I’m Trapped in a Cube - Chapter 65

“He’s just an ordinary person.”

Even after leaving the interrogation room, the investigator’s words still echoed in Mo Ling’s mind.

“Liang Zhi was just an ordinary person?”

“Then were the experiences he described real or fabricated?”

“Where did all that knowledge about the anti-cell world come from?”

Mo Ling thought back to his own experience of traveling to the anti-cell world, and his mind was a complete mess.

Too strange.

Mo Ling followed Li Luo back to their room in a daze.

Though confused, the journey into the Abyss had to continue.

Back at their residence, Li Luo, whose points had finally met the requirement, couldn’t wait to look up information on the second layer of the Abyss.

……

When people first started exploring the Abyss, they didn’t know there was a second layer. They thought the first layer was all there was.

But after research, it was found that the first layer wasn’t deep enough.

So some guessed that beneath the first layer, there must be something deeper.

After measurements and calculations, the existence of deeper layers was confirmed, so everyone began searching for the entrance to the second layer.

The first layer of the Abyss isn’t regular; there are mountains, hills, and huge pits and ravines.

These low-lying places became the main focus of hunters’ explorations, following the pits downward, exploring nonstop.

Although no entrance was found, these explorations expanded the map of the first layer, and people began to precisely divide its regions.

These explorations also provided much information about the Abyss, making future investigations more convenient.

Relics found during these explorations also greatly increased many hunters’ strength.

As development of the various regions progressed, the entrance to the second layer was finally discovered.

What no one expected was that the entrance wasn’t in a pit or ravine, nor in any low-lying area.

It was on top of a mountain.

It was a mountain with clearly abnormal gravity.

At the time, a hunter squad wanted to explore this mountain. Their original plan was to find some rare biological samples and document this never-before-visited mountain.

But as soon as they reached the foot of the mountain,

Gravity changed.

The team members suddenly found their steps becoming very light, as if they were riding a descending elevator, their bodies feeling like they might float.

Their luggage became much lighter, the weight dropping so much that carrying it was effortless.

After climbing a while, they realized gravity had lessened.

The hunters figured such an environment must produce rare creatures, so they kept climbing.

As they went higher, the gravity changes became more pronounced.

What started as a slight sense of weightlessness soon made walking easier and easier.

With a light jump, they could leap far, just like scenes of people on the moon in movies.

The team members enjoyed playing on the mountain, recording the strange conditions with their instruments.

As they climbed, the plants changed.

They became especially short and thick, with massive, dense root systems anchoring them in the mountain soil.

Tall trees gradually disappeared; only shrubs and weeds could survive here.

Though the plant shapes changed, tests showed they were all common species, just altered by the environment.

The animals were also checked, and they were just ordinary small animals.

Due to gravity, they were fat and bloated, since little strength was needed in such a low-gravity environment.

They took advantage of the low gravity to hop around the mountain, living very comfortably.

But carnivores were rare.

The team guessed that hunting was too hard in this environment, so carnivores gradually vanished.

Though they found no rare species, the team decided to keep exploring and document the mountain’s oddities.

Soon they reached halfway up, where gravity had dropped by about half.

Plants and animals became scarce, only some small insects and tough weeds remained.

These weeds were the especially resilient kind.

Because of the gravity, the soil was very loose, so only weeds with tough, dense roots could survive.

The insects lived among the weed roots, feeding on nutrients in the loose soil.

Beyond halfway, higher up, there were almost no living things; the mountain became desolate.

The team wondered why, since this environment wasn’t absolutely unlivable.

There should still be some life.

Soon, they got their answer.

A team member suddenly collapsed, his whole body turning purple, and the others felt dizzy and lightheaded.

It was hypoxia!

Realizing this, they quickly took out their oxygen gear.

Luckily, since they were exploring a mountain, they’d brought oxygen gear out of habit, and it came in handy.

They soon figured out why.

Thin gravity led to loss of air.

No gravity, no air.

The team lost all desire to play and kept climbing, but air was almost gone.

Seeing they couldn’t go further, they hurried back to the monitoring station and reported the mountain’s conditions.

Soon, a professional team with spacesuits came to explore.

Above the altitude where air vanished, they kept climbing; there was no life, only loose soil.

With professional equipment, they quickly reached the summit.

There, gravity was gone. At the last step, they even floated up, as if in space.

But what no one expected was that, the instant they stood on the summit,

Gravity became negative.

A force pushed the researchers upward, and those who didn’t react were launched into the sky.

The anti-gravity kept increasing, and they flew faster and faster.

Just as one researcher thought he was done for, he suddenly landed on a sand dune.

The soft sand cushioned his fall, and as he rolled down, he realized he’d arrived in a desert.

This desert would later be known as the Abyss Second Layer

Disorderly Dunes .