CHAPTER 1583: CHAPTER 1583: SPATIAL INSTRUMENT WITHOUT LEVEL

This spatial instrument isn’t ranked, but its description is quite interesting. It isn’t strange that it can point out the bearer’s hometown, but what’s amazing is it mentions "people or corpses," could this mean that even if the bearer dies, it still points to the bearer’s hometown, unaltered by the instrument’s transfer?

The absence of a ranking and the rarity of finding an identical one itself explains much.

However, unfortunately, the location in the game Dimensional Rift is quite hard to discern; directions within the zone and the location of the zone are disconnected, and whether wormhole points overlap is unclear — these should only be information accessible to the Game Government Base and those capable of traversing powerful zones between different wormhole points and spaces.

Regarding Xu Huo’s status as extra staff at the Zone 011 Game Government Base, his highest privilege is merely taking some insider discounts when following the Orbital Supply Department to the train channel and buying props. Otherwise, he can only see some past records of track incident handling.

Other information, like possible weather conditions near the track, must be purchased at a high price, but it is not always accurate.

This indicates that some key game-related information is suspected of being top-down blocked. Needless to say, the Game Government, the Yongxing Group, is part of the deeply cooperative forces with the game, perhaps comprising part of the game, so they can detect weather changes near the tracks.

Of course, disasters like dimensional storms, their appearance, and disappearance could be extremely sudden, perhaps belonging to parts even the Game Government cannot control.

But this spatial instrument...

Xu Huo released the four-sided pyramid, watching it float up quietly and smoothly, once more shifting to the same direction.

Someone approached.

Capturing the four-sided pyramid and placing it in the luggage compartment, he raised his head and looked toward another corner of the station.

A strong stench of blood accompanied the arrival of the newcomer, a severely injured middle-aged woman, who first activated a defense prop after entering, glancing at Xu Huo cautiously before sitting down alone in a corner to heal.

Xu Huo looked at the projection screen in the station center; the next train was due in another two minutes.

In the following minute, four more players arrived in succession. Among them, two were lightly injured, while the other two were in a similar state as Xu Huo, likely arriving at the station after sufficient rest.

Soon, one of the lightly injured players boarded their train.

One left, two more arrived, this time the players entering the station were very cautious, keeping their distance from each other, not offending each other, until their trains arrived consecutively.

Xu Huo’s train arrives in four minutes.

Along with him, a female player with a buzz cut also boarded the train. She wore glasses, had a bright ear stud on her right ear, and nodded politely yet distantly when they met.

Xu Huo responded slightly before finding a seat to rest. Just as he touched the sofa, the door to the carriage in front opened, and the severely injured player staggered inside.

Two players from the previous carriage were chasing her, one of whom brutally cut off the female player’s left arm, which just happened to land in the aisle.

The blood on the floor appeared slightly dark, but around the severed hand lay familiar-looking pustules, and at the cut was half a fleshy worm.

At this pause, the two players had already blocked the front and back of the middle-aged female player. Severely injured and losing a hand, she was unable to resist and angrily retaliated unsuccessfully, then suddenly pleaded, "I can give you all my props and potions, just please spare me, my child is seriously ill, I must go back to see her!"

The two players were unmoved, not even taking time to mock her flimsy excuse—after all, players in the game see many people fabricate lies at the brink of death, her words sounded fake.

But their disbelief did not mean that everyone disbelieved.

Xu Huo approached one player and gripped his shoulder, "Why trouble a mother?"

The player he held turned pale instantly, and in the next moment, his companion was about to respond but was directly pinned to the front carriage door, feeling an icy object against his neck, he ceased moving and stood obediently by the door.

Other players in the carriage silently moved to the edges, cleverly distancing themselves.

However, the anticipated deadly fight did not occur, three seconds of silence passed, and Xu Huo released his grip.

The player standing before him quickly turned around, then retreated step by step to the door. Once the carriage door opened, he retreated outside promptly.

"Don’t pick it up!" The middle-aged female player hurriedly stopped Xu Huo as he bent down to pick up her severed hand and quickly grabbed her arm instead, retreating after attaching the limb, stitching it swiftly with surgical props she said, "My hand is poisonous, it spreads quickly."

Xu Huo nodded, sitting down in the nearby seat.

The female player surveyed the carriage’s situation briefly, ultimately deciding to stay. She sat in the farthest corner, quietly expressing gratitude to Xu Huo.

"Just lifted a finger." Xu Huo looked at her, saying nothing more.

The woman was in dire circumstances, having reluctantly attached her hand, she didn’t replenish with a self-healing potion but curled up to sleep instead.

By meal time, she ordered only a cup of water.

Xu Huo ordered her a portion based on his menu. The woman seemed reluctant to accept others’ kindness, trying to refuse even when the dish lay ahead.

"Aren’t you going back to look after your child?"

The woman hesitated, staring at him, "You believe what I said?"

"Why wouldn’t I? You’re not lying." Xu Huo placed a bottle of Rank-B self-healing potion on the tray, "You reminded me of a friend."

"I have nothing valuable to repay you, nor do I have any usable merit..." the woman murmured, "Surely, young as you are, you’re not interested in an aging, unattractive woman like me..."

"Consider it my sympathy for the child," Xu Huo interrupted her.

The woman could hardly believe he had no demands, but down to her predicament, not many players coveted what little she had. After hesitating briefly, she grabbed the food, devouring it along with the self-healing potion.

Xu Huo no longer paid attention to her, focusing on finishing his meal before beginning to peruse collected materials on toxic fungi.

He had previously gathered some books, but for a comprehensive array, none matched the one he obtained in Clown City, which recorded many native fungi from Clown City, while the fungi types from other zones spanned greatly, from edible to ornamental to medicinal, fundamentally different from Clown City’s fungi.

Among them were some related materials from the D07-013 District.

However, these materials’ source was not players but the Game Government.