# Chapter 1903: Stepping Out and Never Stepping In
Xu Huo nodded. "That's true."
"But the doors on both sides are open. Is there any difference in the time power?"
"Maybe it's because this instrument of mine is too low-level." Rhodes shook his head.
A time-type sensing instrument capable of sensing time power—could it be a Subclass Stone containing a certain amount of time rays?
Seeing the other person leaning back on the bed with eyes closed, Xu Huo tentatively released his Spiritual Realm. When he found no reaction from the other party, he focused his attention on the sensing instrument, then took out "Angel's Eyes" and casually wrapped it in an Invisibility Cloak.
Because he was sitting with his back to the newly opened room, when the item was taken out, the sensing instrument's needle still pointed in that direction, only it suddenly sank to the bottom.
It seemed the needle could indeed sense the strength of time power, but Xu Huo didn't feel any time rays from it. Just like the room with the closed door, the spatial barrier completely limited his sensing range.
This was indeed a special venue, but not like the Chaos Space that appeared in Area 014 where space-time rays could materialize. Here, even if "Angel's Eyes" power could cover other spaces, he still couldn't sense it...
As this thought flashed through his mind, Xu Huo suddenly had another idea. He couldn't sense it, but that didn't mean the time power on "Angel's Eyes" couldn't cover other spaces. He could use the item to control local time rays and rewind the past. Perhaps he could try controlling local rays to break through the spatial wall's limitations?
With this in mind, he pulled on two intersecting time rays, gradually expanding the range to the spatial gap where the door was located.
The rays were stopped at the spatial gap. Xu Huo didn't know if they had penetrated through, but he still followed his own process and tried to intercept a time segment. The time segment only repeated the past, and since there was no suitable reference point, he waved a clump of weeds near the door.
After his hand stopped, the image of the weeds swaying began to repeat. But because there was no suitable reference point on the other side, it was unclear whether it had succeeded.
The image repeated over and over, and he continuously sensed the changes in the time rays. After trying for about ten minutes, just as he thought it had failed, he felt a subtle pulling sensation from the space, as if some force had connected to his time rays.
The moment it connected, the time power with the ground as its horizontal line suddenly surged into his sensing range. Then all the time rays on every item in the room appeared, each standing upright toward the ceiling.
This feeling was like being in darkness, unable to see your hand in front of your face, when suddenly a neighbor separated by a window turned on the light—the neighbor's entire house lit up!
Things went so smoothly, beyond Xu Huo's imagination, so naturally that it felt unreal.
He even doubted whether his perception was malfunctioning, so he used Rhodes as an experiment to see if time could record his appearance.
He flicked a time ray, then looked at the watch Rhodes was wearing. The hands were indeed moving repeatedly at a certain position.
It actually succeeded just like that?
He turned around to connect to the room behind him. With the previous experience, this time as soon as the intersecting time rays passed over, they connected to the time rays inside the dining room. He flicked the time rays outside the door, and all the time rays in the dining room vibrated at the same frequency. The vibration frequency was different from the one in the courtyard where he was now. The dining room in state "3" felt more solid.
He didn't know the specific differences between time rays from different time periods, or whether the differences could be easily distinguished. But at this moment, the similar rooms displayed two completely different ray vibration frequencies, very easy to tell apart... It felt as if it had been deliberately made this way.
With this success, Xu Huo tried the door Rhodes had opened. Distance wasn't an issue, but sensing time rays through two layers of spatial barriers was truly difficult.
After trying for a while, Rhodes, who had been resting with his eyes closed, opened them. He picked up the sensing instrument lying on his chest, which showed no change, and stretched his head to look at Xu Huo still sitting in the courtyard. "What are you planning to do next?"
"Try my luck. Maybe if I keep opening doors, I'll find an exit." Xu Huo pretended to be helpless. "Open the right door once, then open the left door once."
Hearing this, Rhodes knocked on the spatial barrier on the door. "Too bad I can't get through. Otherwise, we could travel together."
"You rest. I'll look for the others."
With that, he walked out of the room and opened the courtyard on the left. Xu Huo followed, not going to the room he had just been in, but to the door on the left. The moment he opened the door and walked in, all the doors that had been open in the courtyard closed.
The new room was still a state "3" dining room. Unfortunately, the time rays in the room separated by one wall were no longer in state "1" but had become state "2". That is, when Rhodes and he passed through the doors, the room's space had changed.
Spatial changes were unpredictable. Now he could only try different rooms one by one to see the ray vibration states in different conditions.
Since there was a time sequence, Xu Huo naturally prioritized following the order. After two more room changes, he found another state "1" dining room. Next, he went to the third courtyard. When he turned the door handle, the space behind the door became a state "1" tea room. So he abandoned this door and moved to the one next to it.
But none of the three doors gave him the result he wanted. So he waited in the courtyard for a while before testing the time rays again.
The rooms kept changing. Each time, at least nine identical rooms could be locked. As long as Rhodes and the others didn't leave the mansion, the room cycling speed would increase.
Half an hour later, he waited for a state "2" dining room.
Then he spent an hour finding a state "3" dining room, and finally, a tidied dining room.
Pushing open the door opposite the dining room, what lay ahead was the main gate courtyard wall he had just entered through. What he didn't expect was that when he walked out, the robot he had sent out also emerged from the side door opening.
Xu Huo paused. "How did you get out?"
"Detecting multiple spatial walls within a certain range, possibly indicating different spaces. Entering could result in losing command signals, so I chose to stand by on the spot," the robot stated flatly.
"Then did you lose the command signal?" Xu Huo asked.
"The moment you closed the door," the robot replied. "So I chose to stand by on the spot."
Xu Huo smiled. "You're pretty smart."
"This is the plan my level of computation determined would cause the least loss to the holder." The robot continued, "If you need me to carry out a mission even at the cost of being scrapped, please give clear instructions, rather than vague expressions like 'go in and take a look.'"