Chapter 2267: An Unexpectedly Good Place
Over the next few days, aside from completing the game's requirements, Xu Huo spent almost all his time observing the giant cube, but made little progress. When the seven days were up, the game reached its settlement time, and he returned to the pure white space from before.
"You have won one-third of this game and will leave this space within three minutes. You are welcome to invite more people to participate in the upcoming second game."
The Water Cube released this message without further explanation, then kicked him out of the game space.
The moment he left the game space, a gap appeared in Xu Huo's memory. Unlike the complete memory loss in Pumpkin City, where he didn't even know if he had experienced anything, this game was different. He still remembered how he left Buliucheng, but the middle part was a complete blank, followed only by the game's final prompt.
So even winning this game meant there was a second round.
Xu Huo frowned slightly. There was a second round, and the fact that players couldn't leave the instance was likely related to this.
Although he had already forgotten the game's content, he knew that winning just once probably wouldn't allow him to leave the instance. The saying that "the more participants, the safer it is" had likely spread from players who had already won the game.
The game's deliberate reminder targeted the second one-third game. Under the premise of forgetting the game's content, players would naturally think that the more people involved, the more the risk would be spread.
Only about six hours had passed since he entered the game. It was now noon. Of the players who had gathered nearby, only a few were still waiting on the spot. His communicator had also received nearly two hundred new pieces of data related to wanted criminal identity verification. Additionally, the city government had replied to his previous applications. Fortunately, most of the applications had been approved.
"You're out!" Tang Yu and Qiao Jieping emerged from a distant building, greeting him while keeping a certain distance.
"I didn't lose my memory," Xu Huo said proactively. "I remember everything except the game."
The two breathed a sigh of relief and immediately approached. What they most wanted to know was still the game, so they eagerly pressed for details.
Xu Huo didn't say much. Instead, he first took out the location item, released the wanted criminals, and then wrote down the list of wanted criminals provided by other players, asking Tang Yu and the other to post it on the billboard.
As for Zhu Xiaojin, Shen Fu, and Cheng Zhongzhi, although they had entered the game one after another, it was unclear when they would come out. For the remaining wanted criminals, Xu Huo would still follow the previously agreed-upon ratio.
After temporarily handling these matters, Xu Huo found a separate room to inspect his belongings.
First, there was a bag of items. This wasn't surprising—with so many players entering the game, there were bound to be some unlucky ones.
Then there were the "Pure Heart" and other items like "Cat's Triple Life Loan" that he had worn in advance. The items hadn't been consumed, indicating he hadn't had a chance to use them in the game. The fact that he was carrying all the collected items on his person also confirmed this.
However, in the luggage compartment, aside from some food and water being consumed, there were no new records or marks.
Then there were some business cards and papers placed in the inner pockets of his clothes.
The business cards were nothing special, but among the papers were several portrait sketches of him, one of which noted his super evolution direction.
This surprised Xu Huo a little.
The one-third game clearly cut off the player's personal panel. Under the condition of not being able to use items, it was normal for him to use super evolution power. But time evolution—he hadn't evolved to the point of killing without relying on items. Could it be that the game space, as he had guessed, was a time power venue?
He glanced at the sky outside. From the moment he came out, he had faintly sensed some changes in time and space. Not only were they more tangible than before, but their scale also seemed larger.
He tried to manipulate the space rays. A space barrier formed instantly, and the area it affected was several times larger than before. As he continued to influence the space following his body's instinct, the barrier suddenly shattered, breaking into thin blades that pierced through each other, vaguely forming a polyhedron.
Intuitively, such a polyhedron would have doubled lethality. He then pulled at the space rays outside the window. The newly formed space body cut through the building's wall like tofu, effortlessly splitting a metal door reinforced by a player—its destructive power had more than doubled.
This polyhedron was neither a regular space body nor a complete space ray blade. Its state was closer to a space body composed of countless ray blades. Its interior was chaotic, unlike the stable cube Xu Huo had constructed before, possessing a unique lethality.
He tried creating a few more such space bodies and found that five was the limit, and these space bodies couldn't be too far apart.
Then, on a whim, he made these unstable space bodies collide. The effect was surprisingly good. The ray blades that made up the space bodies had already been compressed multiple times. When they collided, they destroyed each other. The blades didn't disappear immediately due to loss of control but instead formed a chain reaction, colliding with one another until space returned to normal.
So that's how it is.
Xu Huo then turned to draw on time power.
Previously, he needed to use items to draw down a few strands of time power. Now, he faintly felt that time was only a door away from him.
He sensed that the time power he could draw had also increased. So he went outside the location item and picked a player lurking nearby to observe. The number 9 above his head—a very good experimental subject.
From a kilometer away, he captured a surge of time power from space—he had slightly underestimated this evolution. Not only was that player frozen, but so were the mosquitoes right next to him, the old paper blown by the wind a bit farther away, the leaf drifting into the window three meters away, the bird that had just landed on the building's outer wall...
This time, the time power covered nearly ten meters, and it was still expanding!
The surprise came too suddenly. Xu Huo quickly stopped, ignoring the panicked person fleeing, and savored the process just now.
Time seemed to have transformed from a time ray into a time torrent.
This was truly an unexpected improvement. Space evolution could be said to be step-by-step, but time evolution seemed to skip all the intermediate processes and directly show the results.
That's right—the range of time power he could control had also increased, already reaching the effect he achieved with the "Time Tower."
"The one-third game... unexpectedly a good place."
After trying a few more times and gradually becoming more familiar with it, he finally calmed the time-space power.
He paused and then tried his spiritual power. This time, there was no surprise.
"Someone's looking for you," Tang Yu called out to him from outside. Mi Qiaonan and a few other players had come looking for him.
[Note: An elderly family member is ill and hospitalized. I went back to my hometown today, so updates may be unstable in the next few days!]