Xu Huo had no time to determine whether what he said was true, so he went straight to the tattooed woman and injected her with a truth serum.
After confirming that the drug had taken effect, he asked whether Old Cai's account was true. The tattooed woman answered somewhat blankly, then added some details of her own. Some of them had wanted to kill the Designer after the One-Third Game ended.
The man had claimed that he was the only one still alive, and had told them who he was, but they didn't know whether any of it was true. Still, considering the situation downtown, it seemed unlikely that anyone could live there for long. Besides, hardly any players were willing to go in anymore, and even replenishing their food was a problem. And according to the Designer, if they let the water Rubik's Cube continue unchecked, downtown would eventually disappear completely. It was anyone's guess whether the One-Third Game would then spiral out of control or vanish.
That was why the players from the city government were willing to go to such lengths to enter downtown. They could scrape by if One-Third City stayed as it was, but the water Rubik's Cube's changing state was a ticking time bomb. It could go off at any moment. How could they just sit around and wait to die?
"Weren't you afraid that man was deliberately tricking you into going in?" Xu Huo asked. "The buildings on the outskirts of downtown have been swallowed by spatial gaps. What could possibly be left inside?"
"We have a photo." Old Cai took out a blurry picture. Some buildings could just barely be made out, but farther away, they were replaced by one crater after another.
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