Chapter 10: Restore the Rubik's Cube
Ever since he entered the academy, Du Kang had been trying to solve this sixth-order Rubik's Cube. Pen Fun Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info
But unfortunately, Du Kang found that he couldn't do it at all!
It was not impossible for Du Kang to solve the sixth-order Rubik's Cube, but Du Kang encountered two difficulties.
The first one is: no matter how hard he tries, the sixth-order Rubik's Cube is like a whole nailed inside, and it doesn't move at all.
Compared with the previous third-order Rubik's Cube, not only the level has changed, but even the colors of each side are completely different.
The second difficulty is that all of its faces are blue at the moment! If all sides are the same, there is no color distinction...... Can a Rubik's Cube still be a Rubik's Cube? How can you talk about unraveling it?
Obviously, this sixth-order Rubik's Cube is no longer a lucky Rubik's Cube that ordinary people can rotate, it has become a Magic Cube that requires magic power to continue to restore.
Du Kang felt that he could try again.
The first thing he tried was whether he could use magic to forcibly crack it without damaging the elemental structure inside. (You can think of an element as something like a molecule or atom.) )
Closing his eyes and feeling it carefully, Du Kang was taken aback.
After condensing the vortex of spiritual power, his perception of the world around him was completely different from the original.
For example, an ordinary dagger in Du Kang's hand, then what is seen with the naked eye is naturally the shape of a dagger, but under the perception of spiritual power, what is 'seen' is a tightly knit mass of metallic elements.
If Du Kang wanted to destroy an ordinary dagger, he only needed to inject magic to destroy the structure of the metallic elemental cluster, and he would be able to make the dagger fall apart, or even completely restore to a single elemental state. As long as the level of the metallic elemental cluster that made up this dagger did not exceed the magic control of the mage himself, theoretically speaking, this would be a no-brainer.
This is the same as fighting with magic, which is essentially destroyed by destroying the target's deep elemental structures.
For example, the magic power of the black robe is injected into Du Kang's body, if the black robe wants to, Du Kang's body can be turned into a piece of powder in minutes!
Or cast a magic attack, because the elemental level that makes up this magic itself exceeds the elemental level of Du Kang's body, and can also directly destroy Du Kang's body structure.
Depending on the effects of magic, the body may be shattered or annihilated.
Of course, the premise is that there must be a relatively large gap in strength between the two.
It is impossible to do so easily against elements of the same level.
Moreover, the offensive and defensive methods between the magicians are much more subtle, and the methods are more diverse and powerful.
But in essence, it is all the same truth.
But in the face of this sixth-order Rubik's Cube, Du Kang found that his magic power was injected into it, but it could not cause any movement in the elements that made up the Rubik's Cube.
There is only one reason for this situation, and that is that the elements that make up the Rubik's Cube are far beyond the control of Du Kang's magic power.
No matter how much magic Du Kang injects, the Rubik's Cube element will not change at all, let alone destroy it!
He also found that these Rubik's Cube elements were all bitten together in an extremely tight and complex way, which seemed to form a complex elemental lock!
In this way, Du Kang estimated that even if his magic power level was the same as that of this elemental level, it would be difficult to destroy it directly.
A loose earthen wall is naturally very different from a tamped earthen wall.
Therefore, with Du Kang's current magic, it will not work to use magic to destroy this way.
Du Kang gave up the naïve idea of forcible destruction. The master who wants to make this magic, I don't know how much more strength surpasses him, where can he be destroyed by just a magic apprentice?
He began to look for the differences in the various aspects of the sixth-order Rubik's Cube.
Since the color of the six sides of the Rubik's Cube is blue. Restoration can't be distinguished by color, then there must be another way!
Sure enough, after careful observation for a while, Du Kang noticed the differences in the various grids of this sixth-order Rubik's cube.
The difference lies in the elemental framework at the micro level.
On the flat surface of these lattices, Du Kang found that when he carefully observed with his mental power, he found six different patterns on the elemental level!
This discovery shocked Du Kang!
It is important to know that the elements, especially the same element, are not just mixed together to form a whole. It is necessary to have a reasonable structure in order to form a whole of rules.
In the case of gold, for example, when pure gold is produced, its shape is almost irregular!
If building an element model is writing on a large blackboard, then in the case of this Rubik's cube grid, it is equivalent to drawing on a grain of rice!
To make these squares so flat, and at the microscopic elemental level, to form six different diagrams, it is not visible to the naked eye at all...... The person who made this Rubik's Cube is absolutely a master of magic!
After being shocked for a long time, Du Kang became helpless again.
This is because there are a total of 216 grids in this sixth-order Rubik's cube, which is composed of six elemental structures. In other words, if you want to restore it, you must put together the elements with the same pattern.
No wonder people say that the Rubik's Cube is a tool used to exercise mental power, just using mental power to observe the elemental structure of these lattices just now already made Du Kang feel a little tired. If you really want to restore it, then you have to do it?
Once you start to restore, you have to pay attention to where the different elements are located......
This is not like observing directly with the naked eye! You have to use your mental power to scan 216 grids at all times, and you have to memorize the patterns of various elemental levels.
Moreover, he had to inject magic power all the time to turn the square, and Du Kang couldn't imagine how difficult it was to restore this sixth-order Rubik's Cube.
"What if that master didn't use the elemental structure to form a pattern that could be observed by spiritual power, but instead used the number of elements or the arrangement direction instead of the color of the Rubik's cube to distinguish it?" Du Kang thought for himself, if the elemental structure that made up the six grids was changed to the number of them. The same number of element squares are on one side......
Du Kang shuddered at the thought of the tens of thousands of elements in each square, and the intricate arrangement of stars, and at the same time secretly rejoiced that he could still see a certain pattern under the close observation of his spiritual power.
After calming down a little, he began to try to restore the sixth-order Rubik's Cube.
The restoration of the sixth-order Rubik's Cube is actually not too complicated, at least that's what Du Kang thinks.
One of the most common methods is the "downgrade method", which uses any side of the Rubik's Cube as the top layer, which can be restored by reducing the order and then layering first.
Based on the previous low-level Rubik's cubes, the outermost layer can be restored with the third order.
When the center block, the top layer of the cross ridge, the top layer of the adjacent edges are interchanged, and the edges of the same color are merged, the fourth order can be restored.
When piecing the last pair of center blocks, the method used may be fifth-order.
Du Kang first chose to restore the center part, six center parts, each face has a total of 16 pieces, which means that the center part needs to be restored 96 pieces.
Taking a deep breath, a trace of magic appeared in Du Kang's palm, penetrating into the Rubik's Cube.
The block, which had been immobile, moved slowly after being infused with mana, but it was a little difficult to move.
It's as if you're not moving squares the size of fingernails, but large grinding discs.
Originally, it was not difficult for Du Kang to restore the central part, but because of this, it took Du Kang nearly an hour to complete this first step.
After the first step was done, Du Kang gasped slightly, and a lot of sweat appeared on his forehead. Although only half of the magic power in the body is left, the result is gratifying, all sides of the Rubik's Cube are still blue, but under careful observation, the central part of the six sides has come out.
After a short rest, Du Kang began the second step.
Restore twelve edges.
Each side is made up of four squares, and Du Kang needs to complete the movement transformation of forty-eight squares.
This step is more difficult than the first because it is easy to make mistakes. If you make a mistake, you have to add more steps, and the mana will inevitably be consumed more than the first step.
So the second step is that Du Kang walks very cautiously.
"Click~"
All that remained in the room was the sound of the cubes turning, and suddenly, Du Kang's palm stopped. He felt it carefully, and suddenly frowned.
He took the wrong step!
This meant that in order to complete the second step, he would need to expend more mana and mental power than before.
I patted my forehead with a headache, but I found that I didn't know when my forehead was full of sweat. It's even dripping into the eyes.
When he came back to his senses, Du Kang felt an extremely strong sense of exhaustion invade, and even a heavy scene appeared in front of him.
Feeling the sea of knowledge carefully, the rotation speed of the spiritual power vortex has dropped to one-third of the average, and the magic power is only a pitiful twenties.
If it continues like this, I'm afraid that before I finish solving this Rubik's Cube, I will fall into a dangerous situation.
The difference between magicians and ordinary people is that if the mental power of ordinary people is consumed to a certain extent, the body will be unable to bear it, and they will be extremely resistant to continuing to do things that damage their mental power. In general, it is difficult to have mental exhaustion to the point of coma.
But magicians are different, after condensing their spiritual power, the upper limit of their spiritual power will be greatly increased compared to ordinary people. However, the lower limit of using mental power will also be greatly increased. There have even been cases in history where death has been caused by the overuse of mental power.
After thinking about it, Du Kang carefully observed the sixth-order Rubik's Cube, remembered what step he had made now, and began to close his eyes and meditate to recover.
This time the meditation ended faster than usual, and Du Kang found that the upper limit of his mental power was a little higher than usual, because the direct manifestation was that the magic value increased! Reached fifty-five points! And I don't know if it was because of twisting the Rubik's Cube, Du Kang found that his control of magic power was also much more proficient than usual.
"It seems that unlocking the Rubik's Cube is also a good way to exercise your mental strength. Du Kang thought.
At this time, Du Kang didn't know that a positioning bird with a magic letterhead appeared in the Norton Mage Tower. However, since he couldn't find the target person, he could only keep hovering somewhere in the Norton Mage Tower.
In the room, sensing his physical condition, Du Kang continued to meditate and recover. After restoring his mental power to his peak state, he continued to pounce on the huge project that he unlocked.
With the experience of the first and second steps, Du Kang soon completed the second step.
Now, the sixth-order Rubik's Cube can be restored by restoring the third-order Rubik's Cube.
There is only the last and easiest step left in the whole restoration process.
Du Kang grinned and began the final restoration.