Chapter 3074: Disappearance
"During the arena matches, the fluctuations were significant, but at other times, there were almost no ups and downs." The white-haired man and the others were also keeping an eye on the point changes and had noticed what Xu Huo wanted to ask, so he said, "I feel that for most of the time we've been walking in the Wasteland Zone, we haven't been under the attention of Challenge Island. Or rather, most of the time, we've actually been in Chaos Space, just without us realizing it."
Given how dangerous the situation had been just now, if Challenge Island had been watching the players, their points would definitely have fluctuated. But ever since the arena matches, his points had remained stable, and Ding Xiang and the others were no exception.
"Could it be that we've actually been in Chaos Space the whole time and never left?" Na Wei frowned. "Who can even tell anymore whether we're crossing zones or just wandering blindly through Chaos Space?"
The truth was indeed like that, but that was the challenge of the Wasteland Zone. The harsh environment combined with a lack of supplies meant that players not only needed arena matches to earn points but also had to kill others to obtain food and water. If the time dragged on longer, they might even have to turn back, because the players ahead would have consumed most of their supplies and would have to go back to rob the players who entered later.
But thinking that way was one thing; they hadn't even encountered a single person since entering. Logically, with so many players coming in, there should have been some who turned back. The reason they hadn't run into any robbers was, first, because the Wasteland Zone was too vast, and second, because Chaos Space might have trapped people in different areas.
Once all their supplies were exhausted, the players would begin to trample on the bottom line of humanity.
After the conversation, Xu Huo decided not to team up with Yi Lan and the others. The main reason was that having too many people would be too conspicuous and disadvantageous for their current situation.
Although they wouldn't form a team, they could maintain a certain distance and help each other. As for whether they would be scattered by Chaos Space, that would depend on luck.
There was no better plan for now, so after Xu Huo had rested, the two groups traveled with a gap of nearly two thousand meters between them.
However, the next two days were no different from before. First came the high heat, followed by a blizzard in the pitch-black night. Xu Huo and his group had no supplies at all and had to regroup with the white-haired man's team, using their backpacks to block the wind.
The extreme silence stirred a sense of panic in everyone's hearts, but what was even more alarming was that, just as they were all exhausted, one of the players from the white-haired man's team suddenly disappeared!
He had gone off alone to relieve himself, only about a hundred meters away, and vanished into thin air along with a sudden gust of wind and snow.
The white-haired man immediately went to check, but not only he, none of the other players in the team felt any obvious fluctuation of Space Power. Everyone turned their gaze to Xu Huo.
Xu Huo stood up at that moment and looked into the distance. "The Space Wall has appeared again."
A moment later, the others also felt the blizzard gradually weaken. Ding Xiang's expression changed. "It's a moving Space Wall."
The white-haired man and his group had never encountered a Space Wall before, but seeing her expression, they immediately grabbed their luggage and left.
This time, the Space Wall moved in too fast. In just a few breaths, it had entered the thousand-meter range. What was worse, through their instruments, they could see that the snowflakes being swept along were frozen in place within the Space Wall, as if what was approaching wasn't a space with violently fluctuating power, but flowing glue!
"Go!" Xu Huo only brought Ding Xiang and a few others this time. Those with Teleportation Instruments could go on their own or take someone with them. In short, everyone was running for their lives.
Without holding back, Xu Huo could move nearly ten thousand meters in one go. That range was certainly not small, but when facing a rapidly moving Space Wall, it still felt slow. Soon, some players fell behind. It was the two players who had joined later; their instruments couldn't teleport very far. After only three moves, they were caught by the Space Wall. The moment they were absorbed into the wall, both died, and cracks appeared on the surface of their bodies.
This scene terrified the other players who were only a hair's breadth away from the Space Wall, their faces turning pale. Some of the single-use items they had been reluctant to use were now brought out. But running fast didn't mean absolute safety, because after Xu Huo moved forward two more times, he discovered a player from the white-haired man's team ahead. The player had been behind him just moments ago, but now he was dead inside a Space Wall that had appeared in front of them.
That was right—the Space Walls were closing in from all sides, constantly squeezing the square space in the middle and continuously compressing Xu Huo and the others' area of movement.
There was no escape. Xu Huo set Ding Xiang and the others down and went ahead alone. He rubbed his right index finger through his glove, hesitated for a moment, and then chose to manipulate the Space Rays, attempting to deconstruct the Space Wall ahead.
Unfortunately, the effect was poor.
However, this kind of Space Wall seemed much more stable than the previous ones. Entering it meant death. At this point, he had no choice but to gamble.
When he raised his hand again, a very thin, visible strand of Space Power appeared beneath his fingertip. In the dim light, this wisp of spatial thread refracted a colorful light that was indescribable by humans. It swayed slowly in the air with his movements and gradually grew longer.
This was the current limit of Xu Huo's Space Evolution, and also the threshold at which Space Power became visible to the naked eye. A highly compressed Space Entity, if not deconstructed step by step, would release tremendous energy. Those space items and instruments with explosive power were made using this principle.
With a wave of his hand, that wisp of Space Power connected to the distant Space Wall. As he stepped back, the wisp erupted with immense force. Accompanied by a faint, muffled sound, a huge hole appeared in the Space Wall ahead. At the same time, the nearby Space Rays rapidly collapsed, and in an instant, they returned to a chaotic, disordered state!
This was a good thing, but it wasn't entirely good. The original state of the Space Wall had been broken down. The spatial energy that spilled out collided spontaneously and changed its state. Tangents, Blades, Barriers, and even Space Entities were being created and destroyed on a large scale. The force of the eruption was so strong that even though Xu Huo had just raised a Space Barrier, it was shattered, and his body was cut in multiple places!
Seeing his own blood floating in the air, he summoned another wisp of spatial thread and blasted the space ahead again.
This time, the Space Walls all around began to disintegrate. The white-haired man and the others behind him gathered closer, and Xu Huo had just retreated to their vicinity. As they stood back-to-back, preparing to withstand this assault of spatial forces, the chaotic Space Entities rushing toward them abruptly disappeared!
Just like the player who had vanished inexplicably earlier, in the blink of an eye, they disappeared without a trace, as if they had directly switched from one space to another!
"Did the Space Power disappear, or did we disappear?" After a moment, Ding Xiang couldn't help but speak, voicing the doubt in everyone's hearts.