Chapter 2402: The Corpse in the Wall
Three faces were speechless.
The Painting Woman, who was holding the doorknob, quickly shook her head, indicating that it wasn't that she was strong, but that the door's quality was poor—it broke off with just a light pull.
"The doorknob is broken, so the door probably won't open. We should change..." Before the Gem Earring Male could finish his sentence, he saw the Painting Woman directly slap the door open. His remaining words came to an abrupt halt. After a pause, he changed his tone and said, "Could it be a trap?"
Whether it was a trap or not was unknown. Before they could consider it, the floor beneath their feet began to move again, directly sweeping the three of them inside!
"The door!" The Gem Earring Male tried to grab the doorframe, but before his hand could touch it, the door was compressed just like the previous wall corridor, turning into the size of a grid in an instant, and soon completely sealed shut.
"We can't get out!" The Painting Woman took a moment to express her surprise, then began to feel around in the space behind the door.
The light behind the door was not good, and the space was not large, but standing in the middle made it difficult to see the surrounding situation clearly. Xu Huo tentatively reached out to touch the wall. The uneven patterns had just slid under his palm when they immediately extended into the distance like waves, and the entire wall came to life.
As the wall surface undulated, a faint white light appeared, spreading outward along the area he touched. Initially, the speed was very slow, but it gradually accelerated. As the speed increased, the patterns on the wall began to collide with each other. The faint white light, like sparks, gradually expanded and became brighter with each collision.
Soon, Xu Huo and the other two saw the structure of the wall—countless quadrangular pyramids tightly joined together, layer upon layer. Although the entire wall was transparent, the superposition and fluctuation of the pyramid structures created a visual error that made it impossible to see every part of the wall clearly, especially with the light fluctuating, making it even harder to look at.
"Is there a small black dot inside?" The Gem Earring Male pointed at a spot and asked.
Xu Huo also saw it, and that black dot was continuously expanding.
"Step back." He pulled the Painting Woman, who wanted to get closer, back.
The three of them retreated toward one layer of the wall, but this side wasn't much better. The entire space had become active due to their entry. The collisions between the pyramid bodies escalated continuously, causing the walls and floor to undulate rapidly. As the light flickered, the Gem Earring Male suddenly shouted at their backs, "Who's there!"
A person appeared in the fluctuating space. Xu Huo also saw them. The figure was inside the wall, maintaining a posture with both arms in front of their body and eyes wide open. Due to the fluctuation of the spatial body, it was hard to see their expression clearly, but it was assumed they must have been terrified when they were sealed in the wall.
"It's a dead person." The Gem Earring Male used a lighting tool. He didn't shine it directly on the man but on the spatial body beside him, using the reflected light to examine the corpse's condition.
"Should be a player. Don't know how long they've been dead. Not someone who came with us."
"They were sealed in the space." Xu Huo frowned. "They actually died like this, inside the space."
"What's so strange about that?" The Gem Earring Male said nonchalantly. "What's the difference between a person and an object? Objects can be destroyed by spatial power, so why can't people be sealed by spatial power? Some people with strong spatial evolution can even kill directly through the spatial rays inside a person's body, much stronger than a Spider Lock."
Spider Lock was a technique that restrained movement by controlling the spatial rays inside a person's body. As for killing directly through the rays inside a person's body, Xu Huo currently only knew two people: Lawrence Li and the Old Holy Sword Society's Lady Gong.
However, their methods of killing were mainly destructive and wouldn't result in a situation like freezing a person.
The person embedded in the wall was still intact, without even obvious injuries on their body.
Was the corpse really intact?
Xu Huo activated the Water Cube Barrier on his body and, protected by the defense barrier, reached his hand into the wall—the spatial body, which looked dangerous and indestructible, directly split apart. At the same time, the original spatial body, under the collision, gradually split into even more and smaller spatial bodies. In an instant, the light reflected from the spatial body became rich, spreading out like a colorful vortex, turning the entire wall colorful!
At the same time, Xu Huo also grabbed the corpse in the wall, but the moment he held its arm, it directly split apart.
Split apart in the truest sense. The corpse automatically disintegrated into countless fragments. Along with the fluctuation of the spatial body, a three-dimensional dead person was gradually pulled into a fragmented, misaligned picture, then slowly scattered, losing its human form...
Xu Huo pulled his hand back expressionlessly. Due to the collision with the spatial body, the Water Cube Barrier's defense barrier also fluctuated rapidly, showing no sign of stopping for a while. Because of the changes in the room, he looked as if he was encased in a container floating with colorful light, extremely vivid.
The Gem Earring Male observed his condition for a moment before saying, "That's at least a Super Device, right? No wonder you dare to clash head-on with a spatial body."
He then pointed at the wall. "Spatial bodies condensed from a large amount of spatial power like this aren't necessarily stable. They might scatter with just a slight touch, and the force released at that moment can kill easily. Ordinary people wouldn't actively destroy it."
Xu Huo certainly knew that. Before being sealed by the Water Cube Barrier, he had already successfully created five chaotic spatial bodies. Although they weren't as stable as the Water Cube Barrier or the spatial bodies here, their lethality stacked exponentially, completing a qualitative leap. He just hadn't had the chance to continue experimenting and researching.
Of course, the stability of the Water Cube Barrier and the spatial bodies in the castle represented another level of spatial power—their self-order within a stable shell. No matter how these spatial bodies were attacked, to a certain extent, they could be disrupted and then reassembled. His spatial bodies, however, were merely combinations of chaotic ray blades, unstable, and their lethal effects were uncontrollable.
"This is a world of spatial power," he said slowly.
Spatial power was the dominant force here; they were merely the intruders.
"It doesn't look like there's anything good hidden in here." The Gem Earring Male roughly surveyed the room using the flowing light. The small black dot that had appeared in the wall earlier gradually turned into a corpse after the spatial fluctuation, looking as if it had been squeezed from another position in the space. But soon, like the previous corpse, it was pulled apart into fragments and quickly disappeared.
"Let's see if there's a door to get out. If there's a door in, there should be a door out," he continued. "The spatial power here is so chaotic, I can't guarantee that Uncle Ma will definitely be able to find us..."
"There probably isn't a door." Xu Huo pointed to the spot where the corpse had disappeared. "Chances are, we'll end up like those corpses, sealed inside the spatial bodies."