# Chapter 3147: The Despair of Super Players
Thick black replaced everything around them. The space that had looked like a kitchen turned into boundless darkness upon entry. The guiding player entered first, letting out only a scream before disappearing. Xu Huo brought Upstairs and the others, and they entered almost simultaneously. As soon as they were immersed in the darkness, everyone lost track of each other.
Unable to sense anyone nearby, Xu Huo tentatively took a step forward. The ground beneath him was relatively stable, but this situation likely meant they had entered a special mental field.
However, for it to completely overwhelm his spiritual power, it was possible that multiple spaces existed here simultaneously, automatically dispersing everyone upon entry.
Opening several spiritual gates in succession, Xu Huo allowed his spiritual power to sink deeper into the darkness, but still couldn't see anything around him. The darkness seemed empty of everything, leaving only himself in the entire space, causing an inexplicable palpitation of lonely despair.
Xu Huo furrowed his brow and continued forward. Since he had last comprehended the "Mental Defense Line" and created the new core spiritual world "Mirror Space," he had achieved a qualitative leap in mental evolution. Although he still couldn't freely use "anchors" to control others, both direct mental attacks and strong mental control were now incomparable to before. Having evolved to this level, he believed he was at the forefront of mental evolution—at least standing ahead of fellow A-class players...
At this level, was he still completely powerless against Carmen Field's spiritual world?
That shouldn't be the case. Perhaps he was looking in the wrong direction.
Just as he was about to try again, a "drip" sound of water droplets landing came from ahead. Following the source of the sound, he saw a faint light appear in the depths of the darkness. A figure sat with its back to him in the weak halo, repeatedly leaning forward as if grinding something.
Gradually, a coarse grinding sound arose, and the silhouette became clearer. It was Carmen Field. From the whiteness of his hair, it matched the middle-aged image he had left in the practice room, but the aura emanating from this figure was completely different.
The super player who had appeared in the recording not long ago, wanting to achieve eternal life in others' memories, now only carried deep loneliness and despair.
Xu Huo saw the stone he was grinding—the same one he had taken from the mirror. Though he kept grinding, the stone showed no change.
Unable to see Carmen Field's face from any angle, Xu Huo simply stood and waited until the grinding sound burrowed into his ears like demonic noise, gradually reaching the limit of his endurance.
"Squeak!" The stone's sound suddenly stopped. Carmen Field straightened his back and spoke: "My opponent is not human. I cannot defeat myself either."
Before Xu Huo could ponder the meaning of these two sentences, his figure powdered away like dust, then sank into silence along with the light.
The space returned to its previous state, and a deeper despair and loneliness swept over him from the depths of his soul. This wasn't his own emotion—it was Carmen Field's emotion. The despair released by a super player!
Xu Huo felt as if his body had been frozen. He stood motionless, even feeling his teeth chattering. The empathy for this emotion made him sincerely identify with it. Though he didn't know what Carmen Field had experienced, he could feel it was a despair with absolutely no way out. A strong suffocating sensation seemed about to drown him...
"Let go!" Words burst from his throat. He forcefully lunged forward, stumbling and falling to one knee!
Heavy panting drowned out his heartbeat. Xu Huo's forehead was covered in sweat. He looked up at where Carmen Field's figure had appeared and gritted his teeth: "If you have something to say, say it! What's with the riddles!"
No one responded to his anger. The figure that had appeared was just a remnant of Carmen Field's spiritual power, naturally unable to answer his questions.
Feeling the despair about to entangle him again, the white spiritual power flowing from beneath Xu Huo's feet separated into countless whip-blades, frantically cutting through the surrounding space, as if trying to carve a path through this boundless despair!
But the effect was poor. The endless darkness couldn't be consumed. His spiritual energy could only open a small area, barely enough for him to move.
He managed to take a few steps forward but encountered the guiding player. The person was already dead, throat ruptured, still holding a bloodstained dagger in hand—as if they had committed suicide.
Two meters away lay two more bodies, also dead by suicide.
Xu Huo felt the pressure. His spiritual world couldn't fully expand, and this short time already felt exhausting. It was impossible to hold out long enough to find an exit in this space!
The earlier scene flashed through his mind. Gritting his teeth, he activated the game item "Gravitational Field." Almost the moment the vortex slightly accelerated, the pressure on him suddenly lifted. He could clearly feel the spiritual energy surrounding him being pulled and twisted by the gravitational field, gradually losing its original form, then slowly dissipating in the vortex's churning.
Forces could interfere with each other—time, space, spirit. Any force reaching a certain intensity could mutually restrain and cancel each other out. Space-time curvature itself was also a form of energy, and to a certain extent, it could dimensionally suppress any other force!
Xu Huo controlled the "Gravitational Field." It originally had a length close to thirty, and he could control roughly that range. As the spiritual energy changed form, a funnel seemed to appear centered on him. Any spiritual energy attracted was gradually canceled out and disappeared, lightening the pressure throughout the entire black space.
However, the several corpses near him were also torn and deformed by the gravitational field's effect, embedded in space at strange angles, slowly being destroyed.
Moving his hands and feet without feeling the gravitational pull, Xu Huo relaxed slightly and tried shifting his position. After confirming the gravitational field hadn't disappeared, he quickened his pace forward.
He had a feeling the "Gravitational Field" wouldn't last long, so he needed to find the exit quickly. But unexpectedly, before finding the exit, he encountered Gene Anderson and his group—who were currently trying to commit suicide.
Gene Anderson and his two bodyguards were attempting to cut their own throats, but their protective armor had activated its defense capability. Under mental control, this unintelligent behavior appeared mechanical and sluggish, resulting in the bizarre scene of the three kneeling on the ground, repeatedly sawing at their throats with sharp implements.