I'm trapped in a block

Chapter 630 The Smell of the Outside World

The novel smells from the outside world made Mo Ling immersed in it again.

He sniffed the fluctuations of the scent carefully, conjuring up images in his mind.

"Gushing water vapor, dangerous poisonous fruit, and... some burning creature?"

Why are those creatures burning?
Is this related to the war that the scent of grass and trees mentioned?
But why don't I smell blood?
The night wind was slowly getting stronger, the range of smells that Mo Ling could sense was becoming wider and wider, and the burnt smell he sensed was becoming stronger and stronger.

The burnt smell hung over the forest, and some of it even washed into the stream, mixing with the smell of water vapor...

Messy, extremely messy.

The smell of roasting creature's flesh wafted into Mo Ling's perception.

It was a dangerous message that the creatures of the forest beyond were experiencing a burn from which they could not escape.

"But there is no smell of burning wood..."

Wasn't the forest on fire?

Mo Ling smelled it carefully for a while and indeed, apart from the smell of meat and burnt smell produced by the burning of biological organisms, there was no other smell of burning.

"Is this a fire that specifically burns living things?"

This undoubtedly impacted Mo Ling's cognition. He couldn't imagine what was happening deep in the forest, and these vague smells were not enough for Mo Ling to infer a definite result.

"Too far, too confusing, too vague..."

Mo Ling felt it quietly, but the night wind would not last long.

As the evening passed, the strong wind gradually died down and Mo Ling could no longer smell the scent in the distance.

The cool breeze changed direction, and now the smells coming from an ordinary forest were also very common.

Mo Ling carefully felt the new scent, but he was still obsessed with the scents he had smelled before.

Because it was so special.

"Maybe I'll be able to smell it again this time tomorrow..."

……

Mo Ling waited for a whole day with great anticipation, and it was already evening again.

But things did not go as planned. It actually rained today and the familiar smell did not come.

However, the raindrops did make the forest lively, and various odor molecules were constantly jumping with the raindrops, bouncing from the soil and splashing into the air.

Mo Ling smelled some fresh scents again, mixed with moist water vapor, and he silently memorized these scents in his heart...

Another day passed, and the smell that Mo Ling was longing for still did not come.

"It's raining again..." Mo Ling was helpless.

As luck would have it, the rainy season has arrived. Every time the sun sets, thick dark clouds appear and water vapor spreads, followed by raindrops falling and hitting the soil.

All smells were obscured by the smell of soil, grass and tree roots. Although the smell was fresh and pleasant, Mo Ling couldn't suppress the frustration in his heart.

"It seems that the rainy season will last for a long time..."

Just as Mo Ling expected, with the arrival of the rainy season, heavy rain covered the forest every evening. Not only that, the water vapor brought by the rain also made the smell passing through the cracks in the rocks even more disordered.

Mo Ling can smell a different scent every day as water vapor carrying rich odor molecules passes through the cracks in the rocks.

Although it was a pity, the change in environment was not something Mo Ling could control. After smelling all kinds of fresh smells, Mo Ling gradually forgot that evening.

...Time passed quickly, and Mo Ling stayed in this crevice for a long time.

Sniffing day after day made Mo Ling gradually familiar with the nearby forest, and the molecules of those smells gradually became regular in his mind.

With different flow directions and area divisions, the originally chaotic and mixed types of smells were gradually distinguished by Mo Ling, and his perception of smells became more sensitive.

Not only that, Mo Ling looked at his body.

"I seem to have grown bigger..."

Unconsciously, the number of uncollapsed odor molecules in Mo Ling's body increased. Although he could not grow stronger through prey, the number of odor molecules increased exponentially as time went on.

"The base number of odor molecules in the body is increasing. Although the replication speed remains the same, the number of replications has increased..."

Mo Ling quickly figured out the changes in his body.

However, the uncollapsed odor molecules after replication are still the same as before, particularly stubborn and stable, unable to collapse. But now Mo Ling is not too demanding. For him, it is a very lucky thing that his body can continue to grow.

Moring speculated that the reason why his perception of smell became more acute was also related to the increase in the number of odor molecules.

His "sense of smell" actually comes from the collision and contact between molecules.

When the odor molecules in his body come into contact with the free odor molecules, "perception" occurs.

Now, his contact area with the free molecules has increased, which makes him more sensitive.

Regardless, this is good news.

At the same time, Mo Ling's sniffing range is constantly increasing, and the limit of what can be perceived is constantly extending outward.

Just at this time, the rainy season ended. When the last drop of rain in the forest fell to the ground, the hot summer finally arrived. The heat in the forest made the movement of odor molecules more intense, and the odors mixed with each other and drifted farther and farther.

The humus ground after being washed by the rainy season was slowly dried, and all kinds of strange smells were blown towards the rock wall along with the gusts of wind caused by the temperature change. Mo Ling was also able to understand the changes in the surrounding environment.

"The smell is becoming more and more active."

Heat is a catalyst for odor.

Driven by this heat, Mo Ling actually smelled the same smell again.

"A poisonous fruit?"

The smell of this fruit was particularly sweet and fragrant, but it made Mo Ling feel a little weird. Those floating smell molecules seemed to have a strange restlessness.

"It's just a molecule, why is it agitated?" Mo Ling had never seen this kind of phenomenon before, so he found it even more strange.

But soon, he understood the effect of this poisonous fruit...

One day in summer, the smell of burning creatures wafted over from afar again.

"The feathers, the keratin of the claws, the flesh, the bones... are all burning, but the burning does not affect the surrounding objects."

"Is this a kind of... spontaneous combustion?"

With his enhanced perception, Mo Ling instantly smelled the characteristics of the burning creature.

It seemed to be a kind of birds that were collectively spontaneously combusting. They kept circling in the sky and crashed into the water with their charred bodies, but the cool water flow could not stop them from spontaneously combusting. Even in the water, they were still burned cleanly.

And their burnt smell was mixed with the smell of poisonous fruit.

A guess suddenly emerged in Mo Ling's mind:
"Could that kind of fruit cause them to spontaneously combust?"

(End of this chapter)