Unexpected Change

Although the food looked fresh, delicious, and incredibly tempting, Mo Ling knew full well that it had remained in this state for twenty years.

Over those twenty years, it had not spoiled or rotted. Even its temperature had not dropped.

Mo Ling observed it carefully for a while and found that there was not even any dust on the food.

It was as if time had frozen upon it.

And this freezing had not happened only to the food; it had happened to the entire building.

"The whole room is dust-free..."

Whether it was the food, the tables, chairs, bowls, chopsticks, or the clutter moved into the corners, none of it had gathered any dust. Everything seemed to have remained at exactly seven in the evening twenty years ago, preserving its condition from that moment.

Outside this building, time was still moving. Inside it, everything had solidified.

People came and went beyond the display window, while everything within had become eternal, unchanging "scenery." As long as someone watched, this scenery would never change.

The banquet remained forever on the verge of beginning. The food stayed steaming hot. Dust would never settle, only swirl endlessly through the air...

Watching it all from outside the window, Mo Ling felt the strangeness in his heart growing heavier. Even the delicious roast chicken no longer seemed so tempting.

The food on the table now had a "plastic-like" quality to it, like the display cakes in bakeries. They looked delicate and delicious, but were actually hollow shells filled with stuffing.

Yet Mo Ling examined the food inside and out for a long time without finding what its "filling" was. It was exactly like real food, with no way to prove that it was merely a "model."

After wandering around the Meeting Room for a while,