I'm trapped in a cube

"It's over..."

When the captain realized something was wrong, the starlight had already squeezed open his eyelids, completely occupied his pupils, and his consciousness was instantly pulled into a sea of ​​stars.

Those familiar voices came again, and the team members were talking unconsciously around, being used as bait by the starlight.

"It's all fake..." The captain instantly understood that what he had just heard were just sentences pieced together by the starlight, but under the influence of the halo, he couldn't tell the truth from the false.

The captain blamed himself very much. As a captain, he actually made such a low-level mistake.

He felt an indescribable desire for this star in his heart, and wanted to completely integrate into this sea of ​​stars.

However, this feeling soon disappeared, and at the same time, his control over his body also disappeared.

He actually turned into a light spot of consciousness and completely separated from his body.

"When consciousness is completely separated from the body, will the temptation disappear?" He realized this instantly.

Looking at the stars, the captain felt that he could not sit and wait for death.

His team members must also be in this sea of ​​stars.

"Of course they are here." A voice sounded beside the captain.

"Who are you?" After hearing this voice, the captain became alert instantly.

"I am the Eye of the Stars, and I brought you here."

"What is your purpose?" The captain asked.

"I don't have any purpose. When you feel the same as me, you will know. You are too defensive now. You have to let go of your defense and feel the surroundings. You will know how beautiful this starry sky is..."

After the Eye of the Stars said a bunch of inexplicable words, it disappeared. No matter how much the captain asked, there was no response.

"Defense?"

The captain didn't understand what the Eye of the Stars meant, but he knew that if the enemy asked him to let go of his defense, he must not let go of his defense.

He remained alert and approached the surrounding stars.

As he got closer and closer to those stars, he gradually understood the origins of those stars:

They were all creatures or living creatures from the Sky Island. They were stripped of their consciousness by the Eye of the Stars and came here.

If the Eye of Stars wants to form a community of consciousness, it needs a constant supply of consciousness. The creatures on the Sky Island are limited, so the Eye of Stars uses the spread of activation to continuously create activated creatures, and then harvests the consciousness of these activated creatures.

"After forming a community of consciousness, everything in the world can be our body. At that time, everyone will feel the same, and there will be no more struggles, no more conflicts..."

"Nonsense!" The captain immediately realized that this was an extremely idealistic plan and there was no possibility of realization.

Although it looks very beautiful, it is all illusory.

Most of the light spots here have been put to waste. Anyway, it's like this, why not join the fusion. As long as the fusion reaches a certain level, you can return to the original body.

"Can you go back?" The captain was surprised.

"Of course you can go back, but there is a high probability that you can't go back to your original body."

Their bodies have become "shared bodies" that anyone can use. Just as the Eye of Stars said, the body is no longer important. Once the consciousness is integrated, the body is just a "clothes", just as a tool for experience.

Although the captain scoffed at this, he felt that this was a breakthrough.

But at the moment, the most important thing is to find his lost teammates.

In the ocean of consciousness, the most effective way to find other light points is "consciousness resonance", that is, "empathy".

Nothing is more efficient than the transmission of the mind.

But if you want to empathize, you must let go of your guard.

The captain had no choice. It was his duty as the captain to ensure the safety of the team members, but doing so would allow the enemy to succeed, so he fell into a dilemma.

"What will happen if the consciousness merges?" He asked the other light points.

"You will lose yourself, forget who you are, become indifferent, and become dull by the shock of those thoughts. Your thoughts will become more and more 'broad', and you will only look at things with a 'living being' concept, and slowly forget your feelings for the 'individual'."

The light points answered the captain selflessly.

Just as the Eye of the Stars said, the consciousness here seems to have no distinction between enemies and friends, and they trust each other very much. Even if they know what the captain wants to do, they still answer his questions without reservation.

This allowed him to find another breakthrough point.

He asked the light point that answered him: "Can I merge with you?"

"Of course." The light point replied.

"But I don't want to lose myself, I want to remember myself." The captain made his own request.

"No problem, I feel the same as you, of course I will follow your wishes and won't make you sad. Since you don't want it, we won't let it happen."

A trace of guilt flashed through the captain's heart, and then quickly disappeared.

"Let's merge, feel the same."

"Feel the same..."

The two light points met together, they completely let go of their guard, exchanged their thoughts, and the light point also gave up all of itself as it promised, allowing the captain's consciousness to occupy everything.

"Why do you want to give up everything?" The captain asked sadly.

"You still have unfinished business. You still have to save your teammates, take them away from the sky island, and eliminate the activated pollution. You still have so many things to do. As for me, I am just a piece of activated stone. I don't have any dreams, and my life has no meaning. Even if you take over everything, what does it matter?"

"You are lying to me..." The captain said painfully: "You want to leave the forest and come to a vast world to see the setting sun with your own eyes. You want to go to the seaside and see the ebb and flow of the tide. Aren't these all what you think?"

When the two merged with each other, the captain also understood the other's expectations. It was just such a simple idea, but it made him very sad.

The stone had no chance to realize such a dream.

"It's okay, I saw it in your memory..."

"Beautiful sunset, ebb and flow, mountains, deserts, and close friends..."

"The human world is so beautiful... You must continue, find your teammates, take them to see the sunset and waves again."

"It would be a pity if I can't see it again."

The stone muttered, and his voice became weaker and weaker, and then it could no longer be heard.

Just as it promised, it gave up all its consciousness and gave all its consciousness space to the captain, so that the captain could control two light spots at the same time without losing himself due to the interference of other consciousness.

The captain lost the stone while getting everything from the stone.

Invisible tears flowed from the captain's heart. At this moment, he really felt the same... felt the same as a stone that no one had ever cared about before.