I'm trapped in a block

Chapter 498 Intuition and Heart

"The last time I came here, the starlight wasn't this bright... At that time, although there were many stars in the sky, the starlight couldn't reach the forest. It could only shine in a little through the gaps between the ancient trees."

"You said, if the Eye of the Stars had already appeared when humans first set foot on this sky island a long time ago, then why was there no Star Forest when we installed the beacon?" Zhou Chao said in confusion.

"What was it like here at that time?" Li Luo asked.

"There are a lot of trees and a lot of stars in the sky, that's all. We walked into the forest and installed the beacon. During the process, we encountered attacks from some animated creatures, but we defeated them easily..." Zhou Chao recalled as he talked about the experience of the investigation team's first entry into the central forest.

After installing the beacon, the investigation team quickly left, and Zhou Chao escaped from the central area alone and went to the edge of the sky island.

"Why do you think they are fake?" Li Luo asked in a low voice.

"I..." Zhou Chao paused: "I'm afraid you don't believe it, but I just feel that they are fake. This is my intuition."

"Although I have only been in the investigation team for a short time, I have experienced many adventures with my teammates. We have been to many sky islands together and encountered more critical situations. They are like family to me."

"But now they in front of us don't feel like family."

“They are like puppets speaking familiar words, just puppets of their loved ones.”

"I can feel that I am not in their hearts."

Having said this, Zhou Chao paused and sighed.

"I don't know if I can trust this sixth sense."

Zhou Chao was very conflicted. He knew that this strange sixth sense was brought by this starry forest, but this feeling kept reminding him that these familiar teammates in front of him were not "real".

"Do you think I should believe this feeling?"

Zhou Chao looked at Li Luo and asked in a conflicted manner.

Li Luo did not answer directly, but asked: "What else?"

"What else?"

"Besides the feelings, what else do you feel? Feelings can be expressed through the body. Since you can't trust your sixth sense, use your eyes to see, your ears to hear, your smell to smell, and your touch to touch them..."

Li Luo's words made Zhou Chao suddenly wake up.

"Yup!"

He looked at the team in front of him and suddenly thought of something.

Then he mustered up his courage, walked forward and came to the captain's side.

"Captain, aren't you going to be at the back?"

"Am I not already the last one in line?" the captain asked doubtfully.

Zhou Chao shook his head: "No, I mean walk behind everyone."

Zhou Chao pointed at himself and Li Luo.

The captain was stunned when he saw this: "It's okay, you guys want to discuss something, I won't disturb you."

"Okay." Zhou Chao nodded, stepped back and returned to Li Luo's side.

After coming back, he remained silent, as if he was recalling something.

After a while, he spoke again.

"That's not the captain..."

"Why?" Li Luo asked. She also heard the conversation between Zhou Chao and the captain and didn't think there was anything strange.

"Because the captain said that no one will be allowed to go behind..."

Zhou Chao and Li Luo talked about a past event.

……

That happened when Zhou Chao just joined the Sky Island Investigation Team.

At that time, Zhou Chao was a young and fearless man, and he often did dangerous things, so the captain ordered him to stay by his side and not run around.

"Follow me and don't be curious about everything you see. It's dangerous!" the captain warned him earnestly.

But at that time, Zhou Chao did not understand the captain's thoughts and felt that this would limit his performance.

They were exploring a dangerous new sky island where a strange phenomenon was occurring - objects were disappearing for unknown reasons.

Their mission is to build a beacon while investigating this strange phenomenon.

However, when they finished building the beacon and even debugging the signal, they did not encounter any disappearance incidents. However, things were not that simple, and someone in the team soon discovered that his backpack had become much lighter.

He opened his backpack and checked it, and found that many things had disappeared inexplicably.

What's even more terrifying is that he can't remember what that thing is.

"Search your transaction list and material distribution records to see what is lost." After the captain learned about this, he immediately gave the order.

At the same time, he ordered all team members to check whether anything they were carrying was missing.

Soon, by comparing various records, the team members found the corresponding missing objects.

Canned food, drinks, observation equipment, weapons and ammunition... everything is available.

Not only that, but someone lost something very important.

"My relics are lost!"

He saw a relic in the distribution record, but it was not in his backpack, and he couldn't remember it until he saw the record and realized what he had lost.

After learning about this situation, the captain immediately understood that this disappearance was not only aimed at objects, but could even target the memories of the object's owners.

"It's like stealing an object and also stealing the memory, making it impossible for people to find out..."

The captain thought for a moment and began to ask the team members where the lost items were placed.

The team members' answers were varied, including in backpacks, pockets, insoles...

There was even a team member who replied: "Captain, my underwear is lost..."

"Underwear? Do you put them in your backpack?"

"No, I was wearing it and I just felt it was a little cold... I touched it for a long time before I realized something was wrong." The team member scratched his head and said embarrassedly.

Listening to all these strange answers, the captain finally found a common point.

He immediately asked the team members: "Do you have anything that was placed where you can see it but is lost?"

The team members looked at each other and shook their heads.

Now, the captain finally confirmed his guess:
"Only things that cannot be seen will disappear!"

Whether it's a backpack, pocket, or even underwear, it's out of sight.

Thinking of this, the captain immediately asked the team members to release the monitoring equipment, fly high into the sky, and watch the entire team.

He had a bad feeling in his heart.

The captain took out an electronic screen and, with some trembling, clicked through the team list, naming each place one by one.

"To!"

"To!"

"To!"

With each response, the captain felt relieved.

However, when the last name was called, there was no response.

The captain looked at the unfamiliar name and clicked on the information with some trembling.

"Li Mingfu, 52 years old, has been a member of the Sky Island Investigation Team for years, responsible for recording and compiling data..."

"Relics: None."

"Specialties: None."

The information in his hand was extremely unfamiliar, and the captain had no recollection of ever having such a person in the team.

"Do you know Li Mingfu?" he asked the team members who were looking at each other in confusion.

"do not know."

"do not know……"

"Sounds familiar, like the naughty kid next door to me..."

The team members were talking at once, and none of them had any impression of the team member named "Li Mingfu".

It was as if he had never existed.

(End of this chapter)