Chapter 2381: Small Space Collapse
Xu Huo's brow furrowed almost imperceptibly, but he did not resist. Then his vision shifted, and he found himself in a resplendent room. In every corner of the room stood two players, while on the large central lounging bed reclined a woman who appeared to be around forty years old. She was dressed in thin, seductive clothing, unconcerned with the gazes of those around her. With one foot adorned with jeweled toenails, she pressed against the face of a man kneeling before her, while eating fruit chunks offered from another man's mouth.
The people in the room showed no reaction to this scene, their gazes not even lingering for a second on the two nearly naked men before the woman. The Shark-Faced Mask gave a slight bow to the woman and then stepped aside.
No one paid any attention to Xu Huo.
The woman was also preoccupied with flirting with the two men.
It wasn't until five minutes later that the woman seemed satisfied. She wiped her face, smeared with lipstick and fruit juice, sat up slightly straighter, and looked at Xu Huo. "I admire people who are good at gambling."
Xu Huo silently watched her.
"I heard you took out a Perfect Evolution Potion, making those two old geezers' hearts race, and they even broke the rules to corner you afterward." The woman chuckled lightly, then continued, "The Fish Feast Building is a place of rules. Them, and those who leaked your information, will all be expelled. You can rest assured."
"Are you the boss here?" Xu Huo spoke.
The woman's brow twitched slightly. The next second, a powerful force struck toward his left face... A timely Defense Barrier blocked the blow, but the force was too strong, almost pressing him against the wall. He struggled several times but couldn't break free, his body tightly pinned to the wall, the Defense Barrier completely deformed under the pressure!
The woman watched appreciatively. After a moment, when he fell to the ground, she said, "I don't like being interrupted when I'm speaking. You only speak when I allow you to. You're still a sensible person, so a small punishment will do, to teach you a lesson."
Xu Huo stood up expressionlessly, waiting for her to continue.
"I like capable people, but I don't like capable people who are overly arrogant. You need to fix this flaw." The woman smiled. "As I said, I admire you. You can come work at the Fish Feast Building. I'll give you an annual salary of five hundred million. If you can exceed the total transaction volume of the VIP rooms at the Fish Feast Building, you'll get a twenty million commission for every hundred million White Notes."
"Additionally, at the end of each year's work settlement, you can freely choose one Instance Item from the Fish Feast Building. Those Instance Items were originally the Instance Cores of some small instances, mostly Special Items. Regardless of quality, after one year of work, I'll allow you to choose one."
"Now you can speak."
Xu Huo said nothing but walked toward her. The woman used her eyes to stop the players who tried to approach, watching as he sat down opposite her.
"You don't look like Number 4," he said, bringing up a completely unrelated topic.
The woman laughed. "You have a special fondness for Number 4? She's my incompetent niece. You'd have to become a core member of the Fish Feast Building to have a chance to see her."
Xu Huo nodded slightly, his fingers stroking the "Time Ring," and said calmly, "A small place like the Fish Feast Building can't keep me. Besides, if I want money, I have many ways."
"For example..." He deliberately paused, activating the "Time Ring" while looking at the woman before him, "Capture the leader of the Fish Feast Building and extort a huge amount of White Notes."
The freezing power of the "Time Ring" covered the entire room, but everyone in the room, including the two naked men, did not stop moving under the influence of the Time Power. The woman even burst out laughing. "Is that so? You think that with a Time Item, you can roam freely through the Fish Feast Building?"
As her words fell, her laughter abruptly stopped. She then commanded in a deep voice, "Capture him. Take him alive. I'll make him my two thousand and first pet person."
"Is that so?" Xu Huo replied with the same two words. Then a massive amount of Time Power poured down from around him. The players who tried to approach him, along with their items, were frozen in place under the influence of the Time Power. Some players aged rapidly, while most items were instantly scrapped.
"This is the drawback of Advanced Items and instruments," Xu Huo said, standing up and watching the woman opposite him, who was rapidly aging while maintaining a terrified expression. "Many of them were installed with timing tools during production, and these timing tools are very sensitive to Time Power. Even if they don't age as quickly as a person, their effects are almost gone, and in the end, the items are lost as well."
The Fish Feast Building was located in a special space. He had noticed earlier that the Fish Feast Building could likely use small spaces that hadn't entered the game to restrict player entry and exit. Tickets could be restricted, but Time Power permeates any space. Even if the space restriction of this Location Item was special enough to affect small-scale Time Items, it was insufficient to withstand the Time Torrent from another space.
A sharp force suddenly swept across the room. Xu Huo quickly retreated to the door. The moment he stepped out of the room, the space inside rapidly collapsed and sank, along with everyone caught in the Time Power, all packed up and taken away by the distorted space. Then, new space immediately replaced it.
In the blink of an eye, the room had completely changed.
This was an eye-opener for Xu Huo. Aside from Time Freeze, the only person he had seen escape Time Power directly was Dou Shengnan, and that was likely only achievable with items close to Super Items or even Super Items themselves. He hadn't expected the Fish Feast Building to be able to escape Time Power by directly relocating the entire space. This method of using a surface to counter a point maximally neutralized the advantage of Time Power. It didn't even need to use sufficiently strong Space Power to interfere with Time Power.
But clearly, this didn't seem to be a foolproof method either, because the exchange between the old and new rooms seemed to have caused the small space to collapse. The new room wasn't fully replaced. Instead, a bottomless black pit appeared in its place.
This should be another space.
He didn't know if those who were swapped out could land safely, but this pit looked unfriendly at first glance. Xu Huo only glanced at it from the doorway, and a chill shot up from the soles of his feet.
He took two steps back, triggered the Water Cube Barrier, and directly crashed through the surrounding players, escaping from that floor.
Right behind him, one black shadow after another flew out of the deep pit, entangling the players in the corridor, dragging them one by one into the room. The entangled players, for unknown reasons, made no sound at all, unable even to save themselves in time, like stiff pieces of wood being manipulated!
Xu Huo rushed down more than ten floors in one breath before he felt the lingering danger behind him dissipate. Quite a few players had also fled down, while some Shark-Faced Masks from the Fish Feast Building were going against the current, heading upward.