I'm trapped in a cube

Although the picture is blurry, it is enough to tell a complete story.

The old projector stood quietly in the sky, projecting the gradually dimming light and shadow. The brown filter became lighter and lighter, and the picture was completely disrupted, turning into a mess of shadows.

The rotation of the roulette wheel slowed down again, completely stalling amidst the crunching sound.

"I thought that as long as I put my consciousness into the relic, I wouldn't have to pay the price, but I was wrong. There will definitely be a price. This is the rule of the abyss..."

"My consciousness is collapsing and becoming a void."

The turbid lens turned to the Eye of the Stars again.

"I'm not lying to you. The gathering of consciousness will eventually lead to collapse. Just like stars, there is a gravitational pull between consciousnesses. Too close will only lead to collision, and then they will fall into the unknown abyss together."

"I used the projector without restraint, which accelerated the process. I could clearly feel that my consciousness was shrinking and collapsing, and those once clear memories and thoughts were turning into disorderly fragments..."

The starlight in the Eye of the Stars shook a few times, and he was a little stunned: "How could this happen?"

The captain sighed: "We are all using limited knowledge to speculate on the world. There must be a reason why the world does not allow consciousness to be connected. Don't try to break those long-existing rules. They may be the cornerstone of the world. , any behavior that violates these rules will lead to chaos and disorder..."

For some reason, the captain suddenly talked about the theory about the world and its foundation. While his consciousness collapsed, he seemed to realize something.

"Eye of the Stars, it's time to fulfill your duty. Return the consciousness of all members of the investigation team to their original bodies and end everything on this island."

"Okay." Star Eyes was convinced. It no longer clung to the unattainable ideal and obeyed the captain's order.

"Zhou Chao..." The captain suddenly shouted.

Zhou Chao was still confused about his true identity, and was startled when he heard this call.

"What's wrong? Captain." Zhou Chao asked weakly. He was very confused now and didn't know how to face himself.

But the captain seemed to read his mind.

"Live well."

The captain said these four words to him calmly. The hoarse voice was like the clenching sound of a roulette wheel, no longer as empty as it was at the beginning.

Hearing this, Zhou Chao opened his eyes wide and nodded blankly.

After saying these four words, the projector in the sky seemed to have stopped, completely falling into silence.

Realizing that something was wrong, the Eye of the Stars immediately rolled up countless starlights and rushed towards the projector.

Those activated relics immediately stopped it.

"What do you want to do, Mr. Ying?" Their names still haven't changed.

"I want to save him, I want to save him! His consciousness is breaking!" Star Eyes said anxiously.

Hearing this, the activated relics gave way hesitantly, and the Eye of the Stars also rushed into the projector.

However, not long after, the Eye of the Stars retreated, flashing red light, and kept saying:

"Disorder! Consciousness is disordered, but the building blocks that are put together are orderly. Why? We are not the gathered current, we are the chaotic fragments under the current! Are we just a pile of garbage?"

Eye of the Star seemed to be going crazy and kept talking nonsense. He seemed to have seen something terrible in the projector.

"What's wrong, Master Ying?" The activated relic rushed over and asked.

"Collapsed... shattered... turned into a ball..." The Star Eye said some inexplicable words, the red light kept flashing, and the starry sky became chaotic.

"No! I want to see it again!"

As he spoke, he rushed into the projector again.

This time, it took a long time...

The Eye of the Stars seemed to have disappeared, and the surrounding starry sky began to dim.

After a long time, it flashed and floated out again.

"It's hopeless, it's hopeless..."

There was a roll of film floating in the starry sky, and the blurry light and shadow on the film kept shaking.

"This is the only thing left." Star Eyes slowly put the roll of film into Zhou Chao's hands.

"What is this?" Zhou Chao was at a loss as he held the film.

"Fragments, remnants of collapse, ashes of consciousness..." Eyes of the Stars used many words to describe this roll of film.

Zhou Chao also immediately understood that this was the only thing left by the captain.

"Can you let him return to his body?" Zhou Chao asked.

"No, this is incomplete and cannot be used as consciousness." Star Eyes replied helplessly.

After hearing this answer, Zhou Chao looked at the film in his hand and was stunned for a long time.

Only then did he realize that the captain had anticipated his own demise, so he showed the last movie and told everyone everything.

Thinking of the captain's last words, Zhou Chao's eyes instantly became moist.

"Live well……"

At this moment, he felt that his identity was completely unimportant.

The captain never cared what he was, whether he was human or non-human, as long as he lived well.

The captain has integrated so many consciousnesses, and he has long understood that identity is not important, but "self" is the most important.

Zhou Chao no longer struggled with whether he was the real "Zhou Chao". He recalled the scenes of the captain taking care of him before, and his tears could no longer be restrained, flowing out of his eyes.

However, wearing a mask, no one could see him crying.

But the holy sword in Li Luo's hand glowed slightly, and the light even shone through the stone scabbard and shone out from the gap.

"Zhou Chao..."

Feeling the strangeness of the holy sword in his hand, Li Luo stepped forward and patted Zhou Chao's stiff shoulder.

"You still have to save your teammates."

Li Luo's words reminded Zhou Chao, and he looked up at the starry sky.

"Eye of the Stars! Send the consciousness of all the members of the investigation team back to their original bodies!"

The Eye of the Stars did not hesitate and directly covered all the activated relics.

However, those activated relics seemed very resistant and unwilling to cooperate.

Seeing this, Zhou Chao shouted the names of his teammates again.

"Lin Wang!"

"Zhou Tieshu!"

"Li Yilian!"

"..."

Every time he shouted, Zhou Chao would think of the scene when the captain called the roll.

The captain always called the roll very loudly. Zhou Chao used to complain about the captain and made his ears deaf.

But this time, he shouted louder than the captain.

When he called out these names himself, Zhou Chao realized that this was a responsibility. It was the captain's duty to bring the owners of these names safely to the Sky Island and then bring them back to the monitoring station safely.

The louder you shout, the more you can engrave these names in your heart.

As Zhou Chao shouted, the animated relics stopped one by one. They seemed to find themselves the moment they heard the names, and stayed where they were, allowing the Eye of the Stars to take them back to their original bodies.

The light spots were driven by the starlight and flew out of the relics and flew to the frozen bodies.

When he called out the last name, Zhou Chao paused and hesitated for a moment.

But in the end, he still called out the name:

"Lianying!"

After calling out this name, Zhou Chao looked at the film in his hand with hope.

However, the result was destined to disappoint him. The film did not react at all.

Zhou Chao's tears slipped out from under the mask quietly, and the breeze blew the tear into the starlight.

"Live well..."

Zhou Chao seemed to hear a familiar voice in the wind...