Chapter 3071: Wall of Corpses
Within Xu Huo's perception range, there was neither Ding Xiang nor Love Orange. Without a doubt, he had entered a third independent space.
The scenery in the Wasteland Zone hadn't changed much. The two original large space walls had both disappeared, leaving only a few scattered small space walls.
He walked up to a small space wall. In the empty area, there were naturally no stickers either.
Walking further away was clearly useless, as he had tried before. So he stopped in front of a small space wall and began to manipulate the space rays.
Similar to the large space walls, it took him a while to open a passage in the small space wall.
The small space wall was only about a palm's thickness in his space, but the passage seemed to extend infinitely. However, it was still filled with chaotic space power, making it impossible to detect the end for now.
After a moment's hesitation, Xu Huo still stepped inside.
The light inside the small space wall was much dimmer than outside. Before long, he found himself in a completely dark space. All surrounding objects disappeared, leaving only the tactile feedback from his feet telling him he was still in the Wasteland Zone.
He advanced through this darkness for over ten minutes before reaching the end.
It was truly an end.
It seemed like a real wall had appeared, with no fluctuation of space power detectable.
Xu Huo groped along the wall's edge for a moment. The texture was similar to a space wall, but the composition of space rays within it was relatively stable, like some kind of tangible substance.
He pressed the miniature illuminator on his protective suit. As the light came on, a wall of corpses abruptly appeared in his field of vision. Dense bodies were embedded like bubbles squeezed into a pool, each in different postures, their twisted, ferocious faces facing outward, as if all of them were staring at Xu Huo—the only living person here.
He was a bit too close to the wall. Xu Huo took a step back to observe it better.
The wall was still transparent, but neither space power nor mental power could penetrate it, making it impossible to detect what lay behind it... Who would have thought it was entirely filled with dead people.
He carefully examined the wall, and only after confirming it truly couldn't be opened did he walk along its edge.
The corpses sealed within the wall were all unfamiliar faces. Players who had arrived on the island around the same time as him shouldn't be here. However, the corpses had clear differences in clothing, appearance, and even features, suggesting they were players from different zones.
Notably, among them were quite a few players wearing the uniforms of the 025th District Enforcement Team. Judging by the number of badges on their uniforms, they were once people of great merit, which also meant they should all be elite players of considerable strength.
"Dying here in droves." Xu Huo saw the time on a watch terminal worn by one corpse, frozen on a certain day ten years ago.
There were also some scattered supplies, marked with usage dates that were even earlier.
Walking along the wall for a few minutes, the earliest time span of those who died in the wall could be traced back to thirty years ago, and the latest was nine years ago. Looking at those Enforcement Team members, most had died here over ten years ago.
For so many elite players to come one after another, it couldn't just be for developing this chaotic space.
However, among the corpses from the last ten years, he didn't see any Enforcement Team members. It was unclear whether the 025th District had already taken the Perfect Potion away.
In the narrow space, only Xu Huo's footsteps echoed. Due to the restrictions of the surrounding space power, the sound could only reverberate within the passage he had opened with his space barrier. Whether it was an illusion or not, a faint echo seemed to appear as he moved.
Soon, the footsteps stopped.
Xu Huo stood before a male corpse with a calm expression.
This was a very ordinary-looking player, no different from most players in the 025th District, with no particularly distinctive features. The reason he stopped was because of a potion in the man's hand.
The man had died while injecting the potion into his arm, and after death, he maintained his original posture. However, he seemed to have realized he was about to die, his eyes staring straight ahead, his demeanor composed, showing no trace of fear.
This potion was very small, looking more like a thin film. Using a bit of small technology, this film would automatically harden and eject a needle when pinched open, making it very convenient to carry. It also exactly matched the length of the wound on the man's arm.
In other words, this potion had been stitched into the skin.
Generally speaking, players rarely did this. First, obtaining potions was convenient, and second, ordinary potions could simply be carried on one's person. There was no need to specially stitch them into the body, which also made retrieval inconvenient.
Only in special circumstances would players hide potions on their bodies.
He didn't know this person's identity, but he was the third person Xu Huo had seen on the island who had stitched this kind of potion into their body.
The first two were Ding Xiang and Yi Lan.
Yi Lan hadn't revealed much information, but Ding Xiang had said she came to Challenge Island for her seriously ill family member. That wasn't the truth.
Of course, there were many reasons for lying, but Xu Huo guessed she had also come to Challenge Island with other purposes. During that time, she had actively suggested finding Yi Lan to team up, clearly indicating the two knew each other.
Given the strength of these two, they didn't seem to be organized in searching for the Perfect Potion. Similar people had died on the island before... They seemed to be trying to investigate something.
Xu Huo paused, then shifted his gaze forward.
This wall of corpses soon came to an end, but the end was still a similar wall. He couldn't see far, just a pitch-black expanse, only without any corpses.
He turned around and walked back, reaching the other end of the corpse wall. Soon, he encountered the end there as well.
The left, right, and front were all sealed walls. Only the direction Xu Huo had entered from was passable.
It seemed there was nothing more to gain from this space wall.
He slowly withdrew from the space wall.
As he smoothly exited the space wall, the moment his front foot stepped out, the small space wall behind him also disappeared. He subconsciously looked at the few small space walls in the distance, and they too vanished.
At this point, the Wasteland Zone had returned to its state before the chaotic space.
The sky was gradually brightening.
Xu Huo frowned slightly. The chaotic space had disappeared?
"Xu Zhi!" Shuang Tou suddenly appeared a thousand meters away. As soon as he saw Xu Huo, he couldn't help but wave eagerly.
Not just him, but Old Duan, Wood, and the others were all nearby. Only Ding Xiang and Love Orange were a bit further away, but still within Xu Huo's perception range.
So they had never been separated at all.
The eight quickly gathered, each carrying a sense of relief at having survived a disaster.
"As expected of a chaotic space. I wandered around inside for two days, yet I was still in the same place." Old Duan sighed emotionally.
Ding Xiang looked at Xu Huo. "Nothing happened just now, right?"
She had waited outside as instructed, but he had been delayed for so long without coming out. She had thought he might have met with an accident.
"After I went in, the space wall disappeared. When I turned back, I didn't see you either." Xu Huo glanced at her and Love Orange. "At least the chaotic space has temporarily disappeared."