I'm trapped in a cube

In order to prove himself, Wang Chuan pressed the power button of the device in front of him without hesitation. As long as he found the text, he could confirm whether this was something left behind by humans.

He didn't know why he was so "crazy" and so persistent, and had to prove something that was not that important.

The device's screen lit up, with no text on it yet, only a boot animation: a bunch of polygons spinning and colliding with each other, finally condensing into a weird combined shape.

Before Wang Chuan could figure out what the graphic meant, the screen jumped directly to the homepage.

However, after Wang Chuan quickly scanned the icons on the screen, his breathing became rapid:

"Where are the words? Where are the words?"

There is still no text on the screen, just like an unlabeled computer desktop, where every file or operating interface is represented by an icon, as if the text has completely disappeared from the device.

The buzzing sound of the equipment running surrounded Wang Chuan's ears, and his mood became more and more irritable, with a sense of anxiety coming from nowhere in his heart.

He glanced at the screen again and found a familiar icon.

It was a circle with a triangle pointing right inside it...

"video?"

This is also a design concept that is deeply rooted in modern human consciousness. Realizing that this might be rare video material, Wang Chuan clicked on it without hesitation.

The window popped open, and Wang Chuan quickly picked up the recording device and aimed it at the screen.

"With the video footage, I should know the origin of this city..." Wang Chuan thought to himself, full of anticipation.

However, when the video began to play slowly, the content on the screen still disappointed him.

There is no text description in the video, nor any living creatures appearing on screen. It is just a video of a fixed scene, and it seems that some experiment is being conducted.

In the center of the picture is a running unit, surrounded by many swinging robotic arms.

The robotic arm seemed to be holding some strange things, like various small objects.

"What is that?" Wang Chuan tried hard to see clearly, but the robotic arm suddenly shook and aimed those strange little objects at the crew.

The screen suddenly shook, and it seemed that some force from those small objects was transmitted to the unit. Then, the robotic arm left, leaving only the running unit.

After a few more seconds, the video ended.

Wang Chuan was stunned. What was this?

He quickly pressed the "left shift" key to rewind the video and looked at the small objects carefully again. After repeating this several times, he finally understood the meaning of the video.

"Is this a video recording of the relic experiment process?"

Humans often do this kind of thing. For relics whose purpose is unknown or unclear, there will be special experiments to apply them to certain objects to test the ability and cost of the relics.

Or if the ability of a relic is known, you can test its practicality by using it to transform some specific objects, or use multiple relics to test the cumulative effect of their abilities.

Each relic is a black box. Humans are very curious, so in order to make better use of these relics, relic experiments are endless.

The video on the screen before me was clearly a relic experiment.

Use the relics on the robotic arms to transform the running unit.

But what’s the use of knowing this?

Wang Chuan's irritability became more and more serious. He turned off the video and started looking for it on the screen again.

In order to speed up the exploration, he anxiously clicked on the screen without looking at the meaning of the icons. He opened and closed them one by one, quickly searching for useful information.

But there is still no written text, no valid information that can prove the origin of this civilization...

"How could this be? How could a device made by a civilization have no text? What were they thinking?"

Wang Chuan's mind was in turmoil, and he clicked the icons faster and faster. His actions seemed to have caused some trouble.

He suddenly found that he could not operate the system. A pop-up window appeared on the screen, but there was no information on it except a "lock".

The operation was too fast and it got locked?

Or did the system detect his abnormal behavior and prevent him from continuing to do so?

Wang Chuan became extremely anxious and started pressing buttons randomly, even trying to bypass the blockade by restarting the computer. However, his actions caused the screen to flash and a sharp alarm sounded.

The alarm sounded instantly calmed Wang Chuan down.

"What am I doing? Why am I in such a hurry?"

But by the time he realized something was wrong, it was too late. A strange noise came from a distance, as if some mechanical device was being activated and releasing something...

Then there was a sound of metallic friction.

"What?"

Wang Chuan directly picked up the recording device and pointed it in the direction of the sound.

But the next second, the lights in his area went out instantly, and he only felt a gust of wind, and the recording device in his hand fell to the ground.

The last scene recorded was a few blurry black shadows...

…

Li Luo felt like her breathing had stopped. She kept zooming in on the screen, trying to see the shadow more clearly, but she could only see a vague outline. It didn't seem to be a person, but she couldn't tell what it was either.

The images from the recording device were not clear to begin with, and in a completely dark environment, after transmission losses, it was already a lucky thing to be able to see a blurry outline. After trying for a while, Li Luo chose to give up.

The record about "Human-like Civilization Relic No. 8" came to an abrupt end. After DreamNet collected this record, it automatically named and classified it and stuffed it into the database. It seemed that no one had studied it carefully until Li Luosi's image search, and this dusty record was opened again.

It’s no wonder that people in Mengdu didn’t take it seriously.

"The amount of information in this record is too little..." Li Luo shook his head helplessly.

It has no beginning or end, and is inexplicable. The recorded images are messy. It was recorded by a single person, and there is no verification of its authenticity. It vaguely shows a corner of the "Human-like Civilization Relic No. 8" that cannot be proven to exist, and then it is quickly skipped. There are too many such records in the database, and no one will care.

It is simply impossible to infer the specific information of the entire "Human-like Civilization Relic No. 8" based on these erratic records. No wonder there is no follow-up...

If Li Luo had not been under this huge unit, he would not have taken a second look at this incomplete record.

But now that she is here in person, the importance of this record to her is self-evident.

The recorded content is not completely useless, and some information can still be extracted from it.

"Have these units been transformed by the power of the relics?"