Chapter 1 "Head... It Hurts So Much."

A pain comparable to using the Ruler of Truth struck.

But this time, it wasn't an all-encompassing, earth-shattering pain, but just a headache.

More accurately, a neck ache.

Around his neck, it felt as if a silk thread was tightened, with faint stinging and strangling sensations.

["Other places... I can't feel anything. Am I numb?"]

Gu Shen slowly opened his eyes.

Before him was a transparent mirror, reflecting his current appearance...

After seeing it clearly, Gu Shen's face suddenly paled...

The mirror reflected a familiar face, and only a familiar face.

He was left with only a head.

Nothing else. No torso, arms, or limbs. So he only felt pain around his neck, and no sensation anywhere else... He had lost his limbs, leaving only a head.

Memories flooded back.

He immediately realized that he was in some kind of dream... and the reason he fell into the dream was that he touched the seemingly most harmless Rubik's Cube dice. The moment he picked up the Rubik's Cube dice, his eyes flashed with the brilliance of the dice.

Then, the dice frantically turned, taking him into the dream!

"Hoo..."

"Hoo..."

Gu Shen took two deep breaths to calm himself down.

He thought he had already experienced two dreams, and wouldn't be surprised by anything, but the scene before him was still too shocking. He was just a head, yet he still retained complete consciousness.

"There's even this kind of dream... Was I too naive?"

Gu Shen slowly moved his head. He found that he was imprisoned in an environment similar to a closed box. All six sides were mirrors reflecting his appearance, showing different looks of his head.

Was the most harmless dice actually the most dangerous?

Looking at the pale face in the mirror, Gu Shen tugged at the corner of his mouth and smiled.

"Chu Ling didn't appear, and I can't hear her voice..." He waited quietly for a while, and soon regained his composure. "It seems she's not connected, so this dream... I can only rely on myself."

In fact, Gu Shen never thought that this audit would require Chu Ling's strength.

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 faintly felt a sense of novelty and anticipation.

"Interesting..."

He had already lost his limbs, leaving only a head.

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

"The Rubik's Cube was restored, but after I touched it, it started to scramble itself."

Gu Shen narrowed his eyes. This was the last piece of information he could get in reality. Memories paused one by one, and he recalled the scene of the Rubik's Cube dice bursting and twisting. That was the initial trajectory of motion he saw.

Then, he remembered what the audit team members said.

"Regarding dream interpretation... I have completed the first step." Gu Shen murmured, "I woke up in the dream and realized that everything here is an illusion... Next, I have to find the pattern, that is, the special characteristics."

The space here was abnormally small, and suffocating.

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

"The mirror... is the only clue. Up, down, left, right, front, and back, a total of six sides, corresponding to the squares of the Rubik's Cube dice."

Gu Shen narrowed his eyes. "If the scrambled Rubik's Cube dice in reality will affect the dream, then what I have to do is actually piece it together. This doesn't seem hard to guess."

The question was, how to twist it?

"Will some kind of behavior of mine affect the twist..."

Gu Shen slowly moved forward. He was very close to the mirror. After touching the mirror directly in front of him... a strange feeling appeared.

"Crack."

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

Gu Shen felt the pain in his neck disappear, but it was replaced by pain in his chest, torso, and abdomen... After the world rotated, his neck successfully connected to his chest, but the range of pain was even greater.

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

The box imprisoning him had also become correspondingly larger.

"Well... it really is twisting the mirror, restoring the Rubik's Cube."

Gu Shen felt a little weak.

Just twisting the mirror world once made him feel as if his spirit had been scraped.

If he guessed correctly, each twist was a drain on his mental power... If he tried aimlessly, his spirit would collapse before he could restore the Rubik's Cube.

"The difficulty of this dream is much, much higher than Jingzhe."

He finally understood what the audit team members meant by intense characteristics. "Jingzhe can be comprehended slowly, but here, every turn of the mirror is torture."

He couldn't help but think of the other two sealed items on the table. They were probably dream sealed items of the same level as this dice... The difficulty of this audit was indeed very high.

"Fortunately, no one is manipulating this dice... I still have time to think."

Gu Shen slowly sorted out his memories.

"Although the Rubik's Cube's twisting trajectory is very fast... I have memorized it... As long as I restore it according to the pattern, I can complete the dream interpretation soon." He entered an extremely calm state, and after ensuring that nothing would go wrong, he twisted the mirror again.

"Crack."

This time the chest was disconnected from the neck, but the feeling of the left hand appeared out of thin air... Gu Shen looked down at himself, like a divided wooden man. Every part of his body was embedded in the void mirror space. Only by connecting with the head could he regain his intuition. At this point, he was already sure.

The final condition for completing the dream interpretation was to restore all the body parts.

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

"Crack."

"Crack."

"Crack."

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"Among the three sealed items, the Azure Dice should be the most time-consuming." Red Cedar Chief Judge looked at the boy, his expression complex. "I propose... if Gu Shen hasn't completed the dream interpretation within four hours, we should end the audit."

"Agreed." The auditor who explained the rules said, "If he can really persist in the Azure Dice for four hours... he is already stronger than most 'A' grades."

"Elder Zhao is very interested in him, perhaps we can reserve some more patience for him."

Grand Justice said leisurely, "There are many people who have slept in the Azure Dice for two or three hours. Let's wait for him to realize that he is in a dream... and then start timing."

He had just finished speaking.

The Rubik's Cube dice suddenly jumped.

The eyes of the Red Shirt Judge lit up... The seemingly casual movement was actually not without rules.

This was the first step in restoration.

"He's awake."

The Chief Judge was a little surprised, glanced at the time, and muttered, "Three minutes... He awakened his consciousness in the Azure Dice. And the first step in twisting was correct! Did he remember the order of the Azure Dice scrambling before entering the dream?"

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

Next... was a long five minutes.

Five minutes, no movement.

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

Still the trajectory of restoration.

Then it was one after another.

"Crack... Crack... Crack..."

All five members of the audit team showed incredible expressions.

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

The Chief Judge had appreciation and admiration in his eyes: "This young man has a good memory... It seems that he did remember the order of the Azure Dice scrambling... and he is calm enough to recall the restoration steps in this environment..."

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

Every turn of the Azure Dice consumed 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 appearance, lying quietly in Gu Shen's hand.

And Gu Shen... did not wake up.

"This young man is really good."

"It's a pity..."

"The colors of the squares can be涂抹 (tu mo,涂抹 means to smear or scribble), the easiest way to restore a dice is to repaint it..."

The Chief Judge said with some regret, "This Azure Dice, which seems to have been restored on the outside, has had its internal space scrambled long ago. To completely restore it is not as simple as piecing it together according to the twisting trajectory."