Hiss...where should I start researching this thing?
This was Chen Yao's first feeling after carefully looking at the Tianji box.
When I first got it, I just thought the metal box was a bit delicate, but after looking at it carefully just now, I realized how mysterious this thing is.
On the surface, the Tianji Box is just a six-sided cube made of unknown metal, but after observing it for a period of time, you will find that each side of the cube is evenly divided into nine pieces, and each piece has surprising and complex features. picture of.
The nine patterns on each side are related to each other as a whole, but they are independent individuals individually. In the middle of each side, the square pattern emits light, while the other eight blocks do not.
Every few seconds, the patterns on each side would be dispersed, reorganized, and randomly transformed. The whole process looked quite precise and complicated. For a moment, Chen Yao was fascinated.
"How's it going? What's the research?"
Qiu Yunxi had already sat aside at some point.
"Oh, not yet. I feel like this thing is a bit too sophisticated."
Chen Yao scratched his head in distress.
"Wow! Is this a Tianji box? It's so beautiful! Let me see it!"
Qiu Yueli's little head popped up from Chen Yao's shoulder, and she reached out to grab the Tianji box.
"No! I don't know how to use this thing yet. If there is any danger..."
Chen Yao protected the Tianji box, but his finger accidentally touched a lighted square on a certain side.
"Click, click, click!!!"
"Heaven's secret appears, threefold test."
The Tianji box in Chen Yao's arms first made a strange noise, and then burst out with a strong light, and a majestic sound passed into the ears of several people. The sound seemed to be far away and seemed quite mysterious.
Several people looked at the Tianji box in the light in surprise, and were a little at a loss for a moment.
"Unlocker, are you ready to be tested?"
Before a few people could recover from the sudden change, the majestic voice came again.
"Dear...old gentleman, may I choose not to accept it?"
Chen Yao's answer at this moment was not because he was afraid, but because he needed to seize the opportunity to make preparations, although he was not sure whether the voice coming from the box would really respond to him.
"Hmph! Once the Tianji box is opened, apart from unlocking it, it is a failure! If you fail, you will be punished!"
Chen Yao was a little frustrated when he heard the answer. It seemed that he could only give it a try. As soon as the idea came to his mind, a powerful voice came to his ears again.
"But... today I will make an exception and give you a chance. Go and prepare! After one hour, the Tianji box will be opened again. If it exceeds the time or fails..."
"I understand! Thank you, old gentleman! If I fail, I am willing to receive any punishment!"
Chen Yao was a little happy. He originally just wanted to give it a try, but he didn't expect it to succeed, but he also knew that this was just the beginning.
"Click, click, click!"
The voice in the box did not reply. After another strange sound and change, the Tianji box returned to its previous state.
"What's going on? That voice just now?"
"I have no idea..."
Chen Yao shook his head at Qiu Yunxi.
"But what is certain is that if the box is not unlocked after one hour, there will be extremely dire consequences."
"Are you confident you can untie it?"
"Well... not at all!"
"you!"
"So I stalled for time to think of a solution. Didn't you hear what the voice said? It has to be solved anyway."
Chen Yao spread his hands helplessly.
"Ah, I'm a little tired. I'm going to take a rest first. Remember to call me when you get there in about an hour."
As soon as Chen Yao lay down, he turned his body to the side, supported his head with one hand and closed his eyes.
"Brother! At this time, are you serious!?"
"Stop talking, I'm sleepy... Huh... Huh..."
"Brother Yao is actually sleeping at this time! He..."
Qiu Yueli's eyes widened with disbelief on her face.
"Shh, don't disturb him, let him sleep, let's go outside."
"Oh! Well, I hope brother can find a way..."
As the footsteps of several people gradually faded away, Chen Yao glanced around quietly, and after confirming that everyone had left, he took out the token that Mr. Jing had given him before from the binding ring, held it tightly in his hand, and then began to recite the ritual words silently. .
"Walker who travels the world, lord of dreams and controller of time, owner of a beautiful blue body, I request to connect with you in dreams."
The original ritual also required lighting an animal fat candle, but now that the situation was urgent, Chen Yao was afraid that too many actions would expose him, so he omitted this step. After doing this, he adjusted his breathing, closed his eyes, and After a while he fell asleep.
When I open my eyes, it seems like a moment has passed, and it seems like a long time has passed. The feeling when entering a dream is always so weird.
In front of him was still the strange blue body suspended in the air, but this time the surrounding environment was no longer an endless black abyss, but the surface of a desolate planet in the vast universe. Chen Yao looked around curiously, looking a little... excited.
"Little guy, why did you find me so quickly? Do you want to peek at my perfect body again? Oh! I knew you were disrespectful!"
"By the way, there are at least two mistakes in your ceremony this time. First, you did not light the candles, which is the basic step of the ceremony, and I did not even ask you to offer a sacrifice! Second..."
Before Chen Yao could finish watching the starry sky, Dream Walker began mantra bombing.
"Stop, stop, stop! Dear Mr. Mirror, although I am also happy to hear your teachings and correct my own mistakes regarding rituals."
"But now, I have something very, very important to ask you."
Chen Yao had a splitting headache when Mr. Jing kept nagging him, so he had no choice but to interrupt his speech.
"Oh? It turns out that we have encountered a problem. Let's put the ceremony aside for now. Anyway, we still have plenty of time, at least three weeks left."
"Tell me, what kind of situation has troubled our little Chenyao."
Mirror seemed to suddenly become interested.
"That's it..."
Chen Yao recounted the previous process regarding the Tianji box.
"Tianji box?! You actually found such a thing in such a barren place? Interesting! Let me see."
Dream Walker closed his hands, and the Tianji box automatically flew from Chen Yao's body to his hand.
The metal cubes were constantly reorganized and transformed in Dream Walker's hands. After staring at them for a few seconds, he pushed the Tianji box back to Chen Yao.
"Oh! I've heard a lot about the rumors about the Tianji Box. This is the first time I've seen the real thing. It's such an interesting gadget. I can't even see what's sealed inside. Speaking of which, Xiao Chenyao, what do you think? Have you heard the rumors about the Tianji Box?"
"Please speak."
"Very good, the Tianji Box comes from the Paradise Chamber of Commerce, which is an extremely mysterious organization in the world."
"Actually, the Tianji Box was not made by the Paradise Chamber of Commerce. It can be said that no one in the entire world has the technology to make the Tianji Box. It can only be said to be assembled, and it was not completed by the Paradise Chamber of Commerce alone."
"Assemble? What do you mean?"
"Oh, you let it slip! Damn it! Ahem... Anyway, the Paradise Chamber of Commerce claims that there are twelve Tianji boxes in total, but in fact..."
"There are more?"
Jing first changed the topic, and Chen Yao didn't dare to ask any more questions, so he asked along the way.
"Yes, but I don't know how many there are specifically. The Tianji boxes are arranged in a predetermined order. Yours is...number two."
"No. 2? How do you know?"
"Ha! It's very simple. The Tianji box will change as a whole every few seconds. You try to capture the moment of change. With your current ability, you should be able to do it."
Although he was a little puzzled, Chen Yao still did as he was told. He opened his eyes to see the secrets, and then he concentrated on staring at a certain aspect of the Tianji box that was about to change.
At the moment of change, Chen Yao concentrated his mental power to the extreme!
Suddenly, the scene in Chen Yao's eyes changed strangely! The surface of the Tianji box that was supposed to change instantly was slowed down hundreds of times.
This was the moment of change, and he saw it! The six planes with different patterns originally came together to form one!
Yes, that’s two! Not an ordinary two-character word, but two words in the ancient Xia language!
This strange state did not last long. A burst of severe pain struck, and the strange state ended. Even his own eyes to see secrets were forcibly closed, and his temples began to bulge and spasm continuously. It even felt like my head was going to explode.
"Well..."
"Oh! Very good, very good. I didn't expect you to really enter that state, even though it was very short-lived."
Dream Walker waved his hand, and the pain in his head disappeared instantly. Chen Yao felt that he really wouldn't be able to hold on for a few more seconds.
"Huh...huh...that...state?"
"Yes, yes, that is a state that is extremely difficult to achieve. It is generally called: eternal thinking."
"To put it simply, it is to use some means to break away from the shackles of time by using some means to achieve the effect of slowing down time. In fact, it is not that time is slowed down, but that thinking is accelerated."
"Anyway, it's very difficult to achieve. Don't use it casually in the future. If I hadn't taken action just now, you might have turned into Chenyao-chan. Well...the kind where pieces of flesh are scattered everywhere."
Dream Walker stroked his smooth chin and raised his eyebrows.
"Ah! By the way, I almost forgot! Mr. Mirror, how do you unlock this box?"
"Untie it? Oh, Xiao Chenyao, there's nothing I can do about it."
"Well...it turns out that even the great dream walker can't do things..."
"Of course! Just like normal human communication...cough! Communication, communication. I don't quite understand."
A suspicious look of embarrassment appeared on Dream Walker's face, and then he started to change the subject with a serious face.
"Do you know how many seals this little Tianji box has?"
"triple?"
"That's right, but do you know how many kinds of tests there are on the machine today?"
"have no idea."
"Hey, there are nine types of each side, six sides in total. They change once every few seconds. Every six times is a cycle, a total of three hundred and twenty-four types!"
"?!!"
Chen Yao now finally understood why Dream Walker said there was nothing he could do, not to mention that he had just seen the Tianji Box for the first time today.
"Then I can't untie it?"
"Oh! No, no, no, don't be so discouraged. Among these three hundred and twenty-four tests, some are simple and some are difficult. The simple ones can be solved by a three-year-old child."
"What about the hard part?"
"I'm afraid I'll just scratch my head when God comes."
"Then I'd better just admit defeat..."
"Ha! It's not impossible! I heard that the punishment for failure is not very severe, for example, losing a certain male function, etc..."
"Then why not kill me!"
"Maybe you will encounter a simple test? Relax, haha!"
"Is there really no other way to open it?"
"Yes, I'm sure not. Don't even think about breaking it by force unless you have the power to approach God. Oh! Even if you succeed in breaking it, the contents of the Tianji box will be forcibly destroyed."
"...I see."
Dream Walker stretched out his finger and tapped it in the air, and a blue clock appeared in front of him.
"It's almost time, it's time to talk about the ritual. Fortunately, you just used the ritual to call me today, hum! With your personality, you may call something else in the future."
"Now, I will give you an example to let you know what a standard ceremony is."
The Dream Walker grabbed hold of the void, and a grease candle appeared out of thin air in front of the two of them. After a crisp snap of his fingers, the candle lit up with a faint blue light.
A little blue light condensed on Dream Walker's fingertips, and soon a blue gem the size of a pearl appeared in his hand.
"This gem contains my extremely weak power, so we use it as a sacrifice."
"Xiao Chenyao, look! What is the real ritual? What I am going to summon next is Greedy Spirit, a creature that can only wander in dreams."
The blue gem was slowly lifted up by a force and floated parallel to the candle. Then the Dream Walker whispered the ritual words.
"The treasure collector who wanders in the dreamland of mortals, I call you in my name, offer you precious sacrifices, and pray that you will grant me the equivalent wealth."
At the moment when the ritual ended, the candle flame suspended in the air swayed slightly and then suddenly stopped. A few seconds later, the still candle flame slowly turned into gold, and a dry, black-spotted arm stretched out from the golden flame. , quickly snatched away the blue gem.
"Hehe hehe hehe... Gahahahahahahaha! I am very satisfied with the sacrifice you presented! This will fulfill your wish!"
A burst of infiltrating laughter came from all directions, and along with the weird laughter, a dry palm clenched into a fist-like shape stretched out from the golden flame, and then tossed it casually.
"Ding ding ding! Crash!"
A large pile of coins, gems and beautifully crafted precious metal products were dumped heavily in front of the two of them. Chen Yao's expression instantly changed from discomfort to shock!
However, Dream Walker seemed extremely calm about this. He just stood with his hands behind his back and made no other movements.
"Ehehehehehehehe, hahahahahaha~"
Accompanied by the cunning laughter that got closer and closer, a dry head with sharp horns poked out of the void, but when it saw the blue figure in front of it clearly, the cunning laughter stopped abruptly.
"Ah! It's you! Dear Master Jing, hahahahaha, if there's nothing else, I'll go back first, so I won't disturb you anymore!"
As soon as the words fell, it quickly shrank back, but unfortunately its head seemed to be stuck in something and couldn't move.
Even if he only showed his head, Chen Yao could tell from the drastic change in his expression that this guy was scared to death.
"Oh no no no! Wait a minute, old man. Speaking of which, you are really unique every time you appear. If you hadn't experienced it before, you might be scared now! Haha!"
Dream Walker smiled at first, and then his expression suddenly changed, becoming extremely serious in an instant.
"That's right! Also, remember to call me Mr. Mirror from now on."
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