Chapter 1 The Mysterious Cube
Mo Chen is not a slow or procrastinating person, at least not yet at the hopeless late stage.
Although he really doesn't have such a good attitude when facing such a thing as time travel and a brand new world, he immediately starts planning a brand new life, but everyone understands that this is the real normal manifestation.
After all, you have to know that reality is not a game, and it is definitely not a simple thing to reopen a new game.
However, after all, it has been more than a day. Even at the beginning, no matter how uneasy he felt, it was fine. Now, the fear in his heart is slowly calming down.
It can be said that he finally accepted the reality and knew that if he continued to be so depressed, it would not be a solution to the problem at all.
So, no matter whether it was the inexplicable anger or fear that arose in his heart for his own experience, he decided to start taking action.
Although a lot of time has been wasted from yesterday to now, Mo Chen has not really done nothing, otherwise he would not have been sure of his time travel.
He learned more or less about some of the things about this world, and also discovered some very obvious problems that were absolutely impossible to let himself ignore the past-
For example, the cube on the table in front of you.
This one has a strange and mysterious arabesque pattern on the surface, and a silver-white regular cube.
This is the only item he brought from the world before traveling through time. For such an obvious fact... it is too difficult to pretend to be invisible.
But, what kind of thing is this? What is its use?
Mo Chen didn't know all of these most critical things.
Even no matter how hard he tried, he could recall it, he couldn't remember when he got this cube. He just remembered that on that last day, after he woke up, he was holding such an object in his hand...
It’s impossible that I went out to sleepwalking when I was asleep at night and brought back something without anyone noticing it?
Otherwise, how can I explain why I have no impression of it?
But at that time, I didn't have time to study this strange cube carefully, so I went through it directly. But the most important thing is that this strange cube was brought by him together.
——So in the dark, he had a premonition that this thing was a key in the absolute sense.
If we follow the general routine, this should be something like your own gold finger, but how should you use it?
Having said that, should you recognize your master at this time, and then you will bind a powerful system with unknown origin or something?
Mo Chen stared at the silver-white cube on the table, staring at a little dazed for a while, his heart swelling.
He reached out and grabbed the cube, picked it up, feeling the cold and smooth touch and heavy weight. He couldn't help but think about the possibility of this thing.
This world is not very different from the world in the past. Although the background of the age and technology level seem to be different, there are problems in history, but in a strict sense, this has little impact.
What is really important is that based on the results of Mo Chen searching online, the conclusion is that the entertainment and culture aspects of this world are also somewhat...wrong.
For example, many of the film, TV, animation, novels, games and other works that he is familiar with have not appeared in this world.
As for whether the literary classics and classical poems and other works that existed in the past, it is not very clear. Because Mo Chen did not search further at the time, he just simply understood the background of this world.
But now, he irresistiblely linked these two things together and couldn't help but start to make up for it:
Could it be that you will get a golden finger from a literary giant system or a celebrity system next?
And my next destiny is to develop the culture of the original world and recreate the glory of another earth?
No! Rebirth in the past and becoming a literary master, or resetting the world and becoming a big star, it sounds great and not outdated, but it is really not suitable for you!
This thought made Mo Chen a little depressed. He subconsciously grabbed the cube in his hand, his whole body stiffened and his heart was nervous.
"Click" - a subtle but clear sound.
Then, he felt the cube in his hand seemed to have some obvious deformation because of the force of his fingers.
“…”
“…”
Mo Chen lowered his head in a hurry, held the cube in front of him and checked it carefully, and then found that it was indeed deformed. However, it was not because he suddenly increased his strength and deformed the solid metal material.
Instead... the positive cube suddenly layered, revealing obvious edges, and slightly rotated in a certain direction under the force of his fingers.
Wait, he suddenly showed a suspicious expression. This structure looks very familiar! He frowned and thought. The word was right beside his mouth, but he couldn't remember it in his mind at once.
Isn't this the one...that...that's right! Isn't this the third-level Rubik's Cube?!
Mo Chen blinked his eyes and suddenly reacted later.
His fingers unconsciously moved a few times, and the cube was rotated, and the edges and corners slid along the grooves, and then... a wonderful thing happened.
It was originally just a silver-white luster, with a faint and undetectable arabesque cube on the surface, and began to bloom with a strange crystal blue light, flowing rapidly inside and between the edges like a flowing liquid.
It looks quite sci-fi, and it is full of some unscrupulous and hard-core beauty.
However, it made Mo Chen feel like he had grabbed a hot potato. After all, who knows if this is a sign of an imminent explosion?
He resisted the urge to subconsciously throw the cube in his hand away, kept the movement unchanged, and prayed not to go wrong, because if such a science fiction thing is really lethal, it would probably be useless to throw it out.
The main killing range of grenades is 15 meters, not to mention this kind of creature that is obviously full of black technology?
but--
One second, two seconds, three seconds... until more than ten seconds passed, Mo Chen did not feel anything wrong.
It seems that that kind of light is just a special effect, just a certain light and shadow effect, and there is no other substantial impact.
Regardless of whether it is a special energy flowing, at least he doesn't have to worry about electric shock or explosion at the moment? However, after the blue light disappears, the surfaces of the positive cube quickly fade away silver and different colors appear.
——Wait, it’s really a Rubik’s Cube?!
Grinning, Mo Chen's hand trembled slightly, and then he had no time to think about it and responded. He carefully restored the rotating and twisted corner blocks and edge blocks to their original state like a combination of a Rubik's Cube.
Then, blue light flowed again, and in the flashes, various colors faded, and the silver-white luster and metal texture were replaced again. The arabesque pattern seemed mysterious and weird, and the previous regular cube was back.
Nothing happened except these changes.
“Huh?”
Mo Chen was obviously stunned for a moment, then he put the cube back on the table, looked at it carefully for a while, and then he was sure that with his naked eyes, he could not see any cracks on the surface.
The subtle patterns seem to be the only strange arabesque patterns, and nothing else, as if this entire cube is completely cast in one whole.
But just now, it was like a Rubik's Cube, which could be rotated, rotated, twisted... There is no reason why it was its own illusion, right?
Although it was Mo Chen's subconscious behavior that he just restored the Rubik's Cube, wouldn't it be meaningless if this is the case?
After thinking about it, he shook his head vigorously, and then made up his mind to reach out and take the cube over again. After weighing it in his hand, he began to twist gently.
Click.
The next moment, the silver-white metal square once again turned into a third-level Rubik's Cube with six colors.
After having an experience, Mo Chen was no longer nervous. Although there were still some worries, as he kept twisting the combination, he slowly realized that it seemed that this was really a Rubik's Cube?
No matter how you twist and rotate it, it is good. Except that it seems to be indestructible, it is no different from the third-level Rubik's Cube.
But in the same way, there is no change, and it is impossible to see how it should be used. It seems to be just a pure educational toy. The color squares are disrupted and there is no pattern, but if all six colors are restored-
Then the Rubik's Cube will turn back into a silver-white cube.
Theoretically, if the essence of this thing is a Rubik's Cube, then the correct idea should be to restore it to its position, right? But the reality is that the thing itself was restored from the beginning.
Then the other way around is, you need to disrupt the Rubik's Cube?
But - who knows what kind of specific state it will be disrupted so that this thing will truly react?!
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One minute, two minutes, three minutes... A full ten minutes have passed.
Mo Chen, who had been playing with the Rubik's Cube, suddenly felt like a fool, and had no clue at all, running around like a headless fly.
He stopped, sighed a long time, and without returning the Rubik's Cube, he put it on the table in front of him.
It seems that this is not possible. There should be other clues that I haven't found. Why don't I check the arabesque pattern on the surface of the restored silver-white cube?
Mo Chen was thinking so randomly, but he didn't notice that the sky outside suddenly became darker. He subconsciously raised his head until the room became darker and darker.
Then he was stunned.
Afterwards, he realized that the Rubik's Cube with a chaotic color block on the table projected a thin blue beam of light, spreading circles of blue halos in the center of the room, like a layer of light film.
It also seems to be a rippling water surface, constantly spreading and fluctuating, and the edge disappears at the junction with the air.
“…portal?”
Such a sci-fi thing, such a classic look, that Mo Chen’s first reaction was this concept.
But after being shocked for more than ten seconds, he still heard the noisy sound outside, so he turned his head with difficulty and looked at the scenery outside the window on the other side-
There was nothing, only a piece of darkness that seemed to be endless was spreading rapidly.
He saw a completely dark world.
Chapter completed!