He lives on another planet and is majoring in Earth Science.

Li Ji glanced at the box. It was square and pure black, about 10cm on each side, and made of solid material. A screen was embedded on one side.

"Didn't the police investigate this?"

“What’s there to investigate about a mere toy?” Li Ke’s eyes darted around, as if he was hiding something.

"Can I take a look at it?"

Li Ke handed over the box: "You can give it a try. I've been trying for almost a year and I still don't have a clue."

The Barbaradu aliens love to study, and these puzzle games are very popular. This year, no fewer than 300 people helped Li Ke solve the puzzles. Some even spent a whole day and night solving puzzles in a convenience store, forgetting to go to work and almost getting fired.

The other five sides of the box have special engraved symbols that emit a faint blue light.

The symbols are: cockroach, rocket, robot, one-eyed Barbaradus alien, and atomic structure diagram.

The edges of each face are connected by fluorescent colors of different colors: the boundary between the cockroach and the rocket is red, the boundary between the rocket and the robot is purple, the boundary between the robot and the jelly man is green, and the boundary between the jelly man and the atomic structure diagram is blue.

no idea.

Pointing to the electron structure diagram, Li Ke said, "I speculate that each face represents a number, and the different colored boundaries represent the calculation method. I can roughly guess the atomic structure diagram; it either represents the number of elementary particles in the atom or the number of electrons. But there's a problem: the structure of this diagram is wrong, the number of electrons is incorrect, and it's a non-existent atom. Moreover, I can't understand these strange markings on the proton."

Li Ji looked at the picture and felt a sense of familiarity.

This is a diagram he drew himself, which is different from the standard atomic structure diagram in the textbook. It is not an incorrect diagram; it is a picture he used when he was two years old to help him remember all the types of basic particles in the universe.

Those strange markings represent the different, smaller fundamental particles inside the proton.

It's normal that Li Ke doesn't understand them; these are all original symbols created by the original owner. Thinking about it now, he was quite a genius.

The number represented by this face should be "62".

In his memory, the original owner of this body was ridiculed by Li Ke when he read this picture as a child.

He had no clue about the remaining few sides.

Li Ke said, "What do you think this one-eyed man means? Is it the number of eyes, or the number of tentacles? Or is there a more complex and deeper meaning?"

“A one-eyed subspecies?” Li Ji pondered carefully. “One-eyed subspecies are very rare, and it seems to account for only 0.0076% of the global population.”

“That’s right. According to research, this trait all comes from the second-generation ruler, Li Youzhuan. It is said that the existing one-eyed subspecies are all thanks to his genes. The 178th ruler, Li Luoke, the 496th ruler, Li Mo, and many other outstanding rulers are all one-eyed subspecies. At the time, Li Ji even joked with me, saying that they retained their reproductive rights and were actually a large family that had continued for ten thousand years.”

"Could that be the number of consuls?"

"I thought of that too, but isn't that too easy?"

"Or perhaps it's the number of years this family has continued to this day?"

Li Ke laughed out loud: "You believe in his conspiracy theories too? Hahaha, although our planet is terrible, it's terrible in the same way for everyone. It doesn't seem like some powerful family has been oppressing us for years. I'd rather think it's Li Youzhuan's birthday."

The laughter sounded familiar, as if Li Ke had said the exact same thing when the original owner first proposed this conjecture.

This only strengthened Li Ji's resolve to accept the answer.

Li Ke continued, "Then what do you think the robot might be—"

With a thud, Li Ke collapsed to the ground, and the entire convenience store was instantly bathed in red light, the glass doorway turning into a solid wall.

"what's the situation?"

Delulu tilted her head, her brows furrowed: "Don't get so caught up in the decryption process, okay? I'm about to fall asleep waiting, meow."

"You closed the store?"

"Yeah, meow. I've been waiting over there for ages, and all I saw was you two chattering away with no sign of stopping, meow. So I had to take care of both things myself, meow. At such a crucial moment, why are you still playing around, meow? Can't you see how big you are, meow?"

Dailulu pointed to the holographic projection next to her. Li Ji explained the combination lock box in his hand to Dailulu.

"We'll figure it out later, let's sneak in first, meow." Delulu kicked Shark in the butt. "Wake up, meow!"

Shark Baby, clutching his butt, jumped up abruptly: "Did you eat?"

"It's about doing work."

Li Ji dragged Li Ke out, revealing a smooth floor that was no different from any other floor in the area.

"I didn't realize there was a secret passage here."

"It's definitely different from before. He probably changed the entrance to avoid police investigation."

Shark rolled up his sleeves: "I have a speedrun method."

"It's not necessary."

Li Ji lay on the ground, groping around, and discovered that the gap under the cash register was spotless.

The fact that this filthy place was completely free of dust indicates that Li Ke frequently touched it.

Li Ji squeezed his hand through the gap.

Following the inner wall of the cashier, I felt a series of raised lines resembling Braille, which vaguely felt like a mathematical formula.

"Partial differential equations? You never get tired of playing with them, kid."

He followed the equation and touched a knob whose gears were engraved with dense numbers and symbols.

He turned the knob back and forth, finished answering the question, and a short "beep" sounded from the ground.

"I solved it in a second this time."

The ground beneath him trembled slightly, and Li Ji quickly moved aside.

The paving stone suddenly sank, then moved to the side and under other paving stones, revealing a staircase leading to the underground.

Lee Ki walked down the flawless metal steps, surrounded by polished metal walls.

This doesn't look like a tunnel; it's more like a room used for mass production in an industrial setting.

"I thought this place would be one of those primitive earthen caves, meow."

"Don't underestimate the Barbaradu aliens' hands-on abilities."

They followed the tunnel forward, climbed a staircase at the end, opened the floor tiles at the top, and came to a clean and tidy storage room with various cleaning machines piled up next to it.

"This is the storage room on the first floor, right next to the public restroom. Going out from here won't attract attention."

Li Ji glanced at the cat and shark beside him.

“The new script is that you’re tourists visiting a crime scene. There are a lot of these strange guys, so we should be able to cover it up.”

"We can't mimic your race, meow?"

Li Ji extended eight tentacles: "If the two of you can master simulating this body in a short time, it's not impossible."

Delulu imagined herself with eight legs: "That would be so stiff, meow. Your plan is much better, meow."

The three of them pushed open the cubicle and walked out. (End of Chapter)