Chapter 2779: My Heart is Dark

"How does it feel to have so many people begging you for their lives?" Xu Huo retorted.

The little girl didn’t call him cold-blooded and heartless this time, wiping the tears from her face, she said, "No matter what, you won’t spare me, will you?"

Xu Huo remained silent, but the little girl continued to ask, "If you kill me, will they come back to life?"

"Or does killing me fulfill your inner need to uphold justice?"

"Haven’t you killed as many people as I have? Why don’t you commit suicide to atone for it?"

Xu Huo looked at her silently. He neither refuted her words nor was shaken by them, only watched her make her final struggle.

"Why won’t you speak?" The little girl’s voice rose slightly.

Xu Huo extended his hand, "Give me the thing, and I’ll answer your questions."

The little girl was furious, but knew she couldn’t delay any longer, and glanced at her left arm.

Her left arm had been grabbed by Xu Huo, and at this moment, a few drops of black liquid emerged from the intact skin, which soon gathered and consciously flowed towards Xu Huo’s hand.

But the black droplets climbed onto his hand and did not seep into his skin. The little girl, realizing something, suddenly laughed, "Someone who dares to kill the daughter of a district Chief Governor is actually such a coward!"

Xu Huo looked down at her, with coldness in his eyes.

The little girl pouted and tapped a point in the air, after which a prompt popped up in front of Xu Huo:

"Lei Jie Lian has offered you a game item, do you want to accept it?"

Xu Huo clicked accept.

[Congratulations, Passerby A has obtained the Dimensional Rift hidden reward "My Heart is Dark." This item is non-physical, cannot be stored in the inventory or baggage compartment, and cannot be inherited in any form except by transfer from the holder.]

[The darkness of the human heart cannot be peered into, wherever the heart covers, there is darkness.]

The introduction of "My Heart is Dark" is very simple, but with the little girl as an example, Xu Huo quickly grasped how to use it.

First is that kind of black power; it truly is some sort of power that can wrap around others and transfer them to where the holder wants to go. The larger and longer the area wrapped by this black power, the greater the deviation in perception and basic judgment, to some extent even capable of devouring time force.

But this doesn’t mean time force is completely ineffective; in any confrontation, the amount must always be considered. For instance, a general spatial barrier cannot interfere with time force, but dimensional space power can, and the same goes for this black power.

Secondly, its coverage range is basically centered around the building space where the holder is located, but being wrapped and traversed by black power is no longer about traversing through specific space channels like in Spatial Evolution; instead, it’s entering another space, or rather a space angle. When the item takes effect, the holder gets taken into another black space. You can understand this black space as adjacent to the current space, where hiding inside temporarily exits the original space, but not completely leaves, because the time spent in the black space can’t be too long; over time, the black space will automatically spit the holder out.

Xu Huo guessed this restriction was made to accommodate the instance. Entering the black space doesn’t mean truly leaving the current space, so it’s still impossible to take advantage of the opportunity to escape the instance like a direct cross-district or cross-wormhole point jump.

Of course, its function is not just to wrap others; more importantly, it has a very peculiar defensive ability. Since it can devour time force, this means that most characteristics might not work upon encountering it, even if they do, they can be easily interrupted.

Xu Huo tested the duration of its maximum coverage range. Once darkness is generated, as long as he doesn’t use it to devour others, it can continue indefinitely. However, if he enters the black space, the external darkness will dissipate, and he himself can only stay in the black space for five seconds at most.

This applies to the holder, but if it were someone else.

He looked at the little girl.

The little girl was already squatting on the ground, having made several round trips in the black space with Xu Huo. She was even more exhausted, but when she caught sight of his dangerous eyes, she couldn’t help but say, "You aren’t planning to throw me into the black hole, are you?"

"What happens if you throw someone inside?" Xu Huo asked.

"They disappear forever." The little girl replied, "I advise you not to do that."

"I used to throw quite a few people in," she said, "those thrown in never appeared again, even if I went right back in I couldn’t find them, and the more people you throw in, the bigger the darkness becomes, the broader the area it can cover, the more you’ll struggle."

"When I first got this item, I wasn’t this weak."

"Have you people studied this item?" Xu Huo asked, referring to the District Government and Chief Governor.

"That’s my secret, why should I tell others?" The little girl said matter-of-factly, "There are lots of records in the district library, you can find whatever you want to look up."

"So, do you think the black space is similar to a black hole?" Xu Huo pressed on, "Why?"

"They can both swallow everything that enters, isn’t that similar?" The little girl retorted, "Once someone goes in, they disappear directly; they’ve obviously been torn into pieces too small to see with the naked eye."

"Are you frightened?" Xu Huo saw through her pretense of calm.

"You can’t throw me in." The little girl emphasized, "I’ve given you your item, your goal has been achieved, and you can contact my father to ransom me, so it’s a win for you."

Xu Huo smiled, "I’ll answer your earlier question now."

"Killing you won’t bring back the dead, and I’m not here to uphold justice, I just happened to run into you."

"Just like you choose your targets, we too coincidentally met again."

Just after saying that, a powerful impact came from outside, breaking through the outer Defensive Barrier and Spatial Body in an instant. Xu Huo’s Spiritual World was also impacted, and the manor he forged disappeared in an instant.

The pitch-black mountain forest was illuminated by aircraft, non-game field simulation devices had blocked this area, and players pursuing had surrounded the entire hilltop. A short-haired woman jumped down from the air, keeping a distance of over 500 meters to speak with Xu Huo.

"Release Miss Lei Jie," her gaze swept past Lei Jie Lian who was full of disbelief, her brows moved slightly, "You’ve taken the item from Miss Lei Jie, release her, and I promise you safe passage out."

The game panel was locked, but Xu Huo tested it, "My Heart is Dark" could still be used. In a way, this was another kind of Evolutionary Power borrowed from the game, which also showed that the claimed severance from the game wasn’t truly a disconnection in the real sense.