I'm trapped in a cube

Li Luo finally did not find any information about "0122" and could only go to the living area in the pipeline fortress according to the location provided by the staff.

She first left the lounge, then walked down the pipeline far away from the dock and came to a larger pipeline.

The pipeline here is almost the size of a tunnel, and the huge pipeline can be heard from time to time.

Li Luo walked at the bottom of the pipeline, and the top of the pipeline was pitch black, and the top was almost invisible. Only some densely packed small pipelines could be seen on the top.

Li Luo did not know what those pipelines were used for, and whether there were wires or something like that inside.

But looking at the lighting of this pipeline fortress, it seems that no electricity is needed.

In this huge pipeline, there are some small pipelines hanging from top to bottom. The ends of these small pipelines will light up with faint fluorescence, and these fluorescences combined together can illuminate the entire large pipeline.

From time to time, strange friction sounds came from the distance. Li Luo also saw some figures along the way, but the people in the pipeline fortress were very strange. If you don't communicate with them, they all seem very indifferent.

They came and went in a hurry. If they didn't lower their heads or stare at the electronic screen in their hands, they seemed to be indifferent to everything in the outside world.

Among these people, Li Luo also saw some guards wearing standard military uniforms. Their clothes were very neat. They carried a huge backpack on their backs. I don't know what was in it. The most peculiar thing was that there were several squirming pipes extending from their uniforms to help them support the backpacks.

When these guards stepped on the pipes, they would make a dull sound, and there would be a strange jet sound when they moved. When they got closer, they found that there was a pipe on the pants of the military uniforms that extended along the legs, from the waist to the soles of the feet.

Every time these guards took a step forward, the pipe would compress the gas to support the guards' legs. When they kicked their legs, the gas would be ejected again, giving these guards a driving force to move forward.

Li Luo stood there, looking at this strange jet device with some curiosity.

It was obviously used by humans, but it didn't look like human technology.

The guards were stared at, but they didn't care at all. They seemed to be used to such curious looks. They just carried huge backpacks and hurried to the other end of the pipe and disappeared into the dim passage.

"Is that a jet exoskeleton? Is it also made of the pipes of the pipe fortress?"

It seems that the utility of those pipes is more than imagined.

However, how did humans find this way of using it?

Could it be that humans have entered the library of the Everthirsty and obtained the knowledge therein?

Li Luo shook her head and told herself not to think about it anymore.

After swaying on the airship for so long, she was very tired and sore all over. When reporting the information, she forced herself to cheer up and now she was starting to feel a little dizzy.

After finding the residential area, I have to rest for a while and think about what to do next...

The map seemed to be guiding Li Luo down.

After bypassing many winding pipes, Li Luo finally found the location of the residential area. The pipe fortress seemed to have many residential areas, and hers was a place specifically for outsiders to live.

Li Luo quickly determined the location of his room and entered the pipe.

"The 13th residential area, the second pipe row, the fifth floor, room 3."

After verifying his identity and pushing open a round door, Li Luo came to his room.

This room seemed to be transformed from a pipe. The pipe was cut open, the two ends were closed, the ground was covered with small pipes, the ground was filled, and furniture and appliances were placed, and the current room was formed.

Unexpectedly, this place was not as small as imagined. The cylindrical space looked unexpectedly wide. The furniture and appliances in it were also very complete, and the ventilation was particularly good. Fresh air was constantly blown in from the small pipes above the room.

Except for the poor lighting, there were no disadvantages.

Li Luo put away her backpack and went directly to the sofa on the side of the room and lay down.

She was really too tired...

...

The cubes were floating on the side.

And Mo Ling, who was in it, had already explored the field of vision and studied this strange room structure.

It was called a residential area, but it was actually composed of rows of pipes.

Some pipes are used as rooms, and some pipes are used as corridors.

The pipes used as rooms are separated into different sizes, and the pipes used as corridors have gaps opened one by one, close to the pipes in the rooms.

"The second pipe row is the second pipe row."

"The fifth floor is the fifth pipe stacked on the second pipe row."

"Room No. 3 is the third room separated from this pipe from beginning to end."

Li Luo may not see clearly, but Mo Ling looks very carefully. On the door frame of the corridor outside the room, in a hidden place where the fluorescent light cannot reach, a string of numbers is engraved:

"13253."

And similar numbers are engraved on the doors of the two rooms next door.

"13252, 13254."

Mo Ling's vision slowly extends to the downstairs.

"13243."

Looking at these numbers, Mo Ling instantly understands that this represents the room number.

"13 is the thirteenth residential area."

"2 is the second pipe row."

"5th floor, room No. 3."

However, won't these room numbers cause ambiguity?

"For example, 13213 can represent the 13th residential area, the second pipeline column, the first floor, and the third room."

"It can also represent the first residential area, the third pipeline column, the second floor, and the 13th room."

Mo Ling found that this residential area was very large and had many rooms.

His vision extended to the end and he could not see the edge of the residential area, so it was possible that there were room numbers with large numbers, which would also lead to more ambiguity.

"In order to prevent misunderstandings, the room numbers were cancelled? Use text instead?"

When the staff member told Li Luo the specific residential location, he also used text.

Mo Ling guessed that it was very likely that the room numbers were used in the early stage of the construction of the pipeline fortress, and later in order to prevent ambiguity, they were directly changed to text, so that there would be no situation of going to the wrong room.

And those room number engravings may have been retained according to habit when the rooms were divided, as a reference.

Thinking of this, Mo Ling remembered the string of numbers on the pain-reducing tablets.

"0122..."

"Is it possible that this is the room number? In the early days of the construction of the pipeline fortress, when numbers were still used, the room number of the donor was recorded?"

However... if this string of numbers is interpreted as a room number, it seems a bit far-fetched...

"The zeroth residential area? The first pipeline row? The second floor, room two?"

"Zero?"