Global Game: I Have Portable Store

Chapter 397: Chapter 391: Pause

Su Changxing looked at him, smiled slightly, and said, ”I’ve been to the No-Man’s Land before. It’s terrifying in there; ordinary people can’t survive. I’m lucky to have made it out alive.”

Wu Qingsheng appeared surprised and said, ”Chenxi and a few large organizations had been calling for people to enter, but I found it untrustworthy at the time, so I didn’t go.”

Su Changxing shook his head and said, ”No, I went in through other means.”

There were seventy to eighty people here, and a pot of meat porridge wasn’t nearly enough. They needed to cook several pots, but Wu Qingsheng and his group had enough food.

It seemed they had transferred some of the food in advance using the item transfer function on their phones.

Su Changxing also got a bowl. Although he wasn’t lacking in food, it was nice not to have to do it himself.

”Aren’t you going to eat some, weihuo?”

Holding a bowl of meat porridge, Su Changxing turned to look at the monk and asked.

The monk opened his eyes and said softly, ”No, I’m not hungry.”

He continued sitting in place, chanting scriptures.

Even though his position order had collapsed, he still had the ability to chant and affect the environment around him.

Or perhaps he had this ability before becoming an Extraordinary, and it had been enhanced based on his position.

This is similar to how a Superpower User becomes an Extraordinary; their abilities are similar and are enhanced based on the original.

This makes it difficult for powerful Superpower Users to become Extraordinary, as their starting point might be higher, with energy surpassing a Tier Nine.

The young man wearing a hat approached and said, ”Boss, those people want to ask for some food.”

Wu Qingsheng smiled and said, ”Ha, do they think we’re running a charity? Tell them if they keep making a fuss, we’ll kick them out.”

The young man nodded and, in a straightforward manner, said, ”Okay, I’ll tell them.”

After eating, they put out the bonfire. Many people curled up in corners, spread some tattered cloth, and fell asleep. Seven or eight people stood at the stairs and windows, keeping watch and discussing something quietly.

Su Changxing took out the candle he bought for twenty thousand points during the day, pondering over it, thinking that since it’s a mysterious item, it couldn’t be so simple.

However, after pondering for over an hour, he couldn’t find anything special about it. It only seemed fragile, as if it would break with a single fall.

The texture of the candle didn’t feel like wax but like glass, a smooth glass, with a chill in hand, making the entire palm seem numb.

Until Su Changxing had the idea of smashing it, ”Timing Prediction” was triggered again.

It was still the man in the dark blue robe, holding a coin and an old-fashioned camera, walking towards a towering mountain.

This wasn’t a scene from the future but an image from the past, preserved by some coincidence, which he could view through ”Timing Prediction.”

The principle of Timing Prediction is similar to observing the projection of space onto the future, suggesting that fate exists from this perspective.

At least in the context of a single world, it should be so.

However, ”Timing Prediction” is constructed based on this world, so if Su Changxing returns to his original world or goes to another, the effect would likely be severely weakened.

The man walked all the way to the mountain peak, gazing at the distant, fallen, ruined fortress, with a large army continuously arriving from afar.

Those armies weren’t human but were burly, green-skinned humanoid creatures, capable of tearing a human body apart effortlessly.

”In that case, we must freeze everything at the last moment.”

He muttered to himself, tossing the coin into the sky, drawing countless starlights, while raising the camera and pressing the shutter.

”Click~”

Everything stopped, including time, or it was still moving but at an imperceptible speed, detached from the other timelines.

Only he remained normal, collapsing to the ground, the light in his eyes slowly fading away.

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Su Changxing felt as if he were watching an unfounded fantasy movie; the power to temporarily halt time was too exaggerated.

[Unquenchable Candle (Rank C Crown, Upper Rank): After smashing it, a temporary 20x20 area of slowed time is created, lasting thirty seconds, where the time flow rate is one percent of the outside.]

”True Knowledge” gave a new evaluation of the candle.

”It equates to slowing down the speed of movement by a hundred times within the area. It’s quite formidable, a very powerful object.”

Su Changxing thought about it and concluded that it was a tool that could temporarily trap an enemy, producing miraculous effects when necessary.

”But what’s the deal with that world? The whole world paused. It seems they were also at their wits’ end and resorted to such a last-ditch effort.”

Just then, a commotion erupted on the other side of the town hall, waking everyone up.

”What’s going on? What’s happening?”

Huang Longhu ran over and saw a corpse covered in blood on the ground; it was one of their people, only just dead.

”Who did this?”

He demanded.

But the people around looked at each other; no one seemed to know.

One of the middle-aged night guards said, ”There was no disturbance at the time; by the time I turned around, he was already dead.”

Su Changxing and Wu Qingsheng went over to inspect and found three wounds on the corpse, one on the abdomen and two on the neck.

Wu Qingsheng frowned and said, ”Was he killed while sleeping? Did any of you have a grudge with him before?”

Moments later.

A bald-headed man stood up and said, ”Boss, I did have a bit of a quarrel with him before, but I swear it wasn’t me. I was keeping watch on the other side, and others can testify.”

Wu Qingsheng nodded and asked again, ”All of you were together, and none of you noticed anything?”

Huang Longhu interjected, ”According to my guess, the killer must have acted in less than a minute, and... it must have been someone sleeping nearby.”

”But after checking, none of them are the killer, which is rather strange.”

Wu Qingsheng saw Su Changxing inspecting the corpse and asked, ”Did you find anything?”

Su Changxing stood up, shook his head, and said, ”No, just that the killer was very strong. A piece of the corpse’s bone was crushed with hidden force.”

Frankly, such matters should make it easy to find the killer, but they were at a loss, as if someone appeared out of thin air and then vanished.

Walking back to their original spot.

Su Changxing whispered to Wu Qingsheng:

”It now seems like a kind of ability. The killer is a Superpower User, and it’s easy to narrow down to either one of your Superpower Users or one of those ten or so people.”