Chapter 2520
"Is this really the relic area?" Bubble Bean started to lose patience, "Whether it’s the relic area or a dungeon venue, you can’t trigger the dungeon, which cuts off any chance of clearance and leaving. If this place is a sealed space, how are we supposed to get out?"
Using a cross-space teleportation prop or device is a method to successfully leave a district without tickets, but even using your toes, you know it won’t work here, because if it could, those players in District 001 would have left long ago. Even at worst, if this isn’t the relic area, it definitely can’t be an ordinary space. Otherwise, how could Valen have brought us here?
He was silent for a moment, then turned to Xu Huo, "You’re rich, can you get a teleportation device that crosses wormhole points?"
"Teleportation devices that cross wormhole points are not something even the district government can afford," Xu Huo paused and said, "Besides, do you think there’s a suitable environment to set up such devices here?"
The cross-space teleportation devices sold by the game government are consumables and immensely large; without a proper place, even using them is difficult...
"Then it’s over," Bubble Bean simply lay on the boat, "I was planning to escape as a fugitive without a ticket later, but now it seems even that one chance is gone. All right, let’s just wait to starve!"
"Would you starve?" The Girl in the Painting asked as she leaned to Xu Huo’s side after listening, "You should never die here. This place is no fun, and I don’t want to stay here."
After a pause, she cautiously covered the communicator, "If you’re really hungry, eat the ’tourist visit’."
Seeing their expressions, Bubble Bean felt a chill down his spine and immediately sat up, alertly asking, "What are you up to?"
The Girl in the Painting walked over, smiling, grabbed the appraisal fork from her backpack, and stabbed it into the back of his hand, then pressed his arm to show him the appraisal result:
"A mature male with a sufficient quantity of muscle, heavily uses evolution potions, edible taste is slightly inferior."
"Cannibalism violates human ethics and culinary integrity, not recommended for consumption."
The Girl in the Painting was very satisfied, Bubble Bean was horrified, he jumped three meters away, first looking at the Girl in the Painting then at Xu Huo, "You want to eat me? Are you cannibal players?"
Xu Huo frowned, "Turning your meager brain less is also conserving energy."
Bubble Bean couldn’t listen because the Girl in the Painting was continuously laughing, her eyes fixing on him, clearly having designs on him!
"I’m not dying in your mouths!" Bubble Bean brainstormed for two seconds and turned to flee without hesitation.
"Grab him back." Xu Huo didn’t bother to waste his breath.
The Girl in the Painting, bored to tears, immediately chased after him, while also playing horror music she had pre-saved, causing the surrounding forest to echo with eerily floating and sinister voices like "Where are you?" and "Caught you."
After a chaotic chase, Bubble Bean ran back on his own, angrily yelling at Xu Huo, "Can’t you control that crazy woman? She’s clearly using me for amusement! Aren’t you afraid of attracting Metal Beasts?"
"So why did you run?" Xu Huo replied coldly.
Bubble Bean was at a loss, "There’s no justice, really."
Hearing the eerie voice fading away, Xu Huo had him start rowing the boat again to look for people up ahead.
As they chased the Girl in the Painting, another person unknowingly appeared in the metal forest.
It was an injured middle-aged man, who seemed to have just gone through a tough battle, his face was pale, one arm hanging and covered in blood, with many wounds on his chest and back.
When he first entered the metal forest, the middle-aged man was startled, but before he could familiarize himself with the surroundings, he heard a sinister female voice wafting from nearby:
"Where are you..."
The deliberately elongated tone carried a sense of oppressive dread. Leaning against a large tree to shield his figure, the man peered out towards the front. Despite the dense woods obscuring the view, he couldn’t see far with the naked eye. Yet, wearing special glasses props, he could see reflections from the metal ground and plants at positions not directly visible... So, seconds later, he saw a disheveled woman floating back and forth in the forest, always asking "Where are you?" before sidling up to a big tree saying "Found you."
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"It’s a bit off." Xu Huo pointed to the left front, "The Metal Beast is in that position."
Bubble Bean didn’t believe it and hurriedly released the flying device. Upon seeing the Metal Beast "corpse" was in the same pose he was shocked, "That’s impossible! The direction was definitely correct, my instruments weren’t interfered with!"
He said this while taking out the directional instrument, "This is a specially customized idiot-proof navigator specifically for handling special environments; it can only point in one direction... Could it be the directions here are constantly changing? Did we go in a circle and return?"
In the same space, directions changing constantly sounds somewhat bizarre, but it’s possible in game instances, although such instances are very rare. Xu Huo personally hadn’t experienced them; if this metal forest had multiple direction determination standards at the same time, it’s very likely multiple spaces exist here, it just looks like one.
However, what puzzled Xu Huo was that he didn’t sense complex spatial power here. To verify, he even took out the "Cubic Space" to test; the instrument’s coverage area didn’t merge with new spatial rays.
"Could the instrument have malfunctioned?" Bubble Bean realized that if the instrument hadn’t malfunctioned, they had fallen into an unsolvable predicament where even directions were wrong, how to find an exit?
"Put the instrument away for now." Xu Huo said solemnly, "Walk the path once more, this time make marks differently."
To ensure the marks were real and effective, they chose the oldest yet simplest and practical method, writing on trees and ground.
Every few meters they made a mark, double insurance with ground and trees.
Twelve hours later, they returned to the first mark near the number 1, with little deviation in position.
This time they didn’t use the directional instrument, but used two mark points directly to determine the next mark point, ensuring they hadn’t deviated in direction. With Xu Huo’s spiritual world and flying device assistance, it wasn’t difficult, yet they still returned to the starting point.
"Could we be moving on a sphere?" Bubble Bean mused, looking ahead, "But from my perspective, the entire forest is on the same plane."
Rounding a circle in twelve hours shows this sphere isn’t large, given it’s referring to the same forest, there shouldn’t be any noticeable shift between ground and woods.
But that’s not the most important issue; the crucial thing is if this eerie place always leads back to the start, then isn’t there absolutely no exit?