After Nie Xuan turned and left, Xu Huo was intercepted by players from District 008. Several invisible spatial barriers descended from all sides, apparently trying to trap him inside. At the same time, his feet stiffened as if they had suddenly turned to stone. Of course, he knew he wasn't truly frozen; it was a feeling of restraint caused by Space Power. Escaping it wasn't difficult, since he could still use Cube Space. Although he couldn't rapidly fuse the different Space Rays, he had gradually grown accustomed to the Space Rays emitted by District 008's devices as their control range expanded.
After shaking off the rays beneath his feet, Xu Huo created a massive spatial barrier in front of himself to block the barriers closing in around him. It didn't work very well, though. The spatial barriers created by the devices were clearly much harder and sturdier than his own.
He opened a door through a gap in the barriers and left. When he teleported to a spot five hundred meters to the right of Chongming Bird Pharmaceutical, a subtle feeling came over him.
Once his connection to the game was cut off, all items and Abilities that required Player status became unusable. That included his "Protagonist's Halo," the Super Artifact "Time Tower," and "Three Seconds of Life." He hadn't taken the last one out before entering the sealed barrier. One reason was that he worried the incompatibility between the time-space items might affect their functions; another was that he wanted to avoid drawing the attention of the District 008 Players. A Super Artifact appearing at a subsidiary of Stellar Pharmaceutical was very different from one appearing on an Outer District Player.
In theory, with access to the game cut off, the "Time Tower" had lost its function as a