"He’s just an ordinary person."
The investigator’s words still echoed in Mo Ling’s mind long after leaving the interrogation room.
’Liang Zhi is just an ordinary person?’
’Then were the experiences he talked about before real or fabricated?’
’And where did he get all that knowledge about the Anti-Cell World?’
Mo Ling recalled his own trip to the Anti-Cell World, and his thoughts were now a tangled ss.
It was all too bizarre.
Lost in this fog of confusion, Mo Ling followed Li Luo back to their residence.
But despite his confusion, the journey into the Abyss had to continue.
After returning to their quarters, Li Luo, having finally accumulated enough points, eagerly began reading the files on the 2nd Floor of the Abyss.
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When the exploration of the Abyss first began, people didn’t know it had a second floor. They assud the first floor was all there was.
But after so investigation, researchers concluded the first floor wasn’t deep enough to be the Abyss’s true extent.
This led so to speculate that there was sothing deeper beneath the first floor.
After extensive asurent and calculation, people confird the existence of deeper levels. Thus, the search began for an entrance to the second floor.
The first floor of the Abyss is not uniform. It has mountains, hills, and massive chasms and rifts.
These chasms, rifts, and other low-lying areas beca the primary targets for Hunters, who explored ever downward along their depths.
Although they found no entrance, these efforts greatly expanded the known map of the first floor, allowing people to begin precisely demarcating its various regions.
These explorations also provided a wealth of data on the Abyss, making subsequent investigations much more convenient for humanity.
The relics discovered during these expeditions also enhanced the strength of many Hunters.
As the various regions of the Abyss were further developed, the entrance to the second floor was finally discovered.
To everyone’s surprise, the entrance was not located in a chasm or a rift, nor was it in any other low-lying area.
It was on a tall mountain.
A mountain with a noticeable gravitational anomaly.
At the ti, a Hunter Squad decided to explore this mountain. Their original plan was to find so rare biological specins and, while they were at it, docunt this unvisited peak.
But just as they reached the foot of the mountain, the gravity shifted.
The squad mbers suddenly found their steps becoming effortless, as if they were in a descending elevator. Their bodies felt like they were about to float.
Their packs also felt exceptionally light, their weight having dropped so much that they could carry them without any strain.
It was only after they had walked so distance up the mountain that they confird it: gravity had decreased.
The Hunter Squad believed such an environnt would surely give rise to rare creatures, so they continued their ascent.
The higher they climbed, the more pronounced the change in gravity beca.
What began as a slight feeling of weightlessness soon turned into effortless movent after just a short climb.
A single, light leap could send them soaring a great distance, just like what you’d see in movies about the Moon.
The squad mbers began to enjoy themselves, playing around tirelessly on the mountain and using their recording instrunts to docunt its strange conditions.
Further up, the forms of the mountain’s flora had already begun to change.
They grew exceptionally short and stout, with massive, dense root systems anchoring them firmly in the mountain soil.
Tall trees gradually disappeared, leaving only low-lying shrubs and weeds that could survive in this environnt.
Although the plants’ forms had changed, tests by the squad mbers revealed them to be common species; the environnt had simply caused their strange appearance.
Additionally, the squad mbers examined the animals they found on the mountain, which also turned out to be ordinary small creatures.
The low gravity had made them fat and bloated, as they didn’t need much strength to get around.
In fact, they took advantage of the low-gravity environnt, hopping and bouncing around the mountain and living quite comfortably.
Carnivorous animals, however, were extrely rare.
The squad mbers guessed that this was because hunting was too difficult in such an environnt, leading to the gradual disappearance of carnivores.
Although they hadn’t found any rare species, the squad mbers decided to press on and continue docunting the mountain’s peculiarities.
They soon reached the halfway point of the mountain, where the gravity had dropped by roughly half.
The flora and fauna grew increasingly sparse, with only so small insects and weeds remaining.
These weeds were of a particularly resilient type.
Because of the gravity here, the soil had beco very loose, and only weeds with exceptionally tough and dense root systems could survive.
As for the small insects, they lived among the root systems of these weeds, feeding on the nutrients in the soft soil.
Past the halfway point and higher up the mountain, there were no living things left. The peak beca exceptionally desolate.
The squad mbers were initially puzzled by this, as the environnt wasn’t so harsh as to be completely uninhabitable.
They figured there should still be so life.
Before long, they had their answer.
One mber suddenly collapsed, his entire body turning purple. The other mbers also began to feel dizzy, their consciousness fading.
It was oxygen deprivation!
Once they realized this, the mbers quickly took out their oxygen apparatuses.
Fortunately, because they were exploring a high mountain, they had habitually brought oxygen gear. They just hadn’t expected to need it so soon.
They soon figured out why.
The weak gravity had led to air loss.
Without gravity, there would be no air.
The squad mbers were no longer in a playful mood. They continued upward for a while, but the air had all but vanished.
Seeing that they could go no further, the Hunter Squad hastily returned to the monitoring station and reported the mountain’s situation in full.
Shortly after, a professional team equipped with spacesuits arrived to explore the mountain.
Passing the altitude where the air disappeared, the researchers continued their ascent. Here, there was no life, only loose soil.
With the help of professional equipnt, the researchers soon reached the summit.
The gravity here had vanished completely. For the final stretch, the researchers were practically floating to the summit, as if in outer space.
But what no one expected was what happened the mont they stood on the summit.
Gravity beca negative.
A force began to push the researchers upward, away from the mountain. One researcher who couldn’t react in ti was carried directly into the sky.
The anti-gravity force kept increasing, and the researcher’s ascent grew faster and faster.
Just as the researcher thought his life was over, he suddenly fell onto a sand dune.
The soft sand cushioned his fall completely. As he tumbled down the dune, he realized he had arrived in a vast desert.
This desert was what would later beco known as the 2nd Floor of the Abyss—the Chaotic Sand Dunes.
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