I'm trapped in a block

Chapter 517 End of Screening
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 shadows. The brown filter became lighter and lighter, and the picture was completely disrupted, becoming a mess of shadows.

The rotation of the roulette wheel slowed down again and stopped completely with a creaking sound.

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

"My consciousness is collapsing and becoming a void."

The cloudy lens turned toward the Eye of the Stars again.

"I'm not lying to you. The convergence of consciousness will eventually lead to collapse, just like stars. There is gravity between consciousnesses. If they get too close, they will only collide and then fall into an unknown abyss together."

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

The starlight of the Star Eye flickered a few times, and was somewhat stunned: "How could this happen?"

The captain sighed: "We are all using limited knowledge to speculate about the world. There must be a reason why the world does not allow consciousness to be united. Don't try to break those rules that have existed for a long time. They may be the cornerstone of the world. Any behavior that touches these rules will lead to chaos and disorder..."

For some reason, the captain suddenly started talking about theories about the world and cornerstones. As his consciousness collapsed, he seemed to have realized something.

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

"Okay." The Eye of Stars was convinced. It no longer obsessed with the unattainable ideal and agreed to the captain's orders obediently.

"Zhou Chao..." the captain suddenly shouted.

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

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

But the captain seemed to see through his thoughts.

"Live well."

The captain said these four words to him calmly. His hoarse voice was like the sound of a roulette wheel clicking together, and it no longer had the ethereal feeling it had 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 and fell completely silent.

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

The animated relics stopped it immediately.

"What do you want to do to Lord Ying!" Their address still did not change.

"I want to save him, I want to save him! His consciousness is breaking!" said the Eye of the Stars anxiously.

Hearing this, the animated relics half-believingly stepped aside, and the Eye of the Stars also rushed into the projector.

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

"Disorder! Consciousness is disordered, but the foundations that combine together are orderly. Why? We are not the electric current that converges, we are the chaotic fragments under the electric current! Are we just a pile of garbage?"

Star Eye was like a madman, talking nonsense non-stop. He seemed to have seen something terrible in the projector.

"What's wrong with Lord Ying?" The animated relics rushed over and asked.

"It collapsed... shattered... turned into a ball..." The Eye of Stars said some incomprehensible words, the red light kept flashing, and the starry sky became chaotic.

"No! I want to go take another look!"

As he spoke, he rushed into the projector again.

This time, after 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..."

A roll of film was floating in the starry sky, and the blurry light and shadows on the film kept shaking.

"This is the only thing left." Star Eye slowly placed the roll of film into Zhou Chao's hand.

"What is this?" Zhou Chao held the film, at a loss.

"Fragments, collapsed residues, remnants of consciousness..." Star Eye used many words to describe this roll of film.

Zhou Chao also understood immediately that this was the only thing the captain had left. "Can he return to his body?" Zhou Chao asked.

"No, this is incomplete and cannot be used as consciousness." The Eye of the Stars replied helplessly.

After hearing this answer, Zhou Chao stared at the film in his hand in a daze for a long time.

Only then did he realize that the captain had already predicted his demise, which was why he played that final 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 human or non-human, as long as he was alive and well.

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

Zhou Chao no longer worried about whether he was the real "Zhou Chao". His mind recalled the scenes in which the captain had taken care of him. He could no longer hold back his tears and they flowed from his eyes.

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

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

"Zhou Dynasty..."

Feeling something strange about the holy sword in his hand, Li Luo walked 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 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 animated relics seemed very resistant and unwilling to cooperate.

Seeing this, Zhou Chao shouted his teammates' names loudly again.

"Lin Wang!"

"Zhou Tieshu!"

"Li Yilian!"

"..."

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

The captain always called the roll very loudly. Zhou Chao used to complain about the captain so much that he almost made his ears deaf.

But this time, he shouted louder than the captain.

When he called out these names in person, 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 have found themselves the moment they heard their names. They stayed where they were obediently, allowing the Eye of Stars to take them back to their original bodies.

Driven by the starlight, spots of light flew out of the relics and towards the bodies that were frozen in place.

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

But in the end, the name was called out:

"Continuous screening!"

After calling out the name, Zhou Chao looked at the film in his hand hopefully.

However, the result was bound to disappoint him, the film showed no reaction.

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

"Live well……"

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

(End of this chapter)