Of the four men, the cross-faced man and the one in charge of the transaction had been sitting across from them, while Jiao Cheng sat beside the short man. The moment they spotted Xu Huo, the first two launched an attack. Jiao Cheng dodged to the side, while the short man lunged forward, putting distance between himself and Xu Huo at once.
Items and weapons nearly flew straight into his face. Xu Huo waved a hand, quickly raising several barriers in front of himself, then smiled at them. "Don't be nervous. I just want to have a chat."
The four across from him didn't listen to a word. They kept hurling items at him, one after another. The cross-faced man was clearly there to cover their retreat, and his assault was the fiercest. The other three fought as they prepared to run.
Space-time items were incompatible with one another. While in use, items of a higher level and with a wider range could weaken or completely nullify the effects of lower-level items with a narrower range. Time-related items, for instance, could avoid the effects of certain similar items simply by being worn.
Super Artifacts varied in type, and their ranges of effect were not fixed. But Three Seconds of Life could rewind time by three seconds. Xu Huo had never gone out of his way to test it; he had used it three times, each in a dungeon or on a train, so he couldn't be sure how wide an area it could cover. Still, at least in the few times he'd used it, there had been no difference in the time affected. In other words, it could change the time throughout an entire space.
That was while the item was in use. Normally, a Super Artifact's range of influence