Chapter 2293: Time Power Gathering (Part 2)
"A low-level random instance," Xu Huo said.
Shi Sanjiu gave a thumbs up. "You're impressive, kid. Holding onto an instance while still fighting for your life in the game."
"Like you said, my strength is too low, so I don't dare stay in an instance too long," Xu Huo explained. "Random instances are a bit better than fixed ones, but not by much."
Once an instance is opened for a long period, the game restricts its opening range.
Therefore, he usually used tickets to offset it. Opening an instance was considered pausing his player status, while using a ticket meant returning to the game. The "Seventeenth Hospital" had very low annual opening requirements. After finishing an instance, he could also close the instance site. He didn't waste time on the instance and still used tickets normally every month, so holding an instance only gave him an extra safe house.
"Farsighted," Shi Sanjiu praised. "Instance holders don't have much fun. Even in their own territory, they can't do whatever they want."
"Coming out has its risks... but at least the rewards are plenty."
Xu Huo saw his insincere expression and said, "You're probably regretting it now, aren't you?"
Shi Sanjiu shrugged. "Even if I regret it, I can't admit it. It's a matter of face."
"You've been rambling on and on. Are you going to keep moving forward? If you are, I'll wait for you in the thousandth room," he said. "There's no one behind you."
"Seeing is believing," Xu Huo stated his stance.
"A bit of a waste of time," Shi Sanjiu said. "Isn't there any convenient movement tool? Even a flying vehicle would be good."
"Do you carry a flying vehicle on you?" Xu Huo stood up and stretched his body. He raised his hand and waved, and the doors of the rooms ahead opened one after another. In an instant, he had already rushed out a hundred meters.
Shi Sanjiu scratched his thigh. "That's pretty convenient too."
Xu Huo kept running until noon the next day. By then, he had passed over fifteen thousand rooms. It was roughly the same as Shi Sanjiu's description. The further he went, the more obvious the difference between the corpses in the thousandth rooms and the corpses before and after them became. As he passed more rooms, he could clearly see the increasing flow rate of time power between the thousandth rooms. Simply put, they also had a pattern and weren't completely unchanging.
Counting the time power inherent in the rooms themselves, this place had three sets of time rules operating simultaneously. But time power cannot come from nothing, nor can it disappear into nothing. Existing objects always exist. Even if time can change their state, the objects themselves do not perish because of time power.
This stable state of mixed, different time powers was very similar to Dr. Wu's Pumpkin City. But as for how such a state was formed and how to break it, he hadn't found the answer back in Pumpkin City either.
Break it?
When this thought crossed his mind, Xu Huo suddenly smiled. He had only just begun his time evolution; there was no way he could break down the structure of this place. The best he could hope for was to disrupt its stable state and let the space spit him out, just like those lost items and player corpses.
Without any leads, the only chance to leave was to gather the power of many people to interfere with the time power here, as Shi Sanjiu had suggested.
But he still didn't turn back. Instead, he planned to keep going forward, to the twenty-thousandth room, the thirty-thousandth, forty-thousand, fifty-thousand, all the way to one hundred thousand.
At this point, he suddenly had a different idea.
The time flow rates on the corpses in the thousandth rooms were different. They seemed far apart, but if you gathered and shrunk the massive number of rooms, they looked like lines arranged side by side at an interface. And time power itself could be strong or weak. The stable state under such a quantity had long exceeded the power needed for Pumpkin City.
It was somewhat similar to a "Time Box."
Only the number of "Time Boxes" was limited.
Taking the "Cube Space" as an example, Xu Huo believed that the game could indeed create such instruments or sites. And he carried "Three Seconds of Life" with him, a time-type super item. Even if it could no longer be used or take effect, its material still contained time power. Yet it still couldn't disrupt the stability of the rooms, proving that the time intensity of this space firmly overpowered it. The super item itself had become the "incompatible" object being interfered with.
The time power inside the rooms and on the corpses could be slightly nudged. Only the time power on the four walls and the hanging rope could not be nudged at all. For him, time power was a uniformly distributed force. It didn't have the concept of gathering or compressing. Every inch of time power in a space should be equal. Or rather, time power only had differences in flow rate, not differences in strength. What an evolver could control was merely the range into which they introduced time power.
Time power that could already be perceived, and was right before his eyes, should not be completely untouchable. Even the rays on "Angel's Eyes" would vibrate faintly when pulled by a Super Evolver. It was just that Primordial Stones themselves were an anomalous existence. If you wanted to describe their state, they seemed closer to the Water Cube. The Water Cube mixed multiple time powers with different flow rates. Why could it form a water-like shape? And why could a Primordial Stone contain such super-strong time power? These were two questions he still couldn't understand. But one common point was that they both had a form, and this form seemed to amplify the stability of the time power.
Could it be that binding multiple different time powers together made the time power itself harder to move?
Was the hanging rope the same case? Perhaps it contained multiple time powers with similar flow rates, but they were too subtle, and because the range of power introduction was small, players found it hard to distinguish them. So it looked like a single type of time power. And with his strength, or that of any other Super Evolver who came in, they could neither distinguish them nor pull the time power of multiple spaces at once, thus creating a situation where they couldn't interfere with the time power here at all?
If that was the case, then every room should be a spatial gateway connecting to multiple spaces. It was just that this gateway wasn't open to them.
The hanging rope might also be a gateway different from the others.
He wondered if bringing a few more Super Evolvers would yield some results.
Thinking this, Xu Huo simply stopped and began to carefully analyze the time power within the hanging rope.
Time power itself has no form, but the Water Cube has a form, and the hanging rope also has a form. According to the District Government's data, the Water Cube is purely composed of time power, forming a water-like shape. The hanging rope was a fixed object. Was it originally a hanging rope, or was the entire hanging rope composed of time power?
Could spacetime power directly manifest a form?