(Wait a moment to modify) "It’s already good to avoid pitfalls in advance." Xu Huo poured him water, "You can also share these experiences with the Special Defense Department and the military."

Nie Xuan raised an eyebrow, raising his glass to toast, "In terms of instrumentality, all the military personnel combined can’t compare to you."

Xu Huo laughed, "You seem to have deep conflicts with the military."

"It’s not conflicts, just different philosophies." Nie Xuan finished the tea in his cup.

Before long, Gu Yu and Wen Xuelin arrived. Xu Huo took out the "Time Tower" and simultaneously opened up the Spiritual World, giving them a tangible demonstration of the state of Time Force and the fluctuations in the surrounding space when manipulating it.

Of course, he also spoke in detail about his experiences with Temporal Evolution, including the detours he took and the first time he noticed Time Force.

He could only do so much. The remaining time was for them to feel the Time Force up close. If they had questions, he could answer them as far as he knew.

The whole process lasted two hours. Yuan Yao and Liu Jia were the first to give up, followed by Zhou Ning and Shen Xin, who gained nothing.

Xu Huo also needed to rest. The session ended punctually, and looking at those who had not gained anything, he said, "Success on the first try is for the geniuses among geniuses. Let’s take a break today, and try again tomorrow."

"This opportunity is rare, so I’m not planning to leave." Gu Yu smiled sweetly and took out her venue prop, "How about everyone staying here?"

"Just right, I’m too lazy to fuss about." Nie Xuan had no objections.

"I’ll make some midnight snacks." Shen Xin offered.

"We have plenty of ingredients, all fresh." Gu Yu led them inside and opened her custom-made super large fridge, then turned back to ask Xu Huo and the others, "Want some drinks?"

"Bring a few cans." Xu Huo responded.

The group divided tasks, with some preparing food outside and others busy in the kitchen. A sumptuous midnight snack was soon served.

"It’s been a long time since so many of us gathered together, let’s toast!" Yuan Yao livened up the atmosphere.

Everyone laughed and clinked glasses.

After the midnight snack, everyone found a room to rest. Once they were all asleep, Xu Huo left the venue prop and chose a distant place to open "The Seventeenth Hospital."

The last time he used "The Seventeenth Hospital" was before he advanced to Rank-B. Due to the flexibility of random instances compared to fixed ones, as long as a player could grab both tickets and instances, an instance could be opened or closed at any time.

Although there was no explicit instance authorization, it was said that reopening an instance after a long period still accumulates, even if one’s player identity is paused. This means that if an instance holder spends some time inside the instance and suddenly closes it or it gets destroyed, they might successfully re-enter the game instance in high-risk randoms.

Of course, this was just hearsay, as Xu Huo had yet to encounter other instance-holding players to verify it, and he did not pause despite "The Seventeenth Hospital" being open, so he wasn’t sure if it was true.

Each time he opened and closed the instance, he didn’t receive any notifications from the game.

Additionally, Little Pink Hat mentioned the game arranges the range for random instance openings, then switches or upgrades them over time. He was equally unclear, unsure if it’s because he closed instances shortly after opening them, without long-term operation, resulting in no further developments.

"The Seventeenth Hospital" reappeared in front of him. Xu Huo pushed the door open, surveyed the empty building, went upstairs to the director’s office, closed the door, and sealed the space before taking out the three statues, along with the newly acquired special item, "Best Director."

Even with the use of a space-sealing prop, the three statues quickly hid in spatial rifts once released, and without him noticing, the entire hospital’s space was impacted.

Xu Huo could fully control the hospital, sensing any changes immediately—he was unaware when the statues left the room using space, but when they tried to exit the hospital, they collided with the hospital’s space.

After attempting nearly every part of the hospital, they suddenly fell silent.

In the next moment, Xu Huo triggered the Water Rubik’s Cube Barrier, and simultaneously, six stone hands reached out from the space, grabbing towards him from different directions!

*

"Time Force isn’t working?" Nie Xuan quickly caught on, "The time reversal seen at the Carmen Field Battle Ruins also seemed to exist in a beam-like state."

"It depends on how you look at it," Xu Huo said, pointing remotely at a newly budding flower at his feet. Threads of Time Force landed on it, causing the small bud to gradually enlarge and bloom petal by petal.

"Fine Time Force can also be considered in a beam state."

"But Time Force differs from Spatial Power. Players can only borrow it, usually from other spaces. If divided into a beam state, it’s difficult to refine and reintegrate like Spatial Power. Considering it as a whole can save many detours."

Watching the flower bloom and wither, Nie Xuan posed another question, "Logically, a partitioned space is absolutely closed. Even spatial teleportation devices require the portal to remain perfectly intact for teleportation. How can Time Force penetrate space if it can’t enter on its own?"

Before a third of the game, Xu Huo might have been in the dark about this issue. He simply felt the Time Force and guided it by an evolutionary instinct. Explaining how Time Force breached space or in what state it did so was beyond him.

"I can’t explain the principle clearly," he said, "but recently, I’ve come to understand one principle: under time, there is no space." 𝐟𝐫𝕖𝗲𝘄𝚎𝗯𝕟𝐨𝕧𝐞𝚕.𝕔𝕠𝐦

"A third of the game?" Nie Xuan immediately asked.

"That’s right, the special Water Rubik’s Cube formed by Time Force," Xu Huo explained. "If a partitioned space is considered a spherical state, one would think its interior should have stable time, while its exterior should be the time of other spaces."

"However, in reality, time and time are not distinctly separate. Different times may only be a hair’s breadth apart from us, making it easy for Time Force to penetrate space."

"Therefore, a partitioned space shouldn’t be divided into inner and outer space, but viewed as a whole, just a grain of sand in the torrent of time—whether soaked or penetrated, it’s effortless."

"I never considered it from that angle," Nie Xuan pondered for a moment. "Taking the wrong path might mean little progress in Temporal Evolution even over a lifetime."