The Bailin Association players had brazenly used other people to test the rules, relying on their numbers. But if the players from the Zisheng Research Institute tried the same tactic, it would be much harder. Turning on players who had been hired just like them would only weaken their overall strength and embolden the Bailin Association.
And if they targeted the Bailin Association, they might face retaliation, making their situation even worse.
"Looks like we can only steer clear of them," Wang Xin said.
There was nothing particularly interesting in the building. After making a round, Xu Huo began testing the areas nearby where Space Power was more concentrated. The spatial rifts that the sparrow had emerged from were exceedingly rare; after knocking on several spots in a row, all he found were empty gaps.
Not even a single item.
Before long, they crossed the connecting corridor and entered the building on the east side.
The Bailin Association players had been active here earlier, so they had probably already searched for and found any items inside.
Xu Huo soon went down to the basement. Like the building on the west side, this one had five basement levels, mostly filled with small rooms used to hold test subjects. Unlike the west-side building, the walls here didn't have nearly as many scratches. It looked as though they had been replaced shortly before the place was abandoned.
After standing for a while in an office that had been cleared out, he walked over to a spot where a desk had once stood. Curling his fingers, he tapped the floor. Unlike the narrow crevice that had appeared when he found an item earlier, this time his knock opened a new space. The new Space Portal spread across more than half the room, and he,