Chapter 2301: Risk Level 83%
"Do you want to be hung back on the wall?" Xu Huo asked her.
"Why would I want to be hung back on the wall? I don't want that." The Painting Woman looked at him with a hint of wariness.
"The people killed inside are probably like you being forced to hang on the wall," Xu Huo said. "Both are situations you absolutely don't want to face."
The Painting Woman didn't understand. "The people I met before all killed people. When they killed, they didn't say there was a problem. You kill people too, and you didn't say there was a problem either."
"Why can't I?"
"Of course you can," Xu Huo said flatly. "If someone wants to kill you, you can kill them. If someone hurts you, you can kill them too. But don't kill or harm people for some inexplicable reason."
"You becoming human isn't an accident. Learning a little bit of the bottom line of being human isn't a bad thing."
"Also, if you don't want to learn, there will definitely be more people in the future who want to hang you back on the wall, making it so you can never become human again."
The Painting Woman certainly didn't want to be hung back on the wall, so she had no choice but to compromise. "Then I'll listen to you."
Xu Huo smiled. "Want something to eat?"
There were no cooking conditions here, so Xu Huo took out a few bags of snacks for her.
The Painting Woman half-leaned against a soft cushion she had specially found, eating while inputting information. "Do you really want to go inside?"
Xu Huo lit a cigarette for the first time in a while. "Pretty much. The next time I run into something like this, I might not be so lucky."
Just thinking that the strongest core power representing the Dimensional Rift Game might be inside made his blood race uncontrollably.
"I think it's bad inside." The Painting Woman tapped her communicator again. "It's a bit like an ancient castle I've been to."
"The Box Carrier's ancient castle?" Xu Huo turned his head.
"The one with lots of puppets," the Painting Woman said. "When I ran out, there was an amusement park nearby with lots of fun things, but I didn't want to play at all. That place is like this one—full of gaps everywhere, and you could fall into a gap if you're not careful."
The Painting Woman wasn't an ordinary Super Item. It was hard to say what the upper limit of a Super Item that could become human and possess independent thought was. Sensing the appearance of spatial gaps wasn't strange; Super Evolvers could do it too.
"Are they the same kind of gaps?" It was normal for some Super Devices to exist where the Box Carrier lived.
"Are there different kinds of gaps?" The Painting Woman was stunned for a moment, then continued, "Oh, some have more, some have less."
"I mean, are they spatial gaps?" Xu Huo repeated the question.
The Painting Woman was a bit confused. "Seems like it, but also seems like not."
"Then think carefully." Xu Huo looked away.
"These things aren't good at all." The Painting Woman expressed her thoughts on her own. "Living in a place like this is worse than being hung back on the wall. You shouldn't go either."
Xu Huo flicked off the ash. "I'll try my luck."
He used his trait "Fate's Choice" to evaluate several locations he had marked.
"Fate's Choice" was a primary trait that could assist in judging risk levels, upgraded from "Accident Trigger Physique." Although it couldn't persistently determine risk levels, it was enough for short-term use.
83%.
Xu Huo rarely used this trait. The last time he used it, it hadn't even exceeded 50%. Jumping this high—wasn't this practically a one-in-ten chance of survival?
An instance suspected to be specifically designed to harvest Super Evolvers among high-level players already carried such high risk. It showed that for the entire Dimensional Rift, B-level players didn't even qualify to sit at the table.
"Is your luck good or bad?" the Painting Woman asked him.
"Not too good." Xu Huo gave a faint smile and stubbed out the cigarette on the ground beside him.
He didn't plan to leave the vicinity until he cleared the instance, so during the night's rest, he was fortunate enough to witness a Water Cube flying out from not too far away.
It was a very large Water Cube, at least ten zhang square by visual estimate, but when it rose and fell, it didn't damage the street or any buildings. It was as light as if it weren't a water cube at all, but more like a tangled clump of drifting fluff.
After it flew out, it headed straight into the distance. Within the range Xu Huo could sense, two players hiding indoors were taken away by a small cube that suddenly flashed out from it.
He looked back at the city center. A barrier separated the area. The space there had become chaotic due to the Water Cube's passage, with spatial gaps appearing at high frequency. It took five minutes before things slowly calmed down.
The route map that programmer had given was a direction selected after observation where Water Cubes appeared less frequently—of course, it was possible the observation wasn't thorough enough, but it was much safer than other places where Water Cubes often appeared. Additionally, the other party speculated this might be related to the people in the city, so he suggested Old Cai and the others clear out the residents in one direction before entering to reduce the likelihood of Water Cubes appearing.
Although this method was time-consuming and labor-intensive, it could be tried if there were enough people, or if the city was smaller. In Buliucheng, given the current state of the city government, it was completely impossible.
Besides Water Cubes, there were also areas where the frequency of ground pit changes was higher. Based on these two factors, the programmer roughly outlined a route. He also explained that aside from the core Water Cube in the city center, other places wouldn't specifically attack people with temporal-spatial power just because someone appeared.
Of course, the route he chose was only where Water Cubes and spatial gaps appeared less frequently, not completely safe, and it was hard to summarize a pattern.
Xu Huo didn't know what mindset the other party had to be so certain Old Cai and the others could definitely get in. A place that made even Super Evolvers hesitate—sending them there was basically no different from sending them to their deaths.
Moreover, whether temporal-spatial power would specifically attack players entering was still uncertain, since not a single instrument or item that went in had come out.
Not long after, a second Water Cube emerged from another place. The area where the Water Cube appeared also caused a brief spatial chaos before calming down a few minutes later.
However, after a Water Cube passed through an area, the state there became more stable after the brief chaos, at least the fluctuations in spatial power were less frequent.
This should mean the number of spatial gap occurrences would also decrease.
Entering the city center couldn't be done by using a teleportation item to reach the destination directly. Using spatial power to move would also be interfered with; the distance span wouldn't be that large, and it might even fail. So once inside, it mainly relied on one's legs and traits. Only with sharp senses and enough speed could one possibly escape from under the spatial gaps—this was already high difficulty, not to mention the time power.
Catching a sudden appearance and disappearance of time power and avoiding it was far more difficult than directly triggering time power, let alone whether items could block these time powers.
Wait a little longer.
Xu Huo leaned against the balcony, listening to the sound of the TV the Painting Woman was watching, and closed his eyes.