Leaning on the chair, his gaze once again fell on the flashing chat dialogue, then he typed: "You lied to me, it was you who deliberately opened the Water Rubik’s Cube!"

This programmer had conflicts with Old Cai’s group before, mostly blaming the players for implicating regular people like him, but eventually, due to the players’ appeasement and his own desire to leave, it gradually subsided.

The programmer hadn’t finished his food, but judging by how he voluntarily confessed everything he knew to Old Cai and the others, it was clear he was prepared to die. He has since vanished, perhaps perished in some corner.

Old Cai and the others also suspect he’s dead, so their initial urgent contact faded into indifference later.

Of course, just now, after Xu Huo finished upgrading his permissions and clearing the level, Old Cai and his people naturally panicked, but possibly more than the betrayal of teammates, they were worried that unfamiliar Outer District People had successfully entered the city center.

Indeed, regarding the origin of the Water Rubik’s Cube, they didn’t completely lie; at least the part about being "brought here" should be true.

"Are you Old Ding or Xu Zhi?"

Xu Huo didn’t answer the question but continued typing, "You are all liars! It was you who opened the Water Rubik’s Cube! Killing so many people, trapping me here, each day only able to keep company with my colleagues’ corpses, I’m going mad! You should be the ones to die!"

He repeated these last words several times.

Faced with such clearly maniacal text, Old Cai’s side instead fell silent.

"Old Ding is already dead, you are Xu Zhi." They replied after a moment.

"I just finished the last packet of biscuits." Xu Huo typed, "I won’t survive, neither will you, I’ve recorded everything, the Water Rubik’s Cube will disappear one day, I’ve told the District Government about all of this!"

"Old Ding, don’t be impulsive. This situation is what we anticipated, we are also working hard for restitution, someone has already gone there to find you, the person I mentioned before; maybe he’s already arrived!"

"Please take care, we will come to rescue you soon!"

Xu Huo paused for a moment before replying, "You can’t save me."

"We definitely can!" Old Cai’s side replied quickly, "The one-third game can’t remain in Bu Liu City forever, hold on a bit longer!"

"There’s no more food, no water, how can I hold on?" Xu Huo asked.

The other side did not reply.

Xu Huo gave a cold smile, turning to go downstairs.

Returning to the room where the Water Rubik’s Cube was placed, he released his metal Magic Cube. There was no attraction between the two cubes. Holding the tickets, he tried to push the complete metal Magic Cube over again.

When they touched, the originally floating cube’s position changed, but it didn’t bring about any change—at least no cubes flew out individually, they merely collided simply.

A moment later, that metal Magic Cube automatically flew back in front of Xu Huo.

Standing there for a while, he gave up.

Coming out from the basement, passing through the workshop, he again arrived at the balcony on the second floor. Xu Huo saw the remaining small portion of buildings, these residual buildings had shrunk to a 500-meter radius, during which space gaps continued to appear along the edge, nibbling bit by bit.

The space ahead was chaotic. He tried to control the Spatial Ray but still failed. When the barrier appeared, he deliberately placed himself under the advancing Spatial Ray Blade...

His entire body was ejected three meters by the Spatial Body, but because he attempted to use Spatial Power, the surrounding locking barriers never disappeared, nor were they pierced by the outside Spatial Ray Blade.

Raising an eyebrow slightly, he quickly moved upstairs, forcing his way through the squeezing Spatial Power to the rooftop, jumped onto the railing, and with a slight tilt of his body forward, he plummeted towards the ground.

With the vibrations caused by the collision, Xu Huo bounced back and forth among the uneven Spatial Bodies, like a ball adrift with the current. As long as he attempted to use Spatial Power, those Spatial Bodies, which could even break through the Defensive Barrier of "The Immortal Pedestrian," couldn’t harm him at all!

Eventually, he was stuck outside the third-floor balcony.

Looking up at the azure sky, he couldn’t suppress a low laugh, "Fortune and misfortune come hand in hand, I wonder if you even thought of this!"

Even the Chaotic Space delineated by the one-third game couldn’t break this barrier. It seems he won’t be able to recover his Space Evolution Ability for a while. After the instance ends, it looks like he will have to specifically resolve this problem.

The surrounding Spatial Power became active again; he dropped onto the third-floor balcony, tugged open his collar’s button, and after jumping back into the government building, used the "Home Field View" characteristic. 𝚏𝕣𝕖𝚎𝚠𝚎𝚋𝚗𝐨𝐯𝕖𝕝.𝕔𝐨𝕞

Regrettably, during the time the game panel was cut off, the characteristic couldn’t log events, even if within Xu Huo’s mental power range.

But things that happened after emerging were logged.

"...Shi Sanjiu’s instrument and the ’Distant Homeland’ that Xu Huo had obtained before are very similar. They both point to a fixed range. The difference is, ’Distant Homeland’ refers to someone’s homeland, whereas Shi Sanjiu’s instrument points to Shi Sanjiu’s homeland."

"Shi Sanjiu is a friend worth making."

...

"... The city center isn’t a safe place; any normal person wouldn’t choose to enter it unknowingly. Xu Huo paid the price for his recklessness and ignorance, temporarily losing his Space Evolution Ability, finding solace only in an ever-ready Defensive Barrier."

"Perhaps he hopes to gain freedom through the one-third game’s mechanism, but clearly, what caused all this is linked to the small power collective body that entered his body. Wherever he goes, it will follow like a shadow."

"If Xu Huo were smart, he would seek help from a Super Player he had encountered before."

"... Repressing a belly full of anger and resentment with nowhere to vent is uncomfortable, but the city center isn’t a place for a prolonged stay..."

After reading the characteristic record, noticing the increasingly frequent appearance of space gaps nearby, Xu Huo went back to the first floor, replaced his permissions within the system to Shi Sanjiu, and then walked out.

He didn’t directly leave Bu Liu City, but using the Water Rubik’s Cube blockade, decisively charged outwards. As long as he avoided space gaps and Time Force, those Spatial Bodies and Spatial Ray Blades, which props couldn’t guard against, were now no problem for him.

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"... Repressing a belly full of anger and resentment with nowhere to vent is uncomfortable, but the city center isn’t a place for a prolonged stay..."

After reading the characteristic record, noticing the increasingly frequent appearance of space gaps nearby, Xu Huo went back to the first floor, replaced his permissions within the system to Shi Sanjiu, and then walked out.