I'm trapped in a block

Chapter 782 On the Stairs
"Who on earth is this 'Zeus'..."

Li Luo has seen his popular science articles more than once.

He is not a famous author, and I have never heard of this pen name, but I can always find his popular science articles at the right time.

Li Luo whispered the familiar name, then turned to look at Fangkuai.

"Have you finished reading?"

The cube was motionless, as if it had been burned out.

"Hmm? Did I read too fast? Do I need to scroll forward?"

The cube remained motionless.

"..."

Seeing the cube like this, Li Luo became a little worried and quickly walked forward and knocked on it.

"Clang clang clang!"

……

"Teacher, I'm not asleep!"

Mo Ling in the cube woke up instantly and looked around blankly.

He just dreamed that his groundhog classmate was nudging him with his elbow, and he woke up instantly with fright.

"When did I fall asleep?"

Mo Ling himself was a little confused. Was it when he saw those theories or when he saw those calculations?
I was drowsy and seemed to see the teacher's densely written formulas on the blackboard, and then I fell asleep unknowingly.

I am still confused now. I seem to understand the content of the article, but I also seem not to understand it.

Mo Ling had never expected that even after turning into such a strange form, the habit engraved in his bones still took effect. He couldn't stop the sleepiness from coming...

It was dark all around, with only Li Luo's electronic screen still glowing. The dim light illuminated Li Luo's face, which still had a hint of worry on it.

Realizing that Li Luo was still tapping the block, Mo Ling quickly controlled the block to shake.

The cube finally responded, and Li Luo breathed a sigh of relief.

"Have you finished reading it? I put it away."

The cube trembled.

Li Luo understood what Mo Ling meant and put the electronic screen back into the bag.

"We have to find a new y-axis... Let's keep moving forward, maybe we can find something."

Staying here wasn't an option, and the situation couldn't get any worse.

Now they have become "one-dimensional creatures" moving on the x-axis. Instead of staying where they are and waiting to die, they might as well seek life on the axis.

Mo Ling couldn't think of any solution. He didn't even quite understand the article. He could only do as Li Luo said. He had no other choice.

"lets go."

Although it made no sense, Li Luo still chose a direction and walked forward.

……

Before they knew it, they had been walking for a long time. There was no sand around them anymore. Only a huge complex of pyramids remained. These pyramids blocked Li Luo's route, so she had to bypass them in advance.

After passing several identical pyramids, Li Luo suddenly stopped and looked at the pyramid in front of him.

"Why don't I go in and take a look?"

Anyway, you will see these pyramids all the time, so you might as well pick one and go in and take a look.

After asking for the opinion of the cube, Li Luo walked straight to the pyramid in front of him...

There were many dilapidated stone pillars outside the pyramid. Li Luo walked around the stone pillars, stepped onto the high stairs and walked upwards. The stone bricks used for the pyramid stairs were large and square, and the slope of the stairs was also very steep. Li Luo took a lot of effort to climb to the top.

There is a temple at the top of the pyramid. As soon as he reached the top, Li Luo saw a strange statue at the entrance of the temple.

The prototype of the statue seems to be a wild beast with thick hair all over its body, like a hunched and skinny wolf. Its tail is stretched to the ground, similar to a kangaroo, as if to maintain balance. Sharp claws are hidden in the hair on its forelimbs. Even though it is just a statue, one can feel the sharpness of the claws.

Strangely, the beast's head is empty. There is a smooth cut at the neck, as if the craftsman deliberately left the head empty and was unwilling to depict it...

Li Luo walked forward and gently placed his hand on the cut, and could still feel its unusual smoothness.

"Why is there no head?"

She was a little confused, but didn't think too much about it and continued walking towards the temple.

At this moment, Mo Ling in the cube was completely stunned.

"Isn't this me?"

That statue is him without a head.

It looks exactly the same as his current form, except that he has no head, everything else is the same.

“Why is there a statue of me here?”

Looking at the "handsome" statue, Mo Ling felt a little awkward. It was indeed very strange without a head, but upon closer inspection, there was a strange sense of harmony.

"Why do I feel like I'm even more handsome without a head..."

The unique aesthetic sense coming from the dark form is constantly telling Mo Ling that this statue is very "beautiful", but deep down in his heart, Mo Ling clearly knows that this statue is "incomplete" and "imperfect". The two contradictory emotions mixed together give Mo Ling an extremely strange feeling.

“It’s like looking at the Venus de Milo.”

I know it is incomplete, but I don’t want this imperfection to be completed.

This novel feeling made Mo Ling stay in front of the statue for a long time. It was not until Li Luo turned his head and looked at the block in confusion that he belatedly came out of that strange feeling of immersion and continued to fly forward.

The temple was not big. After entering the temple, Li Luo stopped in front of another huge statue in the center.

She approached the statue cautiously and examined it with her low-quality night vision goggles.

This statue is not a beast, nor does it look like a creature, but something like a totem.

On the heavy base, there is an upright branch. In the middle of this branch, there is another branch lying across, forming a cross with the upright branch.

At the center point where the two branches intersect, a third branch passes straight through, perpendicular to the two branches in front, thus forming a totem statue with three vertical branches.

The three branches were carved so lifelike that they had the texture of bark and raised nodules, just like huge "petrified" branches.

Li Luo looked at the three perpendicular branches and suddenly thought of something, blurting out:

"Three-dimensional coordinate system?"

The upright branch is the z-axis, and the two horizontal and vertical branches are the x-axis and the y-axis. The simplest three-dimensional coordinate axis is built using the most primitive branches.

The bark patterns and bumps on the branches look more like scales than naturally formed.

Li Luo walked around the statue several times and the more he looked at it, the more similar it seemed.

They were just three broken branches, but they gave her a sense of mathematical beauty.

Gradually, she became bolder, climbed onto the heavy base, and began to touch the lines and knots on the branches with her hands.

Rough and dense, the craftsman who made this statue must have put a lot of effort into it.

Every detail is carefully designed to make these carved branches present mathematical beauty without being out of touch with nature.

Li Luo counted the nodules on the branches and roughly measured the distance between the nodules with his hands.

"1, 2, 4...10..."

"It really is a fixed distance... This is indeed a scale."

After discovering this, Li Luo himself couldn't believe it.

Is this really a three-dimensional coordinate system?
Or is it just a coincidence?

Perhaps the craftsmen did not really want to create a coordinate system, but just felt that the nodules on the branches should be carved at a certain distance to look beautiful.

and……

"If you really want to carve a coordinate system, why do you have to carve it in the shape of three branches crossing each other?"

(End of this chapter)