Chapter 1676: Chapter 1676: Traversing Time
This Chaotic Space has always been quite unclear, and since he could barely see with the naked eye, it meant the other party was already very close.
Xu Huo frowned, not because this distance was relatively dangerous, but because the other person stood still and had no presence at all.
Judging from the attire, the person standing with his back to him should be Baoyu from the "Capricious" organization, a player who entered Chaotic Space alone under the instruction of Yu Qingqing.
Although it was unclear where this place was in Chaotic Space, it was definitely not at the entrance, since earlier Xu Huo and the others had tried to go back but failed, so this place was not close to the entrance.
The possibility of a player who doesn’t understand Spatial Evolution walking from the entrance to here was very low, on the other hand, someone like Xu Huo suddenly being grabbed by Spatial Power and inexplicably changing location made more sense.
Baoyu’s standing position was a bit subtle, just right in front of the porch of a Divine Temple, while the upper half of that temple had been flattened, leaving a short wall right in the dead corner of the Spatial Body’s movement, so the porch and the person standing in front of it were preserved.
But the person was indeed dead.
Standing this close, Xu Huo didn’t sense any sign of life from the other person.
Following the angle gap of the Spatial Body’s movement, he walked over, not touching the person in front, but bypassing two meters from the side to the front of the other person.
This gifted member of "Capricious" had a face frozen in fear, while the limb was poised to take a step, as if encountering death suddenly upon arriving here.
There were no obvious external injuries on the body, not appearing to die from Spatial Power, Psychic Power... Xu Huo didn’t think the Psychic Power in this space was strong enough to scare someone to death, which leaves only the Time Force.
Even though he didn’t see a Time Ray on Baoyu, previous players in Zone 011 had used a Time Ray when confronting the Guile Sound Knights, a Time Ray that could freeze a person or suddenly cause a fracture when hit.
Of course, powers in the game are mostly traceable, and since they are related to time, it’s not hard to imagine that there might have been a temporal change in a local region, like time fast forwarding or rewinding, making it look like a body suddenly changed—even though Xu Huo believed time wasn’t something that can be captured or manipulated to move forward, there must be some way to give Time Rays extraordinary power.
At this moment, a small flake of skin lifted slightly from Baoyu’s lower jaw, looking like a bit of dried dead skin still attached to the body, but when he looked closely, cracks began to appear starting from Baoyu’s jaw!
Not only the face, but his neck, skull, exposed hands, even his hair... at this moment, the corpse was cracking like dried land.
Watching the cracks on his body spread repeatedly, the once complete skin divided smaller and smaller, Xu Huo suddenly realized something, he gently raised his hand and nudged the ray in the air.
The next second, Baoyu’s body disintegrated like fly ash, covered by the clothing that fell along, scattering distantly.
This manner of death was undeniably shocking; in a normal person’s cognition, such a scenario where a person is instantly turned to dust only appears in TV shows or movies, because this is not just a change of state from life to death, but a crushing impact brought by another sort of mysterious force beyond human understanding that can never be achieved.
Crouching in front of the pile of ash, Xu Huo collected Baoyu’s props and other wearable items, and couldn’t help but look up at the sky. Perhaps he was wrong, time can not only move forward but in an instant progress tens or even hundreds of years, to the point of turning a living person back to dust.
Deterring mental interference by destroying the pattern of eyes on the porch proved effective, and as the Spatial Body’s movement gradually eased, Xu Huo didn’t need to flee desperately like before, but now another issue arose, that was he might also encounter a Time Ray.
Though having started Time-Directed Super Evolution didn’t mean he could manipulate the Time Force, he’d only just started, similar to just beginning Spatial Evolution, apart from being able to sense the existence of power, he couldn’t yet interfere with Time Rays, let alone withstand the influence of Time Rays, even the Super Props he wore might not really save his life.
"Three Seconds of a Lifetime" could only reverse time for three seconds, but if a Time Ray could in an instant make the body’s time travel across decades, whether this prop could still function was an unknown.
However, what’s slightly better is that at least he could sense the Time Rays, so he wouldn’t die inexplicably like Baoyu.
Now that things had come to this, Xu Huo didn’t intend to turn back anymore, he planned to head to the end of the "Nine Great Divine Paths".
Setting aside Time and Spatial Powers for now, but there was also Psychic Power here, and the "Divine Eye" mentioned by the Believers might no longer be there, maybe other props were left behind, after all, the strength of those who could ravage space to this extent was surely not weak.
After searching for a stretch of time-retained images on the street, Xu Huo determined the direction, and proceeded forward along the street.
The space in his perception wasn’t much different from before, and the Time Rays interspersed nearby didn’t seem to have much impact on the space, only occasionally automatically conjuring up past scenes.
Space-Time Items have mutually incompatible features; Time and Spatial Powers should also have similar characteristics, although Space-Time Items depend on levels and strengths, these two powers permeate any division in any location, they should be mutually inclusive.
These two scenarios seem contradictory, but it doesn’t mean Time and Spatial Powers must coexist peacefully, perhaps the state of space he saw now is the outcome of both forces contending, or it’s also possible the Space-Time Items are set to be mutually incompatible... these are hard to say and are not issues he can comprehend at this stage.
As he secured the "Angel’s Eye", Xu Huo carefully ventured into the depths of the gray fog.
Meanwhile, Nie Xuan, who had been transported by Spatial Power to the other side of the "Nine Great Divine Paths", was cautiously moving through the ruins with an injured leg. His condition was much worse than Xu Huo’s, almost needing to use a prop to check if there was Time Force in the surrounding space every step he took.
Because this was a Chaotic Space, coupled with occasional time fragments emerging, the surrounding Time Force was inherently chaotic. Even though the instrument could detect Time Force, it couldn’t accurately tell him if the Time Ray that almost altered the state of his right leg making a hole had reappeared.