I'm trapped in a block

Chapter 1083 Absurdity
The further you go in, the cooler the tunnel seems to become.

A trace of cold air penetrated into Mo Ling's body, making him shiver unexpectedly.

"Why is it so cold?"

The temperature difference is quite large. It is summer now. Although the tunnel is much cooler than outside, it is not so cold.

Mo Ling touched his clothes. He was in a hurry when he went out, so he only put on a thin coat and even wore pajamas inside. He already had goose bumps.

"Is it because the sun is blocked?"

It may be because of the rain a few days ago. The moisture in the soil around the tunnel is still evaporating, so the temperature here is so low.

Mo Ling kept finding excuses to convince himself because this was really wrong.

The empty tunnel added a chill to Mo Ling's heart.

He walked quickly along the solid line in the middle of the road, trying to warm up his body through exercise, but it was cold. He could clearly feel that the temperature of the tunnel became lower the further he went into it.

"This should be below ten degrees, right? Or is there something wrong with my body sense?"

The temperature dropped so quickly that Mo Ling was a little unsure.

He tightened the bag, bringing it closer to his body.

Because the temperature dropped so quickly, the surroundings became extremely humid.

Cool air can hold less moisture than warm air, so for the same absolute humidity, the relative humidity will be higher.

This strange feeling of dampness made Mo Ling even more uncomfortable.

The body began to feel sticky, as if covered with a layer of "mud".

From that strange perspective, Mo Ling could see a layer of sticky water beginning to appear on his skin. It was formed by a mixture of sweat and moisture in the air, and then it was mixed with dust in the air and the dirt that had stuck to his skin on the ground. All mixed together.

When this layer of "mud" appeared clearly in Mo Ling's mind, he felt even more uncomfortable. If it were in the past, he could ignore it and not be bothered by it, but now that the perspective has changed, he has to "see" it.

Mo Ling could only keep his attention on the solid line under his feet.

The cold was still corroding Mo Ling's mind. He took a breath and a cloud of white mist appeared in front of him.

"No, when we get to the fork in the road, we have to hurry up, something is wrong here."

Mo Ling made up his mind and dared not ignore this anomaly anymore.

After walking for a while, the temperature dropped even lower. Mo Ling wrapped himself in his thin coat and his body began to tremble uncontrollably.

"It should be here soon."

Mo Ling remembered that the fork in the road was just ahead.

But just as he was about to arrive, Mo Ling suddenly stopped.

He heard a strange sound, as if it came from the front. The sound was mixed in with the reverberating roar and was not very obvious, but Mo Ling still noticed it. He had previously thought that it was an auditory hallucination caused by excessive stimulation to his ears, but now he was sure that the sound was real and not far ahead.

After hesitating for a while, Mo Ling decided to move forward.

The sound was like someone was working on a project, bang bang bang. Mo Ling was very curious. It had been so long since the disaster, were there still people working on the project?

"Won't they run away?"

With curiosity, Mo Ling cautiously reached forward...

As his vision slowly extended forward, Mo Ling suddenly noticed something that shouldn't be in the tunnel. "Ice?"

The ice blocks were stuck to the ground and the inner walls of the tunnel, "growing" slowly like living organisms, with a hint of cold air coming out of them.

“Why does ice grow?”

Mo Ling was completely stunned when he saw this scene.

Looking further forward, I found that these ice blocks blocked the entire tunnel. In the center was an ice wall that spanned the tunnel, and those ice blocks "grew" out of the ice wall.

The farther away from the ice wall, the slower the ice grows. After being shattered by the continuous vibrations, they seem unable to maintain their temperature and quickly turn into water. The ice behind them continues to grow and then is shattered again, and the cycle repeats itself.

The sound of construction came from behind the ice wall. Mo Ling walked forward, and his vision gradually passed through the ice wall and came to the back...

Mo Ling finally saw clearly who was doing the "construction". They were a group of soldiers wearing cold-proof combat uniforms. They were using electric pickaxes in their hands, trying to destroy the ice wall in the center of the tunnel!
Behind this group of soldiers stood a gloomy-looking sergeant, and behind them were some neatly arranged military vehicles. They seemed to want to pass through the tunnel, but were blocked by the ice wall.

The soldiers' electric pickaxes were vibrating rapidly. As soon as they broke the ice in one place, ice from other places would spread over. The closer to the ice wall, the faster the ice grew. So the soldiers could only stay at a distance. They couldn't move forward, and the ice couldn't grow over.

Looking at this scene, Mo Ling's heart sank.

Even an army with tools couldn't do anything about this ice wall. It looked like he had no choice but to turn back. Unexpectedly, he had to go back the same way before he even reached the fork in the road...

Mo Ling let out a long sigh. If he could get in touch with these soldiers, maybe he could ask them to rescue him. However, this ice wall was like a natural moat, completely dividing the tunnel into two sections.

"What are these ice cubes?"

Mo Ling looked at the spreading ice, his mind full of question marks.

"Is this also caused by the loud noise? Like the sunglasses I found earlier, is it some kind of power that doesn't belong to this world?"

While Mo Ling was wondering, he searched the ice wall with his unobstructed vision.

He always felt that this ice wall must not be that simple. The ice couldn't just appear out of thin air, right?

Sure enough, when his vision swept to the center of the ice wall, he saw something abrupt—

A round ball that is glowing with a hot red light.

"ball?"

It seems to be made of stone, the surface is extremely smooth, and it looks very hot.

"Why would a hot stone ball appear in a cold ice wall?"

This obviously violates common sense in physics.

Moreover, it seemed that the ice around the stone ball was not affected by the high temperature at all. There was not even any sign of melting. Instead, it became even colder.

"It seems to be absorbing the temperature of the ice wall...Energy spontaneously flows from a cold object to a hot object? Is this violating the second law of thermodynamics?"

Moring suddenly found it extremely absurd. How could there be such an object?
"This is outrageous." He couldn't help but sigh.

But the cognitive shock he had suffered during this period had made him somewhat numb. He was stunned for a moment before accepting the facts before him.

"Since the stone ball is the cause of the ice wall, if we take out the stone ball, will it melt the ice wall?"

"But I don't think I can do it. I have to find a way to inform the soldiers on the other side. They must have a way..."

(End of this chapter)