I'm trapped in a cube

"Is that how you do it? Don't make a mistake..."

"I installed the beacon, how could I make a mistake!"

Several team members were tinkering in front of the beacon. After arranging everything, the investigation team was discussing how to leave the empty island.

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

"Don't worry about this. Isn't the beacon already activated? Can you discuss it with 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 sailing function."

"reject."

"Why refuse? You have seen the current situation."

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

Upon hearing this, several team members' eyes lit up.

"Yeah, why didn't you think of this? Then activate the emergency escape function." The team members quickly said to the beacon.

"The empty island environment has been confirmed, the emergency escape function is activated, and a distress signal is sent to the monitoring station at the same time..."

The beacon muttered, and the tall signal tower slowly rotated.

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

After seeing this device, several team members screamed with excitement.

"coming!"

"It's no problem now!"

They couldn't wait to move the box-like black device to the open space, and then began to adjust its position.

Li Luo on the side was confused.

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

"There needs to be enough space when positioning and unfolding..."

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

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

After the team members put the box away, they moved away one after another, and then came to the beacon's console and operated 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 building blocks. It didn't take long before it turned into a long ship shape.

And the white balloon was slowly inflating, gradually floating higher and higher, pulling up the black ship underneath and suspending it in the air.

"This is... an empty boat?"

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

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 fiber, and the inside is special gas that can be suspended in the island turbulence. The black pod is also made of the same special alloy as the beacon. …”

Zhou Chao proudly introduced the still-expanding airship.

"There are many reasons why airships were eliminated...high cost, too low speed, huge size, too high danger, and the emergence of aircraft also made them completely replaced."

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

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

She thought of many ways to leave the island, but she didn't expect that the one she ended up using was a vehicle that had appeared long ago in human history.

However, looking at the slowly growing airship, Li Luo also discovered something that puzzled her:

"Where's the propulsion device?"

The unfolding airship in front of him was more like a hot air balloon without a blowtorch. Apart from the white airbag and the black closed pod, Li Luo saw no other parts, nor any device that could provide power.

After hearing Li Luo's question, Zhou Chao gave up.

"You'll find out later. If I tell you too early, it won't be a surprise enough..."

Not long after, the airship stopped expanding, and the balloon above slowly turned into an oval shape, which looked exactly like the airship in the book.

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

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

"Someone help me! Let's move the captain's body up!"

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

"Sorry, sorry..."

Several team members moved the captain to the shrink stretcher found from the beacon and carried it into the airship pod.

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

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

Ask the Star Eye and it explains that this is a protective 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 don't care much about the principle. It's very fortunate that they can still move normally. The specific physical condition will be carefully checked when they return to the monitoring station.

"Hurry up, wait until the balloon is fully inflated, and 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 rotated and emitted a faint buzzing sound, as if saying goodbye to everyone. The team members looked at the ground farther and farther away, full of mixed feelings.

"It feels like a dream, swimming in the sea of ​​consciousness, gradually becoming chaotic, being pulled out, and stuffed into a crowded relic, and the thoughts became extremely dull..."

"Somewhat unreal."

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

Speaking of the captain, the cabin fell silent again.

They would laugh and tease Zhou Chao, and even tease the captain's "corpse", but this was a way to suppress sadness and divert their attention to other things.

But true sadness cannot be avoided, and the pain that is suppressed 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 sight:

Outside the central forest that lost the starlight, countless fallen ancient trees.

The circular areas left by "cleaning up garbage" can be seen everywhere on the sky island.

These are all traces left by the captain...

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

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

"Everything can be seen clearly here."

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

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

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

But those familiar things proved that they had been here and existed.

The thin clouds obscured the view. This sky island was no different from other sky islands. If it weren't for the activated pollution, it would be an ordinary boulder floating in the clouds.

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

It's just that there used to be a projector staring at the earth here.