Who Had the Initiative
Xu Huo said nothing, so Meng Wenguang said, "I'll go after him now."
"There's no need to rush." Xu Huo raised a hand. "Pumpkin City is only so big. It won't be hard to find him."
He still had questions for Kong Ying and the others.
The five of them were cooperative. They answered every question Xu Huo asked, down to the smallest detail.
Kong Ying, Chen An, and Shen Liang had all arrived in the abandoned city before noon. Kong Ying and Chen An had gotten there a little after three in the morning, while the others had arrived at various times afterward. Shen Liang had come last, but even he had arrived around eleven. Xu Huo and the others had opened the Time Tower at 11:33, so they had just missed him.
According to them, though, they had encountered other players at almost every time of day, except between around nine at night and midnight.
"Looks like they avoided the period from 9:17 to 12:03," Meng Wenguang said. "That makes it even more likely there are plenty of players who came in yesterday and haven't gotten out yet."
If Xu Huo's guess was right, the players who had arrived in the abandoned city after 11:33 had probably been stuck there since yesterday.
"Lu Miaomiao hasn't come looking for us. She probably figured it out."
"Don't worry about her," Xu Huo said. Unless Lu Miaomiao had a time-related item or had suddenly begun evolving in the direction of time, she couldn't bypass the events and locations tied to 9:17 and leave Pumpkin City on her own.
Once they had confirmed this, he told Meng Wenguang to stay there and keep trying to contact Wang Ling and Long Jianfeng, who were still out of reach. "I'll