“Eighty meters dead straight and a door every three point six. None of them goes anywhere, I tried them.”
The very long corridors are the first thing you learn about Level 0.01, with a door at the far end that never gets closer. In 0.01 there is nothing to see because the corridor is the level, and everything else is supplied by the mind, which wonders why there is a door every few meters when none of them leads anywhere.
How to recognize them
In ordinary Level 0, straight corridors run around 24, 28 or 32 meters, and those already feel long. In the very long corridors you reach 40, 60 and even 80 meters without a corner, with doors every 3.6 meters. Wanderers count doors so as not to count steps, forty on one side and forty on the other.
| Where | Length of straight |
|---|---|
| Office corridor | about 50 m at most |
| Ordinary infinite corridor | 24, 28 or 32 m |
| Very long corridor of 0.01 | 40, 60 or 80 m |
According to the reports, they turn up in one in ten corridor regions.
How to survive
- Don’t run. It shortens nothing and spends what you’ll need when you arrive.
- Walk hugging a wall and count doors.
- Don’t open the doors in the corridor. The locked doors of Level 0 are locked for a reason.
- Bring Almond Water for your sanity, because the long stretch burns through it.
Who lives here
The one who waits can be seen at the far end, under the exit sign, sometimes closer than it was. The note “The exit has a white frame. Don’t cross it.” is written on the wall of more than one corridor, and the EXIT door is what lies at the end. The office signs repeated at fixed intervals are no help for finding your bearings.
What people say
Someone has seen corridors of more than a hundred meters, even three hundred, where the door at the far end seems not to exist, but nobody has come back with a measurement.