Windsor's voice was as sharp as a knife, piercing people's eardrums and causing their hearts to flutter involuntarily. Her eyes widened with unspeakable fear, and her pupils dilated to the limit, devouring the entire whites 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 were even more dim, as if frightened by the frightened sound of the girls.

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

"Hum—"

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

"Time Sink—"

"Time Warp: Pause!"

Tick ~ tick ~ In the bustle of the casino, time seems to be suddenly torn apart, and the whole scene is frozen in a moment of silence.

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

The gorgeous gaming table, the brilliant lights, and the cards laid out seemed to be tightly pinched by a huge invisible hand, and they stopped at this moment.

The colorful world is stripped away, and the whole world is reduced to the ancient monotonous cinematic quality.

The people in the casino were in various poses, and some people had their mouths slightly raised, enjoying the joy of victory; Someone's face became nervous and he was hesitating to place a bet; Someone is holding chips in their hands and is getting ready to gamble.

These gestures are eternally continued in this picture of time stagnation, as if it were a frozen painting.

The playing cards are suspended in the air, like a shining beam, and the suits 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 seems to be frozen at the highest point of the bounce, suspended there, waiting for time to recover.

The only two people who have color in the casino are a young man with blond hair and golden eyes, and the purple demon god of time behind him.

The twisted Möbius ring flashed from under Xia Xiu's feet, and in an instant, he stepped over the long spiral staircase to a man and a woman.

An anxious look appeared on the boy's face, his brow furrowed slightly, his eyes staring straight ahead, his lips slightly open, 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 ready for a sudden change, however, the stillness of time prevented him from taking any action, and he could only struggle in this frozen time.

On the other hand, the girl's expression was completely different. Her eyes widened, and her gaze was full of horror and fear. The mouth opened slightly, as if to scream, but the sound could not be heard. Her face was as pale as paper, and the fine beads of sweat on her forehead shimmered, as if they were shed by the great pressure and fear in her heart. Her hand gripped the boy's arm tightly, as if trying to seek a shred of comfort and support from the predicament of fear.

Tick~

Xia Xiu stretched out his right hand and casually picked up a goblet that was floating in front of the two of them, and then [Sisyphus] jumped out from behind him and punched each of them lightly in the abdomen, their bodies bent into a strange angle, curled up like shrimp.

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

[Sisyphus] really gave two punches gently, at least ninety percent of the force, otherwise, with the mortal bodies of these two people, they might be directly beaten into a blood mist, and there would be no bones left.

While [Sisyphus] was teaching the bear child, Xia Xiu had already reached out and taken the so-called [Imprisoned Rubik's Cube] from Martin's hand, as a good student who had studied [Anomalous Art Discipline] in the Deer Academy, he sensed the familiar thaumaturgic code on this Rubik's Cube.

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

This is no longer anart, but a genuine high-risk anomaly controlled object.

When Xia Xiu's fingertips touched the [Imprisoned Rubik's Cube], crazy and distorted visions began to appear, and the colored pieces spun rapidly in their hands, emitting a low humming sound, as if chanting an incomprehensible music.

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

At this moment, the stagnant world has passed 9.94 seconds.

Tick~

With the last loud countdown, the world began to become colorful again.

time, again to resume flowing.

Bang~

Bang~

Time began to flow again, and with a loud bang, the boys and girls' bodies slammed into the walls and doors behind the private rooms of the casino, as if they had been ejected. The walls and doors shook as if they were about to be pierced by their impact, making a dull sound. Their bodies slammed into the wall like stones, then slid heavily to the ground, leaving visible scratches on their tracks.

The boys and girls turned even paler, fine beads of sweat oozed from their foreheads, and pain spread from their abdomen, making it almost impossible for them to breathe. They clutched their stomachs tightly and groaned, trying to relieve the sudden pain.

"Uh, it's... What's going on... Rubik's Cube..."

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

"Windsor, you... Are you alright..."

Martin looked at Windsor to the side, his gaze froze, he had never seen Windsor with such a distorted and hideous face.

Fear and horror swirled in Windsor's eyes, her pupils dilated, and the edges of her pupils shimmered with an unsettling glow as if they had been ignited by an invisible ghostfire.

Her lips trembled, and the corners of her mouth opened slightly, as if she was about to cry, but she was tightly suppressed by an invisible force, and could only let out a few indistinct roars. The blood on her face receded, leaving a pale as paper, making her face even more hideous.

Fine beads of sweat oozed from his forehead, as if inspired by fear, gushing out of the pores of his skin. Her skin tightened with fear, as if it could be pulled apart by an indescribable force at any moment.

"Thirty-six thousand eyes, whose countenance is more brilliant than the sun... You are one-sided, yet endless, and your twisted ring is like a river of time, leading us to the boundless future; On your ring, space-time is distorted, dimensions are inverted, horror and pleasure merge in the unspeakable..."

Windsor held her head in her hands and kowtowed frantically to the front, her head bleeding.

The noise was so loud that everyone in the casino didn't seem to notice it, as if it was a place of isolation from reality.

"Windsor! Windsor!!! Martin tried to stop the masochistic Windsor, but his injuries didn't allow him to do so.

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

"You're here... What's going on. ”

Martin only felt a sense of absurdity at the moment, 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 casually playing with a twisted Rubik's Cube, which is... [Imprison Rubik's Cube].

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

"This kind of [indulgence] design is quite unreasonable, isn't there an automatic switch and threshold protection valve installed? With such a high level of spiritual perception, even the [Reverse Reality] and [Metatron] of the [Mobius Ring] can be seen, these [elements] are not something that normal people can see, and she is no longer as simple as looking for death. In Terra, it's not like the more you see, the better you get; On the contrary, the less you can see, the longer you are likely to live. ”

The blonde young man looked at Windsor and muttered to himself, Martin felt that the other party had deliberately said it to himself, and he vaguely felt that the less he saw, the longer he lived.

"You... You are..." Martin struggled with pain and asked the blonde youth. At this moment, his internal organs seemed to be rolling in magma, and the pain was indescribable and unbearable.

The heat and pain were like poisonous snakes, wrapped around every corner of the body, not sparing an inch of flesh and skin.

And even in this situation, Martin still retains a glimmer of hope, and his eyes have been firmly fixed on the other party's hand that solves the Rubik's Cube.

Smack-

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

"You seem to be excited, because after I restore the Rubik's Cube, what mechanism will trigger it? For example, to force it to hold it for a certain period of time, and keep playing with it, to satisfy its wolf-like hunger, or else, it will be counterattacked? Or does it have other mechanics that are more fun? "The holder of the [Supreme Hand], the fourth sword-wielder of the Heavenly Kingdom, asked the glazed Martin with a curious expression.

“··· Yes? ”

The blonde youth threw the Rubik's Cube in his hand and continued:

"It seems that I guessed correctly, after the Rubik's Cube is restored, there are mandatory conditions. These unusually high-risk items are always like this, none of them have relatively normal driving conditions, or they are strange, or they are dissatisfied, or they are vexatious... ”

"You... What the hell are you... Yes..."

"Well, you still ask me who I am, but my subordinates who are not successful have entrusted your care, and the progress of the work has not been advanced at all, but they have all been sick and taken to the hospital for vacation. However, there was no attrition on their side, and it seems that the composition of [the Salvation Army] is more complex than I imagined, and there are simple imps. So, don't worry, I'm not going to kill you, at least not yet. Xia Xiu replied with a smile at Martin.

And after Martin heard the blonde youth's words, he instantly understood what the other party represented.

"Kingdom of Heaven..."

"Although time and space in [Reverse Reality] create a sense of lag and distort the perception of time in others, it is very suitable for interrogation and isolation fights. However, my itinerary is really rushed, and the two mascots outside have already noticed a little bit wrong, and I just glanced at the room inside, and the person inside is a fake, so I'll make a long story short and explain it to you. ”

"Child, you have been arrested, now, confess leniently, resist strictly!" The blonde youth scolded Martin with a serious face.

"I..."

Martin opened his mouth to say something. However, before he could finish his sentence, the blonde youth interrupted him.

"Forget it, I'd better see it myself a little faster."

“······”

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

His hand rested on the boy's skull.

"Francis Delacroix is quite afraid of death, let me see where the real Francis de Lacroix is hiding. How he got involved with you [Salvation Army]. And, all the information about this Rubik's Cube, all your-"

"What do you want to do... What..."

Martin subconsciously raised his eyes to look at the blonde youth, and found that the other party's golden eyes appeared a strange rune, the rune contained two intersecting triangles and an inverted half-moon pattern.

"Timing Control and Time Insight——"

"Backtracking begins!"

Martin only felt that time was beginning to reverse like an ancient picture, the world began to reweave, and everything went back to the past.

The scene began to recede, people's actions were reversed, their steps regressed, and their expressions gradually became younger, until they returned to their original appearance. Words are swallowed up by the retrospection of time, and the sound swims upstream, sinking into the throat and back to the tip of the tongue. Everything seems to be returning to the moment when it all began, and the arrow of time is inserted backwards into the strings of time.

Bang –

With a dull grunt, time begins to freeze in a frame.

In the picture, Martin is in a dimly lit room, which is decorated in a modern style, but where candles are lit instead of electric lights at night.

The dimly lit room is filled with a faint candle light that illuminates the nooks and crannies of the modern décor.

Hanging on the wall is a silent painting, the frame of which seems to loom in the faint light, as if it could come out of the frame at any moment, a portrait of a redhead with a heroic female knight holding an ornate crosssword.

On the coffee table in the center of the room sits an unread book, the handwriting on the pages shimmering seductively mystically in the dim light. On a chair next to the coffee table, a jacket draped in soft suede rests lightly on the armrest, and a man whose face is hard to see is flipping through a quaint book.

Within Martin's line of sight, he could only faintly see the pen name of [Prince of Pleasure] at the end of the book.

Smack-

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

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

"I see, Pope. I just wanted to ask you what you promised me before..."

"Don't call me the Pope, there are not many people in [The Salvation Army] who have the name and framework of the Pope, but they are not few. Without a unique pope, there would be no supreme authority and person, and naturally he would not be able to afford the title of the supreme leader of the pope. "The man in the shadows corrected Martin's problem.

"But we only recognize you." Martin muttered quietly.

The man in the shadows just smiled and shook his head, and he handed Martin a Rubik's cube and an old piece of white paper.

"You're the winner of the Monte Carlo National Rubik's Cube Competition, this thing is perfect for you, and with it, you can catch up with Windsor."

"It has nothing to do with Windsor! I volunteered to join [The Salvation Army], not for her! ”

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

- "Imprisoned Rubik's Cube" -

Feature 1: Rubik's Cube Racing.

When the holder activates this feature, everyone within 2000 meters in diameter will get one or more replica Rubik's Cubes, and then, everyone will participate in the 3~6 Rubik's Cube Recovery Race, Blind Twisting Rubik's Cube, Footprint Puzzle Cube, One-handed Rubik's Cube, and Multi-Blind Magic Cube to randomly choose one of the competition, and the shortest person can choose whether to imprison the soul of the loser.

Note: Cube racing is very difficult to force a high-ranking gethaumaturgist to play.

Feature 2: Imprisoned space.

The loser who is trapped in the captive space will be blinded by an instant, no matter how much time has passed, they will only feel that a moment has passed, (the physical wear and tear will increase with the increase of the captivity time), and it will be difficult for the imprisoned to actively break free from the captive space, unless the winner decides to free them.

Note: The winner can enter the imprisoned loser's space to choose whether or not to be executed.

Feature 3: Second-miner.

The holder of the Rubik's Cube will receive a 1~5 second reduction privilege after playing for three consecutive days, which can be used in racing matches.

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"As I said, it's for you."

The gentle voice rang out again, and the flashback was fixed on Martin's excited face.

Click-

The backtracking screen crashes.

Martin's memory began to slowly move forward, and a new image of the memory slowly reappeared.

(End of chapter)