Chapter 2705: Xu Huo's Wonderful Use
However, Pu Yu showed no intention of leaving. Not only was she not planning to go, but her eyes were also shining as she stared at the person on the ground. "Cases of being stabbed by temporal-spatial power and then beginning temporal-spatial evolution are extremely rare, but there have been successful instances!"
"He was stabbed by temporal-spatial power?" Yan Ping exclaimed with surprise while also harboring a hint of envy. "Was it time or space?"
"Space," Pu Yu said with certainty, then signaled to her companions. "Let's retreat first. It's unsafe to stay near him."
The group walked out of the location item. Pu Yu was about to call Yan Jiayu out as well, but at that moment, the layer of Water Cube Barrier suddenly expanded rapidly and then contracted sharply, slowly converging onto Xu Huo's right hand and gradually solidifying around his index finger.
At the same time, Xu Huo's index finger began to change. In an instant, the skin seemed to weather and crack like dried earth, and as the cracks widened, it began to peel off. What was revealed underneath was no longer normal human flesh and blood but something transparent, like glass, with several segments of finger bones embedded inside.
Before those present could fully see all the changes brought about by the space power, a large hole suddenly appeared where Xu Huo was lying, and he fell straight through!
"Old Xu!" Yan Jiayu jumped down without hesitation, but she misjudged the situation. Originally, beneath the location item was a ground woven from vines. Through this twenty-meter-thick layer of vines lay the underground forest, which had enough space to move around. The gnarled, dragon-like tree trunks and roots could serve as footholds and could also stop Xu Huo's fall...
However, as she followed him down, she discovered that wherever Xu Huo touched, everything was instantly vaporized. Yan Jiayu leaped from tree trunk to tree trunk, while he crashed and tumbled through the trunks and roots.
"Old Xu, wake up! Don't kill yourself by falling!"
Unfortunately, the unconscious person showed no response.
He didn't react, but the mutant plants in the forest began to stir. All the trees in the underground forest writhed like dragons emerging from their caves, intertwining and crushing against each other. Meanwhile, the mutant plants on the surface sank down in large swaths. Endless waves of vines surged up, pollen and seeds from various plants filled the air, and swarms of insects that had been sleeping deep within poured out one after another, instantly turning the area into an impenetrable cage!
"We're doomed!" Yan Jiayu pushed her speed to the limit. She darted through the gaps between the tree dragons, descending nearly a hundred meters before finally catching up to Xu Huo. Just as two vines were about to entangle him, she pulled out a spider web and scooped him up.
The spider web was highly sticky, and as she pulled him over, she got stuck to it as well. Carefully avoiding Xu Huo's right hand, she tried to climb upward, but the sky-covering mutant plants had completely blocked all escape routes, not even letting in a sliver of light!
"Follow me up!" A somewhat unclear voice came from above. The next second, the underground forest around them was continuously sliced open, and a rectangular block formed by mutant plants was abruptly yanked upward!
Yan Jiayu broke off a tree branch to prop up Xu Huo's right arm, then carried him on her back and ran up along the gap that had been opened. As she maneuvered between the trees, whenever she encountered an obstacle, she would poke Xu Huo's hand forward, naturally clearing everything in their path. However, the overly dense air felt somewhat heavy.
But that was nothing.
Half a minute later, she finally returned to the surface. By then, Pu Yu's item that had been holding back the forest had reached its limit. Large amounts of broken wood fell down, crashing heavily onto the churning ground. The mutant plants on the surface, which had already been stirred up, now seemed enraged. They rose up one by one like snakes, reaching a hundred meters high!
This stuff—forget about whipping across the ground—even if a fruit fell from above, it could become a deadly weapon. Pu Yu and her group were caught in the wave of the forest. Although they could still protect themselves with items and instruments, the piercing screech emitted by the plants during their movement was unbearable.
The powerful mental interference caused Yan Ping and the others to black out repeatedly. In just a few minutes, two more of their members were entangled and covered by vines, disappearing from sight in an instant!
"Blazing Fire!" Yan Ping raised a torch-like item and blew toward the ground. A fierce flame shot out hundreds of meters, directly piercing through a newly risen wave of vines!
After the fire cleared, he rescued his two companions and scattered a special potion around them. Some plants, detecting the potion's scent, actively avoided them, but this only bought a few seconds. As the mutant plants moved, the scent quickly dissipated.
The mutant plants surged back, raising waves a hundred meters high, forcing them back into the underground forest. At that moment, the insect swarms surrounded them again, clinging densely to each person, dragging them downward.
"Whoosh!" Pu Yu, at the center of the group, pulled out a handful of powder and blew it forward. The insect swarms began to fall off. Regaining her vision, she swung her sword three times in succession, cutting a passage hundreds of meters long above them. Dodging the falling broken wood and plants, she opened several space passages in a row, teleporting Xu Huo and the others back to the surface.
This time, they didn't linger. They used space teleportation items to flee continuously until they were far from the forest wave. Then, they switched from items to space power for teleportation, gradually transitioning to traits, and finally slowed down and stopped.
They had lost four sets of mechanical suits, but no one was injured.
The group entered a new location item to rest.
This time, aside from Pu Yu and her two companions, Yan Ping and the others were somewhat dissatisfied. The situation earlier had been clear: Xu Huo couldn't control his space power at all, and he had nearly dragged everyone down with him. Just escaping had taken nearly three hours. If it happened again, no matter how many people or equipment they had, it wouldn't be enough to withstand it.
"The portable detection instruments have been lost," Yan Ping said, looking at Pu Yu. "We don't have any new ones."
He meant for Pu Yu to buy new ones.
Detection instruments usable in ultra-high-energy zones were naturally not cheap, but Pu Yu didn't hesitate to take out another set. She also provided new mechanical suits, which somewhat calmed Yan Ping and the others.
"Is he injured?" Pu Yu finished handling these matters and turned her attention to Xu Huo.
"It's not a big problem," Yan Jiayu said. She had already placed Xu Huo on the ground, but his arm was still propped up in the air.
"Is this space evolution?" a short-haired female player from Yan Ping's side asked. "It looks different from ordinary space evolution."
She had never heard of anyone undergoing space evolution to the point where they were reduced to just bones.
"It's highly likely that the space power has reached some kind of balance in his hand," Pu Yu said with a smile. "He's really lucky. You saw it just now—his space power is incomparable to that of ordinary evolvers. This kind of opportunity, at a single wormhole point, not even one in a trillion people would have it."