Extraordinary Pedigree.

Chapter 356: Imprisoned Rubik's Cube
Windsor's voice was as sharp as a blade, piercing people's eardrums and making their hearts vibrate involuntarily.Her eyes were wide open, full of unspeakable fear, and the pupils dilated to the limit, swallowing the entire white of her eyes.Her face was as pale as paper, and thin cold sweat rolled down her forehead like tears of fear.

The lights of the casino became even dimmer, as if frightened by the girls' frightened sounds.

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

"Om—"

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

"Time Slot—"

『Time Distortion·Pause! 』

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 gaming table, gorgeous lighting, and laid out cards seem to be tightly held by a huge invisible hand, and they are stagnant at this moment.

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

People in the casino pose in various poses. Some people are enjoying the joy of winning with slightly raised mouth corners; 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 and numbers on the playing cards are magnified to the limit, and the subtle textures are clearly presented.The ball on the roulette table seems to be frozen at the highest point of the bounce, suspended there, waiting for the recovery of time.

The only ones in the casino who have color are a young man with blond hair and golden eyes, and the purple Time Demon God behind him.

The twisted Mobius ring flashed under Xia Xiu's feet, and in an instant, he stepped over the long spiral steps and came in front of a man and a woman.

An anxious look appeared on the boy's face, his brows were slightly furrowed, his eyes were fixed on the front, his lips were slightly parted, as if he was about to say something, but his voice was frozen by time and could not be conveyed.His body leaned forward slightly, as if he was ready to meet a sudden change at any time, however, the stillness of time prevented him from taking any action, and he could only struggle in this frozen time.

In contrast to him, the girl's expression was completely different.Her eyes were wide open, full of horror and fear.The mouth was slightly opened, as if to scream, but the sound could not come out.Her face was as pale as paper, and the thin beads of sweat on her forehead glistened, as if shed from the great pressure and fear in her heart.Her hands gripped the boy's arm tightly, as if trying to find comfort and support in her frightening predicament.

tick~
Xia Xiu stretched out his right hand and casually pushed aside a goblet that was floating and frozen in front of the two of them. Immediately afterwards, [Sisyphus] jumped out from behind him, and gently touched their stomachs. With one punch, their bodies bent into a weird angle, curled up like shrimp.

Their eyes were wide open, and the corners of their mouths were slightly opened, but they couldn't make a sound.

[Sisyphus] really gave two punches lightly, at least [-]% of the force was received, otherwise, relying on the mortal bodies of these two people, they might be beaten into blood mist and bones no deposit.

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 anomalous art, but a genuine high-risk anomaly control item.

When Xia Xiu's fingertips touched the [Imprisoned Rubik's Cube], crazy and distorted phantoms began to appear, and the colored blocks spun rapidly in their hands, making a low buzzing sound, as if singing an incomprehensible movement.

Xia Xiu quickly understood the meaning of the above, and he began to restore the Rubik's Cube without haste.

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

tick~
With the final loud countdown sound, the whole world began to become colorful again.

Time, resumed its flow again.

bang~
bang~
Time began 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 faces of the boy and the girl became even paler, with fine beads of sweat oozing from their foreheads, and the pain spread from their abdomens, making them almost unable to breathe.They clutched their stomachs tightly, moaning, trying to ease the sudden pain.

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

Martin coughed up blood, endured the burning pain inside, and uttered a blank question.

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

Martin looked at Windsor at the side, and his eyes froze. He had never seen Windsor with such a distorted 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 was about to shout, but was tightly suppressed by an invisible force, and she could only let out a few indistinct growls.The blood on her face receded, leaving a paper-pale background, making her face even more hideous 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.

"Thirty-sixty-five thousand eyes, whose face is brighter than the sun..., infinite eternal return, Mobius ring, ah, it is you, you are the twisted one, the meeting of the abyss and the stars is the unknown The incarnation of secrets; you are one side, but endless, your twisted ring is like a river of time, leading us to an infinite future; in your ring, time and space are distorted, dimensions are inverted, terror and joy are inseparable Speech merges..."

Windsor held her head in her hands, kowtowed frantically towards the front, her head was bleeding from the nibbling.

The noise here is so loud, but everyone in the casino seems to have never noticed it, as if this place is isolated from reality.

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

"Holy! Holy! Holy!!!" Windsor's face became even crazier.

"What happened to you."

At this moment, Martin only felt absurd. Obviously, 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 are still happening. A young man with blond hair and golden eyes is standing in front of the two of them at some point. He is playing with a distorted Rubik's Cube as if nothing had happened. It is... [Imprisoned Rubik's Cube].

Martin saw the blond young man playing with 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 ghost behind him. The purple-gold figure stretched out its huge right hand and pressed Windsor Then, the crazy girl began to regain her composure 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 see, the longer you are likely to live.”

The blond-haired young man looked at Windsor and muttered to himself. Martin felt that the other party said it deliberately for himself. He vaguely felt that the less he saw, the longer he lived. It was him who said it.

"You...you are..." Martin struggled to resist the pain and asked 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, entangled in every corner of the body, not letting go of an inch of flesh.

But even in such a situation, Martin still kept a glimmer of hope, and his eyes were fixed on the opponent's hand that solved the Rubik's Cube.

Snapped--

With a crisp sound, Xia Xiu has 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 recover the Rubik's Cube, what mechanism will it trigger? For example, I am forced to hold it for a period of time, and keep playing with it to satisfy its wolf-like hunger, otherwise, I will suffer See its backlash? Or does it have other more interesting mechanisms?" The holder of [Supreme Hand], the fourth sword-bearer in the kingdom of heaven, asked Martin, who had dull eyes, curiously.

"···what?"

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 the hell are you... are..."

"Well, you still ask who I am. My incompetent subordinates have entrusted you to take care of them. The work progress has not progressed at all. Instead, they all went to the hospital for vacation with illness. However, there has not been any downsizing on their side. In the current situation, it seems that the composition of [The Salvation Army] is more complicated than I imagined, and there are also simple little ghosts. So, don't worry, I won't kill you, at least not now." Xia Xiu faced Martin smiled back.

After Martin heard the words of the blond-haired youth, he instantly understood what the other party represented.

"Heaven..."

"Although time and space will produce a sense of lag in [reversed reality], distorting the time concept of others, it is very suitable for interrogation and isolation fights. However, my schedule is really fast, and the two mascots outside have also been a little I noticed something was wrong, I just took a look at the room inside, and the person inside is a fake, so I will make a long story short and explain it to you."

"Son, you have been arrested. Now, you will be lenient when you confess, and stricter when you resist!" the blond young man scolded Martin with a serious face.

"I···"

Martin opened his mouth to say something.However, before he finished speaking, the blond youth interrupted his words.

"Forget it, I'd better look at it myself."

"..."

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

His hands rested on the boy's head.

"Francis Delacroix is ​​terrified of death, let me see where the real Francis Delacroix is ​​hiding. How he gets mixed up with you [Salvation Army]. And , all the information about this Rubik’s Cube, all your—”

"What do you want..."

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

"Sequential Control·Time Insight—"

"The backtracking begins! 』

Martin only felt that time began to reverse like an ancient scroll, the world began to re-weave, and everything returned 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.Words are swallowed by the backwardness of time, and the voice goes upstream, sinks into the throat, and returns to the tip of the tongue.Everything seems to be returning to the moment when everything 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 the night here is lit by candles instead of electric lights.

The dimly lit room is filled with faint candle light, illuminating the nooks and corners of the modern decor.

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 line of sight, he could only vaguely see the pseudonym of [Prince of Pleasure] at the end of the book.

Snapped--

"Martin, don't look 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, and he handed Martin a Rubik's Cube and an old 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 blank paper handed over by the man, his eyes subconsciously looking at the contents of the blank paper.

——"The Imprisoned Rubik's Cube"——

Feature [-]: 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: Rubik's Cube Race is difficult to force a high-level thaumaturgy to compete.

Feature [-]: Prison 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.

Feature [-]: The second reducer.

The holder of the Rubik's Cube body, after playing for three consecutive days, will get the privilege of reducing seconds by 1~5 seconds, which can be used in racing competitions.

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"I said, this suits you very well."

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

click-

Backtracking screen crashes.

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

(End of this chapter)