"Are you planning to go deeper into the abyss?" Zhou Chao suddenly asked.

"Yes. Is there a passage to the fifth floor in the Pipeline Fortress?"

"Yes." Zhou Chao nodded: "But you probably don't have the qualifications yet..."

Hearing this, Li Luo was a little excited: "What qualifications are required? A sufficient number of relics? Or is it the same point system as the first floor? Or does it require money?"

"No, none of that is necessary..." Zhou Chao hesitated for a moment, and said to Li Luo seriously, "It will take time."

"When you come from the third floor to the fourth floor, you will experience a synchronization, which will make your speed the same as the lower half of the abyss. However, synchronization is not achieved overnight. It requires a process."

"If I want to accelerate a car to 20 kilometers per hour, I just need to step on the accelerator, but humans can't do that. The synchronization device can only accelerate each particle of the human body to a specified speed, but the whole person is 'separated'."

"You are now just a group of particles floating above the abyss at the same speed. You have not yet completely landed on the abyss. If you force yourself to enter the fifth floor now, your group of particles will be completely dispersed."

“So, after you reach the fourth floor, you need to take the time to anchor your body, using time as an anchor to stabilize your body.”

"When the particles floating outside the abyss are connected with various events in the abyss, it will be like a chemical reaction, fixing the existence of 'Li Luo'. Only then will it be qualified to go to the more unstable fifth layer of the abyss."

Listening to Zhou Chao's somewhat confusing explanation, Li Luo was somewhat confused. "How long will it take?"

“Not necessarily. Everyone is different.”

Just as Li Luo was about to continue asking questions, Zhou Chao's teammates behind him suddenly called him to report on the mission, and he could only say goodbye to Li Luo embarrassedly.

"If you don't understand, you can go to the fortress's data center to check. And remember to update your database. I'll come back to you after I finish my work."

After saying this, Zhou Chao left in a hurry, leaving Li Luo alone.

"data center?"

Li Luo was stunned when he saw the crisscrossing pipes around him.

……

Fortunately, Li Luo finally found the way to the data center.

After passing through layer after layer of pipes and taking several pipe elevators, Li Luo arrived deep underground in the fortress.

There is a huge hall here, with black pipes whose tops cannot be seen, arranged in a regular pattern. There are some dim lights that flicker on and off. Occasionally, a few figures appear without communicating much, and disappear after entering the gaps in the pipes.

"It doesn't look like a data center, but more like the lair of some underground organization." Li Luo swallowed and walked deeper into the hall with the cube.

After walking to the huge pipe deep inside, a miniature pipe suddenly extended from those regularly arranged pipes, and the top slowly turned into the shape of an electronic screen interface.

When he saw the interface, Li Luo understood what he meant, took out his electronic screen and connected it without hesitation.

"Welcome to the Pipe Fortress Database."

A cold mechanical sound came from the electronic screen, and the miniature pipe shook a few times, directly supporting the electronic screen.

Li Luo also let go, allowing the electronic screen to fly into the air along the pipe and then stop in front of her.

"Search: Qualifications to enter the fifth floor." Li Luo said directly to the electronic screen.

As soon as he finished speaking, the electronic screen began to change, and countless information popped up directly. Before Li Luo could choose, it automatically jumped to one of the articles:
"The non-existent cup - the path to the fifth floor."

Li Luo looked at this slightly strange title and turned the page curiously...

……

"What do we touch when we take a sip of water?"

"Pick up the cup with your hands, touch your lips to the edge of the cup, lift the cup, open your mouth slightly, and let the water flow into your mouth under the action of gravity... This is our interaction with the cup and water."

"In the 'event' of drinking water, the existence of three things, me, the cup, and the water, is proven."

"And we who have fallen into the fourth floor are nothing more than a non-existent cup."

(End of this chapter)