I'm trapped in a block

Chapter 1227 Waiting
Following the instructions in the manual, Mo Ling carefully transferred the kimchi jar to the light-shifting temperature control machine and adjusted its position so that the kimchi jar was aligned with the yellow circle.

"This should be okay, right?"

After checking the machine several times with her eyes, Mo Ling walked out of the machine with peace of mind.

"Now it's time to press the switch."

A conspicuous yellow arrow was affixed to the outside of the machine, pointing to the button on the side. Mo Ling pressed it without hesitation after seeing it.

After pressing the button, the machine made a buzzing sound, as if it was starting up, and Mo Ling quickly retreated two meters away.

"Next, it's just a matter of waiting, and I don't know how long that will take..."

Mo Ling looked at the instruction manual again carefully. It was a small piece of paper and there wasn't much written on it. There was nothing else after that.

"Then let's wait."

After humming for half a minute, the machine gradually stabilized, and then the inner cavity slowly closed, while the outer fasteners were tightly fastened together, completely sealing the entire machine.

But this did not stump Mo Ling; his vision could still freely move around, observing the changes inside the machine.

After the machine was shut off, the platform marked with a yellow circle slowly rose to a height of over a meter, and then began to rotate, thoroughly mixing the black viscous liquid in the kimchi jar with the kimchi that had been added earlier.

The entire jar was pitch black, with bubbles rising to the surface every now and then, truly resembling some kind of "witch's potion".

After the kimchi jar is shaken, a pipe extends from inside the machine and begins to pour cold water into the jar. The pouring stops when the water level is almost submerged at the rim of the jar, and a lid is lowered from the top to completely seal the kimchi jar.

The cool water and the original black viscous liquid did not mix; instead, they separated like oil and water, with clear water on top and a viscous black liquid at the bottom. But this situation soon changed...

The light inside the machine suddenly turned yellow, then orange, and then red, and the clear water was also illuminated in the corresponding colors. When the light inside the machine returned to normal, the water became "transparent" again, but the black slime below "recorded" these three colors.

The slime transformed into something resembling "magma," emitting a strange yellow-red light, with black cracks spreading within it, like freshly cooled magma rock, its edges still radiating a scorching heat.

Those churning bubbles also became molten lava bubbles.

Like a volcanic eruption, the magma began to pulsate, spreading continuously into the water layer above, where it turned back to black and solidified completely as the water cooled it.

The scene in the kimchi jar was no longer "layered"; the solidified mucus and water were mixed together, but not yet fully blended.

But just then, the solidified shell of the slime suddenly began to crack, and some strange "little lives" appeared in the cracks.

They appeared to be made of various hairs, skin flakes, and flesh; the scraps of leaflet had been mashed into a sticky pulp, encasing all the added materials within. These soft creatures, like octopus tentacles, slowly emerged from the cracks, swaying and jolting against the unstable flow of water. These strange little creatures even occasionally flashed with yellow and red light, "recording" the light emitted by the machine, just like the black slime from which they were born.

The cracks multiplied, and so did the swaying little creatures, which flickered and illuminated the entire kimchi jar. But then, the machine shone again.

This time the light was different; it emitted a "cold light" that switched between green, blue, cyan, and purple, and the water in the jar was also illuminated in different colors.

After the light disappeared, the completely solidified black slime remembered the light it had just received. It first turned green, and tiny "cabbages" sprouted on its outer shell, like long-dead kimchi that had come back to life.

Immediately afterwards, the green cabbages turned into water and merged into the water layer above, dyeing the entire water layer a deep blue like the ocean. The solidified black slime below also suddenly exploded along the crack, shattering into countless shimmering blue gems that floated in the ocean.

The slime mass vanished, and the tiny creatures inside escaped, freely foraging for food in the ocean.

As they crossed the seawater, they turned blue; as they ate the scattered "gems," they turned cyan; and as they bit off the cabbage remnants that hadn't completely turned into water, they turned green.

Different colors of light flickered on them, the frequency increasing, gradually replacing their original pulp color. Moreover, the colors became more and more complex, beginning to arrange and combine.

At first, the different materials on the body will show different colors, and later each piece of paper and each block will turn into a different color.

The colored blocks grew smaller and smaller, more and more dynamic, as they flickered, eventually shrinking into individual "pixels." And these pixels continued to shrink, becoming even smaller base points, infinitely dividing and spreading...

The gems were all eaten, the cabbages were all eaten, and even the seawater was almost completely swallowed up. Those little creatures were like locusts passing through, desperately sucking up what they needed to survive.

Their bodies are covered by colored pixels, making their original outlines impossible to see.

After finishing everything in the glass jar, the colorful tentacles swayed and tapped the jar, while others gathered at the mouth of the jar, trying to get out, but the kimchi jar tightly trapped them inside.

Seeing that they had no way to escape, they gathered together again, and the colorful pixels began to merge, forming a larger tentacle. With a forceful slash inside the jar, it actually tore open a purple void rift.

The crack was wide open, its edges glowing with a purple light like the starry sky, and its center a deep, black hole, into which the little creatures rushed without hesitation.

The instant they touched the crack, the crack was also infected by their bodies. Colored pixels exploded along the center of the black hole, and the black hole that swallowed everything became a white hole that spat out everything. Thousands of pixels were blasted into high-speed particles, bouncing back and forth in the kimchi jar, and finally hitting that one and only center.

The tentacles filed in, following the rebounding pixels into the center of the crack, and vanished instantly...

The glass jar was completely empty, just as clean as when Mo Ling first got it.

But it also seemed to contain many things, with a nebula-like spatial rift occasionally bursting forth, within which colorful tentacles seemed to sway, casually flicking out endless pixels, adding fleeting colors to the transparency, vanishing in an instant, like a mirage...

(End of this chapter)