Light Fortress-Chapter 44 - 42 s Green Dice
44: 42 chapters Green Dice
44: 42 chapters Green Dice
“My head…
hurts terribly.”
Pain akin to utilizing the Truth Ruler struck him.
However, this time, it wasn’t the all-encompassing, world-turning pain that flooded his whole body, but rather, it was just a headache.
To be precise, it was a neck ache.
Around his neck, it felt as though it was tightly gripped by a thread, faintly causing pricking and choking pain.
“Other parts…
I can’t feel them.
Are they numb?”
Gu Shen slowly opened his eyes.
In front of him was a transparent mirror, reflecting his current appearance…
Once he saw it clearly, Gu Shen’s complexion turned pale…
The mirror showed a familiar face, but only a face.
He had only a head left.
Nothing else, no torso, arms, or limbs, so he only felt pain around his neck, no sensation anywhere else…
He had lost his limbs, leaving only a head.
Memories surged like tidal waves.
He quickly realized he was in the midst of a dream…
and the reason he’d fallen into the dream was that he had touched what seemed to be the most harmless magic cube die, the moment he lifted the cube, his eyes shimmered with the splattering radiance of the die.
Immediately afterward, the face of the die started spinning wildly, dragging him into the dream!
“Whew…”
“Whew…”
Gu Shen took two deep breaths to calm himself down.
He thought he had already experienced two dreams and nothing would surprise him, but the sight in front of him was still shocking—the fact that he, having only a head left, still retained a complete consciousness.
“Are there such dreams too…
Was I too naive?”
Gu Shen slowly moved his head.
He discovered he was confined in an environment similar to a closed box, with all six sides being mirrors reflecting different appearances of his head.
That seemingly harmless die, was it actually the most dangerous?
Watching the pale face in the mirror, Gu Shen pulled at the corners of his mouth and smiled.
“Chu Ling hasn’t appeared, nor have I heard her voice…” he quietly waited for a short while, soon regaining his composure, “It seems she isn’t connected, so this dream…
I must rely on myself.”
In fact, Gu Shen had not considered relying on Chu Ling’s power for this trial.
The more dangerous the situation, the more rational he became…
Although he no longer had a torso, Gu Shen still felt his blood boiling hotly, and he even faintly felt exhilaration and anticipation.
“Interesting…”
He had lost his limbs, with only a head left.
He couldn’t use his hands, nor could he escape, only being embedded and imprisoned here.
“The cube was solved, and after I touched it, it began to scramble itself.”
Gu Shen narrowed his eyes.
This was the last piece of information he could retrieve in reality, his memories halting scene by scene, recalling the cube die bursting and twisting he first saw.
Then, he remembered the words of a member of the audit team.
“Regarding Dream Interpretation…
I’ve completed the first step,” Gu Shen muttered, “I woke up in the dream, and realized everything here is an illusion…
Next, I need to find the pattern, the peculiarity.”
The space here was abnormally small and suffocating.
But because of this…
the area to search was narrowed down, there were almost no other clues here except for the mirrors.
“The mirror…
that is the only clue.
Top, bottom, left, right, front, back, a total of six sides, exactly matching the blocks of the magic cube die.”
Gu Shen narrowed his eyes, “If the real cube die getting scrambled affects the dream, then what I need to do, really, is to piece it together.
This doesn’t seem hard to guess.”
The question was, how to twist it?
“Will some kind of action of mine affect the twisting…”
Gu Shen slowly moved forward, he was very close to the mirror, and after touching the one directly in front of him…
a strange sensation emerged.
“Click.”
The entire world rotated…
but only partially.
Gu Shen felt the pain around his neck disappear, but replacing it was pain in his chest, torso, and waist…
After the world rotated, his neck successfully connected to his chest, but the area of pain widened.
Left hand, right hand, left leg, right leg, all were within the “nothingness” of the mirror.
The box imprisoning him also grew somewhat larger.
“Hmm…
indeed, twisting the mirrors, restoring the cube.”
Gu Shen felt somewhat weak.
Having just twisted the Mirror World once, he felt as if his spirit had been scraped with a knife.
If he hadn’t guessed wrong, every twist was a depletion of his spiritual power… If he tried aimlessly, his spirit would collapse before he could restore the cube.
“The difficulty of this dream is much higher than ‘the awakening of insects’.”
He finally understood what the members of the review committee meant by “intense features”, “The awakening of insects can be slowly comprehended, but here, every twist of the mirror is an agony.”
He couldn’t help but think of the other two Dream Sealing Objects on the table, which were probably on the same level as this dice… The difficulty of this review was indeed very high.
“Luckily, there’s no one manipulating this dice… I still have time to think.”
Gu Shen slowly organized his memories.
“Although the trajectory of the cube’s twists is fast… I have remembered it… Just restore it according to the pattern.
I can complete the Dream Interpretation very soon.” He entered an extremely calm state, and after ensuring there was no chance of error, he twisted the mirror again.
“Click.”
This time his chest and neck disconnected, but sensation in his left hand appeared out of nowhere… Gu Shen looked down at himself, like a segmented wooden figure, each piece of his body embedded in the nothingness of the mirror space, only reconnecting with his head could restore intuition, he could confirm that step now.
The ultimate condition to complete the Dream Interpretation was to restore the entire torso.
Following the trajectory in his memory, Gu Shen began the restoration!
“Click.”
“Click.”
“Click.”
…
…
“Among the three Dream Sealing Objects, the Green Dice should be the most time-consuming,” the Redwood Judge observed the boy with a complex expression, “I propose… if Gu Shen hasn’t completed the Dream Interpretation within four hours, we should end the review.”
“Agreed,” the auditor who explained the rules spoke up, “If he can really endure four hours inside the Green Dice… he’s already stronger than most ‘A’ grades.”
“Elder Zhao is very interested in him, perhaps we can afford to be a bit more patient with him.”
The Grand Judge spoke leisurely, “There are plenty of people who have slept for two or three hours inside the Green Dice, let’s wait for him to realize he is in a dream… then start the timer.”
He had just finished speaking.
The cube dice suddenly bounced once.
The Redwood Judge’s eyes brightened… What seemed like a casual bounce was actually not without pattern.
This was the first step of restoration.
“He’s awake,”
The Judge was surprised and glanced at the time, murmuring, “Three minutes… he has woken up his consciousness inside the Green Dice.
And the first twist is correct!
Could it be that he remembered the order of the Green Dice’s chaos before entering the dream?”
“Perhaps it’s just good luck.” The Grand Judge watched his companion with a smile, gently tapping the table, “Let’s wait a little longer.”
What followed… was a long five minutes.
Five minutes, no movement.
Just when everyone was preparing to face another long wait, the cube moved again!
It was still the trajectory of restoration.
Then one twist followed another.
“Click… Click… Click…”
All five review committee members displayed looks of disbelief.
Each twist of the Green Dice brought with it spiritual pain… the consistency in the boy’s twisting frequency indicated that he had mastered the technique and was firmly convinced that he was making the right choice.
There was admiration and praise in the Judge’s eyes, “This boy has a good memory… It seems he really remembered the disorderly sequence of the Green Dice… and is calm enough under such circumstances to recall the steps of restoration…”
But, in his eyes was more pity and regret.
Each twist of the Green Dice was slow because it drained spiritual power.
About ten minutes later.
All the twists were completed.
The cube was restored to its original state and lay quietly in Gu Shen’s hands.
But Gu Shen… did not wake up.
“This boy is really impressive.”
“It’s just a pity…”
“The colors of the cube can be repainted, the simplest way to restore a dice cube is to repaint it…”
The Judge spoke regretfully, “This apparently externally restored Green Dice had its internal space scrambled long ago.
To fully restore it, it’s not as simple as just following the twisting trajectory.”freёnovelkiss.com
