Chapter 476: Puzzle (2/2)
After the two of them left, Sam stayed in his office and suddenly felt like half of the weight he was carrying was completely lost.
When he made a list of the construction projects he made and then calculated the budget, he couldn't help but feel that the life of a student is about to be settled.
It is none other than the second patent holder.
The Cement Patent holder. If he knew that there is this much value for his seemingly insignificant invention in other's eyes, he might want to cry in happiness for three days straight.
After settling the matters at hand and assigning the tasks, Sam went to his room. He suddenly heaved a sigh of relief. He doesn't even know where his friends are at this moment, but he didn't want to think too much about that.
He landed on the bed and slept till the next morning.
After he woke up, he went to take a shower and changed into some other clothes. This is the time he became free in a long while. For more than a year, he has been in a complete mess. He lived chaotically without any kind of rest.
He worked his ass off to get what he needs. But he didn't hurry to open the boxes immediately. He just sat there on the floor as he looked at the majestic view of the city from the floor to ceiling window of his room.
He could faintly see the School building in the woods. He wanted to get drunk all of a sudden. Even for Sam, all this seemed a little overbearing and overwhelming. Even he felt that this is too much of a pressure for him to bear. But what can he do? He was under constant threat.
For the whole day, he completely idled away, and only at night, he went on to the top of the building and started taking out the six boxes.
This is the next step. If he finished dealing with the six boxes and figure out the way towards the next realm, he can finally relax a bit and doesn't have to bother himself with unnecessary tensions. He can relax a bit and focus solely on his cultivation and battle prowess.
He wasn't able to practice in a long while that he is feeling a little rusty himself. Not only that, he is feeling that he wasn't using his prowess with great enough efficiency.
There is no way he is okay with that.
After he took out the six boxes and placed them on the floor, he looked at them intently. There is no immediate reaction, but he could feel there is some sort of energy fluctuation around them and soon, faint mechanical sounds could be heard.
The gears inside the boxes started moving slowly and there is a strange glow on the boxes and within a few seconds, there are some protrusions of different shapes and sizes and also grooves of various shapes and sizes on the lateral surfaces of the boxes and when Sam looked at them, he felt like he is seeing a giant three-dimensional jigsaw puzzle.
He sat down and started figuring out how to finish the puzzle.
Actually, it is not that difficult. It only took three minutes to figure out the correct order and place them together and creating a much larger rectangular box.
When he connected the whole thing, what he saw on the top surface of the large box stunned him a bit.
Because it reminded him of a sliding puzzle. In fact, it is a sliding puzzle. But the thing is it wouldn't make an image or a sequence. Instead, it would create an inscribed formation.
But the main problem at the moment is what kind of formation would that be. If he doesn't know that, it would be quite tough to actually unlock this.
There are just too many slides in the puzzle and they are quite small. The possibilities are also endless due to this and the number of actual formations is also numerous.
So, he started looking at the boxes continuously to see and figure out if he can find any clues regarding the formation that should appear on them.
After looking all around the box and even using the observation ability, Sam felt like he would be having a handful with this box.
There is no way he would be able to focus on the cultivation for the next half-a-month at least. That is what he understood after he saw the clues around the box.