The Players kept changing positions as the rooms and corridors moved. No matter how hard they tried to steady themselves or stay together, they were separated after dozens or even hundreds of flips. The Players were forced apart, including Elder Ma and the young people with him.
As for Xu Huo, the painted woman had jumped onto his back to keep from being flung away. As the rooms flipped, she seemed to spot something and kept patting his shoulder, urging him to jump into a shifting space.
Xu Huo looked toward that spot several times, but all he saw were floors and walls flipping around. The changes were too rapid, and the patterns overlapped constantly, surpassing the limits of human vision. It was impossible to stare for long.
"Let's try going in." Carrying the painted woman on his back, he leaped forward with all his strength, only to collide head-on with the gemstone earring man, who suddenly flipped into view.
Neither of them could dodge, but the collision activated the passive defensive device on the gemstone earring man. The barrier that sprang up sent Xu Huo flying several meters away. With the space so cramped, he immediately struck a wall that was rapidly closing in behind him. He caught sight of a small recess revealed as a nearby window shifted and grabbed hold of it. Then, using it for leverage, he jumped to where the painted woman had pointed. A corridor, a doorway, and a window had combined to form a square entrance, nested one inside another like the mouth of a deep well.
He had barely jumped in when the gemstone earring man followed. The other man switched off his device and managed to grab the edge of the well, but in the next second, a wall shifting in