Under the cover of the blizzard, Jiangxi Lin successfully brought the silver coffin box back to the rental house without disturbing anyone.

He planned to dig a hole in the ground and bury the coffin in it.

But before that, he wanted to take advantage of the blizzard night that had not yet passed to study the silver coffin box.

Jiangxi Lin flattened it on the ground, making a dull "thunk" sound, shaking up the thin dust on the ground.

After carefully cleaning the soil debris on the coffin box, Jiang Xilin held the luminous quartz stone rod and began to circle around the silver metal coffin box and look at it carefully.

Judging from the shape, it is indeed a coffin box, but in terms of size, it is slightly smaller than a normal coffin box.

And the pattern on it looks... weird.

It is very different from today's mainstream coffin boxes.

Today's mainstream coffin boxes are almost all engraved with the "Kingdom of God" recorded in the divine court's classics.

As for this coffin, the patterns on it look...

More like some kind of...

How should I put it? When Jiang Xilin saw it for the first time, the first thing he thought of was "integrated circuit".

There were many lines on it, very dense, and very messy. Jiang Xilin looked over them over and over for a long time, but he couldn't figure out why.

As for the material, he couldn't feel it for a while. After all, he didn't major in metallurgy at the beginning.

"Scrape some powder from it later, and then wait until daybreak to take it to the secret research base of the Light Arcane School for testing."

"Now let's open it to see what's inside, but how do you open this thing?"

Jiangxi Lin lay on the ground, looking for the cracks on the side bit by bit.

But the entire metal coffin box seemed to be integrated, with no cracks to be found, let alone an open mechanism.

"I'm afraid it's not easy to open it."

Jiangxi Lin sat cross-legged on the ground, pressing his knees with his hands and placing the quartz stone rod aside.

"The Citro Science Society must have obtained it for a long time, but why did they choose to bury it in Tanglin Cemetery in the end?"

"Don't they have a way to open it?"

"There's no way to open it, so I won't throw it into the cemetery and bury it. In other words, does this thing actually have any dangers that I don't know yet?"

While looking at the mysterious lines on the metal coffin box, he whispered to himself.

In the end, Jiangxi Lin couldn't figure out the reason, so he found a file and started filing on the surface of the metal coffin box.

Take some samples and go to the laboratory tomorrow to test its material.

However, something surprising happened. No matter how hard he filed, he could not leave any mark on the coffin.

"What the hell... diamonds are not that hard."

Jiang Xilin looked at the file in his hand that had its edges smoothed, not knowing what expressions to show.

Should I feel sorry for my file, or should I be happy that I found a treasure?

"Try it with etchant, it's the nemesis of metal."

Actionist Jiang Xilin dropped the file, stood up and went to get the etching agent.

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Huh, huh...

Jiang Xilin sat on the ground, breathing heavily.

He looked at the ground and went from files to etchant bottles, then to hand saws, iron pliers, hammers, and even finally using an ax, but still couldn't leave any trace on the silver alloy coffin box.

I guess it's almost dawn by this time.

Jiangxi Lin scratched his hair,

"It seems that we can only try the arcane energy and the power of the true name of the Eternal One."

Faced with this metal coffin that refused to cooperate even with the use of "violence", Jiangxi Lin decided to use more powerful "violence" to force it to cooperate.

"Use arcane magic first. If you can't use the power of your true name, I really don't believe that I can't break you today."

Soon, Jiang Xilin completed the synchronization of mental power, and then activated the arcane energy to converge on the tip of his right index finger.

The fingers that exuded a faint blue light slowly stretched towards the metal coffin box, and there was a subtle cold touch on the fingertips.

What made Jiang Xilin breathe a sigh of relief was that this silver metal coffin did not seem to resist arcane energy. On the contrary, it kept devouring arcane energy like a bottomless pit.

But its surface was still the same, with no reaction at all. Jiangxi Lin didn't know whether he should continue to send arcane energy to it.

After about three minutes, seeing that there was still no response from the metal coffin box on the ground, Jiang Xilin decided to stop.

With so much arcane energy injected into it, the coffin remained unchanged. Jiang Xilin was a little worried that something might be sealed inside, something terrifying.

He was afraid that he would accidentally inject too much arcane energy and eventually awaken the things inside, which would end badly.

However, just when he was about to cut off the arcane power, the metal coffin box lying square on the ground suddenly flashed with a faint blue light, emitting a wave similar to spiritual power.

A piece of information was forced into Jiang Xilin's mind unconsciously.

[Injection of arcane elements detected...]

[System Activating...]

[System activation completed, welcome to use Babbage Analytical Engine]

The fluctuations similar to mental power disappeared, Jiang Xilin felt the scene in front of him change, and he found that he was standing in a pure white space with no distinction between top and bottom.

A light blue virtual light screen unfolded in front of him, and it was written in simple and clear Smiler language:

[Spatial imagination test, scene loading, please wait...]

Then, a line jumped up from the byte on the virtual light screen, revealing new content:

[The scene is loaded and will jump soon..., 2, 1.]

Jiangxi Lin, who was originally standing, suddenly felt a spinning and falling feeling.

As he fell, he saw some strange-shaped objects starting to appear in the pure white space around him.

Plop...

Jiangxi Lin fell heavily into a puddle.

The water is very clear and there are no fish or shrimps in it.

He rowed his arms vigorously and quickly rushed out of the water. Then, the scene in front of him completely shocked him.

Just above the pool where he was, there was a ruined building hanging upside down in the air, and behind the ruined building, there was a statue of a hero lying flat...

There is also the sun under your feet, the sky beside your body, and the broken lawn mixed with stones and soil...

This seems to be a world where the spatial order has completely collapsed, where light can propagate in a spiral shape or in a zigzag manner.

Jiang Xilin stepped lightly on the water with his feet, letting his body float on the water so that he would not sink.

"what's the situation?"

"Where am I?"

"What is this place?"

Jiang Xilin looked around and asked confusedly.

However, in this strange and confusing place, Jiang Xilin did not dare to act rashly.

He silently sorted through his memories, starting from when he started studying the metal coffin box.

"First, I tried all kinds of physical methods, but couldn't open the coffin box."

"Then I decided to try it with arcane magic."

"Then, three minutes passed..."

"..."

"Finally, the metal coffin box emitted a wave of spiritual power, saying 'Welcome to Babbage's Analytical Engine,' and I was pulled into a pure white space..."

"By the way, there is a blue light screen that says 'spatial imagination test, equipped with scenes' or something like that."

"Could this be some kind of spatial imagination test?"

Jiang Xilin felt that he should have found the truth. He was forcibly pulled into a virtual game.

The way to leave is to successfully pass this virtual assessment game called "Imagination Test".

"interesting!"

Jiang Xilin couldn't help but raise the corners of his mouth slightly, showing an expression of intense interest.

Not interested in this test game, but in this so-called Babbage Analytical Engine.

"Babbage's Analytical Engine? Sounds a bit familiar, but I guess it has nothing to do with Babbage's Difference Engine. It's just the same name in a different world."

Jiang Xilin slapped the water and swam to the shore, looking at this strange space.
Chapter completed!