I'm trapped in a block

Chapter 522 Floating Objects

The fog outside the airship completely obscured everyone's view, but Mo Ling could see it clearly.

Those objects floating in the gyre are not rocks or anything like that.

Mo Ling observed it for a long time before he was sure that it was some kind of soft substance like jelly.

The insides of these soft objects are even more bizarre, containing some particularly strange objects.

These objects are not complete, they are put together incompletely, just like objects in the game are inserted through the model:
Leaves growing on gravel.

A tongue encased in a shell.

Burning green water drop.

Colorful clouds.

……

When he saw these objects, Mo Ling was stunned. He almost thought there was something wrong with his vision.

"Giant jello, burning green water, rainbow clouds...what the hell is this?"

These strange objects seemed to be forcibly blended together, which was very inconsistent. Not only that, Mo Ling also found that these objects would disappear from time to time, and new objects would appear not long after.

The newly emerged objects are also full of inconsistency. These abstract objects that never appear in nature keep appearing and disappearing over and over again, as if something is deliberately creating them.

As time went by, Mo Ling discovered that there were more and more huge soft objects around the airship, and some of them almost hit the airship. However, they were pushed away by a huge force just before hitting the airship, as if the airship and them were repelling each other.

The airship was also pushed gently, but there was almost no turbulence.

The huge soft object that flashed by was also seen by the investigation team members in the airship, but they acted as if they were used to it, as if they were very familiar with it.

"We seem to have entered a turbulent zone..."

"Yes, it's fast. It seems that we are very close to the circulation node. We may be captured by the monitoring station within a day."

"Those things appear more and more frequently. I don't know what hidden dangers there will be..." said a team member worriedly.

"Don't worry about it. They won't come into contact with real objects and will dissipate after a while."

"I always feel that the Abyss has become increasingly chaotic recently, as if the original balance is being disrupted."

"It must be an illusion. You must have been going through too much recently..."

……

Inside the pod, the team members who had not yet rested were communicating in low voices. From the soft objects that appeared from time to time outside the window, they talked about the recent turmoil on the fourth level of the abyss.

Mo Ling also slowly understood what that soft jelly was.

The team members have different names for the jellies. Some call them "abyss sediments", some call them "synchronous residues", and some simply call them "air and sea garbage".

These suddenly appearing jellies and the strange objects inside them are abnormal splicing caused by synchronization errors.

In the abyss, spontaneous synchronization occurs every moment. Some objects fall from the upper layer to the lower layer, and some objects float up from the bottom layer. These objects are like sediments in the ocean. They will aggregate together as the synchronization density changes, and finally form this polymer in the fourth layer of the empty sea.

Because of the synchronization problem, there is a special repulsive force between them and real objects, just like the north and south poles of a magnet, which cannot touch each other at all.

These sediments are like garbage floating on the sea of ​​space. They suddenly appear and disappear due to the collapse of synchronization, falling into the synchronization cracks.

Normally, these missynchronized objects cannot be observed by humans because the light they emit cannot be captured by the human eye.

At different speeds and frequencies, humans should see a blurry light or nothing at all. Therefore, some people speculate that these residues do not actually exist in reality, but exist in the cracks. It is just that the unstable synchronization rate of the Sky-Sea Fault causes their projections to appear briefly, and what we really see is not their body, but some kind of wrong refraction, but this statement has not been confirmed.

What is certain is that this debris poses no threat to the airship.

After entering the turbulence zone, these strange objects appeared more and more frequently, huge shadows kept passing by the window, and the team members in the pod became more and more nervous.

Mo Ling also found something even stranger in the sediments.

"Is that... a creature?"

In that huge and soft jelly, there were some slowly wriggling long objects, with various biological limbs spliced ​​onto their bodies.

The limbs of insects, the wings of birds, the scales of fish... there are even parts that are similar to human limbs.

These long creatures wriggled aimlessly in the jelly, constantly touching every object as if they were looking for something.

After careful observation, through the surface that had been spliced ​​together and completely lost its original appearance, Mo Ling finally confirmed... it was some kind of vine.

"What are they looking for?"

Those vines stretched out from nowhere and seemed to have some way of identifying objects. After being gently touched, they would turn to other objects.

Their search efficiency is very low, and some objects disappear before they can even be touched.

But even with this kind of Buddhist search, they can really find suitable objects.

A vine squirmed and touched a pair of horns oozing with yellow mucus.

After touching the bull's horns, the vines quickly wrapped around them and wrapped the horns with their strange bodies.

After a while, the yellow mucus on the horns slowly faded away, and the roots of the horns were tightly attached to the vines. Just like other objects in jelly, the broken horns were directly spliced ​​with the vines and completely merged together.

In this way, the horns became part of the vine's body.

After the vines began to wriggle again, the bull's horn showed no signs of disappearing, as if it had been completely stabilized by the vines.

Wearing the horns, the vine began a new round of searching, looking for new "parts" in the constantly appearing sediments.

Looking at the wriggling vines, Mo Ling thought of a creature - the hermit crab.

The vines seemed to be constantly searching for limbs left behind by other creatures.

They clean those limbs and put them on their bodies, just like a hermit crab collects snail shells, cleans them, and then drills into them...

"Is this a creature unique to the fourth layer of the abyss?"

Mo Ling also didn't expect that there would be creatures that could utilize these residues left behind by synchronization.

Mo Ling found traces of these vines in almost all the jellies. There were not many of them, but they were distributed very evenly. They all had their own "territory" and were responsible for the residue in a certain area.

These vines also grew in all sorts of strange shapes. Some of them could no longer be seen in their original form because they were made up of too many objects. The slender vines were wrapped in all sorts of miscellaneous objects, and it was even difficult for them to move, swaying awkwardly in the jelly.

Mo Ling listened carefully to the conversation of the investigation team members, wanting to get information about these vine creatures from them.

However, they never talked about this, as if they had not discovered the existence of this creature at all, and they only talked about those strange splicing objects.

Therefore, a bold guess arose in Mo Ling's mind:

"Could it be that they didn't find these vines?"

(End of this chapter)