Time-Based Items Fail
Fifty meters away, Wang Ling and the others had been left stunned for a long time. They had seen the clocks around Xu Huo suddenly go haywire and run backward, and the passerby who had walked by return to his starting point. They had no temporal evolution and couldn't sense the changes in the space's Time Power. All they could do was watch what was happening before their eyes. Since Xu Huo's range of control was limited, they hadn't forgotten what had happened, unlike the passerby. Instead, they had witnessed the passerby vanish and then go through it all again.
Even Feng Hui and Hong Chen, who were rather slow on the uptake, could tell this was probably more than just an illusion. So no one had rashly spoken up to interrupt, with one exception: Tang Ming.
He had been the first to realize that someone was controlling Time Power. So when the clocks around Xu Huo started fluctuating between moving and stopping, he could barely conceal his jealousy and tried to attack while Xu Huo was focused. Unfortunately, Meng Wenguang stopped him.
"Making a sneak attack from behind isn't the conduct of a gentleman." Meng Wenguang stood in front of Tang Ming and raised a defensive barrier between him and Xu Huo. "If Mr. Xu succeeds, there's a chance we can all get out. What do you stand to gain by ambushing him?"
Tang Ming sneered, not bothering to dignify him with a reply. Instead, he looked at Wang Ling. "There are things Dr. Wu left behind here. Are you content to let someone else claim them all?"
Wang Ling walked out in silence. After a moment, he said, "I'd love to get my hands on the Time Power item he has, but my life matters