"What a generous gift." Xu Huo raised an eyebrow.
"Let's be friends." Shi Sanjiu smiled. "I knew the moment I saw you that we were kindred spirits. We'll probably cross paths plenty more times in the future!"
"Then, thank you." Xu Huo accepted the badge, nodded slightly to Zhu Xiaojin and Mi Qiaonan, and said, "Until we meet again." Then he took the painted woman through the Spiritual World's portal and left.
Xu Huo no longer cared what would happen in Buliu City. He used the Spiritual World to quickly leave the city limits. A few Players tried to stop him along the way, but after making an example of them, the rest of the journey passed peacefully.
"Are we going back?" the painted woman asked him. "Where to?"
Xu Huo had come up short in the One-Third Game. Given the strength of the city government's spacetime powers, ordinary Players could never break through the barrier that had suddenly appeared. He had only two options now: find a High-level Player or Super Player who specialized in this field and ask for help, or go to the Platinum Eye and try to destroy the Magic Cube with interference equipment.
His best bet for help was Lawrence Li. Of the active Super Players he knew, Lawrence Li was the most accomplished when it came to Space Power. They had last crossed paths on a train, where Lawrence Li had cost him two uses of Temporal Rewind. And at the time, Lawrence Li had been hunting Aliens. Considering the rumors that he was constantly searching for a way to slow his own degeneration, asking him for help wouldn't be wise.
Xu Huo didn't know him well enough to judge whether he might have other ideas about Perfect Evolution.
His second choice was Huahan