After that, Xu Huo gave a somewhat more detailed account of what he had seen in the Ruins. He left out the stone statues in the spatial rift and some of his later discoveries, but told the military pretty much everything else.
The situation in the Ruins was already quite clear. Without a super-instrument or artifact like the water Rubik's Cube barrier, there was simply no way to survive inside.
Getting in and out was another major problem. When a folded space was stable, almost nobody could make their way out. Instead, only the birth of a new space or the collision of spaces could create an unstable passage connecting it to the outside. And that passage wasn't safe, either; it required protection as well.
Xu Huo had been lucky just to get pushed out by the space.
Shangguan Jing knew he was holding something back, but learning what was inside the folded space was already a major step forward. After recording the information, she got up to leave.
Jiang Qiao left with her. Only Nie Xuan stayed behind.
"You were in there for so long. Did you find anything else?" Nie Xuan asked. "I'd actually hoped you could claim that Dungeon."
"You're giving me too much credit." Xu Huo smiled. "This Dungeon won't be low-level. Rather than needing an Instance Authorization Letter, I expect it'll produce an owner of its own. I just don't know whether it'll rise up from underwater by then."
Nie Xuan had seen the water Rubik's Cube barrier and knew Xu Huo had relied on it to move through the Ruins. Even some Sub-districts that had entered the game long ago might not have artifacts or instruments advanced enough to take on the Ruins head-on, let alone District 014 right now.
"Looks like we'll have