"Isn’t the one-third game supposed to be a game?" Buzz Cut looked despairingly at the door on the opposite wall. "If it’s a game, it should explain how it works. What does it mean to lock us in here? Are they going to starve us all to death?"

Everyone fell silent for a moment.

"Who among you is entering the one-third game for the second time?" Xu Huo asked.

"I think this is my second time." Buzz Cut said weakly. "Last time I lost my past memories in the game. I thought if I behaved, I wouldn’t enter again. But I ended up here again... Why? Many people who suffered memory loss have settled in Bu Liu City without any problem. Why does nothing happen to them!"

"You think you’re unlucky? I’m even more unlucky, okay!" A player with a silk scarf around her neck said. "I didn’t trigger any game and ended up here. There was no game hint that you talked about. Clearly, I’m different from you, just directly thrown into a high difficulty!"

Xu Huo turned to look at the young woman, "You are a Super Evolver."

The young woman instinctively wanted to deny it, but meeting his gaze changed her mind instantly. "There’s nothing to hide. I am a Super Evolver, but my body has only evolved some special abilities, unrelated to Space-Time Power. I have no clue about this place."

Xu Huo nodded, then looked at the remaining three, "Has anyone won the previous game?"

"Are you interrogating us?" A middle-aged man with a scholarly demeanor spoke.

"Misunderstanding," Xu Huo said. "I’m just thinking, since this game has no hints, there must be something special about it. To be honest, this is my second time entering the one-third game. Last time when I exited, the game notified me that I won."

The middle-aged man then seriously scrutinized him. "So that’s how it is. I’m Ye Jiwen. How long after you came out did you enter the second game?"

"Less than two days," Xu Huo answered, "Xu Zhi."

Ye Jiwen sighed. "Me too."

He then asked the remaining two, discovering like the silk-scarfed player Zhan Ling, neither had ever entered the one-third game, and both were not Super Evolvers.

"From an identity perspective, the second game absorbs players without any particular pattern," Ye Jiwen said. "Besides us who won the first game having to enter, those who lost or never played could also enter here."

This wasn’t good news, as more players meant more chances to extract useful clues through different methods, but they were all clues from the first game. Since the trigger for the second game ignored the conditions of the first, it seemed almost completely random, suggesting no one had survived the second game!

The attendees fell silent, until Buzz Cut Feng Mao finally said: "We’ve walked through almost fifty rooms already. Should we keep going? There aren’t many people as we go further. Can we go back if we walk too far?"

"There’s nothing else to do; might as well investigate further." Ye Jiwen said. "What if the valuable clues are in rooms ahead?"

Xu Huo also wanted to continue.

As other players had guessed, these rooms were indeed full of Time Force, but what’s special was the suspended corpse. After walking through so many rooms, each corpse exhibited subtle differences in time flow. Adjacent rooms might not show it clearly, but across several rooms, the differences were easily visible.

But that’s the limit. He tried to manipulate the Time Force on the corpse, but nothing happened. Additionally, due to the room’s enclosure, he couldn’t detect Time Force from other spaces, so this looked like a place entirely sealed off.

Naturally, it couldn’t be completely without exit; otherwise, just rooms would suffice without the corpse. Judging from its clothing and some body features, it wasn’t a local player from Bu Liu City. It was an Outer Zone player, hung here as a display. Whether the corpse had something special or represented a unique meaning remained unknown.

The rooms were all alike, the only difference being the corpse. So they could only examine more corpses.

"While we still have the energy, let’s move through some more rooms." Zhan Ling said.

The remaining two naturally agreed.

So a group of six proceeded from one room to the next.

On the way, they encountered players gathered in a room, presumably ones who had entered not long ago like them, both sides shrouded in a vague sense of despondency.

After some time, they ran into three players who had walked through a thousand rooms and returned.

Through the exchange, Xu Huo’s group learned that the later rooms were still the same, and as they ventured further, the corpse gradually weathered—first only skin remained, then only bones.

"Perhaps if we go even further, the bones will crumble too," one person said with a lack of spirit.

"Should we still go?" Feng Mao reconsidered.

Ye Jiwen hesitated. "Countless rooms are similar, and there’s no outcome. It’s hard to say if these rooms have an end, the only special one might be the first room."

"The game’s difficulty differs from previous instances, even crossing dimensions. Space-Time Force can be etched into props, perpetual repetition isn’t a hard thing," Zhan Ling said.

Xu Huo didn’t say much more, "Well then, I’ll continue forward."

"Alone?" Ye Jiwen tried to stop him. "Better stay together for mutual support."

"The only risk here might be starving," Xu Huo smiled.

"You can still smile," Feng Mao admired. "Brother, your mindset’s really impressive."

All their timing tools were stalled now, relying only on feeling to roughly judge time. Walking through rooms and checking corpses took about five hours, and according to other players, these rooms seemed to refresh every twelve hours, with the next refresh in around two hours.

Despite asking extensively about the refresh situation, not having experienced it, they couldn’t help worrying about problems occurring during it, and it seemed traveling together was much better than walking alone.

"Since the only proof of room restoration is the hanging corpse, it means it doesn’t affect other living players. Otherwise, refreshing every twelve hours, players wouldn’t stay longer than half a month."

Xu Huo waved to the others, heading to the next room.

When the door closed, he didn’t waste time on the corpse but used Spatial Power to swiftly open the room and pass through.