Chapter 2294: All Confused
Thinking about this, Xu Huo suddenly paused. Time-space power had always existed, and it could also change, but human eyes simply couldn't see it directly, especially space power—this didn't affect its existence.
For example, Lawrence Li's Space Ray seemed to be on the verge of breaking through this barrier.
It couldn't be ruled out that he was using some special auxiliary method. In that case, this room and this hanging rope should be the shell that the One-Third Game had put on time-space power.
But what was the point of these repeated rooms?
If it was just to increase the difficulty or trap players to death, there was no need for tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of rooms.
Realizing that continuing forward wouldn't yield any more progress, and before the room could refresh, Xu Huo turned back and went the other way.
It took half a day before he ran into Shi Sanjiu and the two players who had been lying down earlier. These three were staying in the thousandth room. Besides them, there were two other unfamiliar faces.
"You came back pretty fast." Shi Sanjiu looked to be in good spirits. He waved at Xu Huo. "I found two more people to help."
"This is Mai He, and that's Ren Wenxu. Mai He is a Temporal Evolver, and Ren Wenxu is a Spatial Evolver."
"These two said they've met you before, so I don't need to introduce them."
The two who had met Xu Huo in this room earlier came over with smiles to introduce themselves. The long-haired player called himself Brother Nan, and the other was Qiu Guangyang.
"It's rare to see time-space evolvers. I didn't expect to meet three in one go in this small game." Qiu Guangyang had already heard from Shi Sanjiu about Xu Huo, so he knew he was also a Temporal Super Evolver.
Indeed, in all the time Xu Huo had been a B-rank player, he hadn't seen as many time-space super evolvers in this instance as he had now, especially Temporal Super Evolvers.
Mai He waved his hand. "I can barely sense time power, but I can't do much with it yet. I hope I won't hold everyone back."
"You're being modest," Shi Sanjiu said, clearly already familiar with them. He patted Mai He on the shoulder. "Anyone who has undergone time-space evolution is never weak. Let's step it up and get out of here first."
So the group gathered beneath the hanging rope. The corpse had been moved aside. Shi Sanjiu spoke first. "I think this isn't pure time power either. It's probably been processed like a prop or instrument, so controlling it will definitely be difficult. The best way is to trigger the time power in the same spot and then use space power to destroy it."
"This is the only method I can think of right now. Do you have any other ideas?"
None of them had any objections, so they followed his arrangement. Three people tried to trigger the time power at the top of the hanging rope, while the other three destroyed the surrounding space.
The effect wasn't good. Even Mai He, who had just begun his time evolution, knew they hadn't touched the time power at all. The space destruction wasn't much better—they hadn't even scratched the paint off the ceiling.
"Let's just try using props." Qiu Guangyang pulled out a dagger and slashed at the ceiling a few times. There was some effect—he left a few faint marks—but nothing else came of it.
After that, they changed positions more than a dozen times to try again, but still found nothing.
"Maybe we should try when the room refreshes," Xu Huo suggested. "The time power fluctuates then. It might be better than forcing it now."
With no results from their attempts, everyone had to wait. But since they no longer knew the exact time, they had to stand guard beneath the hanging rope in advance, keeping their concentration high so as not to miss the opportunity.
"Bang!"
"Bang!"
"Bang!"
The doors at the front and back of the room slammed shut. The moment they felt the time power sweep through their bodies, everyone acted at once. This time, it seemed to work, because the hanging rope moved, accompanied by a resonant tremor between the time powers!
"It worked..." Before Shi Sanjiu could finish his sentence, the smile froze on his face, because several streams of water surged out from the hanging rope!
"It's the Water Cube!" Xu Huo immediately retreated and turned to flee toward the door. But before he could get close, water had already flooded the walls, covering even the door!
This wasn't ordinary water—it was genuine time power. Not even a single drop, not even a trace, could be allowed to splash out, or it could kill a person. So he had to abandon that plan and instead use a Space Barrier to protect himself. When he looked back, he saw Qiu Guangyang forcibly open the door in front of him from a distance!
Behind the door wasn't a safe passage—it was another space sealed by time water, impossible to cross!
But that wasn't the worst part. The worst part was that forcing the door open with space power caused the time water to splash, turning the few streams that had only been seeping from the hanging rope into droplets flying everywhere!
In that instant, the time power truly became like water, rapidly splashing throughout the room!
Qiu Guangyang was the first to be hit. The time power pierced through his body almost instantly. Unlike other fixed time powers that flowed slowly, these suddenly appearing time water streams moved fast—and in that moment, he turned to dust!
Xu Huo, Shi Sanjiu, and the others huddled in the middle of the room, trying to interfere with the time water while using Space Barriers to block it. But without props or peak-level Super Evolution power, they couldn't possibly hold off so much time water. In the next half-minute, Mai He and Ren Wenxu died one after another!
Brother Nan was the most effective among them at using space evolution power. He could create a special multi-layered Space Barrier. While it couldn't completely block the time power, some of the time water changed direction when passing through the barrier. So even though he didn't understand time power, he barely managed to protect himself.
"Brother, if you've got any tricks, use them now!" Shi Sanjiu was sweating coldly. "I saw it earlier—you're a dual time-space evolver. At least throw up some barriers to block!"
"My space evolution leans toward destruction," Xu Huo said, his expression no better. "If you want the water in this room to break into even smaller pieces, I can oblige!"
In reality, the droplets in the room had already been refined by their blocking. The three of them couldn't stay together anymore and had to move to different corners of the room—as long as these water streams didn't move quickly, there were still one or two gaps to squeeze into.
After catching their breath, they looked at the room now wrapped in time power and the six streams of water swirling in the center from the hanging rope. Shi Sanjiu wiped his sweat and said, "Is this game really this hard?"
"It's not that the game is hard—it's that it never intended to let us live." As soon as Xu Huo finished speaking, he was suddenly teleported away. The memories of the repeated rooms gradually faded, and the moment he set foot on the land of Buliucheng, they solidified into a single sentence:
"Congratulations on winning this One-Third Game and preserving your precious life. Welcome to invite more people to participate in the upcoming third game."
Damn it!