I'm trapped in a cube

"Where's the cube?"

When Li Luo woke up from her trance, she was already lying on a patch of grass.

Some dim sunlight passed through the forest and shone on her body.

She looked back and saw that the cube was floating quietly by the side.

Before losing consciousness, Li Luo saw that the characters on her nameplate had changed, so she quickly picked up the nameplate and looked at it carefully.

"Level 4... Is this already the fourth floor?"

A gentle cool breeze blew over. The fourth floor did not seem to be dangerous. The surroundings were quiet and harmonious.

...

In the cube, Mo Ling was tidying up the space that had grown again.

"It doubled again."

Looking at the increasingly large cube space, Mo Ling actually felt a little empty.

"When it was only one cubic meter, I felt that I couldn't stretch out and it was very uncomfortable. Now it's eight meters long, wide and high, and I feel a little empty again. It seems that no matter what, there will be troubles."

There was only a simple bed in the cube space, a pile of strange sundries piled in the corner, and food piled on the other side, which made the space look even emptier.

Mo Ling sat on the bed, looking at the space that had been tidied, and sighed.

He did not experience the same synchronization as Li Luo, nor did he see any flames rising into the sky.

He just saw the sunlight shining into the mirror square, flashing a few times, and Li Luo and the cube both arrived on the grass.

Then, the space became larger, and then Li Luo lay on the ground, unconscious.

After checking Li Luo's body and finding that she was just asleep, Mo Ling began to tidy up the suddenly larger space.

However, no matter how he tidied, it felt very empty.

"It would be great if there was a computer here and a sofa here."

Mo Ling regretted that he did not go shopping properly when he went to Dawn City before.

"If only I had gone to the furniture mall at that time..."

The long-lost peace made Mo Ling empty his mind and began to think wildly.

...

After Li Luo checked the nameplate, he took out the electronic screen and began to look up the information of the fourth layer of the abyss.

The faint light hit her face, interrupting Mo Ling's wild thoughts.

"Still so impatient."

Li Luo couldn't rest at all, and always looked hurried.

Mo Ling sighed helplessly and controlled the cube to move closer.

…

"Sky Island Fault", a strange name.

Humans have argued many times whether this place should be considered one of the layers of the abyss.

This is the area connecting the upper and lower parts of the abyss, composed of countless floating islands.

Compared to the vibrant first three layers, this place seems dead silent.

There are no strange biological communities, nor rich relics. The broken sky islands limit the development of civilization to small areas. When civilization reaches a certain stage, it ends hastily.

The clouds and mists in the sky carry dangerous and strange alienated rules, and the environment of each sky island is extremely unstable.

It is even more difficult to move between sky islands. Not only do you need flying means, but you also have to pass through those dangerous alienated clouds and mists. Only in clear weather can you have a chance to see the sky islands in the distance.

Some researchers in Dawn City believed that the Sky Island Fault was just a buffer zone and could not be regarded as one of the layers of the abyss, but the first advance team that came here at that time still went against the crowd and defined it as the fourth layer of the abyss.

"If you have been to the abyss in person, you will definitely understand the specialness there..."

No one could understand what the advance team said at that time.

It was not until humans went to deeper layers that they slowly understood the importance of the Sky Island Fault.

This is not just a buffer zone, but a barrier that prevents something from spreading upward.

These Sky Islands are like nails, piercing the spine of the abyss, making those deeper things unable to move...

"Deeper things?"

Li Luo picked up the electronic screen and searched curiously.

However, the four big words "Insufficient authority" appeared on the screen.

The information in the lower half of the abyss seemed to be deliberately hidden.

Looking at the information that came to an abrupt end, Mo Ling also felt itchy. He quickly wrote on the electronic screen and sent it to Li Luo.

"What is the lower part of the abyss?"

Li Luo looked at Mo Ling's question and shook his head.

"The information is hidden, and we will only skim through it in class."

"There is a consensus in human society - only those who have been to the lower part of the abyss are qualified to know the information of those places."

"When you reach the fifth floor, you are qualified to know the information of the fifth floor. When you reach the sixth floor, you are qualified to know the information of the sixth floor. No one can violate this rule."

"Why?" Mo Ling asked puzzledly.

"This is a kind of protection. If you have not experienced it yourself, you will be polluted, just like someone who has never seen water, and if you describe the existence of water to him, he will go crazy."

"Invisible, colorless and tasteless, it can carry countless weights, but it is extremely soft... People who have never seen water will keep imagining the existence of water until their brains burn out and they go crazy."

Speaking of this, Li Luo paused and looked at the cube seriously.

"That's what the teacher told us in my first abyss class, and he kept emphasizing it afterwards."

"Knowledge is a kind of pollution. You can't help but imagine it until it goes deep into your bones and becomes incurable."

"If you are told not to think about elephants, you will always think about elephants, and this is even more poisonous to people who have never seen elephants. They will go crazy looking for information about elephants."

"Looking for pictures, videos, and text descriptions of elephants... until the information about elephants fills his brain, he will still not be satisfied. He will want to see the elephants in person."

"It is easy to see elephants, but it is difficult to see the abyss. It is a very terrible thing to have a desire for the abyss."

"So, even knowing it is not okay, even hearing the word 'elephant' is not okay."

"This is a kind of protection."

Li Luo's calm voice echoed around the cube, but the gentle voice pierced directly into Mo Ling's heart.

"A kind of protection?"

Mo Ling has somewhat ignored the horror of the abyss. The ability of the cube always gives him the confidence to face those strange events.

But the abyss is not that simple...

The wind on the grass blew calmly, and the dim sunlight passed through the clouds and mist, over the treetops, and shone on the cube.

Li Luo took a deep breath, feeling this hard-won calmness, and the seriousness on his face slowly disappeared.

"But we will eventually find out."

"This is only the fourth floor. We will go to the fifth floor, the sixth floor... until the bottom of the abyss, and then we will know everything."

As Li Luo spoke, he seemed to remember something, and his eyes revealed sadness.

"We will get there, right?"