Chapter 3079: Time Rewind
Xu Huo was watching intently when he suddenly felt a surge of energy erupt from the planet. It seemed to be an extremely powerful force—even from such a distance, he could sense its vastness—but in the next second, that force blew onto his face, feeling no more than a gentle breeze.
His vision went black.
The Rabbit Eye Planet vanished, and the people around him suddenly disappeared as well. The air seemed to stagnate. Xu Huo turned around with a sense of foreboding, and a wall of corpses appeared abruptly, pressing right against his back.
He came face to face with a pair of wide, angry eyes. He took a step back, only to bump into another wall—space walls had appeared both in front and behind him, leaving only a three-step-wide gap between them.
The two corpse walls seemed to connect heaven and earth, but upon closer inspection, one could see that the walls were actually only about twenty meters high. The corpses in other areas were evenly spread out like a copy-paste job.
Space power didn't have the ability to replicate. For the same thing to appear in the same space, he could only think of Curved Time.
Curved Time differed from the normal time experienced by players. It didn't constantly move forward like the human concept of time, nor did it stay fixed in one place. It appeared and disappeared at times, causing unpredictable time reversals, and even its duration was difficult to grasp. But it did indeed have the ability to rewind the past.
The large-scale repetition of corpses in the wall was most likely due to Curved Time repeatedly manifesting in the same space, causing the corpse wall to take on this spliced appearance.
This was slightly different from the Curved Time in Pumpkin City, but overall, it was just a difference in spatial arrangement.
The current situation was like two corpse walls connecting many segments of Curved Time. However, they were blocked by the gap in the middle, and because the space was fixed, even if multiple times were presented simultaneously, the people within couldn't tell the difference.
But just like in Pumpkin City, due to the special nature of the venue, Xu Huo could also sense the existence of Curved Time.
He tried to manipulate the Curved Time on one of the corpses.
He didn't know what kind of setup Dr. Wu had made here, but as soon as the Curved Time moved, the time on the corpse seemed to truly begin flowing, fully recreating the pain and struggle of its death.
Although Xu Huo hadn't truly understood Curved Time, based on his understanding, time rewinding should also occur in specific places. For example, if a person died here, the circumstances of their death could be rewound. But if they weren't in this place, no matter how time was rewound, that person wouldn't appear.
Dr. Wu had traveled through the game, not only spreading Perfect Potions but also leaving behind stories of his past in many places. Judging from the situation in Pumpkin City, he was probably trying to find a suitable Curved Time to return to the past.
Perhaps Curved Time was fluid and not confined to a fixed location, but that was something Dr. Wu had spent his entire life searching for—still far too distant for Xu Huo.
He walked along the gap, stopped a hundred meters away, and then manipulated the Curved Time at a higher point.
Everything in the space rapidly rewound. The corpse wall gradually emptied, finally freezing on a single player.
It was a female player. Her lips were cracked, and she walked weakly through the desert, but she was soon swallowed by a suddenly appearing space wall, turning into a corpse covered in cracks.
Not long after she died, two more players walked up to the stagnant space wall. They were somewhat frightened by the corpse and carefully backed away, avoiding the space wall.
After an unknown amount of time, another player appeared. He seemed to recognize the person in the wall, his eyes churning with emotion, but in the end, he only crouched down, picked up a few stones, and stacked them together as a memorial.
Time continued to flow. Not long after, the man who had left returned to this place. He was severely injured and near death. Leaning against the space wall, he reached out to touch the corpse's face through the barrier, then pried open the stitches on his shoulder, took out the injection inside, and injected himself.
It was probably some kind of poison. As the agent was pushed into his body, the man's lips rapidly changed color, but they returned to normal after a few seconds. However, his vitality quickly faded, like a torch being extinguished.
He died outside the space wall.
Soon after, several players chased after him. They searched the man's body but didn't find what they were looking for. Their expressions were grim, and judging by their lip movements, they seemed to be discussing the man's identity.
Xu Huo had encountered this kind of injection sewn into the flesh many times since landing on the island. It seemed that besides the Enforcement Team members, other organizations had been landing on the island all along. He just didn't know if their goals were the same.
This segment of Curved Time ended here, and after it ended, the Curved Time disappeared, and this section of the space wall turned transparent.
Xu Huo raised an eyebrow slightly. Looking at the two corpse walls again, they were like overlapping surveillance screens, allowing him to replay events that had occurred in this space over a certain period of time.
Would Dr. Wu appear among them?
He continued forward and picked another Curved Time.
This time, the rewind showed an Enforcement Team squad. They were holding a red ore, which looked somewhat like the red ore described by Love Orange. Inside the ore, something like glowing sand grains was flowing. The player team stayed in place for a long time, observing the flow trajectory of the sand grains and discussing how to act based on that trajectory.
What they were looking for was indeed an agent. Someone mentioned the Perfect Potion, but during the conversation, a question was raised: why were they looking for the Perfect Potion?
The details weren't clear, but the team members knew that many of their colleagues had died on the island. If it was just to find a single Perfect Potion, it wasn't worth it. In fact, the 025 District Government also had Perfect Potions—ones found by players and sold to the government—which were sufficient for research.
As for finding a complete set of Perfect Potions to cultivate a player who wouldn't degenerate, sorry, that was completely not worth it.
So the team member questioned whether they were really here to find the Perfect Potion. They didn't want to lose their lives for some absurd reason.
The squad leader scolded the questioning member but didn't directly answer his question.
The conversation ended inconclusively. Later, Xu Huo saw their deaths in another Curved Time. They were also swallowed by the space wall. Before dying, the squad leader made a final report, seemingly sending a coordinate to the outside.
However, after watching several more time rewinds, Xu Huo didn't see any more Enforcement Team-related people or events. He did see another person carrying an injection, and he also spotted a female player in the corpse wall who looked similar to Ding Xiang.
Judging by her terminal device, it was already ten years ago.
After that, Xu Huo saw some more players who had risked their lives to land on the island. Unexpectedly, he saw a familiar face—it was one of the members of the Gun Squad, though the teammates weren't the same batch as before.