I'm trapped in a block

Chapter 514 Unfinished Business

"It's over..."

When the captain realized something was wrong, the starlight had already squeezed open his eyelids and 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 around unconsciously, being used as bait by Xingguang.

"They're all fake..." The captain understood instantly 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 felt extremely guilty that as a captain, he had made such a low-level mistake.

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

However, this feeling soon disappeared, and along with it, the control over my body.

He actually turned into a point of light 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 all around, the captain felt that he could not just sit there and wait for death.

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

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

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

"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 what I feel, you will understand. You are too defensive now. You need to let go of your defenses and feel the surroundings. Then you will know how beautiful this starry sky is..."

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

"Mental defense?"

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

He remained alert, moving closer to the stars around him.

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

They are all creatures or animated beings from the Sky Island. They had their consciousness stripped away by the Eye of the Stars and came here.

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

“When we form a community of consciousness, everything in the world can serve as our body. At that time, everyone will feel the same way, and there will be no more struggles or conflicts…”

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

Although it looks very beautiful, it is all an illusion.

Most of the light spots here have been abandoned. Since it has come to this, we might as well join in the fusion. As long as the fusion reaches a certain level, we can return to the original shell.

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

"Of course I can go back, but there's a high chance that I won't be able to return to my original body."

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

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

But right now, the most important thing is to find his lost teammates. In the ocean of consciousness, the most effective way to find other points of light is "consciousness resonance", that is, "empathy".

Nothing is more efficient than the transmission of thoughts.

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

The captain was at a loss as it was his duty as captain to ensure the safety of his team members, but doing so would allow the enemy to succeed, so he was in a dilemma.

"What will happen when consciousness merges?" he asked the other spots of light.

"You will lose yourself, forget who you are, become indifferent, and become dulled by the shock of those thoughts. Your thoughts will become more and more 'broad'. You will only look at things from the perspective of 'all beings', and slowly forget your feelings for 'individuals'."

The spots of light answered the captain selflessly.

Just like what the Eye of the Stars said, the consciousness here seemed to have no distinction between friend and foe, and they all trusted each other very much. Even if they knew what the captain wanted to do, they would still answer his questions without reservation.

This allowed him to find another breakthrough point.

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

"Of course." The light replied.

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

"No problem. I feel the same way as you do. Of course I will follow your wishes and won't make you sad. Since you don't want it to happen, let's not let it happen."

A trace of guilt flashed through the captain's heart, but it quickly disappeared.

"Let's merge and feel the same."

“I feel the same way…”

The two spots of light met together. They completely let down their guard and exchanged their thoughts with each other. The spot of light also gave up all of its self as it promised, allowing the captain's consciousness to take over 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. And I am just a piece of activated stone. I don't have any dreams, and my life has no meaning. Even if I let 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 watch the ebb and flow of the tide. Isn't this what you want?"

When the two were integrated with each other, the captain also understood the other party's expectations. It was just such a simple idea, but it made him feel extremely sad.

Stone has no chance to realize such a dream.

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

"Beautiful sunsets, the ebb and flow of the tide, the mountains, the desert, and close friends..."

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

“It would be a shame if I couldn’t watch it again.”

The stone kept muttering, and its voice became fainter and fainter, and then it could no longer be heard.

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

The captain gained everything from the stone, but also lost the stone.

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

(End of this chapter)