??1169: Chapter 1169: Extre Chaotic Space
1169: Chapter 1169: Extre Chaotic Space
Xu Huo figured the Special Defense Departnt wouldn’t allow him to step onto the island, so he simply said to Song Xiaohua, “See you on the island,” and got off the plane ahead of schedule.
Over the sea, he used “Towards the Destination” several tis to bypass patrolling boats and Players, carefully studying the barrier surrounding the island.
The barrier outside the island resembled an uneven wave line, undulating sharply in height, but at intervals, certain smoother sections of the line indicated weaker spots in the barrier.
If entry was the goal, the barrier could only be torn open at these points.
Instead of rushing to enter, Xu Huo randomly selected a boat and boarded it.
Using Psychic Power, he disrupted the minds of the people onboard, securing firsthand materials from the Special Defense Departnt.
According to the docunts, the Special Defense Departnt had already identified five entry points that did not require Props to access the island.
Outside of these five points, boats and individuals couldn’t freely pass through the barrier.
Furthermore, forcibly attacking the barrier would cause its edges to expand outward.
It was the Special Defense Departnt’s interventions that had contributed to the barrier’s current “wave-like” shape.
Yet the final results showed that whether through the use of Props or thermal weapons, the greatest effect would rely expand the barrier—its collapse was highly improbable.
This suggested that the space of the vanished island was extrely stable, with little chance of sudden spatial breakdown.
The patrol boats at sea weren’t just tasked with preventing ordinary Players from approaching; they also had duties involving the reception of Player Organization mbers who had reached agreents with the Special Defense Departnt.
Any teams approaching the barrier would be transported by these boats.
The boat Xu Huo was on contained two Special Defense Departnt Players preparing to go ashore.
These Players were not part of the main forces but were tasked with monitoring the Players heading to the island.
This trip was mainly to pick up a group of Player Organization personnel.
From the conversation between the two, Xu Huo learned that the elite group of the Special Defense Departnt had already set foot on the island and conducted extensive searches, but they hadn’t discovered anything substantial.
Inside, it seed to be nothing more than a Chaotic Space, not an impending instance.
As the boat neared one of the entry points, Xu Huo disembarked and passed through the barrier surrounding the island.
His vision blurred as what had looked like a disappearing island outside suddenly transford into a Ruins Space resembling a dystopian city amidst the ocean.
Beneath a gray, murky sky, the air was suffocatingly polluted, while remnants of structures and debris floated mid-air, seemingly weightless.
However, upon touching them, one could discern they were actually frozen motionlessly, embedded within an invisible wall of air.
Further scrutiny revealed so of the stone slabs floating in the air were systematically arranged, spaced over a ter apart, as though forming a slanted pathway to the heavens.
At the end of this road lay another floating set of city ruins.
From what Xu Huo could currently observe, the ground-level structures, though damaged, were still largely intact, whereas the buildings suspended in the sky appeared to co from a different origin.
The decorative patterns visible on the buildings suggested divergent styles—almost as if two separate cities had been dragged into the sa space.
Following the ascending stone path, Xu Huo casually tossed a pebble he’d found.
The stone plumted rapidly downward.
Repeating the sa experint atop one of the aerial buildings, Xu Huo threw another stone, which again fell straight to the ground.
This indicated the space still had gravity, and newcors—as well as their actions—were subject to its rules.
What remained unexplained was the principle behind the floating city structures in the sky.
The aerial and ground-level ruins were largely devastated, with only a few crumbling walls preserving fragnts of text and totems.
Scattered inscriptions hinted that these skyborne structures had once served ceremonial purposes.
The totems depicted imaginative hybrid creatures—a mix of many animal features—although, based on the mutated fauna now commonplace, beings with scales, shells, armored plating, and tails weren’t particularly rare anymore.
So humans even grew scaled armor and hardened shells.
It was unclear whether these totems represented imagined entities or Aliens.
After exploring one route down, Xu Huo retraced his steps but noticed midway that the stone path seed to have shifted position.
The direction had changed.
Pausing montarily, Xu Huo turned back and climbed toward the celestial constructions.
Upon stepping onto the stone slabs bordering the structures, he felt a nearly imperceptible energy pass through his body—a faint but detectable sensation.
Yet the landscape ahead hadn’t altered; it was simply that the previously empty space now contained a few other individuals.
These figures noticed him as well.
Although both sides found each other’s sudden appearance strangely silent, their unfamiliarity prompted no interruptions to the other’s pace.
The Special Defense Departnt had let in plenty of Players.
Xu Huo revisited areas he had just passed through, briefly pausing at a totem that had shifted direction before descending again.
The other Players followed him.
Just as both parties remained suspended in mid-air, several scattered stone slabs nearby unexpectedly started to float and reorient, forming a new path upward.
Strangely, this route led to nothing at all.
While Xu Huo and the others watched this change cautiously, the stone path beneath their feet suddenly collapsed.
Simultaneously, the skyward ruins behind them succumbed to an engulfing darkness.
The previously uninterrupted sky had a jagged, blackened gap, like it had been swallowed by a sudden night.
Yet this night was impenetrably dark, even capable of devouring light.
“What’s going on?” one of the newly appeared Players asked the person bringing up the rear of the group.
“Is the island’s space shrinking?”
The last individual, presumably the Special Defense Departnt Player, replied irritably, “How would I know?
Maybe it’ll light up again in a mont.”
“Wasn’t the Special Defense Departnt supposed to send you to be a guide?” The questioning Player cast an annoyed glance at him.
“With that attitude, you expect us to sell what we find to the Special Defense Departnt?”
The Special Defense Departnt Player shot them a cold look, refraining from engaging further.
Instead, he said, “This is a normal phenonon within this space.
The aerial buildings sotis appear and sotis vanish.
It’s best not to approach the darkness—so Special Defense Departnt personnel who ventured in got lost and haven’t returned.”
The Players from one of the top dostic Player Associations doubted his words, but none were reckless enough to test them.
Instead, they turned toward the newly ford stone path, saying, “Let’s check that out.”
Xu Huo didn’t follow them.
He accelerated through the space for about two kiloters when that faint energy passed through his body again.
He stopped, only to find himself in an identical Ruins Space as before.
The sa stone path, the sa aerial buildings—no sudden dark void this ti.
It felt like a replicated space.
Glancing back, he could still see the path he had traversed, and the blackness that had engulfed the celestial ruins remained visible.
Different positions, identical space.
Sa positions, differing spaces.
The spatial composition of this small island must be extraordinarily chaotic, appearing to fit under the sa sky but revealing drastically different scenarios and inhabitants depending on the observer.
“Crack!” A stone slab crashed to the ground.
Following the sound, Xu Huo saw the stone path he had just been watching gradually collapse downward like a cascade of tumbling dominoes.
Eventually, even the remnants of aerial ruins began falling piece by piece.
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