I'm trapped in a block

Chapter 682 Fall
"Are you okay? Hello? Are you awake?"

In a daze, Li Luo seemed to hear someone calling him.

She opened her hazy eyes and found that it was the staff member who was waving his hands in front of her.

"Are you awake? Fortunately..." The staff breathed a sigh of relief.

Li Luo then realized that she was sitting on a chair, surrounded by a circle of staff members, who were discussing something intensely around her. Some people were pointing at the block. When they saw her wake up, the staff members wanted to rush over impatiently, but were stopped by the person in front of them.

"How do you feel?" the staff asked with concern.

Li Luo wiped the tears from the corners of his eyes, stretched his body, and replied, "Not bad."

My legs are a little numb, but other than that everything is normal.

"Why...are they all looking at me?" Li Luo asked puzzledly.

The staff member looked around and waved to those people, signaling them to leave. Then he turned around and said to Li Luo awkwardly, "They have never seen a situation like yours, so they are very curious and want to ask you what you saw in the simulated abyss."

"Is my situation special?" Li Luo was a little puzzled.

"Yes, your relics rescued you from the simulated abyss..." The staff member pointed to the block next to him and said, "Under normal circumstances, we need to fish you out."

"Fill it out? What do you use to fish it out?" Li Luo asked.

"Use pipes... The simulated abyss we made is not actually very deep, only about ten meters. After jumping in, you will sink at different speeds depending on the degree of anchoring. When you sink, you will feel that time is passing very slowly and you will see a lot of strange things. Almost everyone sees something different. Then you will slowly sink to the bottom. When you reach the bottom, it means that the anchoring is successful, and we will use pipes to pull you out."

Listening to the staff's explanation, Li Luo also understood the process of anchor testing.

No wonder she saw so many strange scenes in the simulated Abyss.

It was pitch black in there, and not very big, but it seemed like there was infinite space. My perception became unusually sharp. Not only could I see things in the darkness, but I could also hear those strange noises.

"Is my anchoring successful?" This is the question that Li Luo cares about most.

The staff member looked at the electronic screen in his hand, which had a complicated chart on it.

"Successful. Although you were rescued by the relic before you touched the bottom, the data is all normal. According to normal development, you should be able to sink to the bottom."

Li Luo nodded and looked at the cube.

It seems that Fang Kuai was worried about her just now, so he was so anxious to go to Yuan Kongli to save her.

However, the reason why Cube saved her was not that simple...

After Li Luo jumped into the simulated abyss, in Mo Ling's vision, a thin layer of black mist appeared in the darkness that the sunlight could not penetrate.

Originally, Li Luo was still sinking slowly, but after the water mist enveloped Li Luo, her descent speed suddenly increased, so Mo Ling immediately controlled the block to catch Li Luo to prevent her from falling to the bottom at high speed.

Now it seems that this is not a normal situation. Mo Ling was also very confused as to why such a strange thing happened.

Isn't this a simulated abyss created by humans? Is it also full of dangers like a normal abyss?

What is that water mist?
Just as Mo Ling was puzzled, Li Luo also asked the staff his own question: "Has there never been a situation like mine before?"

"No." The staff member replied, "The Abyss Hole is isolated from all observation methods. It is impossible to observe the situation inside from the outside. Even we have to wait until you are fished out and then deduce your whereabouts in the Abyss Hole based on the changes in the parameters in your body."

"Not only that, because of the isolation, even if I enter the Abyss, I can't find you, but your relics can accurately find your location..."

The staff member looked at the chart in his hand and said in confusion, "Your falling speed just now seemed to have suddenly increased. It was at this time that your relic rushed into the simulated abyss and rescued you. There is only one explanation for this, that is, your relic observed that you were in danger, so it rushed down."

As expected of a staff member with rich experience, he guessed the real situation right away.

Li Luo was also confused: "Why did my falling speed suddenly increase?"

The staff shook his head and moved the electronic screen in front of Li Luo: "Look, this is your falling speed curve. At this position, it suddenly accelerated, and then it was here that your relic saved you. You don't need to look at the data after that..."

Then, the staff called up the anchoring speed curves of other people: "This is a normal falling speed curve. Although there are fluctuations, the falling acceleration is constant and will remain like this before falling to the bottom."

Li Luo looked at the chart and asked curiously, "What do the different falling speeds represent?"

"It represents the degree of anchoring, and also represents the degree of the abyss's repulsion of you. The more the abyss repels you, the greater the repulsion it exerts on you, and the slower your falling speed..." The staff member explained, "In other words, the faster you fall, the less the abyss repels you."

The staff gave an example of gravity and buoyancy.

People in the simulated abyss are affected by both "gravity" and "abyss buoyancy" at the same time, and under the influence of these two forces, they slowly sink.

The size of this abyss buoyancy is related to the "anchoring constant" and the "volume of the object immersed in the abyss".

Li Luo nodded: "It's the buoyancy formula, right? Just changed a constant."

"That's right." The staff nodded. "It's the buoyancy formula we learned in elementary school. It's just that the medium has been changed, so the constant needs to be changed. According to the different anchoring degrees, the constant also needs to be adjusted. This constant needs to be calculated based on the anchoring degree. The lower the anchoring degree, the larger the constant, which means the greater the repulsive force."

After listening to the staff's explanation, Li Luo quickly understood.

"Then why did I suddenly accelerate?" She looked at the staff and asked in confusion.

"There are two possibilities." The staff member thought for a moment and replied, "After you enter the abyss, normally, you should only be affected by gravity and the buoyancy of the abyss, and the gravity will definitely not change."

"One possibility is that you have some other downward force acting on you."

"The second possibility is... something happened during your fall that caused your anchoring level to increase rapidly, causing the buoyancy of the abyss acting on you to decrease rapidly, so you suddenly fell downwards."

(End of this chapter)