I'm trapped in a block

Chapter 520 Ways to Leave

"Is that so? Don't make the mistake..."

"I was the one who installed the beacon, how could I have made a mistake!"

Several team members were tinkering with the beacon. After sorting everything out, the investigation team was discussing how to leave the sky island.

"The beacon's departure function requires the captain's authorization..."

"Don't worry about that. Isn't the beacon already activated? Why don't you talk to it?"

"is that useful?"

"Would you like to know if you try it?"

So, several team members started talking to the beacon again.

"Beacon, please enable the start function."

"reject."

"Why refuse? You've seen the current situation."

"Insufficient authority, the launch function cannot be enabled..." the beacon said rigidly, but not long after, it changed the subject: "It is recommended to use the emergency escape function..."

Hearing this, several team members' eyes lit up.

"Oh, right, why didn't we think of this? Then let's activate the emergency escape function." The team members hurriedly said to the beacon.

"The sky island environment has been confirmed, the emergency escape function has been activated, and a distress signal has been sent to the monitoring station..."

The beacon muttered as the tall signal tower slowly spun.

The complicated-looking operating table suddenly opened with a click, and a black device popped out from the bottom.

After seeing the device, several team members shouted out in excitement.

"coming!"

"It's no problem now!"

They couldn't wait to move the black device that looked like a box to the open space and began to adjust its position.

Li Luo on the side was completely confused.

"What are they doing?" Li Luo asked Zhou Chao.

"There needs to be enough space for positioning, etc...."

Zhou Chao's answer made Li Luo even more confused.

However, she soon understood the purpose of the black box.

After putting the box away, the team members moved away and came to the beacon's operating table to operate it. The box in the distance suddenly opened, and a white balloon floated out from the top of the box.

At the same time, the box at the bottom began to change and stretch like a building block, and it didn't take long before it turned into a long boat shape.

The white balloon was also slowly expanding, gradually floating higher and higher, pulling up the black ship below and hanging it in the air.

"Is this... an airship?"

"That's right." Zhou Chao nodded: "You haven't seen it?"

Li Luo also nodded: "I've only seen it in history books."

"Everything in that box is made of special materials. The balloon is made of special shrinkable fibers. Inside is a special gas that can float in the turbulence of the sky island. The black pod is also made of the same special alloy as the beacon..."

Zhou Chao introduced the still-expanding airship with great pride.

"There are many reasons why airships have been eliminated... high cost, low speed, large size, high risk, and the emergence of aircraft has completely replaced them."

"However, on the fourth floor of the abyss, airships are the most commonly used means of transportation. Due to the development of technology, airships can be carried easily and their safety has been greatly improved..."

Listening to Zhou Chao's introduction, Li Luo nodded in understanding.

She thought of many ways to leave the Sky Island, but she didn't expect that the one she would end up using would be this type of transportation that had already appeared in human history.

However, as she watched the slowly growing airship, Li Luo also discovered something that puzzled her:

"What about the propulsion device?"

The airship that was unfolding in front of him looked more like a hot air balloon without a blowtorch. Apart from the white airbag and the black enclosed pod, Li Luo did not see any other parts, nor any device that could provide power. Hearing Li Luo's question, Zhou Chao kept it a secret.

"You'll know in a moment. If I tell you too early, it won't be a surprise enough..."

Not long after, the airship stopped expanding, and the balloon above it slowly turned into an elliptical strip, looking exactly like the airship in the book.

However, the entire airship is not large and is very delicate, but it is enough to carry all the members of the investigation team.

After the pod was fully deployed, the team members began to spontaneously carry the luggage upwards.

"Someone come and help! Let's carry the captain's body up!"

"What nonsense are you talking about? It's 'body'! Not 'corpse'!"

"I'm sorry, I'm sorry..."

Several team members moved the captain to the shrinking stretcher they found from the beacon and lifted him onto the airship's gondola.

Strangely enough, the captain's body remained active, as if he was asleep and might wake up in the next second.

The members of the investigation team present also felt that their bodies were full of energy. Logically speaking, they should have died long ago as they had not eaten for a long time, but now they felt extremely normal.

Ask the Eye of the Stars, and it explains that this is a protection mechanism.

In order to allow the bodies to be used normally, these unconscious bodies will be "preserved and activated" to a certain extent so that they will not rot like corpses.

The team members didn't care too much about the principle behind this. It was a blessing that they could still move normally. The specific physical condition would be carefully checked after returning to the monitoring station.

"Hurry up and go up. Once the balloon is fully inflated, it will rise into the air." Zhou Chao urged.

"Okay." Li Luo responded and walked onto the pod with the cube.

……

The tall signal tower was spinning, making a faint buzzing sound, as if saying goodbye to everyone. The team members looked at the ground getting farther and farther away, filled with mixed emotions.

"It feels like a dream, swimming in the ocean of consciousness, gradually becoming chaotic, and then being pulled out and stuffed into a crowded relic. My thoughts have become extremely dull..."

“It’s a little unreal.”

"Yeah, if it weren't for the captain, we would have continued to sink, right?"

Speaking of the captain, the pod fell silent again.

They would laugh and tease Zhou Chao, and even the captain's "corpse", but these were all ways to suppress their sadness and divert their attention to other things.

But true sadness cannot be avoided, and the pain buried deep in the heart will always be exposed in an instant.

The airship rose higher and higher, rising into the clouds. Through the thin mist, everything on the sky island below was in full view:

Outside the central forest that has lost its starlight, there are countless fallen ancient trees.

The circular areas left by "garbage cleaning" can be seen everywhere on the Sky Island.

These are all traces left by the captain...

The brown filter no longer exists, but what Master Ying did has completely transformed this sky island.

"This is the height of the lens..." someone in the team suddenly said.

“You can see everything clearly from here.”

The airship rose to the location where Lord Ying was originally located, and the members of the investigation team saw again everything that the captain had seen.

"It's high, but not that high..."

The sky island that had imprisoned them for half a year was floating quietly in the clouds, getting farther and farther away from them. When they looked at the sky island from a distance, everything on it became extremely small, as if nothing was so important.

But those familiar things are proving that they have been here and existed.

A thin cloud obscured the view. This sky island was no different from other sky islands. If it were not for the activated pollution, it would be just an ordinary boulder floating in the clouds.

The altitude here is no different from that of other sky islands.

However, there used to be a projector gazing at the earth.

(End of this chapter)