I’m Trapped in a Cube - Chapter 157

Several days later, Li Luo finally brought the Cube to the edge of Oasis City as indicated on the map.

From just now, Li Luo had been staring intently ahead, as if she had seen something that shocked her greatly.

It wasn’t until they slowly approached that Mo Ling understood why she was surprised.

It was a lake, a deep and azure lake that appeared very abruptly in the middle of the dunes.

This wasn’t a small puddle. Mo Ling’s vision extended downward but couldn’t even reach the lake bottom.

The lake water seeped into the surrounding dunes, moistening the soil and making the surrounding sand become wet mud.

Some hardy weeds even grew in patches along the shore, their root systems deeply embedded in the mud. These interwoven root systems played a great role in sand fixation.

Where did this lake come from?

Li Luo stepped forward, observed the lake surface, and carefully came to the shore, cupping a handful of lake water.

“This is a salt lake,” she frowned and said.

A Salt Lake?

There are mainly two reasons for the formation of salt lakes.

One is the remnant of ancient oceans.

The other is the endpoint of inland rivers. Due to relatively high evaporation, minerals brought by rivers are concentrated, so they become salt lakes.

Mo Ling wasn’t clear about the origin of this lake either. He only knew that this lake’s appearance was very abrupt and incompatible with the Disorderly Dunes.

Li Luo walked along the shore for a distance and finally found a road.

An artificial metal bridge extended into the distance.

This bridge was very impressive, spacious and tidy, with lanes and sidewalks complete. It didn’t look like any temporary facility.

As soon as she reached the bridge entrance, Li Luo was stopped by a mechanical sentry.

“Please show your nameplate,” a mechanical voice came from the sentry.

Li Luo took out her nameplate. The camera on top of the sentry aimed at the nameplate, then at Li Luo, and quickly passed the verification.

“Welcome to the Oasis.”

It opened the gate and made a welcoming gesture, very humanized.

Although he knew this was all programmed, this still greatly shocked Mo Ling. Oasis City’s level of modernization seemed very high.

Li Luo stepped onto the bridge. Some cleaning robots were cyclically cleaning the bridge, and they would “enthusiastically” greet Li Luo when they saw her.

But the entire bridge was completely empty, with not a single person visible.

Except for machines, it was all machines. Despite being a very modern bridge, no one was using it.

The few transport vehicles and such that could occasionally be seen were all self-driving, with no people in them either.

The bridge wasn’t very long. It wasn’t until they reached the end that Mo Ling realized the lake they had just passed was only a circular waterway like a river channel, surrounding an entire oasis.

On the oasis, a straight avenue led forward, surrounded by lush plants, completely different from the previous dunes. It was like entering a dense forest.

Li Luo found the specific map of the oasis on her electronic screen.

Oasis City was just a small area within the oasis, located in the center of the oasis.

The entire oasis was a huge forest surrounded by circular waterways, extending in all directions.

The previous bridge was built by the humans of Oasis City for convenience. This straight avenue leading to the center was naturally the same. As long as you walked straight along this road, you could reach Oasis City.

Really convenient.

Mo Ling felt like he had returned to modern society again.

“But where did all the people go?”

Just as he was thinking this, a figure appeared ahead.

It was a girl with a low ponytail. Behind her, like a theatrical performer, many wooden sticks were inserted, with different colored silk threads wound around these sticks. The clothes she wore also looked like a chaotic mix of various colored silk threads, appearing very trendy.

She was currently standing by the roadside, looking completely confused.

“What is she doing?”

The girl looked around, as if searching for something. When she saw Li Luo, her face lit up with joy, and she rushed to Li Luo in one stride, almost colliding with her.

“Is there something wrong?” Li Luo asked in confusion.

Because she had run too fast, this girl’s nameplate had swung outside and was glittering.

“Level 2 Hunter, Weaver Li Xiangyi.”

She fumbled for a while before putting her nameplate back inside her clothes.

“Nothing important, just asking casually, are you going to Oasis City?” She looked a bit embarrassed.

“Yes,” Li Luo answered.

Hearing this, the girl said excitedly, “Can I follow you? I’m lost.”

“Lost?” Li Luo looked at the straight road behind her, somewhat confused.

“Yes.” The girl named Li Xiangyi became even more embarrassed, scratching her head with a bitter smile. “Because of my Relic’s cost, I lose my sense of direction.”

To dispel Li Luo’s suspicions, she even took out her electronic screen, which displayed her Relic’s data:

[Relic: Rainbow Shuttle]

[Cost: User permanently loses sense of direction]

[Ability: Can create and control special silk threads of different colors and functions]

[Discovery Location: Abyss First Layer]

[Discoverer: Li Xiangyi]

……

I see. Li Luo also searched for herself and got the same result.

“Then follow me,” Li Luo said helplessly.

“Thank you so much,” Li Xiangyi bowed while continuously thanking her, making Li Luo very embarrassed.

Along the way, Li Xiangyi kept talking to herself.

This girl talked a lot, from the dangers she encountered in the Abyss to various wonderful creatures. It seemed her words would never end.

“Since I came to the Abyss Second Layer, I haven’t encountered any humans. You’re the first one I’ve met.”

“Because I can’t find the monitoring station, I can only keep wandering around the Disorderly Dunes. The second layer is really too dangerous…”

Hearing this, Li Luo asked curiously, “How did you find Oasis City?”

Li Xiangyi smiled helplessly, “I wandered randomly. Anyway, there are so many monitoring stations, I’ll always find one. Look, didn’t I find one now?”

Hearing Li Xiangyi’s answer, Li Luo was stunned and asked, “After losing your sense of direction, you can’t even read maps?”

“Of course.”

Li Xiangyi looked dejected. “If I had known the cost was this big, I wouldn’t have used this Relic.”

“I originally thought sense of direction just meant not knowing the way, but actually sense of direction includes not only the feeling of directions like east, west, south, north, front, back, left, right, up, and down.”

“Do you know? I don’t know the direction of gravity now. Sometimes I even wonder why I’m standing on the ground instead of flying up to the sky.”

“When I’m attacked, I can’t distinguish the direction of the attacker. I can clearly sense the attack, but I have no idea where it’s coming from. I can only defend in all directions.”

“It’s the same with maps. I can understand them, but I can’t match them with reality. I can’t even distinguish what ‘forward’ is…”

Li Xiangyi became more and more dejected as she spoke, even beginning to doubt whether she still had the qualifications to be a Hunter.