The authority Lin Shiming had built up in the Advanced Zone, coupled with his speech just now, finally brought the situation under some semblance of control. Cheng Xin immediately took the opportunity to summon every member of the White Night Guild through his communicator, dispatching them throughout the Player Center to maintain "order" and prevent any unexpected incident from reigniting the crowd's panic.
On the plaza's giant screen, Li Xian had stood motionless, as though frozen, ever since the system spoke. He shut out every outside sound and focused solely on his thoughts-
The "source instance" had to be hidden somewhere in the Player Center. But the problem was...
He looked up at the elevators stretching endlessly upward, all the way to the "horizon."
There was no "end" here.
Li Xian had tried exploring the Player Center before, but no matter how high the elevator car climbed, he could never see an end. The unused plazas and residences were also almost countless, scattered at different heights throughout this three-dimensional space with little variation between them.
Even searching with every available person would be no different from looking for a needle in a haystack.
Li Xian lowered his head again and took the Utility Knife out of his backpack. Carefully running a fingertip over its extended blade, he considered a seemingly irrelevant question:
Why hadn't its "sharpness" effect activated in the maze just now?
Li Xian moved his finger from the flat of the blade to its edge and gently brushed his skin against it again. The result was the same.
Thinking back, he was certain he had not accidentally cut anything with the Utility Knife inside the maze. Yet the effect, which should have activated once in every instance, had disappeared.
The Multifunctional Videotape, another item with limited uses, had