"Is there a pattern to the intervals?" Xu Huo asked.
"We made various predictions for the third time based on the first two, and assigned people to each predicted time slot, but none of them matched. We ended up missing the actual window." Qiu Xiangming couldn't help sighing as he recalled it. After a pause, he added, "So the instruments' deactivation may not follow any pattern."
"It's controlled by someone," Xu Huo said.
Qiu Xiangming nodded. "That's possible."
"What about the Time Power?" Xu Huo continued.
"There are unusual Time Power fluctuations in the gateway space. We can only detect their approximate range, and don't know exactly what the Time Power does," Qiu Xiangming said. "But we suspect it may be connected to the places guarded by the Outer District forces."
Whenever their people approached these locations, they were inexplicably teleported away, with no memory of what happened after they were sent away. That counted as evidence.
"Are the places controlled by the Outer District forces connected to the inheritance of the Super Dungeon?" Xu Huo asked bluntly.
Qiu Xiangming pressed his lips together, apparently weighing how to answer.
"The gateway space could have swallowed up thousands of Elite Players. Surely you weren't all lining up to step through a doorway," Xu Huo said. "Some of you must be responsible for obtaining items and other inheritances from other spatial zones. And some of you must have been chosen to conquer the Dungeons and claim their inheritance. The deceased Super Players must have left something important in the gateway space. That's why you've stayed here for so long."
"So, the places you're fighting over—do you suspect they contain instruments, or did the Super Players set something up there?"
From the start, Qiu Xiangming and the others hadn't been entirely forthcoming. They'd