"Does this count as a pattern?" Zhu Xiaojin said from the side, "If we know the time and place of the Water Rubik’s Cube’s appearance, does it mean other places are safe?"

"How can that be possible," Old Cai immediately said, "After entering the instance, I mostly stayed near the city center. While some people might have witnessed the appearance of the Water Rubik’s Cube, space-time power is invisible. Under normal circumstances, it should be invisible. What appeared is only a small part of the Water Rubik’s Cube."

Xu Huo nodded, "The time-space in Bu Liu City is already somewhat chaotic, spatial props often fail. Since the whole city is unstable, the city center can’t be that stable."

Even if it’s stable, this pattern change is something players would not be able to observe.

Based on earlier confirmations from Lou Zigui and other players, Xu Huo should soon enter the second third of the three-part game. He needed a lot of people to clear it, and even with the ones Old Cai brought, it was still not enough. At this time, both the people brought by Old Cai and those provided by the Municipal Government as wanted criminals, he could not casually count them towards his clearance count.

Although he smoothly got out of the first game, the second game might not be that easy to pass. Otherwise, players from this zone wouldn’t generally abandon Bu Liu City, such a convenient place for spatial evolution; no zone would willingly give it up without absolute risk.

At that time, a chaotic time-space site that appeared by chance in Zone 014 also led the Special Defense Department to assign large numbers of personnel to queue for entry.

"Brother Xu, don’t worry, with your abilities, nothing will happen," Zhu Xiaojin comforted.

Xu Huo looked at him, "You should leave as soon as possible; it won’t be worth it if you’re pulled into the game again."

Zhu Xiaojin glanced outside, then grinned, "No worries, I understand."

Xu Huo put away his notebook and said to Old Cai, "Let’s wait for news from local players."

Old Cai had no objection, "I just want to try my luck in the city center. If it doesn’t work, then so be it."

Xu Huo nodded and entered the back room to see the captured female player.

"It’s almost ten o’clock. Is your companion ready with the information?" He looked at the woman sitting against the wall, the girl in the painting squatting beside her. There were still regrettable red marks on the woman’s face, possibly from being hit. 𝗳𝐫𝚎𝗲𝚠𝚎𝗯𝕟𝐨𝘃𝚎𝗹.𝗰𝗼𝗺

The female player glared at him angrily, "Better to die than be humiliated. With the way you are, you still want to cooperate with me to get information from me!"

The girl in the painting was already prepared, confidently raising the communicator, "She wants to run."

Xu Huo raised an eyebrow and asked the female player, "Is that so?"

The female player wasn’t the least bit guilty, "My hands and feet hurt; can’t I move a little?"

"Enough talk. Did you get the information?" Xu Huo pulled up a chair and sat across from her.

The female player moved her hand and tossed out a recorder, "Guaranteed authentic."

Xu Huo opened the recorder in front of her. Inside were filmed paper documents, with "Top Secret" on the cover, followed by records of the first third of the game.

The first third of the game was a prison game involving "Prison Guards" and "Prisoners," where the bet was the player’s "past," "present," and "future." Upon entering the game, the three are sorted, and the bet in the first game defaults to the least important of the three, which is the reason most players lose their memory after losing the game, as they generally consider the "future" and "present" more important than the "past," so the "past" is the first to lose.

This conclusion was reached through experiments by multiple players who memorized text ciphers and entered the game.

If what is lost in the first third of the game is the "past," the player will lose most of their past life memories; if it’s the "present," the player will lose recent memories, i.e., the period around entering the instance from several months to years. But regardless of what is lost, game memories are not retained; these are pieced together by the digital notebooks players carry with them.

Particularly special is the "future." After understanding the three options, subsequent players adjusted to put the "future" as the least important option in third place. Strangely, players who lost the "future" had nothing special, merely losing their game memories, as checked by various instruments, revealing nothing unusual.

This issue was never resolved.

Of course, the site of the prison space was described in detail, roughly sketching a chaotic yet specially ordered time-space site where players generally dared not make any major moves.

The description of the Spatial Core reminded Xu Huo of the enhancements to spatial evolution after he came out, with exponentially powerful spatial rays and the instantly forming yet release-process-required, lethally leaping Spatial Body, both inspired by this Spatial Core.

As for the description of the Water Rubik’s Cube, the personnel dispatched by this zone only had time to describe its appearance and the fact that the Water Rubik’s Cube was responsible for killing violators, without evolving into players.

Additionally, the District Government speculated about the origin of this game, concluding that the chances of it being a super instrument left by an Advanced Wormhole Site were very high, as props typically have single effects and time limits. The three-part game is evidently more stable and fixed, possible only by a company controlling Dimensional Rift games or forces from the earliest evolved wormhole points, just accidentally left here.

Considering this, the District Government did not publicly disclose the related content because their positive thought was that "lost items" were involved. If something went wrong, it could easily lead to district extinction.

Naturally, considering the significant limitations of the three-part game, some believed it was a special experiment from the Dimensional Rift since players leaving the instance couldn’t normally record content related to the three-part game on either the rewards platform or Beneath the Dimension. Being able to obscurely state one or two related rules was already quite good.

This was very abnormal.

"This is very abnormal." Xu Huo furrowed his brows. It’s one thing to have a chaotic game site causing players to lose memory, but how could it affect even the rewards platform and Beneath the Dimension? This was beyond what space or time power could achieve; it must be tied to the core of the Dimensional Rift game. Whether this was something the game itself released or something anti-game like Dr. Wu released is unknown.

But this makes it all the more puzzling. The game’s purpose seems merely to kill, and for such a valueless act as killing, why place it here?