It wasn't the middle-aged man he'd encountered before, but from his appearance, he was undoubtedly a Player from District 001. He'd clearly been trapped for quite some time; the room was full of signs of struggle, and not a single piece of furniture remained intact. When Xu Huo entered, the man was slumped against the wall, with two empty bottles beside him.
The moment they faced each other, the man saw his face and sprang to his feet warily. Xu Huo raised a hand, signaling for him to calm down.
The spatial lessons in the buildings drawn on the map were clearly progressive. Only the shorter buildings along the route had been selected as lesson sites. The middle-aged man hadn't told the whole truth: he wasn't the only one who had come here. A more talented companion had come with him.
"Your companion outside should've told you already. I'm just here to give it a try. Since we all want to get out, there's no point wasting our energy fighting here. Don't you think?" Xu Huo said.
The man knew, of course, that Outer District Players had entered Metal City. What surprised him was how quickly Xu Huo had arrived. His companion had told him that the newcomer was almost certainly a Super Evolver with time-based abilities, but hadn't mentioned that he was also a Super Evolver with space-based abilities!
Had he only started evolving after coming in?
No, that was impossible!
But if he hadn't passed the first two lessons, he absolutely wouldn't have triggered a third. Many Players from District 001 had been eliminated during the first lesson alone. He had lasted the longest, taking nineteen days to pass the first two lessons, and that was only because he had already been close to constructing a Super Space