Chapter 1529: Professional Begging and Shameful Envy
"You have companions in the Mirror Space?" Xu Huo appeared, standing behind the woman.
Tang Tangtang, who had a smile on her face just a second ago, instantly changed her expression. She immediately used a long-distance teleportation item to leave the park. However, in the space maze, low-level space items were suppressed, so generally, ultra-long-distance space teleportation items couldn't be used, and distances of a few hundred meters to a kilometer were within Xu Huo's control range.
After several consecutive position changes failed to shake off Xu Huo, Tang Tangtang used an item to widen the distance between them and looked at him, saying, "Mr. Yu, why be so serious? You and Mr. Wen think my method is unreliable, but I want to leave this space maze. At worst, we each go our own way. I won't make things difficult for you, and you don't make things difficult for me."
"Is that so?" Xu Huo smiled. "If you just wanted to get out, you could have left the mark on the apartment building. Why run so far? And since you ran this far, why point the mark back at the apartment building? It's not like what Wen Dachui said, that you're trying to lure the holder of the space maze here, is it?"
"If that's what you think, I can't help it," Tang Tangtang's smile remained unchanged. "Besides, I never planned to travel with you from the start. You were the ones who barged in."
"Since we can't get along, let's just part ways."
As she finished speaking, she raised her item and stabbed it into the ground. The floor tiles shattered, and a force rose from beneath her feet, instantly covering the entire street.
Xu Huo frowned and immediately chased after her. As he stepped onto the street, he indeed felt the same force sweep over him as before, but Tang Tangtang, who should have been ahead, had vanished, and there was no trace of her nearby.
Unsure if she had discerned more rules of the space maze, he didn't imitate her method of destroying the surroundings to open the Mirror Space. Instead, he expanded his "Cube Space" as quickly as possible. Sensing someone nearby, he immediately moved over. Unexpectedly, as soon as he got close, his legs involuntarily went weak, and then a "Life Flashback" lit up before his eyes. The man who had been kneeling at the end of the street became a frozen tableau in his sight.
This was the other party's trait attack. Using the five-second freeze time, Xu Huo dodged items flying in from different directions, retreated to the top of a building five hundred meters away, and surveyed the entire street from a high vantage point.
On the street directly ahead, a man of about fifty or sixty was kneeling at one end. At the other end, three young players were scattered, also kneeling. Meanwhile, within a hundred-meter radius of the four, three more people were kneeling respectively at the entrance of a shopping mall, on a rooftop, and on a nearby escalator.
"So many people kneeling together, what a spectacle." A black-haired man with a ponytail, standing several hundred meters away, clapped his hands.
This was clearly a trait. Based on the feedback from the "Life Flashback," the owner of the trait should be the male player around fifty or sixty. The other kneeling players were trying to attack him, but their items weren't taking effect.
Perhaps restricted by the trait, they couldn't harm the man kneeling at the end of the street, but they could attack each other. One of them successfully ambushed a nearby player, miraculously sending him flying into a nearby shop.
Amidst the crashing sound of breaking glass, the kneeling players all broke free from the "kneeling" state at once. However, just as they stood up in delight, the man across the street also stood up and, before anyone could react, knelt down again on the spot!
"Thud! Thud! Thud!" The sound of knees hitting the ground came one after another, unbearable to hear.
"I'll fuck your grandpa!" a player cursed, pointing at the man. "Just you wait. If I don't kill you, I'll take your last name!"
This angered the man using the "kneeling" trait. He placed both hands on the ground and slammed his head down hard. "Kind sir and madam, have mercy, give me some money for food!"
A miraculous scene unfolded. The cursing player also kowtowed along with the man, and at the same time, the items on his hands automatically detached and slid across the street into the hands of the man opposite.
Both those kneeling and those standing were stunned by this scene. The long-ponytail man was so excited he kept slapping his thigh.
Most players who had risen to the advanced level had been in the game for several years, but they had never seen anyone take someone else's items through "begging"... How to put it, it evoked a kind of shameful envy.
What was enviable was how easily he took others' items, but everyone had their specialty, and not everyone could swallow their pride like that.
However, the man opposite seemed long accustomed to this. Not only did he kowtow without any psychological barrier, but he also planned to kowtow to the other kneeling people one by one.
Amidst the curses, several people lost their items. When the trait's duration finally ended, the group, terrified that he might kneel again, didn't even attack him first but chose to widen the distance instead.
There were plenty of items that could attack from a distance, but the greater the distance, the higher the chance the opponent would escape, making it hard to achieve the desired effect. So, after shaking off the item attacks, the player who relied on "begging" immediately fled into the distance, even throwing back a "Flower Scattering" as a counterattack.
However, what he scattered were all suspected items—various small objects raining down from the sky like a downpour. At first glance, it was indeed intimidating. But as the first item was grabbed and found empty, the other players realized it was just a bluff. The anger of being toyed with drove them into a frenzied chase.
The group headed off to another area. Xu Huo nodded slightly to the long-ponytail man not far away and then changed direction.
Returning to the previous apartment, Wen Dachui, who had already come out of the room, immediately greeted him. "What happened?"
Xu Huo briefly explained the situation. Wen Dachui was stunned for a moment. "That's not right. You entered the second layer of Mirror Space, but I'm still in the first layer."
Xu Huo stared at him for two seconds before saying, "Can't you see? The coverage range of the Mirror Space can expand with the player's activities."
"Wait, wait, wait," Wen Dachui called out. "Let me sort this out. We've confirmed that the Mirror Space's coverage range slowly expands and also gradually expands as players move... But then, how do we explain not encountering other players? If meeting other players increases the coverage area of the Mirror Space, then there shouldn't be different layers of Mirror Space existing."
This was also a blind spot for Xu Huo, who didn't understand the rules of the space maze. Although Xiaoyue City was large enough, players could move around easily, so they shouldn't only encounter this few people. Moreover, there was only one Xiaoyue City. For events at the same location to make sense, they must run through every Mirror Space. Items could only trap people, not create them.
The most direct proof of Mirror Space isolation was that the same location in this layer of space changed without any external force, as if it had been refreshed by people from another Mirror Space—similar to Tang Tangtang's method of trying to lure other players.
He thought for a moment and said, "Let's go back to the bar and take a look."