Players Please Get In the Car

 Chapter 2080 A space that cannot contact the outside world

A deserted street appeared in front of Xu Huo's eyes. The foggy sky prevented sunlight from entering, and only a small part of the street could be seen with the naked eye. The traces of explosions on the ground and the buildings on both sides extended into the depths of the fog—you could see This is the only road we have reached. Although there seems to be room on both sides, the thick fog completely blocks the intersection, as if it is a deliberately formed obstacle, indicating that passage is not allowed here.

Standing in place for a while, he moved forward.

The heavy fog limits his field of vision, and also limits his sensing range. What he can sense is basically the areas not covered by the fog. If you walk a little further, the fog may become lighter, and when you turn around, the areas you walked through will be covered with fog again. Covered, the buildings on both sides have not changed much, but it can be seen that they are an extension of the same block.

The whole space was very silent. The only things that could be heard were his own footsteps and breathing. There were no living people or animals within the sensing range, not even insects... If the environment was not particularly special, this would not usually happen, but Xu Huo came in. Finally, he breathed well, the air was non-toxic, and there were no poisonous plants growing around him. The excessive silence gave him a sense of distortion.

 Is it an illusion?

When he reached the next fork in the road, he stopped and used the auxiliary props to release the spiritual world. However, the next second, a feeling of consciousness plunged into endless waters made him instinctively narrow the scope of the spiritual world. He frowned and Looking at the fog in front of him again, the discomfort felt as if his brain was exposed in an open area even exceeded the pain caused by the real attack, giving him an instinctive fear of not going deep.

This kind of fear is not about worrying about strong enemies around you, but about finding that you suddenly become extremely weak, so weak that you don't even have the ability to resist.

 Suddenly stopped in front of the mist, Xu Huo hesitated and took half a step back.

This feeling is even worse than witnessing Carmen Field's battle in Area 017.

　　Then he opened his personal panel and found that he was disconnected from the outside world. The item bar could still be used, but there was no response from the dimension and the bounty platform.

Letting go of the spiritual world again, this time he did not spread out all his spiritual power, but carefully touched the fog and slowly pushed inside. After getting used to it for a while, the fog on one side of the fork began to recede, about two hundred meters. He stopped when he could almost see the next intersection at a distance of 30 meters.

After passing the stop sign, Xu Huo passed by the road sign with C901 and walked to the next fork in the road, A901. Then he saw a travel notice a few meters away:

When the fog recedes, of course you can see the buildings on both sides. This used to be a shopping mall. It was not small in scale and had many shops, but the information it carried was very messy. Whether it was shops or decorations, they were all mixed from different districts. , from a purely aesthetic point of view, many items should not be placed together. The public transportation stop signs should be written about famous cities, because there is also the "Platinum Eye".

"Not completely out of the game..." But it's not a dungeon. He didn't receive a dungeon prompt, and his connection with the outside world was indeed cut off.

Xu Huo followed the arrow on the sign and looked in that direction. Because of the fog, he couldn't see what was in front of him. When he was about to move over, someone from behind suddenly reminded him, "There is only one tower over there."

Xu Huo turned around. A man carrying a long sword jumped down from the tenth floor, landed lightly on the ground, and appeared in front of him again in the blink of an eye. After facing each other, the other person continued: "How long have you been here?"

 After thinking for a moment, he decided to move forward. If he stopped here, he might be trapped to death.

“The Time Tower is 500 meters ahead.”

“It’s been a while.” Xu Huo said, “How long have you been here?”

"Should have been earlier than you." The man touched his belly and asked, "Is there anything to eat? I didn't have time to prepare food when I was sucked in."

 Xu Huo brought him some dried meat and water, "Is this a copy?"

"I don't know." The man replied vaguely while eating, "Probably not. If you try a dungeon, there should be a dungeon prompt, not to mention that there is no way to contact the outside world."    "But the only good thing is that the personal panel can still be opened. It means that we are still within the scope of the game, and if we can get in, we can get out!"

"Where did you get sucked in?" Xu Huo looked around, "Did you meet anyone else?"

If this is the strange random copy that the Cockscomb City people said, the female player and the sunny youth who disappeared before should also come in. There seems to be no other danger in the city, and they will encounter it sooner or later.

“You’re the first one.” The man finished eating the dried meat in several mouthfuls before smiling and saying, “Didn’t I tell you that I was a little earlier than you?”

He wiped his mouth with his sleeve and said, "My name is Wang Ling. I am from a D-level wormhole point and a B-level player."

“Xu Zhi, also from a D-level wormhole point, a B-level player.”

 After a brief exchange of information, Xu Huocai asked: "What does the Time Tower look like?"

“An ordinary time tower,” Wang Ling didn’t understand what he meant by asking, and said strangely: “There are clock towers in many divisions. They are just towers for correcting time. What’s so special about them?”

Xu Huo pointed to the road sign in the distance, "C901, C9 Wormhole Point 01 Zone also has a clock tower, which is very famous."

Wang Ling laughed loudly, "You have also discovered that many things in this shabby place are like those who pick up rags. Pick up a little from this section and a little from that section. When I first saw it, I thought it was a prank, but I have exploded it twice. A building, at least the building is real.”

The traces Xu Huo saw along the way were difficult to distinguish between old and new. The city shrouded in mist looked old, but the traces of destruction seemed to be only yesterday, as if the entire city had just been emptied of people.

 Some shops still smell of food, but there are no open flames or electrical appliances in use.

There is a high-end supermarket next to it. From outside the door, you can see the dates on the packaging bags of the products sold inside. According to the city's calendar, the production date was three months ago.

“These things look tempting,” Wang Ling grabbed an apple and put it under his nose and smelled it, “but I don’t dare to eat it.”

 “Have you ever heard a ghost story?”

The two of them walked forward together. As they walked, Xu Huo listened to Wang Ling's story.

"Actually, this story is also very simple. The main idea is that someone accidentally broke into another unreal world. He was originally a heterogeneous person, and he was free to enter and exit. However, because of his gluttony and eating things in the unreal world, he ended up with another person. The world is assimilated and eventually becomes a part of the unreal world, from which it is never possible to get out.”

“Tell me, there are so many people here, I don’t want to be left here forever.”

 (End of this chapter)