The five people had vanished. Worried that the area outside the courtyard might be affected too, Xu Huo deliberately put some distance between himself and it. Once he was far enough away, he circled halfway around the estate.
From the outside, the buildings looked utterly ordinary: square courtyards lined up one after another, all of them square in shape. Their interiors were sparsely furnished. They weren't run-down, and there wasn't any dust, but they didn't look like places where people lived regularly. Their style also didn't fit District 011. Even if a Super Player had chosen this place as a base, they probably wouldn't have gone out of their way to build a house like this.
So was this house an item, or a special location caught in some kind of temporal rift?
He waited outside for a while, but saw no sign of the five people. Seeing no reason to stay, Xu Huo turned and headed back.
What he hadn't expected was that, as he passed the pavilion he'd seen earlier, a subtle force suddenly drained away from him. He stopped instinctively and looked back, only to find that the courtyard he'd just seen had disappeared. In its place was a dense forest.
Xu Huo didn't turn back to investigate. Instead, he quickened his pace toward the flower wall. The opening in it hadn't completely vanished yet. But after he passed through, the dense woods that should have been there had turned into a grassland. A pavilion stood on the slope in the distance, and below it was the estate he'd just seen.
He hadn't taken a wrong turn, but the estate had shifted to a spot ahead of him.
A breeze suddenly stirred through the forest. White mist appeared from nowhere and gradually blanketed the entire area. As