I'm trapped in a block

Chapter 499 Understanding
"From then on, the captain would not let any team member go to the back." Zhou Chao said with some nostalgia.

Li Luo nodded blankly: "That 'Li Mingfu' is also one of your team members, but he was 'stolen', right?"

"Yes." Zhou Chao sighed: "He is 52 years old. He entered the abyss very early. At that time, he didn't need to have a relic to enter the second floor."

"He doesn't have any special skills. He is usually very quiet in the team and doesn't like to talk to young people like us."

"Every time we explore Sky Island, he always likes to walk at the back, saying that he can see every team member. But in fact, we all know that the back of the team is the most dangerous. He just puts himself in the most dangerous position..."

"It is precisely because no one can see him that he was 'stolen' and forgotten by us. If it were not for the records, we would have even forgotten him completely."

"Since then, the captain has only walked at the back of the team, and only changes position and rushes to the front when encountering an enemy."

"Although the captain never told anyone, I know that he must have felt very guilty. He felt guilty for forgetting about 'Li Mingfu' and for not being the last one to leave at that time..."

After Zhou Chao finished telling this story, Li Luo also understood his judgment.

The "captain" walking in front now doesn't seem to care about "who walks at the end".

Appearance and voice can be faked, but human experience cannot be faked. That incident was the captain's heart knot, and he shouldn't have forgotten it so easily.

"That's not the captain..." Zhou Chao said with some disappointment.

Then, Zhou Chao pointed at a team member in front.

"That's not Awang either. Awang wouldn't carry a backpack on his back."

"why?"

"Because we have been to an empty island before. There is a kind of octopus on that empty island. It will quietly stick to the back of a creature, then pierce its tentacles into the creature's brain and suck out the brain."

"Awang is the logistics officer of the team. His backpack is filled with all kinds of things, so his backpack is always the largest in our team. The octopus thought he was the fattest prey, so it kept attacking him."

"Although the octopuses were killed, Awang no longer carried his backpack on his back. He would rather hold it in front of him or in his hands."

Listening to Zhou Chao's explanation, Li Luo was confused: "Won't that affect the activities?"

You should know that these transport backpacks are very large. If you hold them in front of you or carry them in your hands, it will be a heavy burden.

Zhou Chao shook his head. "Perhaps that incident left a huge shadow on him. It is said that the octopus's tentacles had already pierced his skull at that time. If it had gone any further, it would have turned his brain into a paste."

"Awang's relic can enhance his strength, so no matter where he puts the backpack, he can bear it, so he doesn't care much about it."

"So, that's not Awang either."

"I see." Li Luo nodded.

The team member in front, called "Awang", carried his backpack on his back very properly, and there was no sign of anything unusual.

"Is there anything else you can find?" Li Luo asked in a low voice.

The two had been talking at the back of the team, but the team members in the front didn't react at all. They moved forward on their own, passing through the starlit forest, and seemed very anxious.

"There's something wrong with Tie Ge too. His relics don't seem to be effective." Zhou Chao said puzzledly as he looked at a sturdy man in front of him.

"What is the effect of his relic?" "It can make the body have an excess of iron without causing any adverse reactions. It can also use this iron to make the body stronger."

"With the amount of iron in his body, a normal person would have gone into shock and coma, or died of liver failure, but that relic allowed his body to remain stable with high iron levels."

"However, the price of this relic is that he must maintain the iron content in his body. If he lacks iron, he will immediately become anemic and faint and fall to the ground."

“So he has to eat foods that contain iron all the time.”

"Eating all the time?" Li Luo asked in confusion.

"Yes, he has to take iron every twenty minutes, or at most half an hour, but for convenience, he will only take some iron supplements or lozenges. These things are easy to carry and absorb quickly."

"But I haven't seen Brother Tie replenish his iron element for such a long time. His relics don't seem to be effective..."

Zhou Chao observed Tie Ge carefully. Tie Ge had been busy on the road and indeed had not replenished his iron intake on time.

Logically speaking, Tie Ge should have suffered from anemia long time without supplementing iron, but now he is still walking briskly and does not look like a person with anemia at all.

"Because he needs to replenish iron regularly, Tie Ge often touches his pockets to check whether he has enough medicine. He also develops the habit of checking the time. If he is not allowed to check the time, he will be very anxious."

"But now Tie Ge not only didn't touch his pocket, but also kept looking forward. If it were the old him, he would have fallen into anxiety a long time ago."

"There is only one possibility, Tie Ge is also fake."

Zhou Chao expressed his judgment very confidently.

These familiar teammates are just for show and do not have the "habits" they should have.

Zhou Chao knew his teammates very well. If he had just made a "sixth sense" judgment at the beginning, now he had solid evidence. Every piece of evidence showed that Zhou Chao's intuition was not wrong:
This group of familiar teammates are fake.

"What do they want to do?"

Zhou Chao was a little worried. These fake teammates were so anxious to bring him and Li Luo to the depths of the starlight, it might be a trap.

Thinking of this, Zhou Chao couldn't help but slow down his pace.

But when he remembered that his original destination was also the Starlight Center, he mustered up his courage again.

"No matter what, we have to go inside and see what happened in the center of the starlight. More importantly..." Zhou Chao looked at his teammates in front of him and clenched his fists: "I want to find out what is impersonating you."

In the increasingly dazzling starlight forest, the fake team members moved faster and faster, and their movements became more and more distorted.

Gradually, they became like a group of hungry beasts, rushing towards the center in unison.

If they hadn't been waiting for Li Luo and Zhou Chao behind them, they would have rushed to the finish line long ago.

Seeing that Li Luo and Zhou Chao were still hesitating, the "captain" turned around, his eyes were bloodshot, his brows were furrowed, and he made anxious gasps in his throat.

"Hurry up, hurry up... hurry up..."

The originally elegant and easy-going captain became a little incoherent, trying his best to suppress his inner urgency, but he seemed to be worried that the two would notice that something was wrong with him, so he immediately turned his head back.

(End of this chapter)