I'm trapped in a block

Chapter 519: The Light of the Holy Sword

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

He looked at the holy sword that had accompanied him for a long time, feeling mixed emotions.

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

Anyone can do it, except him.

The captain also said that one cannot pull out the holy sword by oneself.

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

He stood among the dejected team members, holding the hilt of his sword, emptying his mind and 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 his way into the Death Swamp alone, and also of the captain who faced everything alone... Their courage seemed to surge into Zhou Chao's heart in an instant.

Consciousness does not need to be integrated to be able to empathize, and Zhou Chao truly felt those thoughts.

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

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

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

Then it got stuck.

The holy sword didn't move, and Zhou Chao almost fell to the ground because he used too much force.

There was a cracking sound at the joints of the arm, which could be heard by almost everyone present. The hand holding the hilt of the sword slipped out directly, leaving red marks all over the hand.

"Ah? Where's my courage? Where's my light?"

Zhou Chao stood there in a daze, holding the unresponsive holy sword.

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 a little worse than the captain's. When the captain is encouraging people, it's very natural, but you are a bit of a show."

"The main reason is that the sword-drawing at the end was too ugly. The atmosphere was pretty good at the beginning. Keep trying next time. But don't use the holy sword next time. If you can't draw it, you can't draw it. Don't try."

"Would you like to be my apprentice? I'll lend you my bottle cap, and you can turn clouds into rain with just a flip of your hand. That might be more impressive."

"..."

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

He seemed to need no courage to restore the confidence of his teammates.

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

However, the teammate raised his hand and shook it stiffly: "Our legs are just numb. We just returned to our bodies and felt like our whole bodies were not our own. We were a little slow in moving."

Hearing this, Zhou Chao smiled awkwardly again. He had underestimated his teammates' ability to endure.

Just as he was thinking about it, his teammates struggled to prop themselves up one by one and stood up shakily from the ground.

Zhou Chao hurried over to help and supported them.

"The mission continues!" the teammates said excitedly.

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

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

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

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 points of consciousness were becoming fewer and fewer. The Eye of the Stars released all consciousness and allowed them to return to their original bodies.

The light spots sank into the trees, soil, rocks, and clouds...

As the starlight dimmed, everything became full of life again.

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

Everything became gentle.

The animated trees stopped moving, as if they were afraid of disturbing the soil beneath them.

The activated air drifted quietly, no longer stirring up destructive winds.

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

This sky island has completely come alive, but it is also 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 its source of activation and becoming unable to continuously produce consciousness, the Eye of the Stars also lost its obsession with integrating consciousness.

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

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

"Bringing together the consciousness of the entire world."

"I know this is wrong, so of course I have to give up." Star Eyes replied as a matter of course.

"But..." Star Eyes changed the subject: "Although this path is wrong, it doesn't mean that there are other paths that cannot be taken."

"I wonder if the way I merged consciousness was too simple."

"To crudely combine consciousnesses is like to collide two stars directly, which will only create a black hole that destroys everything and countless debris."

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

"But the void does not mean the true 'emptiness'. In those empty places, there are invisible gravitational waves and some untouchable dark matter. What we think of as 'nothing' is actually 'something'."

"It's the same with consciousness. It can't be simply blended together. There needs to be some distance between them, and then there needs to be something in between, like gravity, which allows consciousness to influence and connect with each other."

"If we want to connect consciousness, we have to create a stable structure, just like the structure between molecules. Various forces will fix consciousness and then form an extremely hard substance."

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

"Consciousness attracts and repels each other. I forcibly compressed consciousness 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 feel a little sad.

At this moment, he realized how deeply the captain knew the Eye of the Star.

A "stubborn person" like the Eye of the Stars cannot be completely defeated.

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

The Eye of the Stars does not really want to assist humans. It only "surrenders" temporarily because humans can take it away from this sky island and it can access more mysteries in the abyss through humans.

This was also the captain's plan, to take advantage of the Eye of the Stars.

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

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

Although the captain's consciousness has disappeared, the light is still radiating.

(End of this chapter)