I'm trapped in a block

Chapter 706 Orange Island

Mo Ling did not go to the island immediately, but began to look for the traces of the man in red and the goat-headed man.

However, the light of the orange sea obscured everything, and the distance became completely blurry, and Mo Ling could not find them nearby.

"Where have you gone?"

They had clearly arrived here sometime ago, but now they have disappeared.

There was no other choice, Mo Ling could only fly towards the Orange Island first...

The wrinkled oranges rose and fell in the bubbling soda, and the waves hit the oranges, making the Orange Island shake.

Mo Ling landed on the edge of the Orange Island with a strange sense of déjà vu.

Stepping on the wrinkled coastline felt soft, just like stepping on orange peel.

After arriving on the island, Mo Ling discovered that the island was much larger than it looked from the sky. The edge could not be seen from a distance. In the middle was a tall orange mountain range that got lower towards the edge. The entire island was hemispherical in shape, and really looked like an orange floating in soda, with only the upper half exposed.

The island was empty and the ground was very flat. There was no sand or stones, and no plants were seen.

Mo Ling squatted down, trying to find out if there was any "sea sand" or something like that on the coast where he was, but when he put his hand on the coast, he was immediately shocked by the strange touch.

“Is it really orange peel?”

Smooth, wrinkled, and a little damp...

The glowing orange sea water occasionally splashed onto the shore, rushed to a high place and then slowly fell down. Mo Ling dipped his hand in the glowing liquid and brought it in front of himself, then he smelled the fleeting smell of soda again.

“This shouldn’t be an illusion, right?”

He really smelled it, it suddenly appeared and disappeared...

Mo Ling stood up straight in a daze, looking at the sparkling orange sea, a sense of unreality flashed through his mind.

Why do I suddenly smell like orange soda?
Also, why does the smell only appear for a "moment"?
This is extremely unreasonable...

This is the fifth layer of the abyss. Although the orange sea looks like orange soda, it can't really be orange soda.

The appearance of smell must follow the process of perception, intensification, and dissipation. It will not suddenly appear and then suddenly disappear.

This orange glowing sea revealed something weird everywhere, and Mo Ling always felt very uncomfortable.

"The man in red said earlier that this sea is flowing to an unknown place. Where is it flowing to?"

Just as Mo Ling was carefully observing the flow of the sea water, he suddenly heard a strange sound coming from the surrounding. He quickly turned his head and looked beside him.

An orange figure had appeared beside him without him noticing!

"When did it appear?"

Mo Ling was so scared that he quickly jumped behind him, while staring at the figure that suddenly appeared.

The figure was like a ball of orange jelly, crystal clear, with clear outlines. He was wearing human clothes, but they were also made of orange jelly and looked like a casual suit...

The jelly man was standing on the beach, staring blankly at the sea. When he noticed that Mo Ling suddenly jumped away, he slowly turned his head and stared at Mo Ling with his cold orange eyes.

With his lips slightly opened, the jelly man actually uttered a very standard human language.

"You found me."

It was a very standard broadcasting tone, like a news anchorman, coupled with those stiff movements, and Mo Ling instantly felt his hair stand on end.

"Who are you?" Mo Ling asked vigilantly.

"Who I am depends on how you think I am. I am what you see me to be." The jelly man continued to speak in a confusing tone in a broadcasting voice.

"What do you mean?" Mo Ling asked curiously.

"My appearance is determined by your senses. You have to trust your senses."

"My senses? In my senses, you are an orange jelly man." "Man? Is that a kind of creature?" The jelly man tilted his head and asked.

It doesn't know what a human is? Mo Ling was a little surprised and immediately asked, "Aren't you in human form now? Don't you know what a human is?"

"Of course I don't know. My shape is determined by your senses. In my own opinion, I am not what you say I am."

Mo Ling was stunned. He tried to understand what the jelly man said, but was completely confused.

The jelly man looked at Mo Ling's reaction and understood his doubts.

"You are from somewhere else..."

"Yes."

"Then I understand." The jelly man nodded, and suddenly took out a shell from somewhere and handed it to Mo Ling.

"What do you think this is?"

Mo Ling looked at it carefully for a while and replied, "Shell."

"Shell? What is that?" It stuffed the shell into Mo Ling's hand.

Mo Ling held up the shell and looked at it more carefully under the light of the sea. It was indeed a shell.

"This is stone." said the Jelly Man suddenly.

"Stone?" Mo Ling looked at the shell in his hand, knocked it with his hand, and looked at the jelly man in disbelief.

Doesn't this mean that shells are stones?

"To me, it's just a rock." The Jelly Man explained seriously in his extremely formal broadcasting voice: "You think it's a shell, but I think it's a rock."

"Why is this happening?"

"Our senses are different, just like the blind men touching an elephant. If you touch the ear, you think it's a fan, but if I touch the nose, I think it's a pipe."

After listening to the Jelly Man's explanation, Mo Ling finally understood that this was a difference caused by perception.

But is there really such a big difference?

Could it be the nature of this sea that makes the sensory differences so obvious?
Thinking of his previous experience in the red light, Mo Ling suddenly realized that this orange light might also have some special function.

"Can it amplify differences in perception? Or can it modify perception?"

Can even the language be modified?

The jelly man in front of us doesn’t even know what a “human” is, but he knows the story of “the blind men and the elephant”. Is it because the language has been modified to the point where they can understand each other?

Thinking of this, Mo Ling quickly asked the jelly man in front of him: "What language are you speaking?"

"Orange Island language." The jelly man answered without hiding anything.

It seems to be true. It was clearly speaking another language, but it was "corrected" into a language that Mo Ling could understand.

Is this also a difference in sensory perception?

"Why did you suddenly appear here?" Mo Ling continued to ask.

"I didn't appear suddenly, I have always been here." The Jelly Man replied calmly.

"Then why didn't I notice you?"

Mo Ling clearly remembered that when he came here, the coast was empty and there was nothing around him.

"Because..." The jelly man suddenly stepped forward, pointed at Mo Ling's eyes and said, "My information is still being compiled and has not yet reached your senses. To you, I am 'empty' and do not exist."

(End of this chapter)