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Chapter 1145: Advantages and Flaws

Chapter 1145: Chapter 1145: Advantages and Flaws

"Eternal Time" is a very high-quality Secondary Stone, which tends to have stable time properties when unearthed.

It’s like any game zone, where the rules of time and space inside are very stable and not easily destroyed, even with the influence of Space-Time Items. Therefore, it can be said that such stable spaces are tolerant, or compatible, with any Space-Time Item.

Secondary Stones like "Eternal Time" can be seen as a very small version of such Space-Time structures, which can interact with other Space-Time Items’ effects as an independent entity without being affected. This is similar to how Xu Huo is unaffected by Time Force after wearing "Three Seconds of a Lifetime."

Of course, such Secondary Stones can also be used as materials for props, but since they can be used directly, creating props may not achieve such magical effects. Therefore, many players simply use them as Defense Props to prevent being affected by other players’ Time-related Items in special circumstances.

Speaking of Time-related Items, the first and only time Xu Huo directly faced a powerful Time Force was during the attack he experienced upon leaving Zone 011, when the players of Zone 011 controlled the city with Time Force. Some players were slaughtered in a completely defenseless state under The Stillness of Time, while he had the opportunity to hide in advance because of "Three Seconds of a Lifetime."

In fact, you don’t need to wear such advanced Space-Time Items to avoid the influence of Space-Time Power to some extent, and there isn’t a clear correspondence between self-protection and the effect, generally speaking, the higher the rank of the prop worn, the greater the ability to avoid Space-Time Power.

Secondary Stones with time properties have better effects than general Space-Time Items, their inherent stability can help avoid influences within a certain range around the space, so players wearing them can also be immune to Time Force.

"Eternal Time" items are rare and sought after, thus their prices are surprisingly high both below the dimension and on the gaming reward platforms.

Looking back at Mr. Kang now, even though it’s unclear if the time chaos in Xiaohe City was caused by the Cubic Space, holding "Eternal Time," he might not be affected by time at all, naturally not aging as rapidly as other players... he really considered every aspect, thoroughly planning to set himself up as a local emperor in Xiaohe City.

Speaking of Secondary Stones, Xu Huo has already obtained quite a few.

In addition to the one left to him by He Pu, one of the rewards from clearing the W37 Base Station instance "Encrypted Information" included a Secondary Stone, though not as fine as He Pu’s.

Subsequently, he obtained four Secondary Stones from a government laboratory in Night City of Zone 002, one of which also had time properties.

The last was a huge Secondary Stone taken from Jiang Wenzhang in a high-risk dungeon; however, it is still uncertain whether it is truly a Secondary Stone. Moreover, in an environment like a high-risk dungeon venue, the stone born might not be so useful, so after acquiring it, he packed and stored it in a special prop box in his luggage, which hasn’t been opened till now.

Without protection, he wouldn’t casually open it.

Props with space-time attributes are hard to buy and expensive, the higher the grade and the better the effect, the truer this is, luckily he now has specialized Secondary Stones with which to find an Artifact Maker to create props to his liking.

Besides, there are two Perfect Evolution Injections.

One is a P2S Injection found at Doctor Zhang’s residence in Snow White Villa.

The other is a P1S Injection traded with the Holy Sword Society.

Xu Huo’s Evolution Rate has reached 40%, and he has already used the P2S Injection. Therefore, both injections are temporarily of no use to him. Of course, he cannot fully trust the sources of these injections; whether the potions have issues is unclear, they can only be used as experimental samples.

Currently, he doesn’t have a clue about the P3S Injection and can only wait until he travels to Zone 011 to make plans.

More importantly, he obtained information about Doctor Zhang and Dr. Wu in this dungeon.

He is almost certain that Doctor Zhang, the observer who facilitated the outbreak of W37, is the doctor who conducted drug training on him at The Seventeenth Hospital. As his Spirit Evolution progresses, his memory slowly revives, including a specific image of "Doctor Zhang," even if this image may not be accurate.

More clues will come from the materials brought back from the laboratory in District 002 and from Tan Qi, who was also selected by Doctor Zhang.

As for Dr. Wu, the progress isn’t significant, only confirming that he indeed spread Perfect Potions across different game zones and might have insights into the rules behind the game of Dimensional Rift.

Naturally, confirming these points allows some predictability in his actions, like potential places he might spread Perfect Potions and the recurring narratives about his wife and daughter’s death, which should also be an important clue.

However, regarding who knows Dr. Wu best, it’s probably only his enemy—the Game Government.

Xu Huo’s expression deepened: It seems that after leaving Zone 014, a trip to District 001 is unavoidable.

After sorting out these matters, he packed and sold the props he didn’t plan on upgrading to the gaming platform, boosting his personal savings back to over a hundred million White Notes.

As for this money, in his view, it’s still not enough.

A decent Rank-B prop can sell for millions of White Notes, Rank-A props are naturally more expensive, and even some props with specific use conditions and limitations can reach tens of millions, not to mention those that can be used an unlimited number of times and are durable high-quality tools, like the "Life Core," which might not be available even for tens of millions.

There are many ways to acquire props, from Xu Huo entering the game until now, the two most reliable channels to obtain high-quality props have been clearing dungeons and ambushing advanced players.

Especially clearing dungeons, as long as you maintain a high standard and achieve a high rating, the game will provide some suitable and hard-to-buy props for the player.

Whether ambushing advanced players yields good props depends entirely on luck, although this method is riskier than clearing instances.

Xu Huo currently has several Rank-A props in hand, strong in both defense and attack, yet he still feels somewhat lacking; firstly, "Unassailable Territory" can’t defend against weapons formed by Spatial Rays, secondly, after "Eye of the Deceased," he lacks a handy melee prop which should be practical for combat as well as capable of breaking through stable Spatial Barriers.

Mr. Kang trapped him using space in Xiaohe City, and the Magician formed a spatial separation on the plane, although neither reached the stability of a dungeon space, ordinary props can barely break through, and using Spatial Rays without strong Spatial Evolution isn’t effective either.

Thus, it would be best to compensate for this with props.