Chapter 2908: The Unreachable Treasure Vault
Just as the archons of the twelve main cities cautiously began their battle, Xu Huo found himself trapped inside the King's Treasure Vault.
He was first swallowed into a resplendent golden space, piled high with precious metals and various gemstones common in 031's history—well, it fit the stereotypical image of a king's treasure vault.
But that was all it was.
Although he stood before the treasure, he could never approach it, let alone take any item from within.
It seemed only a step or two away, yet every step he took, the vault retreated one step. Whether he sped up, used a space passage, or a spiritual gate, he could not get any closer to the treasure.
He also tried changing directions and seeking other paths, but his range of movement seemed limited to just a few square meters at the foot of the vault.
He could enter, but he couldn't move, and he couldn't leave... Indeed, the moment he entered, his personal panel was shut down, and every single prop in his hands had completely failed.
After a moment's hesitation, he chose not to use "Darkened Heart" but instead tried to observe the spatial state around him.
The vault appeared only a step or two away, but in reality, there should be a space barrier in between. The reason he couldn't touch this space barrier was likely due to the size of the space.
Everything seen with the naked eye was an illusion. It seemed he was moving within these few square meters, but in truth, he simply hadn't reached the edge of the space.
Realizing this, he began to accelerate, using space passages to advance repeatedly, until he stopped twenty minutes later.
At this point, the scene before him had changed again. The distance to the vault had increased—from the original step or two to two meters now.
A change was a good thing, but this change seemed more like a hint that he was going in the wrong direction.
Xu Huo didn't know what state the players who had cleared the instance before him ended up in, but in this instance, the King's Treasure Vault shouldn't have such a difficult level. Otherwise, the clearance task for this instance should be to obtain the King's Treasure, not to become the king.
If the King's Treasure Vault was one of the clearance steps, then after he got out of here, he should have met all the clearance conditions... The fact that such a change occurred precisely indicated that this place really might be where Dr. Wu had hidden the Perfect Potion.
He didn't know how large this seemingly few-square-meter space actually was, but since things had come to this, he could only keep moving forward and see.
Still, this gave him a new appreciation for Dr. Wu's omnipotence. Not only could he create a Perfect Potion with no side effects, capture curved time, and master time evolution, but based on the state of this space, his mastery in this area wouldn't be low either.
There was more than one Carmen Field in the game world, but only one Carmen Field was so famous.
With such talent and ability, how did Dr. Wu manage to leave no trace in the game? Almost all the players frantically pursuing him were only looking for the Perfect Potion—didn't anyone want to learn his craft?
Thinking this, Xu Huo smiled to himself.
Another two hours passed, and the distance between him and the vault had become five meters.
Half a day later, this length had increased to ten meters.
Throughout the entire process, he hadn't given up trying to deconstruct this space from other angles, but it was still the same—he couldn't find the edge of this space. It was as if he stood in an extremely vast field, and no matter which direction he walked or how far, he couldn't touch its boundary.
The more he walked, the smaller he felt in this space, and the spatial structure around him seemed to have nothing special about it.
If not for the vault still being visible, he might have thought he had been banished to the boundless universe.
Time slowly passed. Repeating the monotonous straight-line process gradually wore away Xu Huo's patience. The vault grew farther and farther away, the potion was nowhere to be seen, there was no way to find an exit, and the space showed no change at all...
He had to stop and rest.
Staring at the nearly unchanging space, Xu Huo even wondered if he had entered some spatial crevice from which there was no escape. Under time, there is no space, and hyperdimensional space was different from ordinary space...
He stood up again, removed the "Time-Space Hand" glove, triggered the Water Cube Barrier, and directly used hyperdimensional space power to touch the space ahead.
Unlike the usual sensation of hyperdimensional space power dissolving objects, when his fingers brushed through the air, he felt as if he had pierced something. Immediately afterward, a tremendous suction force surged out, pulling his entire body forward. The space seemed to have cracked due to the hyperdimensional power, and his body was forcibly squeezed through this crack. Not only could he feel the pull of the suction, but there was also a tearing sensation of countless space forces passing through his body...
Fortunately, a force then wrapped around him, allowing him to pass through the gap safely—due to inertia, he stumbled a few steps forward as he passed through the spatial gap, and when he stopped, he found that the distance to the vault had shortened again.
Xu Huo took a deep breath and halted in place.
Using hyperdimensional space power was always a risk. He couldn't truly control hyperdimensional space power, nor did he understand the state of this space. In that attempt just now, although there was no pain, he could clearly feel the sensation of space power passing through his body...
He rolled up his sleeve and checked his body, finding no changes that might have been caused by space power.
Having evolved in space for so long, having witnessed the power of Spider Lock, and having seen examples of high-level space power used for human body treatment, he had long known that the human body is also filled with space rays. But never before had he been so acutely aware that humans are also part of space, or rather, that the human body itself is a space entity.
It was just that, compared to other space entities, the human body was more complex and lacked regularity.
Not being injured was pure luck. Xu Huo paused briefly, then began trying to conquer the space itself. Although his space evolution was far from being able to structure the spatial walls of a complete space, the moment he passed through the gap gave him a different kind of inspiration.
Seizing that fleeting inspiration, he began to condense space entities on a large scale within this space.
Within every range he could reach, he compressed all space entities to their utmost limit.
In the past, the Perfect Potions he had encountered were never hidden too tightly. The fundamental reason was that Dr. Wu himself wanted later people to find the Perfect Potion, not to set up an impassable level. Many times, he was very lenient—even a prop like "Angel's Eyes," made from a Primordial Stone, could be easily given away. So why would he create a space here that was impossible to pass through?
Beneath the layers upon layers of space entities, Xu Huo sensed that a certain location's space entity was being pushed apart by an unknown force.
Following that position, he walked over and, to his surprise, easily advanced several meters, once again drawing closer to the vault.