Chapter 303: Xu Huo's Super Evolution
"I just got trapped right after leaving the instance. If you want candy, you'll have to wait until I get out alive." Xu Huo didn't let go. "I'll double next month's candy for you, no problem, right?"
The struggling little hand stopped. Then the girl in the pink hat jumped out of the puppet. As soon as her feet hit the ground, her face fell, and she turned around to go back.
Xu Huo grabbed her shoulder. "Since you're already here."
The little girl struggled as she said, "You adults are all liars! You clearly promised me candy to come find me, but instead you tricked me into coming into an unstable space!"
"I didn't trick you. I'm trapped." Xu Huo cut straight to the point. "What do you mean by 'unstable space'?"
"With so many wormhole points, what's a few unstable spaces?" The little girl looked around and said, "This should be a post-war ruin. The space hasn't completely collapsed, so it's wandering between different worlds."
"What kind of war can destroy a space?" Xu Huo raised an eyebrow.
"A player war, of course." The little girl turned to look at him. "You're a player from Zone 014, don't you know that?"
"Zone 014 doesn't have wars that terrifying." Xu Huo said.
"Then maybe I remembered wrong." The little girl stopped running and touched her braid. "Game zones are most vulnerable to attacks from other zones right when they first form. It's totally normal for a world to be destroyed. Didn't Zone 014 produce a Super Item? I remember that the last new game zone where a Super Item appeared at the E27 wormhole point was destroyed, and the Super Item was stolen too."
"How strange. Wasn't Zone 014 destroyed?"
Xu Huo's expression darkened. "Don't you need a special method to enter a game zone from an instance world?"
"Of course you do, for players." The little girl spotted Yan Jiayu by her feet. She crouched down, pulled a few candies from the small pocket of her patchwork dress, and stuffed them into her mouth, speaking indistinctly, "But if it's Stellar Corporation, they don't need one."
"Are you saying a game development company would destroy a new game zone?" Xu Huo pressed on. "Under what circumstances would Stellar Corporation choose to destroy a new game zone?"
"How would I know? I don't work for Stellar Corporation." The little girl twisted her mouth.
"Don't you count?" Xu Huo looked at her. "You're an instance holder. Doesn't that mean you work for Stellar Corporation?"
The little girl's eyes went wide. "My instance world was born naturally. Even though I get game rewards, I'm at most in a cooperative relationship with Stellar Corporation. I'm not an employee!"
Xu Huo frowned. "You're not a player? Some random instance bosses are players."
"That's for special players recognized by the game. Becoming an instance boss means you don't have to do missions every month," the little girl said proudly. "But I'm different. The entire amusement park is mine. No one can boss me around. I only cooperate with Stellar Corporation to earn some pocket money."
Xu Huo understood. The little girl looked human, but like the Painting Woman, she was a special item that had gained consciousness. You could say she was a special kind of person. They inherently possessed power surpassing that of players and could control space within a certain range, which was why they became instance bosses.
Besides fixed instances and random instances controlled by players, there were probably more naturally occurring instances like the amusement park in the game. Like some items, they formed under special circumstances and were later absorbed into the game.
Once absorbed into the game, they could become items, instance bosses, or simply exist somewhere as a special location.
The fact that entering the real world of a game zone from an instance world required special items was almost certain. As for whether a game company would choose to destroy a zone, the situation might be similar to Fairy Tale City, likely due to the zone's potential.
Thinking of this, even Xu Huo couldn't help but feel a chill.
"Are they dead?" The little girl poked Sima Xiao'er's face.
Getting back to the point, Xu Huo said seriously, "Their consciousness is trapped in a special spiritual contamination zone. Do you have any way to bring them out?"
The little girl turned her head with an expression that said "you're being unreasonable." "Since it's a special space, it might give birth to an instance. How would I have a way?"
"How did you get out?" She paused, looked at Xu Huo suspiciously, and without waiting for his answer, suddenly realized, "You must have evolved."
"Super Evolution." Xu Huo went along with her.
"I knew it!" The little girl was very happy she guessed correctly, but soon pouted. "But mental enhancement isn't very useful."
When he entered that round tower, Xu Huo felt he was undergoing a secondary evolution. The direction of the evolution was mental control. As she said, he had split into three personalities, which didn't seem to have strong offensive power, but maybe not.
"The Eerie Sound Knights have a hypnotist player who can directly command people to commit suicide. Isn't that the result of mental Super Evolution?" He deliberately argued.
"How is that the same?" The little girl immediately said, "That person is an advanced player and a genius. I'm not trying to discourage you, but among all Super Evolutions, mental secondary evolution is useless. You can only play with yourself."
Xu Huo knew he had asked the right person, but this wasn't the time to press for details. This space could appear suddenly and disappear just as suddenly. He needed to get everyone out quickly.
According to Sima Xiao'er, the fog zone could be freely entered and exited, but since these people's spirits were trapped, he didn't dare to move them out recklessly.
"You really don't know how to save them?" He narrowed his eyes. "Kids shouldn't lie."
"How could a kid have bad intentions?" The little girl stuffed another candy into her mouth. "I didn't even hold a grudge against you for tricking me into coming out."
"But I really don't know."
"Can I use a space item?" Xu Huo proposed a plan. "I have an item that can move within the same space. Can it cut this spiritual connection?"
"It's best not to use space items in an unstable space, because collisions might happen." The little girl touched her puppet. "I'm taking a risk just being here. I might get whooshed away. Getting whooshed away is fine, but if the space collapses, who knows what could happen."
"Anyway, they're not dead. Can't you just move them out?"
"Even if I take them out, they might not wake up." Xu Huo decided to try other methods.
The little girl tilted her head and watched him for a long time before saying, "Then just bring them out the same way you got out."
The words, clearly carrying a hint of mischief, actually gave Xu Huo an idea. Since he could break free from the spiritual contamination zone after his secondary evolution, logically he should be able to bring people out, essentially transferring them from the spiritual contamination zone into his own spiritual world.