Chapter 2711: So Strong It's Tempting
The text on the paper ended there, with two simple smiley face patterns appearing at the end.
Xu Huo glanced at it before storing it in his luggage compartment.
The trait had made up for some things he had overlooked, but most of it was unimportant. What was more critical was that substance from the Box Carrier's black space—something he had never seen before... In this game, he had encountered both the Nuwa Stone and the Primordial Stone more than once, yet the substance released by the Box Carrier's black space was something he had never seen...
Could evolving a trait to its peak actually create something that didn't exist in the game world?
This could be investigated later for clues. The tracking on the Box Carrier had failed, so he would likely pick up the Black Blade again. Xu Huo had used that blade in many districts, and this wasn't his first encounter with the Box Carrier. Over time, it would be hard to prevent him from tracing it back to District 014.
Of course, having used it in many districts was also a good thing—tracking down his whereabouts would inevitably take more time.
He just hoped the Box Carrier wouldn't be too free lately.
"Cough!" Yan Jiayu coughed, then shot up with a sudden bounce. She reached into her throat and pulled out a strip of colorful cloth, followed by a dry heave. With tears in her eyes, she said, "This thing actually wasn't completely removed."
Xu Huo was surprised by her recovery ability. After all, she had just suffered such severe injuries; recovering so quickly and with such vitality was rare.
"Can you stand?" He extended his hand.
Yan Jiayu waved her hand to decline, then rolled off the bed herself. She stretched her limbs with wide, open movements, hopped a couple of times, and nodded at Xu Huo. "All good!"
"Good that you recovered quickly." Xu Huo handed her the items he had prepared in advance. "Familiarize yourself with the usage of these props and instruments ahead of time, so you won't be caught off guard when the teleportation happens."
Yan Jiayu nodded. "Thanks for coming to save me. I almost got you killed by the Box Carrier. Qi Cong has already run off—he keeps his ticket on him at all times."
"It's just that Li Chun couldn't get out."
"She should be fine," Xu Huo said. "This time, you owe me a favor."
With so many spaces inside the Circus City, it would be easy for her to hide. Even if the Box Carrier found her, facing a super prop, his first choice probably wouldn't be to destroy it.
"I'll remember that. If you ever need anything, just call on me." Yan Jiayu smiled, but quickly added, "I wonder if Li Chun and Da Mao will be mistreated."
"Maybe they'll come out on their own in a few days." Xu Huo gestured for her to relax and focus on getting familiar with the props and instruments.
The two then moved into the location prop.
After greeting Pu Yu and the others, Yan Jiayu got busy. Besides the props and instruments Xu Huo had borrowed, she also needed to prepare some weapons she was comfortable using in daily combat.
After another night of rest, they officially set off the next morning.
Although having Xu Huo made travel convenient, he had just recovered from serious injuries, and Pu Yu and the others were too embarrassed to overwork him. Besides, the journey was so long that they couldn't rely on the Spiritual Gate for the entire trip, so they stuck to the old method—walking.
Yan Jiayu was worried she wouldn't have anything to use when they reached the high-risk instance, so she carried instruments and some lightweight energy weapons on her back.
Xu Huu had it much easier. He had swapped out his props for a new batch. Defense instruments were no longer necessary; the ones he was comfortable with were mostly broken, and the rest were no better than directly manipulating space power. So he only carried a small backpack containing some small detection and tracking instruments, along with water and food.
Along the way, he also observed the two people accompanying Pu Yu. They were indeed stronger than they appeared. When encountering mutated plants, even battle-hardened bounty hunters like Yan Ping had to use props and instruments together and still struggled. But these two achieved the same effect with just one or two instruments, moving with ease and never revealing their true strength, nor did they help Yan Ping and the others.
"Here it comes!" What had been minor skirmishes so far changed after half a day of travel. A small wave of mutated plants surged from the distance, with roots and vines rising about a hundred meters high, gradually lowering as they spread over an area of several kilometers.
This wave was relatively small, so as long as they passed through quickly, they could minimize losses. Xu Huo mobilized his space power, directly using the Space Ray Blade to level the surging wave of mutated plants, then quickly shifted positions with the Spiritual Gate. In seconds, they were ten thousand meters away, easily dodging the wave.
Yan Ping and the others watched with twitching eyelids. Even Xu Huo was a bit surprised. After completing the training to obtain the "Reversal Ring" in the super instance venue, his space evolution had advanced another level. But the venue had been limited at the time, and after leaving, he was sealed by the Water Cube. Until just now, he hadn't truly been able to wield his space power freely. Now that he tried it, his control and range had indeed greatly improved.
Originally, his space control range was about two kilometers in radius. Now it had more than doubled, reaching nearly eight kilometers of space he could manipulate. Space entities further combined into super space entities, and super space entities arranged into super space entity belts... He had already reached this stage. Once the super space entity belt was compressed and combined again, it would achieve the visibly progressive polyhedron. At that point, he would basically have the rudiments of Lawrence Li's space control. Of course, to complete the progressive polyhedron step, his mastery of space power would need a qualitative leap. But the current state was already very satisfying.
Once the difficulty and quantity increased, large-scale control and fine manipulation became much easier. He could sense spatial changes spanning fifteen thousand meters from east to west. The combination and release scale of space barriers and Space Ray Blades also grew larger. Since the venue wasn't suitable, he didn't experiment with how much spatial explosion could be caused by stacking super space entities.
"You're way too strong!" Yan Jiayu's eyes lit up. "Can space evolution be this powerful?"
"Still far from it." The Water Cube problem was essentially solved, so Xu Huo was in a good mood. "Only space power that can be directly seen is truly strong."
"Isn't that catching up to Lawrence Li?" Yan Jiayu eagerly wanted him to demonstrate. "I heard super players can level a city in one go!"
This time, it really was far off.
"Let's talk about it another time," Xu Huo said. "We can't make too much noise here."
If it were just dealing with these plant waves, instruments and props could achieve better results. But to avoid triggering larger-scale changes, they had to suppress the commotion as much as possible.
"Alright," Yan Jiayu said. "Next time we go back, you teach me space evolution, and I can teach you body evolution... My eye pupils can change into over a dozen colors!"
"It's a deal." Xu Huo agreed readily.
"There are people ahead." Yan Ping suddenly stopped, looking at the prompt on the detection instrument.