Chapter 42 – Green Dice

【"My head... hurts a lot."】

The pain was comparable to the use of the ruler of truth.

But this time, it wasn't the overwhelming pain that spread throughout his body, but only a headache.

To be precise, it was a neck pain.

His neck felt like it was being tightly bound by a thread, with a faint stabbing and squeezing pain.

【"I don't feel anything in other parts. Is it numb?"】

Gu Shen slowly opened his eyes.

In front of him was a transparent mirror, reflecting his current appearance...

After seeing it clearly, Gu Shen's face turned pale...

In the mirror was a familiar face, just a familiar face.

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He was left with only a head.

There was nothing else, no torso, arms, or limbs, so he only felt pain in his neck, with no sensation in other parts... he had lost his limbs and was left with only a head.

Memories flooded in like a tide.

He immediately realized that he was in a dream... and the reason he fell into the dream was because he touched the seemingly harmless magic cube. At the moment he held up the magic cube, his eyes sparkled with the splashing brilliance of the cube.

Then, the cube started spinning wildly, taking him into the dream!

"Hoo..."

"Hoo..."

Gu Shen took a deep breath, calming himself down.

He thought that after experiencing two dreams, nothing would surprise him anymore, but the scene in front of him was still too shocking. He, with only a head left, still had a complete consciousness.

"There are dreams like this too... Am I too naive?"

Gu Shen slowly moved his head and found that he was imprisoned in an environment similar to a closed box. The six sides, up and down, were all mirrors reflecting his appearance, showing different images of his head.

The seemingly harmless cube was actually the most dangerous?

Looking at the pale face in the mirror, Gu Shen smiled.

"Chu Ling didn't appear, nor did I hear her voice..." He waited quietly for a while and quickly regained his composure. "It seems that she didn't establish a connection, so I can only rely on myself in this dream."

In fact, Gu Shen never thought that he needed Chu Ling's power for this assessment.

The more dangerous the situation, the more rational he became... Although he no longer had a chest, Gu Shen still felt his blood boiling, and he even faintly felt a sense of freshness and anticipation.

"Interesting..."

Having lost his limbs and left with only a head.

He couldn't move or escape, he could only be imprisoned here.

"The magic cube is restored, and it started to scramble after I touched it."

Gu Shen narrowed his eyes. This was the last piece of information he could obtain in reality. Memories paused one by one, and he recalled the scene of the splashing and twisting of the magic cube, which was the initial trajectory he saw.

Then, he remembered the words of the members of the assessment group.

"Regarding deciphering dreams... I have completed the first step," Gu Shen murmured to himself. "I woke up in the dream and realized that everything here is illusory... Next, I need to find patterns, the peculiarities."

The space here was unusually narrow and suffocating.

But because of this... the scope of the search was narrowed down. There were almost no other clues here, except for the mirrors.

"The mirrors... are the only clues. Up, down, left, right, front, back, a total of six sides, corresponding exactly to the blocks of the magic cube."

Gu Shen narrowed his eyes. "If the magic cube in reality is scrambled and affects the dream, then what I need to do is actually to piece it together. It doesn't seem difficult to guess."

The question was, how should he twist it?

"Will my actions affect the twisting..."

Gu Shen slowly moved forward, getting close to the mirror. After touching the mirror directly in front of him... a strange sensation appeared.

"Crack."

The whole world rotated... but only a part of it.

Gu Shen felt the pain in his neck disappear, but in its place, there was pain in his chest and waist... After the world rotated, his neck smoothly connected to his chest, but the range of pain became larger.

His left hand, right hand, left leg, right leg, all were in the mirror of "nothingness."

The box that imprisoned him also correspondingly became larger.

"Hmm... It is indeed twisting the mirror to restore the magic cube."

Gu Shen felt a bit weak.

After just one rotation of the mirror world, he felt as if his spirit had been cut. If he guessed correctly, each rotation would consume his mental power... If he tried aimlessly, his spirit would collapse before the magic cube was restored.

"The difficulty of this dream is much higher than the Awakening."

He finally understood what the members of the assessment group meant by intense characteristics. "In the Awakening, I can slowly comprehend, but here, every rotation of the mirror is torment."

He couldn't help but recall the other two sealed objects on the table. They were probably dream seals of the same level as this cube... This assessment was indeed very difficult.

"It's fortunate that no one is manipulating this cube... I still have time to think."

Gu Shen slowly organized his memories."The Rubik's cube's twisting trajectory was fast... but I remembered it... As long as I restore it according to the pattern, I can quickly complete the dream interpretation." He fell into an extremely calm state, ensuring that nothing could go wrong, he twisted the mirror surface again.

"Click."

This time, the connection between his chest and neck was severed, but the sensation in his left hand appeared out of nowhere... Gu Shen looked down at himself, like a wooden puppet that had been divided, each part of his body was embedded in the void mirror space. Only by connecting with his skull could he regain his intuition. At this point, he was certain.

The final condition for completing the dream interpretation was to restore all of his torso.

Following the trajectory in his memory, Gu Shen began to restore!

"Click."

"Click."

"Click."

......

......

"Among the three sealed items, the Green Dice should be the most time-consuming." The Redwood Judge looked at the young man with a complex expression, "I suggest... if Gu Shen does not complete the dream interpretation within four hours, we should end the review."

"Agreed." The rule-explaining reviewer spoke, "If he can really persist in the Green Dice for four hours... he is already stronger than most 'A' level."

"Zhao Lao is very interested in him, perhaps we can be more patient with him."

The Chief Justice spoke leisurely, "There are many who sleep in the Green Dice for two or three hours, let's wait for him to realize that he is in a dream... then start timing."

He had just finished speaking.

The Rubik's cube dice suddenly bounced.

The Redwood Judge's eyes brightened... what seemed like a casual move was not without method.

This was the first step in restoration.

"He's awake."

The judge was somewhat surprised, glanced at the time, and murmured: "Three minutes... he regained consciousness in the Green Dice. And he got the first step of the twist right! Did he remember the order of the Green Dice's scramble before entering the dream?"

"Perhaps it's just good luck." The Chief Justice smiled at his companion, lightly tapping the table, "Let's wait a little longer."

What followed... was a long five minutes.

Five minutes, no movement.

Just as everyone was preparing to once again welcome the long wait, the Rubik's cube turned again!

It was still the trajectory of restoration.

Then it was one after another.

"Click... Click... Click..."

The five members of the review team all showed incredulous looks.

Every turn of the Green Dice would bring mental pain... the frequency of this young man's turns remained stable, indicating that he had mastered the technique and firmly believed that he had made the right choice.

The judge had admiration and praise in his eyes: "This young man has a good memory... It seems that he really remembered the order of the Green Dice's scramble... and he's calm enough to recall the steps of restoration in this environment..."

However, there was more pity and regret in his eyes.

Every turn of the Green Dice would consume mental power, so it was very slow.

About ten minutes later.

All the twists were completed.

The Rubik's cube was restored to its original state, lying quietly in Gu Shen's hand.

And Gu Shen... did not wake up.

"This young man is really good."

"It's just a pity..."

"The colors of the cube can be painted over, the simplest way to restore a dice is to repaint it..."

The judge spoke with some regret, "This seemingly restored Green Dice, its internal space has long been scrambled. To completely restore it, it's not as simple as piecing it together according to the twisting trajectory."

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