Extraordinary pedigree

Windsor's voice was as sharp as a knife, piercing people's eardrums and making their hearts tremble involuntarily. Her eyes were wide open, filled with unspeakable fear, and her pupils dilated to their limit, swallowing up the entire whites of her eyes. Her face was as pale as paper, and thin beads of cold sweat rolled down her forehead, like tears of fear.

The lights in the casino looked even dimmer, as if they were frightened by the girl's frightened voice.

Martin looked at the terrifying Windsor, and without hesitation activated the [Imprisoning Rubik's Cube] in his hand. The color of the Rubik's Cube changed, turning into deep darkness, full of mystery and weirdness, and the moment he activated his ability , the whole world suddenly stopped.

"Buzz——"

The roar of thunder and the countdown of the clock sounded at the same time.

"Time Slot——"

"Time Warp·Pause!" 』

Tick-tick~tick-tick~

In the bustling casino, time seemed to be suddenly torn apart, and the entire scene was frozen in a moment of silence.

People's movements, expressions, and even the raised dice are all frozen in this fleeting time.

The gorgeous gambling table, gorgeous lights, and laid out cards seemed to be tightly squeezed by a huge invisible hand, stagnating at this moment.

The colorful world is stripped away, and the whole world becomes an old and monotonous movie quality.

People in the casino assumed various postures. Some people's mouth corners were slightly raised, enjoying the joy of victory; some people's faces became nervous and they were hesitating whether to place a bet; some people were holding chips in their hands and were preparing to invest. gambling.

These gestures have been eternally continued in this picture where time has stopped, as if it were a frozen painting.

The playing cards are suspended in the air, like a shining beam of light. The suits, colors and numbers on the playing cards are magnified to the limit, and the subtle textures are also clearly presented. The ball on the roulette table seemed to be frozen at the highest point of its bounce, suspended there, waiting for time to resume.

The only people with color in the casino were a young man with blond hair and golden eyes, and the purple Time Demon behind him.

The twisted Möbius strip flashed past Xia Xiu's feet, and in an instant, he crossed the long spiral steps and came to a man and a woman.

An anxious look appeared on the boy's face, his brows furrowed slightly, his eyes stared straight ahead, his lips opened slightly, as if he was about to say something, but his voice was frozen in time and could not be conveyed. His body leaned forward slightly, as if he was ready for a sudden change at any time. However, the stasis of time prevented him from taking any action and could only struggle in this frozen time.

Opposite him, the girl's expression was completely different. Her eyes were wide open, full of horror and fear. His mouth opened slightly, as if he wanted to scream, but the sound could not come out. Her face was as pale as paper, and the beads of sweat on her forehead shone, as if shed due to the tremendous pressure and fear in her heart. Her hand gripped the boy's arm tightly, as if trying to find some comfort and support in her frightening predicament.

Tick~

Xia Xiu stretched out his right hand and casually opened a goblet that was floating and frozen in front of the two of them. Then, [Sisyphus] jumped out from behind him and gently touched their abdomens. With one punch, their bodies bent into a weird angle, curling up like shrimps.

Their eyes were wide open, their mouths were slightly open, but they couldn't make a sound.

[Sisyphus] really punched twice lightly, at least withholding 99% of the force. Otherwise, with the mortal bodies of these two people, they might have been beaten into blood mist and bones. Nothing left.

While [Sisyphus] was teaching the naughty child, Xia Xiu had already reached out and took the so-called [Prison Rubik's Cube] from Martin's hand. As a good student who had studied [Abnormal Art Subject] in Luyuan, he had a lot of trouble with this Rubik's Cube. Familiar thaumaturgic encodings are perceived.

However, the encoding level of this Rubik's Cube is very high, and the ether solidified and connected inside it is too huge.

This is no longer abnormal art, but a genuine high-risk abnormal control item.

When Xia Xiu's fingertips touched the [Imprisonment Cube], crazy and twisted illusions began to appear. The colorful blocks quickly rotated in their hands, making a low buzzing sound, as if chanting an incomprehensible sound. movement.

Xia Xiu quickly understood the meaning above, and he began to restore the Rubik's Cube unhurriedly.

At this moment, 9.94 seconds have passed in the stagnant world.

Tick~

With the last huge countdown sound, the whole world began to become colorful again.

Time resumes its flow again.

Boom~

Boom~

Time started to flow again, and with a loud noise, the bodies of the boy and the girl seemed to be ejected, hitting the wall and door behind the casino room. The walls and doors trembled loudly, as if they were about to be penetrated by their impact, making a dull sound. Their bodies hit the wall like stones, and then slid heavily to the ground, leaving obvious scratches on the trajectory of the bounce.

The boys and girls turned paler, beads of sweat broke out on their foreheads, and pain spread from their abdomens, making them almost unable to breathe. They clutched their stomachs tightly and groaned, trying to ease the sudden pain.

"Uh, what's going on... Rubik's Cube..."

Martin coughed up blood, endured the burning pain inside, and uttered confused questions.

"Windsor..., you...are you okay..."

Martin looked at Windsor aside, and his eyes were fixed. He had never seen Windsor with such a twisted and ferocious face.

Fear and horror flowed in Windsor's eyes. Her pupils dilated, and the edges of her pupils seemed to be lit by invisible will-o'-wisps, flashing with an unsettling light.

Her lips trembled and the corners of her mouth opened slightly, as if she wanted to shout, but was tightly suppressed by an invisible force, and she could only let out a few unclear roars. The blood on her face faded, leaving a pale, paper-like background, making her face even more ferocious and terrifying.

There were fine beads of sweat on his forehead, pouring out of the pores of his skin as if aroused by the emotion of fear. Her skin became tight with fear, as if it might be pulled apart by an indescribable force at any time.

"Three hundred and sixty-five thousand eyes, with a face brighter than the sun... Infinite eternal recurrence, Möbius strip, ah, it is you, you are the twisted one, the intersection of abyss and stars, You are the embodiment of the unknown and secret; you are one sided, but endless. Your twisted ring is like the river of time, leading us to the endless future; on your ring, time and space are distorted, dimensions are inverted, terror and joy Fusion in the ineffable..."

Windsor held his head in his hands, kowtowing crazily forward, his head bleeding from the intoxication.

The noise here is so loud, but no one in the casino seems to have noticed it, as if this is a place isolated from reality.

"Windsor! Windsor!!!" Martin wanted to stop the self-abuse Windsor, but his injury did not allow him to do so.

"Holy! Holy! Holy!!!" Windsor's face became even more crazy.

"What happened to you."

Martin only felt a sense of absurdity at this moment. He had just started to activate the Rubik's Cube, and then the person flew out and the Rubik's Cube disappeared.

And even more absurd things were still happening. A young man with blond hair and golden eyes stood in front of the two of them at some point. He was playing with a twisted Rubik's Cube as if nothing had happened. It was... [The Imprisoned Rubik's Cube].

Martin saw the blond young man playing with the Rubik's Cube while striding towards the crazy and frightened Windsor. A terrifying purple-gold figure floated out of the blond young man's body like a spirit behind him. The purple-gold figure stretched out his huge right hand and pressed down on Windsor. on the head, and then, the crazy girl began to calm down and fell into a deep sleep.

"The design of this type of [indulgence coupon] is quite unreasonable. Isn't it equipped with an automatic switch and a threshold protection valve? With such high spiritual perception, even the [reverse reality] and [reverse reality] of the [Mobius strip] [Metatron] can see it. These [elements] are not something that normal people can see. She is no longer as simple as seeking death. In Terra, it is not that the more things you see, the more powerful you are; On the contrary, the less you can see, the longer you are likely to live.”

The blond young man looked at Windsor and murmured to himself. Martin felt that the other person said it to him on purpose. He vaguely felt that the less he saw, the longer he would live. It was him who said that.

"You...are you..." Martin endured the pain and struggled to ask the blond young man. At this moment, his internal organs seemed to be rolling in magma, and the pain was indescribable and unbearable.

The hot pain was like a poisonous snake, wrapping around every corner of the body, not sparing an inch of flesh.

Even in this situation, Martin still retained a glimmer of hope. His eyes were always fixed on the opponent's hand that was solving the Rubik's Cube.

Snapped--

With a crisp sound, Xia Xiu had restored the Rubik's Cube, and Martin's eyes glowed with excitement, the opportunity to fight back...

"You seem to be very excited because after I restore the Rubik's Cube, what mechanism will be triggered? For example, I will force you to hold it for a period of time and keep playing with it to satisfy its wolf-like hunger. Otherwise, you will suffer. Have you seen its backlash? Or does it have other more interesting mechanisms?" The holder of [Hand of Supremacy], the fourth sword holder of the Kingdom of Heaven, asked the dull-eyed Martin with a curious look on his face.

"···ah?"

The blond young man threw the Rubik's Cube in his hand and continued:

"It seems that I guessed it right. After the Rubik's Cube is restored, there are mandatory conditions. This is always the case for these abnormally high-risk items. None of them have relatively normal driving conditions, either strange, unsatisfactory, or unreasonable... , none of them are good tools to settle down.”

"You...what are you..."

"Well, you ask me who I am, but my ineffective subordinates have entrusted your care, and the work progress has not been advanced at all. Instead, they all went to the hospital for vacation due to illness. However, there has not been any attrition on their side. It seems that the composition of the [Salvation Army] is more complicated than I imagined, and there are also simple brats. So, don’t worry, I won’t kill you, at least not now." Xia Xiu said to Martin replied with a smile.

After Martin heard the words of the blond young man, he instantly understood what the other party represented.

"Heaven..."

"Although time and space will produce a sense of lag in [Inverted Reality], distorting other people's time concepts, it is very suitable for interrogation and isolation fights. However, my schedule is really busy, and the two mascots outside have also been slightly I noticed something was wrong. I just took a look at the room inside, and the person inside was a fake, so I'll make it short and explain it to you."

"Children, you are under arrest. Now, you will be given leniency if you confess, and stricter if you resist!" The blond young man scolded Martin with a serious look on his face.

"I···"

Martin opened his mouth to say something. However, before he could finish his words, the blond young man interrupted him.

"Forget it, it's better for me to see it myself."

"······"

Martin raised his lips and wanted to say something, but Xia Xiu had already planned to use a more direct method to get the information he wanted from the other party.

He put his hand on the boy's head.

"Thinking eastward and westward, Francis Delacroix is ​​quite afraid of death. Let me see where the real Francis Delacroix is ​​hiding. How he got involved with you [The Salvation Army]. And , all the information about this Rubik’s Cube, all you have——”

"What do you want to do..."

Martin subconsciously raised his eyes to look at the blond young man, and found a strange rune emerging from the other's golden eyes. The rune contained two intersecting triangles and an inverted half-moon pattern.

"Timing control·time insight——"

"The traceback begins!" 』

Martin only felt that time was beginning to reverse like an ancient scroll, the world was beginning to be rewoven, and everything was back to the past.

The scene began to regress, people's actions were reversed, their steps regressed, and their expressions gradually became younger until they returned to their original appearance. The words are swallowed up by the rewind of time, and the sound flows upstream, sinks into the throat, and returns to the tip of the tongue. Everything seems to be returning to the moment it all started, and the arrow of time is inserted back into the string of time.

boom--

Along with a dull hum, time began to freeze in a picture.

In the picture, Martin is in a dimly lit room. The decoration of this room is modern, but candles are lit instead of electric lights at night.

The dim room is filled with faint candlelight, illuminating every corner of the modern décor.

There is a calm painting hanging on the wall. The figure in the frame seems to be looming in the dim light, and it seems that he may step out of the frame at any time. It is a portrait of a red-haired girl, a heroic female knight holding a gorgeous cross sword.

There was an unread book placed on the coffee table in the center of the room. The writing on the pages shone with an alluring and mysterious color in the dim light. On the chair next to the coffee table, a coat covered with soft suede was gently placed on the armrest. A man whose face could not be seen clearly was flipping through an ancient book.

Within Martin's field of vision, he could only vaguely see the pen name [Prince of Joy] at the end of the book.

Snapped--

"Martin, don't peep too much into the unknown. It's dangerous."

A soft male voice sounded, and Martin turned his head sheepishly and said with a smile:

"I understand, Pope. I just want to ask you what you promised me before..."

"Don't call me Pope. Although there are not many people in the [Salvation Army] with the title and framework of the Pope, they are not few either. Without the unique Pope, there would be no highest authority and personality, and naturally there would be no I cannot bear the title of Pope, the supreme leader." The man in the shadow corrected Martin's question.

"But we only recognize you." Martin whispered.

The man in the shadow just smiled and shook his head. He handed Martin a Rubik's Cube and an old piece of white paper.

"You are the champion of the Monte Carlo National Rubik's Cube Competition. This thing is very suitable for you. With it, you can catch up with Windsor."

"It has nothing to do with Windsor! I joined the [Salvation Army] voluntarily, not for her!"

Martin replied arrogantly, and then took the Rubik's Cube and the white paper handed over by the man. His eyes subconsciously looked at the contents of the white paper.

——"The Imprisoned Rubik's Cube"——

Feature 1: Rubik’s Cube Racing.

When the holder activates this feature, everyone within 2000 meters in diameter will receive one or more replica Rubik's Cubes. Subsequently, everyone will race to restore the Rubik's Cube at levels 3 to 6, blindly twist the Rubik's Cube, solve the Rubik's Cube with footprints, and single-handedly solve the Rubik's Cube. One of the manual solving of the Rubik's Cube and the multi-blind solving of the Rubik's Cube is randomly selected to compete. The one with the shortest time can choose whether to imprison the soul of the loser.

Note: Cube racing is difficult to force high-level cube thaumaturges to compete.

Feature 2: Confined space.

The consciousness of losers trapped in the prison space will be instantly blinded. No matter how long the time passes, they will only feel that a moment has passed (the physical wear and tear will increase with the increase of the prison time). It is difficult for the imprisoned person to escape from the prison space. Actively break free unless the winner decides to free them.

Note: The winner can enter the imprisoned loser's space and choose whether to be executed.

Characteristic three: seconds reducer.

The owner of the Rubik's Cube will receive a 1 to 5 second reduction privilege after playing it for three consecutive days. This privilege can be used in racing competitions.

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"I told you, this suits you."

The gentle voice sounded again, and the flashback picture was fixed on Martin's extremely excited face.

Click——

The traceback screen crashes.

Martin's memory began to move forward slowly, and new memory scenes slowly appeared again.