I'm trapped in a block

Chapter 478 Weird Battlefield
The two had not walked far when something strange appeared in front of them.

"It seems like there was a big battle here."

Zhou Chao squatted down and looked at the marks on the ground.

There were strange marks all over the ground, some of which looked like claw marks left by some wild beast, some like battle marks left by weapons, and some footprints that could not be identified as to what kind of creature they were.

Not only that, the forest ahead seemed to have been cut in half by something sharp.

Some of the trees were stuck crookedly in the soil, while others had all their branches cut off, leaving only a bare trunk.

There was a strange and solemn atmosphere in the air, and broken leaves and debris were flying all over the sky. Zhou Chao gently caught one and looked at it for a moment.

"Is this... metal?"

Confused, he handed the fragment to Li Luo, who took it curiously.

"It is indeed metal, very small pieces of metal."

This is a bad omen. The presence of metal means that there must have been some kind of civilization here before.

"Look, there are a lot of such fragments in the mud." Zhou Chao pointed to a location in front, where some broken metal fragments were faintly buried in the mud.

"Do you smell anything?" Zhou Chao suddenly asked.

"Rust. A strong smell of rust."

Li Luo answered without hesitation. This smell filled her nostrils since she entered the forest.

The breeze on the sky island blew on the two of them, but the strong smell of rust made them feel an inexplicable sense of oppression.

Zhou Chao walked forward cautiously and pulled out a piece of metal debris from the mud.

The fragments were covered with thick rust and were beyond recognition. It was impossible to tell what they were originally, but the shape could still be barely discerned.

"What is this? It feels so familiar."

Zhou Chao held the fragment and felt like he had seen it somewhere.

Just then, Li Luo walked up to him and recognized him at a glance.

“This is a hairpin.”

After hearing Li Luo's reminder, Zhou Chao suddenly realized.

"No wonder it feels so familiar..."

However, after knowing that it was a hairpin, Zhou Chao became even more nervous, because hairpins are very standard human creations.

"Why are there hairpins? Are there other humans?"

Zhou Chao was holding the rusty hairpin, his thoughts a little confused. He walked forward and dug out other metal fragments from the mud.

Hairpins, pins, razor blades...

These objects that are extremely common in human society actually appear in the sparsely populated Sky Island Forest.

"Are you sure that the investigation team is the first group of humans to arrive on this sky island?" Li Luo asked puzzledly as he looked at these objects.

"Of course! I remember very clearly that when we came to this sky island, we carried out beacon positioning and confirmed that this sky island had never been recorded by anyone. Not only this island, but all the nearby sky islands are unexplored areas." Zhou Chao said very confidently.

"Each island on the fourth floor of the Abyss where a beacon has been placed has a number. The number of this island was determined later."

Li Luo pondered for a moment and asked, "Could it be that there are other hunters who have come to this sky island but were wiped out and did not send any information?" Zhou Chao was stunned after hearing Li Luo's question.

"possible……"

Then, he suddenly asked Li Luo, "Didn't you come to the fourth floor through the official synchronization device?"

"How did you know?" Li Luo was a little surprised. She had never told Zhou Chao about this.

“It’s easy to know because the location you arrive in is so special.”

Zhou Chao slowly explained to Li Luo:

"The official synchronization device will not randomly throw hunters onto an island. There will be a special island to receive hunters who reach the fourth floor. After all, most of the hunters who can reach the fourth floor are elite, and the official does not want to cause casualties due to inexplicable situations."

Although there are many synchronous channels from the third floor to the fourth floor, humans have been able to create fixed "landing points" so that hunters passing through the channels can reach the designated sky island.

"And you came to this sky island for no apparent reason. It must be because you are not using an official synchronization device."

"There are many such synchronous channels on the third layer of the abyss. Some are formed naturally, and some are built by other civilizations. The landing points of these synchronous channels are sometimes fixed, and some may be synchronized to strange places."

"So, I am so sure that you came to the fourth floor through an unofficial synchronization device..."

Listening to Zhou Chao's judgment, Li Luo nodded.

But Zhou Chao didn't finish. He looked at those strange little objects and proposed a possibility.

"Humans were not able to create a synchronization device with a fixed landing point from the beginning. In the beginning, the first group of humans who came to the fourth floor also used the synchronization device that came with the abyss to enter the fourth floor. Their landing points were also random."

"At that time, of course, there were no beacons for positioning, and all the information about the sky island was in chaos. People could only move forward in the dark."

"Do you think it's possible that these objects were left behind by humans at that time?"

"They happened to land on this empty island, left these things behind, and then left. Because there was no beacon at that time, they completely forgot about the island..."

"But why would they leave so many items here?"

"Could it be that they were transporting supplies?" Li Luo guessed, "They encountered some danger and had to abandon these supplies..."

"That must be the case!" Zhou Chao seemed to be enlightened after hearing Li Luo's words. He said excitedly, "Maybe there was already activated pollution at that time, but humans at that time were unable to cope with such a situation, so they had to abandon the supplies and flee from here!"

"Could this battlefield be the one left behind by the previous humans fighting on Sky Island?"

Zhou Chao walked to the strange traces, looked at them carefully, then came to the broken trees and touched them with his hands.

However, after some observation, he became confused again. "These traces are new... This battle happened not long ago."

This completely contradicted his guess.

The debris left on the battlefield is all old, some even rusted beyond recognition, but the traces of battle are new. How could there be such a contradiction?

"Could it be caused by some kind of activated organism?" Li Luo guessed.

"Very likely." Zhou Chao looked at this strange battlefield and nodded.

However, neither of them noticed that in the distance blocked by the ruins, an invisible sharp blade suddenly chopped through a big tree, splitting the tree in half in an instant.

Immediately afterwards, several claw marks appeared out of nowhere on the broken tree trunk, completely turning the fallen tree into pieces.

There seems to be a group of invisible enemies on this battlefield...

(End of this chapter)