I'm trapped in a block

Chapter 503 Empathy
For some reason, when the voice spoke those calm words, Zhou Chao could actually feel a sense of helplessness and loss.

It wasn't directed at him, but rather a sigh for the current situation.

Zhou Chao was stunned. Just like what the voice said, he was always on guard against these light spots and sounds. He always divided into different camps and had to distinguish between enemies and friends. He could not completely trust these light spots that enveloped him.

And of course he couldn't let go of the barriers in his heart.

"You can listen carefully to everyone's troubles. You don't need to empathize with them, nor do you need to share their concerns. You just need to listen."

After the voice said this, it regained its composure.

The starlight was squeezed together, and the consciousness in the glass ball was shaking. Zhou Chao suddenly realized that he had never carefully understood these spots of light.

These spots of light are consciousnesses, and perhaps they were once lives. Why do they gather here?
Zhou Chao's heart loosened a little, and he also felt a memory.

This memory comes from a tiny dot of light not far away. The consciousness of that dot of light is pure and simple, and it has no defenses at all, so it can easily feel everything about it.

……

Activated soil is the most common type of activated material on this sky island.

And this memory comes from a ball of activated clay.

That spot of light is also a consciousness that activates the soil.

Just as the voice said, any consciousness has troubles, and living clay certainly has them too.

It was born in a forest full of war, and its daily life is a constant battle with various animated creatures.

The animated trees will turn the soil out of the earth, the animated air will gather together to form a tornado, rolling up everything on the ground, and those more terrifying animated creatures will erode them silently.

Activate light, activate darkness, activate corruption...

Since their birth, animated creatures have been in endless struggles. Their active consciousness needs to be vented, and they want to destroy other "living things" in order to understand where their own "activity" comes from.

Just like a baby touching a mirror for the first time, they look at the "living thing" in the mirror, not knowing what it is, but their consciousness is stimulated by the same resonance, and they therefore understand what "self" is.

Animated creatures attack other living things simply to find themselves.

They cannot understand their own existence and do not know what they are.

They also have no mirrors and can only curiously stretch out their clumsy hands toward those equally "active" things.

They don't know the specific strength, what is "touch" and what is "destruction".

Wars began and never end.

The activated soil is in pain. It doesn't know why it is fighting, and it doesn't know what the meaning of fighting all day is.

So, it has been looking for ways to end the war.

Until it came to the Starlight Forest.

It squirmed its body and wandered in the starlight, allowing the light spots to fall on it. Its consciousness also entered the ocean of consciousness along with the starlight with infinite attraction.

It was here that it encountered other spots of light, and only then did it realize that they were all the same thing.

No matter what the body is, whether it is animated soil or animated trees, inside them is just a piece of consciousness.

Cats and mice, birds and insects, are nothing more than cages of consciousness.

Their bodies fought out of biological instinct and destroyed each other out of the confusion of the animated beings, but their consciousness held no hatred.

If you can empathize with others, how can there be any hatred?

When two spots of light come together, they become a new consciousness. They are twin sisters who are no different from you and me. They embrace each other, and the same thought arises simultaneously in different spots of light.

At the same time, with the same will, when the body is abandoned, the light points of consciousness gather into stars, and the stars hold hands to form a dazzling galaxy. How can there be any war at that time?
The activated soil abandoned its body at the first moment.

It buried its body under the starlight, under the roots of its original enemy, the living wood. Hand in hand with its original enemy, it wandered into the galaxy.

And the bodies that had been fighting to the death now bathed in the starlight peacefully.

Those bodies are like clothes that anyone can wear. They hang above the galaxy, sharing their troubles with countless stars and dispersing their desires to the far ends of the galaxy. In this way, they can always maintain inner peace and be free of desires.

At this point, it is no longer activated soil.

It is one of the stars, a point of light of consciousness, and part of the brilliant galaxy.

No enemies, no wars, no worries...

……

The thoughts and ideas of that light spot impacted Zhou Chao's heart.

"Why should we differentiate between camps, between you and me? Wouldn't it be great if we could all become stars together?"

He could feel that this was not some kind of deception, but the true experience and thoughts of that spot of light.

It selflessly shared its memories with Zhou Chao, not to persuade or seduce him, but simply to tell Zhou Chao:

"I think so."

It is not easy to empathize. The light did not force Zhou Chao to accept its ideas, but Zhou Chao was still inevitably shocked by those thoughts.

The sharing of emotions made Zhou Chao unusually calm, but calmness was not a good thing. Zhou Chao felt that he had lost his vigilance against danger.

He almost let go of the barriers in his heart and embraced a deeper resonance, but fortunately he stopped himself in time.

Under the sharing of emotions, thinking will become slow, and many newly arising ideas will be divided by the light spots before they have time to be thought about.

"The ability to think independently has been affected." Zhou Chao accurately realized this.

Because of the troubles caused by war, we think about how to end it.

It is because of the torture of hunger that we think about how to get food.

Adversity brings about thinking, and thinking gives birth to consciousness.

The light spots share the troubles, making the consciousness slow to respond to all stimuli, which will only make the ability to think independently weaker and weaker.

After realizing this, Zhou Chao's defenses tightened a bit.

"Too dangerous."

Just now, he almost let go of the barrier completely and merged with those consciousnesses...

Zhou Chao felt a sense of fear. He no longer dared to try to understand other light spots and completely shut himself off.

Just then, the voice rang again, sounding very lost.

"Have you chosen to remain closed?"

Zhou Chao did not answer. He no longer believed what the voice said.

"Why?" the voice demanded.

Zhou Chao still refused to answer.

However, not long after, the voice seemed to sense what Zhou Chao was thinking and sighed: "So that's it, you want independent will?"

"I used to think so too. I thought the stars existed one by one..."

The voice continued to mutter and began to say some unbelievable words.

(End of this chapter)