Chapter 2117: You Have a Directed Inheritance Gift
"Take a guess." Xu Huo stroked the Time Ring on his hand, his gaze shifting among the few people before him before landing on a clock in the distance. It was already ten o'clock at night.
Exposing a held Super Item when one's abilities were not strong enough was not a wise move, but this was also a suitable opportunity to test the effect of the Time Tower after leaving the Pumpkin City venue.
Seeing that the few people surrounding him showed no intention of retreating, Xu Huo's expression hardened. He unleashed his Spiritual Realm to its maximum extent, intending to bring all these people into the building complex to find a suitable place to deploy the Time Tower...
But at that moment, the Middle-aged Man put away his item and said solemnly, "Our Young Master offended you two. This consequence is his own doing, but for the Baiye Chamber of Commerce to establish a foothold in District 011, it's impossible for us to let a passerby slap us twice and walk away unscathed."
"Before we came, we reached an agreement with the Harmony City Government not to use force lightly within the city. To settle this matter, we have to go outside the city."
After these words, the watching players couldn't help but feel that these people were blatantly treating others as fools. Within Harmony City, they were restricted by the government, but going outside meant they could act as they pleased, summoning as many players as they wanted. Wasn't this clearly setting a trap and waiting for someone to jump in?
No matter how powerful a player was, they couldn't withstand a war of attrition. Who would be foolish enough to agree?
Xu Huo, however, smiled. He retracted his Spiritual Realm and said to the group, "I came here for Secondary Evolution. If you find it inconvenient to act within the city, then I won't be joining you."
With that, he looked at the nearby floating registration device. "My time isn't up yet. Do I need to queue again?"
The entrance door reopened. As he was about to enter, Xu Huo said to the Painting Woman, "Ignore them."
The Painting Woman nodded and sat back down at the entrance.
The five players left standing there could neither advance nor retreat. After a few seconds of silence, the others looked at the Middle-aged Man, who nodded grimly. They then quietly withdrew from the ruins without further confrontation.
"Just leaving like that? How boring," a watching player said, unsatisfied. "It seems the Harmony City Government's deterrent power is quite strong."
"It's not the Harmony City Government's deterrent power," another player said, as if seeing through everything. "If the government could truly restrict the Baiye Chamber of Commerce, these five wouldn't have shown up today. A mix of three A-rank and two B-rank players—most likely testing the waters. Now that they think the bone is too hard to chew, they're quickly finding an excuse to back down. Otherwise, why would they slink away without even a peep? Haha! For us Outer Zone players, if we can't win, we can at most retreat to the station. Getting away unscathed isn't hard! But for the Baiye Chamber of Commerce, it's different. They might even lose a few A-rank players they use to save face."
Of course, some thought Xu Huo was bluffing. "Triple-direction Super Evolution? Why doesn't he say he can fly by stepping on his own left foot with his right?"
But since the Chamber of Commerce had left and Xu Huo had entered the ruins, the players with nothing to watch discussed a bit and then dispersed. Only a few lingered around the Painting Woman, trying to pry information out of her.
Inside the ruins, Xu Huo returned to the spot where he had stood during the day. He repeatedly changed positions, sensing the faint temporal-spatial power from different angles, while recalling in his mind the Space Ray of Lawrence Li he had seen in District 017. That ray, like countless overlapping diamond-shaped pieces reflecting light from every angle and displaying brilliant colors, seemed like another object that had condensed into a tangible form. In his eyes, it had a shape. It was this breakthrough in form that seemed to turn Space Power itself into a weapon—wherever it passed, it could easily alter the state or internal ray structure of anything.
Space Rays could be condensed and compressed into barriers to become weapons with high explosive power, or, after mastering the ray structure within a human body, they could remotely disintegrate a person from the inside. But Lawrence Li's Space Ray seemed to represent an entirely new evolutionary direction.
Xu Huo closed his eyes, repeatedly manipulating the surrounding Space Rays while recalling Lawrence Li's rays. After continuous immersion, he thought of the item "Explosion Maniac." Like "Big Mushroom Cloud," it was also a Space Item. Its principle was simple: compressing Space Power in a short time. This could be the repeated squeezing and stacking of Space Barriers or a change in the state of Space Rays. In any case, from a human perspective, the immense power released by a small explosive item was squeezed into a space far smaller than one could imagine—a space so small that one might doubt whether it could truly contain such energy.
Was Lawrence Li's Space Ray close to this state?
Xu Huo stopped manipulating the Space Rays. Like when he had observed Carmen Field's battle site in District 014, he divided the rays into smaller units, then recombined them—not simply merging them, but slightly altering their direction of combination, interweaving Space Rays from different directions like weaving, and then gathering them again.
In this way, the Space Power, refined and re-refined, seemed to change state due to the recombination. When it returned to its unrefined state, the Space Ray itself had transformed.
But this was too troublesome. Moreover, Space Power was not truly linear; the finer it became, the harder it was to control precisely. So after division, weaving, and re-gathering, the final result was a loss of control.
The Time Ray returned to its previous un-woven state.
After only two attempts, Xu Huo realized he had taken the wrong path. Changing the Time Ray from a finer level was no different from his original control; it only greatly increased his burden without any positive effect.
At that point, he stopped. Like with his previous Time Evolution, he could no longer delve into finer and smaller directions. Instead, he changed course, starting from a more macroscopic direction. The range a Spiritual Power could cover depended on the individual player's strength, but Time Power and Space Power were inexhaustible.
However, at his current stage, Xu Huo felt that the direction of Space Evolution, like Time Evolution before it, had hit a bottleneck. He could no longer expand his perception range...
This thought flashed through his mind, and he seemed to grasp something, but he was interrupted by a sudden Game notification:
[Player Passerby A, you have a directed inheritance gift. Do you accept?] (Chapter End)