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Chapter 754 Spatial Rotation

Chapter 754: Chapter 754 Spatial Rotation

Peng Fengnian confirmed before nodding and asking, "What’s wrong with this photo?"

Xu Huo rewound and compared it with the pictures of the same location taken at other times and finally understood where the replica space was off.

From the Mirror Hotel, although one cannot see the traces of other players, the traces left by other players still appear here because the space where the Mirror Hotel is located and the real Museum City where the Corpse-Hiding Hotel is located alternate with each other.

The Ticket players, the more than ten players who came with Xu Huo to the Museum City, found most of the city unchanged in appearance, with no conspicuous changes. But on the first night, things changed.

The changes within other venues are hard to detect, but the Beheaded Cemetery laid out there is hard to ignore.

For example, he can now see the traces of the Beheaded Cemetery being excavated and coffins opened; hence, under normal circumstances, on the second day, whether in the Corpse-Hiding Hotel or the Mirror Hotel, one should be able to see the excavation traces of the Beheaded Cemetery. Yet the photo Peng Fengnian took in the afternoon of the second day showed the Beheaded Cemetery intact, and on the third day, during the daytime, these traces reappeared!

However, this anomaly was not based on time.

If it were a daily time loop, each morning, one would see a brand-new Museum City. Therefore, the real reason for creating this illusion of time distortion was space.

He had felt it was strange while in the hotel; those monsters were clearly more than one, their disappearance and appearance had a pattern, but it was exceptionally abnormal not to catch even a hint of them.

But now it all made sense. The monster was not entering the hotel through some undetectable passage, but it had always been in the hotel, never having left—the Mirror Hotel and this Museum City were the ones that had changed!

The current question is, what are the rules governing the spatial swaps in Museum City?

He didn’t speak, and Peng Fengnian leaned in, trying to make sense of the photos. After failing, he pursued, "What exactly is the problem with the photo? I don’t see it being any different from the others."

"The difference is quite obvious." Xu Huo pulled out the photos that captured the Beheaded Cemetery, "Take a look."

Upon comparison, Peng Fengnian understood, "Why was the cemetery that was dug up in the morning restored in the afternoon?"

"It’s not restored, it’s swapped," Xu Huo said.

Restoration happens within one space, involving time. Mr. Dong’s "Static Retrospection" could restore shattered inanimate objects to their original state. However, they couldn’t be restored completely; they could only maintain their form.

Spatial swapping, however, happened because Museum City had at least two spaces exchanging internally and externally. For example, on the first night they arrived, Xiao Ling dug up the cemetery, and by the next morning, the dug-up space had been swapped to the side of the Mirror Hotel. Thus, the previously flat cemetery in front of the hotel had also been dug up the day before yesterday morning.

It was just that Xu Huo and Xiao Ling had changed direction the day before yesterday after meeting up and headed towards the Human Model Tower next to the main gate. They had not looked back at the cemetery. If they had gone back then, the dug-up cemetery should have already been swapped to the Mirror Hotel, and they would have seen an intact cemetery.

Of course, this could not be verified. Even if he had gone back then and found this intact cemetery, he might have considered it a refresh of the replica space.

The clue still lay in these few photos. The cemetery captured yesterday afternoon was again intact, indicating another spatial swap. It could be that the swapped-out space had been swapped back, or it could be a third, intact space.

"Are you saying that the Mirror Hotel and this Museum City actually involve multiple spaces swapping back and forth?" Peng Fengnian grasped his meaning and exclaimed in shock, "How many spaces are there... No, if the whole Museum City is swapping back and forth, how are we going to get out?"

"I don’t have a clue about that yet," Xu Huo admitted candidly.

After all, this might just be additional content for Museum City, perhaps unrelated to completing the task. Up to now, he hadn’t triggered any side missions.

Peng Fengnian perked up after his moment of disappointment, complimenting him twice before saying he would share this with their other companions.

Xu Huo saw no reason to stop him; perhaps they had some useful tools in their hands.

After Peng Fengnian left, Xu Huo leaned back in his chair once more, gazing distantly at the cemetery, pondering the replica’s mission.

Being able to enter the Mirror Hotel from the Corpse-Hiding Hotel suggested that this hotel could be at the heart of Museum City’s space. Since that was the case, the disappearances of people staying in the hotel probably weren’t just starting after the replica opened. Yet there were so many beheadings at the Beheaded Cemetery...

"Could it be that the hotel’s space swallowed living people, causing panic, leading to so many being killed in what seems like ritual sacrifices?"

The game’s progress jumped to 5/6.

The answer to the puzzle was much simpler than Xu Huo had imagined. Perhaps one didn’t need to guess about space, just submitting the point about the hotel absorbing people could complete a progress step.

Long Aotian was the only one who hadn’t entered the Mirror Hotel last night. Perhaps he had already completed this progress.

Time swiftly arrived at half-past noon. This was when the Ticket players started the replica. Xu Huo looked involuntarily towards the main gate, but when he turned his head back, more scattered bones had appeared near the pits around the Beheaded Cemetery.

Before entering the Mirror Hotel yesterday, some skeletons had left the cemetery. Now that bones had appeared here meant that players had clashed with these bones outside.

Unfortunately, he didn’t feel any change in the surroundings. Could the space actively avoid the gazes of players?

Without being able to guess the answer, Xu Huo decided not to think further for the time being. Regardless, from the activity traces of the monsters and the changing "scenery" around the cemetery, at least the early morning at six and noon at half-past twelve were the spatial swap points.

"Did you notice the scenery changed?" Peng Fengnian climbed up from downstairs again, this time likely with a new Muffler Artefact.

"I saw it. Do your companions have a way out?" Xu Huo asked directly.

Peng Fengnian chuckled, "Isn’t that why I am here, to gather ideas?"

"What are your thoughts?"

Peng Fengnian said earnestly, "We all think that it might be possible to get out during the time points of spatial transition."

"At six in the morning, everyone in the building was dealing with that monster." At the time, Lin Zhenhuai was still holding a detection tool.

"Teacher Pan still thinks it’s at night because we all came in at night. Although it might not be during the spatial transition points, the hotel area is different from other parts of Museum City. If there’s an exit, it may not follow the spatial transition rhythm," Peng Fengnian added.

This Teacher Pan’s idea was somewhat similar to Xu Huo’s, but this was just a rough guess, "We’ll talk about it tonight then."