Chapter 1530: A Person's Appearance Doesn't Always Match Their Character
The two of them returned to the bar's location. Although it was already daylight, the heavy rain hadn't stopped. Water had accumulated on the streets, and some areas had been damaged by the downpour, making it hard to see any obvious changes.
At least, that's how it seemed to Wen Dacui.
"No problem." He even went into the bar to take a look.
Xu Huo retraced the path he had walked last night and finally discovered a wall that had been scratched by a sharp weapon.
"A tiny mark. Was it not there yesterday?" Wen Dacui hadn't noticed it at all.
"It wasn't there when we passed by," Xu Huo said. "But that doesn't prove this place has been refreshed by the Mirror Space. It could have been left by a later player."
"What's the use of that?" Wen Dacui found it pointless. "Might as well find a place to hide. Once my item's twenty-four-hour cooldown is up, I'll take you out with me."
Xu Huo glanced at him. "Can you tell which part is Xiaoyue City and which part is inside the Mirror Space?"
Wen Dacui had no answer. He scratched his head and said, "Then what do we do?"
"Keep moving forward. We'll eventually find some traces," Xu Huo said.
"Isn't your space device useful?" Wen Dacui pointed at the thing on his wrist. "Can't it sense the Mirror Space?"
That was precisely the issue. Logically, if different spaces were merging, the "Cube Space" would definitely show changes, since it would have to adapt to new rays. The difference would be significant. But from yesterday to today, when the two bursts of special power passed through him, the range of the "Cube Space" hadn't changed at all. The space interference device hadn't played a substantial role either—at the very least, its interference hadn't caused the space maze to produce any spatial ray fluctuations. Or perhaps it had fluctuated, but it was too subtle for him to detect.
Of course, there was another possibility: the problem lay in the word "Mirror." The so-called Mirror Space was supposedly identical to Xiaoyue City. Since Xiaoyue City ran through every Mirror Space, perhaps the Mirror Space wasn't layered one on top of another as they had imagined, but was constantly changing.
Moreover, it was possible that the main body of the space maze wasn't the location, but the players themselves.
If the range of the Mirror Space could expand or shrink, then isolating players wouldn't be difficult. As long as players weren't too close to each other, it would be normal for them not to see one another.
And at this point, if this space item had a certain sensitivity to space devices, a radius of one kilometer was indeed not a very large range.
Additionally, the entire Xiaoyue City was within the spatial power of the item. The spatial rays were similar, making them hard to distinguish, which wasn't surprising.
If Xu Huo's guess was correct, then by crossing the city at extremely high speed, in theory, he could encounter any player trapped in the city. Even an ordinary player could do this, because if players were too close, the Mirror Space wouldn't be able to present two different states and would merge them into the same area, allowing them to see each other.
Going a step further, it was possible that Xiaoyue City was actually divided into many zones, and these zones were active. Their boundaries might change based on player behavior. What were called different layers of Mirror Space were actually non-overlapping divisions of spatial zones.
Looking back at Tang Tiantian's behavior from this perspective, she might have been creating new zone spaces, or pulling her own location closer to merge with nearby zone spaces.
This situation was much simpler than different spaces. Even if the "Cube Space" couldn't clearly distinguish the spatial divisions of different zones, it didn't matter much, because he just needed to move quickly.
Before he could verify this, Xu Huo withdrew his gaze from ahead, turned around, and patted Wen Dacui on the shoulder. "Friend, let's part ways here."
Wen Dacui was startled and quickly said, "Brother, there's no need to get angry just because the device isn't working. You've been in the game long enough to get used to being powerless, haven't you?"
Putting aside everything else, Xu Huo thought his attitude was pretty good.
"You can come if you want, as long as you can keep up." Xu Huo gestured, then used spatial rays to move quickly.
Each time he shifted positions was as simple as taking a step for him, with an effect comparable to a teleportation item. With space items restricted, Wen Dacui could run his legs off and still not catch up, especially since Xu Huo's direction was unpredictable.
So, before long, Wen Dacui's figure was nowhere to be seen.
To test his theory, Xu Huo chose a straight path in the middle to make it easier to observe his own state. But unfortunately, even when the distance between them was fully stretched, Wen Dacui didn't disappear.
Along the path he had taken, he used "Cake Slice" to create two marks. One was to test whether the zone spaces really existed, and the other was to see what effect this method would produce.
As soon as he damaged the buildings, he moved far away, using his maximum speed to create distance. But both times, within less than three seconds, that fleeting power caught up with him—at the very least, this proved that the "flexibility" of this space maze far exceeded his imagination.
However, his verification soon yielded results. As he expanded his range, he began to encounter players.
Most players maintained a high level of alertness. Seeing that he was just passing through, they didn't trouble him. A couple of slow-reacting ones didn't even realize someone had passed by.
When he passed through a snack street, he saw that "kneeling beggar" player again. But this time, he wasn't as lucky as before. He and two other players who seemed to be his companions were pinned to the ground. The powerful control of an item made it difficult for them to even move a finger. Above them hung a huge arc-shaped long blade, seven or eight meters long, which would be enough to cut all three of them in half if it came down.
Xu Huo glanced at the scene, immediately opened his Spiritual Realm, and teleported the three of them through a gate into a building hundreds of meters away. He then moved over and, over the next stretch of travel, moved them three more times until he was sure they had shaken off the player wielding the giant guillotine.
After rescuing them, he didn't show himself. Instead, he continued weaving through the city. Finally, while passing by a school, he caught sight of Bai Tiaoyi.
The arrogance of the Eerie Sound Knights lay in the fact that they generally didn't bother changing their appearances. It wasn't hard to find records of what they looked like.
According to information on the Under Dimension, he was a middle-aged man around forty. He had a refined appearance and was well-dressed, looking more like a social elite who valued his work than a bloodthirsty executioner.
Of course, a person's appearance doesn't always match their character. At least right now, that was the case. The expensively dressed man smoothed his slightly messy hair and sneered at the corridor ahead:
"Finding a few people who've only grown in age, not in brains, and thinking they can hurt me? If you're reduced to pulling out people like them for help, then you're just wasting that clever face of yours."
Today's update is complete. Everyone, rest early. ^_^