I'm trapped in a block

Chapter 684: Entrance to the Abyss
"I have obtained the qualification to go to the fifth floor."

Li Luo came to the airship dock again and found the staff member from before.

"Congratulations."

"You said before that there was a way for me to go directly to Hongguang City?"

"Yes." The staff member took out a small box that he had prepared. "When you are ready to go to Yuan Kong, just take out the things in the box. This is an anchor that can be used to locate you when you are screening Yuan Kong, so that you can land in a certain place."

Li Luo nodded and took the small box.

"how much is it?"

Her question stunned the staff member for a moment.

"what?"

"how much is it?"

"No need... It's not worth anything. I recommended you to choose that relic. I feel guilty for causing you trouble. Consider this my apology."

Hearing this, Li Luo did not refuse and put the small box away.

"Take care of yourself."

"it is good……"

Neither of them said anything extra. After taking the box, Li Luo left silently, and the staff continued with their work.

They probably both knew that this might be the last time they would see each other, but there was no tearful farewell between the two of them. They just parted ways in a dull and peaceful manner.

A chance encounter, a sudden meeting, and a quiet departure.

Only when they were far away from the dock did Li Luo take out the small box and look at it for a long time.

She didn't open it, but just looked at it, wondering what she was thinking...

After returning to the room, Li Luo began to pack his luggage.

She had already planned ahead for what to do before leaving the Pipeline Fortress.

First pack your luggage, then send the books to the data center in the Pipeline Fortress, where there are special personnel to recycle these books, and finally set off for Yuankong.

Li Luo had already bought the anchored supplies in advance. These things could be brought together to Yuan Kong and would not be stopped by Yuan Kong. She also checked her luggage to prevent anything from being isolated by Yuan Kong.

After delivering the books to the data center, Li Luo set out for Yuankong.

Strangely, the Yuan Kong is not outside the Pipeline Fortress, but in the core area of ​​the Pipeline Fortress.

"Is there any way to reach Yuan Kong?"

With doubts, Li Luo came to the area called "the entrance to the Yuan Kong".

This is a circular plaza supported by huge pipes. People come and go inside, making it much more lively than other places in the Pipe Fortress.

Some pipes were constantly wriggling in the square, stretching up and down, as if performing some kind of mechanical activity. There was also a deafening sound coming from inside the pipes, as if they were hitting some metal object.

However, apart from those pipes, nothing else was seen. They seemed to be just wriggling and knocking in the air, making that strange metallic knocking sound.

Bang! Bang!
The whole square was shaking with those deafening knocks.

But the people coming and going didn't seem to notice the noises, and just went about their own business. "Where is Yuan Kong?"

Li Luo looked around in confusion for a while, but couldn't find Yuan Kong's location.

Last time at the anchor detection center, I could still see the dark hole. How come when I arrived at the entrance of the abyss, I couldn’t see the abyss hole?
While Li Luo was wondering, the cube slowly passed over her head...

"Are those jelly?" Mo Ling was a little unsure about what he saw.

In his vision, the square presented a completely different scene.

I saw that the pipes that were making loud noises were filled with jelly that humans called "synchronous residue", but the jelly here seemed to have been compressed, more viscous, and even a bit like a completely crystallized solid.

Those crystal clear solids also contained all kinds of strange splicing objects, but in the process of the pipe stretching and swinging up and down, those splicing objects actually passed through the hard crystals and were thrown out directly, and then suddenly exploded in the pipe.

These explosions are the source of those loud noises.

The contact between objects with different synchronization rates was like the collision of two trains at different speeds, releasing terrible energy, but that energy was collected by the hard pipes and sent to certain places under the pipes.

And those pipes above the square seemed to be continuously transporting jelly into the square.

Mo Ling was so shocked by this scene that he was speechless.

"Were all the jellies around the Pipeline Fortress transported here?"

“Are humans using these jellies?”

Humans seemed to have figured out the properties of those jellies a long time ago and had made use of them, but for some reason, they had hidden the information about the jellies, and most people thought it was just useless synchronization residue.

There are a lot of jellies in the pipes, and they are even used as some kind of energy source, but many people don't know it.

After thinking for a while, Mo Ling roughly understood how these jellies were used.

"The knowledge of the Eternally Thirsty may have already been obtained by humans."

That knowledge has long been transformed into various media and appeared in the Pipeline Fortress. The Pipeline Fortress has been developed for so long, it is impossible for the people who developed it not to understand that knowledge.

Therefore, the data center will open a special area for recycling books.

However, the knowledge of the Eternally Thirsty is not something that can be applied immediately upon acquisition.

Most of that knowledge is described in very obscure ways and may even be dangerous, so humans must analyze, screen, and experiment to transform that knowledge into applications.

First use it on a small scale to test stability, and then put it into large-scale use.

Not only that, in order to prevent panic and opposition, the application of this knowledge must be hidden and the information must be blocked, just like the jelly in these pipes. Anything that violates normal cognition will be subject to layers of blockade and strict monitoring.

Human society is like a slowly-moving pipeline fortress, with all kinds of rules. The strict mechanisms hinder the spread of knowledge, but also ensure the safety of individuals.

As humans touch the abyss, it is this strict system that resists the erosion of the abyss, wraps a protective shield called rationality over the unknown, and suppresses disorder and chaos.

Although these bloated rules and mechanisms will make everything complicated, complexity is precisely the prerequisite for ensuring security.

Individuals will be controlled by emotions, attracted to the unknown, impulsive and emotional. This is inevitable as a human being, and the same is true for groups.

However, the various rules created by humans are absolutely rational. There is no better tool than this when judging those bizarre and abyssal things.

They are cold, but useful.

(End of this chapter)