"It should be three..." Chief Wu didn’t dare to be too definite at this point. If only three players who came along had dispersed, they wouldn’t rush to Ting City so soon looking for trouble. After all, their previous actions clearly aimed to disguise a more important purpose, and they wouldn’t fail at this critical juncture, unless what they intended to do was already done.

"This matter still needs to be reported up." Chief Wu looked at the chaotic street and contacted the branch to arrange for people to conduct rescue operations.

"Aren’t there so many people already here?" Xu Huo pointed at the players who hadn’t left, "Since they’re already here."

Of course, Tan Yang and others volunteered to help. Some of the players who originally planned to leave also chose to stay, silently joining the rescue team.

The difference in strength taught everyone to keep their mouths shut.

Subsequent matters didn’t require Xu Huo’s handling, so he returned to his residence with the inheritance of the Outer Zone player.

What interested him most was the set of Hammer Nails, which was a complete set named "Sealing Door". It could be used four times within twenty-four hours, and the game described it as "a cross-dimensional tool capable of breaking through space".

Xu Huo tested it, finding that the hammer range covered over a thousand meters, and the targeted object was almost impossible to avoid, requiring only visual aim. The tremendous force generated instantly upon the Hammer Nails’ clash could penetrate spatial barriers created by general props, including Rank A Props, having destructive effects on the props themselves. Therefore, once hit, whether protected by a prop barrier or a prop itself, it was difficult to truly stop it.

But there was a problem: it could only create a small bullet-like wound, passing through in an instant, too fast to directly cause further harm within the body.

Of course, the focus of this prop’s creation wasn’t to kill; it was made to disrupt spatial transmission channels.

Once teleportation props involving cross-district, cross-space transmission were successfully activated, they were hard to restrict—especially the spatial portals between different districts or wormhole points. Regular attacks couldn’t destroy them, and similar props and instruments were ineffective. In such cases, this set of tools could easily dismantle the teleportation portal’s structure, simply put, specifically targeting space transmission tools, making it a waste to use it for killing.

"Come help me test it." Xu Huo called the Girl in the Painting over.

"This is a prop; can I use it?" she asked.

"It doesn’t care who uses it." Xu Huo handed her the Hammer Nail, "Hit my hand with it."

The Girl in the Painting, intrigued, weighed the Hammer Nail lightly before tapping Xu Huo’s hand from half a meter away.

That was enough. An invisible force flipped Xu Huo’s hand over. Although the power wasn’t as potent in the player’s hands, the Water Rubik’s Cube’s spatial barrier still showed fluctuations, like fish scales rippling from his palm up his arm.

Since it’s specifically designed to destroy space transmission portals, and could even destroy cross-space portals, yet couldn’t break the Water Rubik’s Cube’s spatial barrier, it meant its direction was correct, but not forceful enough.

"Nail!" The Girl in the Painting hammered again, catching Xu Huo off guard, flinging him against the wall behind him.

She ran over, removing the chair and items thrown on him, smiling, "Interesting, now you hit me once."

"This isn’t a toy." Xu Huo set his dislocated arm back in place, "I’ve told you before, use instruments more when back in Zone 014, less paper."

She dropped the Hammer Nail, "Instruments are inconvenient, and I didn’t bring one while strolling."

Being able to control paper extensively had once been a feature of a Super Prop that appeared in Zone 014. Although serious about Ting City, it wasn’t yet time to reveal her ability— she lacked absolute self-defense, and it could cause trouble for Zone 014. Even if a Super Prop event couldn’t be repeated, dealing with players specifically after this would be unpleasant.

Xu Huo put away the prop, seriously asking, "Do you think you can defeat me now?"

She hesitated, answering, "As long as you don’t pin me down, I can take ten of you."

Xu Huo nodded, "If I pin you down, then you have no way out. Do you still want to be trapped in an instance unable to escape?"

She showed no concern about this, laughing, "I can slip away; instances can’t hold me."

"Makes sense." Xu Huo was persuaded but insisted, "Not here in Ting City. What if someone comes to cause trouble like today..."

"No way!" She clapped the table, "If they smash my store, I can’t buy anything! Plus, this is my territory, and everything here is mine! Why should they ruin it!"

"You’re right." Xu Huo said, "So next time, be careful. If the place gets demolished every few days, there’s no use having it."

She reluctantly agreed, "Fine."

Then she happily went to get the delivery at the door, forgetting the matter.

Meanwhile, Xu Huo checked the Outer Zone player’s luggage compartment.

Besides Secondary Stone and some instruments, the rest were mostly worthless things. But it contained a map of Zone 014, which seemed to detail measurements of district evolution—Wormhole Flowers could indicate a district’s general evolution level, and this map seemed like it measured places where intense evolutionary reactions had occurred before full game integration.

Like rapidly mutating mineral veins or land.

These places were not only resource-rich, but their rapid evolution itself was worth researching.

"No wonder they went through such trouble coming here." Xu Huo studied the map; six locations were marked in Zone 014—two domestic, four scattered elsewhere.

The two domestic marks were a desert and a lake, both likely experiencing explosive bursts of energy.

The instruments carried record data, which, though not directly quantifying the evolution level, the detected energy fluctuations indicated the evolution’s intensity. In such situations, rare materials might be born, or it’d soon become an instance. Considering these locations, the likelihood of them becoming an instance was low, making the discovery of rare resources more probable.

A "Time Origin’s" highest value lies in exchanging for a decent game district, a lucrative deal that no one would pass up. Therefore, it’s normal that people would continuously arrive at the new district for exploration.

Of course, Primeval Stones like the "Time Origin" are extremely rare—even within a wormhole point, there might not be one. So most are gambling on luck.