I'm trapped in a block

Chapter 488: Increased Awareness
"So, I've already been a corpse?"

The leader dropped his hands and gave a wry smile.

"Even the consciousness of a corpse can be enhanced?"

The consciousness that should have dissipated with the death of the body was stubbornly retained due to the strengthening of consciousness.

He was still able to control the corpse and think because of this remaining consciousness.

His guess was correct, his consciousness had been enhanced long ago, but it was only enhanced when he was a corpse.

When he fell, the gas mask on his face fell off. It was at this moment that active electrons rushed into his body, just preserving his consciousness that was about to dissipate.

After figuring out everything, the team leader just felt that it was fate that was playing tricks on him.

He died from electronic activation, but because of electronic activation he became a walking corpse.

"You can't even let people die peacefully." He sighed.

"But this way, I won't have to worry about anything."

The leader looked in the direction they came from and walked back calmly.

He planned to look for the bodies of his companions, so that he could at least take one last look at them.

He did not feel sad or painful. His consciousness after coming back to life was unexpectedly dull, and he truly felt like a "walking corpse".

Be indifferent to everything and fearless of everything.

"Slow, that's good."

Dragging his numb feet, the team leader slowly walked the same way he came.

Soon, he found a body on the ground.

The leader walked forward silently and removed the nameplate from the body.

"Thanks for your hard work."

He didn't stop, took the nameplate, and continued walking forward.

It wasn't long before the large force was discovered.

"It turns out that everyone was behind us. I didn't even notice it. It's my fault as the leader..."

He walked over to the bodies and calmly collected the nameplates.

Then, he placed the yellowed notebook next to the researcher.

"Thank you."

There was not much emotion in his heart. Seeing those corpses, he should have been extremely sad, but his heart had become numb along with his body.

"But why can I still feel heartache?"

The team leader covered his chest in confusion, and his heart, which had stopped beating, felt a slight pain. This pain, which should not exist in a corpse, actually appeared in him.

For a moment, he almost thought he was still alive.

However, he soon calmed down and silently wiped the tears from the corners of his eyes.

"It's an illusion again. How can I feel heartbroken over a dead body?"

He sorted out all the nameplates, held them in his hands, and continued walking inside.

Soon, he returned to the place where he discarded the relics.

However, it saw a strange creature standing there.

It looks very much like the antler orangutan on Sky Island, but is extremely thin, with a faint green glow all over its body, and covered with mysterious green markings, and surrounded by some light spots like fireflies.

Such a creature stood blankly in front of the relics discarded by the transport team, motionless.

Seeing such a scene, the team leader should have been scared, but at this time he had long lost his normal emotions.

He simply paused for a moment, hung all the collected nameplates around his neck, and walked directly towards the green creature.

"what are you?"

A silent word came out from the somewhat dry throat.

The green creature heard the leader's question and turned to look at him.

"what are you?"

The exact same sound came from its green-glowing head.

"I'm human."

"I'm human."

The green creature once again mimicked the leader's words.

Not only that, as it spoke, the small dots of light around it began to merge into its body, and then its body actually began to shrink, slowly turning into the appearance of a human. The leader was also very familiar with its face, as if it was his own face.

If it weren't for the lingering green light, the team leader would even think that there was another him standing opposite him.

Faced with such a strange scene, his heart remained very calm.

He frowned, and the other person frowned too.

For some reason, as they got closer to this strange creature, the leader's sense of smell, which had completely failed, suddenly recovered a little.

He smelled a familiar scent on the creature in front of him.

"The smell of rust."

And it was a strong smell of rust, even stronger than when he was alive.

"Did you do everything on this sky island?" the team leader asked bluntly.

The creature just happened to appear on the scene, and with the strong smell of rust, he had no reason not to suspect it.

Not only that, the team leader had an extremely strong feeling that the activation of this island had a lot to do with the strange creature in front of him that was imitating him.

This time, the green creature did not imitate the leader's words, but just looked at him in confusion.

"Did I do all this?" it asked back in the voice of a leader.

This was nothing short of a mockery in the eyes of the team leader. Thinking of his dead team members, his already numb heart began to tremble again.

"I don't know what you are, but everything you have done to mankind will be returned double."

After hearing this, the green creature tilted its head, acting like a leader.

"Everything that man has done will be repaid double."

"..."

The leader didn't want to pay any more attention to the creature's nonsense.

He walked directly to the discarded relics and took out one of them.

It was a ball of pitch-black mud. After taking out this relic, the team leader began to knead the black mud in his hand while staring at the strange creature.

Soon, he molded the black mud into a human figure.

The black mud also slowly squirmed and turned into the appearance of the leader.

After everything was ready, the team leader grabbed the black mud man's left leg and pulled it off.

The moment the black mud man's left leg was torn off, the green creature's left leg also disappeared instantly.

It suddenly lost its balance and fell straight to the ground.

The leader's left leg also completely disappeared, but he had already anticipated such an outcome and continued standing on one leg.

The creature lay on the ground, still kicking its legs.

The leader looked at the creature, made up his mind, and tore off Heini's left hand.

This time, both he and the creature's left hand disappeared in an instant.

The strange creature was still twitching on the ground, but it had no expression on its face and its eyes were fixed on the leader.

"The last step..."

The leader held the black mud man with his only remaining right hand. The reason he chose this relic was to die together with this strange creature.

For some reason, as the smell of rust became stronger, the team leader became more certain that the creature before them was the culprit of the activation.

“My connection to it is deepening.”

He didn't know whether his body and consciousness would become puppets of this strange creature. Right now, the best option was to die completely.

"Let me take one more with me before I die."

The team leader looked down at the nameplate on his chest, on which was written the name of each member of the transport team.

They came here together and should leave together.

"I'm here, everyone."

The leader opened his mouth and bit the black mud man's head hard.

Click!

The black mud man's head and body were separated in an instant, and the leader's headless body also staggered to the ground.

And the headless green creature was still kicking its legs on the ground.

(End of this chapter)