I'm trapped in a cube

Zhou Chao took a deep breath and took the holy sword from Li Luo.

He looked at the holy sword that had been with him for a long time, and his heart was full of mixed feelings.

Zhou Chao could no longer remember whether he came from this sword. He only knew that he could not pull out this sword.

Anyone could, but he could not.

The captain also said that the holy sword could not be pulled out by himself.

But after all this, Zhou Chao wanted to try again.

He stood among the dejected team members, holding the hilt of the sword, emptying his mind, letting the distracting thoughts in his heart drift away with the breeze.

Zhou Chao thought of the original owner of his body who had fought into the dead swamp alone, and the captain who faced everything alone... Their courage seemed to flow into Zhou Chao's heart in an instant.

Consciousness does not need to be integrated, and it can also empathize. Zhou Chao truly felt those intentions.

"I also want to be King Arthur who pulls out the holy sword... and save everyone."

At this moment, Zhou Chao is no longer the "deserter" who always hides in the distance.

The golden light of the holy sword seemed to overflow at this moment. Zhou Chao seized the courage of that moment, grasped the hilt of the sword tightly, and pulled it out with all his strength...

Then it got stuck.

The holy sword did not move, and Zhou Chao almost fell to the ground because of excessive force.

The joint of the arm made a cracking sound, and almost everyone present could hear it. The palm holding the hilt of the sword slipped out directly, and the whole hand was covered with red marks.

"Ah? Where is my courage? Where is the light?"

Zhou Chao held the holy sword that did not respond, and was stunned.

Seeing Zhou Chao's funny look, the team members sitting on the ground burst into laughter:

"Zhou Chao, what are you doing?"

"Your speech just now was quite good, but now it's not so good..."

"I think your speech skills are still worse than the captain's. The captain is very natural when inspiring people, and your performance is a bit heavy."

"The main thing is that the sword drawing at the end is too ugly. The atmosphere was still brewing well at the beginning. Keep working hard next time, but don't use the holy sword next time. If you can't draw it out, you can't draw it out. Don't try it."

"Do you want to be my apprentice? I'll lend you my bottle cap. You can turn your hand to make clouds and rain, which may be more impressive."

"..."

Listening to the complaints of his teammates, Zhou Chao scratched his head and smiled awkwardly.

It seems that he doesn't need courage to make his teammates regain confidence.

"I see you guys are so depressed, sitting on the ground without moving, I want to encourage you..."

However, the teammate raised his hand and shook it stiffly: "Our legs are numb, we just returned to our bodies, we feel like our whole bodies are not our own, and we are a little slow to move."

Hearing this, Zhou Chao smiled awkwardly again, he underestimated his teammates' ability to bear.

Just thinking about it, the teammates supported their bodies one by one with difficulty, and stood up shakily from the ground.

Zhou Chao hurried to help and supported them.

"The mission continues!" The teammates said excitedly.

"What mission?" Zhou Chao was a little unresponsive.

"The mission to save the captain! Didn't you say that? The first step is to explore all the sky islands first."

"No, the first step is to return to the monitoring station first, and the second step is to explore the sky islands. You didn't listen carefully." Another team member on the side teased.

Zhou Chao listened to their conversation and his face turned red instantly.

Fortunately, the mask blocked everything...

At the same time, the starlight in the sky seemed to be slowly shrinking, and the light spots of consciousness were becoming fewer and fewer. The Eye of Stars released all consciousness and let them return to their original bodies.

The light spots sank into the trees, soil, stones, clouds...

As the starlight dimmed, everything was full of vitality again.

However, these animated creatures no longer seemed to be hostile to everything.

Everything became gentle.

The activated trees stopped moving, as if they were afraid of turning over the soil under them.

The activated air drifted quietly, no longer rolling up the destructive wind.

The activated soil and stones also returned to calm, as if they were sleeping, lying in the arms of their companions.

This sky island was completely alive, but it was as silent as death.

The Eye of Stars watched all this, and the starlight slowly turned into a relieved blue, calmly shrinking into a shining glass ball, floating into Zhou Chao's hands.

After losing the source of activation and being unable to continuously create consciousness, the Eye of Stars also lost its obsession with consciousness integration.

"Have you given up?" Zhou Chao asked curiously.

"Give up what?" The Eye of Stars in his hand asked back.

"Merge the consciousness of the whole world together."

"I know this is wrong, of course I have to give up." The Eye of Stars replied as a matter of course.

"But..." The Eye of Stars changed the subject: "Although this road is wrong, it does not mean that other roads cannot be taken."

"I wonder if the way I merge consciousness is too simple."

"Mix consciousness roughly together, just like letting two stars collide directly, and in the end it will only create a black hole that destroys everything and countless residues."

"But what if we use another method? I have always overlooked one point. As your captain said, there are gaps between stars. The dark void can make the shining of starlight more meaningful."

"But the void does not mean the real 'emptiness'. Those empty places also contain invisible gravitational waves and some untouchable dark matter. What we think of as 'nothing' is actually 'something'."

"The same is true for consciousness. It cannot be simply blended together. There needs to be a distance, and then there needs to be something in between, just like gravity, which can make consciousnesses influence and connect with each other."

"If you want to connect consciousness, you have to create a stable structure, just like the structure between molecules. Various forces fix consciousness and then make it into an extremely hard Matter."

"A large number of molecules can gather together to form solids or liquids, indicating that there is gravity between molecules, but there are gaps, and they are not tightly sucked together, indicating that there is repulsion between molecules, and the same is true for consciousness."

"Consciousness is mutually attractive and mutually repulsive. I forced the consciousness to compress and ignored the repulsion between them. This is wrong. Matter cannot be infinitely dense, and the same is true for consciousness."

"I can't be trapped on this empty island. There must be a stable consciousness connection structure in the abyss. I must see it with my own eyes..."

Listening to the words of the Eye of Stars, Zhou Chao couldn't help but sigh in his heart.

At this moment, he realized how deep the captain's understanding of the Eye of Stars was.

"Stubborn people" like the Eye of Stars cannot be completely defeated.

It can only completely block its way and tell it that this road is blocked, so that it will change its concept, and the captain used the collapse of his own consciousness to eliminate the last obsession of the Eye of Stars.

The Eye of Stars didn't really want to help humans, but humans could take it away from this empty island, and it could get in touch with more mysteries in the abyss through humans, so it would temporarily "surrender".

This was also the captain's calculation, to eat the Eye of Stars.

"During those lonely days, the captain must have thought for a long time, right?"

Thinking of this, Zhou Chao looked at the captain's motionless body again.

Although the captain's consciousness was gone, the light was still radiating.