# Chapter 880: Changed Landmark
Xu Huo couldn't sense anyone nearby.
The possibility of a D-rank player being caught by a mutant plant in the forest without any resistance was less likely than her leaving on her own, so he didn't linger. He stuck a note on a tree and continued walking toward the mountaintop.
Every so often, he would leave the ground to check his surroundings, confirming he was heading in the right direction. But just as he was about to reach the mountaintop, the entire mountain suddenly changed.
It wasn't simple disorientation—the entire mountain's orientation had shifted.
When Xu Huo had come up, the mountain was due east. He and Zhuang Mengtian had climbed up with their backs to the sun. The ground had changed several times during that period, but based on the sun's position, the overall direction hadn't changed.
Now the sun was completely invisible. The direction pointer on his watch wasn't wrong either, but the mountain had moved from east to south.
The direction of the remaining light and the growth orientation of the plants hadn't changed, but he could feel that the mountain had shifted position.
Without wasting any more time, Xu Huo grabbed the strings and went directly from the air to the mountaintop.
Looking down from above, the scenery around the mountain was identical on all sides. The markers he had left in the forest were all gone.
Plants could move, so markers shifting or disappearing was normal. But that absolutely couldn't cause a mountain to change its orientation.
Xu Huo confirmed that he hadn't been transported to the other side of the mountain by moving plants. The subsequent changes in the sun's direction and plant growth orientation seemed especially strange.
One might not notice if not paying attention, but since he had noticed... was the external environment fake, or was this mountain fake?
Regardless of cost or feasibility, it was easier to create a fake sky above the botanical garden. That way, the sun could rise from any direction, and similarly, every direction could be east.
But what Xu Huo actually felt was that the mountain's position had changed.
"Could the botanical garden itself be moving?"
Thinking back to the deep valley he saw when entering, if the entire botanical garden was on a movable platform, changing direction wasn't impossible.
Xu Huo withdrew his gaze, first painted a simple landscape as required, then submitted the task.
"According to detection results, there is only one entry-exit hatch near Guest 313. Please proceed directly."
Xu Huo looked at the map. If he followed the normal orientation, the entry-exit hatch should be where he and Zhuang Mengtian had entered.
So the only entry-exit hatch was the one they had used earlier. To return to the plaza, he would have to go back.
Even if the entire mountain might have shifted orientation, if the whole botanical garden was moving together, following the wrong direction back could still lead him to that entry-exit hatch.
Assuming that a yellow ball task completed by two players couldn't be as simple as just painting, Xu Huo decided to test his theory. He first headed down the mountain toward the west, following his current orientation.
Returning to where he had entered at top speed, the electronic screen emitted a "zzz" sound. After glitching, the map updated again, but the marked position had changed to due north—which was the original due east before the mountain had shifted direction.
The entry-exit hatch had moved from due west (before the orientation change) to due east.
So he headed due north. Just as he was about to reach his destination after circling half the mountain, the electronic screen's map updated again, this time to due east.
Xu Huo compared the directions from before he went up the mountain and after he came down. Both times he reached the entry-exit hatch location, the map had changed. Based on time and direction, it seemed to rotate ninety degrees clockwise every hour. After two more hours, the orientation would return to the order when he first entered.
To make sure he wasn't mistaken, he still headed due east following his current direction. Sure enough, just as he was about to reach his destination, the entry-exit hatch location updated again.
After this update, Xu Huo put on his invisibility cloak and used the strings to travel through the air. He arrived at the due west position an hour later—where he and Zhuang Mengtian had truly entered. According to his reasoning, this time he should encounter it. But to his surprise, the map updated again, still indicating another direction.
He stopped walking.
If the entire botanical garden was moving, the entry-exit hatch location should be fixed. If the electronic screen's map wasn't wrong, he should have found the entry-exit hatch the first time when following the updated due west direction.
But he hadn't. There could be two possibilities.
The electronic screen's map and the botanical garden's orientation didn't completely overlap. The map's orientation had only updated once, while the botanical garden—or just the entry-exit hatch—continued rotating, causing the hatch to move clockwise multiple times.
But even following it, he still hadn't caught up to the entry-exit hatch. Whether the map was faulty or the botanical garden was moving, he had searched all four directions without finding it... unless the entry-exit hatch was actively avoiding people.
Unfortunately, the vegetation here was too dense. Not only could he not find the tree they had come out from, but even the traces of their earlier struggle had completely disappeared.
Xu Huo found a quiet tree and climbed up, pulling out the "Same-Type Detector." The screen showed "1 item," meaning he was inside a large-scale item.
The botanical garden was inside a large-scale item. He checked the electronic screen's map again. The entry-exit hatch was still due west. If the map wasn't wrong, then the item must be causing the orientation changes.
A botanical garden—was there a location item this large?
This thought flashed through his mind, and Xu Huo suddenly realized a problem: Was the botanical garden really this big?
Leaving aside the aquarium, aside from the botanical garden and zoo, many other tasks like plastic surgery, surgery, or others were set in small scenes. If guests who needed to complete tasks weren't transported to other spaces, building such a large island in the middle of the sea would be nearly impossible, let alone making the entire botanical garden move.
He had extended his reach in four different directions. With the central mountain as the center, the area he had covered was already more than twice the size of the zoo.
Was everything he saw and perceived real?
Releasing his spiritual realm, Xu Huo opened a door in the tree and stepped through. Behind the door was another door. He opened three doors in succession, only to find himself moving from the tree to the ground below.
The range of movement within a spiritual realm depended on how large a spiritual space the mover could create, or how large a space suitable for spiritual power to function. Xu Huo's spiritual realm could cover every building in the Seventeenth Hospital, but when independently covering an external area, it shrank to within fifty meters. However, spiritual power could create illusions, so from the perspective of those entering the spiritual realm, his spiritual realm appeared infinite—but it wasn't.
But moving from the tree to the ground clearly showed that his power was being suppressed.