I'm trapped in a block

Chapter 988 Extension
“Then, I started to grow bigger.”

"It started out as cat-sized, then it became the size of a lab."

“Then it became the size of a building again.”

"Every time I get bigger, the humans jump up and down with excitement and run around to tell others."

“They connected different spaces through my body, taking advantage of my malleability.”

"I couldn't adapt to this change at first. I still prefer to stay in the cat's body."

……

Little White's owner comes to see it less and less often, as if its importance is gradually increasing, and even for the owner, it is becoming increasingly difficult to contact it.

He also cherishes these times of meeting, and whenever he sees Xiaobai, he will talk to it a lot:
"Did they give you anything good to eat?"

"Will you not be able to eat enough when you get bigger?"

"Will it be uncomfortable? If it's uncomfortable, don't make it bigger."

"Would you like to try a new flavor of cat food?"

"Or try human food?"

"..."

Xiaobai's owner did not realize how "important" Xiaobai was, but just felt that it was becoming increasingly difficult to see him. The ordinary staff in the laboratory were replaced by fully armed soldiers, and checkpoints were set up outside.

There are often some big shots in suits coming here to visit, and even the leaders of the relics management agency come out to greet them in person. Xiaobai's owner doesn't even have the chance to get close. He is locked up in the resettlement dormitory and not allowed to come out. They say that the security level outside is too high and he, an outsider, is not allowed to get close.

The faces Xiaobai saw became more and more unfamiliar, and even the researchers were replaced one after another. These new researchers seemed to be more and more radical and more and more indifferent. They looked at it not as if it were a life, but as if it were a precious "machine".

As its body grew bigger, Xiaobai's mind became clearer and clearer. It was certainly able to perceive these changes, and it became increasingly uncomfortable with this depressing environment.

Even though the previous researchers were fanatical, they treated it very well, and sometimes even secretly brought some canned food for it to eat. But the current ones not only treat it like a machine, but they themselves are like cold robots.

In such a depressing environment, Xiaobai finally couldn't stand it anymore.

"Meow."

During a meeting, it told its owner what it was thinking.

"You want to run away?"

Hearing what Xiaobai said, the owner was shocked at first, and then hurriedly came to it.

"Speak softly, there are surveillance here."

"Meow."

"Why did you run away? Were they treating you badly?"

"Meow meow."

"Okay... but it's hard to run away. The guards here are very strict. How about I go and talk to them first to see if I can take you away." Xiaobai's owner showed a conflicted expression and then touched Xiaobai's head.

"Don't be afraid, Xiaobai."

"Meow."

After saying that, Xiaobai's owner left the laboratory, apparently to discuss taking Xiaobai away.

But this time he left and never came back.

Xiaobai waited and waited for several days and nights, but his master still did not return.

It thought, maybe this thing is really difficult.

In order to know what was happening outside, it could only continue to extend its body. This time, it expanded to the entire experimental base.

The surrounding monitoring instruments started to ring again. Every time Xiaobai stretched his body, the instruments would ring. Researchers came in one after another and began to work on things that Xiaobai could not understand.

But even though Xiaobai covered the entire experimental base with his body, he couldn't find his owner.

"Where did he go?" Xiaobai couldn't figure it out. He just wanted to continue expanding his body and find his owner.

But it has just been expanded and needs a long time to rest.

During this period of rest, Xiaobai was still waiting for the arrival of his owner, but the owner still did not show up. The researchers were replaced by a new group. This time the researchers were more indifferent and the atmosphere was more depressing.

Xiaobai could feel that these people were deliberately distancing themselves from him, as if they not only treated him as a machine, but were also "afraid" of him.

As its body grew bigger, Xiaobai could feel more and more things. It could sense that these people's emotions towards it became more and more complicated, fear, cherishment, expectation...

Obviously the emotions are becoming more complicated, but the distance is getting farther and farther.

Xiaobai hates this feeling. It feels like it is gradually becoming detached from "reality".

It's a lonely feeling.

This is also the first time it understands "loneliness".

It had never experienced this feeling when it was a cat.

Now its body is getting bigger and bigger, it can wrap more and more things, and it occupies more and more space. Those humans are even passing through its body, but its sense of loneliness is getting heavier.

While it wraps up "reality", it also breaks away from "reality".

Xiaobai is eager to find his owner. Only when he communicates with his owner can he feel the long-lost comfort.

Just like before, when I was arrested by my owner and forced to feed him, although I was very reluctant, I felt inexplicably:
“The world is closing in on me.”

……

This world is getting farther and farther away from me.

After more than half a year, Xiaobai started to extend again.

This time, it covered the entire relic management agency and also wrapped a large area of ​​land outside within its body.

But after so long, its owner still didn't come to find it.

Xiaobai searched his body thoroughly but still couldn't find where his master had gone.

"he left?"

"Didn't he say he would take me with him?"

"What happened?"

Xiaobai doesn't think that its owner will abandon it. Although they have not been together for long, Xiaobai knows him very well.

He is a clear and pure person who will not lie. Although he is a little stupid, he is very kind. He will never leave Xiaobai alone.

"Something must have happened."

Xiaobai is no longer as simple-minded as before. Although it still looks like a cat, its actual body has become extremely huge, and its thoughts are no longer confined to the walnut-sized brain.

It began to think about its situation.

"First cooperate with the agency's research, use the agency's power to extend the body, continue to expand outwards, cover more places, until... find the owner."

Xiaobai knew very well that now was not the time to fall out with humans. There was no deep hatred between them, they just couldn't get along.

The institutions are taking advantage of it, and it also needs to take advantage of the institutions at this time.

only……

The loneliness will continue.

"When did I become so mature?" Xiaobai suddenly realized that he had actually started to consider the pros and cons, which was obviously not what a cat should do.

This is how humans think...

In the process of relying on the world, individuals are inevitably influenced by the world. Xiaobai is no longer relying on just a cat, but on all kinds of "people" that travel through his body. He can no longer think like a cat.

(End of this chapter)