Unlike the "Black Umbilical Cord" obtained from Lainie Histra, the umbilical cord is recognized and integrated into the body upon contact, and related attributes can also be detected through gentleman's clothing.
The "Madman's Box" in front of me,
If the product information was not engraved inside the golden box, no information would be read at all, and it would not even be possible to determine whether this thing was a relic.
Reaching out to touch it, I felt a soft yet hard biomass touch at my fingertips, just like touching the back of a thin girl's hand.
Hiss~ A silk thread derived from the gentleman's skin protruded from the sleeve, trying to touch and deconstruct the information of the Rubik's Cube, buzz!
A force field was released, which bounced off the silk thread and even shattered Yi Chen's right hand into a bloody mess, with all five fingers broken.
The Rubik's Cube seemed like an independent living being, bouncing back into the golden box by the reaction force.
"This... It seems that the only way to decrypt it is to perform normal decryption."
Clang~The iron chain connects and the umbilical cord nourishes.
The finger bones were quickly repaired and connected, allowing the Rubik's Cube to be held in the hand again.
Yi Chen did not flip it randomly at the beginning, but observed.
"Little grapes, deep integration."
"Are we going to have a deep integration right from the start? Okay."
Little Grape swam towards the brain area with a standard diving movement, and a mouth containing the eyeballs grew right in front of the brain, greatly enhancing its vision.
Filter out all environmental substances except the Rubik's Cube, and the concentration level reaches 100%.
Examining the brain circuits on each facet, Yi Chen was able to memorize these circuit diagrams accurately in his mind because his intelligence had reached its limit.
When the six-sided loop diagrams were observed and memorized, these diagrams were spontaneously combined in the brain to form a larger and more complete maze map.
A "consciousness connection" was formed between Yi Chen and the Box of the Epilepsy, accompanied by a faint sense of pulling.
Yi Chen tried to relax slowly, untied all the defenses in his mind, and followed the feeling of being pulled.
In the blink of an eye, he was already standing at the starting point of a giant maze.
The maze walls, which are as thick as the texture of a brain, stretch straight to the sky. It is impossible to cheat by climbing over the walls here.
“The six-sided pattern actually hides such a huge labyrinth of consciousness. If I can reach the center, or walk out of the labyrinth… does it mean that I have cracked and deciphered the Rubik’s Cube
I'm pretty good at things like mazes."
Yi Chen had a special decryption course in the orphanage, which included maze-type thinking training. Moreover, the orphanage itself was a sealed maze, and Yi Chen had already understood the key to traversing the maze through repeated escapes.
Half an hour passed.
Yi Chen has reached a deep enough area and even has a premonition that he is about to pass the level.
When I stood at the fork in the road and determined the correct direction, a 'woman' suddenly walked out from the corner leading to the correct road.
The reason why she is called a 'woman' is because she is wearing a long white dress and has a distinctly feminine figure.
No head structure.
On her neck is a super brain with a diameter of about one and a half meters. She even needs to hold it with both hands to maintain balance when walking.
The brain seemed to be suffering from some kind of inflammation, turning yellow all over, and occasionally gushing out yellow slurry from the top, which was hot, corrosive, yet nutritious.
As he staggered, yellow slurry overflowed all over the ground.
Yi Chen's intuition told him that he must not come into contact with this woman, even if he attacked her with chains... because the woman was most likely an independent individual derived from the maze and was also a part of the maze.
If she is killed, it is possible that the Rubik's Cube in reality will be destroyed.
Since the woman blocked the correct path to the maze in front of him, he couldn't get close to her or attack her, so he could only find a way to bypass her.
think!
Yi Chen immediately constructed a maze route map of the nearby area in his brain, and after making sure that the woman would follow him, he began to take a detour, and successfully circled the woman behind him.
The next maze exploration encountered a similar individual again.
Even if two or three of them appear in succession, if you fail to come up with the correct detour route in the first place, you will be completely stuck.
You have to take detours all the time, and sometimes you even have to go back to the maze node half an hour ago to completely bypass all the guys holding their heads up.
Yi Chen's brain was also starting to smoke during this process, but he remained focused the entire time.
I don’t know how much time has passed, and I don’t know how many strange lives spraying brain fluid have been avoided.
Finally arriving at the center of the maze, the brain individuals following behind them stopped moving and held their heads and merged into the walls of the maze.
Center,
The Madman's Box, which is exactly the same as the real one, is placed on the central exhibition stand.
When Yi Chen reached out to touch it, a sharp blade engraved with ancient patterns popped out from the Rubik's Cube and pierced through his palm.
This pain also brought Yi Chen's consciousness out of the maze and back to reality.
In the claustrophobic basement,
The palm of Yi Chen's body was also pierced by the sharp blade.
Not a drop of blood was wasted, all of it was absorbed by the magic cube along the lines on the surface of the blade, and even obvious sucking behavior could be seen. It seemed that some kind of master recognition ceremony was going on, recognizing Yi Chen as the new owner.
Kaka~
Without any external force, the Rubik's Cube began to deform itself.
Just when Yi Chen thought he had completed all the decryption work, the deformation of the "Box of the Madman" finally froze into a long conical body with a strange structure, thin in the middle and thick at both ends.
Testing the Gentleman's Hide will still trigger the force field effect and will not allow for relic information to be obtained.
"Is the Consciousness Maze just the first level of decryption?"
Yi Chen continued to observe, but this time he didn't need to be too careful.
The surface of the vertebral structure no longer has any brain grooves, but is covered with extremely strong biomass steel bars with a very obvious gap in the middle.
When Yi Chen tried to hold both ends of the vertebra,
Swish! Spikes grew out from both ends, piercing the back of the hand, and blood was tested!
If the holder is not Yi Chen, the blood test will fail and the Rubik's Cube will release a powerful force field to shatter the holder's arm. If the holder cannot break free, it will self-destruct within seconds.
This means that the subsequent decryption process can only be completed independently by Yi Chen.
"Structural changes, identity verification. If I guess correctly, this three-attribute relic corresponds to three different types of decryption.
The first level of the consciousness maze corresponds to intelligence, and I have passed it successfully.
The current second level corresponding physique needs to be folded with pure strength... Let's give it a try."
Although Yi Chen's physique has reached 5+, it is still a short distance away from the real limit.
No matter whether iron chains were used to strengthen it or various forms of leverage were used, there was no way to bend the rectangular Rubik's Cube. One could even clearly feel that it only took a little bit of force to bend it.
"The design of this thing is really clever. You have to reach the limit to be able to bend it, and you also need to bend it for a certain length of time to switch it to the next form."
I had no choice but to put away the rectangular Rubik's Cube.
Just as Yi Chen was thinking about how to store this conical rod-shaped object, the golden box actually adapted to the new structure of the Rubik's Cube and immediately formed a storage space of corresponding structure.
After I got everything in order, I started to feel hungry.
And because of excessive brain use, a trickle of sticky brain blood flows out from between the nostrils, urging the body to replenish relevant nutrients.
When I looked at the time, I realized I had been in the basement for two days and two nights.
"Let's go find something to eat. I'm afraid we'll pass out from hunger if we can't hold out for another hour."
Yi Chen put on his coat and lowered his hat brim and quickly walked out of the store.
As he quickly searched for a nearby shop that looked like a restaurant, a figure suddenly flashed past him and even had a slight collision with Yi Chen's arm.
"Um?"
Yi Chen frowned slightly and turned his head to see who was being so rude.
A white-haired young man walking hurriedly appeared in the field of vision, and he looked quite familiar.
Suddenly I remembered a gentleman of the same age whom I had met before, who was a member of the other team heading to Holy Grail Mountain.
Yinskarion Lotson, who belonged to the Magicians Association, was the one who suggested that everyone introduce themselves at the dinner table. His white hair and cheerful personality left a deep impression on Yi Chen, and he seemed to be proficient in ancient magic.
The team led by the white-haired man chose the more difficult sepsis route at that time.
"This guy's condition is a bit strange..."
(End of this chapter)