I'm trapped in a block

Chapter 604 Residential Area Zero

"If this is the room number, does Residential Area Zero really exist?"

Mo Ling didn't know the specific division of the residential area of ​​Pipeline Fortress. He just thought that this string of numbers might be the room number.

After checking the surroundings for a while, Mo Ling also fell into a deep sleep in the cube.

The pipe room in the residential area was completely silent. Only the occasional breathing sound of Li Luo could be heard. She licked her lips and frowned from time to time, as if she had dreamed of something strange.

The light became dimmer. Deep in this pipeline fortress, the change between day and night could not be felt at all. The fluorescent light in the room flickered faintly, as if there was no difference between day and night here.

It was not until a dull sound came from the depths of the fortress, breaking Li Luo's dream, that she slowly woke up from the sofa.

She rubbed her eyes dazedly, looked at the cube, then at her backpack, and stood up.

Standing in the center of the room, Li Luo looked in the direction where the muffled sound came from. It seemed to be the sound of some huge steel friction, or like something fell into a furnace and was being hit hard.

The sound was very deep and had become somewhat unclear by the time it reached here, but in this silent pipe room, it was extremely harsh.

Li Luo picked up a bottle of water and drank it down in gulps.

She just had the dream about Dr. Liu again, but this time the dream became very vague and not as real as the first time.

Li Luo picked up the electronic screen and took a look.

"Three o'clock in the middle of the night...I didn't sleep for long this time."

This time she did not sleep for three consecutive days like before, but just had a normal sleep. However, the vague dream also gave her a headache after waking up.

"Then how long will the cost of the painkillers last?"

Li Luo realized that he might have underestimated the cost of changing the painkillers.

Just when she was worried, a cube flew over, and then an electronic screen appeared out of thin air on the table next to her. Li Luo immediately understood that the cube was going to tell her something.

Li Luo picked up the electronic screen and saw the speculation about the string of numbers on it.

"Room number? Residential Area Zero?"

At the same time, there is another question above:
"Why do you care so much about the origin of this relic?"

Li Luo then realized that he had never told anyone about that dream.

Ever since returning to the Pipeline Fortress, she has been looking for the source of the pain-reducing tablets, and also to figure out the impact of this relic on herself.

Fang Kuai didn't know about the dream, so of course he didn't understand why she cared so much about changing the pain pills.

Thinking of this, Li Luo looked at the cube beside him and said seriously: "The price of this relic may not be as simple as written in the information..."

Li Luo told Fang Kuai what he had dreamed about, and also expressed his recent feelings.

After being treated by doctors in the Huasheng Islands, Li Luo did get much better, but the cost of the pain-relieving pills seemed to be lasting.

She would feel thirsty from time to time, and sleepiness would come over her inadvertently. The things about "Doctor Liu" would keep reappearing in her dreams, and sometimes when she was daydreaming, she would think of these things unconsciously.

It seemed that the dream was completely left in her mind, constantly haunting her.

Li Luo knew clearly that there was something wrong with his body, and if he wanted to solve these problems, he had to figure out the secret of the pain-relieving pill.

"That dream seemed to be urging me to find what is hidden behind this relic..."

"I don't know if my mind was controlled, but what happened in the dream did fill my mind and made me think about it all the time."

As Li Luo spoke, he licked his lips again.

Although she had just drunk half a bottle of water, her lips were still terribly dry. Faint cracks appeared on her pale lips, and a strange red color appeared in the cracks. Li Luo swallowed her saliva, and the dry dandruff on her lips was rolled up with her tongue. The price of the pain pills was still affecting her.

The electronic screen was put away. Mo Ling looked at Li Luo's strange expression and wrote a short sentence on the electronic screen:
"I'll help you."

……

Fortunately, although the side effects of the pain-relieving pills continued, they were not very terrible.

Li Luo only adjusted himself for a while, then picked up the electronic screen and began to search for information about "Residential Area Zero".

Sure enough, she found records about this residential area in the database of the Pipeline Fortress's intranet.

When the pipeline fortress was first built, there was no residential area division.

At that time, not many people could reach the fourth layer of the abyss, and even fewer could reach the pipeline fortress. Moreover, humans' control over the pipeline fortress was not so sophisticated at that time, and they were unable to create pipeline rooms like the current ones.

Therefore, people can simply divide an area into residential areas and separate the pipes inside for living.

At that time, the main purpose of people was to explore the pipeline fortress, so the management of the residential area was very chaotic. People used the relics and tools at hand to transform the residential area, making it more like a camping site where people gathered and it was messy and disorganized.

Such a living environment is of course very poor, so after people were able to precisely control the pipeline fortress, they built a new residential area and eliminated the old one. The people here also moved out one after another, leaving only a ruin.

However, the previous transformation of this area remained, and the people of the Pipe Fortress called this area Residential Area Zero.

As time goes by, many people have forgotten the existence of this residential area.

There are many such abandoned areas in the Pipeline Fortress that no one cares about. Apart from the records in the database, the newcomers coming and going in the fortress have no idea about these places.

Looking at the records on the electronic screen, Li Luo realized that the string of numbers might really be related to the Zero Residential Area.

So she hurriedly began to look for the location of this residential area.

She soon found it. This residential area was located directly below the first residential area and was relatively deep inside the pipeline fortress.

"The first residential area?"

Li Luo opened the map. The first residential area was not far from here, but the road might be a bit roundabout.

Seeing this, she could no longer suppress her inner impulse and directly picked up the backpack on the ground.

"Let's go now."

……

Walking in the empty pipe, the sound coming from deep inside became more and more obvious.

It seemed that some huge metal machine was turning, and there were some rhythmic knocking sounds in the turning sound. I didn't know whether it was the metal machine knocking on something else, or something else knocking on the machine.

Following the map, Li Luo quickly found the location of the first residential area, but the first residential area was not their destination. She bypassed the pipe at the entrance and came to a dilapidated-looking pipe next to it.

"is it here?"

It looked like no one had walked through the pipeline for a long time. The small pipes at the bottom were a bit damaged and covered with dust. The lighting inside the pipeline was also flickering and looked dilapidated.

Li Luo confirmed it and then walked into the not very spacious pipe.

The pipe is about four meters in diameter and spirals downward with a steep slope. If you're not careful, you might slip down. Li Luo can only lean against the edge and step carefully on the broken small pipes.

After going around in circles for who knows how many times, the pipeline finally became flat, and some dilapidated facilities appeared in front of us.

(End of this chapter)