Chapter 1 The Mysterious Cube
"Haha, I finally see hope!"
Looking at the white jade-colored crystal cube in front of him, Xu Tianming sighed in surprise.
Speaking of which, since the company went out for a group trip at the beginning of the year and picked up this treasure in a weed, Tianming felt that this thing would definitely be extraordinary.
Why do you say so?
First of all, from the outside, the spotless cube surface is covered with various mysterious runes, which are extremely profound.
The length, width and height of the cube are exactly the same, 12.6cm, which is a standard regular cube. The mass is about 0.5kg, which is very light, making Tianming think that it may be some kind of plastic product, but the special texture on the outside made Tianming give up this point of view. Moreover, Tianming also came to an important conclusion that the cube must be hollow, because when Tianming hits its shell, a certain echo can be vaguely heard inside.
In addition, the cube is sealed and there are no gaps on the outside.
So, I deeply realized that this small cube was a treasure for dawn. At the beginning, I was just doing something outside, observing its chemical composition and some physical properties, and finally came to a conclusion that I had no idea how to start.
Three days after taking the cube back to rent a house, Tianming bought dangerous goods such as sulfuric acid, caustic soda, wrench, vis and other tools, and prepared to give it a ultimate reveal.
If the knife cannot be cut into it, the acid and alkali will not melt, and the foot will not be damaged!
This is the conclusion drawn after a few days of research in Tianming.
It seems that Tianming has no way to use this small cube.
This also deepens Tianming's view that this small cube is a treasure.
Items with different responses must have different responses, and I will definitely discover the secret of this cube! Tianming and dark made up his mind.
After a few days of life, he returned to peace again. He had temporarily given up his mind and decided to study this treasure slowly in the future. Anyway, he had time.
So, after getting off work on time every day, Tianming returned to rent a house as quickly as possible, took the baby in his hand, and then collected various information on the Internet to study the source.
Half a month later, in a forum, everyone unanimously concluded that it was a glass product, a mysterious Rubik's Cube, or a handicraft, which disappointed Tianming. However, a netizen's sentence "It's a mysterious crystal of alien space" made Tianming's eyes lit up.
Time is the enemy of the greatest interest. After studying hard for a long time, Tianming, who has collected all kinds of information, still cannot unravel the secrets in the mysterious cube. He was disappointed and lived back to his previous life as a otakus, playing games, reading novels, and chasing anime.
The only habit that has increased is to play with the mysterious cube for a while before going to bed, and then put it next to the pillow, keeping it in a row. This has improved the quality of sleep a lot.
Who knew that one night three months later, at dawn in his sleep, I heard some strange sounds coming into his ears.
Like the sound of wind, the sound of flowing water, like the echoes coming from the empty valley.
Crisp, tranquil, broad, refreshing.
Tianming woke up, and when he opened his eyes, he saw the mysterious cube next to him. In the dark night, it was emitting a bright glow, illuminating Tianming's face.
I put my baby in my ears and listened for a long time, and I could no longer hear the sound I heard in my dream before.
"Oh" sighed.
Tianming, who couldn't sleep, played with the mysterious cube in his hand, approached his sight, and observed the mysterious runes on its surface. Runes were like ants moving in size, densely packed, and the interval between each rune was very small. It would be difficult to find their meaning and difference without looking closely.
Although I can't understand the meaning of the rune, it does not affect Tianming's interest. So at around 3 a.m. every day, Tianming, who is used to being awakened by strange sounds, gets up on time and sits by the bed, from 3 a.m. to 5 a.m., studying mysterious runes for 2 hours a day.
Over time, a few months later, Tianming made preliminary discoveries.
Although the number of runes exceeds nearly 10,000, after his careful observation, all runes are actually composed of 18 different basic runes. All runes, tens of thousands of runes are composed of these 18 different runes.
"So, the runes on the cube are not as complicated as imagined!"
Thinking of this, Tianming was extremely excited.
When the day dawn began to ponder the specific meaning of these 18 runes, one night, the day dawn made another shocking discovery.
He could actually control the runes that could not have changed and move.
This is a mysterious and dreamy feeling. A rune similar to the word "一" has moved a little under the control of the mind of Tianming.
In an instant, Tianming even vaguely saw an extended spiritual line, bound the rune, allowing it to move to the place where he wanted the rune to go.
In the sixth month after obtaining the mysterious cube, the mysterious cube undergoes a fundamental change! Tianming carried out various shuffling combinations based on the distribution of 18 basic runes on the cube. When he moved a rune similar to the word "big" to one side of the six sides of the cube in large batches, the cube is no longer a cube. The area of the "big" character increased on that side increased.
When the two opposite sides have a "big" character rune on one side and the other side does not have the rune on the other side, the cube begins to approach a pyramid-shaped structure, which is very magical.
At the beginning, Tianming could only operate 10 runes per day for movement, and it increased to 100 in half a month. Now, Tianming clearly felt that his spiritual consciousness had increased. After a short interval of rest, Tianming could move any runes without restrictions.
There are 18 runes, 16 of which can change the size of the cube, some can change its color, and some can change its transparency. Each rune has a relatively antisense rune, such as small corresponds to large, reflection corresponds to transparency, black corresponds to white, disappearance corresponds to curing, etc.
The only remaining one is a pair of runes that look like the Chinese character "Yuan" and the Chinese character "kou".
These two runes only appear in tens of thousands of runes, which are completely different from other runes, and are repeated many and repeated. It took Tianming a long time to distinguish them from the numerous runes.
The reason why we can distinguish it is because these two runes are different from other runes.
A pair of "yuan" and "mouth" are light green.
The other pair is black and gray.
Very special and rare!
"Are these runes the key to entering the mysterious cube?" Tianming's brain shuddered and suddenly realized.
After various arrangements and combinations of the two runes "yuan" and "mouth" were followed, no special changes were observed in Tianming.
Until one day, after hundreds of failures, Tianming conducted an experiment that was obviously different from before.
The "Yuan" character is slightly smaller than the "叶" character. Can you drag the "叶" into the "叶" character and combine it into a brand new rune? Tianming thought.
Although there has never been a phenomenon of runes overlap before, Tianming still made a brand new attempt.
Slowly, the "meta" character slowly approached the "mouth" character, contacted, began to merge, partially penetrated, overlapped, and succeeded!
A brand new "yuan" character combination was successful.
"Yeah! I knew it was like this." Tianming waved his fist excitedly.
Suddenly, an inexplicable suction came from the rune that had just been successfully combined.
The cube vibrated slightly, and a mysterious light suddenly shot towards Tianming's forehead! He didn't leave any time to react.
The light instantly sank into the forehead of dawn!
"bump!"
The cube fell to the ground, making a "sizzling" sound.
At this time, the sky was completely unaware of it.
A light called "Light of Law" shot into Tianming's brain. It seemed that in an instant, Tianming entered a mysterious and ethereal space, and saw countless rune elves jumping in front of him to show their style. Gravity, time, space, mass, repulsion, gravity... the principles of various laws were presented one by one before him, and he taught Tianming's knowledge of various laws.
He had an epiphany.
However, this phenomenon lasted less than half an hour. Under the impact of the enlarged information flow, the spiritual consciousness withdrew from the law space and fainted on the ground in an instant.
An hour later, Tianming slowly got up from the floor, shook his head, and shook the discomfort in his mind.
"Bing", Tianming snapped his fingers.
A magical scene appeared, and a strange crack appeared in front of Tianming. The gap less than 10 cm was quickly filled by endless darkness, and the crack disappeared.
"What a pity, so many laws have only understood one law of 'space'," Tianming said in a lost way.
"However, with this law space of less than 1 cubic meter, I can do a lot of things."
"From now, this will be my golden finger!"
"Hey, where is my baby cube?"
Soon, dawn picked up the cube that fell into the corner of the wall. The sizzling sound continued, and it was obvious that the cube was pumping the air in the environment.
The obvious atmospheric pressure siphon effect, I don’t know what world exists in the mysterious cube? Tianming and dark.
Tianming was not in a hurry to open the channel in the cube. Even though he had already understood the laws of space, he knew the way to enter.
The rune "park" was opened and the rune passage was closed. The sound of airflow disappeared immediately.
Until now, Tianming has understood at least three points from the laws of space.
1. There is a small space inside the small cube, and there may be another world inside.
2. Before going to another world, you should make some preliminary preparations before you can start the adventure.
3. This small space can only belong to me and must not be known to others.
On November 6, 2015, an unknown thing happened in a single rented house on an ordinary 5th floor, Building 6th Street, Tianling District, Suyun City. Xu Tianming, a citizen of Country H, owned a mysterious cube and obtained a superpower from the cube. This was a big news that shocked the world, but out of the principle of low-key behavior and high-profile behavior, Tianming made a private decision not to make it public. I hope the major media will forgive me...
Dingxing Software Technology Co., Ltd., manager's office.
"It's dawn, you want to resign. Can you explain why you want to resign?" Mr. Li asked regretfully.
As the company's best UI designer, Tianming has been staying in this IT company for 6 years since his internship in college until now. His outstanding technical capabilities have brought at least tens of millions of benefits to the company. To be honest, Mr. Li doesn't want Tianming to leave.
"There is no reason, it's just that I'm a little tired recently and want to quit my job and take a break for a while. I hope Mr. Li understands it."
"I can give you a month of paid leave. After I come back from the leave, I will increase your salary by 20%."
"Thank you, Mr. Li, for your importance to me, but this time you may have to take half a year off. If you travel around the country, you will not have any plans to go to work within half a year," Tianming said firmly.
"That's it, then okay. Tianming, if you are not used to staying in another company, the position of Dingxing's technical director is still yours."
Mr. Li still thinks that Tianming will switch to another company.
"Thank you, Mr. Li, I will."
Walking out of the company building, Tianming shook his head, looked back at the place where he had some feelings and said, "I am finally free!"
Chapter completed!