I’m Trapped in a Cube - Chapter 67

Mo Ling was still holding his head, dazed from the sudden flip just now.

Only after confirming gravity hadn’t changed again did, he calm down and recall what had just happened.

“It seemed like an unbuffered inversion.”

Compared to everyone else’s gradual transition, it felt like his gravity changed in an instant, flipping direction directly, with no process of reaching zero.

He could roughly guess what happened, but Mo Ling still didn’t understand the principle.

Not only that, something even stranger had happened.

The cube had gotten bigger.

The moment the flip happened, as Mo Ling finished tumbling, he noticed something was off about the space inside the cube.

Now that he’d recovered, he was certain-the cube had gotten bigger.

He stretched his bones, reaching out to the side, and found the metal wall was much farther away.

Looking up, the distance between the upper and lower walls had also increased.

Mo Ling quickly stood up.

After not standing for so long, his bones cracked.

Luckily, he was young and his body was fine. After stretching, Mo Ling began pacing inside the cube, measuring the space.

It was still a cube, but much larger, about 2m x 2m x 2m.

Doubled?

All sides had doubled, and the volume had increased eightfold, now eight cubic meters.

Mo Ling quickly checked the metal walls again-still tightly joined, just like before.

“What was the principle behind this?”

Suddenly, Mo Ling thought of something.

“Is it because I’ve reached the second layer of the Abyss?”

After circling the inside a few times, he extended his senses outward, directly penetrating the cube to the outside.

His field of view had also doubled, but it wasn’t 2²=4m, it was 2¹=2m.

Mo Ling stared strangely at the cube at the center of his vision.

That cube was still just one cubic meter…

This conflicting perception took him a long time to adjust to; he’d felt this kind of inside-outside mismatch on Inverted Mountain too.

“It looked smaller from outside than inside?”

“How did this extra space appear?”

Mo Ling was puzzled. He carefully checked again, confirming his perception was correct.

“Maybe the cube changes with the Abyss layer,” Mo Ling guessed.

“If he went to the third layer, would it expand again?”

“Fourth, fifth, even higher layers-would the cube just keep getting bigger?”

Mo Ling suddenly remembered the dream with the endless kimchi mountain space. “Would it become like that?”

As he pondered, the cube’s descent speed increased-it was about to land.

But at that moment, Li Luo opened her parachute, using jets to slow her fall.

“What was happening?”

As his vision drew closer, Mo Ling realized something was wrong with the environment below.

He wasn’t on the ground yet, but could already see huge yellow cone-shaped stone spikes stretching straight up into the sky.

These savage needle-like stone pillars pierced the thick fog, standing tall among the dunes like towers.

This was an impossible landing zone!

Mo Ling hurriedly controlled the cube. The shift in perspective made his control sluggish, but he quickly adjusted.

The cube hovered in the air, then accelerated toward Li Luo, picking her up before slowly descending to a stone platform shrouded in thick mist.

“What was this place?”

“Wasn’t it supposed to be dunes? Why wasn’t there any sand?”

Only towering stone forests piercing the sky.

During descent, Mo Ling had roughly estimated the height of those pillars-almost all were several hundred meters tall.

Now, looking up from the base, he could only see the thick roots of the pillars.

The roots supporting these towering pillars looked like an inverted funnel, interconnected, tightly fixed together.

Looking underground, the roots were embedded in solid rock, with not a single crack-just a few seams between stones.

No wonder the pillars could reach the sky.

What a peculiar landscape.

Li Luo opened her tablet’s image recognition, trying to determine their location.

She pointed the camera at the towering stone pillars; the terrain was so distinctive that the database quickly gave an accurate result-

-Needle Stone Forest.

This was a forest of needle-like stone pillars, a very unique landing zone. Many hunters who failed to open their parachutes here died by falling onto the pillars.

The area wasn’t large, but with stone pillars blocking every path, the way out was especially complex.

And since the pillars often collapsed, the terrain changed, so the map was still incomplete.

Even if you landed safely, many hunters couldn’t get out and starved here.

Fortunately, there was a monitoring station nearby; as long as you found the right direction out of the forest, you could reach it quickly.

Seeing this, Mo Ling quickly circled around.

Every direction in the stone forest looked almost identical; there was no way to tell which way led out.

Many places were impassable, with several pillar roots joined together, forming huge stone walls blocking the way.

Not only was there a risk of getting lost, but the database also warned Li Luo that there were mineral lifeforms  in the Needle Stone Forest, some highly intelligent, and some hostile to humans-advised to avoid on sight.

“Mineral lifeforms?”

Mo Ling was still thinking when a flash of light appeared in his vision.

A patch of color appeared abruptly in the yellow-brown forest.

A creature, completely different from its surroundings, flashed by.

When it appeared again, Mo Ling finally saw it clearly.

So green.

So, so green.

Mo Ling almost thought he was seeing things-how could such a conspicuous creature exist in this stone forest?

It looked like a stone glowing green, translucent and reflective, humanoid but with four arms, over three meters tall.

All four arms were made of glowing green stone, dust-covered but still shining.

Its stone body was very dense, not like a living thing at all.

But Mo Ling quickly realized he was wrong. The creature’s interior suddenly rippled, emitting a faint “ding ding ding” sound.

Then, inside the dense stone, the sound rebounded, suddenly turning into a deep metallic clang.

Dong!

With that metallic sound, a strong vibration set the stone creature in motion, speeding it up as it charged at Mo Ling.

In an instant, it was in front of Mo Ling, the right two arms smashing down.

Mo Ling quickly rose, letting the fists hit the pillar behind him.

The pillar was left with two huge craters.

But the stone creature’s two arms also shattered, scattering translucent fragments everywhere.

“A suicide attack?”