I, The Floating Rock

Mu Shen is having the time of his life right now. He is floating through the void as a rock; the floating void part he understand but why as a rock. He was just sitting at home reading light novels; how did he get to this point in life.

Don't get him wrong, he like to float around; well not in space but circumstances. Nevertheless, why has he got to float around as a rock. He could be anything right now, why a rock.

Mu Shen think back hard, trying to see if he had offend anybody. However, the only person he could think of is Granny Zhou; who he did not give money too to fuel her opioid addiction. Going by normal standard, he should be rewarded; preventing a grandma from overdosing is doing good in his book; so why is he out here.

Mu Shen spent another thirty minute, trying to think of someone he offend; he try to list out every possible name that he had done bad again. Could be Fatty Zhang, he did borrow that novel and never return it; but it should not warrant him to live as a rock, right?

Mu Shen still thinking noticed something out of the corner of his eyes; wait does he have eyes anymore? Anyway, Mu Shen notice the most beautiful natural phenomenon in his life; a scenery so spectacular it could make a real man cries.

In front of him, two nebula was merging with one another. Like a magnificent dance, the clouds intertwined with one another; flashes of colour can be seen all over the dark expanse. Multiple colour coordinated with one another; pushed and pull like a symphony; warping the fabric of space around them. Old colour meld together, new colour form. The scenery was like watching the gods paint; a melting pot of perfection.

Material can be seen clumping up with one another; within a flurry twist of expulsion and compaction; like the waves in the sea. Brown clump of dust can be seen taking shape; rising and falling; flowing and moving. Inside these brown dust storm, all will be compacted into one another.

At the center of the two dancing nebulas, two dots of light can be seen. The two dots of light, like spoiled children, thrashing and transforming the area around them. With each warping the millions of kilometers of dust around them; showing of their full might. Like a cycle, they consume and expel, transforming the nebulas of before to something else; changing their environment.

Perhaps that's is the way of nature, of the Daos; ever changing, ever moving; never stop.

Soon enough, the two little dots meet at the center; a battle of supremacy soon ring out. They started to warp the space around them; tearing, thrashing. The gravity generated by these two massive giants, warping their respective area; destroying the old scenery, forming new one. The two little dots continue to clash, both getting stronger as the fight goes on.

The result of the clash soon attract the many thing around them; including our protagonist, Mu Shen. The little rock flew closer and closer to the battlefield, hurling forward with unprecedented speed. The clash get more and more violence; drawing the little rock faster inward.

Soon enough, the climactic battle reach its end; with a brand new nebula took into creation. However, the battle end too late, the little rock now flew inside the inner circle of the nebulas; lodging itself around the strong gravity pull of the new formed star.

Mu Shen, scared shitless, started to shake a little bit. He has never experienced something so intense in his life. In this new rock life, he felt true terror to fill both of his life. However, this was just the beginning of the fear. Soon, the new star started to attract everything with its ginormous gravity field; as its devour, it also expelled. The lighter gasses got blasted away by the subsequence solar wind; heavier material sand its ground.

The attraction force of the newborn star did not help Mu Shen either, he have to doged most other rock; for fear of annihilation. However, he could only dodged so much. Soon enough, he got hit by a pink mass. Thinking that he was already dead, Mu Shen closed his eyes, and quietly prayed. One second pass, then two but Mu Shen did not feel anything happening; the only feeling he received is a very squishy one.

He look at the pink mass carefully. It was squishy, and very pink; no surprise their doofus. The mass felt more like a living organism than an inanimate object. With wiggly tentacles, it look like a very strange symbiote or a slime. Its squishy body wiggle about, flopping up and down. The object is also very small, well smaller than a one cubic meter sphere at least.

The tentacles of the the object, started to impale Mu Shen. Mu Shen was now extremely scared, he doesn't want to die, he has not even live yet. Mu Shen can feel the tentacle crawling toward his center. He tried to stop it but he was just a rock; incapable of doing anything. Resign to his fate, Mu Shen closed his eyes for the last time.

What greeted him was not eternal darkness, instead it was flashes of images. The pink blob thing is trying to share its knowledge with him. He see a variety of image; the beginning of this pink blob life, its homeworld, its destruction. Soon he was out of the trance, awoken after living a different life.

The pink blob is now stuck to him, it tentacles wiggle about. Mu Shen seem to be able to control the pink blob. He also discovered, to his surprise, that everytime he think, the ink blob would light up in triboluminescence blue colour; like a brain sending electrical signals.

"Of course we can do that. We are now two being coexist with one another" a female voice rang out."It would be foolish to not support one another."